Upside Learning
JANUARY 31, 2011
Over the past 6 odd years, we have gained much more than experience and knowledge. We have grown quite well, from a 6 member team to 150+ professionals, today; from being just another provider of eLearning solutions to being a global leader in Custom eLearning Development, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions; and becoming a consistent performer with over 12 awards and recognitions.
Dashe & Thomson
JANUARY 30, 2011
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Train Your Client On Training by Paul on January 31, 2011 in Instructional Design , Training Development In the enterprise learning industry, when you sit down with a client to discuss an opportunity, oftentimes the client has a good idea what they want.
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eLearning Brothers
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Pre-developed Templates! That’s the secret sauce! We have been making and using eLearning templates for years. If you need to quickly develop eLearning courses, using templates is the way to go. I developed this entire course in about an hour! In my example below I used Articulate , a rapid eLearning software that leaverages PowerPoint. I started off with a PowerPoint Course style template that I then customized to match my branding.
Experiencing eLearning
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
I received two questions this week from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous. My experience with both is somewhat limited, so hopefully some of you will be able to help. PhD/EdD = Overqualified? Firstly, have you seen many folks with doctorates working in the field? Do you think a PhD/EdD makes you more competitive or does it make you overqualified?
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Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
I spent a day at the Learning Technologies show exhibition in London this week. There is a lot of talk of mobile, social, and informal learning at the vendor stalls this year. Good sign I’d say. Unfortunately everyone has their own definition of each of these terms. The most confused, if not misused, term seems to be mobile learning. One large learning systems provider says mobile learning is what’s done on your laptop.
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Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
About a year ago, I wrote about the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. I pointed to Scribd switching from Flash to HTML, and pointed to their CTO Jared Friedman saying: "We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.
Experiencing eLearning
JANUARY 30, 2011
Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers « Design Doc. Collected tools from a LinkedIn eLearning Guild discussion on must-have tools for freelancing. tags: instructionaldesign tools freelance. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Filed under: Bookmarks.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
In an earlier blog post, I had written about how Microlearning is changing the face of learning at the workplace. This post specifically talks about how a Mobile Learning Platform can be used as an effective Performance Support System. What is a ‘Performance Support System’? A ‘Performance Support System’ or PSS refers to any system that improves worker productivity by providing on-the-job access to integrated information, advice and learning experiences.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Here we are in sunny San Jose, kicking off ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2011. These are my live-blogged notes from the opening session. Tony Bingham , President of ASTD on the future of learning… IBM Study (Capitalizing on Complexity) of senior leaders: complexity is the biggest challenge (can you help Most not equipped to cope with it Need creativity and innovation to handle that complexity (how do we teach organizations to adapt?
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Integrated Learnings
JANUARY 30, 2011
By Dean Hawkinson. Most of us have Facebook accounts and collaborate with friends, family and colleagues through this media. We also use tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media. In a lot of cases, we are using internal corporate social media tools to collaborate. However, how many of us have considered using these types of tools for collaboration in a training environment ?
Making Change
JANUARY 31, 2011
Last week, I presented on action mapping at the lively and thought-provoking Learning Technologies conference in London. It was great to meet and share ideas with passionate advocates and critics of elearning. Thank you, Don Taylor and the hard-working conference team, for bringing us all together! As some readers requested, here are the main points that I hope people took from my session: The goal of action mapping is to design experiences, not information.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Seems like, the war between social networking sites is far from over. The last week saw Facebook announcing the launch of its first cell phone, followed by Twitter launching its own version of Facebook’s ‘mutual friends’. Talking of war, a tablet war has been set out by developers as they vouch for their favorite platforms and devices. In short, the last week has seen the internet buzzing with activity – from some astonishing statistics in the mobile domain to eBooks taking the centre stage in p
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
What’s the most boring eLearning project you’ve had to work on lately? This is the question I posed to the group at my presentation here at ASTD’s TechKnowledge in San Jose. We then proceeded to have a conversation about a lot of really boring things people are working on: compliance training, policy training, product knowledge training, systems training.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. When importing voiceover audio into Adobe Captivate, I always suggest that audio be added directly to the slide instead of objects on the slide ( Audio > Import to > Slide ). Why? By importing audio directly onto the slide, you'll have more direct control over the audio. You will be able to edit the audio clip by double-clicking the waveform on the Timeline.
Making Change
JANUARY 31, 2011
Last week, I presented on action mapping at the lively and thought-provoking Learning Technologies conference in London. It was great to meet and share ideas with passionate advocates and critics of elearning. Thank you, Don Taylor and the hard-working conference team, for bringing us all together! As some readers requested, here are the main points that I hope people took from my session: The goal of action mapping is to design experiences, not information.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
“There is only one thing stronger than all the armies of the world: and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo. At Upside Learning, we believe that this is the right time to leverage mobile learning at the workplace. We worked hard, came up with ideas, criticized them, went back to the drawing board, and came back with better ideas. Upside2Go – our mobile learning solution, is the culmination of our innovation process.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
These are my live blogged notes… Kara Swisher – All Things Digital What is happening now in Silicon Valley is a quantum leap – changing industries. 5 issues you need to be aware of (if you’re involved in delivery of information): Social Computers have traditionally been hard to use… Google is like giant yellow pages. Information is ever-changing When you apply social tools to information, it makes it more useful Quora as an example of information with social Everybody becomes a producer of conte
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Episodic memory is information stored in person’s long term memory that receives and stores information about temporally dated episodes or events and temporal-spatial relations among those events. In other words, episodic memory contains information about life experiences–information that is associated with a particular time or place. The information that you were in Philadelphia for New Years eve celebrating at Penn’s Landing is episodic memory.
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
I continue to get asked about social learning metrics. Until we get around to a whitepaper or something on metrics, here’re some thoughts: Frankly, the problem with Kirkpatrick (sort of like with LMS’ and ADDIE, *drink*) is not in the concept, but in the execution. As he would say, stopping at level 1 or 2 is worthless. You need to start with Level 4, and work back.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
by Jennie Ruby. To be, or not to be, asked Hamlet, making those two infinitives among the most well-known phrases in English. An infinitive is a verb form with the word to in front of it, in the form to verb. To be , to think , to ski , and so on. We use these verb forms as nouns, as adverbs, and as adjectives. But one thing is for sure: these verb forms are never used as the verb in a sentence, and therefore will never have a subject.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
My live blogged notes from a session with Karl Kapp at ASTD’s TechKnowledge in San Jose: Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers. _ Sound instructional design techniques work for the new technology (gadgets, games, etc.) 1) Follow an abbreviated ID process (instructional strategies make it not an information dump) 2) Apply the Keys to Instruction that Changes Behavior 3) Match the right content to the right instructional strategy Desig
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Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
I’ve started off my 2011 Reading List, and this blog posting highlights my top 3 must-reads for January 2011. Everyone’s been talking and tweeting about Quora this month, and I have a few articles/postings about Quora on my list, but this one takes a look at it from the “learning&# point of view: Quora: a social network built for learning , Instructional design fusions, 3 January 2011.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 31, 2011
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Learning Technologies ’11 conference, talking on the topic of games. I’ve already covered Roger Schank ‘s keynote , but I want to pick up on a couple of other things. Overall, however, the conference was a success: good thinking (more below), good people, and well organized. The conference was held on the 3rd floor of the conference hall, while floors 1 and ground hosted the exposition: the ground floor hosted the learning and skills (thin
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
We are having a really great time at ASTD's TechKnowledge conference in San Jose! What's more, the bookstore quickly sold out of our Captivate books! Did it sell out before you got there? Are you totally bummed? No worries! Use the links below to order at the TechKnowledge discount by entering code TK11 at checkout. (Orders must be placed before close of business Friday, February 4th.).
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
These are my live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at ASTD TK11 with Karen Wickre (Global Communications Team) and Ann Farmer from Google. Social Media @ Google Part 1: How Google manages external communicates to make news and info about google findable to the outside world Part 2: Internal communication and discovery Part 1: How Google communicates publicly: Don’t do traditional press releases 150+blogs!
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Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Here are my slides and a brief description of my session and a couple of links of interest. The session was titled Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers #tk11. Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers. View more presentations from Karl Kapp.
Web Courseworks
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Bill Horton is back! This week I am excited to announce that Bill Horton will soon be publishing a new edition of his best seller, E-Learning by Design. This news came to me after having received a phone call from the Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter for ASTD , in which I was asked to introduce Bill Horton at their Milwaukee ASTD Legend Series during the week of October 10 th.
The Performance Improvement Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
As we crawl out of the recession, high performing employees will be in greater demand than ever (See blog post: The Coming Turnover Storm.). What are you doing to keep them? Kelly Goldsmith, professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and author, offer excellent advice for retaining these valued employees.
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