Aptara

AUGUST 20, 2014

ELearning should be challenging to be compelling. Developing eLearning solutions for the workforce is a relatively new era for organizations and their third-party allies. These tools have a very simple job to do: Go beyond what was possible in a classroom setting and draw in a generation of workers who may be less liable to trust information that is not imparted through a device of their choosing on a schedule that suits them.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Last week I had a chance to visit Lynda.com and work as an author creating a course for Lynda.com. It was a great adventure and I had a lot of fun. So here is the story of my five days at Lynda.com. Office plate outside of the “green room.” My home for a week. Before the Trip. The adventure started even before traveling to Carpinteria, CA for filming.

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Learning Rebels

AUGUST 20, 2014

'When did shaming the learner become okay? Lately, in this writer’s humble opinion, L&D (Learning and Development) professionals have been taking a ride on the Bully Bus looking to create havoc for both their learners and professionals within their own industry. I suppose the possibility had always been there, I recently wrote a post “Putting the Human Back into Learning”.

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Performance Learning Productivity

AUGUST 20, 2014

'The results of yet another 70:20:10 survey were published recently. The researchers (possibly on work experience) declared that “ 50:26:24 is the average learning mix in most companies right now ”. The report of the 50:26:24 survey went on to say: “It’s widely accepted that the 70:20:10 model is the most effective learning blend for business, but getting to that perfect mix can be a challenge.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2014

'In addition to yesterday’s post about pedagogy , I also mentioned the need to get deeper on curriculum as well. The notion is that we need to redefine curriculum as a way to get away from a content base, and start moving to an activity base. The focus is on creating a curriculum that has tasks at it’s core, and these tasks are tasks like the learner will be expected to be performing in the world.

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Origin Learning

AUGUST 19, 2014

'One of the most elementary goals of any business is to increase its productivity. Irrespective of the industry that you operate in, you would always want that you get greater output per unit of input that you invest in the form of time, number of people involved at their different levels of pay and various monetary and other resources. In an effort to increase it, innumerable studies have been conducted across organizations of different industries to determine the causes of low employee product

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Next online workshop runs 1 September – 3 October 2014 Building and maintaining successful online communities takes time and effort. In this workshop we will look at the importance of planning your community, different ways of launching it, and after the first flush of enthusiasm wears off, making sure it remains dynamic and vibrant. This workshop […].

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Association eLearning

AUGUST 18, 2014

'“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ? Yogi Berra. If you’ve been tasked with implementing your association’s eLearning what are you going to do to make sure you don’t end up some place else? Here is my perspective on setting up your association’s eLearning: Assemble Your Assets Team. A team’s strength comes from the collective knowledge each person adds, which helps the team move forward as a group.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 18, 2014

'People sometimes think that elearning is more of a new phenomenon, made possible by the glitzy tech tools of today. The truth is though, elearning has been around for quite some time – some would argue that it existed with the first computer based training program around the 1960s. True, this does not really resemble elearning as we know it today, but it marks the first time that computers were used for teaching purposes.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 18, 2014

'Recently Elon Musk indicated that he thought Artificial Intelligence (AI) was “potentially more dangerous than nukes” and it’s easy to dismiss such statements as hyperbole or over generalization but…can we? Should we? Are we really aware of what we are doing? Elon Musk is no “conspiracy nut.” He is founder of such technology companies at Tesla and SpaceX.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 20, 2014

'We are proud to announce that our newest book, "Adobe Captivate 8: Beyond The Essentials" is now shipping. This book is a companion to our top-selling " Adobe Captivate 8: The Essentials " book and delves into such Captivate features as responsive layouts, creating project templates, accessible eLearning, and working with a Learning Management System.

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InSync Training

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Just about a year ago, I had a unique opportunity to deliver an in-person version of our Blended Learning Design Certificate course in Shanghai. As usual, I learned as much from my students as they did from me. Some was fun, some was cultural, and some was about how we teach and how we learn.

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Absorb LMS

AUGUST 19, 2014

'You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you spent your high school years sitting in your friend’s basement learning to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven on a Gibson Flying V guitar instead of studying for final exams.

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B Online Learning

AUGUST 18, 2014

'Assessments are a critical and intrinsic part of good training practice. Not only for online learning but face to face as well. Assessments form the cornerstone of our ability to tell if our audience has firstly received the message but more importantly, that they can apply the key points of the message to their own […].

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2014

'In thinking through how to design courses that lead to both engaging experiences and meaningful outcomes, I’ve been working on the component activities. As part of that, I’ve been looking at elements such as pedagogy in pre-, in-, and post-class sessions so that there are principled reasons behind the design. So, here I’m looking at trying for guidance to align what happens in all three sections.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 17, 2014

'There are many people interested in getting into elearning today, but want to learn a bit more about the industry and what to expect from a salary perspective. First, much of this information is already available and can be found with Google search. However, this may lead to the misconception that you have to study instructional design in a university setting in order to break into the field.

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Absorb LMS

AUGUST 19, 2014

'You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you spent your high school years sitting in your friend’s basement learning to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven on a Gibson Flying V guitar instead of studying for final exams.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 20, 2014

'by Willam Van Weelden      One of the hottest new features introduced in Adobe RoboHelp 11 is  Responsive HTML5 layouts. The Responsive HTML5 output dynamically changes the way the content is presented based on the device the reader is using. For example, while a reader on a desktop might see a traditional table of contents on the right side of the page, someone using a smart phone will see a table of contents that is optimized for touch:       &#

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Torrance Learning

AUGUST 19, 2014

It’s about time. Are you ready? The world needs you to be a mentor. Megan’s recent blog post on DBusiness Daily News: It’s Time for You to be The Mentor has gotten more than a bit of traction. We think it’s because people are ready to help others grow and, at the same time, grow their own skills and knowledge. The DBusiness blog post touches on some reasons to be a mentor and a number of ways to do it.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Elearning is great because it affords people an opportunity to take courses that they may otherwise not be able to take due to financial or geographic constraints. In childhood education, elearning is being leveraged to present content in different ways, opening up doors to flipped and virtual classrooms. But as with elearning, there are some negative aspects that accompany the good.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 19, 2014

'Just a reminder to join me for a Best of DevLearn webinar with the eLearning Guild on Wednesday, August 20th, 1:00 eastern/10:00 pacific: Design Models and Patterns for Creating Better eLearning.

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eLearning Brothers

AUGUST 20, 2014

'It’s official! eLearning Brothers is one of the fastest growing private companies in America in 2014! The Inc. 500 list came out this morning — eLearning Brothers ranked #331, reporting 1,406% growth. (Read on Inc. 500.) . We want to thank you for making eLearning Brothers such an amazing company and for allowing us to do what we love — make awesome eLearning.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 17, 2014

'by Jennie Ruby    Answers to  my interruptions challenge  are brought to you by me. I found that there was no consensus on number 2, that many people wanted to put parentheses in number 3, that many people just wanted to rewrite number 5, but that everyone agreed that on number 6,  (see Appendix B)  belonged inside parentheses.   My answers follow the  Gregg Reference Manual , but unless you put any punctuation in number 4, I can't bring mysel

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 20, 2014

'By Shelley A. Gable. I’ve heard learners criticize eLearning lessons that have too much “extra” stuff at the beginning. Think about all the material that some lessons place before the actual content: title slide, copyright and/or confidentiality statements, navigation instructions, learning objectives, etc. It can potentially add up to a lot of extra clicks (that learners may or may not actually pay attention to), which gets the activity off to a somewhat sluggish start.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Today it is rather easy to create an online course, especially if you are using a flexible platform like WordPress. There are many teachers out there that use WordPress to deliver their course content, but what about monetizing the material? At first glance this may seem pretty straightforward – just give your course a price. However, there are multiple models for pricing that you may want to take a moment to decide which one fits your business (and course topic) the best.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 21, 2014

'I just had breakfast with a good friend and colleague, and, the usual thing happened; the conversation shifted to performance challenges around business systems implementations. He is a process improvement engineer blessed with the curse of a training background followed by deep business process improvement experience. While that sounds like a contradiction in terms, it […].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 21, 2014

'by Jen Weaver      While it failed to be renewed for another season, the 2010 NBC show "Outsourced" shed a comical light on some of the cultural nuances to doing business in India. Miss the show? Never fear. In this article we'll explore some common cultural facts about Indians and their expectations when it comes to training and development.   Test your Knowledge of Indian Culture.

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Absorb LMS

AUGUST 19, 2014

You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you spent your high school years sitting in your friend’s basement learning to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven on a Gibson Flying V guitar instead of studying for final exams.

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