Sat.Oct 18, 2014 - Fri.Oct 24, 2014

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LearnX 2014 Delivers

B Online Learning

'LearnX – The Main Event held on 14th October in Melbourne stepped up it’s impact this year, with a change to the format not only reducing the time from 2 days to 1 action packed day, but also with the inclusion of top quality keynote speakers in Layne Beachley and Pat Farmer. Here is a […].

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ID and e-Learning Links (10/20/14)

Experiencing eLearning

'id Layouts | eLearning Templates. E-Learning templates. Each template is available for purchase individually, rather than buying a package or subscription. Storyline and Captivate templates. The site is still new, but the library of options should increase in the future. tags: e-learning instructionaldesign Storyline captivate. Recovering corrupt Adobe Captivate projects | CP Guru – Adobe Captivate Widgets.

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The grassroots of learning

E-Learning Provocateur

'Here’s a common scenario: I “quickly” look up something on Wikipedia, and hours later I have 47 tabs open as I delve into tangential aspects of the topic. That’s the beauty of hypertext. A link takes you somewhere else, which contains other links that take you somewhere else yet again. The Internet is thus the perfect vehicle for explaining the concept of rhizomatic learning.

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Social Learning is Voluntary; Collaboration Platforms are Enablers

ID Reflections

'I love this description from Jane Harts post: FAUXIAL LEARNING is about forcing people to use social media in courses – or even in the workplace – and then confusing compliance with engagement (and even worse) learning. This totally hits the nail on the head. As an Instructional Designer and L&D Consultant, I am often asked questions like: 1.What social collaboration platform should we use?

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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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LearnFlex LMS: Implementing User Groups and Communities

B Online Learning

'We’ve talked a little bit about planning the implementation of new functionality, how to organise your ideas and map out the user experience when comes to new designs; you’ll notice that most of the ideas carry over when introducing new user groups and new functionality so with the ground work laid already we can start […].

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4 Tips For Designing Games

Origin Learning

'Gamification can be a powerful element of any elearning strategy. Games that are designed to improve the productivity and skills of learners are a good investment of organizational resources. However, adding games for games’ sake is definitely a no-no. A gamification strategy must be clear; every game should serve its own purpose of learning. Image Credits – Freepik.com.

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The Proof Of The Pudding Is In Multi-device ‘Physical’ Testing

Upside Learning

'Multi-device testing is no mean task. It involves testing the content being presented, the layout and the functionality. On a wide variety of device-OS-browser combinations. On simulators and emulators. And most importantly, on 'physical' devices – in the real environment, on the appropriate hardware. Testing on both the simulator/emulator as well as the real 'physical' […].

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Adobe Captivate 8: Custom Theme Colors

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Anita Horsley      When working in Adobe Captivate, it's possible that you will need to use colors that match your corporate brand. In that event, you'll be happy to learn that Captivate 8 allows you to easily create custom Theme colors. And once you've created your Theme colors, you can apply those colors to just about any slide object or learner interaction.

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Extending Mobile Models

Clark Quinn

'In preparation for a presentation, I was reviewing my mobile models. You may recall I started with my 4C ‘s model (Content, Compute, Communicate, & Capture), and have mapped that further onto Augmenting Formal, Performance Support, Social, & Contextual. I’ve refined it as well, separating out contextual and social as different ways of looking at formal and performance support.

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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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The evolution of personal learning environments

Origin Learning

'A personal learning environment refers to the tools, technologies, resources etc. that a person uses at the individual level to build on his knowledge base. Imagine a boy called John, who is in his early 20s in the year 1997. He reads books, accesses the Britannica Encyclopedia CD on his PC, participates in group discussions at his university, reads journals, magazines and newspapers in the library, logs on to the (slowly working) internet once in a while, watches TV, listens to the radio, and

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Gamification: Why It’s Good

LearnDash

'It may sound like something a kid may have termed, and in part it is something that appeals to the kid in all of us. The increasing popularity of using game mechanics to enhance various concepts, companies, services and goods has grown substantially over the past decade. With the continuing growth and development of the internet, social media, and global community, gaming has flourished as a viable median for communication.

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11 Things Dashe & Thomson is Looking Forward to Most at DevLearn 2014

Dashe & Thomson

'The eLearning Guild is hosting its annual DevLearn Conference at The Bellagio in Las Vegas, October 29-31, and Dashe & Thomson is looking forward to sponsoring the event once again. Here are the 11 things our staff is looking forward to most. 1. Neil deGrasse Tyson Who doesn’t want to see the lovable astrophysicist with a knack for explaining the world’s most complicated scientific laws in layman’s terms. 2.

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Challenge Your Learners By…

Association eLearning

'In this hectic world of on-the-spot access to information, conversations held in 140 characters or less, and instant picture uploads, Instructional Designers are faced with the challenge of designing effective learning that won’t overload learners. The heart of this challenge is finding the learners’ motivational sweet spot. To the Instructional Designer, this means figuring out how to get them to care.

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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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Using Educational Animation to Improve eLearning

Origin Learning

'Well-designed animations have the power to transform difficult to understand concepts into easily comprehensible ones. Educational animations are animations produced for the specific purpose of fostering learning. They use basic elements to explain a process, concept or abstract idea; and they may range from being primitively simple to a full-blown animated movie.

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7 Random Mobile Learning Stats

LearnDash

'If you have been around elearning for any amount of time, you have likely heard about mobile learning (also referred to as “mlearning”). Elearning and mlearning kind of go hand-in-hand. Essentially, elearning is “mobile”, but we define the two differently primarily when it comes to the device being used to view course content.

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Knowledge Guru Fall ’14 Release Adds New Game Type, Expanded Reporting and More

Knowledge Guru

'Since the release of Knowledge Guru in 2012, our team has spent thousands of hours researching the science of learning and serious games. We’ve play tested dozens of games to see what mechanics work for learning. Most importantly, we’ve listened to our growing customer base to find out what features and functionality they need to make serious games a success in their organizations.

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Looking forward to DevLearn

Kapp Notes

'This year at DevLearn is going to be a busy one! First, I am doing a workshop with over 60 participants with Sharon Boller called “Play to Learn” we’ve had a wonderful time presenting this workshop before at various events and are excited to once again offer it at DevLearn. The idea behind the workshop is to teach people the basics of designing a learning game.

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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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Boost Your Mobile Learning With Mobile App Analytics

Origin Learning

'Mobile Learning is still new. Even for companies who have added mobile learning to their existing eLearning formats, there is a lot of scope for improvement and revision for many of them. Let’s say you have developed an app which your employees must download to get started with mobile learning. Your job as a training manager doesn’t end there. May be the app has some bugs which need to be fixed.

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Adobe RoboHelp: In Word We Trust

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Willam Van Weelden      If you have attempted to create printed documentation with RoboHelp, there is a good chance you have run into a macro error. RoboHelp uses Word for printed documentation, and this error occurs if Word's security settings don't allow macros. You can enable macros in Word, but that may not be enough.

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#DevLearn Schedule

Clark Quinn

'As usual, I will be at DevLearn (in Las Vegas) this next week, and welcome meeting up with you there. There is a lot going on. Here’re the things I’m involved in: On Tuesday, I’m running an all day workshop on eLearning Strategy. (Hint: it’s really a Revolutionize L&D workshop ;). I’m pleasantly surprised at how many folks will be there!

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Using ELearning to Generate Leads

LearnDash

'ELearning can be applied to almost any industry. In fact, your area of profession likely has some elearning available for learning new skills, receiving accreditation, or certification. Most of us have taken an elearning course related to our profession at some point. But have you ever thought about leveraging elearning to boost your credibility, bring in leads, and potentially launch a consulting career?

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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HOW TO USE LMS FOR PERFORMANCE SUPPORT

Origin Learning

'Backing up the repertoire of skills and knowledge of your employees is just as important as creating it. Organizations do spend a lot of resources in the form of time, money and effort to train their new hires, but the bitter reality is- not all of it is retained. So what do we do about it? To begin with, let’s understand why we want our employees to learn.

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Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'If you've spent any amount of time at all using Adobe Captivate, it's a good bet that you've used some of the more basic keyboard shortcuts (copy/paste, save, etc). But check out the image below for some keyboard shortcuts you might not have known existed. (Feel free to right-click the image and save it to your computer for future use.).

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What's a Thought Leader?

The Performance Improvement Blog

'Readers of this blog know that I like to define terms that have become over-used to the point of meaninglessness. “Thought leader” is one of those terms. The designation has been applied to long-established experts as well as overnight, social media sensations. What do we mean when we say someone is a thought leader? First use of the term is attributed to Joel Kurtzman who, in 1994, used it in marketing to refer to companies that were intentionally positioned to become known as authorities on a

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Understanding The Benefits of CEUs

LearnDash

'Many occupations require continuing education so as to help people keep abreast of updates, and the latest information in their fields. Continuing education units have been established to verify that a person has completed the required program to get their professional certificates, which in turn allow them to continue practicing. CEUs provide a good way of measuring a person’s participation in a continuing education program.

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Navigating Recruitment Agencies: A TA Leader Strategy Guide

Navigating the realm of recruitment agencies isn’t always easy. As talent acquisition has evolved, so have the challenges in managing agency relationships and spend. If you've ever felt in the dark about rogue hires, elusive budget spends, or questioned which agencies truly deliver, this guide is your beacon. Dive into our exploration of the most common agency-related challenges and strategies tailored for 2024's hiring landscape.