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Custom eLearning Development Costs – Results From Chapman Alliance Study

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That sounds fairly high and it seems like many of the organizations participating in this study are not outsourcing their custom elearning development work. They had asked about the time it takes to develop content at each of these levels. Here are the results: These two slides suggest the per hour resource rate is greater than $100.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Scenario-Based Learning

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Informal language is better for learning anyway, but it’s particularly important that dialog sound natural. The same holds true with dialog. Having folks speak in perfect sentences, with no quirks, is unusual. Different characters are likely to have different personalities and backgrounds, and their language should reflect that.

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Should SMEs Create eLearning Courses?

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Asking SMEs to create courses themselves using an ‘easy’ authoring tool sounds like a great idea, but it isn’t. Some SMEs are certainly exceptions, but that is what they are exceptions.

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LMS and Gamification

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Gamification in LMS… Sounds like a perfect solution!!! Hold on to that thought. Let us first understand both LMS and Gamification concepts independently before we start correlating if and how implementation of Gamification would encourage usage of an LMS and how this can result in better performance of users or expected outcomes.

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Do We Learn Differently Now?

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Yes, perhaps its futuristic; and may even sound scary considering the gamut of human emotion. For a learning designer like myself, that’s the ULTIMATE solution, technology that enables the sharing of experience itself. Better than any simulation or temporal/spatial presentation of content ever. But learning itself ?

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eLearning Development India: Results of Salary Survey 2009

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At Upside Learning we don’t have that as yet (except for sales people) but it sounds like something to consider for the future. Variable pay - 75% of eLearning professional with salaries higher than INR 500,000 have a variable pay component. But then again, do incentives really work for knowledge workers?

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Microlearning Case Study: Performance Support

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While this sounds simple, the details can be difficult. Performance support is really about two things: the right information, at the right time. How do you make information available at the right time? Also, what is the right information at this time? In this case study, we created a solution to using solutions appropriately.