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FEBRUARY 28, 2016

eLearning and user interface? Instead of professional eLearning creators (instructional designers), we now focus on people who do not have an eLearning background. As a result we now have the requirement that someone with no eLearning background should be able to use our tool and create a course or a quiz without any training.

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Authoring Tools Lesson Easygenerator eLearning 100

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

This Wednesday (October 23rd) we will launch a completely new web-based free eLearning authoring tool. We will take all the experience we have built in the past 15 years on eLearning authoring and put it in a brand new product. Our mission is to help you to create better eLearning. Must be an easygenerator publication.

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JUNE 4, 2013

In the previous post on agile eLearning development I wrote about culture. How many times did you build an eLearning solution that met the requirements, but still the client wasn’t satisfied. In an eLearning project this would be the project manager and the client. Post 3: Agile eLearning development (2): Culture.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This year more than ever DevLearn addressed the future of eLearning. It will be a mutual challenge for the people who are developing this standard, for vendors and for eLearning developers. No, we need to facilitate new forms of eLearning where you can include real live activities into your eLearning. So what to do?

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MARCH 21, 2015

Recently I was doing a presentation on eLearning trends. During that presentation I realized that there are just a handful of people driving fundamental change in eLearning. These are the people who really change our landscape and have a big influence on my working eLearning life. ELearning Hero #1: Jay Cross.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

More and more people are creating eLearning and for very different purposes. Create your eLearning courses and sell them. Some of the services offer an authoring facility, for other you need to create your course in eLearning software like Easygenerator. Open sesame is a marketplace for eLearning courses. Open sesame.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

You can apply the lessons learned from agile software development to eLearning development as well. This post contains some simple tips that you can apply to eLearning development. If you create eLearning for your own organization it has to be an internal client. Make sure you have a client.

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DECEMBER 20, 2015

Internet has changed everything and it is changing eLearning fundamentally. This trend is revolutionizing the eLearning industry. The creation of eLearning was the domain of instructional designers. Specialized, complex and expensive software allowed them to create bespoke eLearning solutions. What is happening?

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JULY 24, 2015

Get easygenerator (eLearning software) now for free. There is none, we give you are eLearning authoring software and you will create cool things with it. Easygenerator is an online eLearning authoring tool. You can do that by replacing the lecture with an instruction video or eLearning course. What is the catch?

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MAY 3, 2013

In the third chapter they have a look at what ‘good’ eLearning should be, I quote: “Concise, effective learning events, whether delivered through e-Learning or not, are meaningful, memorable, and motivational. It is clear that both authors have a few decades of combined experience in eLearning development.

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MARCH 3, 2015

More and more people with no eLearning background are creating eLearning. I found that there are three simple things that will make the eLearning courses more effective: Have a clear goal. The wrong way to start creating an eLearning course. An eLearning course is very different from a (PowerPoint) presentation.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Reblogged from easygenerator.com : We launched the free edition of our on-line eLearning authoring tool November 1st at DevLearn. About 10% of all users works for an eLearning company. This week we registered user number 1.000. This post is to celebrate that first milestone. We are very exited about the interest in this edition.

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APRIL 7, 2014

This is the second post in the series of 22, that will form a how to guide to the principles of the eLearning manifesto. This is about Principle #2: “Do not assume eLearning is the Answer”. In order to make it more constructive I want to turn it around and change it into: “Only apply eLearning when it is the most effective option”.

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Yammer Guide eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy 192

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JUNE 25, 2015

Do you have questions in general about eLearning? And finally I love to talk about eLearning so try me out. Do you have questions about easygenerator, how to get the most out of it? Do you have ideas or requirements that we do need meet? Join me at one of my weekly Question & Answer sessions.

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MAY 19, 2013

One by Marc Rosenberg on how asses the quality of your eLearning and one by David Kelly on Curation. Marc Rosenberg – Building eLearning that people will (really) want to use. Marc has created a 13 topic survey that you can fill in asses the quality of your eLearning courses. Click on the mind maps to enlarge them.

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MARCH 23, 2014

I attended great presentations on 70:20:10, agile development, mobile (TinCan), serious elearning, performance support and learning ecosystems, but the gap with the audience was huge. But: The clients (both internally and externally) do not get this. The tools are not really in place and the IT department is not helping.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But I will also show you how flipping your classroom together with the right use of eLearning tools can increase the retention significantly. eLearning gives you the ability to raise the level of the home lecture. Creating eLearning used to be technically challenging and expensive, but that is in the past. But you can do better.

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MARCH 2, 2014

I wrote a post that was published at the elearningindustry.com about 5 trends that in my opinion will lead to the downfall of the LMS as we know it.The trends I see are: The learner takes control. Personalized (adaptive) learning. Anywhere, Anytime and any device. Specialized learning material.

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MARCH 27, 2015

An incredible amount of trends and tips. There is something for everyone here. e-Learning'

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

In a few weeks’ time easygenerator will make a big step towards meeting her mission to change eLearning. Changing eLearning. Our mission is to change eLearning. With change we mean better and more effective eLearning. It allows authors to develop complex adaptive eLearning courses in a very simple way.

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APRIL 13, 2014

This principle is an important requirement when building eLearning courses. It connects learning to business goals and it helps create eLearning based on real situations. This will help determine the types of learning interventions and activities to include in the eLearning course. Now the question is how to do it?

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Learning Objects Performance Support Performance Guide 196

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JULY 1, 2014

Currently, the biggest eLearning trend is connecting eLearning to the workplace. eLearning continues to move into the area of ePerformance more and more, and it also integrates with knowledge management (curation for example). See the first post on this topic for the goals and other posts on the serious eLearning manifesto.

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Simulations Providers Guide Exercise 177

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MARCH 8, 2016

Creating effective eLearning is hard, especially when you do not have an eLearning background. In this article I will describe how you can improve your eLearning by creating smaller modules and tie them together in learning paths. One of the most common mistakes in eLearning is that authors create modules that are way too large.

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Learner Easygenerator Module Quiz 100

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MAY 23, 2013

The role of formal eLearning courses is diminishing. Food for thought for me as a CEO of an eLearning authoring tool. ASTD2013 e-Learning eLearning' But overall it looks like everybody is catching his breath and is waiting to see which developments they can’t ignore any longer. Other posts on ICE ASTD2013: Day 1 recap.

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

The eLearning guild has a reputation for inviting surprising key-note speakers and it looks like they have done it again. I’m curious if they are able to make the connection from their background to eLearning. I do believe that curation is one of the roles an eLearning developer should perform in order to stay relevant.

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MAY 4, 2014

Julie Dirksen is some kind of eLearning hero. She is one of the instigators of the serious elearning manifesto. I have read a lot about her (and from her) but never attended a presentation by her. She didn’t disappoint me.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

We have two main standards in our industry SCORM and IACC, both of them enable us to track and trace results, both of them confine eLearning within the borders of the LMS. This leaves us with one standard and but more importantly it ‘frees’ eLearning from the boundaries of the LMS. Brent Schenkler. Great keynote.

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MARCH 15, 2014

It looks like eLearning has come at a turning point. And not at least the initiative about serious eLearning from a number of our thought leaders urging us to do a better job (and they are right, check it out). Future of learning (including elearning manifesto). I’m looking forward to all three. Agile development.

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JULY 14, 2016

Easygenerator is eLearning software with a very specific focus on people who do not have an e-Learning background. Educate prospects on Easygenerator’s eLearning authoring solutions. Our goal is to provide eLearning authoring all over the world so you will work in a very internationally oriented environment. Easygenerator.

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Easygenerator Sales Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning 100

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JANUARY 2, 2013

There are three post in this list (on 1, 4 and 10) about a new metaphor for eLearning. An other interesting development here is Michael Allens SAM, an agile methodology for eLearning development. My post from the mobile eLearning conference on trends also made the top 10. Blackboard buys Moodle partners: open source?

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Easygenerator Blackboard Instructional Design ADDIE 185

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JULY 10, 2015

At easygenerator we it is our goal to help our authors to create more effective eLearning. And now we have added Learning paths, the way to better retention, byte-sized mobile learning and adaptive learning; in short to better and more effective eLearning. But now we set the next step on the road to better eLearning.

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Easygenerator Learning Objects Bloom Taxonomy 100

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MARCH 30, 2014

Here is my first post on how to implement the 22 principles of the serious elearning manifesto and how to convince your boss/client to do this. Do not assume that eLearning is the answer. elearningmanifesto e-Learning elearning manifeste how to guide' Post 2: (will come soon).

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MARCH 14, 2014

It allows you to create instructionally sound eLearning courses based on learning objectives. Aim 4 You offers an unique global eLearning catalog that aggregates learning from all over the world. Next, you can publish the course into the eLearning catalog from Aim 4 You, with a few simple clicks.

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LMS Web Easygenerator Alternatives 164

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JUNE 17, 2014

An early post on MLearncon in San Diego, the eLearning Guild conference on Mobile learning. This will be my fourth major eLearning conference of 2014 (Learning Technology London, Learning Solutions Orlando, ASTD ICE Washington, and now Mlearncon in San Diego). e-Learning Mlearncon Mobile elearning'

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Score Conference Case Study eLearning Guild 139

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JUNE 18, 2013

e-Learning eLearning guild Mlearncon mLearning' They went for small learning nuggets on an ‘ ordinary’ website optimized for tablets. Most striking for me, they dropped the mandatory registration and log in. Almost all of their content is freely accessible for everyone.

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eLearning Guild Report Website eLearning 146

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MARCH 20, 2014

When to switch eLearning tools by Joe Ganci. He started out by saying that it should not be the tool that determines the elearning, but the learner, the context and the goal. Based on that analysis you can design an eLearning solution and then you select the appropriate tool. He knows them all. Thanks Joe, I appreciate this.

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Authoring Tools System Tools eLearning Tools 146

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Nielsen, a global consumer research and insight company with over 140,000 employees in more than 130 countries worldwide, started a pilot for user-generated eLearning content in Q4 2015. Use Case: Kaplan, a global education provider in more than 30 countries with 19,000 employees, and an early pioneer of user-enabled eLearning.

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