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APRIL 23, 2021

One became a marketeer, one a Customer Success Manager, and the third one is now an Account Executive. That allows us to stay away from micromanagement and, instead, manage you on your output. Last year we grew our revenue by 93%. Growing at this pace opens up opportunities for growth for our employees. Easygenerator is hiring!

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Easygenerator Specialist Agile Market 148

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MARCH 6, 2018

Leading instead of Managing. When we started, I was not only in charge of marketing, sales, and finance but was also the product owner and manager, head of HR, recruitment officer and customer success manager. In 2017, we created a management team (MT). From managing to leading. That has changed now.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The impending death of the Learning Management System. As shown in the figure below, the role of the instructional designers will encompass three primary tasks: co-creating, coaching, and managing. . The Managing role. The changing function of the learning department. The Co-creating role.

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Instructional Design Roles Instructional Instruction 257

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MAY 29, 2013

The best way I can explain it is by looking at a management theory called output management. In 1998/1999 I followed a course in Change Management. Each seminar we had a guest teacher from the field of (change) management. Filip states that the main challenge of management is the conflict between strategy and operation.

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Agile eLearning Developer Culture Instructional Design 221

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APRIL 5, 2018

I checked whether managers responded differently to the survey compared to non-managerial respondents, but the difference was negligible. The respondents indicated three groups of people whose mindsets they would like to change: upper-level management, direct colleagues, and employees. Click here to access the full survey findings.

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MAY 26, 2014

Charles Jennings (see my full session report ) mentioned in his presentation a survey that said: Improving the learning function can result in a performance improvement of 4%, improving the quality of middle management can result in a performance increase of 20%. Making the most out of your middle management. e-Learning'

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Performance Guide ASTD Behavior 165

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Brandon shared the insights he learned as a learning manager at Home Depot and Delta on living, working and learning. Kasper's mind map on Brandon Carlson (click to enlarge).

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Learning Management 100

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

The difference between the two is captured in two words: management versus experience. A learning management system is created as a tool for the L&D department. In other words, it's management versus experience and push versus pull. LXPs are replacing the traditional LMS in part.

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Business Compliance Training Specialist LMS 150

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MARCH 24, 2016

Over the past few weeks I have spoken to dozens of training managers all over the world. The visionary Learning manager really believes that crowd sourcing or user generated content is the way to go. Most Learning managers that are considering crowd sourcing (or that are already doing it) will have a combination of these motivations.

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Knowledge Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Kaplan 100

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MAY 24, 2016

I have to know about e-Learning, finance, management, marketing, sales, product development and more in order to manage all these developments in our company. You have the risk for a vendor lock in with almost all LMS (Learning Management Systems). Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! That makes you already less dependent.

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

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MAY 24, 2016

I have to know about e-Learning, finance, management, marketing, sales, product development and more in order to manage all these developments in our company. You have the risk for a vendor lock in with almost all LMS (Learning Management Systems). Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! That makes you already less dependent.

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Authoring Tools Expert LMS Saba 177

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MAY 19, 2013

Michael told me that he is working on a new book on agile project management, that will also address this. In corporate eLearning terms this will be the manager of the Learning department. When we are talking eLearning projects this will be the Project manager. You need more than a technician to manage this. Innovation.

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Agile eLearning Developer Authoring Tools Business 242

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Whether managers, consultants, or L&D leaders, I want to understand the most significant challenges they face and how they go about solving them. Recently, I decided that I’d like to change my approach. Rather than detailing my personal thoughts and experiences, I’d instead like to provide a wide variety of engaging interviews.

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Develop Write Blog Press Survey 133

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

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. Over the past 16 months I have written all kind of post researching this change.

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Social Media Internet Site Change 186

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This explains the decrease of interest in the (top-down) oriented Learning Management Systems and the increased interest in Learning eXperience systems. Interestingly enough you see all the trends moving away from the “formal” quadrant to informal, skills, support and bottom-up. It is still about learning and knowledge though.

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Change Performance Support Trends Predictions 205

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

You need to work based on the directions and within the requirements of the management and you need to deliver learning opportunities for people who most of the times know more about the matter than you. I noticed that developers often have trouble managing that environment. Managing your environment. Conditions.

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Learning Objects Develop Learning Objectives Write Blog 163

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JUNE 4, 2013

I have done some change management in the past, so I know a change in culture is one of the most difficult changes. This means that larger stories need to be divided into several stories, with the advantage that they remain manageable. There are software programs that help you manage a backlog (we use a program called Gemini).

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Agile eLearning Developer Instructional Design ADDIE 208

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Before looking at outcome learning from the perspective of the manager, the developer and the employee in the next posts, I need to clarify some of the elements I use in this approach. And these goals should have meaning for the manager, the developer and the employee/learner. Click here for the first post.

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Learning Objects Easygenerator Theory DevLearn 160

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APRIL 11, 2018

A shift away from traditional learning management systems. Our research reveals that traditional learning management systems are not effective for facilitating fast-paced, employee-generated, mobile learning strategies. Mobile learning has become indispensable. Growing awareness of the pitfalls of massive open online course (MOOCs).

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Trends Unison Diversity Training Learning Management System 97

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MARCH 2, 2014

My conclusion is that they will impact the learning organization in a huge way, but that the impact on Learning Management Systems will be even bigger. Anywhere, Anytime and any device. Specialized learning material. If you want to read the whole post, just click on the image below. e-Learning'

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LMS Trends Learning Management System Images 175

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I started the day with a Morning Buzz session about management and leadership by Michelle Fanfarillo and Bill Harisson. Intel is huge, 96000 people, 200 plus countries, 15 main sites, 10.000 managers. Intel is huge, 96000 people, 200 plus countries, 15 main sites, 10.000 managers. This is how they manage their managers.

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DevLearn Director eLearning Consultant Conference 165

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

We don’t need more Learning management systems, but more Learning management systems. I do believe that this is one of the reasons behind the success of tools like Moodle; they offer a learning environment, not an environment to manage learning. Make e-Learning work: Outcome learning (3): The managers perspective.

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Learner Social Media Internet Learning Management System 167

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The majority of the presenters is telling the audience that we need to integrate learning into the business, that we need to move from courses to performance support and knowledge management, that we need to go from designed content to user generated courses. An example that radical change is possible. So there still is hope.

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DevLearn Evalution Wiki Kaplan 128

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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

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MAY 7, 2014

The key to this trend is that research shows that change is initiated by senior management, but carried out by middle management. I heard somewhere that improving training can lead to 4% improvement of production, improving your middle management can lead up to 20% increase! Retention - Forgetting curve.

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Conference Trends ASTD Instructional Design 167

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JULY 14, 2016

Your mission: Manage the whole sales cycle and turn corporate leads into customers. You will work closely together with the CEO (Kasper Spiro), the marketing manager (Ron van Valkengoed) and the online marketing manager (Rolf Mulder). Your job: Drive Easygenerator’s revenue growth through outreach emails, phone calls and demos.

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Easygenerator Sales Authoring Tools Corporate eLearning 100

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As we are working closely with our customers, we gained new insights about how to manage and improve the quality of the content in a smarter way. Many thousands of subject matter experts (SMEs) capture and share their knowledge in the form of a course or assessment using Easygenerator. Old school quality control.

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Quality Wikipedia Easygenerator Search 233

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JUNE 18, 2013

More document management than mLearning for me. Basically what they do is push small PowerPoints through Brainshark to a website and aps and they have a digital solution for their paper readers through an app. e-Learning Mlearncon mLearning'

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Brainshark Report PowerPoint Website 140

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MARCH 30, 2011

Ok, instead of easygenerator in the middle, it should have said ‘any content management or authoring system’, but it’s my dream so I can do what I want. Content management and authoring tools are completely open, allowing authors to pull in information from anywhere and to publish to all kinds of systems.

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Open Easygenerator Social Networks Content 140

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The senior management should support the process. But what you really want is that the senior management participates in the process and actively share their knowledge. For example number of items shared or the number of times that colleagues read your contribution. Lead by example.

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Knowledge Easygenerator Culture Project 100

Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2011

And managers (being one myself for more than a decade) tend to get nervous by these kind of activities. Recently I wrote a blog about ‘output learning ‘, based on a management theory called ‘output management’ In a nutshell it works like this.

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Informal Learning Informal Yammer Learning 214

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

APRIL 8, 2016

Learning Management Systems are focused on the learning (learners) part, but many of them do have an built in authoring tool. You can share your courses via a Learning Management System, via a website or intranet or even via an app. Learning management systems tend to be complex, and they usually charge a fee per learner.

Authoring Tools 120

Authoring Tools Authoring Tools LMS 120

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

One is SaaS or cloud based solutions, the other is the future of the Learning Management Systems. The core function of LMS was track and trace and course management. It grows to become a broad talent management system or even a corporate portal where learning is just a part of. TinCan and IACC.

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DevLearn Conference Easygenerator Learning Objects 203

Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

I did apply this approach through my working live: with teaching, with writing books (on bookkeeping – how boring can you get?-), when I create eLearning and even when I manage a company. In easygenerator we created a dashboard to create and manage your learning objectives. Only then you could start creating your lessons.

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Learning Objects Innovation Easygenerator eLearning 248

Challenge to Learn

APRIL 9, 2012

Structured, regulated and managed vs flexible, individualistic and enabled. We started out by brainstorming about general trends, from the outcome we choose two. Then we determined two extremes per trend, with this result: How work is done? Relationship driven vs data driven. How work is organized?

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Organization Trends Exercise Learning 216

Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 26, 2011

For me he is an inspiration as a manager, presenter and innovator. For me as a CEO and a manager he is a great example and an inspiration. Then Apple bought Next and Jobs returned to Apple, saving it from bankruptcy and reforming it into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Steve Jobs is a brilliant presenter.

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