Zephyr Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

'Developing elearning tends to focus on three areas – content, design and technology, which really is a given, but there is no strategic substance to focus our vision and desired outcomes. Making elearning work is a challenge, and I know from experience that there is very little emphasis placed on the people who will be taking the learning! There are three alternative areas where much of your focus should be directed when placing elearning on the path for success: Engagement.

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Making Change

JUNE 10, 2013

'We, the downtrodden and ignored learning and development professionals of the world, hereby shake off the shackles of convention and obedience and proclaim the arrival of a new order, a new age of enlightenment in which we valiantly defend truth, honor, and our learners by… well, by not being such pushovers. We refuse to pretend that training is always the answer.

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LearnDash

JUNE 9, 2013

'Advances in technology generally define the latest trends in any industry, and the elearning industry is no different. New devices and APIs are shaping the present and future of how organizations administer and record learning. In 2013, we are starting to see how the latest technologies are making their way into formal learning delivery. The infographic below, provided by KnowledgeOne, details some of the latest and emerging trends in 2013 as they relate to elearning.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 26, 2013

'Last week, at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in London, I spoke on “eLearning on Tablets: What, Why & How?” to an audience of roughly 70 people. That, I think, is a very decent number and reconfirms the growing interest in this area. I think tablets are quite unique in combining the portability of mobile [.] Related Posts: Designing eLearning For iPads (LT 2013 – Slide Deck) How To mEnable Your eLearning eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas Mobile Learning: The Fut

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 25, 2013

'Here are four interesting videos all related to design which I have been thinking about lately in terms of designing instructional experiences that are meaningful and encouraging to learners. The first video is about “finding” good ideas. It tackles the question. “Where do good ideas come from?” The next video outlines a design sprint, I’ve done something very similar, I call it a Shazam Session where, in 5 days, you can design a fairly involved prototype of a solu

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Raptivity

JUNE 25, 2013

'Let’ play a game. The game is called “Guess this Word”. I will give you three clues that describe a word that is a current eLearning trend. The object of the game is to guess this word by the [.].

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Making Change

JUNE 24, 2013

'Business leaders love their L&D departments! Well, maybe 20 percent of them do. “Survey after survey has repeatedly shown that the proportion of business leaders who are satisfied with their learning function’s performance is around 20 percent,” write the authors of a recent article in The European Business Review. “Last year, a survey found that more than half of managers believe that employee performance would not change if their company’s learning function were elimina

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

'“Will I get a certificate for this?” No matter how much we try to cultivate an informal learning culture within our organisations, this question pops up time and again. It’s a symptom of the way workplace education (and education more generally) has been administered over the years, and while I don’t blame people for thinking this way, I confess to being frustrated by the redundancy of it all.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

'The LMSs today are not restricted to merely conducting and managing the day-to-day organizational training activities, but embrace a much larger role. But unfortunately not many organizations are leveraging these platforms to their optimum. This is mainly due to the lack of understanding of the many features they now offer. Our new eBook, ‘Getting More [.

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Absorb LMS

JUNE 6, 2013

'Remember reflection? That’s something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Prior to the mobile revolution, people could at times be seen staring off into space, just thinking. If you were to spot someone doing that today, you’d think “So sad.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 3, 2013

'by Kevin Siegel. In the good old days, software companies released major upgrades to their products every 2-3 years. Like it or not, the upgrade cycles have gotten shorter and shorter. How long was it between Adobe Captivate 5 and 6? 14 months? 18? Adobe has promised a more aggressive upgrade cycle for its programs that will make even the recent upgrade cycles look almost snail-like.

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Raptivity

JUNE 18, 2013

'When I first heard about MOOCs, I thought they were the answers to my prayers. I could sign up for fun, interactive MOOCs for little or no money, and take them from home. I was in! What I discovered was [.].

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Making Change

JUNE 2, 2013

'I preach a lot about making activities realistic and showing the results of the learner’s choice. Here’s a good example of those principles from the folks at SmartBuilder. In the activity, you’ll learn the ports of a laptop and apply your knowledge in a realistic situation. Go try it , and then come back here for some discussion. A “traditional” course wouldn’t have let us explore the laptop.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

'How would you answer the question, “Why do you think learners forget what they’ve learned so quickly?” This is the question that Charles Henderson asks in the Linkedin Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group discussion. He has received nearly 700 (and counting) comments which seems quite a lot for a Linkedin group. He must have hit a nerve.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

'With the advent of mobile devices, there is a natural desire in L&D folks to put (or even push) some of their organization's existing eLearning onto mobile devices (mobile phones, tablets, and everything in between) too. A tempting proposition indeed, but one that needs some caution before actually implementing it. The first question, possibly, is [.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 4, 2013

'Games are emotional, in a game there are typically winners and losers. The winners feel great! The losers, don’t feel great:(. As someone creating or commissioning an instructional game, are you prepared to deal with the losers of that instructional game? That’s right, if you create an instructional game or gamification that is based on competition, some of the learners will feel great that they’ve won and some will feel lousy that their name isn’t on the leaderboard or

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Absorb LMS

JUNE 20, 2013

'In many organizations, workplace learning consists of getting people into a room to listen to an instructor. If the workforce is distributed, the room used may be virtual instead of physical, and the donuts served may be imaginary instead of real. When these organizations become fed up with the effort of trying to manage their learning initiatives using pen and paper, spreadsheets, and various stone-age tools, they acquire a learning management system.

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Challenge to Learn

JUNE 20, 2013

'The sun is setting over San José at the evening of the last day of MLearncon. Time to review 2,5 days of mLearning. It is my believe that the technical possibilities are not the limitation for mLearning anymore. Of course better, faster and cheaper would be nice. The technique is there, the users have the devices and there is enough bandwidth. But I don’t see the growth I expected.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 1, 2013

'Here’s my pick of the resources from May 2013 – and this month it is quite an eclectic bunch! I’ve listed them in chronological order, and once again, I’ve provided a short quote to give a flavour of the article where I’ve not embedded the resource itself. â?¦ [.].

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Learning Visions

JUNE 10, 2013

'On June 6, I presented to a lively audience on "Continuous, collaborative learning". The webinar was hosted by GoToTraining/Citrix and Training Magazine. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions! Continuous, collaborative learning: making it work for your org from Cammy Bean.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 20, 2013

'With the launch of iOS 7 it is now apparent that Apple will soon be coming out with hybrid laptop/desktop and tablet devices. Patently Apple reports that Apple has already filed a patent for hybrid notebook/tablet whose display can be removed from the base containing the keyboard. How soon before the launch? We will have [.] Related Posts: Some Thoughts On Tablet Learning (aka Elearning On iPads) Microsoft Surface: Will It Help mLearning?

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LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2013

'Educational games are increasing in popularity in both educational and corporate settings. There are inherent benefits to gaming when it comes to learning, but we are starting to see that gaming is also proving to be beneficial beyond just a learning environment. Gaming is also being used in therapy across many different disciplines. To demonstrate the power gaming can have over the human mind, let’s take a look at a powerful example.

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Raptivity

JUNE 26, 2013

'Templates can be very helpful in providing the structure of online learning activities; however some templates can limit creativity and make presentations become very cookie-cutter and boring. Templates can also allow for the rapid creation of learning activities which enable [.].

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Challenge to Learn

JUNE 18, 2013

'Tamar is CLO at Qualqomm. She started out with expressing her astonishment that we all flew to San Jose to attend a conference on mobile learning and she challenged the Guild to do it through mobile devices next year. That was a fair warning for what was to come. After this intro she gave us the ‘normal’ analysis of the ‘ digital natives’ that will swarm our workplace very soon.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 25, 2013

'Over the last few years I have been observing (as well as writing about) three significant things that are happening in the context of workplace learning: An increasing number of knowledge workers are finding their own solutions to their individual and team learning and performance problems on the Social Web – and in doing so [.].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 2, 2013

'by AJ Walther. I've previously written a pretty wide array of articles on using color in eLearning design. Part of that series covered designing for color blindness and compliance. I later shared another resource for assessing whether the colors you are using together have enough contrast. I've recently come across more resources for designing with various types of color blindness in mind that I'd like to share.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 13, 2013

'While blended learning has been a prominent trend in corporate L&D for maximizing training and development results for quite a while now, some organizations are still unsure of leveraging their Learning Management Systems (LMSs) for managing it. Implementing an LMS for managing blended learning is as crucial a task, if not more, as a new [.] Related Posts: 8 Things To Follow While Implementing Blended Learning Via… LMS Switching Guide – A Free eBook!

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KnowledgeStar

JUNE 6, 2013

'I’ve been posting about MOOCs since they first appeared. Easy to get lost in the trees and forget to see the forest. So I look at this TED presentation about once a month to get a refresh on the basic reasons why MOOCs are so important. The message gets lost too often in the static […].

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