Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'I missed my anniversary by a few days, but I’ve now been blogging for 8 years. My first post on 12/26/06 explained that I was creating a graduate course on social media for teachers and felt I should “practice what I preach.” Although that course has been updated by others in the past few years, Building Online Collaborative Environments is still being taught several times a year.
Origin Learning
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'From a very tender age, we are exposed to games: Chess, Monopoly, Scotland Yard… And that is for a reason, because games make learning not seem like ‘learning’. Our mind inputs far more concentration and participation in a game rather than something we are otherwise taught. As we grow up, such informal learning is replaced with a more structured, more formal way of instruction – the effectiveness of which has been questioned time and again.
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The Performance Improvement Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'A major characteristic of a learning culture is that individuals, teams, and whole organizations are constantly learning how to learn. They are learning how to acquire the knowledge and skills that they need to help the organization be successful. The teacher-centered, classroom-focused, right-and-wrong answer, static instructional environment that was the primary modality in the schools they attended does not fit the rapidly changing, technology mediated, on-demand knowledge and skills that ar
Nick Leffler
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'I was working on a combined post with two distinct parts. One part a reflection on my new Udemy course called Promote Your Personal Brand Online With a Website. The second part a reflection of all my posts from the past year. Well, I decided to split them into two posts for the final few days of 2014 with just one day to spare. I’ve done a lot this year and learned a lot.
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eLearning Brothers
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'Guest Post Written by David Miller, an educational researcher who has several years of experience in the field of teaching, online testing, and training. Currently, he is pursuing research in online knowledgebase software and is also a contributing author with ProProfs. Learning management systems are web-based or software applications that allow companies and educational institutions to deliver content and resources to their learners and manage their delivery.
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eLearning 24-7
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'Everyone loves to win awards. In fact, I can’t recall someone not being happy to win an award. Okay, Marlon Brando and George C. Scott are two exceptions, but when it comes to e-learning, winning an award brings excitement across the board. With that in mind, I’d like to present my e-learning awards for 2014. The requirements? My brain.
Learning with e's
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'I thought it was about time that I published a new book. It has been about five or six years since my last volumes were out on display in the book stores. But what to write? I had been thinking for a while about the potential to create a book based on some of my more substantive blog posts, and so it was a serendipitous moment when I was approached by a publisher after one of my keynotes earlier this year.
Trivantis
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'Web accessibility is an important part of the development process that should be considered with your initial course design. It is a “best practice” for your e-Learning presentations to be compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. As described in the 508 Standards Guide [1194.22(b)]: “Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.”.
OpenSesame
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'Many learning solutions are bloated and overdue for a diet. However, the key to a truly successful diet isn’t just about reducing input. We need to act more like athletes focused on high performance (after all, we are in the performance business). Elite athletes understand what is required to fuel their performance and are highly selective about the nutrients they intake to support it.
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DigitalChalk eLearning
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'Are you a company that has a large number of courses available and need a little help organizing them? DigitalChalk has a category feature that allows you to quickly, and easily, organize them all. There are two steps in setting up categories and assigning course offerings in the categories. Creating a category. Go to the ‘Manage Courses’ tab. Select ‘Categories’ from the left side menu.
OpenSesame
DECEMBER 29, 2014
Many learning solutions are bloated and overdue for a diet. However, the key to a truly successful diet isn’t just about reducing input. We need to act more like athletes focused on high performance (after all, we are in the performance business). Elite athletes understand what is required to fuel their performance and are highly selective about the nutrients they intake to support it.
Aptara
DECEMBER 29, 2014
B2B content marketing set to learn from 2014. Creating content as a marketing tactic is becoming increasingly important in every field imaginable, as customers tend to do a lot of searching for products themselves, before they ever reach out to companies. If what they find is branded material containing all the answers to their current questions, they may have a favorable idea of a firm firmly ingrained by the time they're ready to buy.
eFront
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'The holiday season. A time to dabble in festive home decoration, stuff socks with Santa’s presents, spend some quality time with the family, and make those life-changing “new year resolutions” We all make a few of those (“exercise more”, “learn Chinese”, etc), and we all fail to keep most of them. But why constrain your resolutions to personal things?
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Aptara
DECEMBER 29, 2014
Mobile hardware future will heavily involve Apple. It's been a strange year for the mobile hardware market, with tablets' resilience causing fewer re-purchases and premature reports that the hardware category is on its way out of favor. Smartphones have become an omnipresent business accessory and companies that don't let workers use mobile devices are finding that these employees will just go ahead and do so anyway.
Rapid eLearning
DECEMBER 29, 2014
'It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year. For me it was a great year. I hope it was for you, as well. I got to meet so many blog readers from all over the world, Articulate successfully released Storyline 2 , and we made significant improvements to the elearning heroes community with a focus on even more free tips , tutorials , and giveaways.
Aptara
DECEMBER 29, 2014
B2B content marketing defined by trust. Trying to figure out the perfect piece of content for a given audience is one of the most important marketing functions companies deal with today. The process of shepherding an offering through to completion and releasing it at just the right time is complex but vital and entails both knowing what readers want and which approach the company should take to express that information.
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