Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When companies start with Employee-generated Learning there is always a concern about the quality of the content. The fear is that SMEs will create ineffective content because they do not have any Instructional design or didactical knowledge. Most social learning tools have a search option as the main way of finding content.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. Is this a decline in interest for e-Learning or is a signal for something else? I do not believe it is a declining interest in e-Learning. Instructional design.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 5, 2011

The Learning Circuits Big Question this month is: How do you address the “I want it now!&# We had a lot of discussion on this question but I would like to approach this months question from the perspective of the e-learning author. Usually we use a waterfall method when developing e-Learning. demand from stakeholders?

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Agile Instructional Design ADDIE Easygenerator 184

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 21, 2015

Not only has he been a driver and an advocate for online learning, but he moved beyond. He is also the person that initiated the informal learning movement. His book Informal learning was at least for me the start of that. He writes about informal learning at the informl blog. His fight against boring and bad e-Learning.

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Instructional Design Authoring Tools eLearning xapi 100

Challenge to Learn

MAY 29, 2013

In our case the demo is done to some colleagues (product owner, CEO, instructional designer), but very often partners or customers will also attend these demo’s. This is the third post in a series on agile eLearning development: Post 1: Review on Michael Allen’s book ‘Leaving ADDIE for SAM.

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Agile eLearning Developer Culture Instructional Design 221

Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Courses not ion the LMS.

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

Challenge to Learn

MAY 24, 2016

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Courses not ion the LMS.

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

In this demanding world we usually don’t get a few months to create an e-Learning course. And our clients (either internal or external) are rapidly getting more knowledgeable on e-learning and they are demanding an increasing role in the process of developing a course. The agile e-Learning process. Agility and autonomy.

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Blended Learning Agile Develop Easygenerator 170

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 5, 2018

In today's digital learning boom, it's easy for university educators to feel like they're losing control of their own classrooms. As power shifts towards university administrations instead of educators, and e-learning becomes more prominent, learning content is becoming increasingly centralized. What is happening?

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Technology Content Instructional Design Association Learning Management System 145

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Easygenerator has just won the golden “Excellence in e-Learning” award at the 2018 CLO Learning in Practice Awards, presented by Chief Learning Officer magazine. Winning this award is an incredible honor for Easygenerator and a major milestone for our “Employee-generated Learning” approach. The Problem and the Solution.

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Easygenerator Instructional Design ADDIE CLO 47

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 28, 2014

When you want to create a really bad learning experience, this is the way to do it: Don’t think about your learners. Everybody knows (or should know) that learning development starts with defining clear learning objectives. Easygenerator is the only e-Learning authoring software that works this way. e-Learning'

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Learning Objects Learning Objectives Authoring Tools Easygenerator 184

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Moving learning back to the business Learning has become too far detached from the business side of companies. In the days of medieval guilds, you would complete your entire education while working and learning the trade and skills alongside a master craftsman. We need to move learning back to the business.

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Business Compliance Training Specialist LMS 150

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

I write and present on agile e-learning development since 2011. 5 quick wins for more agile e-learning development. Create an agile e-learning customer. Create an agile e-learning customer. You can only have that if your e-learning has real measurable goals. So here they are. Include agile best practices.

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Agile Develop Instructional Design ADDIE 100

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Great presentation about filling the gap between the real world and our instructional design world. e-Learning DevLearn User generated content' Very inspiring. Enable your users to create content instead doing it all yourself. Live examples from his Kaplan experience.

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DevLearn Kaplan Instructional Design Instructional 134

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 17, 2015

Next week I will be attending the Learning Solutions conference and the co-located Learning Performance Ecosystem conference. he promises that I “will learn from proven approaches that encourage exploration, engagement, prototyping, and innovation testing.” Michael Furdyk – The future of learning at work.

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Conference Performance Support Performance Solution 100

Challenge to Learn

MAY 7, 2014

The trends where workplace learning and informal learning. Collecting and analyzing your data in order to get to know your learner so well, that you can offer him information and learning experiences when you they them, but even before they realized that they needed them. Session report: Designing sustainable behavior change.

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Conference Trends ASTD Instructional Design 167

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 13, 2014

If learning doesn’t support the goals of the organization, what is its value from a business perspective? In the first two posts I wrote about the importance learning integrating with the business and day-to-day business processes, which is the best way to live up to this principle. Now the question is how to do it?

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Learning Objects Performance Support Performance Guide 196

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 31, 2014

INstructional designers like this because it gives you control. Everybody agrees that all designs should be responsive so you should go for the WYSIWYM interface. e-Learning' This morning I hosted a morning buzz session on WYSIWYG versus WYSIWYM. You can determine per pixel where something will be.

DevLearn 114

DevLearn Easygenerator Instructional Design Authoring 114

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m talking to learning managers each day about the 20 in 70:20:10; about knowledge sharing and about user generated learning that can facilitate this. So I decided to list the top 10 objections against user generated learning, with my response. What is user generated learning? This will not work for us: Objections!

Easygenerator 100

Easygenerator Compliance Training Authoring Tools Security 100

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 18, 2013

She started out with expressing her astonishment that we all flew to San Jose to attend a conference on mobile learning and she challenged the Guild to do it through mobile devices next year. Makes sense and sound simple, but a whole different approach to corporate learning. e-Learning Mlearncon mobile learning'

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Culture Easygenerator CLO Sound 227

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 27, 2014

It is an attempt to raise the quality of e-Learning and I do support it. Examples, theories, approaches, suggestions, links; things that would help the average instructional designer to live up to these standards. e-Learning' The manifesto contains 22 principles. If you are not a signatory you should become one.

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Help Guide Write Blog Theory 181

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 30, 2014

How to: “not assume that learning is the solution” This might be the easiest and most difficult of all the 22 principles at the same time. Learning is not the goal, performance improvement is. So only when learning is the best way to achieve that goal, you should consider it. With learning you have the same problem.

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Guide Solution Easygenerator Performance Support 198

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There’s a Big Misconception out there about e-Learning, and its sell-by date has passed this long since. It is that the value of e-Learning can be measured as a return on investment (ROI). Return on investment and e-learning? And surely, then, there must be some connection between ROI and e-Learning. 43 seconds.

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ROI Taxonomy Classes Statistics 174

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 23, 2014

I attended great presentations on 70:20:10, agile development, mobile (TinCan), serious elearning, performance support and learning ecosystems, but the gap with the audience was huge. The learning departments are not integrated and aligned with the business. The learning departments are not integrated and aligned with the business.

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Agile Performance Support Performance Mobile 160

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The majority of the presenters is telling the audience that we need to integrate learning into the business, that we need to move from courses to performance support and knowledge management, that we need to go from designed content to user generated courses. I learned a lot and got some new insights. Keynote: Beau Lotto.

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DevLearn Evalution Wiki Kaplan 128

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 22, 2012

This leads him to the conclusion that we should stop making e-Learning courses and focus on aggregating and curation information. It will not be knowledge and it certainly will not be a learning experience. But Reuben is a technology believer. Over time we even don’t need any human involvement anymore.

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Easygenerator Music Instructional Design Emergent 157

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

One of the most interesting topics at DevLearn was ‘Curation’ and the question attached to it was: “Will e-Learning (developers) become obsolete?” I believe that the role of e-Learning and e-Learning developers will become even more important in the near future.” Learning is about change.

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DevLearn Information Overload RSS Instructional Design 192

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 26, 2014

Design principles are more clear and more and more people have a proper strategy in place, ensuring the place of mobile learning in the total learning environment. Last year we where still catching up with the possibilities of mobile learning. I learned a lot. Gary Woodill on Design thinking. I loved it.

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Write Blog Score Conference Easygenerator 125

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

He is the Managing Editor of the Learning Solutions e-Magazine at the eLearning Guild. ” “The result of this philosophy is a set of innovative features and functionalities, such as the objective dashboard, which sets up the connection between learning objectives and the content of the eLearning.

Easygenerator 140

Easygenerator DevLearn eLearning Guild Learning Objects 140

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The creation of eLearning was the domain of instructional designers. These eLearning solution would run in an enclosed LMS owned by HR or L&D, which was focused on Management instead of Learning. User testing and interface and usability design became leading. What is happening? New school.

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools Easygenerator Knowledge CD-ROM 100

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Learning departments can no longer keep up with the demand for ad hoc knowledge sharing and training requests. Jeff Kortenbosch, Senior e-Learning Specialist, AkzoNobel: “As an L&D department you need to realize that a lot of training is developed outside your area of control. generated content over six years ago.

Authoring Tools 90

Authoring Tools Trends Kaplan Content 90

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Instead of professional eLearning creators (instructional designers), we now focus on people who do not have an eLearning background. In the past period I learned a lot on how to organize this process. So I decided to capture these lessons learned in this post and apply them to eLearning development. Have a clear goal.

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools Lesson Easygenerator eLearning 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 24, 2016

The visionary Learning manager really believes that crowd sourcing or user generated content is the way to go. In their view it is no longer the role of the Learning and Development department to control and steer the learning and knowledge management of the employees but to facilitate it. Combinations. Compliance.

Knowledge 100

Knowledge Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Kaplan 100

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Starting January 1, 2022, I will become the company’s Co-founder and Chief Learning Strategist instead. In this period we switched the tool from an instructional design tool to a tool for employees based on our Employee-generated learning approach. Let me explain.?. We changed everything except the name Easygenerator.

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Easygenerator Write Blog Diversity Training Podcasts 26

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 11, 2018

Recently we have published a research report that identified six trends that impact the learning and development landscape in 2018 and beyond. Besides identifying these trends, the paper also gives recommendations on how to react to these trends by suggesting a new learning strategy based on the employee-generated learning model.

Trends 97

Trends Unison Diversity Training Learning Management System 97

Challenge to Learn

JULY 1, 2013

In a waterfall project the project first designs something on paper, then builds it over the life of the project. This post is part of a series on agile eLearning development: Review on Michael Allen’s book ‘Leaving ADDIE for SAM. Agile e-Learning development Chatty KIdz e-Learning'

Agile 202

Agile eLearning Developer Develop eLearning 202

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 19, 2012

He is the director of the Behavior Design Lab from Stanford University. He believes that learning is about changing behavior and therefore it is about human psychology. With Learning you want to establish a permanent change (a path) in behavior. The grid offers you an interesting basis to design learning interventions.

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Conference Simulations Behavior Mobile 157