Mon.Jun 10, 2013

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Learning & development people unite!

Making Change

'We, the downtrodden and ignored learning and development professionals of the world, hereby shake off the shackles of convention and obedience and proclaim the arrival of a new order, a new age of enlightenment in which we valiantly defend truth, honor, and our learners by… well, by not being such pushovers. We refuse to pretend that training is always the answer.

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Continuous, collaborative learning -- what is it and why should you care? #ContinuousLearning

Learning Visions

'On June 6, I presented to a lively audience on "Continuous, collaborative learning". The webinar was hosted by GoToTraining/Citrix and Training Magazine. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions! Continuous, collaborative learning: making it work for your org from Cammy Bean.

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Gaming is Good For Your Brain

LearnDash

'Educational games are increasing in popularity in both educational and corporate settings. There are inherent benefits to gaming when it comes to learning, but we are starting to see that gaming is also proving to be beneficial beyond just a learning environment. Gaming is also being used in therapy across many different disciplines. To demonstrate the power gaming can have over the human mind, let’s take a look at a powerful example.

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Continuous Workplace Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

'I might quibble with Jane Hart’s assertion that continuous learning is a new role for learning and development professionals. However, the more important point is that the urgency for this role shift is growing every day. Workers don’t need a course schedule ; they need to continually acquire new knowledge, new skills, and new attitudes. And they need L&D professionals to help them with this learning.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Introducing the Connected Knowledge Lab

Jane Hart

'Helping Knowledge Workers take charge of their professional lives and careers in the post-job economy. Find out more about what this means in this slideset or read the full text version beneath it.â?¦ [.].

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How personal stories help learners and organisations grow and change together

Saffron Interactive

'Having been raised in a household of oral storytelling, stories have been in my life blood since the day I could understand language and narrative. Being able to explore human behaviour and cultural differences through stories has always fascinated me. So when. I listened to a webinar involving Pat Kenny, a national e-learning manager from the Health Service Executive, that discussed using storytelling in e-learning it, it made me think.

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How to Keep Pac-Man alive in eLearning

Vignettes Learning

'Our belief : At Vignettes Learning we use stories in eLearning; however, we make them interactive. The emphasis is getting learners involved in the story and not just telling the learners the story. Synthesis. The classic game Pac-Man revolutionized gamification and introduced advanced principles on how to create engaging, purposeful and relevant electronic content.

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Delivering Online Training Securely

Mindflash

'While the goal of any training program is primarily to make sure your trainees get the vital information they need to be successful, a secondary concern is to make sure that the same vital information does not make its way to anyone else. Organizations often are training employees and partners on material that is sensitive or confidential. Moving your training online can dramatically reduce your costs and make training more convenient and enjoyable for your trainees, but it can also introduce

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Remove the Background & Improve a Photo Using Snagit 11

TechSmith Camtasia

'Have you ever had a great photo except for that one annoyance in the background? Like someone’s head or hand over a shoulder, or, in this case, a couple of people? Snagit can help you remove people, buildings, etc. from your images so you can focus on the area that is most important. Here is the same image after it has been retouched using Snagit 11.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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EMEA Reporter: Increasing Learning Is Easy (Jef's Law) by Nic Laycock

LearningGuild

'With the evolution of the many channels available to people for learning, we are witnessing the emergence of an age in which talent and passion drive learning and performance. Jef Staes, a Belgian authority on learning and innovative organizations, has a lot to say on this topic, and this month Nic introduces us to him and to a great overview of his ideas.

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Maternity Leave Compliance and FMLA

OpenSesame

'Maternity leave policies have become a hot topic as more women are contributing a significant amount of a family’s monthly income. Learn what is covered under the Family and Medical Leave act and how your company can assure compliance.

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Living an Inspired Life – Mark Lamm ? BioSync Research Institute

Jay Cross

'See on Scoop.it – Emotion in the Workplace. How do you live a truly inspired life? The secret elements consist of five “well-balance” points that nurture health and foster happiness. Jay Cross ‘s insight: Corny but makes perfect sense. (This is a test of posting from Scoop.it to my Internet Time Blog.). See on www.biosync.com.

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Learning Science Laundering

From the Coleface

'When I’m explaining to non L&D people what I do, one thing they commonly say is “Oh yes, e-learning. We had to do a module on Anti-Money Laundering” Much as I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been involved in making compliance e-learning more interesting, there’s clearly quite a lot of page-turners still in circulation.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Maternity Leave Compliance and FMLA

OpenSesame

Maternity leave policies have become a hot topic as more women are contributing a significant amount of a family’s monthly income. A recent study by the Pew Research Center found 40% of households now have women as the sole or primary source of income. As a result, companies need to be aware of their responsibilities when it comes to covering families for maternity and paternity leave.

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Measure what’s important

Jay Cross

'In the last twenty years of the twentieth century, investors shifted from Industrial Age thinking to Knowledge Era thinking. The shift changed how owners value businesses. The change is fundamental to optimizing return on investment, but sadly many L&D managers are mired in mid-twentieth century thinking. In the Industrial Age, tangible assets produced wealth, so investors put their money on plant and equipment.

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