Mon.Aug 01, 2011

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Technical training: What do they need to DO?

Making Change

Here’s a common question: All employees have to know how to use our software. Why isn’t that a good enough goal for instructional design? Why should I go through action mapping ? My answer: If you don’t identify what people actually do with the software and design your training around that, you could create an information dump that helps no one and can’t justify its own existence.

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Design Instruction Like a Game Developer

Kapp Notes

As a way of improving instruction and creating more effective learning tools, let’s recast classroom and online instructional methods using game-based thinking. For example, we traditionally teach problem-solving, leadership, decision making and other critical higher order thinking skills by providing learners a list all the elements that need to be learned.

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Technical training: What do they need to DO?

Making Change

Here’s a common question: All employees have to know how to use our software. Why isn’t that a good enough goal for instructional design? Why should I go through action mapping ? My answer: If you don’t identify what people actually do with the software and design your training around that, you could create an information dump that helps no one and can’t justify its own existence.

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July 2011 Review

Jane Hart

Tweet. July was Google Plus month – and it was interesting to read the variety of articles and blog posts about this shiny new social networking service. I collected some of the more interesting Google Plus reads in my July 2011 Reading List : comparison articles, tips for newcomers, articles from those who see Google Plus as the only social network they will ever need, as well as those who feel that their existing networks (eg Facebook or Twitter) still serve them best.

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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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Most Revolutionary Google Product Launch of the Past Month (Hint: It’s Not Google+)

Dashe & Thomson

Since its launch in beta format a month ago, Google+ has registered some significant buzz within the social learning community. Whether it turns out to be a game changer or just another useful tool in the social learning arsenal has yet to be determined, but in my opinion, it wasn’t even Google’s most revolutionary social launch that week. Yes, you heard me right.

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Nuts and Bolts: What's Your Story? by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

In Learning Solutions Magazine, a number of authors have suggested using stories to support learning. Sometimes managers object to the idea of using stories as being too touchy-feely. Here’s a new way to look at the process, and some words to replace “story.”.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Webinars (And Keep Your Audience From Dozing Off)

Mindflash

By definition, a seminar, unlike the traditional lecture, is small enough to allow all participants to actively engage. But the digital-age child of the traditional conference table seminar, the webinar, hasn’t always retained the interactivity of the bricks and mortar seminar. Often more of a broadcast than a conversation, the webinar is not exactly beloved by everyone (this link was chosen for its lack of profanity — if you have the stomach for it, simple google ‘hate webinars̵

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Prioritization: What To Do When Everyone Wants Your Help

CLO Magazine

There are worse problems to have; namely, people think so little of the L&D group that no one wants their help. That said, most L&D groups are good, and the more typical problem is that they are asked to do more work than they can realistically do. So, what should you do when you find yourself in that situation? You will need to prioritize and this means saying NO to some requests.

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The EDGE - Adobe's HTML5 Authoring Tool - eLearning possibilities?

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Not to be mistaken with U2's The Edge, Adobe's Edge may answer Bono's dilemma that he still hasn't found what he's looking for. If he was an eLearning developer instead of a rockstar icon this could very well be what he's been looking for.what we've all been waiting for. Or not. It's about 1:30am AZ time and I can't sleep so I pick up the iPad, open ZITE , and the first article is this one from READWRITEWEB.

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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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Vacation in August for the LCBQ

The Learning Circuits

Just a quick note to say that the Big Question Thought Leaders and I will be taking a vacation in August from the LCBQ. Enjoy the time off. Look forward to next month's big question.

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Easygenerator is coming to the USA

easygenerator

We are moving forwards with easygenerator and the next step will be that we will enter the US market. After our 7.4 release (July first) we are convinced that we now have a very competitive authoring platform that can take on any other authoring tool. We will open office in Boston (within a month or two), from there we will coordinate US business development and provide services and support.

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Review of Snap! 1.1 Update

E-learning Uncovered

About three months ago, Trivantis released Snap! by Lectora – a PowerPoint authoring tool à la Articulate. Today they announced their 1.1 update. Normally I only comment on major releases, but this one has some important features. I’d put about half of them in the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses category, meaning the addition of basic features that Articulate already has.

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Review of Snap! 1.1 Update

E-learning Uncovered

About three months ago, Trivantis released Snap! by Lectora – a PowerPoint authoring tool à la Articulate. Today they announced their 1.1 update. Normally I only comment on major releases, but this one has some important features. I’d put about half of them in the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses category, meaning the addition of basic features that Articulate already has.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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