Sat.Aug 23, 2014 - Fri.Aug 29, 2014

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Why Today’s ELearning Can Stink

LearnDash

'Elearning today is suffering from standards of the past, from instructional design principles to the tools we use to create the courses. For years, Articulate has been a juggernaut in the rapid elearning development space. They have nearly perfected their offering making easy (and intuitive) for instructional designers to jump into course creation without having to learn complex systems or technology.

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Top Ten Tools for Learning 2014

Experiencing eLearning

'Jane Hart is collecting her eighth annual list of top tools for learning. You can vote for your top tools until September 19, 2014. I haven’t done my list in a few years, but you can see my past lists from 2011 , 2009 , 2008 , and 2007. My list is divided into personal learning and course design/development. Personal Learning. Feedly is my RSS reader of choice since the demise of Google Reader.

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Moving Beyond E-Learning: The new mindset for Learning in the Modern Workplace

Jane Hart

'Learning has long been defined as “knowledge and skills acquired through studying or being taught”. However, as learning animals we can’t help but learn! As children we learned instinctively from our parents and from our friends, and in the workplace we now learn from our work colleagues. In fact we learn everyday from everything we […].

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Is it ever okay to be a control freak?

Making Change

'Here’s a short scenario that uses a particular type of structure. What do you think about it? Spoiler alert! Play the scenario before you read on. What type of branching is this? Here’s how the scenario looks as a flowchart in BranchTrack ‘s editor. No matter what we decide at decision point A, we all end up at decision point B. It’s like we have no free will!

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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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Steps to Developing a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

'Changing an organization’s culture is not easy. It doesn’t happen simply because of the pronouncements of the CEO, or a reorganization of business units, or by conducting an organizational pulse survey, or by hiring new managers. Culture is much too complex; it’s the how and why of what an organization does internally and externally. Culture is the collective beliefs, assumptions, and values of employees (and other stakeholders) and culture affects every aspect of organizational life.

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Making Learning Fun: Gamification

Origin Learning

'A Gartner report says that by 2015, 50% of organizations managing innovation processes will gamify aspects of their business. In another case, 53% of the respondents participating in a Pew research found said that by 2020 gamification will be widely adopted by most of industries, communications scene and most of all education. With all the hype about transforming simple training into a holistic and integrated ‘learning’ and thereby development process, this should hardly come as a s

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August 27, 2014 - LMS Security Matters

JoomlaLMS

'LMS Security Matters. Data security is one of the most important issues nowadays. Thousands of websites are hacked and blacklisted every day, losing their data, reputation and search ranking. In addition to the reputation damage, hacking causes financial harm, emotional distress and clients’ confidence loss. That is why so much attention is paid to the system security and reliability.

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The number 1 Twitter mistake many people make

Jane Hart

'I don’t really like talking about “mistakes” when it comes to using different tools, as we all have our own ways of using them, but in this case there is one particular Twitter feature which I can see is ending up in a lot of wasted tweets! That feature is, that if you start a tweet with […].

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Getting the Board behind Online Learning Part 2

Association eLearning

'In a previous blog post I shared my tips for making an initial pitch for online learning to your association’s board of directors. How’d it go? Are you ready to move on to the “exploration phase” of your quest to implement online learning at your association? As promised, in this follow-up post I will prepare you for your final meeting with the board and share tips for sealing the deal to move forward with online member education.

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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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PowerPoint & eLearning: Create Your Own Characters

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by AJ Walther    In my three-hour mini session on  Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning and Design , I discuss how to create your own eLearning characters using PowerPoint. Generally I get a few excited students who seem up to the challenge, but most students decide that it's a neat trick that they're going to go ahead and skip.

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Lumosity Review: Do Brain Training Games Make You Smarter?

Origin Learning

'There is a plethora of online games out there that promise to make you more intelligent if you signup with them and follow a disciplined brain-training regime. Out of these Lumosity stands out with its 14 million (and counting) user base. Lumosity is a product of Lumos Labs, a neuroscience research and development company that has a dedicated team of neuroscientists working everyday to evolve more and more levels of the game.

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Six Simple Questions about Learning

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

'Our world keeps changing and we need to continuously adapt to change. There is a process through which we adapt to change, and that process has a name, and that name is learning. Today, let’s boil this topic down to six simple questions about learning. 6. What is learning? Learning is not what they teach you, learning is what you get out of it, right?

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Where is everyone in your virtual class? Teaching to mixed audiences

InSync Training

'We''ve all experienced it. Our vitual classroom participants often seem to have gotten together and planned to drive us crazy! Three people are logged on independently, another five are sitting in a room together watching your session projected onto a big screen, and two people are sitting in the same room as you because they wanted a face-to-face experience.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Tips When Working With Audio in Articulate Storyline

B Online Learning

'Working with audio is really fun! This is usually one of the final stages of development where you really start to see your course come to life. Great narration can add context for your learner and can re-enforce the on-screen information by explaining pictures on the slide, rather than just reading the slide text aloud. […].

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Implementing C.R.A.P. into your eLearning Design

Dashe & Thomson

'Flashback to one of my very first Graphic Design courses in college. Professor Bill introduced an important methodology for assessing effective visual design. “What are the key ingredients to a great design?” he asked. Projected on the wall were four giant letters: C.R.A.P. Contrast. Repetition. Alignment. Proximity.1 You might look at a design and know, or at least feel, that it is either “good” or “bad.

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What Successful MOOCs Do

LearnDash

'Over the past few years we have been following the rise of massive open online courses (or MOOCs) and their influence on traditional learning methods. Since their conception, the number of MOOCs today has been increasing, a mix of both for and non-profit intentions. Ultimately it is reasonable to expect that every MOOC is going monetize their offering in some capacity, some are just more explicit on this matter.

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Are Your Virtual Facilitators Ready, Willing and Enabled?

InSync Training

'If you are moving a training program from face-to-face classroom to the virtual classroom, be careful. Your regular facilitator may be great in the physical classroom but will probably be inexperienced in the online environment. No matter how long they have been teaching in the "regular" classroom, the virtual classroom is an entirely different setting, requiring a different set of skills.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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ADDIE or Agile? A false dichotomy

Torrance Learning

There’s a lot of buzz these days about whether we should abandon the training industry’s go-to model, ADDIE, for an Agile approach. The discussion has been rich, with elegant arguments made on both sides. A disclaimer: we’re all about Agile, or rather, LLAMA – the Lot Like Agile Methods Approach – here at TorranceLearning. But that doesn’t mean we give up on what ADDIE has taught us.

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Game Element: Interface

Kapp Notes

'When creating an instructional game, there are a number of considerations related to interface design that should be followed to create an inviting and easy-to-use interface. In instructional game design, you want the interface to almost be invisible so the learner doesn’t have to spend time learning the interface. Additionally, adding on a tutorial level that walks the learner through the interface is always a good idea.

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Writing & Grammar: Answers to Confusing Words for 100

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby    Answers to my  Confusing Words for 100  challenge are brought to you by  Cathy A. Mackie : What will the  effect /affect of the new restrictions be? (noun). The new director will  effect /affect some changes in the current policy.  (verb - exception when effect can mean to bring about or accomplish).

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Preparing Virtual Learners for Success

InSync Training

'Using today''s virtual classroom technology, it is easy to set up the online meeting and communicate the session details to your group of learners - but then they get reminder after reminder and often end up getting confused. Or they arrive at the session and discover they don''t understand the tools or know how to learn in the virtual classroom. At InSync Training, we deliver certificate programs for a variety of subjects, including designing and facilitating in the virtual classroom and desig

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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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Kris Duggan #LnDMeetup Gamification Mindmap

Clark Quinn

'Kris Duggan spoke on gamification at the Bay Area Learning Design & Technology MeetUp. He talked about some successes at his Badging role and then his new initiative bringing gamification more intrinsically into organizations. He proposed five Goal Science rules that resonated with other principles I’ve heard for good organizations.

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Meeting Stone Librande

Kapp Notes

'This summer, one of my duties was serving as an external evaluator for a National Science Foundation grant (NSF) where the grant team of community college professors created a workshop to teach teachers how to create instructional games and then teamed the teachers with students from the community college to actually create the games, it was a fantastic process and I enjoy evaluating grants that are so well run.

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Adobe Captivate: Rescale Imported or Pasted Slides

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      If you have created a Captivate project and need to reuse a slide in another project, all you need to do is right-click the slide on the Filmstrip, choose the Copy menu item, switch to another (or new) Captivate project, and paste. Copying slides between projects gets a bit complicated if the two projects are not the same size.

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eLearning Guild Best of DevLearn Webinar: Recording Now Available

Learning Visions

'Last week I presented an encore performance for the eLearning Guild as part of their Best of DevLearn series: Design Models and Patterns for Creating Better eLearning. Ali called it "FABULOUS". Jennifer Valley and Chett Bradley both used the word "awesome". Judy Albers said she could listen to me "digress all day". Missed the webinar and want to see what the fuss was all about?

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.