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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.

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools Lesson Easygenerator eLearning 100

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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.

Quality 139

Quality Report eLearning eLearning Tools 139

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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.

Learning Objects 100

Learning Objects Bloom Taxonomy Effectiveness 100

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This year more than ever DevLearn addressed the future of eLearning. Unfortunately I was in meetings during her presentation. It will be a mutual challenge for the people who are developing this standard, for vendors and for eLearning developers. From eLearning developer to Learning experience director. It’s normal.

DevLearn 221

DevLearn Easygenerator Authoring Tools vendor 221

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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.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Authoring Tools eLearning xapi 100

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MAY 3, 2013

Michael and Richard present us an agile alternative for ADDIE: SAM (Successive Approximation Model). 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.

Instructional Design 233

Instructional Design ADDIE Agile eLearning Developer 233

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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. My recap of the whole conference is summarized in the title. But: The clients (both internally and externally) do not get this.

Agile 160

Agile Performance Support Performance Mobile 160

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

DevLearn promises to be a great conference this year again.There is a very promising line-up of keynote speakers and other presenters. The eLearning guild has a reputation for inviting surprising key-note speakers and it looks like they have done it again. I’m looking forward to their presentations. Session 611.

DevLearn 185

DevLearn Conference Instructional Design Easygenerator 185

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MAY 4, 2014

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

Report 168

Report Design Website Evalution 168

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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.

Simulations 177

Simulations Providers Guide Exercise 177

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Before the second keynote there was an extra unplanned presentation by Aron ‘TinCan’ Silver. 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. A morning buzz session I attended, presented by Art Kohm.

DevLearn 203

DevLearn Conference Easygenerator Learning Objects 203

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

I have to be present at my own session, so I have to remove the trend session from my agenda. Elearning Guild conferences are also interesting because of the audience they attract. They are not presentations but gatherings hosted by a volunteer. Review your agenda and choose between conflicting sessions. Check the Backchannel.

DevLearn 125

DevLearn eLearning Guild Conference Hosting 125

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MARCH 23, 2014

Free elearning tools and resources. She presented (and collected) free elearning resources. Presentation by Hillik Harari and Yanay (I love names that are palindromes) Zaguri. Where I found that Clark and his fellows where a bit sour and frustrated when presenting their eLearning manifesto, Clark was at his best today.

Performance Support 154

Performance Support Support Performance Free 154

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MARCH 20, 2014

These sessions are not presentations but an opportunity to talk/discuss/share experiences on a certain topic. For more check his presentation, you can download it from his website. Interesting reading and he is an entertaining presenter. for 90% Next was a presentation from Marty Rosenheck. Look outside your own culture.

Agile 134

Agile Innovation Performance Support Performance 134

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MARCH 14, 2013

I was interested because I thing performance support, training and eLearning together will integrate learning into the workplace. You can download their presentation through Mapdeck (search for ‘performance support’). Good presentation and good initiative. Your eLearning lives up in the cloud what does it mean?

Conference 140

Conference Easygenerator Solution Server 140

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MARCH 15, 2015

Presenting at at Zhytomyr state university. I had the honor to give a presentation at Zhytomyr state university about eLearning trends. My colleagues Oleksandra and Olga who translated my presentation live into Russian. The lecture hall where I presented. I enjoyed doing it. Working with my team.

Propaganda 100

Propaganda Easygenerator eLearning Tools Conference 100

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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.

Learner 100

Learner Easygenerator Module Quiz 100

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MARCH 20, 2014

For me that was the highlight of the presentation, although I read on the internet that Columbus discovered them. 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. He knows them all.

Authoring Tools 146

Authoring Tools System Tools eLearning Tools 146

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MAY 23, 2013

Michael Allen with SAM (and a packed Ballroom), agile processes are presented as the answer to the ever increasing speed of change. The role of formal eLearning courses is diminishing. The role of formal eLearning courses is diminishing. Food for thought for me as a CEO of an eLearning authoring tool. Day 2 and 3 recap.

Conference 192

Conference Flash to HTML5 Conversion Easygenerator ASTD 192

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

I discussed trends that I see in eLearning that will rock our world. My presentation is in the conference app for download, but it mainly contains images and a video. I had a great attendance and I enjoyed giving it. The disappearance of the LMS will just be one of the consequences.

Trends 114

Trends DevLearn LMS Report 114

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MARCH 18, 2011

I will be attending the eLearning Guild learning Solutions conference in Orlando next week. It includes all presentations, speaker profiles, a twitter feed, info on exhibitors, maps of all session rooms et cetera. You go through a list with all sessions, view the description, info on the presenter and the slides for their presentation.

iPad 150

iPad Conference Solution eLearning Guild 150

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APRIL 13, 2014

This principle is an important requirement when building eLearning courses. Basically there are four steps in her approach, see her presentation and blog. It connects learning to business goals and it helps create eLearning based on real situations. Now the question is how to do it? Get integrated into the business.

Learning Objects 196

Learning Objects Performance Support Performance Guide 196

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

I will be leaving for Las Vegas in less than one hour, visiting the eLearning Guilds annual conference. The time (AM) I will present the free edition of easygenerator at the Management Exchange Stage. I will present both on Wednesday and Thursday. I will try to post a daily blog about my findings. Wednesday @ 1.15

DevLearn 140

DevLearn Blogging Easygenerator eLearning Guild 140

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

He is the Managing Editor of the Learning Solutions e-Magazine at the eLearning Guild. ” “The result of this philosophy is a set of innovative features and functionalities, such as the objective dashboard, which sets up the connection between learning objectives and the content of the eLearning.

Easygenerator 140

Easygenerator DevLearn eLearning Guild Learning Objects 140

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JUNE 11, 2013

I could find just one presentation on TinCan. More to follow… e-Learning eLearning guild Mlearncon mLearning mobile learning mobile trends' The majority still has to follow. One expected trend is missing TinCan (or the Xperience API). It was big last year, version one is out and I was expecting a lot from that.

Trends 160

Trends Case Study eLearning Guild Big Question 160

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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. We need to find more effective ways to present our learning content to our learners and that means we have to move away from the current ‘book’ and ‘slide show’ metaphors. (New) e-Learning metaphors: cased based learning.

Easygenerator 185

Easygenerator Blackboard Instructional Design ADDIE 185

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

We launched our new free eLearning software and our booth had so many visitors that I haven’t been able to attend a single session at the conference, no sessions reports from me this time. So for day one I will limit myself to my presentation on agile eLearning development. Agile eLearning development (2): Culture.

Agile 179

Agile DevLearn eLearning Developer Easygenerator 179

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

” Does this mean that I foresee doom for the eLearning industry? In this presentation I will focus on why the corporate LMS is something from the past. My presentation will be available for download at the conference website and app. No it doesn’t. It means that we are in a period of fundamental changes. New Content.

DevLearn 125

DevLearn Authoring Corporate eLearning Easygenerator 125

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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. If you present outcomes like this to your management, they will (or should) be interested. Do not assume that eLearning is the answer. Post 2: (will come soon).

Guide 198

Guide Solution Easygenerator Performance Support 198

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MARCH 23, 2011

This week I’m in Orlando at the eLearning Guilds Learning Solutions conference. But how do you describe a day where you have met dozens of people, saw ton’s of demo’s and attended 6 or 7 presentations? The people who are present do all share a passion for what they do and you can feel that energy.

Conference 140

Conference Solution Brain eLearning Guild 140

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OCTOBER 30, 2011

We will do three presentations at DevLearn, a product presentation, a presentation about adaptive (individual) learning (together with our friends of A New Spring) and I will present on Outcome Learning. I hope to finish these presentations in the plane, at the moment they are still work in progress.

DevLearn 154

DevLearn Conference Easygenerator Skype 154

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MARCH 25, 2015

I wrote a post earlier on this presentation, but it made me think a lot. The organization that helps great people doing even greater things, they support 80 NGO’s with eLearning facilities and knowledge. The end of the first day of LSCON and Ecocon. Time for a first retrospective. So I checked him out in more detail.

eLearning Guild 100

eLearning Guild Write Blog Performance Support Website 100

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MARCH 24, 2011

Nancy is all about presentations, she has a company that does just that. One of the presentations she was behind was the Al Gore presentation ‘The inconvenient truth’ So she knows what she is talking about and she is a great presenter herself. OK, day 2 of the conference. Key Note: Nancy Duarte: Resonate.

Conference 154

Conference Solution iPhone Social Media 154

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MARCH 14, 2013

Joe Ganci received a guild master award from the eLearning guild and rightfully so. Great guy, always presenting, writing, reviewing and moderating. When you present someone with all complete crystal clear information, they will not learn. They help people who do well, do even better. What have high performers in common?

ADL 146

ADL SCORM AICC eLearning Guild 146

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MARCH 6, 2018

We decided to start developing a very easy, web-based eLearning authoring tool in the spring of 2013, and we launched our first paid plan (our minimum viable product) in 2014. I used to do a lot of writing and presenting, but, over the last two years, my focus has been on growing the company.

Easygenerator 124

Easygenerator Write Blog Trust Sales 124

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

In Berlin I met with Christopher Benz (he is in charge of online events of the ELearning guild) and we spoke about the differences of an eLearning guild conference (like Learning Solutions and DevLearn) and the online Educa. Example of a learning map, taken from IADIS proceedings from presentation by Schock, Bargel, Roller and Rauner.

eLearning Guild 157

eLearning Guild Linden Online DevLearn 157

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MARCH 20, 2012

You can easily browse through all the session, see the presentations and add them to your schedule with one click. All presentations are online and Map Deck enables you to pick out slides and put them in your own collection: Either online or in PowerPoint. I present from 2.30 There is another innovation at the LSCON; Map Deck.

Conference 154

Conference Solution ADL SCORM 154