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JANUARY 5, 2023

The most important of these is Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (known informally as Section 508) compliance, which lays out clear guidelines that websites, learning platforms, and various other media must follow to ensure all people are able to properly interact with them. ADA accessibility lawsuits are continually on the rise.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Interactive microlearning modules. Forward-thinking companies are redesigning their employee training approaches to include just these types of agile, microlearning opportunities. Given this, here are three ways you can immediately introduce microlearning to your training library. Videos for microlearning. Performance support.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In particular, Weber talks about the power of human interaction in teaching (aka social learning): Interpersonal intelligence engages others best in curious, equitable, and caring situations. Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Properly d.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Sometimes you need more than pleasing visual design and novel interactivity to make a lasting impression on your learners. We know it’s critical to make learning content relatable and memorable. Yet, achieving that ‘stickiness’ module after module, and program after program, can be challenging. That’s where storytelling comes in.

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MARCH 25, 2011

An excellent article from Cross Pollination Media, titled “ Are ‘Digital Natives’ Better Suited for Mobile Learning? Properly d.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

So now, I resolve to promote interactive, “do-it” training whenever feasible. Since I had some time, I intentionally decided to find the route through trial-and-error, starting only with the end address (in essence “doing”). The result, after a few mis-steps, is that today I could get there with my eyes closed (don’t recommend it).

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A relatively novel idea, customer education focuses on ensuring clients have the resources they need to succeed when interacting with your corporation. Companies are beginning to understand the utility of an educated customer base and are developing training solutions to improve business outcomes.

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MARCH 21, 2011

What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk. The eLearning modules act as the “lecture”, which learners do on their own time. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 10, 2019

Whether I’m brainstorming solutions, designing meaningful interactions, or reviewing my content, I’m going to take one extra step to make sure I have the best version possible. Henry Kingman Instructional Designer. My resolution for 2019 as an instructional designer is to always go one step further.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Learning technologist and university art instructor Anthony Fontana has been developing learning software called QizBox to encourage and stimulate student learning through the use of interactive social media.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 30, 2010

The difference: peer-to-peer interaction. That’s why this post from Frank Noschese is so great. He contrasts two teaching methods that involve different kinds of whiteboards: one that costs $2,000, and one that costs $2.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2019

The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in Austin, TX, is a great venue for doing just that. Many learning designers, including me, have turned to the world of web design and graphic design for inspiration, but now we need to cast our nets even further.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Learning technologist and university art instructor Anthony Fontana has been developing learning software called QizBox to encourage and stimulate student learning through the use of interactive social media.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

In the new culture of learning, people learn through their interaction and participation with one another in fluid relationships that are the result of shared interests and opportunity. Thought there was no teacher in this setting, readers engaged in deep, sustained learning from one another through their discussions and interactions. *

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

McGoldrick described an approach to evaluating training that wasn’t just about changes in learner behavior but about learners integrated with and interacting within their own workplace. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. But it wasn’t. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The applications everyone from Wired to the Wall Street Journal are talking about are altering the way we interact with each other, the way we purchase goods and services, and the way we learn. This ever-changing technological landscape is currently held captive by social media, and for good reason. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 12, 2018

The patient-centered care model focuses on the patient’s health and experience during every interaction with healthcare professionals. You’ll find the term “patient-centered care” floating around in the mission statements of many a hospital and clinic.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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JUNE 15, 2011

The major stages in this evolution, from his post, are: Human-computer interaction is about paying attention to people and their relationship with computing. Interaction design is about making things usable. Information architecture is about making things findable. Content strategy is about making things meaningful.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Software tools such as Articulate Presenter or Adobe Presenter allow you to transition your current PowerPoint into a streamlined e-Learning modules complete with narration, interactive quizzes, and Flash-based output compression. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

It allowed the students to interact with the works of art in their own way. The audience for the training programs was junior high school students, and the purpose was to learn about works of art in the museum’s collection. I always thought that program was extremely innovative. But now I wanted to find out more about Accelerated Learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2018

When we scope eLearning projects, we use three main scoping levers as a guide: the seat time, the level of instructional design required to collect, sequence, and design the material, and the level of interactivity and creative design desired.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 1, 2013

A bunch of us at Dashe & Thomson had a great time a couple weeks ago when we attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference – an enormous event that one blogger dubbed the “digital Super Bowl.” There was too much great content to report on exhaustively, but one session [.]

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 10, 2014

South by Southwest Interactive I’ve written about it before, but South by Southwest was one of the highlights of my 2013 work life so… Continue Reading The post My Top 5 Countdown of “Funspirational” Online Moments in 2013 appeared first on Social Learning Blog. Here’s my Top 5.

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APRIL 10, 2013

This past month several staff from Dashe attended South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas; so (belatedly – sorry!) we thought we’d share some of our favorite moments from the conference. Note: Editorial comments are mine; the rest are the words of my illustrious colleagues. Claire: The Designated Driver Editorial [.]

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MAY 18, 2011

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 22, 2011

I can design web based training that can be delivered across the globe or I can design blended solutions with facilitators delivering lecture interspersed with interactive simulations and knowledge checks. The key to successful organizations will be managing the interactions of these two “guilds” to form coherent and balanced training.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 28, 2011

Essentially the Web is not just evolving gradually as it absorbs the impact of smartphones and social media; it’s changing so radically that it might be better to look at what’s happening as the birth of an entirely new concept of internet interactivity and learning. non-mobile and non-video usage) is shrinking.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 24, 2012

I always find it interesting that people would often rather watch other people on a screen than interact with them in person (Hitchcock had it right – there’s an element of voyeurism in each of us). A good training video can bring out a similar level of engagement as a good movie or television show.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 7, 2012

Software engineering, product development, interactive/multimedia development are all based on some variation of the model. With Rapid Prototyping, learners and/or subject matter experts interact with prototypes and instructional designers in a continuous review and revision process.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Physically passive learning activity: observing, thinking, reflecting, building mental models, listening to presentations, or interacting with computers. The constant back and forth rhythm between the physically active and the physically passive modes tends to sustain people’s energy and improve their learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

While that might not seem like a lot to a training company, it seems like an eternity to those who thrive on activity and client interaction. Shane : Absolutely – like anything, you have to work within your constraints, analyze your audience and see what kinds of interactions they are comfortable with. Rob : Thanks Shane.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Advocates for low-tech instructional methods say that computers in the classroom are distracting and inhibit creative thinking, movement, human interaction, and attention spans, and that “real engagement comes from great teachers with interesting lesson plans.”.

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The argument behind this line of thinking appears to be that the gigantic upheaval we’re going through in the sphere of communications and social interaction is so revolutionary that all previous ways of doing thing are outmoded. The fate of tyrants and late-adopting CEOs.

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