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OCTOBER 27, 2019

At Learning 2019 there is a separate extra track for a group of 45 Dutch learning people. I was allowed to join their sessions. The first session was with Elliot Masie. Elliot sold the event last year, but at 69 he is still amazing. Elliot presenting at Learning 2019 for the Dutch group. Eliot started by showing his presentation, which was just this slide: Elliots trends.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

On October 23rd, 2013 Easygenerator launched the first (free) edition of Easygenerator at DevLearn in Las Vegas. It means we turn 6 today. . The problem that we set out to solve was that the creation of learning content is too slow, too expensive and that it is very hard to keep it up to date. Our solution is to give subject matter experts responsibility for the creation and maintenance of learning content.

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MAY 27, 2019

An increasing number of subject matter experts are sharing their knowledge in a variety of ways. One of them is the creation of learning content. Facilitating this is the core role of my company Easygenerator. We provide a hassle-free authoring platform for them to share knowledge effortlessly. We know that the software must be so intuitive that anyone can log in and, without any training, can start creating learning material.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Last month, I required a surgical intervention during which my worn-out shoulder was replaced with an artificial one. During the final preparations, one of the medical staff asked me which shoulder I needed to be operated on and I told her it was the right-hand side. She then got a marker pen out and drew a big arrow on my right forearm pointing towards the shoulder.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

The main takeaway for me looking back on 2018 is that our approach of Employee-generated Learning (EGL) is becoming more and more mainstream. Let me explain why this is the case. Knowledge sharing, social learning, and peer-to-peer learning have become household names driving new knowledge acquisition in the workplace. Most research such as Udemy’s Learning Trends, E-learning Guild’s Predictions, Jane Hart’s Annual Survey, Expert Economy Author’s Insights and so on emphasizes the importance of t

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Moving learning back to the business Learning has become too far detached from the business side of companies. In the days of medieval guilds, you would complete your entire education while working and learning the trade and skills alongside a master craftsman. However, times have changed and we've moved learning to schools and universities. At work, corporate HR/learning professionals are responsible for employees' learning and development.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Back home after DevLearn 2018 and the one thing that stands out is the annihilation of three big learning buzzwords: Learning Styles, Microlearning and Millennials. Learning styles. The e-learning guild published a couple of new reports, I attended a session on them. One of the reports is "The truth about teaching to learning styles and what to do instead" by Jane Bozarth.

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JUNE 5, 2018

In today's digital learning boom, it's easy for university educators to feel like they're losing control of their own classrooms. As power shifts towards university administrations instead of educators, and e-learning becomes more prominent, learning content is becoming increasingly centralized. Instead of perceiving technology as a threat to their independence, university educators should see it as a chance to share the responsibility for creating e-learning content.

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APRIL 5, 2018

259 L&D professionals took part in my L&D survey. In this blog post, you will find a link to the full survey results, along with my initial impressions. Click here to access the full survey findings. Practically every challenge on the list struck a chord with the respondents. Every challenge scored an average between 6 and 7 (on a scale of 1 to 10).

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MARCH 6, 2018

Being CEO of a start-up with triple-digit growth. Every start-up goes through several life stages. At some point, it stops being a start-up and becomes a “scale-up” company instead. That time has come for Easygenerator. This means my role as a CEO is changing significantly. I am writing this blog post mainly to give myself a moment to reflect on what this means.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Trends in Learning and Development – I’ve been writing about them for over 10 years now. Recently, I decided that I’d like to change my approach. Rather than detailing my personal thoughts and experiences, I’d instead like to provide a wide variety of engaging interviews. Whether managers, consultants, or L&D leaders, I want to understand the most significant challenges they face and how they go about solving them.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There’s a Big Misconception out there about e-Learning, and its sell-by date has passed this long since. It is that the value of e-Learning can be measured as a return on investment (ROI). My contention, simply put, is that it can’t. Return on investment and e-learning? Now don’t get me wrong: e-Learning, in my book, is the bees’ knees for a whole host of reasons, many of which I’ve touted in other blogs here.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Using the Net Promoter Score (NPS) to engage with our customers proved to be very useful for Easygenerator. In this post, I want to share my experience and tell you why and how we used it, and how we used the outcome to engage with our users. Wat is a Net Promoter Score? The Net Promoter Score is the outcome of a simple question: How likely is it that you will recommend to a friend or a colleague?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

I discovered a new rule for knowledge sharing, the 70:20:10 rule. In any given company 10% of the employees is willing to actively share their knowledge. About 20% of the employees is willing to share knowledge if they are invited, and 70% will not share knowledge at all, they are just consumers. I found these figures in working with our corporate clients who use Easygenerator as a way to facilitate knowledge sharing between their subject matter experts.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

This week the Fosway group published her new 9-grid report about authoring tools. It is nice that Easygenerator is listed again, confirming our place between the leading authoring tools. But even more interesting is that the report confirms all the strategic choices Easygenerator made over the past few years. Responsive, video and user-generated content.

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JANUARY 22, 2017

When you are curating content without a story you are not sharing your knowledge. You are sharing content. All curators do make a selection and share that. But what I miss is the story, the context. Why are they sharing this content and what is the context? What is there to learn and why? Curation: the search. Imagine you are the curator of a museum and you have to create an exhibition of paintings of Rembrandt and let’s say you can exhibit all existing Rembrandts if you want.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Dyslexia is a big problem if you have it. Not being able to read normally is a big handicap. Dutch designer Christian Boer is a dyslexic himself, and he developed a new font; the Dyslexie font. It makes reading easier for people with dyslexia. I’m not dyslectic, so I can’t really judge how much this helps. But it is done really smart. A part of the problem is that many letters in the western alphabet are really similar.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

My favourite e-Learning conference of the year is next week: Devlearn 2016. I will be there, and I will present together with Laura Payette about: “how to make user-generated learning work for you.” Laura works at Nielsen where they are using Easygenerator to enable subject matter experts to share their knowledge with their co-workers. Together we will present the lessons learned from the past two years.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

I’m looking for your input, what are the 5 most important didactical principles to apply when creating e-Learning? The reason I’m asking is because we are doing a project to support our users (most of them do not have an e-Learning background) in creating more effective and didactical sound content. I will explain in this post. Easygenerator is an e-Learning authoring tool for people with no e-Learning background.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m talking to learning managers each day about the 20 in 70:20:10; about knowledge sharing and about user generated learning that can facilitate this. I see a lot of interest in this topic but a lot of reservations as well. So I decided to list the top 10 objections against user generated learning, with my response. What is user generated learning?

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JULY 14, 2016

International sales representative. Easygenerator is eLearning software with a very specific focus on people who do not have an e-Learning background. Easygenerator is used and sold globally (mostly in North America, Europe and Australia). For this target market we are looking for a new sales representative working from our Rotterdam office (The Netherlands).

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JUNE 3, 2016

Last week T-Mobile in The Netherlands organized an e-Learning hackaton for its employees. They had the opportunity to create an e-Learning course with either Articulate Storyline or Easygenerator. T-mobile organized this hackaton to see if people are interested in this and to find out if they were able to create a course without any training. A booth was set up in their central hall during a day with all kinds of employee events.

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APRIL 15, 2016

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. On SCORM the drop is 83%. Is this a decline in interest for e-Learning or is a signal for something else? Why is this happening? I do not believe it is a declining interest in e-Learning. The e-Learning market is over 50 billion and is growing with double digits each year.

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APRIL 18, 2016

All software and data will move to the cloud sooner or later. In this post I will explain why you should move to the cloud rather sooner than later. I have chosen 8 reasons that should convince you. 1. No IT hustle. All the software lives in the cloud and is maintained and cared for by the vendor. Your IT department does not has any involvement, neither you nor the IT department has to install anything.

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APRIL 23, 2016

The past week I have visited the Easygenerator team in Ukraine. My first visit to Ukraine was in 2010 and I since then I have visited Ukraine two or three times per year. A lot has happened in that period; here is my view on the current situation in Ukraine. I will start with a bit of background first in order to provide some context. Background on the Ukraine.

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APRIL 26, 2016

I like to know what the trends are in e-Learning. I checked 20 posts on trends and selected the 12 trends that are mentioned most. Here they are, from large (most mentioned) to small (least mentioned). 1. Gamification. Gamification is the most mentioned trend. It is about applying game thinking and game techniques to e-Learning. It sounds cool and people really want to ride the wave of success of online games, but I have to say that I’m quite critical about applying this successfully into

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MAY 3, 2016

Do you want to improve your classroom lessons or training? Here are three ways to blend them with e-Learning components. They will make your lessons and courses more effective and more fun, and any teacher, trainer or coach can do it. How to improve your lessons: Flip, repeat and automate. Flip your classroom. If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: do the lecture at home and do homework at school.

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MAY 24, 2016

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! I’m CEO of Easygenerator and as a CEO you have to be all-round.

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MAY 24, 2016

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! I’m CEO of Easygenerator and as a CEO you have to be all-round.

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MAY 3, 2016

Do you want to improve your classroom lessons or training? Here are three ways to blend them with e-Learning components. They will make your lessons and courses more effective and more fun, and any teacher, trainer or coach can do it. How to improve your lessons: Flip, repeat and automate. Flip your classroom. If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: do the lecture at home and do homework at school.

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Lesson Blended Learning Effectiveness Easygenerator 100

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APRIL 15, 2016

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. On SCORM the drop is 83%. Is this a decline in interest for e-Learning or is a signal for something else? Why is this happening? I do not believe it is a declining interest in e-Learning. The e-Learning market is over 50 billion and is growing with double digits each year.

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APRIL 8, 2016

There are hundreds of e-Learning authoring tools around and they come in many shapes an sizes, so how to select the one that fits your requirements? In this post I will give a global overview of different types of e-Learning authoring tools and some questions that you can ask yourself. Your answers should guide you in the right direction. What is an e-Learning authoring tool?

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MARCH 24, 2016

I’m investigating crowd sourcing of corporate knowledge. You can also call it the use of user generated content if you want. Over the past few weeks I have spoken to dozens of training managers all over the world. I found some reasons for companies to consider this option or to reject it. Here are my findings. Use cases. I started this process by talking to three companies (Nielsen, Akzo Nobel and Kaplan) who have already implemented crowd sourcing.

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MARCH 14, 2016

I rarely write opinion pieces in this blog other than my opinion on e-Learning, but now I feel obliged to speak out. I’m deeply ashamed on how the European Union (EU) and all of its individual members states are treating the refugees from Syria, Mali, Yemen and all the other places where a war is going on. Universal declaration of human rights.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Creating effective eLearning is hard, especially when you do not have an eLearning background. In this article I will describe how you can improve your eLearning by creating smaller modules and tie them together in learning paths. I will add a future outlook as well because I foresee Learning maps and Learning GPS play a big role in putting the learner behind the steering wheel.

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MARCH 3, 2016

This week Easygenerator moved into a new office and that gave me the “startup feeling” all over again. We moved our entire Dutch office with one small trailer and one hour later we were working again from our new office. I realized what we have achieved in a bit over two years. In this post I will explain why that is so special and why that is so important to us and to our customers.

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MARCH 2, 2016

We added a really cool feature to our eLearning software Easygenerator this week, the “Review option” You can now invite anyone (they do not need a subscription) to your course by sharing a link and they can view the course in any browser. They will see it in exactly the same way a learner will, but as an extra they can add comments to each element (text, titles, images, answer options and more).

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