eLearning Brothers

APRIL 30, 2015

Guest blog post by Liz Sheffield. Liz Sheffield is a freelance writer with a background in training and development. She specializes in writing about everything related to the human side of business. I was recently in my younger son’s First Grade classroom. One student was making a choice about her in-class birthday celebration that afternoon. The teacher offered three options: a read aloud story, a dance video, or a game of Heads-Up, 7-Up.

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The eLearning Coach

APRIL 30, 2015

If you want to know something about authoring tools, Joe Ganci is usually the person to ask. eLearning Joe has a computer science background and has been designing and developing eLearning for many years. He is also adept at explaining and reviewing eLearning development tools and has a regular column (Toolkit) in Learning Solutions Magazine. […] Post from: The eLearning Coach All About eLearning Authoring Tools.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2015

In response to my list of 12+ Books for Instructional Designers , I received a lot of great suggestions for further reading. My “to read” list is now quite long, but I’m slowly making my way through these suggestions. Here are 20+ more books suggested by others. Instructional Design and Learning Design. ISD From the Ground Up: A No-Nonsense Approach to Instructional Design by Chuck Hodell was suggested by Phrodeo , who is using it as a textbook in a course she’s taking.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 28, 2015

Somehow or the other, this question cropped up in the course of a conversation recently. So we asked our team of instructional designers what they thought. And here’s what they came up with – in no particular order, as they say: Focuses on learners. A common thought – about thinking of learners as ‘us’, not […].

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 1, 2015

IconLogic hosts a variety of 3-hour mini-courses that are presented live online. If you have an eLearning skill you want to hone, then you ought to mark your calendar for one or more of these awesome presentations. While there are many other courses offered, here are five in particular that we are looking forward to. Adobe Captivate – Responsive eLearning.

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LearnDash

APRIL 27, 2015

When people look into creating an online course using WordPress they often find themselves trying to decide between a variety of solutions. Perhaps you are currently in this situation. Assuming you are going to self-host your WordPress site, you will ultimately face the following decision: Use a WordPress LMS like LearnDash. Use a membership plugin.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 29, 2015

According to ISO 9241, Usability is defined as the extent to which a product (a software, a coffee maker etc.) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use. In the context of learning, usability is the ease with which your users interact, […].

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Lambda Solutions

MAY 1, 2015

We teamed up with Limestone Learning on Wednesday to deliver a webinar on Measuring the Value of Training, and Turning Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation Upside Down. Measuring the value of training is a very complex process, but it is an essential component to any learning program. Let’s start with the obvious question - what defines good training?

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Knowledge Guru

APRIL 28, 2015

You need to deliver training to your employees and want it to be “engaging.” You’ve read articles and attended webinars that discuss making learning experiences engaging, yet most of the advice seems vague. What is an engaging learning solution? Why do some learners find a certain type of training engaging, while others do not? The challenge you face is even more difficult when your content does not exactly jump off the page.

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Kineo

APRIL 27, 2015

You don’t have to be a scientist to know that we live in a world of data. All this data is surrounding us – all of the time – and although we can’t touch it or see it, no-one would doubt that we need it to help us do important things. Of course, we then use it to make decisions about which important things we need to do next.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 28, 2015

Although the Learning and Workplace Survey is still open, the results of 3,500 people* who rated the importance (value/usefulness) of 10 different ways of learning in the workplace are shown below – ranked by their combined Very Important + Essential scores with the red shaded areas and red figures highlighting where the most responses have been received.

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Association eLearning

APRIL 30, 2015

You’re offering courses online. You think the content is relevant. So, where are your learners? Maybe it’s time to assess your eLearning course audience. You might not be familiar with market segmentation or demographic and psychographic research, but without them, chances are your bottom line will suffer. But that’s okay, help has arrived to get you started, marketing style.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 30, 2015

I’ve been working on a learning design that integrates developing social media skills with developing specific competencies, aligned with real work. It’s an interesting integration, and I drafted a pedagogy that I believe accomplishes the task. It draws heavily on the notion of activity -based learning. For your consideration. The learning process is broken up into a series of activities.

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Kineo

APRIL 27, 2015

You don’t have to be a scientist to know that we live in a world of data. All this data is surrounding us – all of the time – and although we can’t touch it or see it, no-one would doubt that we need it to help us do important things. Of course, we then use it to make decisions about which important things we need to do next.

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Jane Hart

MAY 1, 2015

Here is my selection of the must-read posts from April 2015. I have chosen these resources from over 50 I shared on Twitter last month – and I have included a short quote to give you a taster of why I chose each one. [Note: If you are not on Twitter you can subscribe here to get email notifications of the […].

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Lambda Solutions

APRIL 28, 2015

There’s a lot of discussion around “mooks” these days, but few people actually seem to know what they are. MOOC, as it is formally spelled, stands for Massive Open Online Course. MOOC’s first emerged in 2008, but they were not widely known or utilized until 4 years later when Stanford University Stanford became the catalyst for a major shift to open enrollment online courses.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 29, 2015

It is hard to escape all of the news and opinion stories I have seen in recent years arguing for and against Helicopter Parenting and, conversely, Free-Range Parenting. In the unlikely event you have not been privy to this debate, Helicopter Parenting can be defined as a style of child rearing in which an overprotective parent discourages a child’s independence by being too involved in the child’s life.

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Kineo

APRIL 27, 2015

This summer we are hitting the road and we want you to come along with us! We’re looking forward to meeting our friends (and making new ones) across the UK, sharing some of our latest innovations from the past few months and looking at what's coming next in the world of learning.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 27, 2015

What does the phrase Rapid eLearning mean to you? Is it a set of authoring tools; the timeline for the project; the quality of the output; the budget you have available; or is it eLearning created by a Subject Matter Expert? Does the term inspire you or leave you distraught and desperate? No matter your viewpoint, if you’ve been in the eLearning industry for any length of time, you’ve probably come up against the term.

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Origin Learning

APRIL 28, 2015

What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the technology which uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain applications and data. It allows end-users and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files via any computer that has an internet access. Cloud computing allows computing to be much more efficient by centralizing data storage, processing and bandwidth at one point.

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dVinci Interactive

APRIL 29, 2015

Video interview with the Workforce Development Manager at Sheetz. Sheetz is one of the fastest growing family-owned convenience stores in the world, with more than 437 locations across six states — Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina — and more than 14,500 employees. The Sheetz brand promises to be a mecca for people on the go.

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Kineo

APRIL 30, 2015

I recently had the opportunity to attended the Open Source Open Society Conference 2015 in Wellington, and the chance to hear keynotes from Chris Kelly from Github, Lillian Grace from WikiNZ and many other respected Open Source advocates. With an event hashtag, #OSOS2015, that officially topped New Zealand's top trending feed, businesses, government, geeks and start-ups alike participated in a series of thoughtful activities and lectures outlining the relevance and demand of open source solutio

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 28, 2015

Why should you, as a learning designer, take a game design workshop? What is the relationship between games and learning? I want to suggest that there are very important reasons why you should. Just so you don’t think I’m the only one saying it, in the decade since I wrote the book Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games , there have been a large variety of books on the topic.

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LearnDash

APRIL 30, 2015

One of the challenges in elearning is creating a course environment that is engaging to the learner, designed in a way that makes them feel like they are not left on their own. Over the years this has been combated in a few ways. You’ll see gaming elements added to courses , exercises, scenarios, simulations, and forums to help encourage interaction.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 1, 2015

What are you doing Saturday? Are you going to build something? A storage shed perhaps? A deck? Face it, there's no way you'll finish either of those projects tomorrow. If you want to build something that matters, and get it done in a day, why not focus on your LinkedIn Profile?  Whether you are in the market for a new job, just starting your career, or are a well-established professional, LinkedIn is one of the most important tools for establishing your online presence.   Goo

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ej4 eLearning

APRIL 27, 2015

All employers have plenty of staff training to worry about, and HR compliance is one of the most important. The post Making HR Compliance Training Easier appeared first on.

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Kineo

APRIL 27, 2015

This summer we are hitting the road and we want you to come along with us! We’re looking forward to meeting our friends (and making new ones) across the UK, sharing some of our latest innovations from the past few months and looking at what's coming next in the world of learning.

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LearnDash

APRIL 29, 2015

With every year that goes by we see elearning make its way into new markets. One of the newer markets in this industry is the WordPress ecosystem. A few years ago, the term “WordPress LMS” didn’t even exist, but those times have changed tremendously! Today we see countless offerings marketing themselves as learning management systems on WordPress.

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