Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

On Feb 15, 2010, at Mobile World Congress 2010, Adobe announced Adobe AIR for mobile devices, a consistent runtime for standalone applications which is an outcome of Adobe initiated Open-Screen project. As quoted by Adobe, the Open-Screen project has grown to around 70 ecosystem partners world-wide, which means many devices would be made capable of supporting the outcomes of this Adobe initiative.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 World: The Evolution of Distance Learning , Norm Willox, CEO of Critical Information Network, described the “brain drain&# that today’s companies are experiencing as: “Waves of craftsmen retiring, creating a void of skilled personnel and

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I recently participated in my first TelePresence meeting. If you haven’t seen this technology, imagine videoconferencing, but life-size and set up so it feels more like you’re physically in the same room. In the US, you may have seen Cisco’s commercials with Ellen Page where she visits a classroom that is taking a “field trip&# to China.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. I have to say, I don’t get the question. That is, I understand what they’re asking, and like the response they give, but I really think it’s the wrong question. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Apparently, it is not just the newspaper business that is in trouble, the trade publication magazine business isn't so hot either. Training Magazine and the associated web site are being moth balled at the end of March. As a sometimes contributor to the TrainingDay blog , it is will be sad to see it closed as well. Here is an excerpt from Nielsen shuts down 'Training' Nielsen Business Media told employees Tuesday that it is shutting down Training magazine and its companion Web site, trainingmag.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As social technology growth continues to march on and dynamic learning grows to be the need of the day, it is little surprise that social media has now become an integral part of learning as well. Various elearning development companies are integrating the popular social media services like Twitter, YouTube etc. right into their courses and LMS. A couple of months back, the Adobe Captivate blog demonstrated a twitter widget that can be integrated within a Captivate Flash output to send a tweet (

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 World: The Evolution of Distance Learning , Norm Willox, CEO of Critical Information Network, described the “brain drain&# that today’s companies are experiencing as: “Waves of craftsmen retiring, creating a void of skilled personnel and

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I don't usually upload videos directly, but this one from O'reillyMedia on the The Science of Social Media Marketing is a must watch for all interested in using Social Media to reach out, influence, spread ideas, create memes. The webcast draws parallels with natural biological development and the growth and spread of an idea using concepts like longevity , fecundity , and reproduction to drive home the points.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I stumbled on this short presentation on Slideshare from ejars. What Is Instructional Design? View more presentations from ejars. What do you think? Has he got it right? Tags: instructional design.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Here are the great stops for week 5 of the blog book tour. Also, follow the tour on Twitter with hashtag #lrn3d. And, join us on Facebook at the Learning in 3D page. We are trying to hit 200 fans by the end of the week. Can you help? Invite your colleagues, friends and relatives to become a fan. Also, if you like, stop by our Amazon web page and leave a review.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing a book on mobile learning. My only previous experience was writing Engaging Learning , where the prose practically exploded from my fingers. This time is different. The prose actually does flow quite easily from my fingers, but I find myself restructuring more often than last time. This is a bigger topic, and I keep uncovering new ways to think about mobile and new facets to try to include.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The iPad is here. After all the hype, which it didn’t quite live up to, there was a lot of commentary web-wide on whether it’s suitable for elearning, or a specific type of learning. Here at Upside our camp is divided, there are iPad lovers and there are iPad baiters. The lovers are typically Apple fan-boys who are crazy about anything Apple, so their devotion to any bit of technology that Steve Jobs throws into the market is taken for granted.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Management of any organization, large, medium, or small, has a critical role to play in the training and development of employees. A great example is Zingerman’s , the internationally famous specialty food retailer located in Ann Arbor, Michigan that employs over 300 people in nine separate businesses: Delicatessen, Bakehouse, Catering, Mail Order, Training (ZingTrain), Candy Manufactory, Coffee Company, Creamery, and the Roadhouse Restraurant.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

by Jonathan Shoaf. Consistency is important when delivering eLearning. This is why most eLearning professionals develop a standard look and feel for all their courses. Learners need to be focused on learning the topic, not on finding out how to get to the next page or which button to click next. Buttons are a part of a standard look and feel and they need to be consistent through all of your courses.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

As I reported here a few weeks ago, I’ve been reading Reigeluth’s ‘little green book’ for bedtime reading the past few weeks. The exciting news is that Charles Reigeluth will be joining us on Instructional Design Live this Friday at noon eastern. Come listen in! We’ll might be addressing some of these scintillating questions: 1. How does the Information-Age paradigm of instruction differ from the Industrial-Age paradigm?

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Dan Bliton of Booz Allen Hamilton asked Tony and Karl to present a webinar entitled "Enterprise Learning and Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds." The presentation promises to be a lot of fun. Here are the supporting resources. Slides Here are the slides from the presentation. Bah Learning In 3 D View more presentations from kkapp. Resources: Alternatives to Second Life A Few More Alternatives to Second Life Applying ADDIE to 3D Worlds Questions about Second Life Virtual Worlds Worth Billions in

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Just to note that Learnlets is now part of the blogs recorded in Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning. Tony’s made an architecture that allows blogs and articles on a particular topic to be aggregated and searched. As part of a Personal Learning Network for those in elearning, such a searchable repository is quite useful. I used it as a recommended resource for the upcoming Foundations Intensive elearning introduction event as part of the Learning Solutions conference.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

In the past I have written a few posts mainly focused on making the process of selecting the right LMS for your business need – be it internal training management or selling training as a business. We looked at a series of things focusing on the right way to go about open source LMS , in case you are switching to a new LMS system , the critical consideration on how to decide between hosted and behind-the-firewall option , and even a few tips on what not to do while selecting an LMS.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Today's Wall Street Journal carries an article by Jeff Tachtenberg and Yukari Kane titled 'Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals for iPad'. While it is widely known that major textbook publishers are adapting their texts for the electronic format, the intoduction of iPad has given that trend a further push - or so it seems from this article. McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson Education, Kaplan are all on the bandwagon already.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I had a great conversation last week that sparked an early stage idea for what I think would be a wonderful way for learning and development organizations to leverage SharePoint better. HP Web 2.0 for Marketing – Social Learning Experience The concept is probably easiest to understand by considering what HP did around their course on Web 2.0 for Marketing.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

This week on Instructional Design Live on EdTechTalk. Charles Reigeluth , University of Indiana, Bloomington – authored numerous articles and books. Best known for Instructional Design Theories and Models. (These are my live blogged notes from the session). People learn at different rates. And yet in our education and training systems we attempt to teach a fixed amount of content in a fixed amount of time.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Week four was a busy week with an interesting development in the virtual world space. The biggest news was that Forterra Systems assets and intellectual property was sold to SAIC and about a dozen Forterra employees will be joining SAIC. In the book tour we had some interesting stops but a few stops were missed as well. Day Sixteen Gordon Snyder's at Information & Communications Technology Blog brought in the interesting idea of Cyberbullies in a virtual world and the impact they can have and di

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

After my last blog post , a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information. Let’s say you are the Director of a company’s Education/Training department and you want to move more toward information learning.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Recently we’ve made the UpsideLMS compatible to mobile devices and also launched a new version – UpsideLMS Version 4.0. While ensuring compliance, we encountered some interesting issues in the implementation of SCORM and found very little help online about implementing SCORM for mobile devices. So we thought sharing that experience might help.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Now, the deafening Google Buzz is here. It resides right inside Gmail, requires no separate account, and makes it easy to share your pictures, links, videos and updates with your Gmail contacts. When you share something, others presumably like it, comment on it and a threaded discussion starts. So, who is Buzz for? Some say Buzz is for Twitter drop-outs.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

What can we learn from Toyota’s fall from grace? This is the question I ask in a blog posted on February 11 th. In that piece I write about Toyota’s need to learn about the deficiencies in its corporate culture rather than framing their problem as one of defective parts. Other organizations that are trying to adapt “The Toyota Way” to their own operations should look at Toyota’s experience as a wake-up call.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Today as part of the Kineo Insights webinar series – a conversation on open source. The following are my notes from Part 2 of the webinar: Our Journey: Harnessing Moodle to Deliver Customer Training Kronos – Scott Severn and Lynn Bennett – manage the customer training team for Kronos. Kronos delivers products and services to customers managing workforce.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Just got this in an email: Regrettably, we have some unfortunate news to share with you: The Nielsen Company has made the decision to cease operation of Training magazine and Training magazine Events effective February 26. This will also be our last day with the company. For those of you scheduled to present at our upcoming Training Leadership Summit, we hope that a buyer will step in to continue the brand and that the Summit will go on as planned.

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