LearnDash
AUGUST 26, 2014
'Elearning today is suffering from standards of the past, from instructional design principles to the tools we use to create the courses. For years, Articulate has been a juggernaut in the rapid elearning development space. They have nearly perfected their offering making easy (and intuitive) for instructional designers to jump into course creation without having to learn complex systems or technology.
Experiencing eLearning
AUGUST 26, 2014
'Jane Hart is collecting her eighth annual list of top tools for learning. You can vote for your top tools until September 19, 2014. I haven’t done my list in a few years, but you can see my past lists from 2011 , 2009 , 2008 , and 2007. My list is divided into personal learning and course design/development. Personal Learning. Feedly is my RSS reader of choice since the demise of Google Reader.
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Jane Hart
AUGUST 25, 2014
'Learning has long been defined as “knowledge and skills acquired through studying or being taught”. However, as learning animals we can’t help but learn! As children we learned instinctively from our parents and from our friends, and in the workplace we now learn from our work colleagues. In fact we learn everyday from everything we […].
Making Change
AUGUST 26, 2014
'Here’s a short scenario that uses a particular type of structure. What do you think about it? Spoiler alert! Play the scenario before you read on. What type of branching is this? Here’s how the scenario looks as a flowchart in BranchTrack ‘s editor. No matter what we decide at decision point A, we all end up at decision point B. It’s like we have no free will!
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The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 27, 2014
'Changing an organization’s culture is not easy. It doesn’t happen simply because of the pronouncements of the CEO, or a reorganization of business units, or by conducting an organizational pulse survey, or by hiring new managers. Culture is much too complex; it’s the how and why of what an organization does internally and externally. Culture is the collective beliefs, assumptions, and values of employees (and other stakeholders) and culture affects every aspect of organizational life.
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Origin Learning
AUGUST 27, 2014
'A Gartner report says that by 2015, 50% of organizations managing innovation processes will gamify aspects of their business. In another case, 53% of the respondents participating in a Pew research found said that by 2020 gamification will be widely adopted by most of industries, communications scene and most of all education. With all the hype about transforming simple training into a holistic and integrated ‘learning’ and thereby development process, this should hardly come as a s
JoomlaLMS
AUGUST 27, 2014
'LMS Security Matters. Data security is one of the most important issues nowadays. Thousands of websites are hacked and blacklisted every day, losing their data, reputation and search ranking. In addition to the reputation damage, hacking causes financial harm, emotional distress and clients’ confidence loss. That is why so much attention is paid to the system security and reliability.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 27, 2014
'I don’t really like talking about “mistakes” when it comes to using different tools, as we all have our own ways of using them, but in this case there is one particular Twitter feature which I can see is ending up in a lot of wasted tweets! That feature is, that if you start a tweet with […].
Association eLearning
AUGUST 26, 2014
'In a previous blog post I shared my tips for making an initial pitch for online learning to your association’s board of directors. How’d it go? Are you ready to move on to the “exploration phase” of your quest to implement online learning at your association? As promised, in this follow-up post I will prepare you for your final meeting with the board and share tips for sealing the deal to move forward with online member education.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 24, 2014
'by AJ Walther In my three-hour mini session on Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning and Design , I discuss how to create your own eLearning characters using PowerPoint. Generally I get a few excited students who seem up to the challenge, but most students decide that it's a neat trick that they're going to go ahead and skip.
Origin Learning
AUGUST 28, 2014
'There is a plethora of online games out there that promise to make you more intelligent if you signup with them and follow a disciplined brain-training regime. Out of these Lumosity stands out with its 14 million (and counting) user base. Lumosity is a product of Lumos Labs, a neuroscience research and development company that has a dedicated team of neuroscientists working everyday to evolve more and more levels of the game.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
AUGUST 27, 2014
'Our world keeps changing and we need to continuously adapt to change. There is a process through which we adapt to change, and that process has a name, and that name is learning. Today, let’s boil this topic down to six simple questions about learning. 6. What is learning? Learning is not what they teach you, learning is what you get out of it, right?
InSync Training
AUGUST 29, 2014
'We''ve all experienced it. Our vitual classroom participants often seem to have gotten together and planned to drive us crazy! Three people are logged on independently, another five are sitting in a room together watching your session projected onto a big screen, and two people are sitting in the same room as you because they wanted a face-to-face experience.
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B Online Learning
AUGUST 27, 2014
'Working with audio is really fun! This is usually one of the final stages of development where you really start to see your course come to life. Great narration can add context for your learner and can re-enforce the on-screen information by explaining pictures on the slide, rather than just reading the slide text aloud. […].
Dashe & Thomson
AUGUST 23, 2014
'Flashback to one of my very first Graphic Design courses in college. Professor Bill introduced an important methodology for assessing effective visual design. “What are the key ingredients to a great design?” he asked. Projected on the wall were four giant letters: C.R.A.P. Contrast. Repetition. Alignment. Proximity.1 You might look at a design and know, or at least feel, that it is either “good” or “bad.
LearnDash
AUGUST 25, 2014
'Over the past few years we have been following the rise of massive open online courses (or MOOCs) and their influence on traditional learning methods. Since their conception, the number of MOOCs today has been increasing, a mix of both for and non-profit intentions. Ultimately it is reasonable to expect that every MOOC is going monetize their offering in some capacity, some are just more explicit on this matter.
InSync Training
AUGUST 28, 2014
'If you are moving a training program from face-to-face classroom to the virtual classroom, be careful. Your regular facilitator may be great in the physical classroom but will probably be inexperienced in the online environment. No matter how long they have been teaching in the "regular" classroom, the virtual classroom is an entirely different setting, requiring a different set of skills.
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Torrance Learning
AUGUST 28, 2014
There’s a lot of buzz these days about whether we should abandon the training industry’s go-to model, ADDIE, for an Agile approach. The discussion has been rich, with elegant arguments made on both sides. A disclaimer: we’re all about Agile, or rather, LLAMA – the Lot Like Agile Methods Approach – here at TorranceLearning. But that doesn’t mean we give up on what ADDIE has taught us.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 28, 2014
'When creating an instructional game, there are a number of considerations related to interface design that should be followed to create an inviting and easy-to-use interface. In instructional game design, you want the interface to almost be invisible so the learner doesn’t have to spend time learning the interface. Additionally, adding on a tutorial level that walks the learner through the interface is always a good idea.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 25, 2014
'by Jennie Ruby Answers to my Confusing Words for 100 challenge are brought to you by Cathy A. Mackie : What will the effect /affect of the new restrictions be? (noun). The new director will effect /affect some changes in the current policy. (verb - exception when effect can mean to bring about or accomplish).
InSync Training
AUGUST 26, 2014
'Using today''s virtual classroom technology, it is easy to set up the online meeting and communicate the session details to your group of learners - but then they get reminder after reminder and often end up getting confused. Or they arrive at the session and discover they don''t understand the tools or know how to learn in the virtual classroom. At InSync Training, we deliver certificate programs for a variety of subjects, including designing and facilitating in the virtual classroom and desig
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Clark Quinn
AUGUST 28, 2014
'Kris Duggan spoke on gamification at the Bay Area Learning Design & Technology MeetUp. He talked about some successes at his Badging role and then his new initiative bringing gamification more intrinsically into organizations. He proposed five Goal Science rules that resonated with other principles I’ve heard for good organizations.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 25, 2014
'This summer, one of my duties was serving as an external evaluator for a National Science Foundation grant (NSF) where the grant team of community college professors created a workshop to teach teachers how to create instructional games and then teamed the teachers with students from the community college to actually create the games, it was a fantastic process and I enjoy evaluating grants that are so well run.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 27, 2014
'by Kevin Siegel If you have created a Captivate project and need to reuse a slide in another project, all you need to do is right-click the slide on the Filmstrip, choose the Copy menu item, switch to another (or new) Captivate project, and paste. Copying slides between projects gets a bit complicated if the two projects are not the same size.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 28, 2014
'Last week I presented an encore performance for the eLearning Guild as part of their Best of DevLearn series: Design Models and Patterns for Creating Better eLearning. Ali called it "FABULOUS". Jennifer Valley and Chett Bradley both used the word "awesome". Judy Albers said she could listen to me "digress all day". Missed the webinar and want to see what the fuss was all about?
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Clark Quinn
AUGUST 27, 2014
'This is a name you’re not likely to know, but I can’t let his passing go without comment. Joe was an intensely private person who had a sizable impact on the field of technology in learning, and I was privileged to know him. I met Joe when my colleague Jim “Sky” Schuyler , who had hired for my first job out of college, subsequently dragged me back from overseas to work for him at a new company: Knowledge Universe Interactive Studios (KUIS).
Association eLearning
AUGUST 26, 2014
'This session from Digital Now 2014 features Kathy Harbaugh, RCE, e-PROSenior Vice President of Professional Development & RECP School Director of Indiana Association of REALTORS® and Jack McGrath, President of Digitec Interactive. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn. Share this on Google+. Pin this to Pinterest. Stumble upon something good?
eLearning Brothers
AUGUST 25, 2014
'Let’s take your eLearning games up a notch by helping you edit your feedback in the Lectora GameShow template. There are two main things you will learn in this tutorial. First, I’ll teach you how to change the feedback for game questions. Second, I will teach you how to change the feedback for an entire eLearning game. Before you begin, we recommend you watch Part 1 first.
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