Sat.Apr 18, 2009 - Fri.Apr 24, 2009

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Social Experience

Tony Karrer

Interesting image from post by Dave White – Eventedness that relates to our social experience with different tools. It looks at how each technology relates to feeling of being present with others and whether that presence is felt beyond a specific limit of an event. Co-presence comes from being embodied as avatars this definition includes what is experienced when an individual is certain that their contribution (usually in text form) will be read and responded to by others.

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Steps for Designing a Virtual Learning World Experience

Kapp Notes

Here is a step-by-step process for designing and launching a virtual world learning experience within an organization. Step One: Identify the learning objective and outcomes required of learners. Step Two: Determine the content that must be learned to enable participants can achieve the desired outcomes. Step Three: Determine if content is appropriate for learning within a virtual world environment.

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Upside Learning Completes Five Years

Upside Learning

7th April, 2009 saw us in a retrospective mood, looking back at the five years since our inception. We put together a slideshow that summarizes all the milestones that we crossed and what we have achieved so far. Tags: Upside Learning company profile Five years review.

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What are They Talking About? (LinkedIn e-Learning Groups)

eLearning Cyclops

I belong to numerous groups on LinkedIn, some I am active in, some less so. With all the buzz on social media and informal learning, I thought I would take a closer look at my groups and identify the types of discussions that are generating the most activity. This is with the intent of gauging how people are using these groups and perhaps what information is being shared.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Online Conference Formats

Tony Karrer

We've just seen an interesting experience with Jay Cross having pulled together a 24 hour, worldwide discussion on the future of learning at Learn Trends. You can find some of the recordings here. There's a discussion thread with feedback, and you can read some of Jay's thoughts on doing this. It had very good attendance and the quality of people was very high.

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New White Paper: Why Employee Development Matters

Upside Learning

Competitive advantage used to be about who had the best product. Gradually, it shifted to who was using the most innovative technologies, and how. Now, neither is sufficient in itself to give organizations an edge. As things change at an ever-increasing pace, employees have become the new differentiating force, and the new challenge is to successfully manage employee knowledge and development.

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Learning with 'e's: Teaching with Twitter

Learning with e's

Most would agree that Twitter was one of the social networking phenomena of 2008, and has enjoyed exponential growth in popularity. The microblogging tool has obvious potential to be used in formal learning, both in traditional online classroom settings and - through mobile technologies - for mobile learners. Ever since I first began to use Twitter I have been thinking about how to harness the potential of microblogging for the benefits of my own students, and have tried out several ideas to exp

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Social Learning Designer

Tony Karrer

Out of the conversation in Learn Trends around making informal learning concrete, Cammy Bean asked: Cammy Bean: So is there a market for Social Media Instructional Designing Consultants? Jane Hart suggested that we use the term Social Learning Designer to describe the role. But what was fantastic is how well this crystallized the central question in my mind.

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3D:TLC Panel Photographs

Kapp Notes

Here are the photographs of the panel discussion on teaching from the 3D: Teaching, Learning and Collaboration conference. The description of the panel is below. You can lean more about the panel at my post 3D: TLC Conference Pannel Discussion. Photos are courtesy of John Royer.thanks John! From left to right are Karl Kapp (standing) Dick Riedl, Christopher Keesey, Sarah Robbins, and Mitzi Montoya.

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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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Screencast 4 Cash - MindBites Video Contest

TechSmith Camtasia

Hey Camtasia Studio and Jing users! Are you up for a challenge?! I thought so! MindBites has a screencast contest and the grand prize is $1,000! I know what you're asking yourself. Self? So, what is MindBites ? Well, MindBites is a website where you can find, publish, sell and distribute video tutorials and how-to lessons (on the MindBites site, on your own site, and across the web).

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Are You Looking for an Easy Way to Make Your Courses Look Interesting?

Rapid eLearning

Here’s an easy way to add some visual impact to your elearning courses. Start with an image and then recolor it. There are all sorts of ways that you can use a colored image in your courses. For example, the colors can match your organization’s brand. In the example below, you see the original image with three different colors applied. Each color could represent a different section of the same course.

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Good Posts from Last Week

Tony Karrer

While there is a little bit of controversy about posting these lists, I'm continuing to use the capability of using social signals to make sure I'm finding good stuff. So here's what came up via eLearning Learning from last week. But I'm keeping it to a bare minimum. And I must say that these are pretty good - it would be a shame if you missed them.

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3D: TLC Conference Pannel Discussion

Kapp Notes

Yesterday, I had the privilege of moderating a panel with such virtual world notables as Dick Riedl, Ph.D., Chairman, Leadership and Educational Studies Department, Appalachian State University Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins, Director of Emerging Technologies, Kelley Executive Partners at Indiana University Christopher Keesey, Project Manager, Ohio University Mitzi M.

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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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Screencast of the Week - Find Info About People Easily

TechSmith Camtasia

I'm sitting in the San Francisco Airport waiting to catch the red-eye flight home to Detroit so I thought I'd sneak in a quick blog post. I was out in California for Social Web FooCamp. I met a lot of amazing people who are shaping the future of the web, social networking, the social graph, and new technologies. Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb showed me one of the coolest (and scariest?

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Three chord wonder

Learning with e's

Thanks to an invitation from Thomas Bernhardt over at Educamp in Bremen, I actually managed to present my Edupunk talk earlier today. Using Skype , I presented a 20 minute talk which covered the history and philosophy of Edupunk, it's analogies to the Punk Rock culture of the 1970s, and a few comments on corporate profiteering, the state of institutional VLEs and the 'Do It Yourself' approach to teaching and learning.

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Conversation on Conversations

Tony Karrer

Through blog comments and blog posts, an interesting conversation is emerging around – Conversations as Part of Concept Work. It somewhat started with my post Reduce Searching Start Talking where I suggest that there are points in our concept work where we need to be ready to move from search to conversation. In the comments there … Maria H tells us - I think there is time and purpose for all types of information transfer (for lack of a better phrase) and helping people learn when to use the rig

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Who Needs to Be on Your 3D Development Team?

Kapp Notes

To successfully accomplish the task of creating a virtual learning world for the organizations must have specilized teams(or work with a vendor team). A typical team required for building a virtual learning environment consists of the following individuals. Project Manager. The project manger is responsible for coordinating the activities of the other members of the group.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Who Owns Information?

bozarthzone

A 'social learning' theme keeps kicking dust in my direction, first when the TR-DEV Yahoo group folded (see post below from January 24), and again the other night. Clark Quinn, Marcia Conner, and others have begun a wonderful Thursday-night Twitter gathering (8pm EST; #lrnchat). Conversation turned to the willingness to share information, and I noted that it is often management that is reticent to share data.

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Social Media, Word of Mouth, and the Cynefin Framework

Skilful Minds

Speaking the language of customer-centricity is not good enough. Companies must talk-the talk and walk-the-walk for brand strategy. Brand strategies are most effective when based in the design and delivery of business services themselves. Listening to the conversations people engage online about a topic (such as your brand), and eliciting the participation of those people in the development and refinement of products and services, are two key parts of an experience design strategy.

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24 Hour Conversation on Learning in Organizations - Free

Tony Karrer

I'm not quite sure what Jay was thinking when he decided to do this, but I'm curious to see what happens. He's pulled together a 24 Hour Continuous Learning Event: Conversations about Learning in Organizations He's got folks from around the world who are going to help participate over the course of 24 hours. Here's the FAQ. He's pulled in quite a few people who's names you will know: Marcia Conner Connie Green Stuart Henshall Michelle Lentz Christopher Peri Harold Jarche Clark Quinn Nancy White

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The Bidding War for SumTotal Systems

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

There is now a little bidding war going on for SumTotal Systems. ACCEL-KKR , a private equity firm, outbid Vista Equity Partners by offering approximately $124 Million for the company. This bid is approximately 20% higher than the $103 Million offer which Vista extended in early April. This is a very positive thing – Read more» The post The Bidding War for SumTotal Systems appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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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.

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Fantastic File Converter

E-Learning Acupuncture

Via www.smashingapps.com , please welcome CometDocs - Free Online File Converter. It’s a god-send because it accomplishes three major goals: It’s a fantastic file conversion utility that has over 50 conversion options. Popular options such as converting from PDF to MS-Word, PDF to Excel, and html to PDF are just some examples. It’s free and it’s online.

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Wild and Wacky Friday - Google Trick

Take an e-Learning Break

1. Go to www.google.com. 2. Click the preferences link next to the Google logo. 3. Look at the interface languages in the drop-down box. Pay attention to the entries - there are some that you would not expect. 4. Click the language of your choice. 5. Click the Save Preferences button.

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Why Storytelling Works - Summaries

Vignettes Learning

The power of storytelling and narrative is very much felt in in-person communications. The concern I had was the transfer of narrative between telling and listening might be lost in Web 2.0, e-Learning and digital technologies. I gladly reconciled this predicament. Stories in e-Learning programs, Twitters, blogs and Wikis are succinct, fluid and disorganized – but they work.

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The Bidding War for SumTotal Systems

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

There is now a little bidding war going on for SumTotal Systems. ACCEL-KKR , a private equity firm, outbid Vista Equity Partners by offering approximately $124 Million for the company. This bid is approximately 20% higher than the $103 Million offer which Vista extended in early April. This is a very positive thing – Read more» The post The Bidding War for SumTotal Systems appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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European training survey shows HR and training holding back change

Clive on Learning

According to a new survey conducted in March for training provider Cegos , employees are keener than HR and the training function to embrace innovative training practices and new technologies. Cegos commissioned an independent study among 2,355 employees and 485 HR directors/training managers from companies employing more than 500 staff in the UK, France, Germany and Spain.

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Create an interactive timeline

Take an e-Learning Break

xtimeline lets you create, share and view timelines. It's free and in beta. You can share the URL, embed the files in an existing web page and/or send an email notification through the site. You can add photos, videos and flash to your timeline pages. You can restrict who will be allowed to view the timeline. Add events and related info through the timeline editor.

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Strategic Storytelling - How stories drive strategies

Vignettes Learning

Steve Denning shares his experience on how he realized that storytelling was an instrumental tool in helping the World Bank become an information sharing organization. How storytelling can change organizations Professor Jay Conger of University of California speaks about "The Impact Of Strategic Storytelling." He speaks about how Southwest leaders and employees use stories to share information that increase recall.