Association eLearning

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'When someone is on the job and needs an answer fast they don’t have time to go through a whole eLearning course. They need an answer they can get to just-in-time. This is where job aids come in, especially PDFs since they can be printed out or accessed on a device without giving the viewer the ability to edit the file. They don’t replace in-depth learning, but the support they provide helps boost knowledge retention and self-sufficiency.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'Rewards are an important part of game play. People do not play games just for the rewards but rewards can help with motivation, provide feedback to learners about progress and rewards are a way of being judged favorably by the game. Reward shelf from The Knowledge Guru. Here is a list of common types of rewards primarily compiled by Jesse Schell, a game developer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Next public workshop runs Part A: 13 October – 7 November 2014 (4 weeks) Part B: 24 November – 19 December (4 weeks) In this fast moving age, it is no longer just about studying existing bodies of knowledge and acquiring existing skills in formal courses but adopting a new set of learning strategies to […].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 5, 2014

'by Jennie Ruby  I've talked about  assure ,  ensure , and  insure  in the past, but I think these supremely confusable words deserve a reprise. Assure --to tell someone not to worry, is the way I think of it, as in the word  reassure. This is also the word that the term  quality assurance  is based on.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Professor Carol Dweck is a psychologist at Stanford University and the prime force behind mindset theory. Dweck’s research has led her to the conclusion that each individual will place themselves on a continuum according to their implicit belief of where their own ability originates. In simple terms this means that those who tend towards believing in ‘nature’ or innate ability as the prime factor in determining their success are defined in Dweck’s model as having ‘fixed mindsets’ or fixed theor

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'During September I had one of the most rewarding experiences of my career, when I ran an online workshop for the Sales Team at Pfizer India. Early in August Sunder Ramachandran (@sundertrg on Twitter) asked me if I would run my online workshop, Integrating mobile devices into the classroom, for his team as they had just […].

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Making the Virtual Classroom Global. Globalization, new learning technologies and dispersed workforces have provided us with a much more diverse learner base than ever before. Naturally, the virtual classroom paves the way for working with these global audiences more easily. How are you adapting to respond to these changes in your classroom? In order to answer these questions, training professionals need to recognize the influence that culture plays in the classroom - especially classrooms that

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B Online Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'In the world of eLearning a Learning Management System (LMS) is used to distribute content and track users’ results and responses to questions. The process to load content into an LMS ready format is to “Publish” or “Package” training, wrapping it in programming (such as SCORM or xAPI) that allows it to interact with the reporting capabilities of the […].

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'ELearning has opened up many opportunities for today’s youth and working professionals alike. However, just like any formal learning program, there are unfortunately cases where some learners will try to cheat the system rather than learn the content. In some cases, this can be seen as relatively innocent (depending on the course content and purpose of the course in general).

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Completely revised and updated, the 2014 GUIDEBOOK provides you with even more information about each of the tools on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 list – to help you make use of them for personal learning as well as for your professional practice. It includes basic information (website, cost, availability as well as […].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 10, 2014

'by Jennie Ruby    I felt like a video star the other day. Well, at least in a tiny little way. I taught a class a few years ago. It was for a fairly large organization. The section of the class I taught had an attendance of about 40 people, and they had several more sessions scheduled. But I didn't teach them--at least not in person.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'I received an email the other day from a person who is tasked with creating a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) training for an online project management software. Additionally, one of the goals is to emphasize the importance of consistently working through the procedure and the impact it will have on the organization. The “Why” of the training process.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Any successful project has a well thought-out plan. In the elearning world, this plan is called a storyboard – and they are vital to course development. While it sounds straight-forward, if you have never created a storyboard before then you may not know where to start. Before you create your storyboard though, you need to have an idea of its purpose.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'A colleague I greatly respect, who has a track record of high impact in important positions, has been a proponent of service science. And I confess that it hadn’t really penetrated. Yet last week I heard about it in a way that resonated much more strongly and got me thinking, so let me share where it’s leading my thinking, and see what you say.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'As I wrote in my last blog post titled, Temps Are People, Too , temporary and contract workers have become an essential segment of our economy, relied on heavily by business, government, and nonprofits to do work on an as-needed basis. From assembly line to executive and from unskilled to professional, these workers are contributing significantly to the work of organizations everywhere.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'Adding video to eLearning can greatly enhance the learner experience. If you elect to include video in your project, you'll need to decide where the video will be stored when it's time to be viewed by the learner. Will you use a web server or media service? We're looking to find out what the eLearning community is doing when it comes to video.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 5, 2014

'In almost every industry, you are bound to hear someone mention “CEUs” (short for “continuing education units). You may have heard of them before, but perhaps you aren’t entirely sure what it is. If you have been trying to figure out the purpose of a CEU, then this short explanation should certainly help. What is a Continuing Education Unit?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 8, 2014

'I talked yesterday about how some concepts may not resonate immediately, and need to continue to be raised until the context is right. There I was talking about explorability and my own experience with service science, but it occurred to me that the same may be true of games. Now, I’ve been pushing games as a vehicle for learning for a long time, well before my book came out on the topic.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'I started my journey with Harbinger Systems sometime back. Though I am just a couple of months old here, the knowledge and exposure which I have received has been enormous. I have interacted and learned a lot from my colleagues who always push and encourage me to dabble in new things. A few days back, one of my colleagues mentioned about The Internet of Things (IOT) to me.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2014

'If you are a student in an instructional technology or design program, consider heading to DevLearn this month. The students at Bloomsburg University’s department of instructional technology bought hotel and airline tickets today and we are ready to go… So what is the DevLearn Student program?…I’m glad you asked. The program is basically a guided tour of the entire conference lead by myself with special surprise appearances by several folks in the industry.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 5, 2014

THE QUOTE: “ Design and develop performance support solutions with a focus on context, not content.” – Jeremy Smith. “ You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.” – Seymour Papert. THE JOURNEY: In today’s business environments where: ‘Learning at the speed of need’ is the most crucial factor for success.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2014

'If your organization is flirting with or already into the pursuit of an embedded performance support [EPS] strategy; I welcome you to join me for session #212 - "How to Integrate a Disruptive Performance Support Methodology".

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Absorb LMS

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the instructors to clarify to what extent these exams would influence the final class grade. If the exam in one class was worth, say, 25 per cent of the final grade, and the exam in the other class was worth 50 per cent of the final grade, she would spend significantly more of her efforts studying for t

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Understanding a large game space requires some type of visual. In most games, this visual is in the form of a map. Strategy games like Civilization V contain maps to help players continually orient themselves to where they are and where they need to go. Additionally, the map give a sense of progress and a sense of what still needs to be accomplished.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'We have all been there before. You see a great service or product, and you think to yourself, “wow, there is a good opportunity here” So you spend some time getting your website together, establishing an online identity, and detailing your services (or perhaps product). Unfortunately, many people who do this just look at their competition.

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Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'DevLearn 2014 is approaching. Just three weeks and it will start. I have the honor of doing two sessions at DevLearn. One concurrent session about “Trends Leading to the End of the LMS” and one morning buzz session called “The Death of WYSIWYG Authoring?” Does this mean that I foresee doom for the eLearning industry? No it doesn’t.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

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Absorb LMS

OCTOBER 9, 2014

'A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the instructors to clarify to what extent these exams would influence the final class grade. If the exam in one class was worth, say, 25 per cent of the final grade, and the exam in the other class was worth 50 per cent of the final grade, she would spend significantly more of her efforts studying for t

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