E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

A cartoon is not a “product tour” This one’s more for your marketing department, but it’s good for you to know. An upbeat animation about your product is a glorified advertisement. Please be aware that my colleagues forward all your emails to me. I don’t trust advertisements.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Provide free Wi-Fi. I’m constantly amazed by the number of presenters who try to pass off a product flog as a pedagogical exposition. So change its title to reflect what it really is: a product demonstration. Explicitly invite the audience to tweet. Put it on the first slide instead, and in the official program too.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the funniest tweets I have ever seen was brought to my attention by Vala Afshar … How it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time. Steve Jobs famously obsessed over making his products insanely simple. #UX pic.twitter.com/IwcqECciFN. Another lesson learned.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

I highly recommend using one of the Word templates that CreateSpace provides for the interior (but check the sizes of the pages are actually what they should be). Similarly, always order a proof to check the actual product in real life. Again, Amazon sells your book and provides you with a slice of the pie.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

For example, suppose you are charged with training the sales team on a new product. To help your audience remember, why not provide them with reference content in a central location, such as on the corporate intranet or in a wiki. The buddy can act as a role model and provide feedback to the trainee.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 10, 2014

Regardless of the specific technology or pedagogy discussed by the panellists, the overarching advice provided by each one was to give it a go and see what happens. For these people, e-learning represents making changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2012

So please find below Part 4 of my series which provides tips on how to ramp up your sales… There are literally hundreds of ways to promote a product. If you’re relying on their extraordinary Google and Amazon search skills to be “discovered”, you’re dreaming. • Create a Facebook page.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

The initiative allows training providers to issue digital “badges” to the participants in their courses, who thereby earn online representations of their newly acquired skills. The fact remains: people love recognition for what they do. And that, of course, includes our financial services industry.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Ensure they start their journey the way you’d like them to continue it: productively. Effective performance management complements development planning to provide the employee with guidance on improving said performance. Performance. Performance Management. The second way concerns the composition of the capability framework.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

I highly recommend using one of the Word templates that CreateSpace provides for the interior (but check the sizes of the pages are actually what they should be). Similarly, always order a proof to check the actual product in real life. Again, Amazon sells your book and provides you with a slice of the pie.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 26, 2017

The employee lifecycle would provide the structure for a platform containing information and resources that our managers could draw upon on demand. It is the productivity of the employee. Despite my years in HR up until that point, it wasn’t something that had ever occurred to me to do.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

We already have preferred providers – We’ve been doing what we do for a long time without you. You just want to make sure I keep pushing your product so that we don’t can it. Other companies might splash their cash around like it’s lolly water. We don’t. So you need to clarify your point of difference.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 16, 2013

Still, the concept holds without third-party endorsement; that is to say, much of the training provided by Bank A would probably still be meaningful to Bank B – because Bank A and Bank B do very similar things. This is my blog, so of course all of the above assertions are the product of my own opinion. Open badges are task oriented.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

Workplace learning and development will need to be guided by evidence-based research practices that consider factors including online distraction, laptop fatigue, work productivity along with employee mental health, emotional well-being and stress levels in a post-pandemic, technology-driven world.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 6, 2009

Big Dog & Little Dog provide an excellent Instructional System Design Manual that covers analysis quite comprehensively. For example, a Team Leader might call you to say that her team is struggling to meet its productivity targets; or a Project Manager might inform you of the imminent rollout of a new processing system.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In a practical sense, that means we need to provide our learners with tools and resources that they can use to drive their own development. There are plenty of other examples, such as a certain level of product knowledge, that may be critical to the role. I believe in the power of informal learning. Core component #2: Reports.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

He or she is in a prime position to provide you with a programmed sequence of knowledge. During the daily grind it’s easy to slip into production mode and put your brain into hibernation. In my opinion, there is no other way of getting up to speed so quickly. Constructivism, connectivism and informal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

It’s how a lot of people view Apple products for example, and it’s extremist. In the socio-historical context of our time, the demand that providers have for altruism? Certain consequences are seen as “inevitable” or at least “highly probable” when a technology is unleashed on the masses.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Basically, Amazon sells your e-book and provides you with a slice of the pie. I still prefer KDP for Amazon because they accept HTML as the content file, which gives me more control over the structure of the final product. . • My commission percentage is healthy, and. Oh, and it’s effectively free.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 29, 2013

Having said that, I believe there is much more scope for MOOC providers to cover corporate-relevant topics. Target the students, who self-evidently have an interest in the domain, with direct marketing for related products and services. Uncover trends in the online discussions, and hence forecast consumer behaviour.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 16, 2012

Sally Foley-Lewis – Sally focuses on manager training at her Fast Track Manager Productivity blog. Her e-bites blog provides an honest account of her experiences. How is this relevant? Managers are often my target audience.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2009

Connecting Many Voices to Make a Difference: Anne Walsh and Brendan Revell from Fraynework Multimedia provided an overview of the e-learning support they are providing to The Sisters of Mercy. Stephen has kindly made the slides and audio from his session available on Stephen’s Web.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The release of a new product. • But you have to be very careful to provide value. These companies invite their customers (or prospective customers) to ask questions, submit complaints, provide compliments (Heaven forbid!), Suddenly Twitter comes into its own as an alternative communications medium.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

Google deepens the mystique by seemingly neglecting to promote the product – instead relying on organic growth of the subculture. Reminiscent of Studio 54, only the members of the “in” crowd have the privilege of enjoying that which is denied to others.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Information comes and goes, but the source of the information will always provide you with the latest and greatest. Provide case studies illustrating how new information has affected existing situations in the real world. That’s why connectivism focuses on the sources of information, rather than on the information itself.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

We already have preferred providers – We’ve been doing what we do for a long time without you. You just want to make sure I keep pushing your product so that we don’t can it. Other companies might splash their cash around like it’s lolly water. We don’t. So you need to clarify your point of difference.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Basically, Amazon sells your e-book and provides you with a slice of the pie. I still prefer KDP for Amazon because they accept HTML as the content file, which gives me more control over the structure of the final product. . • My commission percentage is healthy, and. Oh, and it’s effectively free.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I see the future of universities as service providers, plain and simple. For example, if you want to film a training scenario, you could pay a production house many thousands of dollars to produce a slick, Academy Award worthy video clip. Besides, I think in-house production adds authenticity to the scene.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 22, 2014

Besides, moving away too radically from formal training would probably be a culture shock for the company, and thus counter-productive. So it’s important that the practical knowledge be provided in the form of job aids – such as a template or a checklist – that the operator can use on-the-job, just-in-time.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

Wells Fargo was the first bank to enter Second Life, which they did to provide financial education to young students. Consider the following possibilities for customers : A virtual island where visitors can come to learn about your products and services. Financial services in the virtual world.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

It’s how a lot of people view Apple products for example, and it’s extremist. In the socio-historical context of our time, the demand that providers have for altruism? Certain consequences are seen as “inevitable” or at least “highly probable” when a technology is unleashed on the masses.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Even in Chrome I received the following error: Please provide valid Photo Sphere JPEG image. Yet I am astonished by the lack of interoperability between Google’s own platforms, our reliance on third party products to perform seemingly simple tasks, and the tech giant’s customer un centricity. Umm…?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 6, 2009

A wonderful example of the latter was provided by Spike in his session Look who’s talking! The members aren’t obliged to promote the Fiskars brand or its products. This approach differs from traditional product flog marketing because it focuses on creating “fans&# , not customers. technology.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 15, 2010

For many of us, our sense of spirituality provides the context for everything that we do. This might happen, for example, when the company decides to upsell products rather than service the unique needs of its customers. Religion provides the moral and existential framework within which they live their lives. Yet we are human.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 3, 2009

Ken’s central theme is that being able to think faster and better can help us unlock ideas and improve our productivity. Learning without boundaries: Ben Saunders , Business Analyst Consultant at HCS , provided us with a comprehensive overview of m‑learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 1, 2009

Probably the best known example is Google Apps , which provides email, calendars, documents, spreadsheets and presentation software, among a range of other tools and services, all on the web. And surely you’ve used Twitter , Facebook , Flickr , Delicious or YouTube …? We could finally embrace thin clients.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 20, 2009

In contrast, a concise infographic provides only the important information. Those guys need the detail, and text is usually the most efficient way of providing it. An infographic can provide experts-to-be with an initial conceptual framework, which can subsequently be “filled in&# with further detail.

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