Upside Learning

MAY 30, 2013

'Ever since responsive eLearning became a buzzword we (at Upside Learning) have been inundated with requests from clients to make every (well almost every), piece of eLearning responsive and multi-device compatible. In my view, responsive eLearning design is just a technical solution to a specific requirement – simply put (as defined in Wikipedia) it is used to “provide an optimal viewing experience – easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrollin

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 28, 2013

'eLearning veterans such as  Cammy Bean ,  Sean Bengry ,  Tom Bunzel , Paul Clothier ,  Sarah Gilbert ,  Amy Jokinen , Amy Leis ,  Susan O'Connell ,  Erick Summa ,  Kevin Siegel  and  Deborah Thomas  provide 68 tips for making sure eLearners are fully engaged. Covered among the tips: Creating engaging content.

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LearnDash

MAY 26, 2013

'Everyone likes nifty tips, tricks, and tools – so how about 19 of them! Here in the United States, Monday is memorial day, so if you’re celebrating, perhaps right before your afternoon food-coma you can take a look at these incredibly useful tools that you may find of use when you’re working on your next elearning project. Many of them are free!

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 31, 2013

'Managers of employees have a critical role to play in employee learning. These managers are in the best position to help employees acquire the knowledge and skills they need to be successful. By asking questions, by assigning opportunities to apply knowledge and skills, by modeling expected behavior, by providing timely information, by coaching application of learning, and by giving performance feedback, they can facilitate learning and, therefore, performance improvement of their direct report

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

'Sydneysider Scott O’Brien is back in town after an extended stint in San Francisco. Scott is the Co-founder & CMO of Explore Engage , a digital media company that is attracting serious attention for its augmented reality eyewear. I caught up with Scott in the harbour city and asked him the following questions… What are your favourite examples of augmented reality?

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LearnDash

MAY 27, 2013

'Now that MOOCs are hitting the scene, everyone wants to jump on board! Granted, some want to get into the game in the hopes of making a quick dollar (somehow?), but others genuinely want to know how they can create their own MOOC for educational purposes. Well, you have options! More providers are likely to spring up as we will only cover five potential options.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 29, 2013

'Wow!, had a great time at the ASTD ICE Conference which recently concluded in Dallas Texas. What a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, make new friends and to stay informed of all the happenings in the world of learning. Play to Learn Workshop. I started the conference co-facilitating a workshop with Sharon Boller of Bottom Line Performance.

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Absorb LMS

MAY 30, 2013

'Top5OnlineColleges.org , a research and advisory services site focused on learning and development in the online higher education world, has just named Absorb LMS one of the 99 Top Tools for Online Teaching. This list includes resources in the following three categories: Teaching Tools & Technologies. Learning Management Systems. Journals & Blogs.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 29, 2013

'by Kevin Siegel. You can allow your learners to jump from one slide in your eLearning lesson to any other slide via interactive slide objects. Adding this level of user interaction is commonly referred to as  branching. To create a branch, select an interactive slide object (such as a button or click box) and select Jump to slide from the On Success drop-down menu (via the Action group on the Properties panel).

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LearnDash

MAY 29, 2013

'For many years now the benefits of gaming in educational settings has been seen as an effective way to further education in K-12 settings. Generally, schools and teachers alike seem to be bringing games into the classroom. Many administrators say that they believe the use of digital content in schools increases student engagement and helps them to personalize instruction.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2013

'What does continuous, collaborative learning mean and why does it matter? Next week, I''ll be leading a webinar where we can start a conversation and then continuously collaborate on this topic! I''ll be looking at what other smarty pants have to say on the subject, share some juicy tidbits and information, and take a look at what real organizations are doing.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 29, 2013

'There’s much talk about 21st Century skills , and rightly so: these skills are the necessary differentiators for individuals and organizations, going forward. If they’re important, how do we incorporate them into systems, and track them? You can’t do them in a vacuum, they only can be brought out in the context of other topics. We can integrate them by hand, and individually assess them, but how do we address them in a technology-enabled world?

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mLearning Revolution

MAY 29, 2013

'Today we don’t get to decide which device learners use to access our Learning – slide used in my mobile learning workshop. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC), the shift from traditional Personal Computers to Mobile Devices continues forward faster than expected, and with no slowing down in sight. This naturally bodes well for all who follow the mobile learning revolution, but it also puts enormous pressure on learning designers to develop learning th

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LearnDash

MAY 30, 2013

'Mobile learning is the new frontier for educational institutions and for profit organizations alike. Entrepreneurs are also getting into the game because the business is shaping up to be quite profitable. If you haven’t yet, expect to have some exposure to mobile learning (even in a minimal way) within the very near future – especially as smartphones are becoming the norm.

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Raptivity

MAY 30, 2013

'Hi everyone, did you try the memory recall techniques we talked about last time? Hope they turned out useful for you. Do let us know your experience with using them. And as promised, I am back today with our next [.].

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Clark Quinn

MAY 31, 2013

'David Kelly posted the following: Lifehacker has a series called “ How I Work. Every Wednesday they feature a new guest and the gadgets, apps, tips, and tricks that keep them going. It’s a very interesting series that gives you a glimpse into how different people work and solve problems. After recently seeing Daniel Pink’s interview some colleagues and I thought it would be interesting to answer these questions as well as a fun way to share and get to know each other better.

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

'I know it''s a strange title for a post in this blog. And with this post, I am coming back to blogging after a longish hiatus. I had planned a month''s "blogging leave" which has stretched to almost four for various reasons--some of these being the absolutely new and challenging world of work I am currently in. And this new world brought me into contact with Umesh--the inspiration behind this post.

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Ontuitive

MAY 30, 2013

'1.2 billion people worldwide were using mobile apps at the end of last year. The “app” trajectory of growth is 29.8 percent a year.1 If you’re a smartphone owner, you average 127 minutes every day using one or more of the 41 you’ve downloaded.

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dVinci Interactive

MAY 31, 2013

'As the economy has improved, more organizations have invested in learning technologies to gain a competitive advantage or accomplish strategic goals. Their priority is putting training and performance support at the fingertips of learners inside and outside of their organization with ease and efficiency. As an executive or learning and development leader, you may have ambitious learning initiatives but fewer in-house resources to achieve them.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2013

'I’ve been thinking more about animations of late. I am a big fan of diagrams (as you probably infer :), and animations add an important dimension. However, they’re more problematic to create. Yet I’ll argue that they can be really powerful. As Larkin & Simon pointed out in their landmark Cognitive Science article (PDF) “Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words”, a mental model is composed of conceptual relationships between the elements.

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 31, 2013

' . We’ve recently added this fun new game template to the eLearning Template Library. Feed the Seals is very similar to Angry Birds as you have to slingshot a fish out to each seal. This game template is available in Flash (.fla) actionscript 3.0. Demo Game Template. Note: This template is available to download for all current Template Library subscribers.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 29, 2013

'Attention Michigan educators! Are you looking to get your hands on some TechSmith software, but struggling to get funding together? MACUL has just opened up their grant program for 2013-2014 and have grants of up to $1,500 available for tech equipment and software. If you’re interested in writing a grant that includes TechSmith software, we’d love for you to join us for a workshop at TechSmith headquarters in Okemos on Wednesday, June 12 from 2:00PM – 5:00PM.

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dVinci Interactive

MAY 30, 2013

'Many learning and development professionals are looking for a head start to help them communicate project requirements to a prospective learning solutions partner. Strong initial communications can set you and your partner up for success. To help you organize your priorities and reach out to qualified prospective partners, we’ve created a simple eLearning Request for Proposal (RFP) template.

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eFront

MAY 28, 2013

'Epignosis, the global vendor of Enterprise, Cloud and Open Source learning management systems, has been shortlisted at this year’s Best of Elearning! Awards. For a third consecutive year, Epignosis has been named a finalist for the eFront LMS at the Best of Elearning! 2013 Awards in the category ‘Best Open Source Solutions.’. Now in its ninth year, Elearning!

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Saffron Interactive

MAY 29, 2013

'Like most of Londoners, I rely on tube transportation to travel around the city. When on the tube, I usually spend my commuting time playing video games on my smartphone. When I look around I realise that many others, like me, are immersed in trying to solve puzzles, escape from zombies, shoot pigs, and so on. Games have been around for hundreds of years and video games are today becoming the preferred form of entertainment.

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TechSmith Camtasia

MAY 31, 2013

'Being a small business is tough. Small businesses have fewer staff members and the same amount of work to do. And often, employees play multiple roles within the organization. Ally Parson is a perfect example. Ally Parson acts as Human Resources, Marketing, Customer Relations and more at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. Her responsibilities are widespread and require her to be extremely efficient to manage multiple projects and stay on schedule.

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OpenSesame

MAY 31, 2013

'You’ve updated your profile, added connections, followed companies, and garnered some endorsements and recommendations - what’s left for you to make the most of LinkedIn? Groups! Joining groups has many benefits, such as networking with industry leaders or getting feedback on ideas, but as an IT professional how do you know which LinkedIn groups are for you?

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Learning with e's

MAY 29, 2013

'If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your personal network. It is your virtual community. Call it what you wish. To me it resembles a global digital tribe. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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