Learning Rebels

JUNE 10, 2015

Okay, I’m late. I was at Edutech last week, in glorious Brisbane Australia. Sunset on the Brisbane River. It was a real privilege to have been asked. I had the opportunity to share stories, thoughts and ideas with some people in my network who I have long admired (Harold Jarche, Ryan Tracey, Simon Terry, Michelle Ocker) and met some new FABULOUS people along the way (Constantine Ongarezos, Mairi Thompson, Joyce Seitzinger just to name a few!).

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Lambda Solutions

JUNE 10, 2015

How Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Reduced Bullying in Schools by 49% with Moodle. The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) provides eLearning programs focused in healthcare education to students across the state in grades K4-8. Educating over 95,000 students, teachers and parents on Moodle, CHW’s free, fun, and interactive eLearning programs exemplify proven success in decreasing bullying, injuries, obesity and drug use.

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LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2015

There are fewer buzzwords in the elearning industry that result in a greater division than “learning style” I know from experience. There have been posts on this site related to the topic which resulted in a few passionate comments (such as this one ). The concept of learning styles is nearly as divisive as politics. Both sides reference various studies that support their position.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 10, 2015

Chip Cleary and I just published and article in Learning Solutions Magazine, Moving Beyond Event-based Learning—a Managed Journey to Demonstrated Proficiency. We’re going to open with a bold and brash statement—eLearning has really dumbed down the training world. We know that’s blasphemy from two people who have both been immersed in the eLearning world for over 20 years.

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Kineo

JUNE 10, 2015

Care about elearning? Do you care about the little things – like cost, speed and control? Then you might at a minimum be intrigued by rapid elearning.

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Kineo

JUNE 10, 2015

Care about elearning? Do you care about the little things – like cost, speed and control? Then you might at a minimum be intrigued by rapid elearning.

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ATD Learning Technologies

JUNE 10, 2015

Each solution contains a set of features that the target audience would value. However, despite these industry-specific solutions, there is a core set of features that any modern LMS should support. Three of the more popular modern LMS features include gamification, theming, and third party integrations. Click here to read full version.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 10, 2015

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. Her involvement in the Hack Education movement derives from her dissatisfaction with current school regimes and her outspoken criticism of traditional education practices has led to her championing alternative education movements such as the flipped classroom, MOOCs and open courseware -

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Trivantis

JUNE 10, 2015

Down in Nashville this past spring, secret Lectora® tricks were revealed, sneak peeks were given of future products, and the crowd went wild… especially during the presentation “ How the LUC15 app was built in Lectora.” Sergey Snegirev shared his insights into the—sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding—process of creating the 2015 Lectora User Conference app in Lectora.

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JUNE 10, 2015

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat at EDEN Maarten de Laat's keynote speech at EDEN 2015 contained all of the ingredients for thoughtful and reflective consideration of how we now teach and how students now learn in an increasingly networked society. A professor at the Dutch Open University, Maarten de Laat researches into networked learning and the use of digital media in education.

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OpenSesame

JUNE 10, 2015

The average user leaves a web page in about 10-20 seconds. As I’m writing this, my browser history shows that I’ve visited 18 unique pages in the last five minutes, and that’s on the generous side. In the short period that a user first visits a page, she quickly determines whether the page will meet her needs. Suddenly, simplicity becomes the most important factor for attracting the user and keeping her interested.

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LearningGuild

JUNE 10, 2015

Float and Qualcomm Learning Center today released CHAMPIONS, a framework that allows organizations to leverage. the. unique capabilities of digital technologies to improve human performance.

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Talented Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

Individuals are ultimately responsible to know their own ongoing continuing education requirements, take the required training, maintain ongoing proof of completion and submit to appropriate accreditation body to maintain their license or certification.

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eFront

JUNE 10, 2015

It’s summer fever for IT vendors and customers. Microsoft announced Windows 10, Google announced the new Android a couple of weeks ago and Apple just announced the next iOS and OS X versions. But, the best news is probably about the platform you use everyday and really care about: eFrontPro has been updated to 4.2.0. Ever since we introduced eFrontPro as a modern, future-proof base to build upon, we’ve worked hard to get major updates full of new features coming your way with impress

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KZO Innovations

JUNE 10, 2015

How can you power engagement, generate leads, and drive sales with video? This can be done by guiding prospects through the buyer’s journey. In order to evolve your content strategy, start with light content first when creating your video campaign, and then grow your campaign from there. Experiment with what works best for your customers and prospects and then measure the results.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 10, 2015

All I wanted to do was use Frequent Flier miles to buy tickets from San Francisco to Mallorca to Athens and home from Istanbul. Business class. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with United Mileage Plus and ended up with oddball flights I would never have purchased for myself, e.g. depart SFO at 7:24 in the morning, twiddle thumbs for 3 hours in Houston, spend five hours in Munich awaiting for flight to Palma.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

In our research during the Human Capital trends 2015 project, we found that while more than 2/3 of the companies we talked with are dealing with “the overwhelmed employee,” a similar number told us that their work environment had become “highly complex” or “complex.” When we asked companies what they were doing about this, we. Read more» The post The Simplification of Work: What is HR’s Role?

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Jay Cross

JUNE 10, 2015

Monday morning. Flirt, the happiest miniature longhaired dachshund in the world, shakes all over with tail-flapping enthusiasm to wake me up. On auto-pilot, I arise, brush my teeth, and take the garbage and recycling out to the curb. I brew a cup of tea. Undoubtedly email has arrived overnight. Phone messages await my pick-up. The day’s New York Times has interesting stories to read.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

JUNE 10, 2015

In our research during the Human Capital trends 2015 project, we found that while more than 2/3 of the companies we talked with are dealing with “the overwhelmed employee,” a similar number told us that their work environment had become “highly complex” or “complex.” When we asked companies what they were doing about this, we. Read more» The post The Simplification of Work: What is HR’s Role?

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eFront

JUNE 10, 2015

It’s summer fever for IT vendors and customers. Microsoft announced Windows 10, Google announced the new Android a couple of weeks ago and Apple just announced the next iOS and OS X versions. But, the best news is probably about the platform you use everyday and really care about: eFrontPro has been updated to 4.2.0. Ever since we introduced eFrontPro as a modern, future-proof base to build upon, we’ve worked hard to get major updates full of new features coming your way with impress

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Nick Leffler

JUNE 10, 2015

I recently began a new consulting job with the Master’s program I got my degree from. It’s the MSIDT program at California State University Fullerton (CSUF). It wasn’t for any typical Instructional Design work which I’ve worked on (even in my side consulting jobs) but with social media skills at the center. I’ve done a lot around social media lately including participating in several Twitter chats.

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