Mon.Feb 23, 2015

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Game-based learning on a shoestring

E-Learning Provocateur

'Game-based learning doesn’t have to break the bank. That was the key point of my presentation at The Learning Assembly in Melbourne last week. Sure, you can spend an obscene amount of money on gaming technology if you want to, but you don’t have to. Take Diner Dash for instance. In this free online game, you play the role of a waitress in a busy restaurant.

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Tips for Creating Effective E-Learning Assessments

Origin Learning

'Let us begin with an analogy: If training is a medicine, assessment is a mechanism to ascertain the effectiveness of that medicine. Just how a medicine is given to achieve specific goals to heal the body or improve its immunity and strength, training to employees is imparted with the purpose of empowering them with certain specific skills or knowledge and remedy or improve their existing capabilities to strengthen the organization as a whole.

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Training Strategy for Changing Behavior

LearnDash

'If you need to change the current behavior of an organization through education on new policies and practices, then you need to have a proven training strategy. These kind of training initiatives are always challenging. People generally don’t like change. Most would prefer to continue doing things the way they know how, so changing a procedure often comes with some contention.

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7 Tips for Your LMS RFP Selection Process, and Free RFP Template

Lambda Solutions

'We know that with over 300 options to choose from, selecting an LMS can be a tad bit daunting. It''s a timely process that requires a lot of deep thinking and hard work. To make things a little easier, we have compiled everything you need to know to select an LMS, with tips on the process of creating an RFP.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Designing Mobile Learning with Adobe Captivate (Free Online Adobe eLearning User Group Event)

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'Wednesday, February 25, 7:00-8:00 p.m., Eastern Location:  Live, Online. You Can Attend from Anywhere in the World!   Price:  Free! Presented by  Joe Ganci More and more people are using mobile devices to access content. You know this and realize that the mobile world is different than the desktop world. You're ready to take the plunge into designing and developing true mobile learning, but where do you start?

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Localization: Training and Development in Poland

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jen Weaver    As we continue our journey around the world, let's explore some common cultural facts about Poles and their expectations when it comes to training and development. Test Your Knowledge of Polish Culture. The name "Poland" is a descriptor of the country's geography. Does it mean: The borderlands? The hill country?

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45 Free Stock Images for Your E-Learning Courses

Rapid eLearning

'One of my favorite sites for free stock images is Unsplash.com. They provide hundreds of free stock images with a Creative Commons Zero license. That means you can do anything with the images, whether free or commercial. And that’s a good deal for those of us who are on a tight budget. As you can see above, I used one of the city images provided by Philipp Henzler for the Storyline 2 tutorials.

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Why You Should be Using Twitter as a Learning Tool

OpenSesame

'How do we learn? Who do we learn from? As humans, the easiest way for us to learn is from experience, and the more practical way for us to learn is from each other. Luckily social media has made it easier than ever for us to communicate and teach each other with ease. Twitter is starting to be utilized in classrooms and virtual-learning situations to supplement and encourage a shared learning experience.

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Transformation Comes Through Process Excellence

Training Industry

'The first in this year’s blog series on training outsourcing dealt with the idea that there’s a growing need for corporate executives to find a training supplier that has the capability to transform the training organization from one that consumes costs to one that creates value. Outsourcing training has been traditionally viewed as a strategy to reduce costs because the expectations of training departments have continued to be low and have showed little to no measureable results.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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A Guide to the Instructor Gradebook

DigitalChalk eLearning

'The Instructor Gradebook tab offers some added features that allows you, as the organization administrator, to look at student information for specific course offerings. Let’s go over the few things you can do within the instructor gradebook tab. Exporting student information. You can easily pull information for a specific course using the export feature in the instructor gradebook.

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How to Encourage Employees to Comply with Compliance Training Requirements

Mindflash

'Compliance training —or training that helps employees understand how to comply with the legal, ethical and policy-related aspects of doing business—is often mandated by an agency external to the organization. In other words, compliance with the request to have employees complete compliance training is often non-negotiable. But when the word “compliance” conjures up so many negative associations—either with past compliance trainings or just because of association with forcing someone to do somet

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MOOCs Research Well-Received at ATD TechKnowledge 2015

ATD Learning Technologies

'Most of us are aware of the growing presence of Millennials in the workplace. This ATD Research Week post, authored by ATD Research Specialist David Frankel (who is a Millennial!), reviews data from ATD and other resources on Millennials at work, their skills, and preparing them to become leaders. Click here to read full version.

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Toolkit: An Overview of Two Tools—eXe and NimbleAuthor by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

'This month, Joe’s review covers one free tool and one that is definitely not free. They have different purposes, both have. their interesting features, both have their limitations. This review will help you sort them out.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Why You Should be Using Twitter as a Learning Tool

OpenSesame

How do we learn? Who do we learn from? As humans, the easiest way for us to learn is from experience, and the more practical way for us to learn is from each other. Luckily social media has made it easier than ever for us to communicate and teach each other with ease. Twitter is starting to be utilized in classrooms and virtual-learning situations to supplement and encourage a shared learning experience.

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Mobile-first content landscape poised to persist

Aptara

Mobile-first content landscape poised to persist. The many different ways to distribute content today represent both a chance to reach viewers in new ways and a puzzle when it comes to choosing an approach. Devices that can display visually rich materials are many and varied, and through technology such as HTML5, creators have ways to reach just about all of them.

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The Changing Face of Life Science Product Launch, Part 3: The Role of the Learning Team

PDG

In this series, PDG’s Ann Stott, a 20+ year veteran of the Life Science industry, shares her perspective on how to become more strategic in product launch planning. In the previous installment , Ann discussed how a Launch Toolkit can drive success in managing a product launch portfolio. In this final entry, Ann talks about the role of the Learning Team in product launch.

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The Best of e-Learning in February 2015

Trivantis

'Ah February… It’s a month full of love, chocolates and—if you live in much of North America—wishing the groundhog had been wrong. Why must he always predict six more weeks of winter? Chase away those winter blues with the best e-Learning articles of the month. And if you live somewhere warm, be thankful! Emerging Roles Of The Learning Designer. “Right now, before our very eyes, the world of workplace learning is shifting.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.