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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS JANUARY 31, 2013 SharePoint Observations IT has provided the teamsite space and told people to start using it to store shared documents. I've started to work with Microsoft SharePoint for a lot of projects lately. I'm still fairly new to it. I've only started to seriously work with it over the last year. thought I'd take a moment to share some observations. People Don't Use SharePoint. People don't use SharePoint because it is not easy to access and documents are hard to find. Now, I know this is not true of all teams within organizations that use SharePoint. I'm sure it is a good solution for a lot of folks. Its not intuitive. | LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS MARCH 15, 2011 ADDIE, Beware of the Video! It’s been a little over a month since my organization has been providing web based training through our new LMS. How can be provide feedback, identify weaknesses, and provide remediation? Getting other departments in my organization to get on board with e-learning is a goal of mine. Being the training developer, I have naturally become one of the leading advocates for getting the organization's training content online and available to employees. First batch of interest - videos. They have an intense interest in getting video based instruction to end users. | | | | | |
| LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS MARCH 17, 2011 Saba Player Templates and Best Practices It seems uncommon for LMS vendors to provide this functionality. The question is “what is the best way to create a video based training course in Saba?” When first answering a question like this, I like to look around for best practices. have a lot of video based content. The videos are 3 to 5 minutes long and I have 40 to 50 videos in a course. In this case, I was unable to find a best practice when it comes to packaging as SCORM to deliver in an LMS. Key Issues to be Addressed The two issues I’m wrangling with are usability versus cost to deliver. Each SCO has two pages. don’t know. | LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS DECEMBER 5, 2008 Bang! And the blog is off and running! I'm starting this blog for the following reasons: To learn by teaching To get feedback on topics of interest To discover ways in which blogs can be used for eLearning (especially in the work place) To get experience with writing To provide an additional avenue for networking with others in the eLearning field I had previously developed a personal blog which was mainly about my kids and accomplishments in life. My intended audience was family and friends. I maintained that pretty well until Facebook emerged and became a much better tool for managing relationships and friends. | LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS DECEMBER 15, 2008 The Perfect Task List The organization I work for provides a work productivity tool that contains e-mail, calendar, database, and task list functionality. Note that I've been using many of David Allen's principles but his principle of combining work and personal lists is not something I'm ready to do) I like the tagging scheme RTM provides and it has a lot of good features like due dates, repeats, and notes. I hope you didn't read the title of this post and hoped that I had found the end all perfect task management tool. I've had no luck in that department yet. There is no good tagging scheme. | LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS MARCH 11, 2009 eLearn Authoring Round-Up However, Lectora provides a bit more flexibility for customizing that Captivate. SoftChalk , www.softchalk.com Easy to use Works like Microsoft Word Provides an good organizational structure for courses Content is easy to add and includes multimedia, flash, and questions QuizPopper, TextPopper, and Activities are easy to add Exports to HTML and is SCORM compliant Articulate , www.articulate.com. As my organization selects an LMS and gears up for web based training, I've been looking at a variety of authoring tools for online training. Such a tool does not exist yet. | | | | | | | |
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LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009 Authoring Tool Quandary
like Lectora because it seems designed for advanced eLearning by providing a structure for tracking variables and actions on objects. I've spent some time over the last couple of months researching authoring tools that fit eLearning development needs. whittled the list down to a few core tools. like Articulate because of its ease of use and integration with PowerPoint. think more people will be able to participate in the authoring process by using a tool like Articulate. Nice job Articulate. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. Still, a very pragmatic choice. Great product. MORE >> -
LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009 Joining the Revolution in November
My contract with my current mobile phone provider ends in November and now I'm having trouble waiting to upgrade to the iPhone. When I renewed my contract with my current provider I was hoping they would come out with a competitive product but it never materialized. And my current provider seems to be more concerned with restricting services and monetizing them than in actually providing me a great product and service.meh. I've finally decided to commit my dollars to the mobile revolution. Oh, a new Blackberry device.meh. So, back to the iPhone. I'm digressing again. MORE >> -
LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2009 Authoring Tool Quandary
like Lectora because it seems designed for advanced eLearning by providing a structure for tracking variables and actions on objects. I've spent some time over the last couple of months researching authoring tools that fit eLearning development needs. whittled the list down to a few core tools. like Articulate because of its ease of use and integration with PowerPoint. think more people will be able to participate in the authoring process by using a tool like Articulate. Nice job Articulate. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. Still, a very pragmatic choice. Great product. MORE >> -
LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2009 Joining the Revolution in November
My contract with my current mobile phone provider ends in November and now I'm having trouble waiting to upgrade to the iPhone. When I renewed my contract with my current provider I was hoping they would come out with a competitive product but it never materialized. And my current provider seems to be more concerned with restricting services and monetizing them than in actually providing me a great product and service.meh. I've finally decided to commit my dollars to the mobile revolution. Oh, a new Blackberry device.meh. So, back to the iPhone. I'm digressing agai MORE >> -
LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009 eLearn Authoring Round-Up
However, Lectora provides a bit more flexibility for customizing that Captivate. As my organization selects an LMS and gears up for web based training, I've been looking at a variety of authoring tools for online training. I was naive enough to think that tool existed that would have everything I want. I imagined something similar to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint that was designed for eLearning. Such a tool does not exist yet. I'm sure this is due to the complexity of web based learning content, the variety of requirements out there, and the market size of eLearning. MORE >>
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