Mindflash

JANUARY 23, 2014

'Over the last few years, we have seen software companies successfully adopt a freemium model that allows people to try software for free before they buy. Sometimes the free portion is in the form of a 30-day trial. In another form, you can use a limited version of a software service for free, indefinitely. This has changed the way people purchase software, and it has changed the way people get things done by allowing people to use software for free that they otherwise would not use at all. .

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 23, 2014

'Over the years we have accepted and moved beyond (not away) from the old concept that learning is best delivered and ‘learned’ formally. The advent of technology accelerated this and brought in new mediums and opportunities for the delivery of learning. To embrace and use new technology we have changed the form of learning materials; […].

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2014

'Virtual learning event for physician leaders. These are my live blogged notes from ASTD Tech Knowledge session with Eric Heckerson. I missed his opening setup, so didn’t get some of the context. But the upshot is they created/designed a virtual leadership event. It was “faux live” video of a teacher/speaker, onscreen with PPT slides, also links to chats and other resources.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 23, 2014

'No matter what industry you are in there are always buzzwords that everyone should know. If you are new to the elearning space, then you will be doing yourself a favor by knowing what these terms mean (because you will hear them a lot). Now the elearning jargon you are most exposed to often depends on the type of niche that you specialize in. For example, you can probably expect a greater number of technical key terms if you are working more with learning management systems.

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Blended Learning Authoring Tools eLearning Strategy LMS 190

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2014

'I presented yesterday at ASTD Tech Knowledge, "Making Interactivity Count". It was a great session, with a lot of audience participation and great conversation. For conference attendees, I believe it was recorded and will be part of the post-conference package so you can hear all the banter. Here are my session slides. Enjoy!

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 23, 2014

'Amy Jo Martin spoke engagingly about humanizing social media to monetize it. In addition to useful ways to think about the power of social media, for better or worse, she portrayed some interesting ways to think about generating or saving revenue.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 23, 2014

'These are my live blogged notes from the Thursday morning keynote at ASTD Tech Knowledge in Las Vegas. @AmyJoMartin NY Times Best Selling Author & Founder of ?@DigitalRoyalty. [link] Find out more here: [link] It’s social communication, not social media. Social Communication impacts all elements of businesses. It spreads across recruitment, development, etc.

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SHIFT eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2014

'It''s no secret that our portable devices have changed the way we work, live and learn. They still are changing things, whether we like it or not. Mobile isn''t a trend, it''s a new reality, and those that plan for it will reap the rewards. The workplace, including the training department, is being shaped by the demands of the mobile workforce. Employees no longer keep office hours and prefer to complete tasks on the road and from home.

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DigitalChalk eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2014

'Today, people are using video more than ever on their smartphones and laptops, in everyday life. With the evolvement of technology over the years, it has become more feasible for eLearning professionals to use videos in their online courses. Of course, using videos in eLearning has its pros and cons. Deciding whether or not you use video in your course depends on many factors, including time, budget, and subject matter.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

JANUARY 23, 2014

'During the last #lrnchat session someone mentioned that Tweetchat.com was back. In the early days of #lrnchat I used tweetchat heavily to follow hashtag conversations. As I was thinking about it I began to remember other Twitter tools like the open source TwitterCamp we used at live events to display the twitter stream. And of course that led me to the very beginning.

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OpenSesame

JANUARY 23, 2014

'I often debate with myself if making resolutions are or should be part of my plan or is it more about tradition to randomly come up with a few things that I’m going to change or do differently. If it were part of my plan, I would have started ‘planning’ three months ago in order for these new changes to take effect on Jan 1. As an elearning designer/developer and independent contractor, it’s only smart business to plan in advance and to have a strategy going into a new year.

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Management iPad Journal Calendar 71

LearningGuild

JANUARY 23, 2014

'eLearning Brothers and Lodestone have partnered to provide eLearning developers with software training. and over 20,000 eLearning assets in one offering at the same price as training alone. Here are the details!

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OpenSesame

JANUARY 23, 2014

'We received news yesterday that one of our summer interns, Sean Keefer, passed away earlier this week. Sean was a freshman at George Washington University and has interned with OpenSesame on our development team since the summer of 2012. We are deeply saddened by this news, as Sean was a wonderful coworker and friend. In the time Sean spent as an intern with us, he grew to be a talented web developer, well-respected by his peers and trusted with important projects.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2014

'To ensure organizations and employees benefit from tuition assistance programs, learning leaders need to examine how they are being used, and how much employees know about their options. Years ago — before Sarbanes-Oxley and shared services directed HR actions — most companies had directors of external employee education. They were part of a company’s learning function, experts who could reduce tuition costs and evaluate curriculums and institutions offering degrees to support

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Cost Education Metrics Policies 56

OpenSesame

JANUARY 23, 2014

We received news yesterday that one of our summer interns, Sean Keefer, passed away earlier this week. Sean was a freshman at George Washington University and has interned with OpenSesame on our development team since the summer of 2012. We are deeply saddened by this news, as Sean was a wonderful coworker and friend. In the time Sean spent as an intern with us, he grew to be a talented web developer, well-respected by his peers and trusted with important projects.

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Saffron Interactive

JANUARY 23, 2014

'Saffron Interactive (Stand 24) will examine the generational challenge to the conventional LMS and introduce its successor, the Learning Experience Network (LEN), during two seminars at the upcoming Learning Technologies 2014 exhibition. The free seminars will focus on the critical question of emotional engagement with learning technologies. ‘2014 is the year to ask searching questions about the ability of learning platforms to win emotional investment from end-users and deliver actionable info

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OpenSesame

JANUARY 23, 2014

I often debate with myself if making resolutions are or should be part of my plan or is it more about tradition to randomly come up with a few things that I’m going to change or do differently. If it were part of my plan, I would have started ‘planning’ three months ago in order for these new changes to take effect on Jan 1. As an elearning designer/developer and independent contractor, it’s only smart business to plan in advance and to have a strategy going into a new year.

Management 52

Management iPad Journal Calendar 52

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2014

'During an interview about a week back I asked the project manager about the audience for which the training courseware would be designed. The strongest criteria, emphatically made, was the consultants ability to work out a curriculum for 24 to 70 year olds. She added, by the way, some of them ‘don’t play well with others’ or didn’t want to take the training…and were clearly hostile.

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