Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 29, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Wisdom of Experience: Simplifying Complex Learning Targets by Andrea on March 30, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , performance support , subject matter experts In recent months, I’ve been working on a project to redesign a national training program for bulk plant employees in the propane industry.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 28, 2011

Mobile learning is in the air. It’s the buzz word in training these days and you can’t escape all the noise surrounding it. At Upside Learning, we have been doing a fair bit of mobile learning for more than two years now. During this period we’ve tried several things; experimented a lot; and in the process have built a good understanding and capability in the mobile learning space.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from today’s eLearning Guild Webinars with members of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA): Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, Jane Hart, Jay Cross Exploring Social Learning and Smarter Working The questions for the session were sourced from the crowd. The people asked and ITA answers… Working Smarter – all the things it takes to get things done in organizations.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 30, 2011

Audience Response Systems (ARS) establish interactivity between presenters and their audience. Traditionally ARS consist of several units of wireless hardware (a clicker pad which looks like a remote control) used by the audience, and it is combined with a presentation software used by the presenter. Among the several well-known benefits of ARS, the most important one is that it creates an interactive and fun learning environment.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? by Barbara on March 28, 2011 in Instructional Design , performance support Accelerated Learning Mind Map While I was taking classes in curriculum design, we discussed, at great length, different learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 31, 2011

Information overload? No – it’s a case of filter failure, said Clay Shirky. So is Summify, which has just launched, a possible solution? Summify is a service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks, and delivers it by email and on the web. “Summify distills the social web, boiling down the torrent of daily information into a summary of the top five or ten most important and relevant stories each day.&#.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 31, 2011

by AJ George.   A couple of weeks ago I discussed some points for working with Audio in PowerPoint ; today, a bit of elaboration. What if you want to play two audio files automatically at the same time (say, for example, you want a song to play but you also want a recorded narration to play simultaneously)? Insert both audio clips onto the desired slide ( Insert > Audio ).  Hold down [ Ctrl ] and select both sound icons.  From Audio Tools > Playback locate the Audio Optio

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 1, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Is Your Measuring Stick Allowing You To Manage For The Better? by Guest on April 2, 2011 in performance support Lynn Cases is a Senior Training Consultant for Dashe & Thomson. She currently leads training at General Mills for Standard Desktop Applications, SharePoint, and New Hire Orientation.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 31, 2011

In my last post about Hassenzahl’s model , we looked at how users assign attributes to the product or service experience. These attributes differ from user to user, and hence each user has an unique experience with the product/service. As the graphic shows, the model suggested that user experience is actually a result of these attributes and the situation in which the product or service is utilized.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 27, 2011

Ellen Wagner has kicked it up a notch. Not only has she quoted me talking about naked kids on playgrounds in a new academic journal called the Journal of Applied Instructional Design, but she’s also elevated the conversation regarding the disconnect between Instructional Design degree programs and the real-world of corporate ID. If you’re interested in ID, read on… [link].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 31, 2011

We are proud to announce that three of our newest books are available for instant download via the Amazon Kindle. Click the links below and you can enjoy these titles on your Kindle in under a minute! Adobe Captivate 5: The Essentials. Adobe Captivate 5: Beyond the Essentials. Adobe RoboHelp 9: The Essentials.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 30, 2011

In a recent post , I was trying to communicate the benefits of social learning: the additional processing that occurs while negotiating a shared understanding. Interestingly, the diagram I designed to accompany the post and communicate the concept was not well received. C’est la vie. As this was to be the representation on a slide talking about social learning, I was forced to come up with another way to communicate the concept.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 28, 2011

While it’s fun to get a high score on a video game, it is just as fun to let others know you are the one who got the high score. Game designers are aware of this and early in arcade games, they created a leaderboard to add a social component to what was then essentially a solitary endeavor. The leaderboard is a list of the tops scores in the game so whoever played the game could see all the player’s names or initials and score.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

“What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?” This is the question that Steven Pinker asked 164 scientists and intellectuals who are part of the Edge Foundation network. The resulting virtual forum is rich with scientific, linguistic, and social concepts that offer a fascinating and thought-provoking array of very useful ideas.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 29, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. Widgets give Captivate developers the ability to extend Captivate's functionality without limits. While you need Adobe Flash to create Widgets, you do not have to be a Flash developer, nor do you need to have Flash on your computer to insert Widgets into a Captivate project. To insert a Widget, choose Window > Widget. From the Widgets panel, select the Widget you would like to use and click the Insert link.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 27, 2011

What did I learn the last few days at the guild conference? Learning is about people and not about tools. Sometimes we forget this, especially someone like me who works with a tool vendor. But of course it’s true, tools are the means and not the goal. But there is more than just that statement. Thanks to the keynote from John Medina I got a better understanding on how remembering (or forgetting) works.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 28, 2011

I recently set up Social.Media.Coaches – as a sister site of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) website – to address the growing demand for support in the use of social media in the workplace – whether it be for learning, working or marketing. We offer: a growing list of social media programmes (which can be taken with or without support from us) in conjunction with C4LPT. individual and group coaching (to support these programmes or any other aspect of th

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

So the buzz last week at the e-Learning Guild's Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando was all about Articulate Storyline. Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks confirms that it's all true : "We are indeed building an amazing new e-learning authoring tool called Storyline, while at the same time working on exciting new enhancements to Articulate Studio.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 31, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. "And do not underline the colon at the end of a heading." I found myself saying to a classroom full of document preparation specialists at a large government agency. Most of them nodded in agreement. They already knew that rule. Their very detailed in-house style guide specified the spacing, underlining, capitalization and alignment of the required headings in their technical documents, including this nicety of typography.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 31, 2011

ProtonMedia and PPD, Inc. just announced an entire new way of conducting training for clinical trials using virtual worlds as the backbone of the solution. Interesting development as the healthcare space seems to be a large mover in 3D virtual worlds and immersive environments. Here is the release below. ProtonMedia and PPD to Introduce New Virtual Clinical Trial Training Solution.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m still all fired up by the learning solution conference of last week. During one session we had to answer the question: “Where will you be in 5 years from now&#. I will answer it in this post: so it is time for some daydreams. For me personally I hope and expect that I will still be working at easygenerator. By then we are recognized as the best learning content platform in the world, we will have an active network of partners in 121 countries and we will have more end users than

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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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Living in Learning

APRIL 1, 2011

Pure and simple, learning at the “edge” is a Performer Support (PS) intervention. What baffles some is that they treat PS as something that happens after training, when in fact, PS serves as a foundation upon which we design and develop formal training assets. The baffling part of that approach is that we cannot base PS on linear design conventions.

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Web Courseworks

MARCH 29, 2011

On April 5th, Tagoras will be hosting a breakfast at Clyde’s of Gallery Place in Washington, DC. This will be the kick-off event for their new quarterly breakfast series for those interested in learning more about successful online education strategies. This new series called Leading Learning, will bring together industry experts and association learning leaders in an open environment to discuss the how’s and why’s of business strategies in online education.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 30, 2011

Today my Learning in 3D co-author and I are conducting a session in VenueGen. We had a great time practicing for the session, here are some “snap shots&#. Checking out the presentation room. Here's the presentation room. Here’s the press release: Co-authors of the new book “Learning in 3D” will virtually join 40 attendees to explore the impact of the immersive Internet on the future of enterprise learning.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 28, 2011

I’ve often thought that our eLearning courses are like one big presentation. We’re trying to share information but we’re also trying to capture attention. We can’t have our course just “stand there&# and use a monotone voice to try and teach. We must engage, motivate, capture, and excite. Last week at Learning Solutions I ran across Nancy Duarte and a new book that she has written.

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Association eLearning

MARCH 26, 2011

'HealthTech Marketplace – the leading online directory for the Healthcare industry has named Digitec Interactive as one of the Top Learning Management System Companies of 2011 for their affordable, easy-to-use healthcare Learning Management System, Knowledge Direct MED. The news of this great honor comes just days after the product “WOWED” attendees at the Learning Solutions 2011 Conference & Expo in Orlando, FL March 23-24.

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Web Courseworks

MARCH 29, 2011

On April 5th, Tagoras will be hosting a breakfast at Clyde’s of Gallery Place in Washington, DC. This will be the kick-off event for their new quarterly breakfast series for those interested in learning more about successful online education strategies. This new series called Leading Learning, will bring together industry experts and association learning leaders [.].

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 29, 2011

Don’t tell me why I can’t. Tell me how I can.

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