Dashe & Thomson

MAY 28, 2014

'If you want to create powerful learning experiences, it’s very helpful to get an understanding of how the brain works. While technology changes at an incredible rate, the brain evolves slowly. The following “brain facts” will help provide a more thorough understanding of the mysterious muscle that is the brain. 1. The unconscious mind rules the conscious mind There is an experiment that shows what happens when the conscious and… The post 5 Brain Facts That Influence How People Learn appea

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InSync Training

MAY 28, 2014

'With social media, virtual classrooms, mobile learning, BYOD, and more, we are being asked to create blended learning that takes advantage of all the future has to offer. But which of these are a fad, and which are here for the long-run? And what are the drivers that make them happen?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 28, 2014

'by Kevin Siegel      Adobe last week announced Adobe Captivate 8, a significant upgrade to one of the top eLearning development tools in the world. Over the past few years I've repeatedly heard a couple of complaints about Captivate. First, it was perceived as difficult to use. There were so many panels, pods, and toolbars it didn't take too much effort for the Captivate workspace to get cluttered.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 28, 2014

'Last week, Don Kirkpatrick passed away. Known for his four ‘ levels ‘ of measuring learning, he’s been hailed and excoriated. And it’s instructive to see why on both sides. He derived his model as an approach to determine the impact of an intervention on organizational performance. He felt that you worked backward from the change you needed, to determine whether the workplace performance was changing, as then to see if that could be attributed to the training, and ult

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LearnDash

MAY 28, 2014

'If you are creating an online course, at some point you will think about the possibility of selling it. First, this is a fantastic idea as selling courses is a great way to earn some extra income (even a full-time income). That said, too often people slap a price onto their courses and expect customers to come knocking down the doors – it just doesn’t work that way.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 28, 2014

'Here are the resources related to the workshop titled “Pedagogical Foundation for Games, Gamification and Immersive Learning.” Defining Gamification. Articles and Blog Entries of Interest. Playing with the Definition of Game-Thinking. 8 Types of Stories to Effect Change. Storytelling and Instructional Design. Instructional Games and Narrative.

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Living in Learning

MAY 28, 2014

'This will be a live eLearning Webinar of a presentation I gave at the Performance Support Symposium in Boston last fall. Join me, it''s a freebie!

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Trivantis

MAY 28, 2014

'Are you ready to design an e-Learning course? One that’s memorable, effective and high five worthy? Lucky for you, we’ve created a list to help you achieve that goal—and we’re sharing it with you today! Here are 10 things to remember when you’re designing an online course: Storyboarding is golden. Before you begin designing, take time to outline the course in a storyboard.

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E-learning Uncovered

MAY 28, 2014

'Recently, two masters’ Instructional Design and Technology graduate students from the University of Tampa in Florida completed internships for Artisan E-Learning. This week’s blog entry features reflections on their experiences as first-time storyboarders. . My only prior storyboarding experience comes from the creation of a TV commercial script. In that instance, we used a white poster board filled with Polaroid pictures and Sharpie notes.

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OpenSesame

MAY 28, 2014

'Here’s the sixth in a series of blog posts written to help you evaluate elearning courses by considering how well their visuals add to the effectiveness of the training. It’s also the final installment in this series. If you’re reviewing the memories at home, the five earlier posts have covered: . Organizing on-screen visual elements to ease perception.

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Mindflash

MAY 28, 2014

'As companies build a training department, there are many questions that come up. What training role should we hire first? Should we start with live training or online training? What learning technology should we choose? How much should we invest in the overall training function? How much of the investment should be spent on the different functions within the training department?

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Saffron Interactive

MAY 28, 2014

'On seeing a link with the title ‘Ribbon Hero 2’, I thought it was an app which would spam all my friends. But the moment I saw Clippy’s Second Chance , I knew it was something related to Microsoft Office. Clippy (an animated paperclip who was one of the Office Assistants included in Microsoft Office 97) had helped me with tips and tricks when I first started learning the software.

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LearningGuild

MAY 28, 2014

'In South America, the remote and rugged terrain of Colombia’s coffee-growing region presented. serious. challenges to education. The answer turned out to be eLearning. Read here about the success of. Universidad en el Campo, which has become a model program throughout South and Central. America.

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OpenSesame

MAY 28, 2014

Here’s the sixth in a series of blog posts written to help you evaluate elearning courses by considering how well their visuals add to the effectiveness of the training. It’s also the final installment in this series. If you’re reviewing the memories at home, the five earlier posts have covered: . Organizing on-screen visual elements to ease perception.

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easygenerator

MAY 28, 2014

'Four of our renounced thought leaders (Michael Allen, Julie Dirksen, Clark Quinn and Will Thalheimer) launched the serious eLearning manifesto on March 13 th. They believe we should do a better job in creating learning experiences that are effective, improve performance and live up to the expectations we all (should) have of eLearning. They identified and wrote down 22 principles of elearning, that if you use and apply correctly, your eLearning will be up to standard. .

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cogentys

MAY 28, 2014

'Is it worth the time for sales trainers to join the ASTD? Yes, and you should join soon! It’s time for retail sales trainers to improve their game and my advice to you is to join ASTD pronto. . [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MAY 28, 2014

'Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I''ve been thinking a lot about how the management, design, development, and delivery of training happens these days. One thing I know for sure is that the old, and current, processes for getting training done don''t work in every situation. I''ve written a couple blog posts about it: How a New Training Process Scales Up Your Talent Making Training Delivery Part of Your Training Development Process I know that many training organizations ha

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Aptara

MAY 28, 2014

Businesses embracing mobility for B2B outreach. Companies interested in selling to other companies have to plan on a different set of circumstances than those that are primarily interested in reaching the public. Whereas marketing to the populace means influencing potentially thousands or millions of individuals, the B2B market hinges on strong connections with a few important counterparts at other companies.

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 28, 2014

'Responsive projects in Captivate 8 offer the ability to design and publish responsive mobile projects in a way we haven’t seen in the past. In order to effectively design courses for this new capability, we may consider keeping a few things in mind further up-stream in the design process, starting with a mobile-first approach to course design and storyboarding.

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