Sat.Sep 27, 2014 - Fri.Oct 03, 2014

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The Four Stages of Learning

Association eLearning

'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.

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Using a Conversational Tone in your eLearning Courses

B Online Learning

'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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The learnification of education

E-Learning Provocateur

'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.

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The Best of Breed Learning Tools 2014

Jane Hart

'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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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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Five ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence

From the Coleface

'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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So you want to create a learning game?

Knowledge Guru

'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.

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How to Transfer Your Regular Training to Mobile Learning

Origin Learning

'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.

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5 must-reads posts from September 2014

Jane Hart

'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 […].

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8 EdTech Trends You Should Know

LearnDash

'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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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Constructive vs instructive

Clark Quinn

'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.

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September 30, 2014 - How to Create an Effective eLearning Course Without Extra Effort?

JoomlaLMS

'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.

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Temps Are People, Too

The Performance Improvement Blog

'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.

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Virtual Classroom Adoption – The Four Stages of Change

InSync Training

'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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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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Types and proportions of learning activities?

Clark Quinn

'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.

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4 Things You Need To Remember Before Launching a B- School Mentoring Program

Origin Learning

'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

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Genesis Training Theme for WordPress

LearnDash

'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.

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eLearning Art and Design Tips for the Non-Designer (Part 1)

eLearning Brothers

'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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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Week's Learning #1

ID Reflections

'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.

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A 4-Step Recipe for Maximum eLearner Engagement

SHIFT eLearning

'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

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Interview: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Learning, Education, and Technology by David Kelly

LearningGuild

'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.

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eLearning Voice Over Tip: How to Eliminate Background Noise

eLearning Brothers

'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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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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The Benefits of Blended Learning

eFront

'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.

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Add a Dose of Psychology to Create Great eLearning Courses

SHIFT eLearning

'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.

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How to Successfully Create a Self-Paced eLearning Course into Your LMS

TalentLMS

'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

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How to Work With Grids and Guides in Lectora

eLearning Brothers

'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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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.