Wed.Aug 21, 2013

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eLearning On Tablets – What, Why & How? Free Webinar

Upside Learning

'We had presented a seminar on ‘eLearning on Tablets - What, Why and How?’ at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in June this year and had later posted the presentation on our blog too. The interest it garnered on both the occasions drove us to plan a live webinar on the same topic. And more so […].

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4 Downsides to MOOCs

LearnDash

'The secret is out: MOOCs are changing the landscape for education across the world. While still very much in the early phases of development, the MOOC model for learning is already shifting our notion of ideal learning environments and methods. Around the internet it isn’t uncommon to read articles and comments about how MOOCs are the “greatest thing ever” (as people often say when something new comes along).

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How to Design a Knowledge Guru Game in 5 Steps

Knowledge Guru

'The Knowledge Guru® Game Creation Wizard is a fast, easy-to-use tool you can use to create learning games. It’s easy to put your content, facts and information you want learners to know “cold” into the game and create a highly engaging experience for players. You can design a Knowledge Guru game from start to finish by following the five step process outlined below.

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Upside Learning Blog Post Mobile Learning Quotes

Kapp Notes

'Over at the Upsidelearning blog they published an interesting list of quotes related to mLearning. I think there are some really inspiring quotes in the group and I was pleased to be included in the list. Amit also did a great job of matching the images with the quotes. Take a look and choose your favorite! Here is the slideshow of quotes. 21 Inspiring Quotes & Thoughts On Mobile Learning from Upside Learning.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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How to Use Knowledge Guru Admin Tracking Features

Knowledge Guru

'The tracking capabilities of Knowledge Guru® far exceed completion rates and post-test scores available for more traditional courses. Five different user reports are available, and each can be saved as a PDF or printed. All five reports are demonstrated in this screencast: User Progress Report. Sort all of your users by last access, mastery level, high score, location, or last name.

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How to Register Knowledge Guru Players

Knowledge Guru

'There are three ways to have players register for your Knowledge Guru game. Read on to determine which method best suits your purposes. Have Players Self-Register. In most cases, it is easiest to just let players register themselves. Simply direct players to go to your game link (such as [link] ) and fill out the fields themselves. This method usually works best, unless you plan to sort player locations in a highly specific way.

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Research for Practitioners: Are There Basic Principles Across All Instructional Design Models? by Angela van Barneveld

LearningGuild

'The intention of instructional design theories and models is to ground or guide us in our learning design. efforts to address learner and organizational needs. But do they all have equal value? Here is a summary. of the research findings of M. David Merrill.

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How to Use Basic Features of the Knowledge Guru Game Creation Wizard

Knowledge Guru

'Once you’ve assigned your game a title, conducted your game design meeting and created a design document, you’re ready to start using the Game Creation Wizard to make your Knowledge Guru® game. This tutorial covers the basic features of the Wizard, and will get you up and running with the tool quickly. For a more in-depth look at the 5 Step Game Creation process, including a sample design meeting agenda and design document, click here.

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Spending on Learning and Development on the Rise

CLO Magazine

'More organizations are investing in leadership development, according to a new survey. Will the trend continue? Organizational spending on learning and development is on the rise to meet the needs of an aging workforce and develop a younger generation of employees. While the spending increase has yet to reach pre-recession levels, the reported figures signal a growth in the learning and development industry.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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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How to Write Scenario Questions in Knowledge Guru

Knowledge Guru

'Many types of eLearning use scenarios to help learners master new topics. Scenarios are also a popular technique to use when designing Knowledge Guru questions. Knowledge Guru questions are broken into question sets, which are three iterations of the same question. This is explained in depth in another tutorial. We find it useful to use a scenario-based question as the third iteration, or “Path C” question for most question sets.

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Sales Performance International to Bring Premier Sales Training to OpenSesame Marketplace

OpenSesame

'The OpenSesame team is excited to announce our new partnership with Sales Performance International, a leading global provider of world-class sales training courses. This partnership will provide customers with SPI training courses directly from the OpenSesame marketplace. Sales Performance International is globally recognized as a leading sales performance improvement and sales training firm committed to helping companies create measurable, sustainable revenue growth.

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Monetizing Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

'Leadership development programs can be expensive. To win funding from the C-suite, be able to connect specific desired leader traits to the business’s revenue-generating plans. A learning leader is sitting at “the table” about to make a proposal to the C-group for funding for a new leadership development program. It is an expensive venture, and the argument will have to be compelling because this will be the only opportunity to make the sale.

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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE | Edge.org

Jay Cross

'See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning. Jay Cross ‘s insight: MIT’s Tom Malone is coming up with practical advice on elevating collective intelligence. There’s both a video and a full transcript. If you’re looking into improving learning and performance at the systems leve, you’ll love this. An excerpt: If it’s not just putting a bunch of smart people in a group that makes the group smart, what is it?

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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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Sales Performance International to Bring Premier Sales Training to OpenSesame Marketplace

OpenSesame

The OpenSesame team is excited to announce our new partnership with Sales Performance International, a leading global provider of world-class sales training courses. This partnership will provide customers with SPI training courses directly from the OpenSesame marketplace. Sales Performance International is globally recognized as a leading sales performance improvement and sales training firm committed to helping companies create measurable, sustainable revenue growth.

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Multiple Page Post

Cinch

She had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove. (H3). Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.

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Children Teach Themselves to Read

Jay Cross

'See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning. The unschoolers’ account of how children learn to read. Jay Cross ‘s insight: This is a great essay on how children teach themselves to read — if they are not held back by the school system. Schools try to force children to read when they are not ready to learn and it doesn’t work very well.

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Survey: Nearly Half of Workers Don’t Negotiate Job Offers

CLO Magazine

'Moreover, age and gender are also factors in a person’s likelihood to negotiate a job offer, according to a new survey. Chicago — Aug. 21 A new CareerBuilder survey finds that even though 45 percent of employers are willing — and expect — to negotiate salaries for initial job offers, almost half of workers accept the first offer given to them.

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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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Weejee Learning: Special Rates for eLearning to Associations by News Editor

LearningGuild

'Weejee Learning gives back as a way of saying thanks.

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How to Create Good Learning Objectives in Knowledge Guru

Knowledge Guru

'Every topic in Knowledge Guru will have between one and five learning objectives associated with it. We recommend three to five per topic. Every question set in Knowledge Guru (more on question sets in this tutorial ) is associated with a learning objective. Taking time to do a design meeting and plan out the topics and learning objectives BEFORE writing content in the Game Creation Wizard is essential to success with the tool.