Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 21, 2011

The Human Factor: How Gender Differences Matter in Software Training by Mary Arnold : Learning Solutions Magazine. If your software training includes time to explore or “tinker,&# men and women will have different rates of success. A strategic approach may be better than going through individual features. This research focused on adding new features with an audience who was already familiar with the software; I’m not sure the same training technique would work with beginners with an

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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 12, 2011

'Today I’m happy to report that our much anticipated update of Adobe Presenter with full support for ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) is here, and this is a free update to anyone who owns Adobe Presenter 7, or any version of our Adobe eLearning Suite. In case you are not familiar with Adobe Presenter, it is a Plug-and-Play Rapid eLearning development tool for Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Making Change

AUGUST 23, 2011

If your client said, “Please create a course about our impossibly complex process,” what would you say? A. “Hmmm. That process looks really complicated. Is there any way to make it simpler?” or. B. “No problem. Would you like fries with that?” Often we know nothing about our client’s processes, and it’s tempting to think we should never question what they do.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 31, 2011

By Dean Hawkinson. This article is a continuation from the article I wrote earlier this month on a webinar led by David Mallon of Bersin and Associates. In this webinar, Mr. Mallon outlined the top 10 best practices for the next generation of eLearning. I would like to expand on three additional items from that list of practices. What makes your organization relevant?

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

What is intended to pass for performance management in too many organizations today is the annual compulsory performance review. To label this a “performance management system” is to give the process much more credit than it deserves. A perfunctory meeting between a manager and employee once a year to review a standard rating sheet that lists competencies and goals that are probably no longer relevant is not a performance management system.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 7, 2011

Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Thinking Frameworks. Review of Bloom’s Taxonomy, including problems and the revised version, with information about the differences between factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. tags: bloom learning education. Those teachers who keep a list of question prompts relating to the various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy undoubtedly do a better job of encouraging higher-order thinking in their students than those who have no such

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2011

On the advice of Judy Brown , I picked up The Checklist Manifesto , and I have to say it’s a must-read. This is a short, well-written, and mind-changing book. Frankly, it ranks up there with Don Norman ‘s Design of Everyday Things , and that’s saying a lot. Atul Gawande is a medical doctor who’s also an eloquent writer. In the course of his work he’s become interested in reducing errors, and has looked deeply into how to minimize them.

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Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 28, 2011

A book straight from my heart: Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson. They are the two of the people behind the company 37signals. They build products like Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Ruby on Rails and more. And they have done that with just 12 people! A fresh view on business and success. I want to share some interesting quotes from the book.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 28, 2011

by Jonathan Shoaf. Adobe Captivate 5.5 is a well suited e-learning development tool for simulations and the tool I turn to first for Flash-based e-learning development. It’s screen recording is top notch for creating simulations and its ability to track variables and advanced actions makes it very versatile to my needs. One of the cool features in Adobe Captivate I have found myself using lately is the text animation.

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What makes a great eLearning strategy? There’s no simple blueprint guaranteed to work; but there are recurring themes. The reality of L&D programs is that training needs to be repeatable, scalable, and uphold learning standards. Simultaneously, programs are often more engaging when personalized to the learner. Striking a balance between these demands can be a challenge.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 26, 2011

Lately, I’ve been giving greater thought to how the influence of the internet has changed who I am, and how I operate. This reverie was sparked a few weeks ago when I noticed that I have increasingly stopped reading online news articles to their completion, and have instead begun moving on to the next item as soon as I’ve figured out the main points. .

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 29, 2011

Civilization V is a turn based strategy game where players attempt to lead a civilization from prehistoric times into the future on a procedurally-generated map, achieving one of a number of different victory conditions through research, diplomacy, expansion, economic development, government and military conquest. A player wins by achieving the highest-scoring civilization.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Several weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Hirsh. Lauren needed to do an informational interview for her masters program, and I needed some new profile pictures. (The pictures turned out terrific; I’m sure I got the better end of the bargain.). During the interview, Lauren asked some very thoughtful questions about the relationship between theory and practice.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 25, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. I am happy to report that, at least among readers of this newsletter, the past perfect is not dead. I received a lot of corrected sentences properly using the past perfect. Here, from Kris Westrum , are the corrected sentences: If I had had my coat on yesterday when the downpour started, I would not have gotten so wet. Although Tadd had his umbrella, his briefcase still got wet.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2011

In something I’ve just been involved in, I realized I had a question. I’m a fan of scenarios (read: serious games), to the point that I’ve written a book about how to design them! I’m also a fan of social learning, and consequently argue for the benefits of collaborative assignments. They both have the opportunity for powerful outcomes.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 24, 2011

As leaders, we tend to overestimate our abilities and underestimate the amount of help we need in order to improve. It’s like looking in a mirror and not seeing yourself the way others see you. Wally Bock, in his post about a Development Dimensions International (DDI) study of front-line leaders, draws three major implications: You can't trust your mirror.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 25, 2011

Matching the right type of game-thinking and mechanics to the right type of content to be learned, is the right way to design an instructional game. Declarative knowledge is taught with simple games like Jeopardy-type games, matching games, hangman-type games, sequencing game and multiple choice games which reinforce declarative knowledge (information that needs to be memorized).

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Speaker: Joseph Suarez - Learning Experience Designer at Suarez Media Production

What makes an instructional video engaging and effective? Why do Learning and Development professionals often struggle to produce quality videos? What can we do to change that? In this webinar, Joseph Suarez will break down the craft, the art, and the science of video production and reveal how to leverage the production process to create great videos of all types and sizes.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 22, 2011

That was the topic of last week’s Learning Cafe in Sydney. In short, my esteemed peers and I agreed on “yes&# , but that’s not the end of the story. Allow me to explain… According to one school of thought, L&D belongs in HR because that’s how you achieve scale. The fundamental learning and development needs in the organisation (eg leadership, culture and change) are enterprise-wide.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 25, 2011

by AJ George. I have an update to last week's article on creating new color palettes. I had been asked if there was a way to change the default color palette and I had reported back that there was not. Well, I nerded out a bit and realized that there actually is a way to do this. Let's say you like the default Office theme because it doesn't have fancy layouts or backgrounds, but you would just like the default color palette to change.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 24, 2011

Social media is affecting all our lives – it has disrupted countries and it is unsettling organisations. Although more and more people are now using the term “social learning&# to mean the use of social media for learning, most of them are simply referring to how social media can be used within formal, social learning/training – whereas this is only a small part of the picture.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 24, 2011

What’s In It For Learners? In organizations, we talk about addressing WIIFM (What’s In It For Me). As a key component of motivation, we want to connect to individuals viscerally. With my focus on engagement in learning, I’ve felt it’s important to address the conative (anxiety, motivation, etc) of learners as well. What I’ve meant by this has included having introductions that viscerally capture the consequences of the knowledge (positive or negative, dramatically

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 21, 2011

For more than a decade in the late part of the last century (I get a kick out of saying that) my life was theatre. During that period, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing for the stage. I acted in and/or directed over 75 plays, in both academic and professional theatres in the Midwest and on the west coast, won awards in both disciplines, taught classes, and was moderately successful at supporting myself in a very tough industry.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 24, 2011

Yesterday I discussed the dis-integration of learning occurring due to excessive chunking of the wrong types of content. Sure you can chunk declarative knowledge and concepts but problem-solving or situational creativity (like writing a proposal or developing a marketing plan or leading a project) requires integration of content not dis-integration.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 21, 2011

By Dean Hawkinson. I recently listened in on a webinar presented by David Mallon, with Bersin & Associates, called 10 Best Practices in the Next Generation of eLearning. He began by challenging us to think about what makes our learning organizations relevant in today’s environment, and he stated five types of learning that organizations typically use.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 23, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. Ever been nudged? In life, getting nudged might be a good thing or a bad thing. In Captivate, it's a good thing. You can always move an object by simply dragging your mouse. But dragging an object with the mouse might prove frustrating if you only wanted to constrain the drag (only move the object up or down, but not left or right).

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Speaker: Connie Malamed, Founder of Mastering Instructional Design and Publisher of The eLearning Coach

Did you know that the visual design of eLearning content has a big impact on learner success? Well-designed materials can motivate learners, improve comprehension, and assist optimal retention. If you need rapid, easily actionable ways to improve your eLearning, join this session to learn the power principles that will have the biggest impact on your designs.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 24, 2011

Social media is affecting all our lives – it has disrupted countries and it is unsettling organisations. Although more and more people are now using the term “social learning&# to mean the use of social media for learning, most of them are simply referring to how social media can be used within formal, social learning/training – whereas this is only a small part of the picture.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 23, 2011

At the recent Distance Teaching & Learning Conference I keynoted at, I met up with Jon Aleckson who, among other things, provided me a copy of his new book MindMeld. As the subtitle tells you, the book is about “micro collaboration between elearning designers and instructor experts&#. To put it another way, the book is primarily about how to work successfully with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 19, 2011

I have been blogging a lot about Training Evaluation this year—mostly Kirkpatrick , but also Brinkerhoff and Scriven. I just realized that I haven’t included a single word about Jack Phillips , who introduced Return on Investment (ROI) as Level 5 to Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation. My first exposure to Phillips’ ROI—although I didn’t realize it at the time—was through a colleague who introduced me to Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels.

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