The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 16, 2013

'by Kevin Siegel      I've met a few Captivate developers who say they have a love-hate relationship with Captivate's default Object Styles. Personally, I love Object Styles and can't think of anything to hate. As far as I'm concerned, using Object Styles will improve your development speed enormously.   Object Styles allow you to quickly update the look and feel of objects throughout your project with just a few clicks.

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dVinci Interactive

APRIL 18, 2013

'Can you train your salesperson to know everything? Businesses expect a lot from their salespeople. They expect them to be experts on their products and services, knowledgeable about their customer needs and diligent about following a sales process. Most importantly, they expect productivity and results. Customers also have high expectations of sales reps.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 15, 2013

'Here are some ideas I’ve had lately about trying to separate games and gamification as concepts. A game is a self-contained unit. There is a defined “game-space” in which the players agree to engage in game activities. There is a clear beginning, middle and end to a game. There is a defined winning state of the game. The players know when they or someone else has completed the game.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 16, 2013

'In our earlier blog post, 5 Tips For Managing Blended Learning Through An LMS , we had discussed the ways in which organizations can mix different teaching materials and tools into an integrated learning experience using an LMS. This was mainly focused on organizations that were currently leveraging their LMSs for managing blended learning. But what about those that still haven’t treaded these waters?

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Jane Hart

APRIL 16, 2013

'What is the primary role of the learning professional in an organisation today? Is it to organise and manage what people learn? by designing, creating and delivering content (training/instruction/courses/resources) then tracking that people use it, and measuring success in terms of learning activity metricsâ?¦ (e.g. [.].

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

'“if anybody says to you here’s where learning will be in five years, run in the other direction.” This is what Elliott Masie, Founder & President of The MASIE Center, said this week at the beginning of his Keynote session at the Human Capital Media Symposium for Chief Learning Officer. Masie went on to talk about trends that have the potential for changing the field dramatically.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 15, 2013

'Driven by the rapidly changing way the people learn in the workplace today, Learning Management Systems have had to keep pace and change in their design and capability to deliver what today’s learner is asking for. The LMS of “Now” have moved quickly to become a more encompassing learning environment and platform, capable of delivering learning and supporting performance across organizations and playing a key role in managing talent.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 16, 2013

'People often like to compare game-based learning to lectures. They want to know “which is better?” Often the answer is not that simple. While many people acknowledge different types of games for learning such as: matching games, first-person thinkers, platform games, games that require balancing resources, etc. Many people don’t realize there are also different types of lectures and most lecture types are not that good.

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LearnDash

APRIL 15, 2013

'Today we have a large variety of tools available to us for social learning, the most notable being front-runners Facebook and Twitter. There have been many suggestions on how to use twitter to supplement learning , but less has been written about Facebook supplementing learning efforts – which begs the question: can Facebook be a tool for elearning?

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Raptivity

APRIL 17, 2013

'We are sure there are so many Tin Can enthusiasts in the eLearning world who are super excited about using it. Well, we just read your mind. Raptivity now supports Tin Can. And guess what; tracking Tin Can output with [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 17, 2013

'Australia's economy is thriving. A mining boom fueled by demand from China has led to a shortage of skilled workers and a 5% jobless rate in this country ( Source ). In 2009-10, mining had the highest capital expenditure ($45.6 billion), highest wages and salaries per employee ($117,500), highest sales and service income per person employed ($1.06 million) and a profit margin (33.4%) ( Source ).

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Web Courseworks

APRIL 15, 2013

'May 17th On-line Panel to Discuss the Role of Games in Education This coming May, Excelsior College will be hosting a webinar on games in education. I am extremely honored to have been chosen to be part of the panel that will get to discuss this topic and will hopefully be part of a team [.]. eLearning Ben Devane Clark Aldrich curriculum david seelow Dr.

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LearnDash

APRIL 18, 2013

'When trying to find the perfect instructional designer for your project, be it contract work or a full-time employee, there are certain qualifications that you should ensure are on their resume (or at least implied given their previous work). In the past, employers often had a difficult time defining the roles for instructional designers. However, today ID is very prominent, with many institutions offering advanced degrees in the area, and a handful of professional societies offering additional

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 14, 2013

'By Shelley A. Gable. What was the last book. you couldn’t put down? The last movie. you couldn’t stop talking about? The last song you found yourself playing repeatedly? While you may feel drawn to each of these for different reasons, chances are, you have emotional connections to them all. Perhaps you found one of them profoundly relatable. Maybe one was uplifting.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 14, 2013

'by Jennie Ruby. Most people who quote someone's words in a document understand the need to use quotation marks around the text (lest you be accused of plagiarizing!). But a more confusing situation occurs when you are quoting someone at length. Last week I received the following question via email: "If quoting someone's feedback that is more than one paragraph long, what is the correct formatting for quotes?

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 16, 2013

'Don Clark, on his Big Dog, Little Dog: Performance Justification blog post “Analysis” says that the Japanese approach to performance improvement is to ask “why” five times when confronted with a problem or a desire to improve a part of an organization. They want to know what exactly is causing [.] The post Front-End Analysis: Backward Analysis and the Performance Gap appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 18, 2013

'Totally unrelated to elearning, gamification or games is the horrible event at the Boston Marathon. Here are images of the suspects, if you know something…say something. If you were in Boston, maybe you saw something. Let’s catch these criminals. Here they are on video…someone must know these people, we need to find them. Keep up with the latest information on the topic from the FBI website.

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LearnDash

APRIL 14, 2013

'It’s all the rage these days, right? Gamification is what everyone is trying to incorporate into their classroom or corporate environment in some way, shape, or form. I think when done right, “gamifying” elements of learning certainly has its advantages (but let’s not get carried away). For many people, adding some sort of gaming seems like quite the task – but for a WordPress LMS, it is actually quite easy.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 18, 2013

'I'm excited to announce that I'll be teaching two full-day classes on Adobe Captivate 6 later this year for ASTD Cascadia in Portland, OR. I'll be introducing Captivate 6 on the first day and following that up on day 2 with Captivate 6 advanced concepts. You can learn more about the introduction session here and the advanced session here.

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Living in Learning

APRIL 17, 2013

'In January of this year, I became Learning Development Director in a new group at Intellinex LLC, a Xerox Company called the Emerging Accounts Group (EAG). I landed on January 2nd and less than a week later I was thrown from a moving bus and met a huge client in Dallas. The business there is about to break wide open and I''m now faced with building a learning solutions team.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2013

'On a recommendation, I’ve been reading Jonah Sach’s Winning the Story Wars. While it’s ostensibly about marketing/advertising, which interests me not, I was intrigued by the possibilities to understand stories from a different perspective. I was surprised to find that it offered much more. The book does cover the history of advertising, going through some classic examples of old-style advertising, and using some surprisingly successful examples to elicit a new model.

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LearnDash

APRIL 17, 2013

'If you have ever been involved in on an elearning development project team, you know that one obstacle you have to contend with is the size of the elearning files. In a small team where resources like SharePoint aren’t a viable option, there has to be an alternative to sending these huge files to one another. A good number of instructional design professionals rely upon Box.net to send and share files – but this isn’t ideal for everyone.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 14, 2013

'Yay! My blog has been nominated for the Best Australian Blogs 2013 competition which is held annually by the Australian Writers’ Centre. I am honoured to be nominated, and I would be further honoured if you would vote for E-Learning Provocateur in the People’s Choice round: Voting closes at 5pm on Tuesday 30 April 2013 (Sydney time). Thanks in advance!

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KnowledgeStar

APRIL 18, 2013

'“There is no greater anti-brain environment than the classroom and cubicle.” Since most of us spend most of our time in them, it’s amazing we learn anything or get anything done, Check out John Medina’s new multimedia interactive website on brain and learning here.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 16, 2013

'Don Clark, on his Big Dog, Little Dog: Performance Justification blog post “Analysis” says that the Japanese approach to performance improvement is to ask “why” five times when confronted with a problem or a desire to improve a part of an organization. They want to know what exactly is causing [.] The post Front-End Analysis: Backward Analysis and the Performance Gap appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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From the Coleface

APRIL 19, 2013

'A really thought-provoking article by Ralf Dobelli (based on a longer essay) about information overload and in particular, news. To pick out some headlines, “news inhibits thinking, kills creativity, makes us passive and wastes time” So if Dobelli’s arguments are valid, why would anyone read or watch the news? One big factor is that everyone consumes news because they think that other important people do.

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Web Courseworks

APRIL 18, 2013

'My Interview on the May 17th Excelsior College Games Symposium As a follow up to last week’s post on Excelsior College’s coming up webinar on games in education, I was happy to speak with Mike Lesczinski on my thoughts about this year’s symposium topics. Prepared for answers, Mike asked me to share my favorite aspects [.].

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 17, 2013

'We love using Articulate Storyline and imagine we’re not the only ones. Today we’d like to share one of our Articulate Storyline game templates for FREE! We hope this helps you create awesome Storyline courses. Download this template for free! ( Note: You will be asked to create a Free Account in our Template Library to gain access to all of our free templates.).

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