Adobe Captivate

JULY 22, 2010

I'd like to see us make August Captivate 5 Mastery Month. I've been inspired by wonderful recent articles created and posted to the Adobe Community Help by members of the Community like this recent contribution from Lilybiri. With hundreds of thousands of Captivate users and virtually all of them predisposed to developing eLearning, I'd want to challenge you, yes you, to create a tip, a tutorial, a handy use case or other tidbit to share with the broader Captivate Community.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. These categories are somewhat loose; some people could be in multiple categories. Instructional Designers.

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Upside Learning

JULY 20, 2010

A couple of month back I had shared a list of top 30 online resources for instructional designers to keep up with. That post seems to have got good circulation. Recently I came across this discussion on LinkedIn – best book for beginning instructional designers. The discussion has thrown up a great list of books for instructional designers worth sharing with our readers too. e- Learning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Colvin Clark & Richard E.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 20, 2010

My favourite example of augmented reality is now a couple of years old: While it might not be as flash as the xkcd enthusiasts might demand from this emerging technology, it remains practical and – gasp! – useful in the workplace. And in one way at least, it is similar to this other famous example: In both cases, artificial imagery is layered over the real world.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 19, 2010

Here is a list of educational games that can be used to teach kids during the school year or over the summer break. Here are some games based on Nobel Prize winning research. These games cover the topics of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, peace and economics. This game teaches about Nobel Prize winning Chemistry Research. There are a bunch of games on the web site to check out.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 7, 2010

by AJ George Over the last few weeks we've delved deep into color. We've covered how color affects mood , enforces learning , and how to use color to design for special needs like colorblindness, dyslexia, the elderly and other cultures. This week I'm going to wrap up the color series with a few free, useful (and fun!) color resources to aid in your design process.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 18, 2010

MoodleTuts | 5 Minute Moodle Tutorials. Quick tutorials on Moodle, including info on SCORM and making Captivate play nicely with Moodle. tags : moodle tutorials e-learning scorm captivate. Insights New Perspectives Blog > Reconnecting the Virtual Team <span class=&# “> – Annotated. Guiding principles for improving effectiveness for virtual team, following a model with four pillars: Climate, Process, Focus, and Flow. tags : telecommuting orgculture.

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Upside Learning

JULY 29, 2010

We have been interacting with a number of clients, understanding their requirements and discussing possible learning solutions, and one thing that stands out in these discussions is the surge in the demand for mLearning solutions. The use of mobiles and other related digital media as an alternative source of information is increasingly gaining ground in the learning environment.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 13, 2010

I’m involved in several discussions around how to use Wikis as part of learning solutions. I wanted to collect a few resources around this topic for use in these discussions. So, of course, I went to eLearning Learning and I looked at Wiki , Collaborative Learning with Wikis , Wikis and eLearning 2.0 , Wikis Corporate eLearning , Social Learning with Wikis , Wiki Security and a few others.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 13, 2010

Learning in 3D Class sitting around conference room table. Jumping into a virtual world can be a fun but scary and daunting place for first timers. As instructional designers, one of our "missions" is to help learners overcome the scary and daunting aspects so learning occurs. One of my beliefs is that designers need to be made to feel like learners again so they can empathize with the people for whom they are building instruction.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 6, 2010

In the course of my interviews for the mobile learning book, Robert Gadd ( OnPoint Digital ) made a comment that’s stuck with me. He opined that the new ‘cigarette’ break was the social media break where employees will stand outside with their mobile phone and check in on their social networks. The reason, of course, being that their companies block social media access via their IT infrastructure.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 22, 2010

by AJ George If you're a habitual blog reader, then you've already been made privy to my foray into the effective use of fonts and some font resources. And you've already delved deep into color with my 4 part series on using color in learning ( color and mood , color and learning , using color for special needs , and color resources ). Now I'm going to turn my attention toward the effective use of images for learning.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 15, 2010

By Shelley A. Gable. A post from a couple weeks ago explained that there are instructional design models that offer formulas for assembling training in a way that captures learners’ attention, conveys content, and provides learners with an opportunity to practice and receive feedback on new skills. That post described Robert Gagne’s nine events of instruction , which is one of the more popular instructional design models and is based on cognitive and behavioral psychology.

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Upside Learning

JULY 23, 2010

Recently, the first mLearnCon covering the A-Z in mobile learning was held in San Diego. Amit had summarized about it in his posts on How To Create Successful M-Learning Strategy: mLearnCon – Part I and Part II and Interesting Mobile Statistic. While going through the session list, I noticed one session on SCORM Implementation Strategies for Mobile.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 28, 2010

There might be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are hundreds of ways to enhance employee engagement. These are listed in a new book edited by David Zinger for The Employee Engagement Network. The book is titled The Top Tens of Employee Engagement and can be downloaded at the Network' site. I have the honor of being author of the chapter on measuring the impact of employee engagement interventions.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2010

While kids are growing up with cell phones, internet access, virtual worlds and a culture that rewards creating digital networks and online content, the basic instructional paradigm for teaching those students has not adapted to the explosive use of technology among the culture of third millennials. That is not to say that technology tools haven’t been introduced to schools, they have.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2010

On twitter today a brief conversation ensued about best practices versus best principles. I’ve gone off on this before ( I think Dilbert sums it up nicely), and my tweet today captures my belief: “please, *not* best practices; abstract best principles and recontextualize!&#. However, I want to go further. Several times recently I’ve had people ask for research that justifies a particular position.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 27, 2010

by Kevin Siegel.   Beginning with Adobe Captivate 4, and continuing in Captivate 5, you can create a link to a PowerPoint presentation during the import process by simply selecting the Link option on the Convert PowerPoint Presentations dialog box. Anybody who has had to update the linked PowerPoint presentation at any point after the import process will appreciate the workflow. simply choose  Edit > Edit with Microsoft PowerPoint > Edit Presentation.

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Integrated Learnings

JULY 27, 2010

By Shelley A. Gable. Regardless of the extent of your background in instructional design, I think just about everyone can agree that capturing learners’ attention at the start of an eLearning course (and engaging interest throughout) is critical. Anyone who has taken an introductory public speaking class can appreciate this principle. In the spirit of sharing some basic ideas while keeping this simple, below are seven techniques designers can use to capture learners’ attention at the start of an

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Upside Learning

JULY 7, 2010

Tomi Ahonen delivered the first keynote address at the mLearnCon last month in San Diego. His presentation was full of interesting statistics about mobile usage among teens and across geographies – all very useful pointers for m-learning developers. His presentation is now available here. I have pulled out some slides I found interesting. The Growth rates of mobile are many times more than that of the Internet or PCs.

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Learning Visions

JULY 19, 2010

Temple Smolen, writing in Learning Solutions Magazine, has done a thoughtful dive into the data to look more at The Gender Pay Gap in e-Learning ( a rant we started when we first read the eLearning Guild's 2010 Salary Report! ) The gap is real. So what's a woman to do? Smolen says we in the e-Learning biz are "the epitome of change catalysts." Her suggestion: Use the examples in the last section of the 2010 Salary and Compensation Report to calculate the fair “average” salary for yourself or you

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Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2010

There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. Here's why. Recently, I was touring a nuclear power plant training facility and had a chance to see the room where operators are trained. It is an EXACT replica of the actual operations room in the real plant right down to the same ambient sounds.

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Web Courseworks

JULY 23, 2010

The University of Wisconsin has been holding an annual distance education conference over the past 25 years. This means that during the 1980’s educators were discussing how to reach learners through the media of radio and television. Today, of course, it is all about using the Internet to educate and inform. This year I will be conducting a workshop on casual games, speaking on my research topic: factors that enable team collaboration.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 30, 2010

by Rosie Hausler.   A few weeks ago I created a survey about Mobile Learning. Thanks to everyone that took time out to answer. The results are summarized below. 79% of respondents are interested in learning more about Mobile Learning. 50% currently neither create nor consume Mobile Learning. 86% think Mobile Learning can enhance the learning experience. 29% have used a mobile device as part of a blended learning experience.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2010

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question of the Month is “Does the discussion of “how the brain learns&# impact your eLearning design?&# My answer is in several parts. The short answer is “yes&# , of course, because my PhD is in Cognitive Psychology (really, applied cognitive science), and I’ve looked at cognitive learning, behavioral learning, social constructivist learning, connectionist learning, even machine learning, looking for guidance about how to design better l

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Upside Learning

JULY 6, 2010

About a month back I blogged about Smokescreen which allows advertisers to run simple Flash movies on iPad/iPhone using HTML5/JavaScript. Today while checking my twitter feed I discovered Frash which runs Flash content on iPad/iPhone in a Safari browser. It’s an effort to take the Android implementation of Flash Player to run on iPad/iPhone. The video below shows Flash content running on iPad Safari browser using Frash –.

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Learning Visions

JULY 2, 2010

I'm talking to an in house learning team as they work on developing a strategy around eLearning -- including authoring tools and LMS selection. They've posed some questions to me that I was hoping to get your input on -- wisdom of the crowd and all that: What should we look out for when selecting a tool to do simulation development or quizzing/evaluation?

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Kapp Notes

JULY 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, Scott Newcomb a fourth grade teacher in St. Marys, Ohio informed me about a Mobile Learning project he has been involved with for the last two years. They have been using smartphones in the classroom and every student in our school district from 3rd grade to 6th grade has their own mobile learning device. They are adding seventh grade next year and the ultimate goal is to have a mobile learning device in every students' hand from 3rd grade to 12th grade!

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