Association eLearning
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'I recently had an interesting conversation about life and how life lessons occur in stages. We compared it to learning to ride a bike. It was so difficult to learn, yet now you find it so easy you’ve forgotten how you learned it in the first place. It got me thinking about what those stages actually are. It turns out I’m not the first one to theorize about this.
B Online Learning
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'In my last blog post, I explored the Modality Principle from the book Elearning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Colvin Clark and Richard Mayer. In this post, I’ve decided to examine another principle in the book – the Personalisation Principle in Chapter 8. The chapter examines 3 types of personalisation principles but I’m […].
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E-Learning Provocateur
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'I start this post by thanking Angela Towndrow , a fellow Aussie whom I met virtually via a mooc, and from whom I continue to draw insights on things related to education. After reading my previous post Let’s get rid of the instructors! , Angela pointed me to the journal article Giving Teaching Back to Education: Responding to the Disappearance of the Teacher by Gert Biesta.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'As readers of this blog will know, I released the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 list on Monday 22 September – a list that I compiled from the votes of over 1,000 learning professionals worldwide. But I am constantly being asked questions like “What is the best blogging tool?” “What is the best e-learning authoring […].
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From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Last week I had the privilege of judging the e-learning awards (obviously my lips are sealed as to who the winners are until the awards dinner). Naturally some of the entries had other ingredients that made them sparkle in other ways, but here I can share five themes that many of the short-listed entries had in common. These should be useful to both clients and vendors who are looking to make their compliance e-learning more interesting and impactful. 1.
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Knowledge Guru
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'I’m teaching a g ame design course online with Karl Kapp that begins next week. There is a lot of interest from instructional designers, teachers, and sundry others in designing learning games. This, of course, is heartening to me since I am a major proponent in the use of games as a learning tool. Part of what we discuss in this course (and every course we do on game design) is the importance of playing and evaluating lots of games as part of learning to become a game designer.
Origin Learning
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
'Adding mobile learning to a training program is one of the best ways to acknowledge and leverage the technological devices that your employees already have. However, it is important to make the right first moves when transferring elements of your training to the mobile learning format. Take a rational LMS decision. Many a times, organizations are reluctant to change their LMS when integrating mobile learning to their existing training format.
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'This is a quick post this month (as I do my usual must-reads of the previous month). This month I am simply going to point to 5 posts that I came across last month that might make you think. (All my tweeted links from September appear here.) “How can you motivate workers? You can’t.” Six FAQs, Bob […].
LearnDash
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Education technology (EdTech) is evolving at an incredible pace. There are constantly new apps and programs being developed – all of which with their own unique benefit. For those of you who are new to the concept of EdTech, it is a pretty broad concept, covering the use of technology like tablets, apps, web tools, social media, and more to improve learning.
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'A commenter on last week’s post asked an implicit question that caused me to think. The issue was whether the solutions I was proposing are having the learners be self directed or whether it was ‘push’ learning. And I reckon there’s a bit of both, but I’m fighting for more of a constuctivist approach than the instructivist model.
JoomlaLMS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'How to Create an Effective eLearning Course Without Extra Effort? More and more companies realize the need of investing money, time and effort into staff training, however, the number of businesses that can allocate a considerable part of their budgets to employee training programs is extremely small. The rest looks for alternative means of creating cost effective training courses and today’s post highlights such techniques.
The Performance Improvement Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
'Temps, independent contractors, contingent workers, and free-lancers have become a critical segment of the post-recession workforce. Many companies depend on short-term and part-time workers for their success. They are not movie extras any longer; now they have starring roles. Steven Greenhouse, writing for the New York Times Upshot column describes the situation this way: The work of temping has changed vastly — today 42 percent of temporary workers labor in light industry or warehouses.
InSync Training
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Adopting, and excelling at, the virtual classroom is much more about attitudinal change than it is about implementing technology. Ultimately, people need to BELIEVE that the virtual classroom will work. Organizations spend more time worrying about firewalls, security, hardware, and software (important topics all) than they think about adoption and usability.
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Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'I’ve been on quite the roll of late, calling out some bad practices and calling for learning science. And it occurs to me that there could be some pushback. So let me be clear, I strongly suggest that the types of learning that are needed are not info dump and knowledge test, by and large. What does that mean? Let’s break it down. First, let me suggest that what’s going to make a difference to organizations is not better fact-remembering.
Origin Learning
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
'What is a mentoring program? A mentoring program is a systematic framework which provides for career counseling of individuals. Though traditionally, mentors were necessarily older, more senior people; now mentoring has become more of a two-way process where mentors and mentees can benefit mutually. For example, while the young mentees get to learn from the experience and insights of the older mentors, the (senior) mentors can benefit by getting introduced to new technologies from the techno-sa
LearnDash
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Many people looking to create and sell online training courses using WordPress find themselves searching for the right theme. In reality, this can be a never ending process as the grass somehow always seems “greener” on the other side. You know what I mean. You spend hours looking over theme directories, testing all the demos and reading about the features until you are finally ready to make a purchase.
eLearning Brothers
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'So you want to develop an eLearning course huh? But you are not a graphic designer, and need some tips on eLearning Art and Design to get you started? Let me introduce to you a three-part series on eLearning Art and Design tips for the non-designer that may be of some help. Sound good? Okay, first let’s start learning about elements for creating good slides. 5 Elements for Creating Good Slides. 1.
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ID Reflections
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Following Harold Jarche''s example of Friday''s Finds , I thought where better to collate and synthesize my week’s learning from Twitter than on my blog. Here’s the first of the series. @jhagel : The paradox of organization - @davegray : paradox fuels power to rethink, reframe, and see more than one side of things [link] “For example, an organization must have a way to attract and retain members, or it will cease to exist.
SHIFT eLearning
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'We’ve all met them. Ask about online courses they’ve taken, and they’ll roll their eyes. Current eLearners are bored and can’t wait for their courses to end. Whoever put together these courses – was it you? – didn’t have the right recipe for eLearner engagement. In the past, most professionals who designed, taught or coordinated eLearning courses needed to understand how learning occurs and a bit about brain-based learning tips resulting from neuroscien
LearningGuild
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Dr. Tyson will keynote The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn 2014 Conference and Expo October 29 – 31 in Las Vegas. In this. interview, he previews some of his thoughts on how learning is changing, the role of education, and how technology is. contributing to both.
eLearning Brothers
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Annoying background sounds in your eLearning voice over courses can be frustrating. Not everyone in eLearning is an audio engineer, that’s why I wanted to make a quick video on how to take out noise reductions in your voice over projects. Once you know how to do it, it will make your voice overs sound clean and professional. Who doesn’t want that?
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eFront
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'During one of my most recent visits to a retail cellular store to browse through the newest mobile technology, I wasn’t surprised too surprised to see a three-year-old rifling through his mother’s cell phone, then quickly giving that up to play with one of the new tablets on the showroom floor. The place was as familiar to him as his favorite story or coloring book.
SHIFT eLearning
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Here’s a news flash: If you want to be really great at eLearning design, you need to know more than how to come up with an attractive look and content that gets attention. What’s the secret? Becoming savvy about psychology and behavior. Why? Psychology plays an important role in creating content because it’s all about your learner’s emotions and perception.
TalentLMS
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'It is not surprising tha t corporations state that e-Learning is one of the most valuable training methods available today. Not only does it save up to 50% compared to traditional training, but it also reduces instruction time by 60%. However, this also means that it is an important role to create a self-paced e-Learning course into your LMS. An important aspect to remember with creating a self-paced training program is that any interactions between the learners and instructors are minimal, if
eLearning Brothers
OCTOBER 3, 2014
'One of the most helpful, underutilized, and misunderstood tools in the Lectora developer’s arsenal is the layout and design guide. If you click on the View tab in the menu ribbon, in the middle of the view tools you’ll see the Grids and Guides group. The most important thing to know about grids and guides is that they DO NOT APPEAR in the final, published version of your course — they are only visible during the design phase.
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TechSmith Camtasia
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
'Today is an exciting day for our German speaking customers. We are releasing Snagit 12 and Snagit for Mac 3 in German! How do you say screen-capture in German? Bildschirmaufnahme! And what about recording area? Aufnahmebereich! That’s pretty easy, am I right? This is the first release of the German Snagit 12, which follows the long tradition of having a translated windows version all the way back to 2002 when we released Snagit 6.1.
eFront
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'So you decided to deploy an e-learning solution for your enterprise or organization. Or maybe build an e-learning school of your own. As long-time e-learning experts we welcome you to this exciting endeavor. In this post we’ll try to give a comprehensive list of all the tools, services, accessories and software you’ll need for your e-learning deployment.
Saffron Interactive
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
'Imagine; you’re in an airport and your flight has been delayed for a few hours. You walk around the terminal, go shopping, use the washrooms, get something to eat. You’ve.
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