Tue.Nov 18, 2014

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Formatting Tips for Voice Over Scripts

Experiencing eLearning

'If we as instructional designers write scripts that are easy for voice over talent to understand, the voice over professionals we work with can record and edit those scripts faster. We’ll end up with a better end product. A few formatting guidelines can make our scripts clearer and easier to use. This is part 2 in my series of posts on tips for creating voice over scripts.

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The relationship between learning and performance support

E-Learning Provocateur

'This post is the third in a series in which I deliberate over the semantics of education. I dedicate this one to Jane Hart whom I was delighted to meet in-person in Sydney last month. Jane is a renowned advocate of performance support in the workplace, and I wonder what she’ll make of my latest musing. While much of Jane’s work exposes the difference between training and performance support – and implores us to do less of the former in favour of the latter – my post here

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How Virtual Reality is Changing the Way We Travel

Origin Learning

'Google Maps has already changed the way we navigate. Besides giving accurate directions to your destination, complete with traffic and different modes of transport, the Street View has brought virtually every street, landmark, shop and corner of the world on the display screen of your computer, tablet and phone. But that’s not enough. Image credit – [link].

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L&D and working out loud #wolweek

Clark Quinn

'This week is Working Out Loud week , and I can’t but come out in support of a principle that I think is going to be key to organizational success. And, I think, L&D has a key role to play. The benefits from working out loud are many. Personally, documenting what you’re doing serves as a reminder to yourself and awareness for others.

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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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A Caution About The LMS Industry

LearnDash

'Whenever you hear someone talking about creating online courses, at some point you are likely to hear the term “learning management” On the surface this seems relatively straight-forward, but the more you look into it, the more you begin to realize it is a rather loaded term. In fact, some would contend that learning cannot really be “managed” in the first place – but that’s a conversation for another day.

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L&D's Role in the VUCA World: Part 1

ID Reflections

'Josh Bersin''s presentation on 21st Century Talent Management: Imperatives for 2014 and 2015 highlights some of the following as the key areas where the biggest capability gaps exist: Leadership , Re-skilling HR, Talent Acquisition and Access , T alent and HR Analytics , Reinventing L&D , and so on. Each area is critical today in building an organization and an organizational culture that will not only attract the best employees but will also provide them with the necessary platform to give

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Why is Augmented Reality not Mainstream in Learning?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

'Augmented reality technology has been around for over a decade now, and there is a lot of talk about its promise and applications. In this post, we would like to survey our readers to discover why augmented reality is not a mainstream technology in learning. We offer four reasons we have heard around the industry. Please feel free comment and let us know where you are on this issue.

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eLearning Trends to Follow in 2015 [Infographic]

TalentLMS

'This week our team has prepared for you a fantastic infographic about what to follow in the coming year. Feel free to share and embed! eLearning Trends to Follow in 2015. Copy and Paste this code, to embed the infographic on your site: <div style=”clear:both”><a href=””><img src=”[link] title=”eLearning Trends to Follow in 2015″ alt=”eLearning Trends to Follow in 2015″ border=”0″ /></a></div

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If You Confuse Learners, You Lose Them: 4 Steps to Effective Communication in eLearning

SHIFT eLearning

'Well-design courses are worthless if they can''t communicate content effectively to those learning. Truth is, effective communication is actually more challenging to apply especially in designing eLearning. Optimized eLearning design has the power to motivate students and drive performance. If you are serious about creating effective eLearning courses, it is essential that you follow all four of the following steps to get the right message across to your learners.

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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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Award-winning Interactive eBook: Reimagine Responsive eLearning with Adobe Captivate 8

Adobe Captivate

'I recently published an interactive eBook for creating responsive eLearning courses using Adobe Captivate 8. It was showcased during the DevLearn DemoFest 2014 event and I received a Best of Show – Vendor Entry award for it. To read the eBook, follow this link on your iPad to download and install the Interactive eBooks app: […].

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Come see us at these upcoming shows!

TechSmith Camtasia

'Hitting the road for professional development or training? Looking to see if we’ll be there too? We’d love to have you stop by and visit with us! Below are a few shows we’re going to in the next few weeks. Check out our full Events Calendar to see if we’ll be where you are! Media and Learning. November 20-21. Brussels, Belgium. Come to Brussels and share your experience in media literacy and education with practitioners, policy-makers and stakeholders from all over Europe and beyond.

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Employ the right business tools to cultivate employee engagement

InsiderHub

'One of the many challenges in managing an organization is not whether the workforce has the right skillset to do the job (this would have been completed by the recruitment team), but ensuring that the working environment fosters employee engagement. The organization benefits most when its employees proactively use their skills to contribute towards the organization’s goals and objectives.

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Build Management Capability and Drive Business Transformation with On-demand Learning by Dennis Gullotti

LearningGuild

'Only 35 percent of executives believe their organizations have the know-how to transform their business, even though 85. percent of large companies expect they must do so in the next five years. How can organizations build leadership and. management capability, not just among senior managers, but at all levels? Here are some key ideas for building a learning. and leading culture.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Exhibitor and Sponsor Spaces Open at the 2015 Lectora User Conference

Trivantis

'Want to see your company shine at the 2015 Lectora® User Conference ? Participating in the conference as an exhibitor or sponsor gives you great brand exposure and the opportunity to meet hundreds of e-Learning professionals. You will connect one-on-one with key decision makers from industries and organizations all over the world. Choose from a wide variety of opportunities to show off your products and services, including: Premium Exhibitor.

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5 Reasons Why Traditional Sales Training is Stale and Video is the Future

KZO Innovations

'There is a huge investment in training salespeople these days. Companies see a tremendous value in preparing their employees for optimal performance. The problem is that the traditional training may not be enough. Some people call the traditional sales training model, “sales school.” It usually involves a person at a hotel ballroom presenting in front of a group of sales reps.

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3 Handy Tips for Better Mobile Learning

SmartBuilder

Many people, including us at SmartBuilder, are neck deep in the mobile scene with elearning. My experience has exposed many things that contribute to a positive experience on a mobile device. This post shares three things you can easily implement right away to improve the quality of the mobile experiences you’re creating. 1. Size it right. Have you ever taken a course on a mobile device that didn’t quite fit on the screen?

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eLearning: The Origins of a Training Methodology

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel        I've been creating eLearning since the early 1990s. Back then, eLearning (or E-Learning, pick your style) was known as CBT (Computer Based Training). My first attempts at creating software video training was with a program called CameraMan. That program was ahead of its time, allowing you to capture your mouse actions, add captions and audio, and then publish into a video format that could be viewed on most computers.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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eLearning Brothers Breaks into the Stock Photo, Video and Audio World

eLearning Brothers

'AMERICAN FORK, Utah — November 17, 2014 — eLearning Brothers today announced that it will offer over 500,000 stock photos, graphics, vectors, videos and audio files to the training and development community. This is the first offering of its kind for eLearning professionals. “Everyone in the training and development world uses stock photography.

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Is e-Learning Your Best Choice?

eFront

'This blog is not just for people working in e-learning or running an e-learning solution at their enterprise. It’s also for those who haven’t yet made the jump and are wondering if this e-learning thing is really for them. It’s a perfectly valid question, and it’s also exactly what we’re going to examine in today’s post.

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How Your Business Should Be Using Pinterest

OpenSesame

'Pinterest , one of the newer social media networks, has been hugely successful with its users. Rated as 2014’s number one social network in customer satisfaction , Pinterest is quickly becoming the social media site. But before Pinterest can get there, it needs to overcome a few obstacles, such as the impression that Pinterest is all about online scrapbooking and that you can’t be productive.

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Freedom, democracy and education

Learning with e's

'What is freedom? Many have asked, and there are many answers. Some would define freedom as a human right - to speak, to act or to think as you wish - and see this exemplified in a truly democratic society. Others would be content to see freedom as a state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. Former US president Ronald Reagan once remarked: ''Freedom is never more than one generation away.

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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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How Your Business Should Be Using Pinterest

OpenSesame

Pinterest , one of the newer social media networks, has been hugely successful with its users. Rated as 2014’s number one social network in customer satisfaction , Pinterest is quickly becoming the social media site. But before Pinterest can get there, it needs to overcome a few obstacles, such as the impression that Pinterest is all about online scrapbooking and that you can’t be productive.