It’s no surprise that the use of video in corporate training continues to gain in popularity among corporate      Learning and Development departments. Brandon Hall, the research firm based out of Delray Beach, FL, polled over 300 training professionals back in 2011 and found the top 2 reasons for using video in training – effectiveness and high engagement. These two concepts seem to go hand in hand. People respond to video. It catches our attention. Combining moving pictures with audio in a compelling way draws people into the subject. Instructional design principles are still paramount. MORE >>

Week One Recap. The first week of the blog book tour has ended and it has been a fantastic week with informative blog posts, information and opinions about gamification and even a bit of controversy. The week opened with a posting of the tour stops on the Learning Circuit’s Blog and the Kapp Notes blog and then introduced everyone to the Facebook page for the book and then the discussion really ramped up with Jane Bozarth talking about the how the book takes a common sense look at the subject. ” It is not a universal cure-all. Issues with Gamification and It’s Implications. Two Choices. MORE >>

Karl Kapp’s written another book, this time on gamification , and I certainly liked his previous book with Tony O’Driscoll on Virtual Worlds. This one’s got some great stuff in it too, and some other ideas that raise some hackles. Let me get one of the quibbles out of the way at the start: I  hate  the title “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” (to the point I previously wrote a post arguing instead for ‘ engagification ‘). With that caveat, I think there is a lot to like here. ”  Exactly! There are some interesting additional chapters. MORE >>

These are my live blogged notes from ASTD Learn Now Session with Conrad. Gottfredson and Bob Mosher of Ontuitive (formerly LearningGuide Solutions). co-facilitator for this 1.5 day conference, along with Bob, Conrad, and Chad. Udell of Float Learning. About 55 learning colleagues gathered here at the. lovely Hilton in San Francisco. I don’t care what they know, I do care what they do.”. It’s all about APPLY. Training is good and New and More. Getting them started, keeping them. going. Need to help them CHANGE and SOLVE. This is part of the APPLY world. informal learning. it’s more human. build. MORE >>

by Kevin Siegel    During my  advanced Captivate class , I spend a significant amount of time extolling the value of project templates. As a group, the class opens an existing project template, edits the template, uses the template to record a software simulation and then creates a project template from scratch. I've written several articles about Captivate's project templates including  how to convert a project into a project template  and how to make the best use of  template placeholders. To set application preferences, start Captivate. No problem. MORE >>