Upside Learning
JULY 5, 2012
When it comes to mobile learning myths and misconceptions abound. The mlearning domain is still new to many, so this confusion is to be expected. These myths are holding back widespread adoption of mobile learning in the workplace. Here is a list of the more common ones I come across. Also contrast with a list of myths we posted on this blog a couple of years ago. 1.
The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 5, 2012
Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice).
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mLearning Revolution
JULY 2, 2012
'For all the mind-boggling stats we read about the video revolution, like how we are publishing video to YouTube at the rate of 72 hours every minute, and consuming over 3 billion hours of video each month, as well as other stats you can see here , video as a medium hasn’t really evolved. For the most part it has remained a fairly passive experience.
Living in Learning
JULY 4, 2012
For that last few days I have been contributing to a thread on the eLearning Guild’s network group on LinkedIn. The topic that has been hotly debated, trashed, twisted, modified, and/or exalted is none other than ADDIE. I was okay participating in that lively dialogue until I stumbled upon another post by an ISD asking a question about a “loan processing training issue”.
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Upside Learning
JULY 3, 2012
It’s probably easier to push toothpaste back into a tube than convince sales professionals to attend classroom training. Sounds like an exaggeration? Not in my opinion! In my previous job with a life insurance company, I noticed that most sales professionals actually dislike training. In most cases they used to attend classroom training sessions only because it was a mandate passed down by senior managers.
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Clark Quinn
JULY 3, 2012
In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary. This makes a lot of sense to me, and I was inspired to take a look at the practices within those categories.
Living in Learning
JULY 3, 2012
In a campaign to introduce electronic performance support system (EPSS) technology, an innovative and evolved approach to learning, chances are great that you are going to have “SELL” somebody on the idea. You might be surprised WHO will be the first to dig in their heels. Even more surprising…well maybe not…is the reason for the resistance. If you are thinking along the lines of what innovation has the potential to do to embedded training traditions and paradigms, you are on the money.
LearnDash
JULY 4, 2012
eLearning has been around for quite some time now, but now more than ever is it essential to the future of business, in more ways than one. It doesn’t matter what industry an organization is in, they all have the two same objectives: Increase revenue. Decrease cost. Any organization that can do these two things successfully is going to find itself in the black and well ahead of their competition.
Performance Learning Productivity
JULY 5, 2012
Yesterday, scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre announced that they have found a new subatomic particle that behaves like the much sought-after Higgs bosun, the ‘god particle’ (or ‘goddamn particle’). The discovery of this elusive, ethereal particle represents a major breakthrough in our understanding of the universe. So what does this have to do with the learning and training world?
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Learning Visions
JULY 5, 2012
Smack in the middle of summer, a great learning event right in Boston. (OK -- technically, it's in Cambridge.but it's right on the Charles River with great views of Boston.). Come join me, Bob Mosher, Conrad Gottfredson and Chad Udell as we talk about learning technologies, the five moments of learning need, mobile, social and embedded performance support.
Living in Learning
JULY 1, 2012
It seems like we are always looking for something to improve training outcomes, a noble and well-intended search. In the many years I have been in this profession I confess to being part of that search. I must also confess to seeing shifts in tactics to e-learning and new whiz-bang technology speed the process of training – and at the same time, perpetuate the search.
Clark Quinn
JULY 2, 2012
I was looking for any previous post I’d made about stealth mentoring, so I could refer to it in a post I was writing, and I couldn’t find it. It’s a concept I refer to often (and have to give credit to my colleague Jay Cross who inspired the thought), so here’s my obligatory place holder. When someone is thinking and learning ‘out loud’, e.g. putting their deeper reflections on line via, say, a blog (er, like this one, recursively), they’re allowing you
eLearning Cyclops
JULY 4, 2012
Happy 4th of July everyone! I thought I would dig through the Free eLearning page for some of the US history courses in there. And here they are: Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads – National Constitution Center An Overview of American History (video) – Digital History Constitutional Timeline - National Constitution Center Native Words, Native Warriors (Codetalkers) – NMAI The Supreme Court – CSPAN U.S.
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Kapp Notes
JULY 3, 2012
It’s that time of year again, time to venture into the world of 3D learning and discover all the wonderful attributes of 3D Virtual Immersive Environments. I added a link the the “green” house on the MIST Second Life Wiki. This will allow any student who wants to return to the “green” house and who forgot to landmark the location.
Ontuitive
JULY 6, 2012
As we continue the theme of how to get started with Performance Support (PS), I thought I would share one of the more insightful and intentional journeys into PS we have ever seen. Many of you have met Jeremy Smith, the Senior Learning Solutions Manager – Talent Management for Herman Miller, through a few of our webinars and past blogs.
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
JULY 3, 2012
A screencast is a recording of your computer screen to which you add an explanation by voice- combining it into a video. A screencast is a classical way of explaining computer programs and software. You might for instance explain via a screencast how to start a twitter account. But there are a lot more creative ways you can use screencasts. For instance you might show a presentation on your screen, a prezi or powerpoint.
LearnDash
JULY 1, 2012
Any instructional designer knows the importance of having a quality screen capture tool available at the click of a button. For years, the gold standard for this software has been Snagit by Techsmith. In all honesty, they really have put together quite an amazing product, so if you have the means to do so, I would highly recommend investing in their product.
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eLearning Cyclops
JULY 1, 2012
I'm happy to announce the eLearningCyclops blog is now featured in the eLearningLearning community. If you are not familiar with eLearningLearning , it is an aggregation of elearning blogs. My prior blog, prior to migrating it to this new location, was also part of this community. As it was then, it is an honor to be among these fantastic blogs. Give eLearninLearning a visit and get a wide perspective of what's happening in the elearning world.
From the Coleface
JULY 2, 2012
As people in business become ever more time-pressured, it’s harder for L&D to reach them with them with content that is useful. Mobile offers the opportunity to reach people in situations where they can’t/ don’t want to use their PC/ laptop. But before you rejoice at the prospect of being able to publish your existing content through another channel have a thought about the emotional/ psychological state that your target learner will be in when they get the content.
eLearning Brothers
JULY 6, 2012
Here is an example eLearning course developed to demonstrate our eLearning Templates in action. eLearning Template Products used: Captivate Layout Template. Illustrated People Pictures Set. Flash Quiz Templates. Flash Game Templates. Flash Interaction Templates. Thought and Speech Bubbles. Click on the image below to view the example Captivate 6 course.
TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 6, 2012
Have you ever wondered what techniques you can employ to create a great video? We conducted a focus group and discovered the vast majority of “what” creates an engaging video happens before you ever click the Record button inside Camtasia Studio! We’ve distilled all the focus group information down into 59 informative tips and tricks and put them into a PDF guide for you to download.
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Xyleme
JULY 5, 2012
For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. Once gone, we lose all connection and control of our content – and this has some obvious drawbacks: Content is replicated to each LMS.
The Learning Dispatch
JULY 4, 2012
Dr. BJ Fogg , director of Stanford's Persuasive Tech Lab, presented a compelling keynote at mLearnCon 2012 centered around a fascinating question: Can computers be designed to change people’s beliefs and behaviors? The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab creates insight into how computing products — from websites to mobile phone software — can be designed to change what people believe and what they do.
Adobe Captivate
JULY 3, 2012
I’m excited to be bringing you the first sneak peek of Adobe eLearning Suite 6! One of the major enhancements to the suite is the new and improved Multi-SCO packager- where you not only can combine SCOs from multiple products in Adobe eLearning Suite but can now also make it more engaging with Pre-test and [.].
TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 2, 2012
I know what you’re thinking: “BO-RING!” Sure, you want to jump right in, record, crank out something amazing, and wow your viewers into mindless submission. But, if you’re really interested in making your screencast focused, clear, and taking the world by storm you’ll need to do at least a bit of prep work. You think all of those evil geniuses James Bond foiled nearly conquered the Earth by chance?
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E-learning Uncovered
JULY 2, 2012
When we talk to clients about audio narration, they all say they want it to sound natural and conversational. While the voice talent plays a big role in that, your writing style plays even a bigger role. For many writers, the most difficult thing about creating storyboards is writing narration that is conversational – or sounds like the average person is speaking when the narrator reads it.
Learning with e's
JULY 1, 2012
I recently gave a keynote at the eLearning 2.0 conference held at Brunel University, in West London. The presentation was a reworked version of one I gave earlier in the year in Tallinn, Estonia. In Learning in a Digital Age: The Myth and the Reality, I present a number of widespread beliefs about elearning, and challenge the provenance, reasoning and application of these theories.
Adobe Captivate
JULY 5, 2012
The new subscription plan that we introduced has been received with a lot of enthusiasm, and has been heralded as a possible game changer in our eLearning industry. One of the key drivers for this pricing model was that- in today’s environment, technology and market changes happen way too rapidly for customers to be satisfied [.].
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