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5 free technology tools for trainers to enhance face to face training

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At the eLearning Network event “A fresh look at elearning”, Julie Wedgwood demonstrated five tools which have great potential and they’re free! These tools are especially applicable when participants have access to tablet computers or smartphones. Xtranormal Use this tool to create animations.

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In search of the perfect authoring tool

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An unnamed government agency sent a delegation down to visit some colleagues as part of a fact finding expedition re e-learning authoring tools. There is a vast array of different e-learning authoring tools on the market. Its survey of the top ten things that organisations want from an authoring tool finds that they are: 1.

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Spot the difference? Corporate L&D versus Office Canteen

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Metaphor is a great tool for understanding a complex situation. Just picture something simpler we can picture well and read across the similarities and differences. Health warnings aside, used well, metaphor generates rich insights and questions.

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Professional services e-learning forum achieves ten

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So we’ve covered topics including “show and tell”, mobile learning, social learning, learner engagement, gaining buy-in from partners, LMS implementation, authoring tools, evaluation, performance support and video. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has attended and all the firms that have hosted meetings.

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Free e-learning: The Top 10 barriers to adoption

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As was revealed last Friday at the e-learning Network, vast numbers of free e-learning tools are available. For some of the most popular tools see Jane Hart’s Directory of Learning Tools. If there are all these great free tools, why are cost-conscious firms not adopting them faster?

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e-learning fails to walk the talk?

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In the posting Corporate eLearning’s Dirty little Secret , the results from a survey of instructional designers and developers show that using web-based training to learn about how to use authoring tools is the least popular method of learning.

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Mobile pitfall #4: Are you really compatible?

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Many development tools claim that they produce learning content which will publish automatically to different models of mobile phone. So for the L&D manager commissioning mobile learning it’s just a game of finding out from IT which phones are on the standard list, cross-checking and then away you go…if only it was that simple….

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