Sat.Jun 21, 2014 - Fri.Jun 27, 2014

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Tips for Developing ELearning In-House

LearnDash

'If your organization is in need of course development, then you generally have two options: create the material in-house, or outsource the development to another firm. There is not a clear-cut answer as to which you should choose as it is dependent on a variety of factors. That said, I have found that many organizations will first try to keep content development and management in-house to leverage their current workforce.

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The Accidental (Mobile) Instructional Designer #mlearncon

Learning Visions

'This week, it''s been mLearnCon in sunny San Diego! A really great conference with an engaged community of practitioners actively solving problems and seeking out ideas and insights. I led a session on Thursday, riffing a bit off my new book. So many of us working in this field found ourselves here seemingly by accident. So we''ve been designing and developing eLearning all these years, and now a new twist has been added to our plates--making it mobile.

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Choosing The Right LMS For Your Blended Learning Program

Upside Learning

'Blended Learning strategies are great for holding trainee interest and and keeping them engaged in the process. These strategies also provide trainers with unprecedented resources and support. There are a number of ways and strategies for implementing Blended Learning programs depending on the specific training needs of the organization, and each of these can be […].

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Wearable Learning : the next big thing!

Jane Hart

'I’ve been quietly monitoring the emergence of wearable technologies for the last few years. However, since most of the wearable devices (Google Glass, smart watches, jewellery, etc) have only been available in the US, I’ve not been able to get my hands on them, but things have now changed, as the Google Glass Explorer Program has now come […].

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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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The Importance of Storytelling in Elearning

Origin Learning

'The stories that children listen to in their formative years stay with them throughout their lives. The morals, values and inspiration that they instill are never lost. Not only children, adults too are quicker at learning and retaining concepts conveyed via stories because they help them identify with the characters portrayed and evaluate how the content is relevant to them.

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MOOCs Proving Useful For Tech Skills

LearnDash

'Massive open online courses (or MOOCs) have been around for a decent amount of time now. They first started becoming big with the advent of Coursera, arguably the first MOOC to receive venture capital. Since then, we see MOOCs being advertised all over, each putting their unique twist on the concept. In the beginning, the MOOC classroom resembled more or less an online regurgitation of live course presentations.

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Crowd-sourced Learning Content: Opportunities and Challenges – (Part 1)

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

'We are doing this post a bit differently. We present a short interview with Vikas Joshi, the primary author of this blog, and Maheshkumar Kharade, a technology expert. In this post, we start by understanding the opportunities inherent in crowdsourced learning content. Q: How is the nature of learning content changing with time? [ Vikas Joshi] Nowadays crowdsourcing is playing an increasing role in the creation of learning content.

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What Millennials Want from Member Education

Association eLearning

'Q3. What type of education offerings does the incoming generation want and how is what they want different from other generations? #assnchat. — Association Chat (@assnchat) June 3, 2014. This question caught my eye in a recent association chat on Twitter. As a member of the incoming generation, I think it is crucial to prepare your association for Millennials’ needs and wants, which are drastically different from those of Generation X.

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The Average Joe imperative

E-Learning Provocateur

'There once was a time when I thought Second Life was going to take over the world. Well, the virtual world. I was so impressed with the technology – and amazed at its availability for free! – that I saw it as an unstoppable force. Yet more fascinating for me was its implications for education. Web conferencing was starting to become popular around the same time, and while these days Skype and FaceTime are de rigueur , back then webcamming introduced a sorely needed human element to

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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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Disruptive Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

'Disruptive innovation has become a very popular notion about competition and organizational change. Since Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen’s 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma , business leaders (and, more recently, educators) have been trying to anticipate disruptive innovation in their industries and encourage disruptive innovation in their companies. .

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Integrating the use of smartphones and tablets into face-to-face training (online workshop)

Jane Hart

'Give your face-to-face training a 21st century technology make-over Next public workshop runs 30 June – 25 July 2014 Most people have a smartphone and/or tablet, and one of the biggest bugbears is that when they go on a training course they are asked to turn them off to ensure there are no interruptions and that […].

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Adobe FrameMaker: On-Demand QR Codes

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      Unless you've been deliberately avoiding them, it's a good bet you've come across images similar to the one below.     The image is known as a QR code. As you can see, QR codes are images that are made up of black and white squares. They are typically used for storing URLs or other information and can be scanned by QR Readers.

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June 25, 2014 - How Does Rapid eLearning Work?

JoomlaLMS

'How Does Rapid eLearning Work? Being LMS developers we are interested in delivering the best possible eLearning experience for our customers. However, eLearning software is just a small piece of eLearning mechanism intended for tailoring successful and effective eLearning. Besides Learning Management System there are such aspects as audience and industry knowledge, learning incentive, course content, design and strategy.

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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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#Mlearncon keynote Larry Irving: education doesn’t need innovation, it needs disruption

Challenge to Learn

'The opening keynote by Larry Irving started out a bit dull for me. He took us along all the impressive numbers of the growth of the web and mobile. What I liked most is his conviction that everybody has a right on education and that Mobile learning will make this possible. He gave examples on changes and developments in education. What I liked most was his end: Education does not need innovation, it needs disruption.

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Larry Irving #mLearnCon Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

'Larry Irving kicked off the mLearnCon with an inspiring talk about the ways in which technology can disrupt education. His ideas about VOOCs and nanodegrees were intriguing, and wish he’d talked more about adaptive learning. A great kickoff to the event.

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Surprise! Knowledge Guru Summer Release Adds SCORM, Security Features

Knowledge Guru

'We promise our customers three major Knowledge Guru updates per year, but 2014 is different. We’ve had some ideas up our sleeves for some time now and don’t want to make you wait until Fall. We’re so excited about it that we are giving away a Knowledge Guru package to one lucky winner to try out the new features. The first one is big… SCORM is Here!

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A Conversation with Clark Quinn

Kapp Notes

'The other day I had a chance to catch up with Clark Quinn, he is passionate about the field of L&D and has been a thought leader in the field for sometime guiding thinking and change in a number of areas. He has written a number of books on many topics in the field. His latest is Revolutionize Learning & Development where he discusses the need for the field to change and change dramatically.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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#mLearncon Gary Woodill: How to apply design thinking to mobile learning

Challenge to Learn

'Not the best session of the day I’m afraid. I’m not sure I got the essence of design thinking. What I did get that it is an agile iterative way of problem solving. By exploring the problem space you get a better understanding of the problem, which can lead to better working solutions. The biggest takeaway probably is that we don’t have proven solutions for mobile learning yet and we should thing on good solutions instead of re-applying old solutions.

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Karen McGrane #mLearnCon Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

'Karen McGrane evangelized good content architecture (a topic near to my heart), in a witty and clear keynote. With amusing examples and quotes, she brought out just how key it is to move beyond hard wired, designed content and start working on rule-driven combinations from structured chunks. Great stuff!

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Minimum Viable Products Meet Learning and Development: A Match Made in Heaven or Hell?

Dashe & Thomson

'I am part of an international crew of L&D professionals that organizes and facilitates a bi-weekly chat on Twitter under the hashtag #chat2lrn. Over the past couple of years I have gained many new ideas and perspectives from both the #chat2lrn crew and those who take part in the chats. In our chat last week, we focused on what L&D can learn from start-up culture and methodology.

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eLearning Manager Problem-Solving and Morphological Analysis

Web Courseworks

'Using Morphological Analysis to Solve Complex eLearning Problems As an eLearning manager, you are required to confront and resolve complex problems on a daily basis. Each new project presents its own unique set of issues and considerations, but there are common issues that crop up: Do you hire additional full-time employees or do you outsource […].

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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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#mLearncon Joe Ganci, Which tools to use for desktop and mobile development

Challenge to Learn

'Joe talked about a ton of authoring tools in this presentation. Too much to list here, go to the conference download for the complete overview ( [link] ). I will just go over some of the things he told us. Joe also has his column on tools: [link] for more info. Joe states that authoring tools are either powerful or easy to use. The combination doesn’t really exists.

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Jane’s Pick of the Day is back

Jane Hart

'Jane’s Pick of the Day is back – by popular demand! Every day from April 2006 until December 2011 I wrote a short blog post about a new learning tool or resource. Back then I called it Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day when the term e-learning was still pretty new. But since that time, many new […].

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THE Social Learning Handbook

Clark Quinn

'I’ve been a fan of Jane Hart since I met her through Jay Cross and we joined together in the ITA (along with colleagues Harold Jarche and Charles Jennings). And I’d looked at the previous edition of her Social Learning Handbook, so it was on faith that I endorsed the new edition. So I took a deeper look recently, and my faith is justified; this is a great resource!

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5 Challenges in Taking Your Content to Mobile Learning

Origin Learning

'Mobile Learning - it’s easy, it’s intuitive and it definitely gives good returns on investment. With many organizations already using it and others beginning to take the plunge, mlearning seems to have taken off well - thanks to rapid innovation in cloud computing and widespread adoption of BYOD policies. Already, combined tablet and smartphone shipments surpass those of desktops and notebooks.

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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.