A Year of Learning: Our Top 10 Blog Posts From 2015
Kineo
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Tis the season to be retrospective. In the words of John and Yoko ‘another year over, a new one just begun’. And what a year 2015 was at City & Guilds Kineo!
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A Year of Learning: Our Top 10 Blog Posts From 2015
Kineo
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Tis the season to be retrospective. In the words of John and Yoko ‘another year over, a new one just begun’. And what a year 2015 was at City & Guilds Kineo!
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A Year of Learning: Our Top 10 Blog Posts From 2015
Kineo
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Tis the season to be retrospective. In the words of John and Yoko ‘another year over, a new one just begun’. And what a year 2015 was at City & Guilds Kineo!
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Be a ‘social enabler’ not ‘social controller’
Kineo
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
It would seem that not a day goes by where an email guiding me towards an insightful new blog or an enlightening new article doesn’t hit my inbox. It would seem that ‘social’ is now definitely the new black; apostolising the virtues of one social tool or system or other is the latest fad.
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Lessons Learnt From The Evolution Of Journalism: How To Construct a Great Interactive Experience - Part 3.1
Kineo
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
In my last blog I shared feature writer Jon Henley’s tips for writing good feature stories and suggested how we could apply them to digital learning content. I felt it was worth expanding on this, hence the arrival of this unplanned, additional blog. The right tool for the job. So let’s remind ourselves what works best when….
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Lessons Learnt From The Evolution Of Journalism: Creating Content In The Digital Age - Part 2
Kineo
AUGUST 27, 2015
In my last blog I talked about my recent attendance at a Guardian Masterclass with senior feature writer Jon Henley. In this blog I look at three techniques that Jon Henley’s applies and suggest ways in which we might adapt them to produce digital content in a learning setting.
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100 Adapt community goes offline
Kineo
JANUARY 30, 2017
The Adapt community now also has its own dedicated blog for sharing developments and tips. The adaptlearning.org website has attracted visitors from over 200 countries and the technical, learning design and jobs forums have seen around 7,500 posts between them.
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100 A year of learning – our top 10 posts of 2016
Kineo
DECEMBER 15, 2016
If you are an active follower of Kineo you will know by now, we love to blog! With less than two weeks left of 2016, it’s time to look back over the year and share some of the antics the Kineo team has been up to. From launching innovative technology to expanding our LMS offering – this year has been jam packed.
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Lessons Learnt From The Evolution Of Journalism: Creating Content In The Digital Age - Part 1
Kineo
AUGUST 18, 2015
The focus of the class was on feature writing and digital storytelling (I’ll come back to this in a later blog) but it began by exploring why – and how – journalism in the digital age has to be different. . A few months ago I enjoyed attending a Guardian Masterclass with senior feature writer Jon Henley.
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Hot or not: how heatmaps can transform the way you optimise your online learning
Kineo
JUNE 28, 2017
We’ve recently talked about not needing to guess what learning your learners want, but there’s also no need to guess what they do once on your learning platform either. Enter heatmaps.
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222 5 digital learning trends for 2018 and beyond
Kineo
JULY 5, 2017
OK, so why are we already thinking about next year’s learning trends when we’re only halfway through 2017? Well, I think we would all agree that the world is moving at such a pace that we need to look forward and prepare now for some changes that are likely to impact the L&D community next year.
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City & Guilds Group acquires e3Learning
Kineo
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
The City & Guilds Group has acquired Adelaide-based e3Learning – one of Australia's largest dedicated corporate elearning and compliance providers.
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242 Are we still the ten percenters?
Kineo
OCTOBER 4, 2016
Few theories trip off the tongue of L&D professionals easier than the 70/20/10 principle. The theory was formulated by Morgan McCall and his colleagues at the Centre for Creative Leadership. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of its publication.
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222 What L&D can take away from the top 6 talks at Adobe Make It
Kineo
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
There’s nothing quite as invigorating and inspiring as being surrounded by game-changers. You know, the kind of people who look at the standard practice and ask the question “but what if we did this?” This is the kind of person you’ll find at the Adobe MAKE IT event.
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3 ways to implement xAPI in your elearning courses
Kineo
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
For many L&D professionals, keeping up with the technology curve is half the fun. Since 2011, we’ve been hearing about Tin Can, now know as the Experience API , or xAPI.
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170 Still shaping the future of learning: the story of Kineo
Kineo
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Time flies when you’re having fun. At least that’s how it feels at Kineo when we reflect that we’ve been in business now for over a decade. But what set us in motion still remains true – we still care passionately about shaping the future of learning.
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The realities of developing custom elearning with a vendor
Kineo
OCTOBER 9, 2017
In the learning space, lots of companies develop custom elearning with a vendor to get the job done. There's a reason why so many companies outsource custom elearning development work to third parties or freelancers rather than hiring a whole internal department to handle one-off projects or areas outside the core team’s specialty.
A digital credential: the badge everyone actually wants
Kineo
AUGUST 8, 2017
Badges are all the rage. Here’s a badge, there’s a badge - from L&D to Urban Outfitters, everybody can get a badge. But what if someone doesn’t want a badge for the sake of having a badge? How can L&D provide value and engage through badging with those people?
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157 If you want social learning - go social media
Kineo
APRIL 10, 2018
We’ve been using what we call the ‘learner power continuum’ to frame our thinking about social learning in the workplace. And one of the best things about it is how much it encourages you to think inside and outside the box.
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133 cmi5 – Not Your Father's SCORM
Kineo
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
xAPI is the darling of the digital learning industry these days, with a lot of interest in it due to its ability to capture data outside of an LMS. In its essence, cmi5 is a profile or a set of rules for using xAPI that could can be utilized to govern the communication between a learning management system (LMS) and learning content.
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Three ways AI can boost engagement in digital learning
Kineo
JUNE 25, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) has never been bigger news. From the drama of Westworld on our TV screens (spoiler alert – the robots don’t like us much) to the front pages of our newspapers, AI is demonised and championed alike. Is Alexa cackling away as she plots how to overthrow her human overlords? Will the robots take our jobs ?
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127 How your legacy elearning content can survive the Flash apocalypse
Kineo
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Back in 2005, when the Scissor Sisters were riding high in the album charts, Shrek 2 was packing out cinemas and Hurricane Katrina was wreaking havoc on America’s Gulf Coast, Flash software was installed on 98% of computers. Fast forward to 2017 and the once-pioneering technology responsible for powering multimedia content is soon to be no more.
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5 ways a survival horror game can inspire interactive video design
Kineo
AUGUST 2, 2017
Whether you enjoy fighting a horde of never-ending zombies in Resident Evil or putting yourself through the intense anxiety that Five Nights at Freddy’s can bring, there’s a wide range of horror gaming experiences that even the most sheepish of gamers can enjoy.
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Microlearning vs long form training in compliance
Kineo
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Compliance training. No one particularly loves it - not even the legal department - but there’s virtually no way to avoid it. In most industries, if an organization or its employees aren’t in compliance, some pretty nasty consequences can arise should a law be violated or regulation ignored.
Storyline 3 is here
Kineo
APRIL 13, 2017
There has been much anticipation around when Articulate would be releasing Storyline 3, the next version of Storyline, especially after the release of Articulate 360 last year. It has been quite some time since we last had a full authoring tool from Articulate people thought it would not happen.
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Still shaping the future of learning: the story of Kineo
Kineo
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Time flies when you’re having fun. At least that’s how it feels at Kineo when we reflect that we’ve been in business now for over a decade. But what set us in motion still remains true – we still care passionately about shaping the future of learning.
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Rocking all over the world: working as a global team
Kineo
JUNE 1, 2017
We’re driven by our values at Kineo, and a core one for me is to put back into our local community. As Kineo has grown our sense of what ‘local’ is has evolved, and our emphasis is as much on being inclusive. Our community is as much virtual as it is about where we live or work.
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How to build a business case for a new LMS
Kineo
MARCH 20, 2017
Selecting a learning management system isn’t always the easiest process, but even when the L&D team has settled on the best platform for the job, that’s not the end of the battle.
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3 examples of making the most of data in learning
Kineo
APRIL 24, 2018
For the last few years, Big Data has been recognized as a valuable resource across many industries. The elearning industry has historically been interested in consumption data, like user completion rates and time spent in a course.
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Why completion rates are no longer the metric of success in modern learning
Kineo
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
When you’re looking to develop a holy grail of just in time information and resources for your learners, don’t be surprised when they dip in and out, abandon mid-module, or skip to page three of a PDF. Unless we’re talking compliance or a course awarding credentials , a drop in course completions might actually be a good thing.
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133 Designing onboarding experiences that increase employee retention
Kineo
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
For many companies, the most pressing goal when designing onboarding experiences is to get new hires trained on their job and company procedures as quickly as possible so they can hit the ground running. From the employee perspective, however, this approach may not align to what they really need and want.
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133 AR we ready for the future of learning?
Kineo
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Apps like Snapchat, with its facial filters, and the Pokemon Go! game made AR a reality for the masses, but Apple’s ARKit goes way beyond that. Developers can now create AR experiences that offer a whole different level of precision, detail and interactivity - which, I feel is going to be HUGE.
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Kineo named on the top 10 elearning content development companies list for 2017
Kineo
OCTOBER 12, 2017
In its fifth year, this annual list published by eLearningIndustry.com celebrates extraordinary elearning content development companies and the work they do with clients. This prestigious list ranks the 10 top companies of the year and in 2017 the bar was raised even higher with more than 300 companies entering for a place.
3 new year L&D resolutions: making 2018 your best year yet
Kineo
JANUARY 8, 2018
In 2018, we expect the elearning market to continue to shift and shake as new technologies emerge. This means that you Learning Designers can't stay static. You have to be diligent about staying on top of your game. So, what can you do in 2018 to keep your learning solution designs relevant and up-to-date?
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A problem shared is … a launch pad for social learning
Kineo
MAY 9, 2017
What’s the key to making social learning work in the workplace? At Kineo we believe the key to success is as much a matter of taking stock of what's out there and what's going on (social is after all, happening all the time of its own accord), as it is about making the most of that information to enrich the solutions we design for our clients.
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138 Six ideas in search of a problem to solve?
Kineo
DECEMBER 12, 2017
The elearning industry historically has had a habit of putting the cart before the horse. For years everyone was saying they wanted to talk about mobile – but there were no users willing or able to use mobile devices for learning.
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The case for credentials: street cred for employees, real cred for companies
Kineo
JUNE 11, 2018
In this age of ‘every kid gets a trophy’ just for participating in a sporting activity, the notion of incentivizing employee training can be met with groans and eyerolls. Credentials and certificates are not merely gold stars of achievement, however.
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113 3 principles of instructional design
Kineo
APRIL 6, 2018
For years we’ve been discussing the challenges of creating great courses. We know it isn’t always easy, but it doesn’t have to be hard.
Work-life balance? Trends in L&D delivery
Kineo
MARCH 9, 2017
If you blinked you’d have missed them, but we really are over two months into the new year. Learning Technologies 2017 is behind us and we’ve already seen countless lists of trends in L&D. But do they have any basis in fact?
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Learning is what we do – thoughts from our time on the road
Kineo
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
At Kineo we’re always listening out for new trends and themes that we can use to continually improve the learning we develop for our clients. Kineo Managing Director, Matt Johnson , sums up this ethos in his twitter bio by declaring himself a ‘lifelong learner’.
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145 Three ways to take the headache out of in-house content curation
Kineo
AUGUST 15, 2018
The amount of information at our fingertips is one of the great things about the technological age we live in – but the sheer volume of it can be overwhelming.
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10 top tips for a great interactive video
Kineo
OCTOBER 13, 2017
We’re all abuzz these days about interactive video. And for good reason. It is a great way to get learners to sit up straight and pay attention and on top of that, can enhance and improve a traditional eLearning experience, by = breaking up the monotony of clicking next through a series of slides.
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