B Online Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
'Recently, I was talking to some friends of mine who work in learning and development and they were telling me that it’s coming up to that time of the year when everyone needs to retake their mandatory eLearning courses on privacy and bullying & harassment. They were saying that during the year there’s not too […].
eLearning Brothers
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
'Due to the “internet of things,” Microsoft Office decided to kill off their Clipart library in December 2014. The Clipart library has been available within the PowerPoint and MS Word programs since the mid-1990s. From what we can tell, the main reasons for this move by Microsoft is three-fold. Their existing library within the MS Office programs fails to capitalize on a huge piece of their business: Bing/Images/Image Search.
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Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'I got a call from a prospective client. She and I spoke briefly once when she was looking for a pool of instructional designers to call on for specific projects, but we haven’t worked together yet. In fact, I’m pretty sure she’s never worked with any instructional designers before. “Hi, Christy, it’s Lynn. I need some help finishing up an e-learning course.
Origin Learning
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
'Gone are the days when class room training was the only way to learn. Ever since internet came into the picture, people have gotten creative in various fields. Technology has revolutionized the way we are living and learning methods are no exceptions. e-Learning is a relatively new technology that started popularizing among education centers and students in the past decade.
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Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: lecture at home and do homework at school. The idea is that you replace instruction by a video or an e-learning course. This gives the student the opportunity to apply his knowledge under supervision of their teacher. This is the advantage of the flipped classroom.
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InSync Training
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
'The face-to-face classroom is often considered to be the BEST environment in which to deliver training, and when that option isn’t logistically or economically feasible it''s only then that we look to the virtual classroom as the runner-up option. Well, I’ve got a secret. Did you know that some performance objectives are best suited for delivery in the virtual classroom?
Origin Learning
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
'We are in the age of mobile devices and every business avenue is now thinking of innovative methods to train its workforce and ways to support them on the field. Though there are several factors that enhance the utility of mobile devices, the top spot goes to its ability to store and retrieve information in a jiffy or quicker than that. Now isn’t this reason enough to bank on mobile devices to impart performance support?
LearnDash
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
'Graphics can often make or beak an online course. Rarely today do you see a course that doesn’t contain any relevant images – although I have unfortunately come across some. Luckily most elearning will make use of graphics, but sometimes they are not implemented properly. For example, you may come across pictures or graphics that don’t necessarily relate to the content directly, or don’t provide any real value and are distractions.
Lambda Solutions
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
'One of the major challenges LMS administrators often face with online learning is keeping their learners inspired and engaged in their course work and we have some great advice on how to overcome this.
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JoomlaLMS
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
'How to Start a Career in the ELearning Field? A few decades ago we couldn’t even imagine that job market would evolve so significantly. Technology and economy changes, global competition growth and demographic changes dictate new terms and make people adapt to a new reality, master new skills and throw themselves into completely different career fields.
Origin Learning
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
'The Five Moments of Need Model is a practical and useful approach that can be used to fill in the ‘learning’ gaps by analyzing the typical role of employees. Instead of focusing only on what the organization wants in terms of learning, it focuses on the specific needs of employees as they go about their work and addresses those needs by providing the requisite training.
ID Reflections
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
'This is my area of passion. A recent, very brief conversation with @krishashok triggered a few thoughts related to emergent workplaces and what learning in the networked world will look like. And after mulling over some of these, I thought they were worth putting down on virtual paper. Setting the Context Here are two definitions from Wikipedia that captures the essence of Networked Learning: Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information,
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'In 2012, Google’s study, titled ‘The New Multi-screen World: Understanding Cross-platform Consumer Behavior‘ gave us a glimpse of the multi device world. It claimed we were using multiple devices in a day, often switching between then to complete tasks. Today that phenomenon is only getting stronger. We are all using multiple devices to achieve our […].
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Web Courseworks
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
'Hear Jon and Andy Interviewed About Digital Badges for Learning Professionals on the eLearning Coach Podcast! Andy Hicken and I sure had a fun, interesting discussion about digital badges, microcredentialing, and more with Connie Malamed of the eLearning Coach podcast. We get into the educational (and psychological!) philosophy behind badges, specific use cases, such as association professional development and corporations working with learners who are not their employees, and a bit of the tech
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
'In a recent chat, a colleague I respect said the word ‘engagement’ was anathema. This surprised me, as I’ve been quite outspoken about the need for engagement (for one small example, writing a book about it!). It may be that the conflict is definitional, for it appeared that my colleague and another respondent viewed engagement as bloating the content, and that’s not what I mean at all.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
'Every day I read a post or article that talks about how to make e-learning compelling or engaging. Advice ranges from using different typefaces, sizes or colours to the use of gamification or the latest training trend or technology. But as I’ve mentioned before, in most cases I believe this is simply putting lipstick on the […].
LearnDash
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
'One of the critical decisions you have to make when developing an elearning module is the length of the course. In many cases the content of the course is what dictates the duration, but sometimes instructional designers are guilty of cramming too much content into a course. So what is the ideal length of an online course? First, consider how long you would want to spend taking an online course (without breaks).
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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'As I listened to the TED Radio Hour “What is Original?” I kept wondering what originality really means in today’s age of building on top of what is already there. Back in the early days of modern science, the scientific method was new, and you could discover new scientific truths by observation – in your backyard, or in a home laboratory. Even in those times, getting together with other like-minded people in a cafeteria was a ritual frequented by the scientists.
The Performance Improvement Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'David Grebow, in a blog post titled Only Smart Companies Will Win , writes about the necessity of changing from a training culture to a learning culture. He writes: As recently as eight or ten years ago, transforming your organization’s culture from a teacher-led training culture to a learning culture, driven by digital technology, may have been a matter of managerial preference.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'by AJ Walther I've said it a thousand times: when it comes to eLearning (and presentations in general), PowerPoint is not the problem. Bad design is the problem. That being said, I wouldn't let PowerPoint off the hook altogether. Many PowerPoint defaults serve to lead users down a path of poor design choices (starting on a slide that encourages a title followed by a bulleted list, for example). Let's take a look at tables.
Living in Learning
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
'This is the challenge in front of us when we are trying to successfully position the added value and positive business impacts of Performance Support to an organization comfortably fed by a Training paradigm. It is that Training paradigm that blocks even considering there are other options to drive performance outcomes. Henry Ford nailed it when he said, “If I’d asked them what they wanted; they would’ve said faster horses!”.
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Association eLearning
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'Training can be used to help teach many different things including facts, step-by-step processes, and soft skills like team work. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that there are different ways to teach and assess these various types of learning. It’s usually easier to create learning offerings for the lower levels of learning, like memorizing a definition.
eLearning Brothers
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
'Guest post by Robert Morris. The upswing of the eLearning industry is showing no signs of slowing down. An increased number of educators, organizations, institutions, and individuals of various industries are creating online courses that enable them to grow as professionals and gain more knowledge. If you are trying to design an eLearning course, you need to keep the entire process as organized as possible.
LearnDash
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
'Have you ever thought about selling a course online? If so, then chances are that you also considered using Udemy. If you’re not familiar with Udemy, it is a program that allows you to create and sell courses. When you create a course, it is added to their course library. Visitors can then choose to purchase your course and Udemy takes a percentage of the sale.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
'by Willam van Weelden When you create a list, there are several list styles you can use in RoboHelp: bullets, squares, lowercase alphabet, and numbers. But RoboHelp brings one more great feature: you can use images instead of bullets. Create a List Style with Custom Images. On the Project Manager pod, double-click your style sheet to open the Styles dialog box.
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Lambda Solutions
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
'Now that Moodle 2.8 is on its third minor release (Moodle 2.8.3)—we’ve had a solid quarter to review the features and see what’s jiving for our corporate, healthcare and education-based clients. Moodle 2.8 is hands-down the best version of Moodle yet and we couldn’t be more excited to share how you will benefit from the new and improved features. With Moodle 2.8 , users are reaping the benefits of significant enhancements to gradebook, forums, analytics and the overall usability across all devi
Nick Leffler
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
'Today is the final day of my four-day journey to cover my thoughts on this week’s topics for the online cMOOC Exploring Innovations in Networked Work and Learning. I’ve already covered the wonderful topics of crowdsourcing , idea management and design and yesterday’s communities of practice. This is my favorite topic out of the four.
LearnDash
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
'Learning management is an important component to any online training program. If you choose a solution that isn’t right for your goals, the entire learning program suffers. There was once a time when organizations could get away with not using an LMS at all for their training. Those days have long passed as now learning is delivered digitally across most educational and business settings.
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