Tue.Aug 05, 2014

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Want to be a Learning and Development Rebel? Get Started Here

InSync Training

'"Training, in and of itself, is rarely the solution to anything." So says Shannon Tipton in her InSync Byte program " Starting a Learning Rebellion: The Defeat of Status Quo.". And this doesn''t surprise me a bit. It probably doesn''t surprise you either.

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Adobe Captivate 8: Custom Workspaces

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      From a new user perspective, one of the major complaints about Adobe Captivate has always been its cluttered user interface. There are so many panels and toolbars in Captivate (and most are open and visible when the program starts), some people feel that the program is more difficult to learn than other tools like Articulate Storyline and TechSmith Camtasia Studio.  People using Captivate versions 5, 6, and 7 have the ability to undock most of Captiv

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Learning Experience (LX) Drinking Game

Clark Quinn

'Having found a fun site of bad UX design, someone else followed me who had the UX Drinking Game site. And it made me think maybe we need an LX Drinking Game. So I started tweeting out some drinking game rules. I encourage you to join in with the hashtag #LXDrinkingGame. So, my first list of ‘drink’ cues is: if they ask for a pre-test/post-test design. if the alternatives to the right answer are so silly or obvious that you don’t need to know anything. if the course objectives are

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Careers in eLearning: Moving from Accident to Intention #CETS14

Learning Visions

'I had the honor today to keynote the Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase here in Naperville, IL. Of course, these slides don''t capture all of the great questions and interaction with the crowd. Sometimes you really do just have to be there.

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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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Marketing Your ELearning Skills

LearnDash

'Instructional design is a booming industry, yet I am surprised as to how many instructional design professionals don’t invest in their own careers through networking possibilities. Truth is, the elearning industry has some of the most prestigious networking outlets. It goes beyond networking though, it is self-marketing. The idea of marketing your own skills can be somewhat intimidating, and understandably so.

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10 Types of Learners You Can Run Into When Imparting Online Training

SHIFT eLearning

'The most challenging aspect of imparting effective online training is targeting the many learners taking the same program. Understanding the different types of learners, summed up in following categories, is beneficial to any designer looking to create personalized eLearning courses. Share this Image On Your Site. Please include attribution to [link] with this graphic. 1.

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Learning has composition too

Clive on Learning

'I found this fantastic video on the subject of composition through the nofilmschool site, one of the blogs that I subscribe to to satisfy my current obsession with all things video. You''ll find it useful for any visual work you do, whether that''s graphics, video, presentation slides or e-learning design! A lot of highly-skilled work has been put into the design of this tutorial.

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Is Your Authoring Tool the Top Dog?

Trivantis

'A few weeks ago, we took you to the e-Learning jungle to examine your LMS’s survival skills. Today, get ready to say “Awww” because we’re taking a look at the characteristics of your authoring tool that would make it the top dog in the e-Learning world. That’s right—puppies galore. . Take your authoring tool for a walk, and see if it’s like these top dogs: American Eskimo—Intelligent and easy to train. .

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MOOCify Your eLearning Content

OpenSesame

'More than a fad, it appears MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are here to stay. In 2013, more than two hundred universities created 1,200 courses for ten million students across the globe. Hailed as a revolution in the education industry, MOOCs have provided an avenue for millions of students to explore everything from data science to behavioral economics and biotechnology.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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How to Win Big in Hospitality Training

cogentys

'Want to win big in hospitality training? Of course you do! We are here to show you how. If you have the desire to really succeed with hospitality training, then all you need are a few good, [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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MOOCify Your eLearning Content

OpenSesame

More than a fad, it appears MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are here to stay. In 2013, more than two hundred universities created 1,200 courses for ten million students across the globe. Hailed as a revolution in the education industry, MOOCs have provided an avenue for millions of students to explore everything from data science to behavioral economics and biotechnology.

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Software and device producers making office tablets worthwhile

Aptara

Software and device producers making office tablets worthwhile. Consumer devices have entered the office in a big way. Every new piece of software enhances the profile of these devices and ensures them an expanded place within the workflow. Therefore, recent announcements of advanced tablet support by some of the biggest names in the industry should have an impact on companies interested in custom content development.

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The Lectora User’s Conference and my First Big Presentation - Part 3: Anatomy of a Presentation, the Documents

The Learning Dispatch

'By Mary Word OK, I had my initial lists, and as I said, the overall concept of how to organize a complex project, or page, or presentation. So I made another list. This one was my presentation sequence document, about four pages, where I started fleshing out the content of the talk. I started by listing challenges. This would be the hook. Present the challenges that course confronted me with, then show the end results of how I met those challenges.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Are You Feelin’ Fuse?

TechSmith Camtasia

'I wanted to take a walk through Fuse to introduce you to the new interface and features in the latest release. Our Android users have had access to the new UI, but this will be a new experience for folks on iOS! First of all, why use Fuse ? Have you ever had the need to describe something you saw while out and about? Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, as they say.

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Step 5: #Sketchnotes: Icons and Concepts: Developing your own style.

NuggetHead

'Stylistic lettering accompanied by lines, arrows, and shapes may arguably be the fundamentals of basic sketchnoting. Sometimes the term “less is more” can apply to sketchnotes by using icons and conceptual objects to communicate the same thing as a sentence or bulleted list. A friend of mine in the comics industry once explained to me that telling a visual story requires as minimal lines as possible that still convey the message.

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Select the Right Image Format

SmartBuilder

As a follow up on my last post about optimizing graphics , I want to address a few ideas concerning the best image format for elearning graphics. When you create graphics for a course, do you save all of the images in the same format? That isn’t uncommon. However, you can use various image formats to optimize the graphics in your course. No image format does everything perfectly.

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Tech Headlines for August 2014

ATD Learning Technologies

'Tech headlines for August 2014 include: New Study Finds E-Learning Investments Up, White Paper Asks: Will MOOCs Kill the Classroom Star?, Virtual Teams Prominent and Productive, and New Gamification Infographic. Click here to read full version.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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Tech Headlines for August 2014

ATD Learning Technologies

'Tech headlines for August 2014 include: New Study Finds E-Learning Investments Up, White Paper Asks: Will MOOCs Kill the Classroom Star?, Virtual Teams Prominent and Productive, and New Gamification Infographic. Click here to read full version.