April, 2015

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Cancer Council NSW & BOL awarded LearnX Silver for Best Learning Project

B Online Learning

'We are pleased to announce Cancer Council NSW with B Online Learning have won a SILVER LearnX Impact Award 2015 for Best Learning Project Induction. Cancer Council NSW needed to improve the way they orientated staff and volunteers in their first few weeks of employment to help new joiners get to know the organisation, understand […].

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The Content or the LMS? Which Comes First?

Association eLearning

'You need both. Without content the LMS is an empty cookie jar. It’s pretty looking but frustrating every time you open it. Then again, content without an intuitive platform for delivery is a treasure hunt, often without a treasure map to guide you. But wait, don’t order yet, there’s more. Before EITHER the content or LMS is considered, it is important to step back and think: Who am I providing this content for and why do they need it?

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How Game Templates Liven up the eLearning Process

eLearning Brothers

Guest blog post by Liz Sheffield. Liz Sheffield is a freelance writer with a background in training and development. She specializes in writing about everything related to the human side of business. I was recently in my younger son’s First Grade classroom. One student was making a choice about her in-class birthday celebration that afternoon. The teacher offered three options: a read aloud story, a dance video, or a game of Heads-Up, 7-Up.

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All About eLearning Authoring Tools

The eLearning Coach

If you want to know something about authoring tools, Joe Ganci is usually the person to ask. eLearning Joe has a computer science background and has been designing and developing eLearning for many years. He is also adept at explaining and reviewing eLearning development tools and has a regular column (Toolkit) in Learning Solutions Magazine. […] Post from: The eLearning Coach All About eLearning Authoring Tools.

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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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20+ More Books for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

In response to my list of 12+ Books for Instructional Designers , I received a lot of great suggestions for further reading. My “to read” list is now quite long, but I’m slowly making my way through these suggestions. Here are 20+ more books suggested by others. Instructional Design and Learning Design. ISD From the Ground Up: A No-Nonsense Approach to Instructional Design by Chuck Hodell was suggested by Phrodeo , who is using it as a textbook in a course she’s taking.

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ACSP & BOL awarded LearnX Gold for Best eLearning Adopter

B Online Learning

'We are pleased to announce the Australasian College of Sports College (ACSP) along with B Online Learning (BOL) have won a GOLD LearnX Impact Award 2015 for Best eLearning Adopter. The Australasian College of Sports Physicians is the professional body representing Sport and Exercise physicians in both Australia and New Zealand. Training and employment in this […].

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What We Learnt at the Open Source Open Society Conference 2015

Kineo

I recently had the opportunity to attended the Open Source Open Society Conference 2015 in Wellington, and the chance to hear keynotes from Chris Kelly from Github, Lillian Grace from WikiNZ and many other respected Open Source advocates. With an event hashtag, #OSOS2015, that officially topped New Zealand's top trending feed, businesses, government, geeks and start-ups alike participated in a series of thoughtful activities and lectures outlining the relevance and demand of open source solutio

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Top Programs For Webinars

LearnDash

One of the challenges in elearning is creating a course environment that is engaging to the learner, designed in a way that makes them feel like they are not left on their own. Over the years this has been combated in a few ways. You’ll see gaming elements added to courses , exercises, scenarios, simulations, and forums to help encourage interaction.

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EduNeering Leadership Forum Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are my slides from the EduNeering Leadership forum on the topic of Blended Learning. Related Posts. Think Like the Caveman: Campaign, Not Event. Designing an Interactive Training Event. Online Learning: Better Than the Classroom? Check out my Gamification course on Lynda.com. The Gamification of Learning explores how to use game concepts to make your learning design engaging.

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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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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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Activities for Integrating Learning

Clark Quinn

I’ve been working on a learning design that integrates developing social media skills with developing specific competencies, aligned with real work. It’s an interesting integration, and I drafted a pedagogy that I believe accomplishes the task. It draws heavily on the notion of activity -based learning. For your consideration. The learning process is broken up into a series of activities.

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Is It Time to Assess Your eLearning Course Audience?

Association eLearning

You’re offering courses online. You think the content is relevant. So, where are your learners? Maybe it’s time to assess your eLearning course audience. You might not be familiar with market segmentation or demographic and psychographic research, but without them, chances are your bottom line will suffer. But that’s okay, help has arrived to get you started, marketing style.

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Engage Students with Game-Based Learning (GBL)

Raptivity

As an Instructional Designer or Educator, you always aspire to make your course content as ‘sticky’ as possible. You try your level best to engage learners in thoughtful learning even after they have left the room or finished the course. Knowing also this, it’s apparent that you do understand that something that fascinates almost every person is playing games.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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5 Must-Read WordPress LMS Articles

LearnDash

With every year that goes by we see elearning make its way into new markets. One of the newer markets in this industry is the WordPress ecosystem. A few years ago, the term “WordPress LMS” didn’t even exist, but those times have changed tremendously! Today we see countless offerings marketing themselves as learning management systems on WordPress.

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ILT Instructor Guides: Are You a Helicopter or a Free-Range Instructional Designer?

Dashe & Thomson

It is hard to escape all of the news and opinion stories I have seen in recent years arguing for and against Helicopter Parenting and, conversely, Free-Range Parenting. In the unlikely event you have not been privy to this debate, Helicopter Parenting can be defined as a style of child rearing in which an overprotective parent discourages a child’s independence by being too involved in the child’s life.

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Sheetz Supports Workforce with Made-to-Order Training

dVinci Interactive

Video interview with the Workforce Development Manager at Sheetz. Sheetz is one of the fastest growing family-owned convenience stores in the world, with more than 437 locations across six states — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina — and more than 14,500 employees. The Sheetz brand promises to be a mecca for people on the go.

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Multi-device Learning – Designing for Usability

Upside Learning

According to ISO 9241, Usability is defined as the extent to which a product (a software, a coffee maker etc.) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use. In the context of learning, usability is the ease with which your users interact, […].

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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eLearning and TechComm: Click, Select, Choose, or Press?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Right at a time when flat design has become the rage, removing the three-dimensional look that for 30 years (happy anniversary to Windows this November!) has informed us that "this thing looks like you can poke it in! It must be a button!" people are starting to worry and become uncertain about the clear vocabulary that has helped us to write about software and computers for just as long.

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Turn Your Product Knowledge Training into a “Hero’s Journey”

Knowledge Guru

You need to deliver training to your employees and want it to be “engaging.” You’ve read articles and attended webinars that discuss making learning experiences engaging, yet most of the advice seems vague. What is an engaging learning solution? Why do some learners find a certain type of training engaging, while others do not? The challenge you face is even more difficult when your content does not exactly jump off the page.

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Why Should You Use Cloud Computing For E-Learning?

Origin Learning

What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the technology which uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain applications and data. It allows end-users and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files via any computer that has an internet access. Cloud computing allows computing to be much more efficient by centralizing data storage, processing and bandwidth at one point.

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Why You Have To Specialize

LearnDash

Whether you are attempting to sell online courses, offer elearning consulting, or provide development services, you will experience more growth if you specialize. To be honest, this is something I’ve written about before. Actually, a number of times. The reason I keep revisiting the topic is because I think that the message is easily lost today.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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How MOOC's Can Benefit Both Students, and Post-Secondary Institutions

Lambda Solutions

There’s a lot of discussion around “mooks” these days, but few people actually seem to know what they are. MOOC, as it is formally spelled, stands for Massive Open Online Course. MOOC’s first emerged in 2008, but they were not widely known or utilized until 4 years later when Stanford University Stanford became the catalyst for a major shift to open enrollment online courses.

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Got Game?

Clark Quinn

Why should you, as a learning designer, take a game design workshop? What is the relationship between games and learning? I want to suggest that there are very important reasons why you should. Just so you don’t think I’m the only one saying it, in the decade since I wrote the book Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games , there have been a large variety of books on the topic.

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Awesome and Fun Avenger/Muppet Mash Up

Kapp Notes

If you are a fan of superheros and of the muppets and Sesame Street then this video is for you. (if not, move along, nothing to see). Also, it is a good video on the value of staying focused!

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What Makes a Good Instructional Designer?

Upside Learning

Somehow or the other, this question cropped up in the course of a conversation recently. So we asked our team of instructional designers what they thought. And here’s what they came up with – in no particular order, as they say: Focuses on learners. A common thought – about thinking of learners as ‘us’, not […].

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?