Making Change

JANUARY 7, 2015

'“Wait, we can’t design the training that way, because Zeus will rain down fire as punishment!” You might not hear that particular myth, but I’ll bet you’ve heard many others. Here are the most popular myths I’ve heard from learning designers and their clients. Oh, those numbers in the chart? They’re just an estimate based on my experience.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 5, 2015

'The year 2014 was a fantastic year for gamification with lots of companies engaging in gamified solutions, more and more people understanding what gamification is all about and several well known technology companies taking the plunge into gamification. As well as some interesting vendor offerings in the field. The interest in gamification for learning is larger than it’s ever been and continues to grow (but not as fast as some predicted…more about that later).

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Absorb LMS

JANUARY 6, 2015

'Learners today are presented with a wealth of choices and opportunities for learning. They can turn to Blogs, wikis, social networks, video sites, etc. to find learning content. The problem, though, is that it can be difficult to find high quality, informative learning content among a massive sea of choices. How much stuff is out there? YouTube alone experiences 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. ( https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html ). 200 billion tweets are published to Tw

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Origin Learning

JANUARY 7, 2015

'Have you ever stood in front of a machine, with little or no idea about how to operate it – say at a self-check-in counter at an international airport that has its default language set to Dutch, or in front of a self-service kiosk for a tram that requires you to input information and money to print your ticket? In such or similar situations, what do you do if you have a couple of people operating the machine before you?

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 5, 2015

'Yes, you read it right. We’re giving away a free conference pass to one lucky L&D professional. All you have to do is share a challenge that you or your organisation faces with Multi-device Learning and you could see yourself networking with some of the most notable thinkers, visionaries and practitioners in workplace learning today […].

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dVinci Interactive

JANUARY 5, 2015

'Video Interview with CorpU’s Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. As part of our video blog series, I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ed Skonecki, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at CorpU. CorpU is pioneering a new approach to leadership development that uses technology to blend content from leading academic and executive experts with custom scenarios and social collaboration to create a comprehensive and effective learning experience.

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Origin Learning

JANUARY 9, 2015

'Knowledge and skills like how to complete a process or accomplish tangible tasks can be learnt by experimentation or reading. However, soft skills may not be so easy to teach. Vicarious or observational learning is learning by watching, since certain behaviors or skills simply cannot be learnt by attending a lecture about them or reading an e-learning module.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 5, 2015

'Happy new year! I’m looking forward to 2015 as a time for exploring, building, experimenting, discovering, and learning. Many of us like to make New Year’s resolutions in January – which rarely survive February – but this year mine are designed to last forever. I hereby commit to the following five resolutions: No facey, no connecty.

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Knowledge Guru

JANUARY 7, 2015

'You want to include a serious game in your training… but can you use an inexpensive game template or do you need a more expensive custom game? Here are questions you need to consider as you decide: What are you trying to achieve? How much budget do you have? How much time do you have to design and build it? How much skill do you have in game design and instructional design?

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Living in Learning

JANUARY 3, 2015

'Training tactics are slowly changing. Events are shrinking in size. MOOCs are unhooking linearity as a design concept. Learning is being “bursted” and “microed” in more granular chunks. More video is being embedded. Things are getting more social and collaborative, but the “T” word still seems to be central to the mission. We are still Training. Knowledge retention is still the enemy.

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Jane Hart

JANUARY 5, 2015

'Next public online programme runs 12 January – 20 March 2015 (10 weeks) A Social Learning Practitioner is a learning professional who encourages, enables and supports knowledge sharing and collaboration across their organisation – not just in training. He/she is a role model, leading the way by showing the business what it is to be […].

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Absorb LMS

JANUARY 6, 2015

'Learners today are presented with a wealth of choices and opportunities for learning. They can turn to Blogs, wikis, social networks, video sites, etc. to find learning content. The problem, though, is that it can be difficult to find high quality, informative learning content among a massive sea of choices. How much stuff is out there? YouTube alone experiences 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. ( https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html ). 200 billion tweets are published to Tw

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 8, 2015

'As I’ve been working with the Foundation over the past 6 months I’ve had the occasion to review a wide variety of elearning, more specifically in the vocational and education space, but my experience mirrors that from the corporate space: most of it isn’t very good. I realize that’s a harsh pronouncement, but I fear that it’s all too true; most of the elearning I see will have very little impact.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 8, 2015

'by Jennie Ruby. I'm not sure it's the best of luck to start the New Year peeved, but when it's a grammar pet peeve, I cannot resist. Here are two pet peeves from  Laura Gillenwater , both of which I end up covering in every writing class: Two of my current pet peeves are the misuse/overuse of the word "utilize," instead of "use" and the word "impact," instead of "affect" or "effect" (depending on whether "impact" is b

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LearnDash

JANUARY 6, 2015

'More often than not, the primary reason why an organization implements an elearning program is to either rectify a problem, or to avoid problems. In either case, the idea is to combat these problems with education. To avoid having issues, companies spend a lot of money to create training, set-up learning management systems, and hire a staff of instructional designers to create the content.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 8, 2015

'In a short period of time I will be headed to ATD’s TechKnowledge 2015, it is a fun conference with lots of great sessions and vendors. Last year a horrible snow storm stymied my attempt to head to warmer weather, I am hoping this year the same does not occur. What happened to Larry…help solve the case. If I do make it to TK 2015, I will be doing some awesome stuff.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 9, 2015

'Yesterday I went off about how learning design should be done right and it’s not easy. In a conversation two days ago, I was talking to a group that was supporting several initiatives in adaptive learning, and I wondered if this was a good idea. Adaptive learning is desirable. If learners come from different initial abilities, learn at different rates, and have different availability, the learning should adapt.

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Nick Leffler

JANUARY 5, 2015

'Over a year ago I began to share what I am learning at the moment. I did this through the hashtag #LrnToday which I also encouraged others to do. It’s been a while since I’ve reflected on how well it has worked and how I’ve updated it. A while being since I first posted about the hashtag and then later created a page for #LrnToday. Forced Reflection.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 7, 2015

'Are you currently creating an online course – or have you in the past? As a course developer (instructional designer), you know the importance of continually improving in your craft. In general, this means staying on top of industry trends, and understanding learning design theory as it applies to the digital age. The information around these areas is great, but it can sometimes become full of too much jargon, or delve too deep into the details.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 8, 2015

'Welcome to 2015 - a year when blended and virtual learning is going to continue to evolve. We are excited about the new content we are planning to explore and share. We are especially interested in the concept of the modern virtual classroom, exploring how social and mobile BYOD technologies support blended learning, and the impact of globalization and microlearning on training design.

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ej4 eLearning

JANUARY 8, 2015

'2015 is here and you have new ideas for your company. You’re probably planning out company-wide and/or department-specific goals already, and along the way some process changes will happen. The biggest challenge with any change is getting everyone on board as quickly as possible. One reason change is difficult for some is they have a fear of the unknown.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 8, 2015

'It’s that time of year again, when we pay special attention to our personal and career goals. However, how likely is it that we will actually achieve those goals? I belong to a fitness center at the local community college and I’m always fascinated by the January upsurge in activity and then the fall off around March and April each year. Hopefully, that means some people have achieved their fitness and weight loss goals, but I’m afraid that for many it means they have given up.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 8, 2015

'Have you ever purchased a product at the store because of the packaging, and then after using it you realize it’s not that great? Or perhaps you lose interest? I think we all have gone through this experience at some point. The last time this happened to me was when I was at the grocery store.I saw a pack of gum (you know, the ones they put right in front of your face for the impulse buy).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 6, 2015

'by Kevin Siegel        Buttons are the most common form of interactivity that you'll find in just about any Storyline project. Using Triggers, you can control what happens should the learner successfully click a button (such as Go to the next slide or Show Layers). Over the next few weeks I'm going to teach you how easy it is to add buttons to any Storyline slide, how to add Triggers, and how to control Button states.

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ej4 eLearning

JANUARY 8, 2015

'Whenever you implement an employee training program, you probably rely on your human resources staff. These team members put together the program and decide how to distribute it among the company. Because HR individuals are so integral to the implementation process, you want to make sure each person is dedicated to your efforts to use eLearning courseware.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 8, 2015

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JANUARY 9, 2015

'In the Netherlands we have Expedition Robinson. Some famous Dutch people go to an island and have to battle. Here is a very funny scene from Expedition Robinson. Remy gets a burger, but because everyone gets to eat all kinds of scary insects he can not get the idea out of his head that he''s going to eat maggots or insects. As a result of that idea in his head he does not manage to eat the burger and fails.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 8, 2015

'After all the many hours of eLearning content development and design we have done as eLearning professionals, the most important objective is to ensure our learners retain and apply what they’ve learned to memory. In this post, I want go over the Forgetting Curve, how it applies to your eLearning courses, and give some ideas to create sticky eLearning content.

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