Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Bryan Chapman from the Chapman Alliance informed me this morning about the completion of a study they started last month to collect data about the time and cost of custom elearning development. The report is available for download here. I had participated in the study and find the results align well with our own data. The study categorizes custom elearning into 3 levels as below: Level.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. If you are considering creating a "Serious Game" or an instructional game, one of the first place to start is a great game design document. But how to write one? These samples will give you some ideas. Chris Taylor Game Design Document Sample : As the web site says, "for all of you who have ever wondered what they look like or need one for your own personal game project, check out Dungeon Siege cre
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. In an ideal world, your Captivate projects would be kept to a respectable number of slides (fewer than approximately 100). Why? Larger projects will take longer to produce, longer to publish, longer for learners to download and, most importantly, longer to complete. I suggest creating lessons that a learner can finish within five minutes, which typically translates to around 80-100 interactive slides.
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Today I presented a webinar through MyKineo : Power to the SMEs! Empowering subject matter experts to help create better eLearning. It’s an interesting topic and one I’d like to dive into more with all of you…but what I really wanted to share was my presentation creation process! I’ve been reading Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points. Well, I started it but then didn’t get beyond the first few chapters – realized I really needed a project to try it out with as most of the book is the how-to-do-
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Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Last week I came across a very interesting article – Will the iPhone replace the stethoscope? in Time’s newsfeed. The article refers to an iPhone app called iStethescope – developed by Peter Bentley, a researcher from University College London – that allows you to use the iPhone to measure heartbeat. The article reports that the app has already been downloaded by 3 million doctors.
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Web Courseworks
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Five Factors to Enable SME Collaboration. Bacharach's Model adapted to include Aleckson's Five Factors. Many eLearning writers and developers struggle with communicating with experts to acquire the knowledge necessary to develop highly interactive online learning activities. Experts are busy, in demand, and rarely are compensated for their work and advice on your eLearning project.
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
The Social Media train in on the move – and here we are at stop #5 of the Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning, (2010), Pfeiffer blog book tour. What is Social Media for Trainers? Why it’s Jane Bozarth’s latest offering to the corporate training community – a short, sharp look at using social media tools to enhance the instructor led classroom.
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
This year has been truly remarkable for UpsideLMS. First, there were the 3 awards from Brandon Hall Awards for Excellence in Learning Technology , then it was Brandon Hall, chairman of Brandon Hall Research, naming UpsideLMS amongst the ‘ Five Emerging Learning Management Systems (LMSs) to Watch’ in Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Magazine, and now its TrainingIndustry.com featuring Upside Learning in its inaugural ‘Top 20 Learning Portal Companies List’.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
If you are doing a formative or summative evaluation of instruction or doing a needs assessment or a program evaluation, sooner or later you are going to need a Likert-type scale. You also may have a question about using odd or even numbers in the Likert-Type Scale, here is some insight on that. Here are several types of scales that you might find handy.
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Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
I realize, with recent releases like Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers and Marcia Conner & Tony Bingham’s The New Learning (both recommended, BTW, reviews coming soon, with standard disclaimer that I’m mentioned in both) that the message is finally getting out about new ways to facilitate not just formal learning and execution, but informal learning and innovation.
Integrated Learnings
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
By Shelley A. Gable. Have you ever thought, “well, that was a waste of time; it’s not like I’m gonna do anything differently now;” as you completed a training course? I’ll admit it: I have. A less-than-compelling training design might be to blame. But maybe not. A lot of smart people in the field often remind us that a training event alone rarely accomplishes an organization’s goals.
The Performance Improvement Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Evaluation of training and other learning interventions (e.g., coaching, Web-based programs, mentoring, internships), when done well, enhances learning. The very act of asking questions about what someone knows or what they have applied reminds learners about the content and what they had intended to do with the content. A New York Times article by Benedict Carey that I cited in my recent blog post about learning styles, also addresses the value of causing the brain to re-exa
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
You thought Avatar was big grossing $27 million dollars on its first day of release? You thought Toy Story 3 was big at $41 million on opening day? Sit back, Halo: Reach available only for the Xbox 360 made over $200 million on opening day. This makes it the biggest launch of an entrainment offering this year. (Avatar made $200 million only after 3 days) Check out the full article: Halo: Reach Tops $200 Million on Launch Day, Crushes Avatar So anyone dismissing the impact video games have on soc
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
by Jennie Ruby. I cannot blame my FrameMaker colleague Barb Binder for lumping hyphens in with religion and politics as topics not to be touched on in the classroom. But it is my job not only to touch on the topic of hyphens, but to explain what can be explained and then moderate the ensuing battles. Here is one aspect of the hyphenation question that can be explained and that can help resolve many a hyphen-related battle.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
The discussion on ITFORUM this week has been deeply about mobile learning (if you’re into mlearning, it’s worth checking in!). Based upon this week’s guest’s question about experience with devices, I opined in ways that should be familiar: Coming out with a book on mobile learning (mostly organizationally focused), and with kids of my own, I’ve naturally thought about what I think the role of mobile devices could/should be in schools: I like what Elliot Soloway said
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
A new blog to add to your feed reader, chock full of instructional design tips as well as hands-on practical info and templates for you Articulate users. Here’s a really slick PPT template Sasha has created (and he’s even giving it away – what a guy!) Check out Sasha’s e-learning blog ! Tags: kineo articulate instructional design.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
What? You say, teachers have limited time? Yet, they still need to keep up with kids, administrative rules and technology? How can they do all that? Mark discusses a Office 2007 Screen One way is through a unique offering by the Training video production company - The 8.45 Club. The company creates 15 minutes of education in a video and screen shot format that can be viewed when convenient for the learner.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. Creating a hyperlink in RoboHelp is surprisingly easy. All you need to do is highlight some text and choose Insert > Hyperlink/Popup. Select a topic from the Select destination (File or URL) area and click OK. Alternatively, you can drag a topic from the Project Manager pod directly into an open topic and create both the hyperlink text and hyperlink at one time.
eLearning Cyclops
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
September's Big Question over at the Learning Circuits Blog is regarding use of voice-over in e-learning. The question addresses numerous topics regarding the use of audio. So, I thought I would contribute my two cents. First off, most of the courses I have created do not have narration. Some courses just don't need audio to be effective and it is better to spend the time (often limited time) and effort on improving the course design than adding audio.
Adobe Captivate
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Apple’s recent announcement that it has lifted restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines has direct implications for the publishing options available from Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2. You can now author your elearning courses in Captivate and publish them as a swf to run on any Flash enabled device, or follow the steps below to publish the same as an iPhone app.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
A great deal seems to be happening in the e-learning space and I've been getting a number of press releases and information about product, events and other great happenings so I thought I'd share some of that information in this post.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
by Barb Binder What do religion, politics and hyphenation have in common? They are all emotional subjects for most of my students, and I try to keep discussion on all three of them out of the classroom. If you are thinking that hyphenation couldn't possibly fall into that category, then you probably haven't spent much time teaching word processing or layout applications.
TechSmith Camtasia
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Then I have some good news for you! Welcome Snagit 10 in German! You can find out all the details about the release on Anton Bollen's blog here (Remember? Anton is the newest member of our evangelist team based in Berlin). And, just like the English version, you can download a fully functional eval copy of the German version of Snagit 10 to try for 30 days.
Adobe Captivate
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
A background image sure enhances the look of a slide any day. Captivate has always supported background images, so what’s new with Adobe Captivate 5? Adobe Captivate 5 now allows editing of an image which is inserted as a background. By editing, I mean you can apply some basic filters and do some transitions. All the edit operations for a background image are available in the Resize/Crop dialog.
eLearning Brothers
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
Just a quick announcement that we’ve launched 6 call center employee photo sets. These photos feature employees with headsets. Five sets are on an isolated, white background which makes it easy to clip them out. (Note: They are not cut-out like our Cut-Out Business People.). Tags: Products/Reviews eLearning People Pictures.
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Mindflash
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
I stumbled upon a great article in this month’s Psychology Today magazine that really got me thinking about my training audience. Most of us are primarily introverts or extroverts. If you’re primarily an extrovert you’re outgoing, gregarious, friendly, and talkative - but you tend to bore easily. If you’re primarily an introvert, you’re less outwardly expressive and more likely to process your emotions and thoughts internally.
Learning with e's
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
The latest issue of the journal Interactive Learning Environments is a special issue entitled: Towards eLearning 2.0 University , and is guest edited by Adriana Berlanga, Francisco Garcia Penalvo and Peter Sloep. When I first saw this proposal I was immediately enthusiastic and it didn't take long for Joe Psotka (my co-editor) and I, to commission it.
Adobe Captivate
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
On Tuesday of this week President Obama was at Julia Masterman School in Philadelphia, PA for his annual back-to-school speech. About 10 minutes in he said to the students, “You’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to your education.&# The speech itself is available here if you’re in the mood for a good old fashioned back to school motivation.
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