Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Have you ever been tasked with developing e-learning that needed to jolt people out entrenched viewpoints? It’s a challenge, and one I certainly haven’t always succeeded in meeting myself. What if you were charged with creating learning to tackle a big problem like poverty or homelessness? The Urban Ministries of Durham , North Carolina worked with ad agency McKinney to create the game Spent.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
What is a Learning Management System used for? Administration. Documentation. Tracking and Reporting. Is that it? Not really. Most instances of the LMS are capable of a lot more than what they are currently utilized for. Let’s look at how you can exploit the capabilities of your LMS to the max. MICRO-BLOGGING: Check if your LMS offers a Micro-blogging feature.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
by AJ George. About a year ago I wrote about the 2010 Horizon Report and what it said about the impending adoption of mLearning. It's that time of year again so the 2011 Horizon Report has been released with some interesting insights on just how far we've come in a year. Electronic books and mobiles as they apply to education are slated for adoption in a year or less.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
The next intensive 30-day programme will take place 1-30 March 2011. Every day for 30 days we will focus on a different social technology or tool for working and learning smarter in your organization. The programme is intended for those working in L&D in organizations, and is free to purchasers of the Social Learning Handbook. Although [.].
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Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Elearning Advantages. Collected list from Karl Kapp with research highlights on advantages of e-learning, including reduced learning times and increased retention levels. tags: e-learning research. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Filed under: Bookmarks.
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Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 12, 2011
Last week we where working on USP document on easygenerator. At first we came up with a list of functionalities, it was correct but not inspiring or even really convincing. In the end we called it highlights instead of USP’s, because we realized that our bullets with text where not that unique. I did add some text about our vision and mission to it to make it more convincing, but I wasn’t really happy with it.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
The following infographic comes courtesy of the Socialcast blog, where they say: “Collaboration is based on the idea that sharing knowledge through cooperation helps solve problems more efficiently. In the enterprise, this principle couldn’t be more true, especially as more and more employees are engaging with one another through asynchronous, socially-geared technology.&#.
E-Learning Provocateur
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last week, Laura Layton-James stumbled upon my post Online courses must die! and she left a wonderfully detailed comment. I was so enamoured with what she wrote that I feel compelled to repeat it here… An excellent post Ryan. When running courses on how to create engaging eLearning (concentrating on the self-study module) we concentrate on designing, as Cathy Moore puts it, experiences.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
In the game of cricket, they say a player's form is temporary, but the class is timeless. Likewise, when a product stands the test of time, it deepens your belief in the innovation and quality underlying it. Five years is a long time in the software industry. As we celebrate 5 successful and growing years of Raptivity , the world's first and leading rapid interactivity building tool for eLearning creators, it gives me and the team at Harbinger Group immense joy and a sense of fulfillment.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
by Jennie Ruby. In training documents and manuals, we often have to tell the reader what will (or would) happen if they do (or did) a certain action. For example, suppose you want to tell the reader the consequences of pressing cancel. Would you use sentence a or sentence b below? If you press cancel, the document will not be saved. If you pressed cancel, the document would not be saved.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
By now you have heard about IBM’s super computer, Watson is a modern day wizard answering questions that seemed impossible for a computer to answer only a short while ago. Why? Well until the Waston, Jeopardy problem, one of the ways that it was thought computers could answer questions was to follow rules. So the goal was to create a branching tree with enough rules and if-then-else statements for the computer to look up and answer any question that it encountered.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Just in case you haven’t seen this promotional slideset for my Social Learning Handbook … View more presentations from Jane Hart. Social Learning = working smarter with social media.
Integrated Learnings
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
By Shelley A. Gable. According to most definitions, an “engaged” employee is a high-quality performer who takes personal responsibility to work toward the success of an organization. Several posts on this blog offer advice for engaging learners through compelling eLearning design (e.g., gaining attention , storytelling , providing practice opportunities, etc.).
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. Take a look at the Insert menu in Adobe Captivate 5 and you'll see two similar commands: New Slide and Blank Slide. Spend a few minutes selecting either menu item and you might find yourself at a loss to explain the difference between the two. In fact, it will likely appear that New Slide and Blank Slide both result in a new, blank slide.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
A recent Ross Dawson blog post included a mention of building flexibility: “the more flexible the organization, the more able it is to succeed&#. Which reminded me of some work I assisted Eileen Clegg with on extremophiles that we wrote up for Marcia Conner & James Clawson’s book, Creating a Learning Culture. Along the lines of the biomimicry field, Eileen was inspired by her scientist husband’s work on organisms that live in extreme conditions of heat, salt, cold, and mor
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Got an iPhone , iPad or iTouch and want to read Kindle books on it? Then the free Amazon Kindle app is what you need. You’ll have access to over 810,000 books in the Kindle Store, including best sellers and new releases. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights. You [.].
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Today I was interviewed by Ben Clarck from Rustici software. They do a project for the ADL to investigate what the next version of SCORM should look like. They have called this project Tincan. SCORM is the standard of the e-Learning industry and now and then we say less nice things about it, but it is our guarantee (most of the times) that content from our authoring systems will actually run in most LMS, and that the learners progress and results are tracked and reported.
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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.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
by Barb Binder I can't tell you how many times my Adobe FrameMaker students ask where the "red squiggles" are when we start the lessons on text editing. In my humble opinion, there's not a whole lot to like about Microsoft Word, but I have to admit that I do use Word for writing, primarily to take advantage of Word's automatic spelling and grammar checks.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
I'm going to be moderating a CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum that looks at Entrepreneurial Opportunities in eLearning - basically where do we mutually see a good opportunity to create a successful eLearning Startup. I've talked a bit about this in eLearning startups : the startups in eLearning sit in smaller niches or by attacking tangential opportunities in eLearning.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Wow! Slideshare has just released Zipcast for 1-click meetings (public or private) on the Web – and it’s very simple! Click Zipcast on any presentation Select Public or Private Start Zipcast & enable live video Invite friends on Facebook & Twitter Your Zipcast is ON Find out more at [link].
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
(cartoon via Rob Speekenbrink ) I get involved in lots of discussions whether Twitter - is learning (or nonsense). People are sceptical on what you can learn through 140 characters. Often I answer that you definitely learn through twittering because you can link through to blogposts, articles etc. Basically defending the 140 characters. Probably the main difference is in the theory about learning that people hold.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
by AJ George. Recently I was asked if it was possible to paste link an image into PowerPoint so that if the original image is ever updated, the image in PowerPoint would automatically reflect the change. Sadly, PowerPoint cannot do this, but there are some types of source files that can be Paste linked. Let's say, for example, that you have been sent an Excel spreadsheet for your PowerPoint presentation with the first and second quarter earnings.
Web Courseworks
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
I received my diploma in the mail this last weekend, and it was probably one of the high points of working towards my Ph.D. The accomplishment did not seem real to me until I looked down at a framed diploma. The University of Wisconsin never actually sent me my undergraduate diploma in 1978, due to my overdue parking tickets and library fines, and I somehow missed all three graduation ceremonies.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
Optimal execution is only the cost of entry; continual innovation is the necessary competitive differentiator. When I talk strategy, I channel my colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance about the changes being seen in the workplace. The rate of change is increasing, and the patterns we imagined we saw (and explained away when violated) are more clearly representing the chaos seen in a fractal world.
Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
In an interesting article at Fast Company titled Apple’s iPad Officially Passes the Higher Education Test it was declared that the iPad has the features college students are looking for in an electronic, portable device. Here are some highlights from the article: The most impressive iPad feature was also the simplest: a smooth scrolling touchscreen. “The quick response time of the touch screen was highly praised and seemed to be extremely beneficial in class discussions because it al
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Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Last week I was cleaning up my bookcase and I found an old book, called the piranha economy. It is written by three Dutch guys (John Caspers, Guido Hosman and Stefan Verkerk) in 1999. I don’t think it was translated in English and there is no website to link to, so it is really old stuff. The key idea of the book is that small agile companies working together can create innovative solutions in a pace big corporations only can dream of.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Garin Hess wrote a post 5 Reasons Flash is NOT dying.give me a break! and it seems like my recent post Mobile Learning and the Continuing Death of Flash got him a little fired up. I am fed up with people saying Flash is dying. That it's old technology. That HTML5 is the ultimate replacement. That it shouldn't be allowed to go forward. Come on! Give me a break!
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Conversations are the engine of business. Seriously. How many problems are solved by saying “go talk to <so-and-so>&# , or ideas sparked by conversations around the water cooler? How many times has a chance conversation ended up leading to a new product, service, acquisition, or more? The conversations can be of many types: with co-workers, managers, subordinates, customers, stakeholders.
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