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APRIL 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?”

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APRIL 5, 2011

The Sound of Silence → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. More about me here.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. So, what to do when a “boutique vendor” (our client’s label for us) gives you a number that sounds outrageously high?

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MAY 4, 2011

It sounds like Weejee is growing quickly with Ian and Tracy at the helm, but they too are frustrated with the slow adoption of informal learning. Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 Last week I had a phone conversation with Ian Huckabee of WeeJee Media.

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MARCH 15, 2011

The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. My thinking about training evaluation was turned on its head by a presentation at the February 2011 MNISPI meeting by Beth McGoldrick of Ameriprise’s RiverSource University. But it wasn’t.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. So, what to do when a “boutique vendor” (our client’s label for us) gives you a number that sounds outrageously high?

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Our director of training development called us an Enterprise Training Partner today. I liked the sound of that. Depends on the client. Depends on the market. Depends on the communication channel. Should I use it? Probably depends who I talk to tomorrow.

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