Making Change
JUNE 2, 2013
'I preach a lot about making activities realistic and showing the results of the learner’s choice. Here’s a good example of those principles from the folks at SmartBuilder. In the activity, you’ll learn the ports of a laptop and apply your knowledge in a realistic situation. Go try it , and then come back here for some discussion. A “traditional” course wouldn’t have let us explore the laptop.
Absorb LMS
JUNE 6, 2013
'Remember reflection? That’s something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Prior to the mobile revolution, people could at times be seen staring off into space, just thinking. If you were to spot someone doing that today, you’d think “So sad.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JUNE 3, 2013
'by Kevin Siegel. In the good old days, software companies released major upgrades to their products every 2-3 years. Like it or not, the upgrade cycles have gotten shorter and shorter. How long was it between Adobe Captivate 5 and 6? 14 months? 18? Adobe has promised a more aggressive upgrade cycle for its programs that will make even the recent upgrade cycles look almost snail-like.
Kapp Notes
JUNE 4, 2013
'Games are emotional, in a game there are typically winners and losers. The winners feel great! The losers, don’t feel great:(. As someone creating or commissioning an instructional game, are you prepared to deal with the losers of that instructional game? That’s right, if you create an instructional game or gamification that is based on competition, some of the learners will feel great that they’ve won and some will feel lousy that their name isn’t on the leaderboard or
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Upside Learning
JUNE 3, 2013
'The largest learning technology survey has been launched! It’s the Towards Maturity 2013 Benchmark Survey. For those of you who are not aware of the Towards Maturity Benchmark, it is an internationally recognized, vendor neutral, longitudinal study that considers how organizations are establishing successful e-enabled learning strategies in the workplace.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JUNE 2, 2013
'by AJ Walther. I've previously written a pretty wide array of articles on using color in eLearning design. Part of that series covered designing for color blindness and compliance. I later shared another resource for assessing whether the colors you are using together have enough contrast. I've recently come across more resources for designing with various types of color blindness in mind that I'd like to share.
Raptivity
JUNE 5, 2013
'Making PowerPoint interactive is to make your slides do what you want, allowing yourselves to go from slide to slide almost like going from one room to another in your home – and setting your slides in a way that [.].
KnowledgeStar
JUNE 6, 2013
'I’ve been posting about MOOCs since they first appeared. Easy to get lost in the trees and forget to see the forest. So I look at this TED presentation about once a month to get a refresh on the basic reasons why MOOCs are so important. The message gets lost too often in the static […].
Association eLearning
JUNE 6, 2013
'Did you know someone joins LinkedIn every second? One of those social media users is bound to be in your industry so it’s time to get smarter about how we use social media to connect to followers, members, prospects, thought leaders, and board members. Recently, Maddie Grant at Social Fish presented on the topic of engagement in online communities.
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Challenge to Learn
JUNE 4, 2013
'In the previous post on agile eLearning development I wrote about culture. I have done some change management in the past, so I know a change in culture is one of the most difficult changes. But there is hope. Agile development offers a range of best practices that are relatively easy to implement. In the next posts I will describe a few. Demo. Agile development works in short sprints (one or 2 weeks).
LearnDash
JUNE 2, 2013
'As many instructional designers know, there are countless hours put into making a well made elearning course. Everything from storyboarding, drafts, re-writes, mock-trials, imaging, and so on. In the end though, the most important thing is that the learning sticks – that the learners walk away with a solid understanding of the main objectives.
Absorb LMS
JUNE 5, 2013
'I’ll be presenting a new Webinar for HR.com on July 3rd titled “Cool Things You Can Do With a Learning Management System (That You Probably Haven’t Thought Of).” Description: Learning management systems are designed to enrol learners into courses and learning events and track their progress. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JUNE 6, 2013
'by Willam Van Weelden. A few weeks ago I wrote about Shared Reviews using Adobe RoboHelp. The Shared Review works by creating a PDF and importing the reviewed PDF into RoboHelp. This method works if only one or two others need to review your content. If you want multiple people to review your content, it is easier to use a server to collect reviews centrally.
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mLearning Revolution
JUNE 3, 2013
'Google’s Chromebook Pixel is a fully touch-enabled laptop. In researching for this post, I read where the first sense we develop as humans is touch. Moreover, the sense of touch is the last sense that goes as we get older. Perhaps this explains why this new era of touch computing makes so much sense for infants and older people alike, in a way the PC revolution never did.
LearnDash
JUNE 4, 2013
'This year is shaping up to be quite a significant one for the elearning and ed tech. The growing influcence of MOOCs, new elearning development software, various learning management systems and course delivery methods are popping-up everywhere. Finally, Tin-Can API has reached version 1.0 and is ready for mass adoption as well, which will open up an entire world of learning devices, new products and services.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 5, 2013
'In my last post , I asserted that we need evidence-based design for what we do. There are a number of sources for same. Of course, you could go do a Master’s or Ph.D. in cognition and learning, but there are shorter paths. There are several good books out (and I believer that there is at least one more on the way) that summarize the implications of research design.
Raptivity
JUNE 4, 2013
'Sometimes if you are in a creative slump, it is helpful to review other Instructional Designer’s eLearning interactions for inspiration that you can carry over in to your own training. Perhaps, you can learn a new way to use character [.].
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Ontuitive
JUNE 3, 2013
'These days, everyone is on the move, including the both of us! If you were on the move and missed our last webinar, The Power of Mobile Support , or if you want a quick recap, here''s a quick summary.
LearnDash
JUNE 6, 2013
'Today there are many tips and tricks to help make elearning more effective. You’ll find some people preaching interaction and animation during the delivery, but that can often be seen as distracting. What really goes a long way in learner engagement is connecting the learner to the content – and one of the best ways to accomplish this is through some simple gamification of the content.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 4, 2013
'When we have to act in the world, make decisions, there are a lot of bases we use. Often wrongly. And we need to call it out and move on. As I pointed out before , Kahneman tells us how we often make decisions on less than expert reflection, more so when we’re tired, and create stories about why we do it. If we’re not experts, we shouldn’t trust our ‘gut’, but we do.
Integrated Learnings
JUNE 5, 2013
'By Jonathan Shoaf. I''ve always been a software junkie. I''m happy to spend some money on a software product when I know it will save me hours of effort over the course of the next year. So when new software comes out, I''m like a kid at Christmas opening up the gift to see if I got what I wanted. These days, Adobe is the software vendor I''m using the most.
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Raptivity
JUNE 6, 2013
'Hey guys, I am back with the last blog in the series for the webinar, ‘Making Learning Stick’, by Jay Cross. You can check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series here. This time we are going to [.].
LearnDash
JUNE 5, 2013
'Whether you are actively engaged in the educational technology community, or perhaps you just enjoy reading about the latest trends, then you must check out this list of ed-tech resources. Each year, EdTech Magazine puts out a list of the must read blogs within the ed-tech industry. Their site has thousands of articles dedication to educational technology tools, tips, tricks, influencers and more.
Knowledge Guru
JUNE 5, 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.
mLearning Revolution
JUNE 7, 2013
'image credit: technobuffalo.com. I have always admired companies that have the courage to stick to what they believe in, and because of not wavering in their decisions, they bring about innovation and new ways of thinking. Two recent example come to mind: 1) Apple not allowing Adobe Flash on the iPhone and iPad; and 2) Adobe recently making the move to a cloud-only Creative Suite product offering.
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KnowledgeStar
JUNE 3, 2013
'School is far more than a building in which we educate our children. It is the place where we create the future of our country.
LearnDash
JUNE 3, 2013
'One of the great things about WordPress is that it is used by different cultures all over the world. That being the case, there is a real need for the themes and plugins to be internationalized so that they can be easily translated to other languages. Today, I am very pleased to announce that the LearnDash code has now been internationalized – making it easy for anyone to translate the plugin into their native language!
Axonify
JUNE 3, 2013
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