Dashe & Thomson
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? by Andrea on February 23, 2011 in social learning The other night I attended a lecture at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The session was part of a series I am attending on research and advances in regenerative medicine.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
I recently came across a report on the Deloitte website , which estimates that global Smartphone market sales will touch 375 million by the end of 2011. This means that there are going to be millions of Smartphone users out there, who can access mobile learning anywhere, at any time. That’s a huge market whose needs we can hardly afford to ignore. Mobile hardware has its own limitations and hence we need to adhere to some critical design conventions in order to make our mobile applications a suc
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Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
Tony Karrer is the guy behind elearninglearning.com a community where all kinds of blogs about e-Learning are gathered. He also is the blogmeister of the Learning Circuits community. On that community he runs a series of post regarding ‘The big question’ The question of the month is: What are your Predictions and Plans for 2011? He asked me to write a blog with my view, so here it is.
Integrated Learnings
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
by Jonathan Shoaf. My career is the Internet. If the Internet goes away, I will need to make major adaptations. It’s a little scary to be so dependent on one technology, but isn’t that how most people’s careers are? For example, home builders, auto manufacturers, plumbers, and air conditioning repairmen all depend on a certain type of technology for their careers.
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Dashe & Thomson
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace by Paul on February 21, 2011 in social learning If you’ve paid any attention to the adult learning landscape over the last few years, you know that the new social learning push is being fueled by the emergence of social media.
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Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
This month's #LCBQ is the first with the Big Question Thought Leaders. It's been fun working with them and has definitely added a new spark. I'm hoping that others will join the effort. We strongly believe the #LCBQ offers an opportunity to have something online that's like a sophisticated cocktail party. Lots of discussion and debate around interesting questions for eLearning professionals.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
by Lori Smith. Have you added closed captions to your eLearning lesson and been frustrated by the fact that they do not automatically open when the learner first accesses the lesson? Read on for a quick way to solve the problem. Captivate 4 and 5 both come with a variable called cpCmdCC. The variable may be set to 1 , to turn the closed caption display on; or 0 to turn the closed caption display off.
Dashe & Thomson
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Learning from The King’s Speech by Jolene on February 26, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , eLearning , social learning With the Academy Awards coming up, one of the most talked about movies this month must be The King’s Speech, which I finally saw this weekend.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
The news that IBM’s Watson had beaten the humans on Jeopardy didn’t really come as a really big surprise for me. It’d been coming since Kasparov left the room in tears after losing to Deep Blue. The argument then was that chess is about finite number of possible moves. The use of intensive mathematics, brutal processing logic and speed make chess a well defined challenge – computers were appropriately designed for such a challenge.
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Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
This week I’m in Johannesburg with a client. Here in South Africa mobile technology and smartphones are very important I’ve just been introduced to a new cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia – which means that [.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
I recently received the following question from a reader of my skills & drills newsletter : Question: I have been asked to make the text captions in my Captivate project exactly match the audio. The thinking by management here is that people without speakers or headphones can still see the text captions. I argue that hearing and seeing the same text is redundant and distracting. Do you have any advice on the use of Audio and Text captions in terms of effectiveness?
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Having previously reviewed Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham’s The New Social Learning , and Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers , I have now received my copy of Jane Hart’s Social Learning Handbook. First, I’ll review Jane’s book on it’s own, and then put it in the context of the other two. Caveat: I’m mentioned in all three, for sins in my past, so take the suitable precautions.
Integrated Learnings
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
By Dean Hawkinson. Using audio narration in eLearning courses has been debated from both sides – some people feel that it is an enhancement that assists the learner in completing the course, while others argue that it can be distracting. Click here to read an earlier post from this blog that highlights some of the pros and cons. Before looking at how to use Adobe Presenter for audio, let’s focus on a few ways that using audio can enhance the learning: It is great for those auditory learners in y
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Recently, I wrote an article for ASTD’s Learning Circuits titled Barriers to Adopting Games in Corporate Environments. The concept behind the article is that there are some major reasons why games, which should be readily adopted as efficient, effective learning tools are not being adopted. So, here is the list of the reasons why they are not being adopted, go to the article to see the detail, and a few more reasons: Barriers to Adopting Games in Corporate Environments.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
With lots on my reading list, Clark Quinn's latest book Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance is on the top of the pile. Client's are starting to ask, we're starting to tinker. Get ahead of the curve and actually figure out what you need to be designing. That's my plan. I really don't want to get caught with my proverbial pants down.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
I like ASTD; they offer a valuable service to the industry in education, including reports, webinars, very good conferences (despite occasional hiccups, *cough* learning styles *cough*) that I happily speak at and even have served on a program committee for. They may not be progressive enough for me, but I’m not their target market. When they come out with books like The New Social Learning , they are to be especially lauded.
Web Courseworks
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Jeff Cobb has recently added webinars and C-level breakfasts to round out his consultation offerings to the Association space. His upcoming webinar, entitled “ Essentials of LMS Selection: Getting It Right the First Time ,” is slated for March 17 th. I am thrilled that Jeff and Celisa had the can-do spirit to build a research and consulting practice dedicated to Association eLearning.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
I was first introduced to the idea of an interest curve in the fascinating and informative book The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses. The book describes an interest curve from a gamer perspective but I think we should also consider it from a learner’s perspective. Much of this post is based on the words of Schell re-phrased from a perspective of learning rather than gaming or entertainment.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
In my recent round-up post on ASTD TK11 , Shelley left a comment that I’m not sure I can answer as I’m mostly working conferences these days rather than attending (but I will do my best!). Here’s Shelley’s question: “What things have you started doing as a direct result of attending the ASTD conference?” And I open this question up to any training or elearning conference (Training, TK, DevLearn, Learning Solutions, etc….) as she goes on… “Sometimes, it can be challenging to justify the cost of c
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
The limits are no longer the technology; the limits are between our ears (ok, and our pocketbooks). My old surfing buddy Carl Kuck used to say that the only limits are between our ears, and I’ve purloined his phrase for my nefarious purposes. This comes from the observation that Arthur C. Clarke made that “ any truly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic “ I want to suggest that we now have magic: we can summon up demons (ok, agents) to do our bidding, and peer
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
by AJ George Do you often find yourself chugging away at a presentation, only to have PowerPoint crash and give you some variation of the "MS Office has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience," message? I find that the majority of software users do not regularly check for system updates, and many times the solution is just this easy.
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
A provocative article at Fast Company opens with a scathing condemnation of how schools prepare students for work stating that “many college graduates are devoid of practical skills.&# This reminds me of the FedEx commercial from a few years ago. So to determine if a degree is practical (helping someone succeed on-the-job), Great Britain may begin to publish how economically successful a school’s students are after graduation and administer a test to determine whether university graduates
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
I did a short roundup of the recent ASTD TechKnowledge Conference in San Jose. Aside from all the good times that were had, we actually learned a thing or two.
E-Learning Provocateur
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
The recent historic events in Egypt remind me of the Peaceful Revolution in East Berlin in 1989. In both cases I believe the protest movement was catalysed by the church, whether directly or indirectly. While the imams in Egypt reportedly implored their faithful not to take to the streets, the pastor of Leipzig’s Church of St Nicholas actively encouraged non-violent uprising via weekly “Peace Prayers&#.
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Last year I visited Giunti Labs (now renamed to Exact learning) and I was blown away by their location and office building. It’s a beautiful place and a beautiful building. See my blog for more details. Since December I work for easygenerator and though our location can’t compete with theirs, our office is something different. We, together with our sister companies of the ISM group, are located in one of the buildings of a former coffee and tobacco factory, named ‘De van Nellef
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Over at The Escapist , they have a series of short clips called Extra Credit related to video games and how they are becoming an art form. Simple but provocative videos. This one is particularly interesting as it describes how narrative can be embedded within the mechanics and game play of a game without involved scripts, complicated plot lines or high end graphics.
Raptivity
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Raptivity Interactivity Samples for Education Sector We have designed some interactivity samples of Raptivity learning games, simulations for education sector. These samples demonstrate the use of Raptivity interactions in Math, Science, Economics, Business Administration and more such online training courses. [.].
eLearning Cyclops
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
eLearning Cyclops. My insights on elearning and mlearning. Pages. Home. Free eLearning. Cloud Apps. About Me. Privacy Policy. Sunday, February 20, 2011. Signs of Being in e-Learning Hell #eLearningHell. Signs you are in e-learning hell (as a designer/developer): The Help Desk calls and tells you they are receiving too many calls regarding your course and the _ (pop-up blocker, Flash Player and/or LMS sign-on).
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