eLearning Industry

APRIL 29, 2014

We demand high quality content, personal interaction and real value whenever we buy a product or a service. But why then is eLearning focusing on big crowds, low quality video lectures, scripted teachings and impersonal and useless multiple choice tests? We need to put more focus on the individual student, on producing high quality content and on giving each person the feedback she needs to actually learn something new.

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InSync Training

APRIL 29, 2014

'This is the first post in a series of eleven which will examine how to motivate the virtual learner. We all understand how to learn in a traditional classroom environment. We''ve been doing that for most of our lives. It''s comfortable and we know what to expect. The virtual classroom has introduced a new learning culture - one that takes time to become familiar with.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 29, 2014

'My mom was a junior high and high school home-economics teacher when I was a kid. She made sure that my sister and I knew our way around the kitchen and a sewing machine, whether we wanted to or not. I distinctly remember helping her bake a scratch cake for my sister’s birthday one year… [Continue Reading.]. The post Using Analogies and Metaphors to Enhance Learning appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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LearnDash

APRIL 29, 2014

'Elearning is notorious for having poor retention rates, probably because it is so easy to become distracted and start doing other things. We are trained to have multiple browsers opened at a time as we multitask throughout the day. While this cannot be totally combated, there are some elements that you can put into your elearning courses to help bolster learning recall – most of which are quite simple. 1.

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InSync Training

APRIL 29, 2014

'InSync Training is seeking Virtual Classroom Technical Producers that speak Chinese, Japanese, or Polish. Experience with WebEx Training Center and Adobe Connect a plus.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 29, 2014

'Finally! Revolutionize Learning & Development (Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age) is now shipping, (and has been available on Kindle for a couple of weeks), so at last you should be able to get your mitts on it if you’re so inclined. And, if you’re at all involved in trying to make your organization successful, I will immodestly suggest you might want to be so inclined.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 29, 2014

'My mom was a junior high and high school home-economics teacher when I was a kid. She made sure that my sister and I knew our way around the kitchen and a sewing machine, whether we wanted to or not. I distinctly remember helping her bake a scratch cake for my sister’s birthday one year and she used a metaphor to explain the difference between cooking and baking.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 29, 2014

'This presentation has proven somewhat trickie for me. I am working to combine story, game-elements and game-thinking into one comprehensive, interactive presentation that both demonstrates the concepts I am discussing and provides ideas on how to employ these concepts into your own design. The goal is to model the concepts in the presentation and serve as an example of what can be accomplished by combining those elements.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 29, 2014

'Smartphones have sparked a huge, new software segment – the mobile app. They have also changed how traditional desktop software is being designed and developed. This creates an important pair of questions for user assistance professionals: What is our role going forward in mobile and how can we prepare to take that on? User Assistance does have a role in supporting mobile apps.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 29, 2014

'This one goes out to all the trolls.

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SHIFT eLearning

APRIL 29, 2014

'Sure, anyone can design an eLearning course. The question is: how can you become a better designer? Remember, we''re now living in a world that''s constantly inundated with information. Allowing people to learn from almost anywhere is no longer an add-on feature. To become a better designer, you have to understand fully how information works in a distributed or networked environment.

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Trivantis

APRIL 29, 2014

'Are you frustrated by the loud sighs and complaints you get when you say that you create e-Learning courses? Are you sick of hearing people grumble about how online training is boring? But e-Learning doesn’t have to be boring—which is what Joe Ganci believes—and we think you guys do too! That’s why at the 2014 Lectora® User Conference, Joe showed us how to create engaging courses that people will enjoy in his session, “Don’t Bore Your Learners!

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LearningGuild

APRIL 29, 2014

'Take advantage of endorphins by adding games to your online courses! When designed correctly, games. and gamification are very successful in engaging people and motivating them to change behaviors. Here. are four tips to get those endorphins flowing in your learners’ brains.

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ATD Learning Technologies

APRIL 29, 2014

'Tomorrow’s learning professionals need to learn how to create engaging media content in a way that truly aids learning. And video isn’t their only alternative—consider the audio option. Click here to read full version.

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Training Industry

APRIL 29, 2014

'News reports about U.S. Air Force Missileers caught cheating on nuclear proficiency exams, first surfaced on Jan. 15. The CBS news show, "60 Minutes" did a follow-up piece on the aging nuclear infrastructure where they discussed the “culture of perfection” which led to cheating on the exam, on Sunday. The missileers were told they had to achieve a 100 percent on this exam or they were seen as a failure.

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Aptara

APRIL 29, 2014

Tablets spreading mobile content to new audiences. Diversifying the ways to view content will naturally expand the audience for the messages being spread. After all, it's not the exact same sample of the population buying smartphones, tablets and the in-between devices being called "phablets." Each of these different screens has improved the appeal of using mobile content to spread branded information, and they may also be able to reach people who don't engage with companies through desktop or n

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Association eLearning

APRIL 29, 2014

'Knowledge Direct partners have something special to celebrate this month! Digitec has just released the latest version of its award-winning Knowledge Direct learning management system (LMS). Check out what’s NEW in version 6.5.1! Learner experience updates: Course Catalog. ? Filtering by competency. Course Assignments. ? Organized by most recently accessed.

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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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Aptara

APRIL 29, 2014

Interactive eBooks coming to the scholarly market. Books serve many purposes in society, and eBooks aspire to fit these diverse roles. Books can educate or entertain people of any age, and serve as important internal or external documents for companies. They can contain troves of valuable visual information in addition to their text, and the recent development of interactive eBooks is poised to improve that range once digital publishing becomes the order of the day.

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