Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? by Paul on April 13, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning Last week my girlfriend and I ate dinner at Darbar Indian Grill in Uptown Minneapolis with another couple (good food, but overpriced), and we got on the topic of surfing the net on the job.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 11, 2011

For over two years now, we have not only just been hearing about mobile learning but also actively understanding and working on it. From trying to explain five myths of mobile learning to assisting customer new to mobile learning, getting started with mobile learning has been an exciting journey through which we have seen mobile learning seeing increasing adoption.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 13, 2011

Here is a link to the live Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) event. Enjoy! Click here to check out the live streaming event from our alumni and friends of the program. When you get to the front page, select “Spring 2011″ to see today’s presentations.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 15, 2011

Avatars are interactive animated pedagogical agents. Avatars personalize a course, add variety to learning, especially in long modules on complex subjects. A life-like ‘human’ interface makes the learning experience more ‘real’. An avatar doubles as a learning assistant (learning aid) that guides the learning by either answering questions, or guiding the learners, linking to external content and so forth.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 12, 2011

Given that smartphone sales are estimated to exceed PC sales by the end of this year, and mobile Internet users are expected to exceed desktop Internet users soon after, I have finally concluded that the time is ripe for mobile learning. Heeding the advice of start small and fail quick , I have dipped my toe into the m-learning space by converting an existing online course into a smartphone-friendly format.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 14, 2011

by AJ George.   In response to my blog post about inserting Youtube videos into PowerPoint presentations, I was asked about the legality of downloading YouTube videos for your own use. Was downloading a violation of copyright or did it fall under Fair Use or the TEACH Act? Am I allowed to use copyrighted materials in my eLearning video?   I tried doing research on my own, but found the information to be very confusing. After days of searching my answer was still, "AAAHHH I

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Jane Hart

APRIL 10, 2011

Over the weekend the number of followers on my Twitter account, @C4LPT, passed 10,000 – so a big thank you to all of you who follow this account! Although in the Twitter world this is a relatively small number – compared with celebrities and other high profile accounts that have hundreds of thousands (even millions) of followers. – for me it was an important moment, because it made me pause to reflect on my current activities, how they are expanding and how they fit together.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 14, 2011

Mobile Learning – seems to finally be tipping. If you’re involved with training, I suspect the push for providing mobile solutions is getting stronger. Companies are starting to distribute iPads to their sales teams; practically everyone in corporate has a smart phone now. If you’re an Instructional Designer and freaking out that now you have to do mobile too – on top of everything else?!

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2011

Came across this article in the NYT Bits Blog – Multitasking Takes Toll on Memory ; states quite simply that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has published research which shows that multitasking takes a significant toll on the working memory of older individuals. There has been other research suggesting that this ‘divided attention’ will hurt learning and cognitive performance.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 11, 2011

by AJ George.   Last week I covered how to play multiple audio tracks at the same time. That wasn't so hard, but what can get a bit complicated is playing multiple audio tracks sequentially. There are two ways to do this. If you know that the first audio file ends after 1:35 and you'll be on your third slide then, then you would put the second audio file on the third slide and set it to play after 1:35.  Insert the audio file on the slide on which you would like t

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Jane Hart

APRIL 15, 2011

“The Little Book of the Future is your free guide to the future of training and development. It’s produced by Reed Learning and written in collaboration with experts including Martyn Sloman, Google, LinkedIn, Training Journal, Jane Hart, the Campaign for Learning and trainingzone.co.uk. The free tools in this book support the connection, communication and collaboration of individuals, and the sharing of resources, ideas and experiences.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 11, 2011

By Dean Hawkinson. There are a lot of arguments about using audio in eLearning – some in favor, some not. Audio narration can be very time consuming, and in many cases requires hiring talent for a professional sound. Many eLearning development tools allow you to easily record narration with your content, including Adobe Presenter and Adobe Captivate.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 12, 2011

This week we get serious about serious games. It’s a known fact that the best kind of learning comes as a result of well-designed experiences and as such games, with their high level of engagement and interaction, serve as the right mode for learning. That iPads and smartphones have made their presence felt inside the classroom is a given now. Know how they will soon replace the classroom computers.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 12, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. The common way to publish a completed Captivate eLearning video is as a SWF (small web file). When the publish process is complete, you will end up with three files: an HTML file (which is what your learner will need to open the lesson in a web browser), a JavaScript file (called standard.js) and the SWF containing your lesson.  The three-file output is typical.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 11, 2011

Classic Donkey Kong arcade game. Gamification is using elements traditionally thought of as “fun” or game-like to promote learning and engagement. In a real situation, learning to be safe is serious business but placing a person in a safe environment and letting them gain experience through trial and error in an online simulation brings an allowable element of failure into the situation.

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Web Courseworks

APRIL 14, 2011

I am very excited to announce that my new book, “ MindMeld: Micro-Collaboration between eLearning Designers and Instructor Experts ,” is in the final publishing stages (including pre-order status)… So for the next few weeks I will be posting a series of blog entries regarding my new book and its contents. My intention for each blog post is to focus on individual chapters in the book and provide a little synopsis of them in order to bring some insight to you as to what the book is about and why I

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2011

Last week we had an exhibition stand at CIPD’s HRD 2011 at Olympia London – our very first ‘outing’ in the UK. It turned out to be a great show for us with executives from several blue chip companies visiting our stand to discuss their performance and learning challenges. I suppose a lot of meetings are to follow in next few weeks. This is a good beginning for our new Europe office which started a few months back.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 15, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. "Why did you change my sentence? I liked it the way it was." If you edit other people's writing, you will face this question at some point. To be prepared to answer it, you need to know the names of common grammar errors that a writer can make. And, of course, it helps to know how to fix them. Here are some examples of sentences with problems.

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 13, 2011

By Shelley A. Gable. Over the past year or so, I’ve noticed several comments about how Kirkpatrick’s model of four levels of evaluation is outdated. I don’t agree. The debate reappeared on my radar in a Twitter #lrnchat session a couple weeks ago. Evaluation was the discussion topic, and several tweets mentioned that the model originated in the 1950s, a lot has changed since then, and we ought to follow a more current model.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 14, 2011

One of the most effective ways of workplace learning is support offered by colleagues. When you have a question or problem, you find a colleague who knows the answer, you apply what you have learned and you go on with your job. Nothing new here, we all do this all the time. But there are two issues with this kind of support: Finding the colleague and the fact that it is always ‘one on one’ The knowledge transfer is limited to the two participants.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

I’ve written previously about reasons why organization leaders, whether business, nonprofit, or government, should be concerned about college completion. The talent that these 21rst century organizations need in order to thrive and succeed will come from college graduates who earn a certificate, license, or degree that signifies their readiness to work in a profession.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 13, 2011

This question came in last week: Question: I have a question about Adobe Captivate 5 and Articulate Presenter '09.   After adding Captivate 5 SWFs into Articulate Presenter, the SWFs do not play. Everything worked with our Captivate 4 SWFs. Do you know if there are compatibility issues? Answer:  The issue is with AS2 vs. AS3. Captivate 5 SWFs only publish in AS3.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 14, 2011

Owing to a busy spring pushing the new book on mobile, I’ve been captured in a variety of ways. If you haven’t already seen too much of me talking mobile, here are some of the available options: Cammy Bean did an audio interview of me for Kineo (cut into sensible size chunks). Terrance Wing and Rick Zanotti hosted me for a #elearnchat video interview.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 14, 2011

My bookshelf. More than 6 months back, in the September of 2010, I wrote the post: 27 Books for L&D Folks. It's time for part 2 of the post. Since then, I have acquired a Kindle and, very recently, an iPad. Kindle has reshaped my reading dramatically--making it social and part of a larger whole, connecting me to a set of folks similarly impassioned.

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mLearning Revolution

APRIL 13, 2011

'Last week Robert Kennedy III, President of RKCS Learning Solutions, invited me to do a video interview over Skype and we talked about all my favorite topics, including eLearning, Mobile Learning, Flash Player 10.2 on the Motorola Xoom, the Kindle, Apple, Adobe and of course Tablets. I’m very happy with the way the final edited version came out and I would like to thank Robert and RKCS Learning Solutions for the opportunity.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 13, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. I was recently working with a client to convert a large RoboHelp for Word project into the latest and greatest version of RoboHelp HTML (version 9). The process of upgrading a legacy RoboHelp for Word project is simple enough. All you have to do is start RoboHelp 9, choose File > Open , navigate to the RoboHelp for Word project folder and open the project file (an HPJ file).

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 14, 2011

This post continues my comments and observations from attending the 2011 Annual Convention of the American Association of Community Colleges. Critics of Student Success Agenda. The completion agenda is not without its critics. Several college presidents reminded me that the stigma of community college as being grades 13 and 14 still exists in some quarters.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 12, 2011

My 3D colleague and contributor to Learning in 3D, Lesley Scopes recently won the Best Poster Peoples Award 1st place at VWBPE this year. The poster is about an EU project ~ Architecture (ARCHI 21) and language teaching & learning (CLIL). Below are some images from the poster session and a great video. So congratulations to Lesley!! Trophy and Poster.

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