Fri.Apr 17, 2015

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Online Learning Plagiarism Horror Stories

Experiencing eLearning

'It’s a common complaint about online education that students plagiarize, but my horror stories aren’t about students. My horror stories are about developing online courses. (Some details changed to protect the not entirely innocent.). How NOT to Hide Your Tracks When Plagiarizing. I was reviewing a course from someone who had just left the company when I discovered some sentences that just didn’t fit quite right.

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Encouraging Rookie Smarts

Web Courseworks

'A few weeks ago, I attended ISA’s 2015 Annual Business Retreat, a summit for executives in the training industry. The keynote was Sparking Brilliant Work , by Liz Wiseman, President of the Wiseman Group, a high-profile leadership consulting firm. Wiseman started her talk by acknowledging that the modern business landscape is constantly evolving, and moved on to discuss how leaders can get the most out of their teams by embracing fresh ideas.

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3 Mindsets to Help your eLearning Courses

eLearning Brothers

'There is a plethora of information to help you succeed in eLearning, but there are three mindsets that are hurting your eLearning courses. 1. Get Ahead of the Game. Success is how you spend your time. Dissect other eLearning courses. Look at existing design trends and try to understand their design principles. But make sure not to copy their work. How can you accomplish this?

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Inform. Remind. Prevent.

Axonify

As April is Workplace Violence Awareness Month , it’s an appropriate time to stop and ask whether your workplace violence training is as effective as it could be. No doubt you’ve implemented training to make sure employees understand how to avoid or defuse situations that can lead to bullying, harassment or violence. It might take the form of an online course teaching them how to identify, report, or control undesirable behaviours in the workplace.

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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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Jaime Casap – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

ABOUT JAIME CASAP (Chief Education Evangelist at Google, Inc.). Jaime Casap is the Chief Education Evangelist at Google, Inc. Jaime evangelizes the power and potential of the web, technology, and Google tools as enabling and supporting capabilities in pursuit of creating powerful learning models. Jaime works with educational organizations around the world, helping them find ways to continuously improve the quality of education by utilizing and enabling technology capabilities.

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Encourage Employee Safety On the Road Through Distracted Driving Education

OpenSesame

We’ve all been there. The phone rings in the car. You have a Bluetooth device and feel good about being hands-free so you answer it. And talk on the phone until we arrive at your destination, yet can’t fully recollect each turn took to get there. Or, you’re running late to a really important meeting so you text your partner while you’re not going too fast.