Raptivity
AUGUST 3, 2012
It is often said that education is the shortest route to success for any country as it helps overcome many evils. Educating the masses is a herculean task but again there is no magic trick to education. Think about your [.].
Upside Learning
JULY 31, 2012
Clients who already use paper-based materials for distribution or in an instructor-led environment often ask us how we can enhance the learning experience for participants. One of the ways we recommend is to use elements of Augmented Reality. Ever browsed through an Ikea catalog? Then you’d know there is an aesthetic value in the glossy paper, fabulous product photography and innovative use of color and layouts.
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The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 1, 2012
All organizations, whether business, government, or nonprofit, should be doing more to measure their impact. Samantha Yamada, a doctoral student in psychology at York University, makes the case for measuring program impact in a TEDx presentation (see below). The example she uses is an innovative program for adolescents and their families struggling with substance abuse and mental health problems.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 3, 2012
The Social Learning Centre is a Learning Community for learning professionals (in both education and the workplace) to support their ongoing professional development by learning from their peers as well as leading industry practitioners and thought leaders from around the world. Since setting up the Social Learning Centre (SLC) earlier this year (which now has over 1,600 members) I have organized a large number of webinars, workshops and other events.
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Clark Quinn
JULY 31, 2012
Of late, I’ve been both reviewing eLearning, and designing processes & templates. As I’ve said before , the nuances between well-designed and well produced eLearning are subtle, but important. Reading a forthcoming book that outlines the future but recounts the past, it occurs to me that it may be worthwhile to look at a continuum of possibilities.
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Dashe & Thomson
AUGUST 3, 2012
A very common question that Instructional Designers field from clients goes something like this: “The training plan looks great; now how will I be able to tell if it has an impact?” While this is a perfectly natural question – after all, why else would one buy training – it can be a particularly difficult [.] The post Measuring Training Effectiveness Through Gaming appeared first on Social Learning Blog.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 2, 2012
Some time ago I wrote a blog post about how I believed that as social businesses emerge, and new social and collaboration platforms (or social intranets) are introduced into enterprises, L&D will have an extended role in the organisation in order to support the new community and collaboration skills that will be required to underpin a successul social business initiative.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 1, 2012
by Kevin Siegel If you're a PowerPoint user, you've long appreciated the ability to draw just about any kind of shape you need on your slides using AutoShapes. In Captivate 6, you now have nearly the same ability via the Smart Shapes feature. You'll find plenty of shapes from which to choose, including Callouts, Banners and other wacky shapes. To insert a Smart Shape, choose Insert > Standard Objects > Smart Shape.
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 29, 2012
I tailed my previous blog post with the question: What is the SII of your organisation’s intranet? By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability. I posed this question to 23 intranet managers from around the world, and they kindly rated their respective platforms against a 10-point likert scale.
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 2, 2012
Join me on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 12:30PM Pacific / 3:30PM Eastern for a 60 minute presentation called “Interactivity, Games and Gamification: Creating Engaged Learners” The presentation description: Based on the bestselling learning book, “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” this presentation introduces, defines, and describes the concepts of gamification, games for learning and interactivity.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 1, 2012
July was chock full of great articles and blog posts so here are just some of the articles that I bookmarked – together with a snippet from each which showed you why they caught my eye. The month was dominated for me by the continuing need for change both in education and in the workplace. 1 – Change in Higher education. The concept of MOOCs got a lot of coverage this month, and particularly the announcement by Coursera that they had signed up a number of universities to their MOOC-
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 2, 2012
by AJ George Here's a potentially scary situation: an application has crashed and is frozen on your screen. It looks like you are going to have to end the process. Most Windows users know that one way to end a process is to press [ Ctrl ] [ Alt ] [ Del ] on the keyboard to open the Windows Task Manager. On the Processes tab, select the crashed application and click the End Process button. When an application recently crashed on my computer, I followed these very steps.
LearnDash
AUGUST 1, 2012
Did you know that there are over 1 BILLION people currently in a training course? In fact, over 4.5 million students are currently taking one course online. This may seem surprising, but it makes perfect sense when you consider that 40% of every dollar spent on training is spent on travel costs. It's no surprise that our industry is growing by leaps and bounds as technology opens an entire world of possibilities.
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Absorb LMS
JULY 31, 2012
I have to say, I feel really badly for the organizations that have issued some of the RFPs I’m seeing. They turned to a research firm or various Web sites for a list of learning management system features. They copied most of these features into a RFP and sent it to vendors. Along with proposals, they asked for supporting documentation such as server security specifications, marketing materials, terms of service, etc.
Kapp Notes
JULY 30, 2012
Had a great Webinar with some wonderful people through ASTD. The Webinar was about Games and Gamification. Here are the slides from the presentation. ASTD Gamification Webinar Slides from Karl Kapp. Here is some content and references. 1. An experience as an avatar can change a person’s real life perceptions. In a study conducted by Yee and Bailenson (2007), it was found that negative stereotyping of the elderly was significantly reduced when participants were placed in avatars of old people com
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 1, 2012
First, I have to tout that my article on content systems has been published in Learning Solutions magazine. It complements my recent post on content and data. Second, I’ll be presenting on mobile at the eLearning Guild’s Performance Support Symposium in September in Boston. Would welcome seeing you there. Also will be doing a deeper ID session for Mass.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 2, 2012
Adobe's Ankur Jain has written a quick overview of some of the new features found in Adobe RoboHelp 10. Some of the highlights: Publish to multiple screens/devices using Multiscreen HTML5, End-to-end workflow with SharePoint, improved eBooks workflow and several enhancements to existing features. Read more.
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Association eLearning
AUGUST 3, 2012
'So, you’re ready to take the initial plunge into eLearning, and you’re thinking of issuing a request for proposal (RFP). Great! Distributing an RFP is a wonderful way to “set the stage” for your ideal learning management system (LMS). If you have itemized your requirements in writing, you are increasing the odds of finding the best LMS for your organization— at an affordable price.
Ontuitive
AUGUST 2, 2012
Watch and listen as Dr. Conrad Gottfredson briefly, yet concisely, explains "The Five Moments of Learning Need".
Kapp Notes
JULY 31, 2012
In the fourth “Learning in 3D Class” we had the opportunity to visit within the virtual world of ProtoSphere. It was a great tour led by Domenick Naccarato of ProtonMedia , the creator of ProtoSphere. Here are some videos of what we were able to experience. Here are some images from our exploration. Gathering in ProtoSphere for our tour.
LearnDash
AUGUST 1, 2012
Did you know that there are over 1 BILLION people currently in a training course? In fact, over 4.5 million students are currently taking one course online. This may seem surprising, but it makes perfect sense when you consider that 40% of every dollar spent on training is spent on travel costs. It’s no surprise that our industry is growing by leaps and bounds as technology opens an entire world of possibilities.
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B Online Learning
AUGUST 1, 2012
Share. Tweet. Pin It. Remember the children’s book series Choose Your Own Adventure?The child reader is the protagonist making choices to determine the story’s plot. I used to love reading those books because I was involved in the action and I had to think and make decisions about a variety of scenarios that had consequences. In the same way [.].
Moodle Journal
JULY 30, 2012
With our decision to merge the Moodle system for the two Colleges ready for September 2011 start, it seemed a good idea to at least have a small trial of course of course transfers just see if any issues emerged. Interestingly it seems that a lot of failures flagged up surrounding issues with the quiz module. On close investigation it became very apparent that where one system had the standard distribution of quiz options the other had three extra, which I have listed below.
Allison Rossett
AUGUST 2, 2012
I do love them. I love apps because of what I can do on the go. Apps on my mobile devices enable practice, a quick lesson, a conversation with a coach or team, or a reminder about how it is that I might think about something. Here is the story of how apps helped Aaron Ifland, a doctoral student, who attends two universities 118 miles apart, and teaches at a third.
From the Coleface
AUGUST 2, 2012
The nature of using a mobile device for learning is that you’re likely to get interrupted – after all phones were designed primarily to be for phone calls (and are used primarily for text messages ). Also learners may well be accessing the learning in situation where they might get interrupted e.g. the train arrives or the boarding call for the plane goes out.
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Association eLearning
JULY 31, 2012
'The Digitec team is putting on its Texas-size smile as it prepares to head out west to Dallas for the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition, August 11-14! More than 3,000 association professionals from around the country are expected to unite at the year’s most anticipated event, where they can network, meet solution vendors, and participate in focused learning workshops and thought-provoking presentations.
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 29, 2012
I tailed my previous blog post with the question: What is the SII of your organisation’s intranet? By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability. I posed this question to 23 intranet managers from around the world, and they kindly rated their respective platforms against a 10-point likert scale.
Allison Rossett
AUGUST 2, 2012
I do love them. I love apps because of what I can do on the go. Apps on my mobile devices enable practice, a quick lesson, a conversation with a coach or team, or a reminder about how it is that I might think about something. Here is the story of how apps helped Aaron Ifland, a doctoral student, who attends two universities 118 miles apart, and teaches at a third.
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