Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Self-directed learning: The learner takes responsibility One very promising development is that the learners are now increasingly taking responsibility for their own l earning. But 95% of the learning is not about compliance or security and is the responsibility of the learner.

Business 150

Business Compliance Training Specialist LMS 150

Challenge to Learn

JULY 1, 2014

This is Principle 5 of the manifesto: “We will provide learners sufficient levels of realistic practice; for example, simulations, scenario-based decision making, case-based evaluations, and authentic exercises.” We should place the learner and the work context central to the learning, instead of giving the content the lead role.

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Simulations Providers Guide Exercise 177

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 26, 2016

The learner is taking control and it is not just about making a learning experience more personal. adjusting the content to the preferences and needs of the learner. You can track and trace learners results through Easygenerator. The result is a huge database with results of many learners. Personalization. Automation.

Trends 183

Trends Easygenerator xapi Authoring Tools 183

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Cathy doesn’t link this to learning objectives, but if you do, they should state what the learner needs to be able to do. The second step in the development process is the assessment: how do you prove that the learner is able to do the task? The learner is able to see the objectives and his progress on the objectives during the course.

Learning Objects 248

Learning Objects Innovation Easygenerator eLearning 248

Challenge to Learn

DECEMBER 17, 2014

When you are a beginner in e-Learning you have to cover a lot of things before your learners can actually start learning. Share the course with learners. • See the results from the learners. Share the course with your learners. See the results with your learners. Starting with e-Learning checklist. •

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Easygenerator Authoring Tools Embed Skype 146

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

The great thing about it is that it approaches learning for the learners perspective, based on real world problems. Problems and situations the learner can relate to. But if you as a developer fail to create that connection to the workplace, the learner must do it by himself. It is not new, but it is very powerful.

Easygenerator 218

Easygenerator Learning Objects Learning Authoring 218

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. She thinks that you will just overwhelm the learner with information. She also has a list of 7 pillars that you need for a succesful participation of the learners. Cool session.

Theory 100

Theory Methods Learning Environment 100

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 13, 2014

The third principle also talks about connecting learning to learners’ performance goals. You have to come up with learning activities (or interventions) that will help the learner to reach his objectives. Come up with questions or an assessment that will measure the learners progress. Report on the learning objectives.

Learning Objects 196

Learning Objects Performance Support Performance Guide 196

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In the corporate world this is not always the case, we have to motivate the workers to become learners, they often need a reason for wanting to learn something. Learning objectives must make sense to the learner: “I need to be able to do …. It’s better to motivate your learners than to control them! Tactical level.

Learning Objects 230

Learning Objects Management Easygenerator Learning Objectives 230

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

What will your learners be able to do (or know) after they have taken your course. Most people that want to create eLearning will start with writing content and add some questions at the end as an assessment for the learner. The question of course is, how to present this series of learning activities to the learner.

Effectiveness 120

Effectiveness Create eLearning Easygenerator 120

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Here’s a tool that encourages proper eLearning design and development by tying together the important elements of learning: set up your objectives, deliver your learning in small nuggets, and test learners. The interface is inviting and simple and best of all, easygenerator is free! You have to create learning objectives. That is it.

Easygenerator 221

Easygenerator DevLearn Web Authoring 221

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 11, 2014

Learners can now ‘pull’ the information they need, when they need it, shifting control from training departments to the learner.”. I really like the summary Bill Brandon (Editor learning solutions magazine) put above the article: “Learning has become mobile and on demand. Click the link or the image to read the whole article.

Personal Learning 147

Personal Learning Personal Personalization Summary 147

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 26, 2016

The learner is taking control and it is not just about making a learning experience more personal. adjusting the content to the preferences and needs of the learner. You can track and trace learners results through Easygenerator. The result is a huge database with results of many learners. Personalization. Automation.

Trends 100

Trends Easygenerator xapi Authoring Tools 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 14, 2014

to deliver content to the learner, to track and trace learner results and. The second function is displaying and delivering content to the learner. We are proud to offer a modern alternative to the LMS: a flexible best of breed, fully web-based (SaaS) solution created by a unique collaboration of three organizations: Aim 4 You.

LMS 164

LMS Web Easygenerator Alternatives 164

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

We all know that e-learning is changing, we all know that our learners have changed. It turned out that it is much easier for a learner to adapt to these changes than for a e-Learning manager or developer. The rise of the internet, social media and mobile devices have changed our world.

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Social Media Internet Site Change 186

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The purpose of a map is to give insight to the learner in the content and the possible learning paths. Here they are: The new metaphor should give the learner an overview of all learning objectives and their inter relations in one simple overview. This I don’t like. The metaphor should show the followed learning path.

Learning Objects 212

Learning Objects Score Learning Learning Objectives 212

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Add only content that the learner needs in order to answer these questions. At Easygenerator we are building in didactical support for our authors. We added a very simple didactical model: Create a learning objective. Come up with the assessment of that objective (questions).

Easygenerator 201

Easygenerator Learning Objects Learning Objectives Authoring 201

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 11, 2018

Ideally, this content should be shared with learners in the form of microlearning via mobile devices. Finally, we conclude that MOOCs suffer from lack of learner engagement. Our research reveals that traditional learning management systems are not effective for facilitating fast-paced, employee-generated, mobile learning strategies.

Trends 97

Trends Unison Diversity Training Learning Management System 97

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

It can help the learner: - to set his own learning path. we need to tune learning more to the learners needs. - we need to tune learning more to the learners needs. - Therefore I will describe it from the perspective of the manager, the e-Learning developer and the learner. align e-Learning more with business needs.

Easygenerator 204

Easygenerator Learning Objects DevLearn Learning 204

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 8, 2016

Learning Management Systems are focused on the learning (learners) part, but many of them do have an built in authoring tool. Learning management systems tend to be complex, and they usually charge a fee per learner. I explained result tracking in more detail in this earlier post : Track and trace Learners results. Within a LMS.

Authoring Tools 120

Authoring Tools Authoring Tools LMS 120

Challenge to Learn

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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LMS Trends Learning Management System Images 175

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

You need to translate these objectives to content and assessments that connect the business need for knowledge and skills with the individual learning need of a learner. Don’t think for the learner, facilitate his thinking. They will also help you to communicate with the learners, managing their expectations too.

Learning Objects 163

Learning Objects Develop Learning Objectives Write Blog 163

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

We build the ideal path for a learner (called a funnel). Our idea is to give information to the author based on the behavior of the learners, indicating the flaws in the course all based on XAPI data. We came up with the idea to build in the facility for the learners to make notes and share them with other students and the author.

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools Lesson Easygenerator eLearning 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 19, 2013

Learners – Growing up, we learned not everyone acquires and retains information in the same way. They will be handling your content and your learners, so keep them in mind; they will thank you later. Creation of content that is not effective and engaging for your learners can limit the effectiveness of your LMS implementation.

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Authoring Tools LMS Budget Apple 208

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 16, 2011

But now we added features that had an impact on the learner and for the first time we had to develop features for them. Make it possible to create courses that really adapt to the learner and put the learner in control of his individual learning. Make e-Learning work: Outcome learning (5): The learners perspective.

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vendor Learning Objects Easygenerator Authoring Tools 163

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

They should be learning systems but in fact they are management systems, they don’t facilitate the learner and they create vendor lock-in. Our world has changed because the learner has taken control, a learning management system can only survive if the change into a Learning Facilitating System.

Search 169

Search Compliance Training LMS SCORM 169

Challenge to Learn

JANUARY 22, 2012

I made it my and easygenerators goal for this year to find and implement a new metaphor in such a way that it is as easy to use as the book metaphor, while offering the learner much more flexibility in finding her way through the course. At the moment I’m looking at a lot of different examples in order to learn from them.

Scanning 252

Scanning Easygenerator Music iPad 252

Challenge to Learn

MAY 4, 2014

Her main massage was: Involve the learners in the design, not only in the evaluation. She didn’t disappoint me. She is one of the people that has to leave out a lot of stuff, because they only have 75 minutes and she is a good and funny presenter. She has a ton of tips (see mind map). Check it out, there is a lot to learn!

Report 168

Report Design Website Evalution 168

Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a WYSIWYG environment you work as an author in an application that will show you the content in exactly the same way as the learner will see it. It mean loss of control for the author, but responsiveness and flexibility for the learner. This morning I hosted a morning buzz session on WYSIWYG versus WYSIWYM.

DevLearn 114

DevLearn Easygenerator Instructional Design Authoring 114

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This is not only meaningless from the perspective of the learner, it is time-consuming and it will not give any useful feedback to the e-Learning developer or the manager. And these goals should have meaning for the manager, the developer and the employee/learner.

Learning Objects 160

Learning Objects Easygenerator DevLearn Theory 160

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 15, 2016

They should be learning systems but in fact they are management systems, they don’t facilitate the learner and they create vendor lock-in. Our world has changed because the learner has taken control, a learning management system can only survive if the change into a Learning Facilitating System.

Search 120

Search Compliance Training LMS SCORM 120

Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In other words, your learners need an intuitive platform for developing and deploying content. I believe that there are a few indispensable elements a tool must have to enable Employee Generated Learning. First and foremost, it is of importance that the authoring tool has no learning curve.

Instructional Design 257

Instructional Design Roles Instructional Instruction 257

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 28, 2014

When you want to create a really bad learning experience, this is the way to do it: Don’t think about your learners. Dump a body of information in a course as if it was a PowerPoint. Add a few images (has to look good). Add a few questions (for scoring). Upload it into your LMS.

Learning Objects 184

Learning Objects Learning Objectives Easygenerator Authoring Tools 184

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 2, 2016

They will see it in exactly the same way a learner will, but as an extra they can add comments to each element (text, titles, images, answer options and more). These comments will be available for the author inside the authoring environment, so he can process them.

Easygenerator 100

Easygenerator Course Authoring Images 100

Challenge to Learn

MAY 7, 2014

The message is that we (L&D people) can do for our learners what Google and Facebook are already doing for us. Collecting and analyzing your data in order to get to know your learner so well, that you can offer him information and learning experiences when you they them, but even before they realized that they needed them.

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Conference Trends ASTD Instructional Design 167

Challenge to Learn

JUNE 22, 2011

I believe we have to make e-Learning smarter, we need to move away from the ‘page turners’ and move more and more to learning that adapts to the learners needs. One of the things I picked up was a better understanding of ‘Neural networks’ and how you can teach them to recognize patterns. The basis is simple.

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Network Innovation Easygenerator Pattern 154

Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Construct the assessment to check if the objectives are reached by your learner. Only create content that the learner needs to answer these questions, no more. They will also give a practical perspective on these topics, making the content more attractive to the learner and resulting in better compliance in your company.

Easygenerator 100

Easygenerator Compliance Training Authoring Tools Security 100