Challenge to Learn

MARCH 25, 2015

The theory of ecosystems tells you you have to facilitate the learner providing them with all the resources and tools they need to to their job. Cool session. Practice vs theory. Catherine has a very practical view. She thinks that you will just overwhelm the learner with information.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 15, 2014

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). A lot of things are going on: mobile, TinCan, workplace learning, informal learning, agile development and more. If I categorize the sessions I have selected I come to this list: Topic.

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Easygenerator Kaplan Agile Conference 175

Challenge to Learn

MAY 2, 2010

On may first 1985 I began my first official job, this means I now work 25 years. I was still studying when I was asked for my first job: training unemployed to become a bookkeeper. The people I was training were guaranteed a job after six months of training. This made them motivated to the bone.

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Lesson Blended Learning Consulting Survey 100

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 7, 2014

Specifically, let’s explore how we learn, and how we transfer what we learn to on-the-job performance. On the job competence. As we know, getting rid of problems is a manager’s job and they love solutions. I want to explore this a bit further and will try to put some context around it. Innovation and continuous improvements.

Yammer 192

Yammer Guide eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy 192

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So, to be clear: we’re talking here about savings: doing the same or a better job for less. And then along comes e-learning, and it almost sells itself because it’s so much less expensive. Cost saving is the ancient Return on investment. And at some point there was a bit of terminological confusion, and talk of savings became talk of ROI.

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Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 21, 2012

At Valve there is no hierarchy, no formal job description, no bosses, nothing of the structures you would expect in a company that has some 300 employees. The handbook is an internal guide for new employees in order to ‘not freak out’ when starting to work in an organization without any formal structures.

Organization 171

Organization Business Movie Portal 171

Challenge to Learn

MAY 5, 2011

When I was preparing for the workshop I saw a video of Steve Jobs, that’s a story! So if you are able to transform your mission into a corporate story it is easier to remember, people can tell it to each other and thus it will have more impact. I learned that a good story has a certain fixed structure. Introduce the characters.

Simulations 198

Simulations Movie Guidelines Search 198

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In the past, it was the organization that would decide what you had to learn to either keep your job or move up amongst the ranks. It is a culture changer. The fundamentals of learning within an organization are changing. Nowadays, employees are becoming more and more in charge of their self-development.

Knowledge 100

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Challenge to Learn

JULY 14, 2016

Your job: Drive Easygenerator’s revenue growth through outreach emails, phone calls and demos. Do you have at least two years of experience in (online) sales, are you ambitious and do you want to play a key role in accelerating the growth of Easygenerator? Your mission: Manage the whole sales cycle and turn corporate leads into customers.

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Easygenerator Sales Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning 100

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 21, 2012

It is clear that smartphones and tablets can be used to present information in context and the most valuable applications will be for job aid/task aid/location aid. So they are really looking for a strategy and an overall structure. There is a clear difference between mLearning on tablets (can also be courses) and smart phones.

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Conference Mobile Mobile Learning Open Source 196

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 14, 2013

Some of the top quotes for me: Training can’t do the job alone. 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’). Things that block: Politics, ICT.

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Conference Easygenerator Solution Server 140

Challenge to Learn

JULY 1, 2014

The goal is to support the learner (employee) during his moment of learning need on-the-job which lessens the focus on courses than previously. This leads to other learning experiences than only courses.

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Simulations Providers Guide Exercise 177

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 24, 2011

In her presentation she showed two: Steve Jobs presentation on the Iphone launch and Martin Luther Kings ‘I have a dream’ speech. We got a copy of the book and I can really recommend it to you, very interesting stuff. The part that I found most interesting was that she found a certain pattern in excellent presentations.

Conference 154

Conference Solution iPhone Social Media 154

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 16, 2013

She trained for 6 months with her team next to her job and her family live. Yvonne participated in the Eco challenge, a team expeditions race over 300 miles that ou have to complete in 12 days, through the Borneo jungle. It is a race that in principle is impossible to finish. A team consist out of four persons with at least one woman.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 168

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Easygenerator Conference AICC 168

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

I he back of my head I was always thinking: If the programmer does a better job, we wouldn’t need all this. Another thing is my passion for learning. One of my former companies made on-line help systems and authoring software for them.

Innovation 205

Innovation Easygenerator Sound Apple 205

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 23, 2016

Companies went bankrupt, people lost their jobs. As a result the Ukrainian currency the Hrivna has lost 70% of its value. 5 years ago I would get 8 Hrivna for an Euro, now 28. All imported goods became very expensive, and all this put a big strain on every day life in Ukraine. The economy of Ukraine shrunk in 2015 with 20%.

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Easygenerator Association Comparison System 179

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 14, 2011

When you have a question or problem, you find a colleague who knows the answer, you apply what you have learned and you go on with your job. One of the most effective ways of workplace learning is support offered by colleagues. Nothing new here, we all do this all the time.

Social Networks 150

Social Networks Yammer Social Network Twitter 150

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 30, 2014

If they are not interested, replace the c-level or start looking for a new job. If you present outcomes like this to your management, they will (or should) be interested. This will offer you a good chance to make a change and integrate more into the business. When you are working for external clients, you can do the same.

Guide 198

Guide Solution Easygenerator Performance Support 198

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It doesn’t matter how they learn as long as it is effective and they can do their job. The solution lies again in an approach where you don’t steer on input (courses) but on output (learning outcome). We need to switch more to a demand driven learning environment.

Learner 167

Learner Social Media Internet Learning Management System 167

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

You can do this on the job, having them assessed by their manager, or you can have a formal assessment. You need to know what your employees need to be able to do and to know to make them competent. Determining the gap. You have to assess your employees.

Learning Objects 169

Learning Objects Authoring Tools Management Learning Objectives 169

Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 28, 2011

I stopped doing that because I felt that if the programmers would do a better job a lot of my work would be superfluous. Work must be meaningful. In the past I created a lot of online help systems, often for terrible software. Now I create software and I hope that we can make a difference. Scratch your own itch.

Authoring Tools 186

Authoring Tools Easygenerator Write Blog Culture 186

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

He is the driving force behind DevLearn, but he has accepted another job. Ans it is important it determines the effectiveness of your Learning experiences. Brent Schenkler. Brent opened the first session. So this conference is his last one. It will be interesting to how this affects future conference. Keynote: John Landau.

DevLearn 203

DevLearn Conference Easygenerator Learning Objects 203

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The people that work for you are far better in finding the solutions; it is their job. The basis of his theory is that as a manager you have to be firm on goals and criteria but you don’t interfere with solutions. There is a great lesson there for all managers (see my blog on his theory), but this goes for e-Learning professionals to.

Learning Objects 160

Learning Objects Easygenerator Theory DevLearn 160

Challenge to Learn

MAY 29, 2013

And it is still there to this day, it does it’s job and it satisfies the users. We decided to leave it like that and bring out the new version with this functionality. So sometimes it will be so agile that you stop earlier than planned. This is just an example what an agile state of mind is.

Agile 221

Agile eLearning Developer Culture Instructional Design 221

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I never had a job where I met so many great and interesting people. Generating an Easy startup › November 3, 2010 I’m leaving Stoas learning because I found a new challenge at Easy generator After four years I have decided to leave Stoas, I found a challenge I could not resist at EasyGenerator. I had a great time at Stoas.

Easygenerator 100

Easygenerator Write Blog Authoring Social Networks 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 20, 2014

I really do support this initiative and I do thing that we should do a better job. Serious I attended the serious elearning manifesto session. As expected it was a recap of the launch from last week. At the ame time you hear more and more critical sounds: that the initiative brings nothing new to the table.

Agile 134

Agile Innovation Performance Support Performance 134

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Especially the eLearning guild does a great Job. I use Dropbox also to exchange large files (like demo courses) with other people. Conferences. Lately more and more conferences have an app and I love that. Schedules, your own Agenda, info, twitter, locations. You name it and it is in there.

Social Media 182

Social Media Communication Social Networks Media 182

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 23, 2016

Companies went bankrupt, people lost their jobs. As a result the Ukrainian currency the Hrivna has lost 70% of its value. 5 years ago I would get 8 Hrivna for an Euro, now 28. All imported goods became very expensive, and all this put a big strain on every day life in Ukraine. The economy of Ukraine shrunk in 2015 with 20%.

Easygenerator 0

Easygenerator Association Comparison System 0

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 20, 2012

It is not about courses, but it is about specific types of learning and support: user support, job/task aid, communication and collaboration. Mobile learning is here to stay and is developing rapidly, at least the technology and platforms are. MLearning is not a replacement of e-learning.

Mobile Learning 186

Mobile Learning Trends Mobile Conference 186

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

I did change from job; I found a new challenge at easygenerator. The first thing I noticed was that the word challenge includes the word change. That’s a nice coincidence to start with. But not yet very meaningful. Therefore my perspective has changed, from reseller/partner to producer. Another reason to change the title?

Easygenerator 134

Easygenerator Learning Change Blogging 134

Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 23, 2011

I’m happy to say that my son is doing alright now, but this episode made me aware of the fact that it’s great to have an exciting and challenging job, but it is not the most important thing. For me my family comes first, no matter what.

Easygenerator 134

Easygenerator Global Culture Ideas 134

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 23, 2014

Learning is about behavior change, performance support is about offering the right info at the right time so people can do their job. Performance support requires a different mindset than learning.

Performance Support 154

Performance Support Support Performance Free 154

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Virtual worlds, Informal learning, learning on the job, lifelong learning, collaborative learning, adaptive learning, blended learning, game based learning, skill based learning, communities of practice, et cetera. The feeling is that we are now on the verge of a new phase in the development of e-Learning.

Blended Learning 139

Blended Learning CD-ROM Easygenerator Authoring Tools 139

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The coolest thing is that I’m only preparing for my new job just now, I will start working for EasyGenerator on December 1 (At the online Educa in Berlin). What kind on new job you are starting? In the next few weeks, we will work out our Vision, Mission, and roadmap in more detail. I’m looking forward to it more and more.

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Easygenerator Change Write Blog Director 114

Challenge to Learn

JULY 1, 2013

When starting a new project using a waterfall methodology you need to write your detailed specifications; a costly, laborious and boring job. Reduces the amount of up front documentation (i.e. throw out the massive specification documents that nobody read anyway). Yet in reality things do not really work to the plan!

Agile 202

Agile eLearning Developer Develop eLearning 202

Challenge to Learn

JANUARY 26, 2014

Despite the lack of freedom during Soviet rule, a lot of things (like having a job and income) were better in the these days for them. But for the ruling people it would be hard to continue their self-enriching schemes when European laws would be implemented, so they prefer Russia over the EU.

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Easygenerator Write Blog Problem License 211