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CLIVE ON LEARNING DECEMBER 4, 2012 Insights: Line managers and coaches have a critical role This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The seventh of ten 'insights' is that ‘Line managers and coaches have a critical role'. It is, of course, hardly a new insight that managers and coaches play an important part in workplace learning, because it has ever been thus. Having said that, it is encouraging that this report picks up an increasing emphasis in this area. Psychologically, very few people work for a local authority, a bank, a charity or a retail chain. They work for their direct line manager. insights | LEARNING WITH E'S DECEMBER 4, 2012  The Smart eXtended Web Will the Web recurse infinitely? Many of us are obsessed with the future, and are constantly wondering what new technologies, trends or events will change our lives forever. People spend huge amounts of money each year gambling on the future. The average person bets on horse races or the lottery, whilst the high powered executives buy and sell stocks and shares. We have seen the trends. Ten years? | I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED DECEMBER 4, 2012 Adobe Captivate 6: Best Practices for Working with Screen Readers by Kevin Siegel Last week I wrote about some Best Practices for Creating Compliant eLearning. I'd like to follow up that article with information about screen readers. Screen readers are programs designed to allow visually impaired learners to navigate through a website or eLearning lesson by reading the content out loud. Two popular screen readers are JAWS (Job Access With Speech) and Window-Eyes. " If you'd like to see a review of some of the top screen readers, Top 10 Reviews has some great information. | IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CURVE DECEMBER 4, 2012 Defining Success If you want your organization to perform you're ultimately looking at maximizing the supporting systems that contribute to the network (your organization). This includes people systems, technology systems, policy systems, management systems, etc. To know if any of these systems are failing you need data. Reuben Tozeman Please go read Reuben's entire post. I've been grappling recently with "success". What does "success" look like? To know if the systems are failing, you need data. don't think that Reuben is strictly talking about quantitative data. At least in my professional environment. | | | | | | | |
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CLO MAGAZINE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012  ROI is More Than Justification
When done correctly, ROI generates key decision-support metrics for learning and aligns thinking with business objectives. In today’s business environment, learning programs that are unable to prove that benefits exceed costs are unlikely to survive. In March, global training company ESI International conducted an ROI study, “Training ROI for the Project Community,” with more than 30,000 respondents, which demonstrates that the benefits of calculating ROI extend beyond the numbers to include expanded decision-support capabilities and an accountability mindset. percent. MORE >> -
ENSPIRE LEARNING | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012  Mixing it up in MOOCs
The New York Times declared this The Year of the MOOC. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are a fantastic innovation in distance education: university-level courses free to the masses. People are flocking to them by the thousands … and then dropping out of them… by the thousands! See, this new form of online learning– or perhaps “forum” is better as it harkens to the classical origins of an open public space for discourse and collaboration — requires an extraordinary level of self-regulation, intrinsic motivation, and determined persistence. ve tried three times now. MORE >> -
LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012  “The Internet of Things Ceiling” — A concept for our future Smart Classrooms by Daniel Christian
From DSC: I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom. That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc. So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea: Other features/thoughts: Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays. MORE >> -
BOZARTHZONE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012  Content Becomes Its Own Context
“How much of our training budget goes to things that have nothing to do with ‘learning’? Why does the LMS cost more than the whole L&D department? How many organizations invest in more authoring tools and asset libraries than they do in people who know how to use them to design more effectively? Why have we fragmented learning into shards of ‘objects’ rather than craft whole, robust learning experiences? We’re supposed to be in the learning business, not the ‘object’ business.” More: [link MORE >> -
LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012 Don’t throw the baby out with the multiple-choice bath water [Elkins]
Don’t throw the baby out with the multiple-choice bath water – from elearninguncovered.com by Diane Elkins. Excerpt: Multiple-choice questions are often maligned by instructional designers. I’ve heard ve heard the following at conferences. Multiple-choice questions don’t measure anything.”. It’s too easy to guess them.”. Real life doesn’t have multiple-choice questions, so why should our course?”. instructional design MORE >>
- Emails … efficient or outdated? DONT WASTE YOUR TIME | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Microsoft Surface Reviewed: Is it Right For Mobile Learning? BOTTOM-LINE PERFORMANCE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- 5 Fears of the Online Environment Debunked WIRED@HEART | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Recommendation: iTorch Flashlight BRIAN DUSABLON | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Getting — and staying — hired is no easy task; but there are opportunities for those who reinvent themselves LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Will you be accepting bribes this Christmas? SPICY LEARNING | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Bookworm Chair [fubiz.net] LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Clean Up Your Client’s PowerPoint Slides with This Time-Saving Tip RAPID ELEARNING BLOG | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Meet the judges for the Screencast Awards VISUAL LOUNGE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Recommendation: iTorch Flashlight BRIAN DUSABLON | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Quick tips on tracking learners by sharing group reports PROPROFS | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Back From Extinction. and in my back yard! Trumpeter Swans ECONTENT | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Another evaluation update LEARNFOREVER | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
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