December, 2013

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Free eLearning Development Calculator… Quickly Determine Your LOE

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'One of the most common questions we hear during our live, online classes is how long does it typically take to create eLearning using Adobe Captivate. The answer is dependent upon several factors, beginning with how long a lesson or course is expected to run (in minutes), your comfort-level using Adobe Captivate, access to resources, and the amount of support available to you.

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How To Choose An Authoring Tool For Your HTML eLearning Development

Upside Learning

'Lectora11, Captivate 7, and Articulate Storyline are the top tools that come to mind for HTML elearning development. Their key strength – they are able to provide an excellent library of ready templates and resources. But do you know which one is best for your project? Read on… Let’s begin with evaluating each of these […].

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Characteristics of a Virtual Classroom

LearnDash

'The ed tech landscape is full of various buzzwords that sometimes it can be hard to really grasp the concepts that are being discussed. For example, one popular movement today being used in the education industry is the virtual classroom, but what exactly does this mean? The idea itself is not that hard to conceptualize, but often the characteristics regarding a virtual classroom are not discussed.

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Gamification of Learning and Instruction Theory Into Practice Blog Tour

Kapp Notes

'I am kicking off another blog book tour and am excited to be able to “go” on another tour. We are starting it today as ASTD and I kick-off a 10+ stop blog book tour for the ASTD co-published book The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Theory into Practice. The book is available at the ASTD Book Store. I have done several tours in the past and wanted to keep this one a little smaller to be a more intimate and to grow organically.

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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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Social Learning Handbook 2014

Jane Hart

'It’s now 3 years since I published the Social Learning Handbook – and a lot has changed, so I am now working on a new version. Social Learning Handbook 2014: The Next Generation of Workplace Learning Practices in the Age of Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Social learning has become a hot topic in the learning [.].

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SociaLogic: How to Cite Tweets in Academia or eLearning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by AJ Walther    The President has a Twitter account. So does the Pope. It makes sense that eventually someone important is going to use this social outlet to say something that you'd like to include in an academic paper or maybe even in your eLearning. But how do you do that?   Here's how, according to the  Modern Language Association (MLA) : Last Name, First Name (User Name).

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9 Top Tips For Mining The Hidden Depths Of Your Learning Management System

Upside Learning

'This article was originally published in Inside Learning Technologies & Skills. Today’s Learning Management Systems are capable of much more than merely managing day-to-day training activities and keeping a record of ‘who did what and when’ The advent of social media and social learning is having a considerable impact on the process of organisational training […].

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7 Awesome Advantages of ELearning

LearnDash

'Those of us who are actively involved in the elearning are well aware of the advantages elearning can provide to an organization , and to the individual, and in the past year or so, these advantages are becoming recognized among the general public. The flexible nature of elearning means that we are likely to encounter it in everyday life. Some people seek it out in for additional learning opportunities, and for career advancement.

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Vision 2014 – An Interview with Clark Quinn

Raptivity

'Our third interview in the series is with an another eLearning industry expert, Clark Quinn. Below is an excerpt of the interview: What are some of the key eLearning trends you are looking forward to in 2014? I think several trends […].

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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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10 tips for managing your time on social networks

Jane Hart

'I spend a lot of time connecting with colleagues and contacts in my professional network in social networks. As I have explained in a previous post this is an essential way for me to keep up to date with what’s happening in the learning world. I also mentioned how over the years I’ve developed a [.].

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Would you like an education with that?

E-Learning Provocateur

'Last night I attended the official launch of the Tiny Shops Burgers app by Sydney-based startup, hawt. The app is an educational game in which you are the manager of a busy little burger shop. The customers line up and place their orders – say, a burger, small fries and a drink – while you ring up their bill on the cash register, accept their payment and return their change.

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Thinking about Gamification in Learning and Instruction

Kapp Notes

'Here is a rough draft of the introduction of a chapter I am writing for a book. The first part of the chapter is an attempt to identify the key elements in the definition of gamification. Ironically, there is a good deal of consensus on the high level definition but, as they say, the devil is in the details. Gamification is an emergent approach to instruction which facilitates learning and encourages motivation through the use of game elements, mechanics and game-based thinking.

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Interactive Learning At A Museum In Indonesia

Upside Learning

'On a recent backpacking trip to Indonesia with my husband, who is also an instructional designer, we visited the famous Taman Pintar (literally, Garden of Knowledge) in Yogyakarta. We expected to see the usual collection of old relics from a time long gone, but were pleasantly surprised to find that the Government had tried to […].

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Transform Learning into Profits for Your Association

Association eLearning

'It’s a new year and a new opportunity to explore other means of non-dues revenue for your association. For years, associations have relied on annual sponsorships, conference and meeting fees and internet advertising to generate cash and offset higher operating costs. Now, with many associations getting into the “education business,” they are finding that they, too, can profit from selling education and training to both members and nonmembers.

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Vision 2014 – An Interview with Bob Little

Raptivity

'Our second interview in the series is with the eLearning industry expert, Bob Little. Below is an excerpt of the interview: What are some of the key eLearning trends you are looking forward to in 2014? I believe that the key […].

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Top 50 articles of 2013

Jane Hart

'This is the 6th year that I have produced a list of my favourite articles, blog postings and slidesets of the year, chosen from my annual Reading List. Here they are presented in chronological order with a short quote or image to give you a taste of what each one is about. I’ve also created [.].

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Joy to the World of Work

The Performance Improvement Blog

' . It’s fitting, in this holiday season, to be talking about "joy". Menlo Innovations , a software development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has made a joyful workplace its goal and has found that, by doing this, business success follows. In Joy, Inc. , a new book by Richard Sheridan, Co-Founder and CEO of Menlo, we read how his company makes joy the center of its business model. .

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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7 Fascinating Distance Learning Facts

LearnDash

'It is becoming pretty common place these days for people to take the majority of their courses online (or at least some portion of them). Most K-12 districts even have learning management systems in place for online learning programs to supplement the classroom. The evidence is there: elearning is gaining in influence and being recognized as a legitimately way to earn a quality education.

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Mobile Magic – Making Mobile Work At The Workplace

Upside Learning

'This article was originally published in e.learning age. The number of mobile subscribers worldwide will reach 7.0 billion by the end of 2013, 7.5 billion by the end of 2014 and 8.5 billion by the end of 2016. This rapid growth and its increasing penetration have strengthened the use of mobile phones as learning tools. […].

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Tapping into the Intangible: Qualifying the Psychology of Gamification

Dashe & Thomson

'In a nutshell, gamification techniques strive to leverage people’s natural desires, ranging from competition to achievement to self-expression to closure. It’s an industry poised to hit $5.5 billion within the next five years (M2 Research). While there are a lot of resources being invested in these strategies, there aren’t many that are doing it particularly… Continue Reading The post Tapping into the Intangible: Qualifying the Psychology of Gamification appeared first on Social Learning

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Vision 2014 – An Interview with Robert Gadd

Raptivity

'Our fourth interview in the series is with an another eLearning industry expert, Robert Gadd. Below is an excerpt of the interview: What are some of the key eLearning trends you are looking forward to in 2014? The first trend […].

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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?

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Social Performance Support: help your people help themselves

Jane Hart

'The recent trend in Performance Support has focused on L&D creating job aids and performance support resources for their people – frequently as a by-product of some online course or programme. But what do people do when they encounter a performance problem in the workplace? Well, most people EITHER Google their problem OR ask a [.].

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Choosing Colours for eLearning

B Online Learning

'Years ago my mother and her friends used to go and get their colours done with Colour Me Beautiful. This was like a personal stylist service that matched your own natural hair colour to a season. You could be spring, summer, autumn or winter. By finding your right season you could figure out what colours [.].

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Training & Development in Belize

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jen Weaver. Let's take an island adventure to Belize and explore some common cultural facts (and their impact on the training and development market). Test your knowledge of Belizean culture with the true or false questions below: True or False? Belizeans take a relaxed approach to most things. True or False? The official language of Belize is English.

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ELearning Explained [INFOGRAPHIC]

LearnDash

'Many people have a general idea about what elearning entails as it is used across a wide-range of industries. The education market is using elearning on a regular basis, and corporations often use it for employee training. That said, the elearning industry is in constant motion. New tools and mobile learning technologies are opening up the possibilities for both course development and delivery.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.