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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The opening keynote of day two of DevLearn. Conclusion: Based on how the brain works the only way to really learn is through play! e-Learning Beau Lotto devlearn keynote' Beau Lotto is a neuroscientist. He explained to us how the brains works and how assumptions will determine what we see or hear.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This year more than ever DevLearn addressed the future of eLearning. Thanks to the TinCan API (now renamed into ‘experience API’) the technique is ahead of us (learning developers and vendors). There was another keynote by Allisone Levine at DevLearn. I took this Photo at the TinCan panel session at DevLearn.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So we are off to an excellent start with DevLearn. One is SaaS or cloud based solutions, the other is the future of the Learning Management Systems. One is SaaS or cloud based solutions, the other is the future of the Learning Management Systems. Way to reinforce learning. Here is my wrap-up. TinCan and IACC.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

DevLearn 2014 is over. In a way this is an analogy for my experience at DevLearn and the state of our industry. During DevLearn I found that there is a huge gap between the presenters and the audience. I learned a lot and got some new insights. Session: Learning and performance ecosystems. Let me explain.

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

Tomorrow I’m leaving for the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas. We will do three presentations at DevLearn, a product presentation, a presentation about adaptive (individual) learning (together with our friends of A New Spring) and I will present on Outcome Learning. DevLearn app.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

DevLearn promises to be a great conference this year again.There is a very promising line-up of keynote speakers and other presenters. Session 110: PepsiCo: Bringing Learning to a Mobile Workforce. Session 201 : The Evolution of Technology and the Future of Learning. Session 401: Rethinking Learning Design for the 21st Century.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

The number of my concurrent session on Business objectives and Learning Objectives. We quietly pre-launched our free edition prior to DevLearn to make sure we could build it up slowly and monitor it closely, in order to ensure a perfect authoring environment. From drizzling rain and wind to Las Vegas sunshine! Wednesday @ 1.15

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

DevLearn 2014 is approaching. I have the honor of doing two sessions at DevLearn. The trends that I will be talking about are: The learner is taking control : Self-directed learning. Adaptive learning. Learning is moving to the business : Informal learning, working smarter. No it doesn’t.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Devlearn theme is exploring the new learning universe. It is not about gaining knowledge but about learning how to think. It is not about gaining knowledge but about learning how to think. e-Learning' The opening Keynote. Neill deGrasse Tyson is a scientist and he gave a great keynote.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

This session was about a simple but rather cool idea sending out a spaced course via email. I think it is a cool idea if you do not have an LMS or do not want to use it.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I’m back home after a great DevLearn conference. This was my second Guild conference (been to Learning Solutions in March) and one thing that really struck me at both conferences is the atmosphere. It’s a world of difference if you compare it to the Online Educa in Berlin or the Learning Solutions in London.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

My favourite e-Learning conference of the year is next week: Devlearn 2016. I will be there, and I will present together with Laura Payette about: “how to make user-generated learning work for you.” Together we will present the lessons learned from the past two years. .”

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

At Intel learning is a support organization (as always) resorting under HR so they have to work hard to connect to the business. What they did was to give each HR director of a business group a learning consultant. They also have country organizations with a HR director, they got a learning consultant too.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

This launch will be at the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas. Here’s a tool that encourages proper eLearning design and development by tying together the important elements of learning: set up your objectives, deliver your learning in small nuggets, and test learners. You have to create learning objectives.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Steven Rosenbaum presented ‘the future of learning is context’ and his story was an exact copy of Jay’s. I showed how you can create individual learning paths within an e-Learning course, he explained how they make it possible to create individual learning paths between courses.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

e-Learning' A presentation by Marc Rosenberg and Steve Foreman on ecosystems. It gives a nice overview of the components and it is a prelude to a Whitepaper by the guild that is due in November.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Morning buzz sessions are early morning informal gatherings about a certain topic with a moderator. The first one this year was a session on curation. I noticed one thing during this session and that is that the mindset of most people is really different than it was two years ago (when I last attended).

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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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JANUARY 7, 2019

The main takeaway for me looking back on 2018 is that our approach of Employee-generated Learning (EGL) is becoming more and more mainstream. Knowledge sharing, social learning, and peer-to-peer learning have become household names driving new knowledge acquisition in the workplace. Time to Embrace Employee-Generated Learning.”

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

An extremely cool panel made out of no less than seven e-Learning guild masters.

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JUNE 29, 2017

We are talking about fundamental changes in corporate e-Learning already for years. The world of e-Learning is changing rapidly and fundamentally. An e-Learning revolution? I see a fundamental change with our customers in how (and by whom) e-Learning is created. The changing role of the Learning department.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Pretty impressive session by Gary Wise. He makes a big point that we spend 80% of our L&D budget on 2.3% of the work time. This presentation was the first time that I saw a complete approach on how to set up and design a workplace support system. I liked "the seven right things" and was most impressed by the details per "thing".

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

It is not only a shift from tracking and tracing to enabling learning experiences, it opens op a whole new world of possibilities. We have to redefine what (e)Learning is or could be. I believe this is because the TinCan guys invented a combustion engine. All the standard dinosaurs are transforming into new agile forms.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

e-Learning graig weiss top 10 authoring tools' Unfortunately Easygenerator did not make his top 10, but you can check us out yourself. Despite that still a great and informative session. He does know the whole landscape.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

It was about governance, how do you connect your learning department to the business. His main point was that you should have a sort of board who makes decisions about the ‘What’ of the learning. He told about his experience as a CLO at Reuters where they had a board with business leaders, HR and Learning.

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JANUARY 29, 2012

Last year I wrote a series of post on outcome learning. I order to make it more complete I now added principles from Agile (Scrum) software development and my ideas about a new learning metaphor. I presented on this subject at the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas last November. Agile e-Learning development.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

e-Learning' Key outcome as an organization you can’t manage knowledge but you can facilitate this. Even a bit stronger without facilitating: curation, offering a structure like a taxonomy, having a tool as central place it will not work. Here are my notes.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

This led to my blogs on our vision and mission, ‘Output learning’ and ‘bringing learning to the workplace’. Over the past year I joined these ideas, tried to develop them further and I renamed it to ‘outcome learning’. Outcome learning. Outcome learning is an approach for learning in corporate environments.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

e-Learning' This morning buzz session was triggered because I attended Karen McGranes keynote Content in a Zombie apocalyps e at Mlearncon earlier this year. Check that out, brilliant presentation and ditto book.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I will (try to) blog about the conference every day. I arrived yesterday evening 18.30 local time after a 20 hour trip. The conference is in the Aria and we stay there too. It’s an incredible hotel/casino. I believe it has over 4000 rooms, countless restaurants and bars and it is huge. But most of all it is luxurious.

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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. and to the future of online learning.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This post is the second in a series about ‘make e-Learning work: Outcome learning’. I will be presenting on this topic at the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas. Meaningful learning objectives. The first step in ‘making e-Learning work’ is to create meaningful objectives. Click here for the first post.

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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. and to the future of online learning.

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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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OCTOBER 29, 2014

e-Learning' My presentation is in the conference app for download, but it mainly contains images and a video. Therefore we created a white paper with much more detailed information. If you want it just drop me an email at k.spiro@easygenerator.com and we will send it to you.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

My notes: e-Learning' David gave a whole bunch of examples with the warning, this is happening today, make sure that you are aware of it. It will come fast and will change our world, start preparing. David has a page with all the details and more.

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