Association eLearning
APRIL 9, 2015
'People always want to know how their association could benefit from a Learning Management System (LMS). To help explain, let me present a little scenario. “Johnson!” Your boss calls to you. (Assuming your last name is Johnson, otherwise insert your name here). “I’ve got some great news! The board loved all the courses we offered at the conference last week.
Origin Learning
APRIL 10, 2015
'Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are relatively new yet already a rage, so much so that the New York Times named 2012 as the ‘Year of the MOOC’. What started as an initiative by the Stanford University in 2011 has quickly found its applications as a learning medium in educational institutions and corporates alike. MOOCs are massive, open and online – i.e. they are freely delivered over the internet to anyone who wants to enroll.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
APRIL 7, 2015
'by Sally Cox I create all my graphics for my eLearning courses in Adobe Illustrator. I try to draw everything myself but also refine stock vector art when I am in a rush. My Illustrator files have a lot of artboards and they can get out of order easily. Let me show you how to rearrange your Artboards to help keep you sane and organized. When you create a New Document in Illustrator, there is an option to add more than one Artboard.
InSync Training
APRIL 9, 2015
'Virtual instructional designers manage the development of learning solutions for live, virtual classroom-based instruction. Without the designer there would be no content to deliver. They connect client needs to solutions through analysis and execution of an effective design process. They make the material come alive by adding context to the content through teachable stories and engaging activities.
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B Online Learning
APRIL 7, 2015
'Lately we’ve been getting a lot of demand for our eLearning Design Essentials one day workshop. This workshop is face to face and covers the ‘need to know’ information about putting together an eLearning module. The problem is the demand for the workshop has been for many different locations around Australia and as much as […].
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Lambda Solutions
APRIL 9, 2015
'The UN recently reported that the number of people who own mobile phones outnumber the people who have access to flush toilets. We are highly dependent on our mobile devices - we rely on them to do everything, from communicate, browse the internet, play games, take pictures, etc. Mobile learning, then, has been a long time coming. We will use the example of Moodle, a learning management system (LMS) that fully supports mobile learning.
Learning Visions
APRIL 6, 2015
'I got started in the business because I can write. I like to think that I have some visual design acumen, but it’s pretty haphazard. The last time I studied the color wheel was probably in eighth grade. And yet eLearning is a really visual medium. We’re communicating with people through the tools of the screen: text, audio, video, images. Layout and aesthetics matter.
InSync Training
APRIL 8, 2015
'This post was originally written by Sunder Ramachandran on his blog Learning Experiments. Many thanks for sharing. Blended Learning is a hot topic of discussion in the L&D community. The definitions and perspectives on this theme are wide ranging and vary depending on who you are speaking to. Implementing a blended learning strategy is a mandate that most training managers in 2015 carry.
The Performance Improvement Blog
APRIL 7, 2015
'During the first session of a workshop I facilitate for ATD, one of the participants asked, “What does a learning culture look like in an electrical power generation plant, where most of the training is for the purpose of meeting industry regulations?” This is an excellent question that got me thinking about learning in a highly regulated work environment.
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Jane Hart
APRIL 8, 2015
'This is our 4th Annual Learning in the Workplace Survey. The survey asks you to rate 10 different ways you learn at work. Once you submit your own data, you will be able to view the results submitted from over 3,000 people worldwide – plus an analysis of what this means for L&D practices. If you haven’t […].
Upside Learning
APRIL 7, 2015
'Eleven is considered to be a Master Number. Ten being the perfect number, eleven represents something above and beyond the mundane. This is just what we did in the past year; pushed past the limitations, surpassed all expectations, and introduced the world to some innovative learning solutions. That was the year that was. Overall too, […].
JoomlaLMS
APRIL 8, 2015
'After a long process of redesign and redevelopment we couldn’t be more excited to introduce JoomlaLMS 2.0! Mobile adaptiveness, modern layout, course builder, GoToMeeting integration, Joomla! 3.4 compliance and much more!
Clark Quinn
APRIL 7, 2015
'In the Debunker Club , a couple of folks went off on the 70:20:10 model, and it prompted some thoughts. I thought I’d share them. If you’re not familiar with 70:20:10, it’s a framework for thinking about workplace learning that suggests we need to recognize that the opportunity is about much more than courses. If you ask people how they learned the things they know to do in the workplace, the responses suggest that somewhere around 10% came from formal learning, 20% from info
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ej4 eLearning
APRIL 8, 2015
'We’ve been very busy at ej4 updating our content and can’t wait for you to see it! For starters, we expanded our Bloodborne Pathogens course into 3-part series to allow for more details to be presented as it relates to the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Plus, we’ve refreshed [.]. The post Check Out Our Updated Content for April!
Nick Leffler
APRIL 8, 2015
'What have you done lately to make someone’s life easier? That’s a question you should be asking yourself every day. I like to constantly think of things I can do to make someone’s life easier. When thinking about learning experiences when training is needed, it’s important to train as efficiently as possible. Even if you’re cutting down an hour and a half plus training session(s) down to less than 30 minutes, it might not be enough.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 7, 2015
'I am so excited to be a stop on Connie Malamed’ s blog book tour. She already has one great book so I was anxiously waiting for her next one. It is awesome, filled with great advice for those of us who are visually challenged. This book contains all kinds of great tips and techniques for creating exciting and visually appealing eLearning. Connie is passionate about the field of L&D and is founder of the popular blog The eLearning Coach.
Learning Visions
APRIL 8, 2015
'Sometimes a phrase sticks in my skull. And not always in a good way. Last week I read an article in CLO Magazine about blended learning: ”What’s Old is New Again: CLOs aren’t as fond of blended learning as we think” by Giuseppe Auricchio, that had a ring dinger of a quote that I’ll get to in a second. So why the resistance to blended learning at the senior level?
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Lambda Solutions
APRIL 7, 2015
'Current education reform debate in the US centers around the dilemma that high-quality teachers are in high-demand, yet the larger system in place to recruit and retain such teachers is ineffective. While the United States reports an aggregate teacher surplus, further analysis of these numbers indicate that there has been persistent teacher shortages for the past 40 years.
LearnDash
APRIL 7, 2015
'Most online courses will end with a quiz in order to assess whether or not the learner understands the material. However, it’s important to note that assessment strategies should vary depending on what it is you are trying to measure. Despite their similarities, elearning can have very different desired end results for the people who take them.
Challenge to Learn
APRIL 6, 2015
'This week I was in Beijing for the launch of the Chinese edition of Easygenerator. It was my first visit to China and I will try to reflect on all the impressions I had; not on eLearning but on the country. We launched Easygenerator at an e-learning conference in Beijing. I had the honor of being one of the keynote speakers. I talked about trends in e-Learning in Europe and the USA.
ID Reflections
APRIL 10, 2015
'I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix. The catch is that “ social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced.
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Clark Quinn
APRIL 8, 2015
'Week before last, Will Thalheimer and I had another one of our ‘debates’, this time on the Kirkpatrick model (read the comments, too!). We followed up last week with a live debate. And in the course of it I said something that I want to reiterate and extend. The reason I like the Kirkpatrick model is it emphasizes one thing that I see the industry failing to do.
eLearning Brothers
APRIL 10, 2015
'In our own, considered, humble opinion, we have an awesome blog that every eLearning professional should read. But sometimes we like to see what our colleagues are doing, which means taking a look at the multitude of eLearning knowledge that exists all over the web. Here are a few blogs that you simply must bookmark and read on a consistent basis: 1.
LearnDash
APRIL 9, 2015
'If you have a site where you offer multiple courses, then there are times where you may want to display unique content depending on the course that is being viewed. By default, the LearnDash course layout will include a content area and a sidebar where you can insert widgets (such as a progress bar and course navigation), a configuration that has proven to be effective for online course delivery.
Origin Learning
APRIL 9, 2015
'SCORM refers to Sharable Content Object Reference Model, a technical standard for writing e-learning content. It gives guidelines to programmers on how to write codes for e-learning products so that it can play well with other software. It is the de facto industry standard which allows organizations using e-learning as a training method to reuse content without rewriting expensive custom interfaces.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
APRIL 9, 2015
'by Jennie Ruby. If you've tried Adobe Presenter with Video Express , you are probably aware that you can create a video of yourself as you present your PowerPoint slides, and then display either yourself, your slides, or both in the published project. However, a well-kept secret is that Video Express actually enables you to take a simultaneous video of yourself and anything you have on your computer screen--it doesn't have to be PowerPoint slides.
eLearning Brothers
APRIL 9, 2015
'Guest post by Gabbie Keegan. She writes mostly about education, lifestyle, writing tricks, and careers. She loves to blog, read classic novels, and travel in different places. No doubt digital technology has transformed the classroom in many ways. With the tremendous amount of EdTech (education technology) tools and platforms out there, eLearning resources becomes a key player in making big changes and advancement to the face of education.
LearnDash
APRIL 10, 2015
'If you are involved in the elearning industry then you are likely familiar with SCORM. For years, SCORM has dominated the elearning landscape as the official way to standardize online course content. Platforms like Articulate and Captivate encourage its use by making publishing course content to SCORM easy by just clicking a button. Organizations all over the world have fallen into the habit of asking for SCORM for any elearning content they purchase or produce.
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