Upside Learning

JUNE 20, 2012

Yesterday Microsoft finally unveiled its new tablet called Surface. It seems to have made a solid first impression , which is good news for Microsoft given this one represents several firsts for Microsoft. I thought it looks stunning especially with the Windows 8 UI. Will it help Mobile Learning? I see it making a big push in mobile learning because Microsoft Surface simply makes integration of mobile devices into an existing ecosystem much easier.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace. Not off the charts like at Deloitte , yet very much alive and growing. It warms my heart to see my colleagues asking and answering questions, sharing web articles, crowdsourcing ideas, gathering feedback, praising team mates, comparing notes on where to buy the best coffee, and even whining a little. Every so often I’m asked by a peer at another company what they can do to increase the use of Yammer in their own organisation.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 20, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    You've probably heard by now that Adobe released Adobe Captivate 6 late last week. Over the coming weeks, I'll be highlighting all of the new features. This week, HTML5. Publishing in Captivate takes your source content and outputs it into a format that can be consumed (viewed) by the learner. Currently the most common way to publish a Captivate project is as a Flash SWF, an excellent solution because SWF files can be used by the vast majority of the world&

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Challenge to Learn

JUNE 21, 2012

Today was the last day of the conference. I have three more reports of sessions I attended and my personal wrap-up of the conference. I had some positive response on the mind maps, so I decided to stick with them. Maslo. As you can see Maslo is an open source authoring and publication platform for mLearning. It’s just version 1.0 and that shows.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2012

Yesterday I was part of a session at the eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon mlearning conference on Making Mobile Work. For my session I put my tongue slightly in cheek and suggested that there were 5 phrases you need to master to Make mLearning Work. Here they are, for your contemplation. The first one is focused on addressing either or both of yourself or any other folks who aren’t yet behind the movement to mobile: How does your mobile device make you smarter?

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Ontuitive

JUNE 22, 2012

Post by: Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design at Kineo Comments/Questions: cammy.bean@kineo.com As an instructional designer of corporate elearning, most of my career has been focused on the design and development of stand-alone elearning courses. I enjoy the challenge of creating online experiences that help people learn more about what they need to do in order to be successful in their work.

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Challenge to Learn

JUNE 20, 2012

Today was trends day. The first three sessions I attended were about trends in Mobile and the other two (user generated content and ten mobile start-ups to watch) are also trendy. The day started off with a general session. The sessions of today contained a lot of information. I make my notes as a mind map so I decided to share them with you and add some comments to them.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 19, 2012

BJ Fogg, known from his work on persuasive technology, talked about making persistent behavior change via tiny habits. Very interesting research with important implications both personally and commercially.

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mLearning Revolution

JUNE 20, 2012

'Herbert Marshall McLuhan, the late, great philosper, who is known for coining powerful expressions, such as “the medium is the message,” had one quote in particular that has stuck with me for a long time, namely: “The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past.

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Living in Learning

JUNE 20, 2012

So.you just bought a new LMS. The sales dude/dudette left days ago with promises still echoing in your head. Your Help Desk phone rings alomost immediately after GoLive, and some knucklehead wants a report that does not come standard on the LMS. Imagine that. Part of me wants to go.BWAH-HA-HA-HA.but another part of me was the owner of several LMSs at different companies.and the same knucklehead worked at each one.

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Ontuitive

JUNE 22, 2012

The Top Ten Microsoft Office Performance Support Topics At Ontuitive we spend a lot of time helping customers migrate to the latest version of Microsoft Office. To get an idea of which new features, concepts, and menu placements are most confusing to employees upon upgrade, we measure the performance support topics which are most frequently accessed.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 17, 2012

By Shelley A. Gable. Many eLearning courses walk learners through a detailed process flow within the course, and then the eLearning courses tell learners that a job aid with the same information is also available for reference later. Instead, consider directing learners to the job aid first. Teach them how to use it, prompt them to refer to it to help them solve a scenario , and provide any supporting clarification and tips as needed within the scenario's context.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 20, 2012

Now that Adobe has released Adobe Captivate 6, we are hard at work producing books and creating  online classes  to support the new version. " Adobe Captivate 6: The Essentials " workbook is currently in the capable hands of our beta and proofreading teams. The book is expected to be ready to ship within the next few weeks. The "Adobe Captivate 6: Beyond the Essentials" and "Adobe Captivate 6: Script Writing and Production Guide" books are on the stove c

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LearnDash

JUNE 17, 2012

As most learning professionals know, an effective training initiative needs meaningful measurables, and one of the easiest ways to capture these metrics is by one of the many survey sites available today. One of the leading players in this field is SurveyMonkey, a easy to use SaaS that enables you to create and track surveys to your heart's content.

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Allison Rossett

JUNE 19, 2012

Technology is not the answer. Not automatically. But many executives thought it would be so, that it was a matter of selection and investment. Now, many look back on prior enthusiasms for technology-based learning with tales to tell of dashed hopes. With hindsight, they know that nothing is automatic, not even mobile learning, and that success does not come easily.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace. Not off the charts like at Deloitte , yet very much alive and growing. It warms my heart to see my colleagues asking and answering questions, sharing web articles, crowdsourcing ideas, gathering feedback, praising team mates, comparing notes on where to buy the best coffee, and even whining a little. Every so often I’m asked by a peer at another company what they can do to increase the use of Yammer in their own organisation.

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Connect Thinking

JUNE 16, 2012

Every day, 98 years of video is being uploaded onto YouTube ( reference ). YouTube is now the second most commonly searched platform, after Google. It has 2 billion visitors a day, and handles 10% of all Internet traffic ( reference ). YouTube is strategically owned by Google. Can you imagine the pipeline of ideas Google has for video? Take Google TV .

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Web Courseworks

JUNE 18, 2012

I will be heading to Salt Lake City, UT this week to attend the AHIP Institute 2012. This is my first visit to the annual event that attracts several thousand Health Insurers. This year’s conference provides the opportunity to hear from two of my favorite authors: Malcolm Gladwell and Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. Both are [.].

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Allison Rossett

JUNE 19, 2012

Technology is not the answer. Not automatically. But many executives thought it would be so, that it was a matter of selection and investment. Now, many look back on prior enthusiasms for technology-based learning with tales to tell of dashed hopes. With hindsight, they know that nothing is automatic, not even mobile learning, and that success does not come easily.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 21, 2012

By Joseph Suarez. One helpful feature of Lectora that is often neglected is “Text Styles.” They provide an easy way to set the font, color, and size settings for selections of text or entire text blocks. Best of all, when a Text Style is updated, any affected text in a course is also updated. For example, if you are asked to change the page titles of an entire course from blue to green, you could do so with one quick change rather than manually fix every page.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 18, 2012

Last we week had our Teaching & Learning Conference day here at the College, and as part of that I was asked to deliver a session on eLearning. As I am sure it is the case for all Colleges it is not often that staff are given a day to select a presentation / workshop that they would like to attend and so its one of those occasions were if you have a particular message to get across then you do have to pick your approach.

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LearnDash

JUNE 19, 2012

With so much emphasis being placed on social learning today, it makes me wonder if we are forgetting about the othe r end of the spectrum. For lack of a better word, “autonomous” learning is arguably more prevalent in a corporate setting than social learning – so what are we doing as instructional designers to enhance the experience and effectiveness?

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 22, 2012

This is an example eLearning course developed to demonstrate our eLearning Templates in action. Obviously this is a fake course with placeholder content, but hopefully it inspires you as to what you can create with awesome templates. eLearning Products used: Articulate Presenter Skin. PowerPoint Layout Template. Cutout People Pictures Set. Flash Interaction Templates.

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KnowledgeStar

JUNE 22, 2012

We always knew that Independent Learning was the way.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 18, 2012

We’re taking this episode to talk all about Camtasia Studio 8. Not only that, at the end of the show, YOU can ask questions. Product Manager Shane Lovellette, Lead Developer Dave O’Rourke, and UX Designer Chris Larsen will answer your questions about the new version of Camtasia Studio. Check back here for the live stream- you may need to refresh your page.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 18, 2012

If you’re feeling the heat from your learners and your management to provide mobile (think iPad etc) versions of your eLearning courses but have been baffled by how to do it without breaking the bank, Adobe Captivate 6 is the solution to your problem. Long hailed as the industry leader in eLearning with about 70% [.].

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Saffron Interactive

JUNE 22, 2012

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. The most memorable criticism came from my friend Tom when we were in the pub. “You idiot!” he gasped, before exclaiming “ IT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE! ”. By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest.

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Mindflash

JUNE 20, 2012

Of all the sections in my book on critical skills learning professionals need to know now, “enterprise 2.0 collaboration” seems like the most unlikely “critical” skill. However, as the speed of business keeps increasing, learning pros are having to adjust their goals, and the skills they need to fulfill them. Where once L&D people delivered learning to employees on a schedule, today, they have to focus on enabling people to work together so they can learn from one ano

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