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Prezi: a big step from Powerpoint

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The worst presentations you can attend are those where the presenter reads out his PowerPoint to you without adding anything to it. The root of the problem is of course the lack of presenting skills from the presenter, but PowerPoint doesn’t really help. It works completely different from PowerPoint. And now I found Prezi.

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How subject matter experts can create more effective learning

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Subject matter experts often start with what we call a “PowerPoint mindset”; they are focussed on transferring the information as if they are creating a PowerPoint presentation. Moving away from a PowerPoint mindset. The main problem with the “PowerPoint mindset” is the focus on content.

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What are the 5 most powerful didactical principles?

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They will go in with a Powerpoint mindset and create very content heavy courses without a proper didactical framework. We know that our tool must be so intuitive that anyone can login and without any training can start creating courses, assessments, e-books and curated documents. But that is not sufficient. Didactical principles.

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#MLearncon: session report: Deloitte case

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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. Started out with a ten minute commercial for Brainshark (the platform being used by Deloitte). It really was too much. But also the case presentation was disappointing.

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Learning objectives and how to create them

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

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How to select an e-Learning authoring tool

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Like you use Word to create a document, PowerPoint to create a presentation, you can use an e-Learning authoring tool to create online courses and quizzes (e-Learning). These are also locally installed tools but they are add-ons to PowerPoint. Basically they allow you to add interactions and questions to a PowerPoint presentation.

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Seven musts for creating effective elearning

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Many new eLearning authors create eLearning with a presentation (PowerPoint) mindset. The problem is that you will get content heavy “PowerPoint like” courses that are not engaging or effective. But creating a course is very different from creating a presentation. This is the wrong way.