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AUGUST 23, 2011

If you were following last week’s series of blog posts about refreshing and improving an old e-learning course in five days , there was a lot to take in. If you missed any posts last week, here’s where you need to go: Day 1: Learning outcomes and structure. So here is a quick recap of the key things we focused on.

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APRIL 11, 2011

One of these is the enduring question of how to use text and audio within e-learning, which prompted some debate and some interesting experiment results. We also had to identify the other element that it is most compatible with (simultaneously, as opposed to sequentially throughout an e-learning course).

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

2 Responses to Five tips for e-learning they’ll fall in love with Lisa McGonigle | February 14, 2011 at 10:34 am | Reply Hi Stephanie Love this little blog – just tweeted about it. Bookmark the permalink. Thanks Lisa Cheryl McNeil | February 17, 2011 at 5:30 pm | Reply Love the tip on sense of humor.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

In addition to those eight rules, here are my own top tips (in no particular order) for energising your e-learning: Write the way you talk. An e-learning course is not an academic paper, a business report, a legal document or an instruction manual. Yes, an e-learning course should be free of typos and grammatical errors.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

All this explains why one of the things most of us want our e-learning to be is ‘interactive’ In e-learning, as in life, interactions are more engaging and memorable than lectures. They help to break up content into learner-friendly chunks and they start to turn a passive learning experience into something more active.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← Have you done your good deed for the day? Click on the image above to link to the Breathing Earth website I love the idea of having a similar counter in an e-learning course to really make an impact.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In preparation for my session, I asked Good To Great readers, the Twitter community and eLN event attendees to sum up their last compliance e-learning experience in three words. I then asked people to describe the compliance e-learning they want to see more of.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

In-house DIY e-learning and rapid development mean that training managers and subject matter experts (among others) have to put on an e-learning design hat from time to time. Great e-learning isn’t about eye-catching graphics and technical wizardry. And that hinges on excellent instructional design.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

It needs to be engaging, relevant and effective. If they’re not taking notice, they’re not really learning. If they’re not learning, they won’t action it back in the workplace. If people don’t take the learning on board and apply it, they’ll continue to make the same mistakes or miss the same opportunities.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

His keynote presentation, about designing for true blended learning, offered some real food for thought. For instance, I know we all talk about ‘point of need’, ‘just in time’ and ‘on the job’ learning, but Bob’s explanation of the five moments of need really brought this to life for me.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

So, when you’re QA-ing an e-learning course, what are you looking for? But overall I think there are three categories of things you should check during an e-learning QA. Next up, I’ll share my tips for carrying out a QA of the three elements mentioned above in the most effective, time-efficient way.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

← Good e-learning: engaging, relevant and effective Learning about learning → Like Be the first to like this post. I will also be beavering away on my dissertation as the deadline is looming. See you in a week! Share this: This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged dissertation. Bookmark the permalink.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Yesterday we worked on where we could include some interactions in your e-learning course for maximum learning impact. This is pretty straightforward and an easy one to begin with: questions that effectively answer themselves are not worth having in there. I’m not sure this is the most effective approach.

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MARCH 7, 2011

With the January launch of the E-Learning Awards , the IT Training Awards at the start of February, and the eLearning Network showcasing recent winners, award-winning e-learning is the order of the day. In the same way, the judges will effectively be looking to put a tick next to each requirement, so make it easy for them.

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MARCH 3, 2011

But last night’s episode brilliantly illustrated three important lessons for workplace learning as well as education. They’ll remember the customer service course more favourably if they can learn by doing through simulations and feedback. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Thanks for visiting!

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JANUARY 24, 2012

I like QA-ing other people’s work most (because it’s much easier and more effective when you’re objective and not close to the content) but I’m pretty happy QA-ing my own work too, when I need to. So I see six key benefits of a thorough and effective QA process and culture: You’ll achieve sign-off more quickly.

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JUNE 1, 2011

I’ve also just finished, and hopefully passed, the Institute’s Certified Online Learning Facilitator (COLF) course. Certified Online Learning Facilitator course. Even if you’re not brand new to live online learning, this course is a great opportunity to practise and brush up on your skills. SlideShare.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me What characterises good e-learning? Unlike when I wrote for the Spicy Learning Blog , which was a team effort, this time it’s all down to me. What characterises good e-learning?

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APRIL 26, 2011

What if we applied this to e-learning? I can also see this working really effectively for something like sustainability or customer service, where there are multiple issues at stake (environmental factors or customer satisfaction balanced against company financial concerns, for example).

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MARCH 14, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← A panel podcast on compliance training Two great ideas for your next sustainability course → Have you done your good deed for the day?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I’m horrendously behind with E-learning and Digital Cultures – I’ve not yet looked at the fourth week’s material, but I’m still hoping to get my ‘digital artifact’ in by tonight’s submission deadline. His suggestion is that it’s the lack of the ‘human’ in distance learning.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Today we’re going to take a look at the interactions in your e-learning course. Map interactions against the key learning points. For me, it’s about making sure that your interactions are mapped against your key learning points. I’m not sure this is a good question for this learning point. Take a big picture view.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

← 15 tips for energising your e-learning The bad reputation and rehabilitation of compliance training → Like Be the first to like this post. Saffron will not be the same without Hanif, but everything he did to create the Saffron family means that the things he worked so hard for will continue to grow and make him proud.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Good To Great In pursuit of excellence: my view on the world of learning and training Skip to content Home A bit about me ← How to write an award-winning submission Have you done your good deed for the day? Image: ?????Salvatore Bookmark the permalink.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

I was surprised to see a relatively old paper on the resource list for the second week of E-learning and Digital Cultures , but actually found it interesting reading. In other cases, designers are drawing more on the emotional pull of the old or familiar (such as the page turning effect on digital books).

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

When I attended Learning 2012 last month, I was lucky enough to be there as part of 30 Under Thirty : a group of 30 ‘future leaders’ in learning and development. This lunch-and-learn approach really became the model for our extra conference experiences. See more official photos from the conference at [link].

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Last week, I enrolled on Edinburgh University’s Coursera MOOC called E-learning and Digital Cultures. We’ve been given four short films to watch and think about, and some early examples of writing on e-learning.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

When I attended Learning 2012 last month, I was lucky enough to be there as part of 30 Under Thirty : a group of 30 ‘future leaders’ in learning and development. This lunch-and-learn approach really became the model for our extra conference experiences. See more official photos from the conference at [link].

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Last week, I enrolled on Edinburgh University’s Coursera MOOC called E-learning and Digital Cultures. We’ve been given four short films to watch and think about, and some early examples of writing on e-learning.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

At the end of November, I flew over to Houston for a two-day internal conference organised by Nick Shackleton-Jones called ‘Future of Learning’ I tweeted a lot throughout the event, using the #BPFOL12 hashtag, and I’ll be writing up some of the key sessions and takeaways in subsequent posts.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

At the end of November, I flew over to Houston for a two-day internal conference organised by Nick Shackleton-Jones called ‘Future of Learning’ I tweeted a lot throughout the event, using the #BPFOL12 hashtag, and I’ll be writing up some of the key sessions and takeaways in subsequent posts.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

At BP’s Future of Learning event in November, we were lucky enough to have the fabulous Crystal Washington as our guest speaker at dinner (follow her on Twitter @CrysWashington ). Incidentally, Justin Mass asked the same question of Richard Culatta at Learning 2012 and got the same response: ‘nope, normal.’

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Today we’re going to look at how we can bring your e-learning course to life and inject some personality into it. As always, rather than simply tell you what I think, first of all I’m going to share what my webinar participants said when I asked them: what small changes can you make to your existing e-learning course to bring it to life?

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JANUARY 23, 2013

At BP’s Future of Learning event in November, we were lucky enough to have the fabulous Crystal Washington as our guest speaker at dinner (follow her on Twitter @CrysWashington ). Incidentally, Justin Mass asked the same question of Richard Culatta at Learning 2012 and got the same response: ‘nope, normal.’

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

If I can see there are far more telling interactions than testing ones, for example, I’ll make sure that the key learning point screens use testing interactions (I explained why this is preferable in my last post). It gives me that little bit of distance that helps me be objective about the storyboard and my initial choices.

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