Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

Personally, I enjoy looking at pictures that friends post and that’s the extent of my love for Facebook. Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). Maybe a couple of you do hate Facebook. And that’s fine. Properly d.

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Social Networks Facebook Blended Learning Enterprise 100

Rapid eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

It’s always so much fun getting to meet the blog readers and learning more about what people do in the real world. Two things always stand out during these trips: There is no one way to do elearning. Some people build courses, some create marketing material, and some use the rapid elearning software to create multimedia information.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2010

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

October 2010 did not disappoint! 4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Tool #1: Oomfo for Charts & Graphs.

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Compliance Training eLearning Strategy Custom eLearning Development Corporate eLearning 111

eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning in September 2010. As always, great stuff found in the eLearning world in September. Examples and Samples of Game Design Documents - Kapp Notes , September 15, 2010 Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. But how to write one?

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And I feel honored that social signals came in granting my post on eLearning Strategy top spot. Top 35 Articles on eLearning Strategy - eLearning Technology , November 1, 2010I’ve been recently working on lots of eLearning strategy consulting engagements and one of my colleagues asked me to provide a set of resources around this topic.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 17, 2012

One of the topics we cover in the elearning workshops is how to quickly create templates to help move the elearning courses out of that PowerPoint look. I learn a lot about layouts and how the designer is using color. They’ll help you save time the next time you build a rapid elearning course.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

With as many PowerPoint questions that I get, it’s a good thing that over the past year or so the elearning community has created about 300 PowerPoint tutorials. I also included a free PowerPoint elearning template to celebrate the holidays and a great 2010! PowerPoint for Rapid E-Learning.

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eFront

OCTOBER 24, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 10/24/2010 Free Stock Photos Sites for e-Learning As an e-Learning developer I had to invest a lot of time to find images for my e-Learning projects.

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. The Tyranny of Thinking Styles When some people hear the word "dog", they picture an image of a dog, while others see the printed word "d-o-g". " The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Dont Be a Tyrant!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, June 28, 2007 Emerging Technologies in e-Learning I sat in on a lunchtime WebEx presentation with Gary Woodill -- Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research. This was "e-Learning 1.0".

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Emergent Brandon Hall CD-ROM Authoring Tools 176

Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, May 22, 2007 Adobe/Bersin Overview of the eLearning Industry I listened in this afternoon to the Adobe seminar: Overview of the eLearning Industry. This session will provide big picture of trends in the industry.

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Compliance Training Blended Learning Adobe Wiki 100

eFront

JULY 23, 2010

In the following picture you can see a typical grading setup. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Modules Reactions: 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Get the eLearning News first! A, B, C, Fail, Pass) depending on how it is setup.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 12, 2010

However, when we build elearning courses we need to consider the visual design as well as the instructional design. Thus, if the font implies meaning, it seems important to match the appropriate font to the tone of your elearning course. Your job is to match the font to the picture. I know many times I just go with my gut.

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Learning Visions

MAY 16, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, May 16, 2007 Debunking the Learning Styles Myth As you may know, Ive been on a focused mission to better understand so-called learning styles and their place -- or not -- in e-Learning.

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eFront

AUGUST 2, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 8/02/2010 Extensions on RSS module eFront had for some time now an RSS module that could fetch and present an RSS feed inside a lesson or on administrators panel.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. I agree with Rupa and Poonam on the elearning industry in India but there are variations too. But I know of few variable cases too: 1.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 22, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. One real problem is corporate fear of social networking tools. Forward-thinking companies should have that big picture in mind. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! Many people are echoing what you say.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 10, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. I used to have a lot more on my sidebar and in looking at stats I could see people rarely clicked on most of those items: I had deli.cious links, access to my LinkedIn profile, another picture of me, and yet another link list.

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Learning Visions

MAY 10, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, May 10, 2007 Learning Styles In 1996, when I first started working as an "instructional designer", I was taught about learning styles. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew! Take the Survey!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

On their own, ants and bees can rarely see the big picture, but as a community they make the right decisions, time after time. This same effect is seen in ant colonies and bee hives, as noted in another fascinating article I found in a post by Gisela Jonsson, titled “ Ants are stupid, ant colonies are smart.” Properly d. All Rights Reserved.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, June 12, 2007 My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World Tony Karrer asked in the comments on my PLE post yesterday , Im curious if you distinguish your learning environment (tools, skills, etc.)

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Rapid eLearning

JULY 12, 2011

I get a lot of questions about upgrading to PowerPoint 2010. Starting with PowerPoint 2007, there are many features that make the rapid elearning process much more efficient. I detailed some of those features in this post on why PowerPoint 2007 helps you build better elearning. Enhanced Picture Editing.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The workshops are for those who are just getting started with the Articulate tools. I can easily use them in my elearning course. Here are some things about the web site that I think apply to an elearning course design: Company brand: branding in elearning courses is a big issue for many organizations.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, August 29, 2007 e-Learning Guild Mobile Learning Report The e-Learning Guild presentation of the most recent 360 Research Report on Mobile Learning. Showed some screen shots of examples.

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Rapid eLearning

JUNE 21, 2011

If not, check out some of the other free templates that are available in the Elearning Heroes community. If you have PowerPoint 2010, you can even combine shapes to quickly create custom shapes. Fill the second shape with a picture and set it to partially transparent. Hopefully, you can find a use for the template.

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Rapid eLearning Tips PowerPoint Tutorial 77

Rapid eLearning

JUNE 21, 2011

If not, check out some of the other free templates that are available in the Elearning Heroes community. If you have PowerPoint 2010, you can even combine shapes to quickly create custom shapes. Fill the second shape with a picture and set it to partially transparent. Hopefully, you can find a use for the template.

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Rapid eLearning Tips PowerPoint Tutorial 73

Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. I write and design self-paced eLearning for the corporate market. When I make (for want of a better word) an elearning resource, there is no doubt in my mind that instructional design is an integral part of my teaching.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 7, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning. Another great month for eLearning content. 20 Facts You Must Know About Working Memory - The eLearning Coach , June 2, 2010 Without adapting learning experiences to the learner’s cognitive architecture, instructional design is hit or miss. don’t want anyone to get me wrong.

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Rapid eLearning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

And then I right-click and save as picture. In the image below, I used PowerPoint to create the sandwich stack and then right-clicked to save as picture. Since PowerPoint 2010, you can use PowerPoint to remove backgrounds from your images. Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 3, 2012

If you’re building elearning courses, then you should expect to have a graphics editing program as part of your tool chest. There’s even a good discussion about graphics applications in the elearning community. While we may be using different tools, there are some simple graphics editing we should all be able to do.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

So here are the top posts based on social signals via eLearning Learning for August 2010. My e-Learning Don’ts - MinuteBio , August 8, 2010 Here is a list I compiled of things I think should NOT be done when designing e-learning courses. I know I did. They are not in any particular order.

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Augmented Reality Blended Learning Social Learning Social 83

Learning Visions

MARCH 21, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, March 21, 2008 E-Learning Project Reality: Guerrilla Instructional Design Ill define it in one word: grueling. This is the harsh reality of eLearning in the trenches. 11:03 AM lmentz said. I concur with Wendy.

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Good To Great

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I thought I’d share my tool for achieving the balance needed with interactions. However, it’s also important to keep an eye on the big picture and how each individual screen fits into the context of the course. But neither do I particularly like a course that is one long multiple choice quiz.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning. Educational Games for the Classroom - Kapp Notes , July 19, 2010 Here is a list of educational games that can be used to teach kids during the school year or over the summer break. There’s been a lot of discussion around cognitive theory and “how the brain learns.&# How about math?

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Adobe Captivate iPad Blended Learning Diversity Training 96

Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Many instructional designers ( Christy Tucker , Wendy Wickham ) build their own courses using tools like Captivate. Many instructional designers ( Christy Tucker , Wendy Wickham ) build their own courses using tools like Captivate.

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