Upside Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Our storyboards and design documents need to be an extension of this intent. Design documentation may not be about solving problems, but it can help avoid them by providing an elegant way to document design intent. I tend to follow this type model when I’m creating a storyboard using a design document as a base.

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Storyboard Media Instructional Instruction 270

Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2023

Further, you know how to take PowerPoint decks and PDF documents, and put them up on the web with a quiz that people will pass. You want to keep throwing courses at everything Let’s face it; you do what you do and you do it well. You know how to mount a training course that people will rate highly at the end.

microlearning 130

microlearning Compliance Training Performance Support eBook 130

Upside Learning

APRIL 17, 2013

This is a collaborative space for creating knowledge documents/material where anyone (depending on whom you assign the editing capability) can make changes to the documents with every change being recorded. For some employees, recording their thoughts as videos is much easier than documenting them in words.

Knowledge 229

Knowledge Wiki LMS Blended Learning 229

Upside Learning

MARCH 30, 2016

The fact that a well presented/designed video tends to capture immediate and prolonged attention is well documented. Videos have always held a great deal of attraction. Videos have always been effective mediums of telling stories and also used as multi-device solutions, and short videos for performance support.

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Video Corporate eLearning Performance Support Picture 100

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2023

You’ll likely want to document your findings and intentions and get a sign-off before proceeding. These are presented as part of the scenario! Finally, having good stories from your SMEs, about wins and losses, is useful for choosing settings for the scenario. Also, at this stage, specify what the criteria will be for acceptance.

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Design Performance Support Analysis Learning 147

Upside Learning

JANUARY 19, 2011

Their input content was a dry 80 page PDF document. Wearing the Black Hat – We then did a thorough risk assessment considering project timelines, budgets, scope of development and documented our observations. Applying The Process. We raised a flag right away and asked the client for additional information.

Instructional Design 279

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 279

Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2010

Given that it doesn’t even have features to upload documents to activities or sessions, it looks a little amateurish for the kind of potential a system like this could have. I would have really liked to see support for at least some documents to be attached to the activities or sessions. That, however, is still something to be seen.

Google Docs 225

Google Docs Platform Google Calendar LMS 225

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

How to Use Google Documents: Video Series? Learn how to use Google documents to organize personal and business documents and spreadsheets in this free software demonstration from internet program expert. But has the mLearning moment arrived? Read on to know. The Mobile Web Changes Customer Expectations.

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Blended Learning Media Learning Technologies iPad 240

Upside Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Like every other Bid Manager, I too was excited as it was a good opportunity; but my excitement soon turned into disappointment when I opened the Bid Document. It was a two page document with just a mention of different forms of learning (Elearning, Classroom Training) that they wanted to conduct through the system.

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RFP Guidelines LMS Effectiveness 189

Upside Learning

MARCH 22, 2012

A storyboard was about to be sent to the client, and he had noticed what he thought was weird magical performance rendered by the standard spellchecker in the MS Word document. What was entertaining though, in an otherwise mundane day, was the bemused look on his face. The spellchecker thought the word Summery was perfectly fine.

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Trust Content Storyboard eLearning 207

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

New modes of scholarship are presenting significant challenges for libraries and university collections, how scholarship is documented, and the business models to support these activities. Institutional barriers present formidable challenges to moving forward in a constructive way with emerging technologies. Mobile Apps. Tablet Computing.

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Metrics eLearning Emergent Global 269

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

With devices being used for documentation and content generation, content for learning is widespread across the network with a large impact on user behavior. The need for a physical co-working space diminishes. Deep collaboration amongst individuals using their mobile devices contributes significantly to learning.

Social Networks 252

Social Networks Mobile Social Network Policies 252

Upside Learning

APRIL 5, 2010

Of course don’t forget to specify the targeted resolution in the recommended end users system requirements document. Ensure documentation and code commenting – these are probably the two most important things which are often ignored by the developers. Each function and variable should have proper documentation and comments.

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Player Compliance Training Develop FLV 202

Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2010

The other is to look at other’s experiences, and there are many who’ve documented their game design experiences in various blogs. I especially like the post on creating a game design document ; you might want to check it out.

Games 229

Games Blogging Design Write Blog 229

Upside Learning

AUGUST 17, 2011

We all know social networks promote learning; while the mechanisms aren’t documented or well-understood, that it works isn’t in doubt anymore. Today, I’m going to adopt a contrarian view. But we must ask, are the ‘social media/networking systems’ out there promoting this learning? Or does it happen in spite of these systems?

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 222

Upside Learning

MAY 17, 2012

Proofreading eLearning content such as a storyboard, a blog-post or any other document, needs time like any other activity. Chances are that you’ll be able to spot an error whenever you come across one. Invest Time. Your company not only pays you do your job; it also pays you to add value.

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Content Tips Write Blog eLearning 255

Upside Learning

MAY 7, 2010

Learners would be able to access content nuggets (videos, documents, or mini courses) from corporate information systems just when they need them. Imagine walking into a manufacturing unit with a local layar that tells you about the location of each equipment and makes available all the related documents on the click of a button.

Learning Technologies 271

Learning Technologies Authoring Tools Technology Simulations 271

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2010

To assist the development of applications, Apple has provided the user interface guidelines document which provides information about types of applications you can develop and user interface guidelines to make effective applications. The iPhone SDK let’s you create native applications for the device.

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iPhone Guidelines Multitasking Flash to HTML5 Conversion 218

Upside Learning

APRIL 5, 2011

I certainly would love for time to stand still, while I come up with superb ideas that could transform a dull 365 page PDF document into an immersive learning experience. After all, creativity doesn’t start flowing at the touch of a button. However, the truth is, that time and the clients are not going to stand still.

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Project Management eLearning PDF 255

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

I’ve been doing some research around it and I’ve documented some of the better links I’ve come across. I’ve spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the workplace.

Mobile Learning 279

Mobile Learning Mobile Resources Augmented Reality 279

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2009

The best way to mitigate this risk is take the tacit knowledge held by these few individuals, document it, and disseminate it in the best way possible across chosen groups of individuals. Realizing this situation exists is the first step and a crucial one.

Blended Learning 270

Blended Learning Blended Social Technology 270

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We should learn how to offer experiences and not just display after display of information that could be effective as a booklet or document. Courses are just that, they run the course. Contributory nature is very important, the ‘ability to create and share’.

Games 244

Games Simulations eLearning Learning 244

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

That reduces the risk to a large extent as everything you need is in one document – most probably has agreement of key stakeholders as well. The development process is better managed by the vendor including proper documentation (specification sheets, test plans, project plans, IDD, storyboards – with proper versioning etc.)

Outsource 207

Outsource Diversity Training Corporate eLearning Off-shore 207

Upside Learning

JUNE 2, 2011

As the web goes from existing a collection of documents to becoming aware of and understanding the content actually contained, search agents tasked with collecting the ‘right information’ and ‘making sense’ of it for humans will become a reality.

Simulations 262

Simulations Augmented Reality Search Virtual World 262

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

While documenting this knowledge and making it available over the network helps, having a top-down mandated training program to impart that knowledge becomes more important. This leads me to partially believe that social/informal learning would work better in more mature industries.

Network 240

Network Learning Social Culture 240

Upside Learning

MARCH 2, 2010

Note: FLARManager has good tutorials, documentation and also it’s very easy to use. FLARToolKit is the main AR class that identifies the marker and determines its position and orientation in real world while FLARManager is a plugin that makes it easy to develop the AR application using FLARToolKit.

Augmented Reality 203

Augmented Reality Flash Player Camera Flash 203

Upside Learning

JULY 5, 2012

Unless you are planning to deliver large elearning programs or 150 page documents on mobile, screen size should not be an issue. Small screen size is not suitable for learning. When your staff needs just-in-time information to perform better, screen sizes will not matter much.

Mobile Learning 279

Mobile Learning Mobile Compliance Training Blended Learning 279

Upside Learning

JANUARY 22, 2010

Though there is still a long way to go and the documentation is still under progress we have it on our radar to see how it shapes up. The Ptex library is the same production-proven code used at Disney and included with Pixar’s PRMan, and includes full support for reading, writing, caching, and filtering Ptex texture files.

Open Source 164

Open Source Apple YouTube eLearning 164

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 8, 2009

View more documents from Jane Hart. We contributed to this list and here’s the list of Our Top 10 Tools for Learning 2009. The post also has a list of my top 5 tools for personal learning. Here is a presentation put up by Jane on SlideShare : Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009.

Google Docs 178

Google Docs Slideshare Tools PLE 178

Upside Learning

AUGUST 12, 2010

And while design documents did well at containing technical details, they couldn’t give a feel for the user experience. However as we started development on mobile learning applications, the game changed drastically. Storyboards were sorely inadequate to describe application features and states.

Mobile Learning 234

Mobile Learning Mobile Storyboard Courseware 234

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Documentation. What is a Learning Management System used for? Administration. Tracking and Reporting. Is that it? Not really. Most instances of the LMS are capable of a lot more than what they are currently utilized for. Let’s look at how you can exploit the capabilities of your LMS to the max.

Wiki 252

Wiki LMS Social Networks Micro-Learning 252

Upside Learning

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s important to note that when I’m referring to content, I’m not pointing to conventional elearning, but more of knowledge units that document the varied knowledge the enterprise generates and manages using a knowledge management system.

Mobile Learning 247

Mobile Learning Mobile Enterprise Learning 247

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The best way to capture the learning style or the learner’s behavior analysis is via a process analysis document. This brings us to the obvious question – How can you retain/migrate this learning style to the new LMS? analysis do we have currently from our existing LMS?

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LMS Adoption Adopt Learning Styles 250

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Already, academia and the corporate workspaces are encouraging students and employees to generate content that is used to document knowledge. Being able to leverage this user generated content for a variety of learning application is something learning designers will need to master soon.

Mobile Learning 271

Mobile Learning Mobile Emergent Network 271

Upside Learning

APRIL 16, 2013

Frequently accessed/ required resources like how-to videos, self-help documents, FAQs, etc. So along with the key features, it is important to identify key resources that will be delivered via these features. can be uploaded in a common repository for anytime, self-paced viewing.

Blended Learning 244

Blended Learning Blended LMS Virtual Classroom 244

Upside Learning

MARCH 4, 2010

Beware: Process written in process documents could be very different from that put in practice. Ask the vendor to substantiate the process with documents from some past projects. An eLearning development process should be mature & flexible enough to accommodate the iterative nature of eLearning content development.

Outsource 188

Outsource vendor Compliance Training Examples 188

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The objects could be simple like a rule or best practice that has been documented, to more complex objects like an excel sheet that helps users calculate specific values. (2) In the case of human networks, the agents (humans) not only act as part of the network but also produce artifacts that can be shared across the network.

Network 278

Network Internationalization Behavior Pattern 278