Now, the million dollar question – How do Open Source & Proprietary LMS’s compare on Cost Front? You love Microsoft! MORE

Would people be able to discuss their skill gaps or express their interest in exploring a career path without performance feedback? How will you ever know that there is a need for training if there is no performance management? If the gap between what managers and employees perceive is large, then voila, methinks you could do some communication training. We’ve all heard that everyone hates performance appraisals, haven’t we? MORE

In it, she referenced the significant gender pay gap: According to research results, men on average make $10k more than woman. Yes – even in the eLearning biz: There continues to be a consistent gender gap in pay between men and women. I know I’ve left money on the table. MORE

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Brent Schlenker: Marketers and Game Developers Know More About Learning Than We Do! Live session with Brent Schlenker: Marketers and Game Developers Know More About Learning Than We Do! How do we use new and emerging technologies in the learning space? Point of today’s conversation: talking training, design and development if a marketing person were doing it. What are they doing that’s different? MORE

OK, truth be told, I’m not that cocky, it’s more like questions I wish people were no longer asking me: Do you sell leadership development courses? Many years ago I read “ Why employees don’t do what they are supposed to do&# by Ferdinand F. MORE

July 2010. 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. Education As We Know It Is Finished - Lars is Learning , July 14, 2010 So says Clayton M. MORE

Without her influence, I certainly would have gone astray – who knows where I would have wound up. That being said, there is not one technology or learning platform that can do it all, including your LMS, MOOC, etc. MORE

Where do you start? Which theory do you choose? A valuable means by which a learner can close the gaps in their existing schema, and broaden and deepen their knowledge, is to engage with other people, ask questions, debate ideas, and share experiences. . MORE

Among the experiences they shared I liked the idea of ‘jamming’ – which I understood as ‘uninhibited experimentation’ – trying to get together to try to do new things without fear of failure. After finding people you know, you may request to add them as an associate. MORE

Monday, December 29, 2008 7 More Things You Dont Need to Know About Me. Does this cover me for the 7 Things You Dont Need to Know About Me Meme that Sue Hickton just tagged me to do? I could also say that its exhaustion -- a by-product of motherhood -- three kids ages 5 1/2 - 7 months will do that to a person. So Im just doing six. Hard to resist the pull of needing to do more, more, more. And of doing it better. MORE

Sahana Chattopadhyay Senior Consultant at Zensar Technologies What does a Learning Consultant do? I am interested in finding out if there are any defined set of tasks that a learning consultant would do to enable organizational learning. But there would still be some baseline tasks that a consultant would do in this respect. Sushant Singh Even i am interested to know about the same, can anybody help please. I don't know if that's true for mid-sized companies.). MORE

And what is alarming is that even today, most ( read almost all ) organizations still focus on training people to do what can so easily be automated or even outsourced. Again, I have used Harold Jarche's version of the diagram to show where there is a gap. MORE

You should do this before you meet with the client so you don’t appear sloppy. I’ve been on projects where we found that too many assumptions were made about the content and we didn’t see the gaps until after the course was ready to go. Does the learner know how to go from A to B? MORE

He states that a lot of people do not use their talents or for that matter even are aware of what their talents might be. We need to do different things and we need to do them in a different way. That is the gap I’m worried about. MORE

This is a follow on post from my recent Knowing and Doing blog post. Today, I was doing some personal research related to a book I have been reading. I found Saipan in seconds, releasing me to do other research on the island, using the links Google supplied. MORE

Don’t worry about what the products do or the merits of one product over another. It conveys to the learner that what they’re doing is important and worth their time. Information Design: What Do People Need to Know? The comparison should identify a gap. MORE

That question is this: what would Andrew do? Your objective will often be to do convince Andrew what you say/do is worthy of investment. When in doubt about ROI, just ask yourself “What would Andrew Carnegie do?&#. Results do not exist inside the training department. MORE

In other words, you've identified the performance gap that training is supposed to close. Oh, and of course, you've determined that training is in fact an appropriate way to close that gap. However, many of the training folks I know moved into training-related positions without a formal background in the field. How do performance objectives enhance accountability? By Shelley A. Gable. You've analyzed the client's needs. The client's goals are clearly defined. MORE

I especially got a lot of emails about how we used Engage, so I’ll cover that as well as discuss how to do a quick pilot test and rework your objectives list. The trick is to understand what you can do with the software and then find your own uses. MORE

I won't re-iterate the statistics because you know already what a fundamental difference it makes to be so connected so comprehensively and so continuously. Organisations can do their best to satisfy the needs of employees for on-demand information but they will rarely be able to cover it all on a top-down basis. I know this discipline will not be for everybody, but for those that really engage the opportunities for learning exceed all others. MORE

This review was conducted in September and October of 2010. -. Do some Students Benefit More than Others from Multigrade Classrooms? . Recent research indicates that teachers, tutors, and other learning professionals tend not to be very good at providing instructional explanations at learner’s appropriate levels—but that they can improve on this by specifically being informed of their learners’ level of understanding (Wittwer, Nückles, & Renkl, 2010). 2010). MORE

For instance, I know we all talk about ‘point of need’, ‘just in time’ and ‘on the job’ learning, but Bob’s explanation of the five moments of need really brought this to life for me. This has really stuck in my head and is definitely making me think differently about what I do and why. MORE

This sounds simple enough, but requires many L&D professionals to adopt a new mindset and new approaches to the way they do their jobs. If there’s a gap between expected and actual performance, don’t jump to a TNA. Step back and analyse the root cause of the gap first. MORE

June 2010. Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises - Performance Learning Productivity , June 18, 2010 I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. 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. MORE

Some of them are your learners and they know how to use Facebook effectively! I highly encourage you to leave a commend if you know any other Facebook Educational Application. WorldCat You can do research, catalog your librarys collection and of course share it with your learners. MORE

> If you know a free e-Learning book that is not included in the list please I will highly appreciate if you write a comment with a link to that book. -- -- CU Online Handbook - University of Colorado Denver (Update 12/06/2010: suggested by PRL ) Do you currently teach online? MORE

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Describing What You Do: Instructional Design Youre at a playground and you start talking to the mom sitting on the bench next to you. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? This was me yesterday: Playground Mom: So, what do you do? Thats a great description, but it still doesnt help me tell the woman on the playground what it is that I do. How do you explain yourself? MORE

by Jennie Ruby Proofreading is a quality control check of text and layout that many of us are asked to do with little or no training. For example, how do you indicate that you want the space between words to be closed up? Do you scratch out both words and write toothpaste in the margin? Do you draw a circle around the area and write a note in the margin saying, "Please remove the space between the words to make one word"? How do I know this? MORE

After having a great first day at the Learning Technologies 2010 I was looking forward to an exciting second day. They focus on the learning & training market and Josh sure knows more about the trends in the industry than most others. Rob shared what new are their doing at BDU. MORE

As a nice little follow up to the ranting we’ve been doing about the eLearning Salary Gender Gap , Travis Smith took the bull by the horns and created a little salary calculator based on all of the variables reported on by the eLearning Guild in their latest salary report. MORE

While handling the grammar quite well, the TTS voice by itself cannot know the nuances and emphases (prosody) needed to bring out the intended meaning of the sentence and will produce a compromise prosody. Authors need to fill the gap. How do I love thee? MORE

Review the storyboard as if you’re the learner - what do you already know about the subject and what are you hoping this training will enable you to do? Can you spot any gaps in information, or any sections that raise more questions than they answer? All good training is interactive - most people will switch off if they’re just reading, or listening, not actually doing anything. If so, then they’ll be able to do the right thing in real life. MORE

The idea is that knowing what you want in life allows you to act in ways that help you realize your goals. This is what we should do as instructional designers as well. Our objectives, and all development work that follows, should directly help to close that gap. On the one hand, SMEs often want everything they know to make it into training. What do you think? By Shelley A. Gable. MORE

Well, I started it but then didn’t get beyond the first few chapters – realized I really needed a project to try it out with as most of the book is the how-to-do-it part. And as a speaker I found it really helped me know where I was in the presentation. MORE

Is there a stated training need, i.e., has clear areas of performance gaps been identified by the LoB manager/training department? What is the gap that is being sought to be fulfilled. It is not really possible to do a one-on-one mapping of a training program—be it e-learning, ILT, blended, etc.—with We all know what we could do if we had more time, if the client opened his wallet a bit more, and all other ideal situations. MORE

Do you feel like it fairly measured your intelligence and knowledge? Without her influence I would have gone astray and who knows where I would have wound up. The investment in education technology (Ed Tech) has gone from $550M invested in 2010 to $2.1B MORE