Specific challenges associated with this transfer included: Identifying and documenting feature and technology requirements. The desired approach was to export the courses from SumTotal in a format that would allow them to be transportable and still track and communicate properly with the new LMS. Moving the user accounts and all associated data from SumTotal to Inquisiq involved a two-step process. Inquisiq R3 News LMS Features LMS Industry Mashup MORE

Silly me; I thought I would bring up a blank page on my computer, write and format something, click a button, and be up and running. Even with the advent of user-friendly HTML editors, you still required some IT support and guidance to get something up on a web site that worked and looked half-decent. is set up for a leadership coach, who posts best practice leadership principles, stories and anecdotes, audio recordings, RRS feeds from top leadership sites, etc.; MORE

APIs are useful for extending the data or functionalities of one application and create other applications or mashups. There are a number of highly popular mashups available on the Internet today, including ones that cater to learning and education. If you would like to take a closer look at other APIs and their associated mashups, check the following searchable API/mashup repositories: • ProgrammableWeb: [link]. MORE

One post out of five I have been reading in the past few monthsseem to be associated with curation or its close cousins—aggregation andfiltering. He followed this up later with The5 Models Of Content Curation. Distillation : Distillation is the act of curating information into a more simplistic format where onlythe most important or relevant ideas are shared. If Web 1.0 was aboutonline access and Web 2.0 is about social nets, Web 3.0 MORE

Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. In this popular interaction format, learners ask experts questions in an organized or sporadic manner. This interaction format is also a good way to practice communication and interpersonal skills. Tagging and keywording items, and even creating mashups, help promote natural patterns of interaction in an online learning environment. MORE

More about Todd here: [link] Below are excerpts from the interview: What are some of the key eLearning trends that you think would surface, or pick up, in 2016? For the latter – the conventional e-book.epub formats just don’t seem to cut it; learners are expecting mobile job aids, perhaps delivered via native apps on iOS, Android and Windows devices, to provide searchability and rich media. MORE

APIs are useful for extending the data or functionalities of one application and create other applications or mashups. There are a number of highly popular mashups available on the Internet today, including ones that cater to learning and education. If you would like to take a closer look at other APIs and their associated mashups, check the following searchable API/mashup repositories: • ProgrammableWeb: [link]. • APIHub: [link]. MORE

Specific challenges associated with this transfer included: Identifying and documenting feature and technology requirements. The desired approach was to export the courses from SumTotal in a format that would allow them to be transportable and still track and communicate properly with the new LMS. Moving the user accounts and all associated data from SumTotal to Inquisiq R3 involved a two-step process. Inquisiq R3 News LMS Features LMS Industry Mashup MORE

Web Site Authoring Tools Used in creating mark-up language (i.e. Such sites include courses, or material associated with courses. Media Editors Used for creating, editing, and "Web-readying" digital images, icons, photographs, animations, sounds, video, and other digital media used in e-learning Content Conversion Tools Used for transforming documents, presentations, graphics, audio, video, and other content to formats that can be used in e-learning and on the Web. MORE

Research has repeatedly indicated the enhanced productivity associated with social learning. In this popular interaction format, learners ask experts questions in an organized or sporadic manner. This interaction format is also a good way to practice communication and interpersonal skills. Tagging and keywording items, and even creating mashups, help promote natural patterns of interaction in an online learning environment. MORE

Specific challenges associated with this transfer included: Identifying and documenting feature and technology requirements. The desired approach was to export the courses from SumTotal in a format that would allow them to be transportable and still track and communicate properly with the new LMS. Moving the user accounts and all associated data from SumTotal to Inquisiq R3 involved a two-step process. Inquisiq R3 News LMS Features LMS Industry Mashup MORE

Developers are those folks who know how to use the tools chosen by the enterprise to express content online in an effective and dynamic format. The precedent for this was the explosive improvement in desktop publishing more than a decade back; once an associate learned the software they could generate print materials. Unfortunately, there is too much complexity and uniqueness in learning to allow for excellence when this mashup becomes the status quo. MORE

According to a 2011 Forrester Research report, “Informal Learning Garners Acceptance as a Legitimate Learning Approach,” 76 million millennials will make up 47 percent of the 2014 workforce and will soon become middle managers. Chief learning officers and business leaders should build learning modules that can be deployed in multiple formats, and ask not only who the target audience is, but also who else may need to consume the content. MORE