B Online Learning
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Share. Tweet. Pin It. In this short blog series we will examine the 5 steps organisations need to take to implement eLearning succesfully. The complete 5 steps are laid out in a complimentary white paper from B Online Learning’s Creative Director Rebecca Verity. In the first instalment of the series we will look at how a logical, aligned approach [.].
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 23, 2011
This is the fifth year that Jane Hart has been collecting lists of top tools for learning. The list will be finalized on November 13, but you can see the ongoing results in this list. I have contributed my lists in 2007 , 2008 , and 2009. You can contribute your top tools too. As in 2009, I’m going to divide my list into personal learning and course development.
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 22, 2011
We are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and platforms that are becoming available – but do you really need them in the workplace? As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another as we work, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning? First of all I think I need to be very… Read the rest.
Dashe & Thomson
OCTOBER 27, 2011
According to the recent New York Times series Grading the Digital School , parents in some of the most tech savvy places in America are questioning whether the investment in classroom technology is paying off. Many are sending their children to “low-tech” schools. In Silicon Valley, the chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to the Waldorf School of the Peninsula , a nine-classroom school, and so do employees of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard. … the school’s
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 27, 2011
Yesterday I attend SDL’s DITAFest. While it’s a vendor-driven show, there were several valuable presentations and information to help get clearer about designing content. And we do need to start looking at the possibilities on tap. Beyond deeper instructional design (tapping into both emotion and effective instruction, not the folk tales we tell about what good design is), we need to start looking at content models and content architecture.
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Recently I’ve been reading more and more blog posts and articles that talk of how to “manage informal learning”, so I thought it was time for another post of my own that tries to explain how this is actually misleading, and in fact misses the big picture in terms of the importance of informal learning in the workplace, and L&D’s role in supporting it.
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 25, 2011
A provocative question was posed at the latest Learning Cafe : Does the learning department spend disproportionate effort on leadership development? To me, it makes good business sense to facilitate the development of effective leaders in the organisation. Leadership is a driver of culture, which in turn is a driver of engagement, which in turn is a driver of performance.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 25, 2011
I’ve been involved in a lot of strategic thinking lately, both for clients and workshops (e.g. my mobile strategy workshop at DevLearn next week), and so it’s forced me to reflect on what strategy is. I’ve previously talked about the technology components of an elearning strategy, and how they tie together, but I’ve need to take another cut at it.
Dashe & Thomson
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Last Friday, my colleague Andrea May responded to a very timely “big question” from Tony Karrer’s Learning Circuits Blog. This month’s big question, posted by Ben Betts of HT2 (Karrer is on blog-sabatical), is “Does Gamification Have a Role in Workplace Learning?”. It’s hard to deny that games-in-learning is something of the “cool new thing” on the learning block these days (although Andrea makes a great point that it’s not really all that new).
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Here are 5 more resources this week that look at social approaches to working and learning – and in particular the new mindset required. 1 – The Six Attitudes Leaders take towards Social Media, in Harvard Business Review, describes the six basic categories that business leader attitudes toward social media fall into. Why is this important?
Web Courseworks
OCTOBER 28, 2011
In past blog posts, I’ve written about building the right development team for creating self-paced distance educational tools. I will continue this discussion on assembling teams by addressing the team needs of serious educational game and simulation projects. At Web Courseworks, we partner with strong independent game and simulation designers like Clark Aldrich and his [.].
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 27, 2011
by AJ George. I use Parallels on my iMac with Lion OS X and Windows XP. Generaly speaking, my setup works very well. However, last week my computer was giving me headaches. I could start applications, do my work and send and receive email. However, I could not reliably access the internet. Webpages would only load after being refreshed 3-5 times, or not at all.
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 28, 2011
A little bit of cross posting between my blogs here but if you have use for a diagramming tool and not come across Creately yet, then I think it is well worth paying a visit to the site. There are a number of pricing models available, including a free version that has plenty of features. The models available cover Business Diagrams, User Interface Design, Software, System, Network Diagrams and more.
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 25, 2011
In Part One of this series of blog postings, I asked the question: “As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning?” In this post I am going to be taking a look at 6 ways organisations are already integrating learning into their workflow systems – so that the same… Read the rest.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 27, 2011
This seems to be “press release” week for me but some great things are happening like the Innovations in Clinical Research Worksho p I blogged about the other day. Well today, two more announcements. First, my colleague Koreen Olbriish (and book contributor) announced that Tandem Learning has been acquired by Ayogo Game s. Ayogo is an award-winning serious games company that uses game design to educate and motivate healthy behavior.
Living in Learning
OCTOBER 27, 2011
Reflecting on this choice of title, I can imagine some rather extreme images springing forth in the minds of long-time sales training purists. I say this with confidence because the topic of facilitating learning at the edges of the ecosystem has freaked out both platform trainers and instructional design professionals before. Yeah, and yours truly was that source of disruption – and more than once.
The Performance Improvement Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Surgeon, author, and medical crusader Atul Gawande, in his book, " The Checklist Manifesto ", presents theory, research, and personal experience in support of using checklists in complex work situations, such as performing surgery, flying a plane, or building a skyskraper. He writes: Here, then, is our situation at the start of the twenty-first century: We have accumulated stupendous know-how.
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 28, 2011
As voting for this year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 draws to a close Google Plus has now moved into 26th place on the list, and is now the top new tool on the list. You can view the current state of the list HERE. But there’s still time to vote for your favourite tools – voting closes in just over 2 weeks time at mid-day GMT on Sunday… Read the rest.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Building on yesterday’s post , in another way of thinking about it, I’ve been trying to tap into several layers down. Like the caveat on an attempt at mind-mapping the performance ecosystem, this only begins to scratch the surface as each of these elements unpacks further, but it’s an attempt. The plan you take (your sequence of prioritized goals), the metrics you use, and your schedule, will be individual.
Dashe & Thomson
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Last Friday, my colleague Andrea May responded to a very timely “big question” from Tony Karrer’s Learning Circuits Blog. This month’s big question, posted by Ben Betts of HT2 (Karrer is on blog-sabatical), is “Does Gamification Have a Role in Workplace Learning?” . It’s hard to deny that games-in-learning is something of the “cool new thing” on the learning block these days (although Andrea makes a great point that it’s not really all that new).
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Innovations in Clinical Research Workshop. Join an esteemed panel of industry experts and technology innovators to discuss the current and future state of the Virtual Clinical Trial. As Life Sciences organizations look to reduce the costs of global clinical trials, innovations in technology, delivery and partnership models are taking shape to “virtualize” important components of the clinical trial process.
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Living in Learning
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Who among us have resisted the urge to pass a finger through the flame of a candle? I certainly recall warnings that fire equals hot equals burn equals pain. Were you warned? I am sure you were, and yet, we all had to learn what hot meant by taking the risk, ignoring the sincere warning of one who had already made that same mistake. Is that a weakness?
Integrated Learnings
OCTOBER 26, 2011
By Dean Hawkinson. I recently had the privilege to attend a two-day workshop conducted by Dave Meier , the author of “ The Accelerated Learning Handbook.” Mr. Meier challenged us to always focus our material on how the learner can build his or her own learning. For eLearning, it shifts our paradigm from a course being a learning “event” to creating an entire learning environment in which the eLearning course is only a piece of the learning.
eLearning Brothers
OCTOBER 25, 2011
SlideShark is a great (free) way to view PowerPoint presentations on the iPad. All you need to do is upload your PPT to a secure online account and they’ll convert it. You then use the SlideShark app to download and view your new presentation. All fonts and graphics are retained. Colors remain the same. Your animations still work. To navigate your new presentation you just tap and swipe the screen.
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 25, 2011
A provocative question was posed at the latest Learning Cafe : Does the learning department spend disproportionate effort on leadership development? To me, it makes good business sense to facilitate the development of effective leaders in the organisation. Leadership is a driver of culture, which in turn is a driver of engagement, which in turn is a driver of performance.
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Living in Learning
OCTOBER 27, 2011
Reflecting on this choice of title, I can imagine some rather extreme images springing forth in the minds of long-time sales training purists. I say this with confidence because the topic of facilitating learning at the edges of the ecosystem has freaked out both platform trainers and instructional design professionals before. Yeah, and yours truly was that source of disruption – and more than once.
Integrated Learnings
OCTOBER 23, 2011
By Shelley A. Gable. Although teaching through telling stories is as old as the human race, storytelling as a learning technique is receiving renewed attention in the training industry. As an instructional designer, I’m among those who have zoomed in on storytelling. Because of that, several posts on this blog explore how storytelling benefits learning and how to design stories into eLearning.
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Have you come acrosss OpenClass yet? It's a new kind of learning environment that goes beyond the LMS. It’s open to everyone, easy to use, and completely free — and it's making an amazing impact on education. (quote) The ambition for the OpenClass LMS , utilising cloud and Google Apps for Eduaction seems to be centred on transforming outcomes by leveraging modern social technology to encourage collaboration and communication for students, faculty, institutions, and administrators around the worl
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