Integrated Learnings
MARCH 17, 2011
By Shelley A. Gable. How did most of your workplace learning occur over the past year? Much of my learning came from brainstorming with peers, participating in online forums , reading (articles, books, blogs, etc.), observation, experimentation, trial and error.and, of course, reflection. Do you have a similar story of unstructured, experiential, informal learning?
Dashe & Thomson
MARCH 13, 2011
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives. Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized inf
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eFront
MARCH 18, 2011
I have read several articles about iPad for eLearning and I believe that we are missing the point. Why iPad was created? iPad was not created for supporting eLearning and (or) mLearning instead it was created as a media device that supports books, magazines, newspapers, games, music, video and web access. So the question is, why all the professionals involved in the e-Learning industry care about the use of iPad for eLearning?
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 16, 2011
I love how some of my posts from 2007 still generate regular comments, such as this question today about software for creating a portfolio. First, if you’re wondering why you need a portfolio , read Tom Kuhlmann’s explanation. Portfolio by cirox. If you’re trying to plan or create a portfolio, check out April Hayman’s very thorough series on creating an instructional design portfolio: Decide what skills you want to showcase.
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Steve Howard
MARCH 16, 2011
It has been far too long since my last post. But I have a good excuse, which I shall briefly explain. Around about May last year my wife Amy got a work opportunity in Atlanta, GA. Which she took. Because it paid well, and, well because we had already decided that Mississippi was not going to ever be a central hub of career opportunities for us. So off Amy went to Atlanta, leaving me in charge of the chickens and the goats.
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Upside Learning
MARCH 16, 2011
During the course of my web wanderings which have revolved around usability and user experience recently, I came across this interesting Hassenzahl’s model in the book ‘Funology’, that talks about the relationships between an user and a product. It is mainly about user experience, especially in reference to ‘fun’ in product design. It elaborates on how users assign some attributes to a product or service when using it.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 17, 2011
One of the features video games, board games and other types of games have over traditional learning environments is the frequency and intensity of feedback. Feedback in games is almost constant. In a video game the player has real-time feedback on progress toward goal, amount of life or energy left, location, time remaining, how much stuff they have in inventory and even how other players are doing.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 17, 2011
by AJ George. Adding audio to a PowerPoint 2010 slide is simple. All you need to do is choose Insert > Audio and then open the audio clip. However, when it comes to adjusting the audio, the option you might be looking for can be difficult to find. In a perfect world, you would be able to make adjustments to an audio clip by either right-clicking a slide's sound icon, or by using the Audio Tools.
Jane Hart
MARCH 17, 2011
I’ve just finished a webinar for the UK-based Learning & Skills Group. The script for my presentation together with images of the slides I used can be found here: 10 steps for working smarter with social media.
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Upside Learning
MARCH 18, 2011
2011 seems to be really big on events for us. After a huge success at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011, April will see us participating in CIPD HRD 2011 , an HRD conference and exhibition. Scheduled to take place on the 6th and 7th of April 2011 in Olympia, London , this event will see leading learning and organization development suppliers in a range of disciplines including training, L&D, OD, leadership, coaching and more, come together under one roof.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 16, 2011
Working in the space of 3D virtual immersive environments (VIE) is a small, but dedicated group of people who are creating some really wonderful and powerful learning. The other day I had a chance to virtually catch up with Andrew Hughes who is the president of Designing Digitally, Inc. and an instructor at the University of Cincinnati. Andrew is very passionate about creating engaging, educational, and entertaining learning experience through web-based training and simulations.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 16, 2011
We received lots of feedback concerning last week's article, eLearning & Grammar: Should eLearning Text Contain End of Sentence Punctuation? Here is a sampling: NO PERIODS and it is indeed to minimize visual clutter. That's why I use bullets whenever possible instead of lists. That's why I use bubbles. I need to communicate fast, and since periods were invented for that, I figure that any improvement on the speed of communication is alright. Joan Dickerson, PhD,�
Making Change
MARCH 16, 2011
I’ve added a substantial section about scenarios to the Elearning Blueprint. The section is open and free for everyone until March 31 to support my March 24th presentation at the Learning Solutions conference. The six parts cover: What are scenarios? (includes examples of different approaches). Why use them? Scenario ingredients: characters, decisions, and feedback.
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Upside Learning
MARCH 15, 2011
The Internet is going ga ga about it; the mobile lovers can’t seem to get enough of it; the Apple fanboys have already bought it; while the rest have been writing about it. So what is the deal with iPad 2 that had led to a mania of sorts? We give you the lowdown on this new tab – find all that you need to know before spending your dollars on it. More on tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of your iPad, digital story telling and the future of the tablet.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
MARCH 15, 2011
Trainers have long known the importance of video in all types of training. Digital video has now become so commonplace that nearly everyone knows how to shoot video using a camera or a smart phone, upload it to Youtube and share it with others. It is high time these two trends converged. Content authoring needs to embrace digital video. The newly announced version 8.0 of Elicitus, a leading desktop authoring tool for trainers, educators, subject matter experts and other e-learning creators world
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 15, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. As a Captivate developer, you are constantly striving to offer the nicest-looking published file, at the smallest possible size. One thing you can do to lower the size of your published video is control the quality of your slides. Captivate offers four image quality levels you can specify. You can apply the settings to individual slides, or for all of the project slides.
Making Change
MARCH 16, 2011
I’ve added a substantial section about scenarios to the Elearning Blueprint. The section is open and free for everyone until March 31 to support my March 24th presentation at the Learning Solutions conference. The six parts cover: What are scenarios? (includes examples of different approaches). Why use them? Scenario ingredients: characters, decisions, and feedback.
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Jane Hart
MARCH 18, 2011
In December 2010 Reed Learning, in partnership with the Internet Time Alliance, sponsored a workshop event for managers and senior learning and development leaders on utilising new media to increase productivity in organisations. Here’s a short clip of the event produced by Reed Learning. Let us know if you would like to host a similar [.].
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 13, 2011
In my posts on output learning I have tried to describe a method to connect learning to problems in the workplace. In this post I want to explore a first concrete step towards that goal. I think that the first step could be formed by using ‘learning nuggets’ e-Learning is now often delivered as a SCORM package in an LMS covering a complete subject.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 15, 2011
I am involved with a National Science Foundation project designed to teach middle school students various Science, Technology, Engineering and Math concepts. You can learn more at the web side Gaming2Learn. I am leading the design area of the team and other people are programming and piloting the process. Here is a video showing one of the first levels of the game called: Cave of Volume.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 14, 2011
Eileen Clegg asked me some questions as part of a report she’s doing for the Future of Talent Institute. 1. How do you think gaming will change the landscape for people in charge of recruiting, developing and retaining top talent? Gaming is an optimized performance environment, with all that entails. First, a game can both help individuals understand what a particular company is about (e.g.
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ID Reflections
MARCH 13, 2011
Mark Granovetter wrote the paper The Strength of Weak Ties in 1973. This is probably one of the most oft cited paper in the industry of sociology, education, psychology, sociometry, network analysis and other related fields and sub-fields that study human behavior. As far back as 1973, he spoke about how interaction in small groups aggregate to form large-scale patterns, in short, the theory of emergence that every complex system—organism or organization—display.
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 18, 2011
I will be attending the eLearning Guild learning Solutions conference in Orlando next week. I will have a lot of appointments around the conference and look forward to the conference itself. The conference is already of to a great start, thanks to their Ipad app (LSCon 2011). It gives you a complete overview of all sessions. It includes all presentations, speaker profiles, a twitter feed, info on exhibitors, maps of all session rooms et cetera.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
MARCH 16, 2011
by Barb Binder When I started working in Adobe FrameMaker 10, one of the first differences I noticed was the appearance of checkmarks in front of the formats in the various Catalogs. My first guess was that the check marks indicated whether or not a format was being used in the document, or not. But I would see checkmarks on formats I wasn't using (i.e., CellBody) and when I applied a format, sometimes the checkmarks didn't show up.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 17, 2011
As a nice complement to my last post on Understanding by Design , comes this piece on Pseudoteaching that Donald Taylor (who runs the excellent UK Learning Technologies conference) pointed out. The premise is that much teaching that appears good to both the instructor and observers is really ineffective. And this is instructive in a couple of ways.
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The Performance Improvement Blog
MARCH 16, 2011
Managers have a critical role to play in the learning and development of the people who report to them. In fact, that relationship is more critical than anything the HR or Training departments can do to improve performance. This is born out in Google's internal study of good management. In this self-study, Google identified eight things that “good” managers should do.
E-Learning Provocateur
MARCH 15, 2011
Last week I attended ElNet’s Workplace E-learning Congress in Sydney. As per my tradition, I will share my 1-line takeaways with you here, and I am more than happy to discuss them further. Simply add a comment! Please note my 1-liners don’t necessarily reflect a synopsis of each presentation. Instead, they represent something specific that I found particularly worthwhile.
Challenge to Learn
MARCH 15, 2011
At easygenerator we are in the finishing stages of our latest version. This is the first version I had a say in, so I’m quite exited, a real milestone. We started working on it at the beginning of the year. The plan was to finish it in April. The good news is that it is ready. We are setting some dot’s on the i’s and are doing some extra work.
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