Learning Visions

APRIL 7, 2014

'Hey, guess what? I accidentally wrote a book! I know, crazy, right? The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age : a thrilling tale of what happened when one young woman (that''s me) woke up one day to find that she was an e-learning instructional designer. It''s a book packed full of tips and ideas and inspiration for taking your eLearning design practice from an accidental path to one of purpose, passion, and intention.

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InSync Training

APRIL 7, 2014

'In this blog, we talk a lot about how to make virtual training effective, and how to utilize collaboration tools to create engagement in virtual classrooms. Virtual training is my particular passion, and I have been fighting the use of the word ''webinar'' for years.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 7, 2014

'This is the second post in the series of 22, that will form a how to guide to the principles of the eLearning manifesto. This is about Principle #2: “Do not assume eLearning is the Answer”. The principle sounds simple; however I think it needs additional groundwork to be able to give an appropriate answer. In order to make it more constructive I want to turn it around and change it into: “Only apply eLearning when it is the most effective option”.

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LearnDash

APRIL 7, 2014

'One of the often over-looked components of training program development is the post-training evaluation. In many cases, the evaluation design is an afterthought as precedence is given to the actual training content. This is a huge mistake. Arguably, the design of your evaluations should begin near the start of the entire project. This includes pre-course, in-course, and post-course evaluations.

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Living in Learning

APRIL 7, 2014

'Question: If flawed performance was a jet airliner with a broken engine how far would it fly? Answer: All the way to the scene of the crash. And the scene of the crash is precisely where Training should show up to investigate the potential for building learning and performance solutions.after they find the black box.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 7, 2014

'With eLearning tips, I’m often impressed by how much each of us knows something without actually knowing that we know it. One of the books that opened my eyes to this tidbit of knowledge was a simple yet profound book, All I Ever Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulgham. Ever since reading it, I am never surprised by how true it is that so much of what we know we learned at some point in time in our younger years.

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TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 7, 2014

'Guest post written by Shannon McClintock Miller. This last week the children and educators within my school community at Van Meter have been enjoying a week of spring break. It was a nice time to reflect on the last several months, to be inspired with new ideas, and to think about the last few months of the school year. As I sat outside in the warm Florida sun one day, I made a few notes on literacy events coming up and am so happy to think about the fun we will be having celebrating Poetry Mon

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ATD Learning Technologies

APRIL 7, 2014

'The problem with note-taking is that it doesn’t actually help us retain—or present—valuable information. Enter sketchnoting. Click here to read full version.

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Trivantis

APRIL 7, 2014

'The human brain weighs about three pounds, is the size of two fists put together and feels like a sponge. And more importantly, all learning is based on the brain! That’s why studying how our three-pound, sponge-like brain works can help you design more effective e-Learning courses. Check out these brain facts that you can apply to your e-Learning development: Brains search for feedback.

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easygenerator

APRIL 7, 2014

'Easygenerator and its partner, Inbrain, together have collaborated to create a completely new adaptive master page (template) for the Windows based Plus Edition of easygenerator. The adaptive template integrates easygenerator’s unique approach to aligning course learning objectives, questions and content pages. It will provide the learner with an at-a-glance view of the course, including location in the course and what additional pages and activities the learner must complete to reach their ide

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Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2014

'There is much talk about openness in education. Most of us by now are familiar with open learning , and many could describe their use of open source software such as Moodle, Mahara, Linux and Open Office. Many can also articulate what open educational resources look like, and have knowledge of Massive Open Online Courses otherwise known as MOOCs. How many though, are familiar with the concept of open scholarship?

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E-learning Uncovered

APRIL 7, 2014

'Trivantis had its 10 th annual Lectora User Conference just last week, where they previewed some of the new features of Lectora version 12 to be released later this year. The features are a mix of things we’ve all come to expect in a robust authoring tool with at least one feature that will even excite the power users. Either way, it’s an update Lectora users will undoubtedly look forward to!

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Training Industry

APRIL 7, 2014

'As a training manager, we all seek to understand what we can do or implement, that would transform and revolutionize how training impacts the business. There is no shortage of ideas coming from training consultants, corporate executives and college professors telling us what we should do. Plus, there are lots of awards programs giving credit to training organizations for exceptional performance.

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LearningGuild

APRIL 7, 2014

'In organizations facing difficult times, training is often the third thing that’s cut, right after travel and free. coffee. It’s obvious to most of us that investment in quality training is a good bet. So why can’t we sell it? Here are three key “failures” to avoid.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 7, 2014

'When we started offering online courses about 3 years ago, we had not even considered that our courses would be useful to employees wanting to fill embarrassing skills gaps. During appraisals, an employee can easily bring up the desire to attend a conference detailing the latest techniques or latest research. But how easy is it for a senior manager bring up the fact that they need a little help with their presentation skills?

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Training Industry

APRIL 7, 2014

'A healthcare manager-practitioner participating in one of my live sessions laid a challenge down last week, “What is my return for taking the time to target and map the core of my team? What can I expect to get back and what’s in it for my organization?” We often utilize the process of ‘targeting the core’ of a workgroup within my workshops, as I previously discussed in my last two blogs.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 7, 2014

When we started offering online courses about 3 years ago, we had not even considered that our courses would be useful to employees wanting to fill embarrassing skills gaps. During appraisals, an employee can easily bring up the desire to attend a conference detailing the latest techniques or latest research. But how easy is it for a senior manager bring up the fact that they need a little help with their presentation skills?

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cogentys

APRIL 7, 2014

' No matter how good of a trainer you may be, there is room to improve. In any profession, there is always room for professional growth and development, and this holds true for those in restaurant. [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 7, 2014

1950s - Computer-Based Instruction is used in educational and training environments. Check the Instructional Design Models and Theories: Computer-Based Instruction Theory article to find more. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning Evangelist

APRIL 7, 2014

Here's the set of slides from my session at TxDLA. The first five were running before the session began as a preview of one of the issues to be discussed. It was frustrating and informative to see how few of the instructional designers in the session indicated familiarity with the legal mandates on online education to make their courses accessible for people with disabilities.

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easygenerator

APRIL 7, 2014

'Easygenerator and its partner, Inbrain, together have collaborated to create a completely new adaptive master page (template) for the Windows based Plus Edition of easygenerator. The adaptive template integrates easygenerator’s unique approach to aligning course learning objectives, questions and content pages. It will provide the learner with an at-a-glance view of the course, including location in the course and what additional pages and activities the learner must complete to reach their ide

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Mindflash

APRIL 7, 2014

'Misha McPherson is director of worldwide sales enablement with a San Francisco-based provider of cloud-based digital marketing software. She is responsible for creating and managing the onboarding and ongoing sales training for 250 field sales personnel worldwide. Prior to this, McPherson was director of global learning and development at Yammer, and also held senior sales training management positions at Monster and Yahoo!

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