January, 2014

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Do You Know What We Do? #eLearning Infographic

eLearning Cyclops

'I was having a discussion with some fellow eLearning designers and we got deep into the complexities of working with subject matter experts (SME). Many great ideas came out of the discussion (e.g., guidelines, agreements, best methods of identifying SMEs and a lead SME, etc.). One thing I brought up was that so few SMEs realize what is involved in the process of creating elearning courses or any instruction for that matter.

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eLearning Brothers and Lodestone Create a New Concept in eLearning Training

eLearning Brothers

'(SLC, UT, January 21, 2014) eLearning Brothers and Lodestone have partnered to provide a new twist in eLearning training. For the first time, eLearning developers can receive software training and over 20,000 eLearning assets in one offering at the same price as training alone. The courses incorporate eLearning templates for hands-on learning and practice.

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Free Resource for eLearning Designers

Mindflash

'Over the last few years, we have seen software companies successfully adopt a freemium model that allows people to try software for free before they buy. Sometimes the free portion is in the form of a 30-day trial. In another form, you can use a limited version of a software service for free, indefinitely. This has changed the way people purchase software, and it has changed the way people get things done by allowing people to use software for free that they otherwise would not use at all. .

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Tips for webinars or virtual training

Making Change

'“What works for webinars?” People have asked this a lot lately, so here’s my opinionated answer. I do a lot of online workshops, such as the scenario design course that starts soon. I’ve ditched many of the conventional webinar techniques. Here’s what’s left on my list. My main recommendation: Include many, many thought-provoking questions for people to answer in the chat.

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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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Engagement: A Critical Element in Learning and Gamification

Kapp Notes

'If you want to have effective learning engagement, in gamification or any type of learning, you need to consider carefully how to grab and hold the learner’s attention. You need to develop approaches to engage the student. A learner needs to be engaged with the learning process through activities, decision making and responding to stimuli. While this seems straightforward, most students are used to playing passive roles in the classroom and not being engaged during the teaching process.

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33 Best eLearning Posts Of 2013

Upside Learning

'Our blog is quite special to us; it’s a place that informally connects us with our readers. It also gives us a chance to share our views‚ thoughts and musings about all things related to learning. 2013 was even more special for us as The Upside Learning Blog Hit 1 Million Views on 15th July […].

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E-Learning events in Australia in 2014

E-Learning Provocateur

'As another year dawns, another round of professional development opportunities beckon down under… Bonza! Australian eLearning Congress. • Where: Melbourne. • When: 11-13 February 2014. • More info: Ark Group. Learning Cafe Unconference. • Where: Sydney. • When: 20 February 2014. • More info: Learning Cafe. The Future of Learning Conference. • Where: Sydney. • When: 24-25 February 2014. • More info: Informa.

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eLearning Design – Choosing the Right Color

Association eLearning

'Unless you want everything to blend together, you don’t put white furnishings in a white room. Likewise, if your learners can’t see your content clearly, they can’t learn from it. To keep your work in visual ship-shape, remember: ? Warm colors naturally “pop,” while cool colors tend to fade into the background. As a result, you only need to use a little of a warm color like red or yellow for it to be effective.

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The 12 Corporate Learning Content Areas… and Where Games Fit

Knowledge Guru

'When it comes to game-based learning, 2014 is the year of theory moving into practice. An increasing number of organizations are planning initiatives to include games in their learning solutions. The research has been validated and plans are being set. But if you’ve never designed a game before, or tried to include a game in your training, where do you begin?

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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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Creating a Virtual Leadership Academy: A Case Study #ASTDTK14

Learning Visions

'Virtual learning event for physician leaders. These are my live blogged notes from ASTD Tech Knowledge session with Eric Heckerson. I missed his opening setup, so didn’t get some of the context. But the upshot is they created/designed a virtual leadership event. It was “faux live” video of a teacher/speaker, onscreen with PPT slides, also links to chats and other resources.

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Proactive, Not Reactive: Strategic with Technology

Web Courseworks

'A Research Review “…we abandoned the term e-learning entirely.” Wow! Bold words grace the second paragraph of the latest research done by Tagoras founders Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele. In their freshly published (and free to download!) research, Association Learning & Technology 2014, Cobb and Steele analyze how 200 associations report using technology to “enable and enhance […].

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The Omnipresence Of Learning

Upside Learning

'Over the years we have accepted and moved beyond (not away) from the old concept that learning is best delivered and ‘learned’ formally. The advent of technology accelerated this and brought in new mediums and opportunities for the delivery of learning. To embrace and use new technology we have changed the form of learning materials; […].

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The 3 mindsets of m-learning

E-Learning Provocateur

'One of my most popular posts of last year was M-Learning’s dirty little secrets. By “popular” I mean quantitatively: it attracted a relatively large number of hits and comments. Qualitatively, however, the situation was somewhat different: while many of the comments were concordant, others were not. For the record, I don’t believe those discordant comments were wrong – they just represented different points of view in different contexts.

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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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Sue describes her online learning as excruciating

Allison Rossett

'Sue got caught texting while sitting in her car at a stoplight. She was just sitting there when law enforcement nabbed her. But that’s another matter. We are here to talk about how Sue dealt with the ticket she got. In California, those of us who get tickets may reduce the penalty via traffic school. Some turn to Clown Traffic School or my personal favorite, Shop ’til You Drop Traffic School.

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4 Ways Serious Games Link to Learning (Free Download)

Knowledge Guru

'A growing body of research supports the use of serious games in the workplace. And thanks to a year of successful implementations in corporate settings, some great case studies now point the way for organizations ready to use games for learning. Whether you want to use a true serious game, a gamified solution, or a combination of the two… it’s a great time to do so.

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Making Interactivity Count (Session slides from #ASTDTK14)

Learning Visions

'I presented yesterday at ASTD Tech Knowledge, "Making Interactivity Count". It was a great session, with a lot of audience participation and great conversation. For conference attendees, I believe it was recorded and will be part of the post-conference package so you can hear all the banter. Here are my session slides. Enjoy!

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Raptivity 7.7 – The best of Raptivity in a Simplified form

Raptivity

'Raptivity team today released v7.7 which is claimed as “Simplified Raptivity” with only 2 offerings – Raptivity Essential and Raptivity Suite. Let us hear from Janhavi Padture, Vice President – Strategy & Research, about this simplified Raptivity. 1. Janhavi, what’s […].

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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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The 80:20 Of Assessment …

Upside Learning

'Assessments are a key component of eLearning and are variously seen as the barometer of the elusive and much debated, “ROI of learning” More often than not though, it's seen as evidence of how good the elearning is, proof of learner completion and of course, the BIG one; evidence of compliance – "they all got […].

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eLearning: What Happened to Microsoft's Free Image Gallery?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by AJ Walther    In my  Optimizing PowerPoint Design for eLearning & Presentations  class I like to sing the praises of  Microsoft's free online image gallery. But then, a few weeks ago, the unthinkable happened. I went to pull an image from said image gallery, and was met instead with this:  Do you know what this is?

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Show The Learner Visible Signs of Their Learning

Kapp Notes

'One of the strengths of gamification is that it provides visible milestones of the student’s mastery of content in real time (when it is well designed). Too often in an instructional setting, the learner doesn’t know whether or not he or she really understands or can apply the knowledge they are learning. There is often no visible sign of mastery of the content or application of the content.

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Breaking Up With SCORM: It’s Not You, It’s Me

Knowledge Guru

'Many organizations are ready for learners to stop clicking next to continue, but still need to track what formal training those learners have completed. They’re limited by the constraints of SCORM, so their L&D efforts start to look the same year after year. These organizations know that a post-test score and completion certificate tell a small part of a learner’s story.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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14 Interesting ELearning Facts

LearnDash

'As we forge ahead into 2014, the elearning industry is certainly carrying some momentum. Last year was exciting on many fronts – from new technologies, new services, and tools. It is reasonable to expect an increased growth (and interest) in elearning for 2014. For those of you looking for a little proof regarding the industry’s growth and promise, consider the 14 elearning facts below (originally shared by Aurion Learning ).

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Vision 2014 – An Interview with Greg Gardner

Raptivity

'Our sixth interview in the series is with an another eLearning industry expert, Greg Gardner. Below is an excerpt of the interview: What are some of the key eLearning trends you are looking forward to in 2014? I see mLearning really […].

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Free Mobile Learning Book

Upside Learning

'The Open University of China has recently released an mLearning book called Global Mobile Learning Implementations and Trends. The book is available for free online here. It has been edited by Dr. Mohamed Ally (Athabasca University) and Dr. Avgoustos Tsinakos (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology in Greece). Dr. Ally had previously published a […].

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5 Things Millennials Want From Training

Dashe & Thomson

'The growing workforce of fresh faced millennials and GenY workers has many organizations concerned, with millennials being called the “Me Me Me Generation.” Some older generations have trouble connecting with the younger workers who seem to have completely different desires and interests (emphasized and exaggerated in this fake training video). While millennials might not be… Continue Reading The post 5 Things Millennials Want From Training appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr