A few weeks ago, someonetweeted this link on reducing infections in hospitals. I’m not in the healthcare industry and perhaps there are some downsides to this approach, but for someone who has fully experienced the Knowing-Doing gap , it really caught my attention. The video (a CBC news story) is about 8 minutes long, but I think it’s worth the time. The simple things in that stand out to me in this video: Encourage people to solve the problem themselves. Use of a code word: “Nurse Jackson” for all to hold each other accountable. Front line teams are the change agents. MORE >>

Terminology for computer-assisted training has gone through several revisions and variations on the terms are still widely varied. Historically , there have been two components to the terminology: ???? eLearning Terminology Cloud ? Variations on the adjective: computer, web, internet, technology, distributed Variations on the subject: training, learning, education, instruction Combine those two parts together into whatever term you prefer to describe such computer-assisted instructional courseware! As mobile devices become more capable, especially as mobile devices like tablets (iPad != MORE >>

Guest post today from Matt Pierce, host of The Forge. It's almost time for the next episode of the TechSmith's webshow The Forge (episode 18)! We'll be live tomorrow April 19th at 2 PM ET right here on the Visual Lounge blog and we've got two great segments. Add to your calendar ) Can't watch the show? don't worry, we've got your back, we record every episode and will post the recording here too. You can always subscribe to our YouTube channel and never miss an episode! What you'll learn in this webcast. Everyone communicates. Teachers, trainers, engineers—we all have to do it. MORE >>

When I had shared Quiz + Course templates a few months back, some Adobe Captivate users asked me for an Architecture-based theme. And I thought why not! So here’s a new template which you can use right away for creating your eLearning content. Download the Template file (.cptx) cptx) from here. Let me take few minutes [.]. eLearning Suite eLearning this week Extending Captivate How do I. Rapid Authoring Rapid eLearning Training and Tutorials Whats new "Elearning authoring tools" Adobe Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate 5 Adobe Captivate 5 training Adobe Captivate 5.5 MORE >>

When times were tough, training departments slashed budgets by replacing face-to-face instruction with online reading. They failed to follow through with the discussions, practice, social processing, and reinforcement that makes lessons stick. It didn’t work. Most eLearning is ineffective drudgery. Jay Cross. In too many cases we view learning as something that is done to people. It’s almost as if we are goin’ to get some learnin’! We think we can “get” an education or “get people trained” This is absurd. The questioning is already happening. Tweet. MORE >>