Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 7, 2013

'In a world of tightened budgets and continual cost-cutting drives, new systems need to prove their own worth. While there are some easy to measure hard-cost savings associated with eLearning (like less travel, fewer trainers, less work-interruption, etc.), the greatest benefit often comes from soft-savings. Unfortunately, measuring just exactly how […] The post How To Measure The ROI of eLearning appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 7, 2013

'If you are implementing any form of learning program, be it for a company or in the educational sector, then you need to gather metrics on its effectiveness. Unfortunately, metrics are often overlooked, or just not implemented properly. Within education, assessments play a critical role within a student’s learning journey. Through effective assessments, teachers gain insight into a students’ comprehension of the material, which in turn assists them in helping their students learn b

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Knowledge Guru

AUGUST 7, 2013

'In preceding posts on learning game design, I’ve focused on game goals, game mechanics, and a variety of game elements. Continuing with game elements, this post focuses on rewards and scoring. Let’s look at rewards first. Rewards. Rewards can be anything players earn via game play. Some games have them. Many games don’t. The new wave in learning games—and in gamification of learning—is to give players achievements for accomplishing certain tasks or hitting certain milestones.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 7, 2013

'by AJ Walther. We've talked about gamification. We've talked about color. Why not participate in a little bit of gamification that could strengthen your color knowledge--and maybe even make you a better designer? Blendoku is a mobile puzzle game that is free for Android and iOS. The object is to organize colors by saturation, shade and hue.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Standing with ASTDNY banner. Had a great time last night presenting to the New York ASTD chapter, great folks and great dinner afterwards…made it home by mid-night so that was a nice unexpected treat. Here are the slides from the presentation. Also, here are some links that provide some additional information about what we discussed in the workshop.

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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 7, 2013

'source: bluebugle. When you consider that the average smartphone user checks his/her device 150 times per day, it doesn’t take much to realize that the next big thing will be wearable computing. Smartphones are incredibly smart, they help us in so many ways throughout our day (maps, reminders, status updates, etc.), but we still have to pull them out of our pockets or purses constantly, and therein lies the advantages of wearing them in some way.

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eLearning Brothers

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Occasionally, you will want to disable the navigation within your Articulate Storyline project so that the learner must view the content in order to advance in the course. This can seem like a daunting task, but it can actually be very simple with the use of triggers and variables. First, you will need to create your variables. Variables are a way to remember information in your project.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 7, 2013

'If you are looking to expand your network, Twitter is a great place to start. For this week''s Productivity Wednesday, we''ve compiled a list of the top 50 Human Resources Twitter influences so that you can keep up to date on the latest news and trends within the field of HR. These influencers were chosen by a combination of factors, relevance to the field, number of followers, and engagement with other Twitter users.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 7, 2013

'I’m a science teacher by trade, but I also dabble in writing HTML, CSS, and, more recently, some JavaScript. If you don’t know what those are, they’re the backbone languages of the Internet. You can break them down into three roles: HTML ? “HyperText Markup Language” ? the information. CSS ? “Cascading Style Sheets” ? how it looks. JavaScript ? programming language that brings interactivity to websites.

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LearningGuild

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Macs and iPhones in poverty-stricken, remote and deprived communities in Africa? You must be joking! But that is exactly what iSchool Africa is achieving—putting high-end hardware and all the associated apps into schools. Read this story and you will feel good the rest of the day.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Fourth-dimension leaders articulate a company’s larger purpose, focus on organizational rather than personal success and embody brand promises such as social legitimacy and ethical responsibility. In June 2001, Tropical Storm Allison laid waste to Houston. That October, Ron Girotto, The Methodist Hospital System’s former COO and CFO, came out of retirement to serve as interim president and CEO, a post made permanent a year later.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 7, 2013

If you are looking to expand your network, Twitter is a great place to start. For this week’s Productivity Wednesday, we’ve compiled a list of the top 50 Human Resources Twitter influences so that you can keep up to date on the latest news and trends within the field of HR. These influencers were chosen by a combination of factors, relevance to the field, number of followers, and engagement with other Twitter users. .

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easygenerator

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Learning objectives play a crucial role in learning - supporting the learner by ensuring an understanding of learning expectations and outcomes. Easygenerator (authoring environment) and aNewSpring (learning platform) have together created a higher level in the personalization of adaptive eLearning by connecting the learning objectives from both of their systems.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 7, 2013

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LearningGuild

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Talent management systems and cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) are integrating the “Four Pillars” of Human Capital Management (HCM)—recruitment, performance management, learning and development, and compensation management. These changes are important to eLearning. This recent significant acquisition makes eLearning initiatives simpler, and indicates the direction HCM is going.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 7, 2013

'It’s easy to become lax on good health practices when it’s not flu season, but you never know when a health threat can pop up, even in the summer. Office health practices shouldn’t vary by season, especially in a business world where sick days come at the cost of productivity.

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LearningGuild

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Talent management systems and cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) are integrating the “Four. Pillars” of Human Capital Management (HCM)—recruitment, performance management, learning and. development, and compensation management. These changes are important to eLearning. This. recent significant acquisition makes eLearning initiatives simpler, and indicates the direction HCM is. going.

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OpenSesame

AUGUST 7, 2013

'If you are looking to expand your network, Twitter is a great place to start. For this week''s Productivity Wednesday, we''ve compiled a list of the top 50 Human Resources Twitter influences so that you can keep up to date on the latest news and trends within the field of HR. These influencers were chosen by a combination of factors, relevance to the field, number of followers, and engagement with other Twitter users.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning. The adult brain is far more malleable that we thought, and so learning can be child’s play if you know how. Some 36-year-olds choose to collect vintage wine, vinyl records or sports memorabilia. For… Jay Cross ‘s insight: This just in: Old dogs can learn new tricks. See on neurosciencestuff.tumblr.com.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Effective companies provide more formal sales training and are more consistent with sales coaching, as opposed to the informal, ad-hoc training offered by ineffective companies, a new study suggests. Dallas — Aug. 6 Training Industry Inc. and Axiom Sales Force Development LLC have released a new research report examining how organizations sustain the results of sales training, particularly using coaching techniques.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2013

'Despite recent scrutiny, experts say hiring workers with a humanities degree may help companies innovate and think outside the box. Businesses hiring workers with a humanities degree may need to invest more time developing specialized skill sets, but if organizations are aiming to think more creatively — and as a result spur innovation — bringing on such employees may be worth the extra effort.

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