Upside Learning
JULY 2, 2013
'There was quite a debate within the Upside instructional design team about what constitutes Engagement in an eLearning module. When asked what engagement is, the responses vary widely. Everyone seems to know what it is, but we just can't put our finger on it. Some of the responses, in no particular order, make for interesting [.] Related Posts: eLearning On Tablets: What, Why & How?
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 3, 2013
'by Jen Weaver. Congratulations! Your English eLearning course has achieved such tremendous success that your company is ready to produce the materials in additional languages. Often this request flows from a grand vision--your products and services spanning the globe with clients and students in every continent and every country. As inspiring as your vision may be, getting there requires careful planning, time, money and strategic execution.
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Jane Hart
JULY 3, 2013
'I have written a lot about how knowledge workers are using the Social Web to organise their own learning and performance support and how this is changing the face of workplace learning such that the new role of Traning & Development (T&D) will be to support these new ways of self-organised learning. But I still [.].
LearnDash
JULY 2, 2013
'The edtech arena is taking off , and that’s no surprise given the exciting advancements and accessibility of mobile devices. Opinion among educators is predictably in favor of educational technology in the classroom, with a whopping 96% believing that it increases student engagement in learning. Heck, 89% of teachers believe that the use of ed-tech improves student outcomes in the classroom.
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Upside Learning
JULY 4, 2013
'In his book, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization (Wiley, 2013), Dan Pontefract defines ‘Pervasive Learning’ as: “learning at the speed of need through formal, informal and social learning modalities” (I got the above definition from Dan’s blog, the book is still on my ‘to read’ list.) A powerful thought indeed.
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Jane Hart
JULY 1, 2013
'Every day I tweet links to resources I have found of interest. At the end of the month I review them as I add them to my 2013 Reading List and pick out my favourites. So here are my favourites from June 2013. I’ve listed them in chronological order, and once again, I’ve provided a [.].
Clark Quinn
JULY 2, 2013
'It’s becoming clear to me that we’re making a big mistake in our thinking. We seem to think that formal learning is relatively cost-effective, and may even think that performance support and social are more costly. Yet we need to realize that formal learning is likely our most costly approach! To start with, we should be doing sufficient analysis to ensure that the need is indeed a skill shift.
Upside Learning
JULY 1, 2013
'If you have been a regular reader of our blog, you would have noticed us talking about LMS and getting 'more' out of it in a number of posts. The reason is quite evident – the demand for Learning Management Systems (LMSs) for the delivery and management of training and performance support is on the [.] Related Posts: Getting More Out Of Your LMS: 10 Pointers – New eBook eLearning On Tablets: What, Why & How?
LearnDash
JULY 4, 2013
'Elearning has many benefits across a wide range of industries. We see it most prominent in education and with large corporations all over the world. It is efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. So it should come as no surprise that elearning is also a great choice for educating a sales team. Setting up a robust elearning program will not only lead to an increase in sales and satisfied customers, but it also is a great way to motivate a sales team, and other facets of business.
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Dashe & Thomson
JULY 2, 2013
'The practice of Organizational Change Management (OCM) has gained a lot of momentum over the past couple of decades. In fact, Amazon.com sells more than 900 books on the subject, including 24 published in the last year alone (like this one, which shows that the search is still on for the [.] The post Change Management Might Finally Be Ready To Change appeared first on Social Learning Blog.
Web Courseworks
JULY 1, 2013
'This week, Managing eLearning features a guest blog from Andy Hicken, Web Courseworks’ Product Innovation Specialist. Stanford Computer Science professor Balaji Srinivasan’s MOOC on Startup Engineering, in which I am enrolled, assigns Asymco’s post The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing as first-week reading. One could quibble with a few of Asymco’s details–would the PC’s decline […].
Kapp Notes
JULY 1, 2013
'Recently, I had the chance to conduct a fun and engaging workshop called Innovative Learning Techniques: Games, Social Learning and Interactive Stories. We had a great deal of fun. One of the first things we did was reconceptualize the ARCS model. Here are some images of the work. We also spent some time creating instructional stories, a big part of learning is storytelling.
LearnDash
JUNE 30, 2013
'Social media giants like FaceBook and the like demonstrate the possibilities that we have available to us when it comes to social learning despite being remote. The concept of social learning isn’t necessarily new, but the technology that we have available now does make certain aspects of proprietary. If you are at all considering an LMS or CMS, then you will do well to get something that is a bit more social than the traditional platforms available ( I’m looking at you, Moodle ).
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 2, 2013
'by Kevin Siegel. A client wanted an image to appear on most of the Filmstrip slides, but not all. Controlling the appearance of slide objects can be set in multiple ways. You can use Master Slides or Object Timing (you can set the Display time for an object to Rest of the Project ). However, the client wanted to control the appearance of a slide object (it was an image) based on a simple action performed by the learner.
Jane Hart
JUNE 29, 2013
'The first mini online workshop at the Connected Knowledge Lab takes place from 8-19 July and is led by Harold Jarche. This mini online workshop will help you understand the Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) framework as a model for taking control of your professional development. Although we refer to these events as “workshops” they are [.].
KnowledgeStar
JULY 5, 2013
'Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will The cost of college can range from $60,000 for a state university to four times as much at some private colleges. The total student debt in the U.S. now tops credit card debt. So a lot of people are asking: […].
LearnDash
JULY 1, 2013
'Learning management systems have been around for quite some time now, some would even argue that they existed prior to the advent of computers. For simplicity sake, when I refer to learning management systems (or LMS), I am speaking about the ones used with modern day technology (think BlackBoard, Moodle, etc.). Occasionally I hear some feedback from the learning community questioning why we even need a learning management system.
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Association eLearning
JULY 1, 2013
'If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. Everyone is talking about increasing engagement, and many are turning to gamification, social learning networks, and anything else they think will work to increase learner engagement. I often get asked by clients and attendees of my gamification education sessions, “Are games really the answer to increased learner engagement and knowledge retention?
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 1, 2013
'by AJ Walther. In one of my recent Optimizing PowerPoint for eLearning & Presentations classes , I demonstrated how to adjust the saturation of an inserted image to take the image to grayscale. After the class, one of the students asked how to make this adjustment on clip art images. Clip art illustrations insert as WMF pictures by default. Because they are WMF files, you have the ability to Recolor the image, but not to fully adjust the saturation.
The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 5, 2013
'High performance organizations are clear about their mission, vision, and guiding principles. On this Independence Day weekend in the U.S., it seems fitting that we revisit the mission, vision, and guiding principles of America. As intended, this belief system has served the nation well for the past 237 years. Charter documents (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights) have been amended over the years but the fundamental values have held strong.
KnowledgeStar
JULY 5, 2013
'I’m not sure what this has to do with education, learning, knowledge transfer, or anything else I usually write about. It just struck me as … relevant? You decide. A leading neurosurgeon has revealed a project to carry out the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage with the next two years. The project is […].
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Knowledge Guru
JULY 3, 2013
'The Knowledge Guru team is obviously very interested in the future of game based learning, and right now that future is bright. But not everyone is as informed about the industry. We are setting out to change that. We’re on a mission to educate the Instructional Design community and the decision makers in Training and Development about game based learning and its true potential.
LearnDash
JULY 3, 2013
'Since we originally launched version 1.0.0 of the Achievement Badges add-on , it has been a huge hit. With it installed, you can award points to users who complete specific tasks within your LMS, and even designate badges for your users to earn as they interact with the course material. It’s an easy and fun way to inject some gamification into your learning management system.
Moodle Journal
JULY 3, 2013
'This week is when I get the chance to evangelise to staff the benefits if adopting an eLearning – Online learning, Blended learning – Flipped learning component to courses. Being able to find testimonies from far and wide that support a range of improvements that may include aspects that range across achievement, attendance, student behaviour and even staff teaching profiles are not difficult to find and often in the highly accessible from of an info-graphic.
Living in Learning
JULY 3, 2013
'<Humor Alert> Once again the craving to examine learning has taken a turn toward the humorous. This is another true story about the truth that can only be taught from the hearts of family when a dash of duress gets mixed into what turned out to be a learning moment. </Humor Alert> When my in-laws […].
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mLearning Revolution
JULY 5, 2013
'If you truly want to develop learning, or any other type of content that can be viewed on multiple screens, including desktops and laptops, smartphones, tablets, as well as future devices, such as Google Glass, the only solid solution is by using Responsive Web Design principles. The real beauty of Responsive design is that it enables you to go from static content that is formatted using absolute dimensions (e.g. 1024 x 768) into content that is fluid, meaning the content will flow seamlessly f
Allison Rossett
JULY 3, 2013
'Of course, Qualcomm is interested in mobile learning and support. The very global, San Diego-based company is the leading patent holder on 3G and 4G mobile technologies. Their self interest delivers benefits to the rest of us. As impetus for more and better mobile learning and performance support, they’ve launched WorkLearnMobile– The Mobile Learning Innovation Network.
TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 3, 2013
'With summer underway, TechSmithies are heading out across the state of Michigan, the U.S. and beyond. And since we love to geek out over cool tech stuff, we do so with a homescreen full of apps. We asked around the office and pulled together a few of our favorite apps for summer travel, which we’ve listed below. Before the trip. TVFoodMaps ( iOS | Android ).
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