Vignettes Learning

MAY 2, 2013

'Our belief: At Vignettes Learning we use stories in eLearning; however, we make them interactive. The emphasis is getting learners involved in the story and not just telling the learners the story. Synthesis: Authenticity is the heart of Story-based eLearning design. eDevelopers do not use stories to create fiction out of human stories. On the other hand, it is their task to develop authentic human situations in their designs.

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LearnDash

APRIL 30, 2013

'If you thought that distance learning was a product of today, then you would be mistaken. In fact, the first distance learning program on record took place in 1728, when a local teacher by the name of Caleb Phillips advertised shorthand correspondence lessons offered by mail! By 1800, the growth of the U.S. Postal Service brought about an increase in the number of distance learning correspondence courses in the country.

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Upside Learning

MAY 2, 2013

'"So how do you evaluate the success of eLearning that you create?" As a learning solutions vendor, I’ve been asked this question countless times and have also encountered it in many an RFP. Proving the effectiveness of training and showing ROI is no walk in the park and still keeps L&D up at night. Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model has long been the holy grail of training effectiveness measurement to businesses.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 2, 2013

'by AJ Walther    There is no limit to the number of images you can find on the Internet. There are severe limits, however, on the number of images that you can download and use in whatever capacity you see fit. But, good news: the pool of images that can be freely downloaded and used just became a bit less limited.  The Los Angeles Community Museum of Art  started an experiment two years ago in which they made 2,000 high resolution images of artwork that they deemed to b

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Jane Hart

APRIL 29, 2013

'In my previous post I showed that an analysis of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work suggests that L&D departments should consider working more closely with people managers to support the continuous development and performance improvement of their people – both in teams and individually.â?¦ [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2013

'Earlier I had shared the 8 things to follow while implementing blended learning via an LMS. For some of you the question might still be – why should my, or any organization for that matter, implement blended learning via an LMS? What advantages would it bring to my current training outputs? I am sure that nothing but a few foreseeable merits of leveraging an LMS for blended learning will encourage and motivate you to think about implementing it in your organization.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 29, 2013

'Some ideas on when to use #Gamification. ( a sneak peak of my 2014 Gamification Fieldbook). Gamification can be used to accomplish a number of goals related to learning. As with any learning intervention, gamification is not the answer to every learning situation and to gamify all content or learner experiences does not make sense. Gamification is especially effective when it is used to encourage learners to progress through content, motivate action, influence behavior and drive innovation.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 3, 2013

'I have read the book from Michael Allen ( and Richard Sites) with a lot of interest and it is a book that I can recommend to read, it does explain the why and the how of the approach and it contains a lot of practical stuff like examples and check list that will help you get started. I believe that an agile approach will bring a lot of benefits to e-Learning development.

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Jane Hart

MAY 1, 2013

'At the end of every month I review the blog posts and articles that I read during the month, and identify those that I have particularly enjoyed – for me this is a key part of curation.â?¦ [.].

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 3, 2013

'In his column for Forbes.com, John Baldoni writes about how Rick Pitino, coach of the 2013 NCAA national champion Louisville Cardinals basketball team, would keep track of his players’ deflections during their games. He wanted to measure “hustle” and a count of deflections was his best indicator. A deflection in basketball is anything that a defender does to “redirect the intended flight of the ball.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 28, 2013

'by Robert Desprez      Help Authoring Tools such as Madcap Flare and Adobe RoboHelp will quickly create an ePub file that includes a title page, table of contents, and the content that you authored. However, you can control the format of an ePub  after  it has been created by the Help Authoring Tool by performing some simple edits within a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).   In this article, I'll briefly explain how to unzip the ePub file and edit the CSS so t

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 30, 2013

'Lately, at Bloomsburg University where I teach, there have been some great cross-over and intermingling between academic endeavors of students and corporate experiences. Students have been bridging the gap between studying and the world-of-work and the results have been remarkable. Starting a Business. One of the many hats I wear at Bloomsburg is as the Assistant Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Center (ELC).

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Jane Hart

MAY 3, 2013

'As part of the Learning & Performance Institute’s Webinar programme: Date: Wednesday 8th May 2013 Starts: 3.00pm (UK BST) Finishes: 4.00pm (UK BST) Presenter: Harold Jarche & Jane Hart In the digitally connected enterprise everyone will need a new set of personal and social workplace skills, including: Personal knowledge management skillsâ?

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Living in Learning

MAY 3, 2013

'Knowing what to do…and being equipped [supported] to effectively do what needs done. are the equivalent of comparing great training to the effective application of learning. We train the former.and we support the performer on the latter. This distinction becomes a liability when we treat performer support as an add-on to training or as an after-the-fact development cycle rather than including it as part of our core design discipline.

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LearnDash

MAY 1, 2013

'One of the best pieces of advice I received in regards to my instructional design career was to never be afraid of hard numbers, and to go one step further – talk about your accomplishments in hard numbers. For one reason or another, many instructional designers shy away from communicating statistics when speaking about their experience in interviews or on their resume; or perhaps we just forget about them.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 30, 2013

'Ignaz Semmelweis was obsessed. Giving birth was a dangerous activity in the mid 1800′s. In Europe the mortality rate for new mothers averaged around 10%. At the time no one knew the exact cause of death. Some thought it was caused by particles in the air; others thought each of [.] The post Good Ideas Are Not Enough appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 30, 2013

'Simple! Ask the people themselves! I was doing some research for my upcoming book, The Workplace Learning Revolution, when I came across a discussion thread on the Programmers Stack Exchange. Here I found a question from someone who explained he was not an engineer, but “ just someone who works with them full-time, in a learning and development capacity “ â?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 30, 2013

'Harold Jarche reviews Marina Gorbis’ new book The Nature of the Future, finding value in it. I was intrigued by one comment which I thought was relevant to organizations. It has to do with the nature of thinking. In it, this quote struck a nerve: “Gorbis identifies unique human skills” The list of them intrigued me: Sensemaking.

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LearnDash

APRIL 29, 2013

'One of the most attractive concepts for any instructional designer is the ability to sell their elearning courses over and over again. The same technology that makes learning more accessible is the same that can be leveraged to distribute learning to a wider audience. Problem is, there are many people who just don’t know the best way to get started.

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Absorb LMS

MAY 1, 2013

'More than half of the phones sold in the U.S. are smartphones, and Gartner predicts that tablet sales will outpace PC sales by 2017. This reality has many organizations rethinking how they approach learning content and environments. What does a mobile-ready environment look like? What content is appropriate for mobile delivery? David Wentworth. Dan Medakovic.

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Jane Hart

MAY 3, 2013

'Earlier in April, I posted that I was giving away two free copies of Dan Pontefract’s book, Flat Army, and I invited readers to try and win a copy by saying what new too l they thought might help their own L&D Department become more connected as a team, and why.â?¦ [.].

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 29, 2013

'I’ve been thinking a lot about the higher education situation, specifically for-profit universities. One of the things I see is that somehow no one’s really addressing the quality of the learning experience, and it seems like a huge blindspot. I realize that in many cases they’re caught between a rock and a hard place. They want to keep costs down, and they’re heavily scrutinized.

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LearnDash

APRIL 28, 2013

'Getting real-time feedback from users who are taking an elearning course has been a difficult task. Traditionally, these elearning packages launch in a new window and the users is “stuck” taking the course with little to no ability to ask questions during the course. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to know exactly where in a course it was that a user was confused?

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eLearning Cyclops

MAY 1, 2013

'I recently attended the MedBiquitous Conference at Johns Hopkins. This conference focuses on technology standards in health care education (conference hash tag - #Medbiq2013 ). There was quite a lot I saw and learned during these two days, but here just a few of the things from the conference that I wanted to throw up on the blog. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a great open online learning site, CDC Learning Connection , also added it to the Free eLearning page.

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Ontuitive

MAY 3, 2013

'Check out our newest info graphic: From Scattered Information to Transformational Performance Support.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 2, 2013

'Yesterday I wrote about some products, and I thought I should also own up to the mobile apps I use while traveling (at least domestically, international is still a bloody headache). It’s something I do a fair bit, and is a natural opportunity for mobile to make your life easier and more effective. First, the natural functions of basic apps are helpful.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 30, 2013

'Increasingly many of us are spending more of our time online, creating, repurposing and sharing content, searching and consuming content and communicating with others. All of these activities leave behind a trail, a digital footprint, a record of where we have been and what we have done. More significantly, in psychological terms, we are developing our personal digital presences, and modifying our digital profiles.

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eFront

APRIL 30, 2013

'For those who missed last week’s post “ Part 1: Using Facebook as a learning platform ” we shared some important links for instructors interested in using Facebook with students. This week I would like to share my favorite YouTube videos on the subject! 1. Using Facebook to teach: Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S.

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