Experiencing eLearning
JULY 18, 2011
During the July 7 early #lrnchat about social media and social learning, there was a lot of discussion about lurking. In response to the question “What are some ways you learn through social media that aren’t collaborative, with other people per-se?&#. I replied : I do a fair amount of lurking (ie “legitimate peripheral participation&# ).
Kapp Notes
JULY 21, 2011
When most people think of video games, they think of combat and battle but not all games need to include battles and many corporte games (serious games) avoid combat. So, Daniel Floyd over at The Escapist share in this video clip his thoughts on non-combat gaming and I think a few of the ideas should be incorporated into some corporate or academic serious games.
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Upside Learning
JULY 21, 2011
I’ll admit it; I failed miserably at something this week. After having labored over a presentation, the elements of which I’ve been obsessing about and researching for more than a few days, I found I couldn’t tie them together into a cohesive vision. Without a vision, there was nothing to articulate in the presentation. Result? – failure; and in a way that I found disappointing after spending so much time thinking of ways to tie the elements together, coming up with a theme, and a presentation s
ID Reflections
JULY 20, 2011
Lurking and its role in communities has been on the forefront of my mind for the past few days. It has received a lot of attention in the past from the thought leaders in the realm of learning and the role of communities in personal as well as organizational learning. I have recently taken on enterprise community facilitation and was curious to see how people are interacting on our enterprise collaboration platform.
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Experiencing eLearning
JULY 17, 2011
Ed Tech and Instructional Technology Related Programs in the United States. Curt Bonk’s collected list of masters and doctoral programs in instructional technology. tags: instructionaldesign highered newid. Future Work Skills 2020 (PDF). Drivers that will change the landscape of work and key skills needed in the next 10 years (sense-making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross-cultural competency, new media literacy, virtual collaboration, etc.). tags: career 21stcentu
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Jane Hart
JULY 22, 2011
Tweet. A few days ago Epic began their Summer 2011 debate. The motion this year is. “This house believes that as social learning increases, so the requirement for traditional training departments shrinks&#. . I was asked to participate in this debate, and chose to speak FOR the motion. I chose to speak FOR the motion not because I believe the requirement for training departments will shrink, but because I believe the role for TRADITIONAL training departments will shrink.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 20, 2011
by AJ George. Have you ever used PowerPoint's Animation Painter? If not, you aren't alone. it's one of those useful tools that often goes overlooked. Say you want to add three animation effects to one object on your slide. It works so well for your project that you want to add the exact animation sequence to several more objects on several slides.
Integrated Learnings
JULY 20, 2011
By Dean Hawkinson. Imagine that you have been assigned the task of creating a series of eLearning courses to teach a particular job. In addition, this job is quite complicated with numerous skills and tasks that need to be taught. Imagine that this job is so extensive that you just don’t know where to begin. Your first step, of course, is to elicit a team of subject matter experts (SMEs) to assist you in completing a task analysis to determine which tasks must be taught and eliminating other tas
Web Courseworks
JULY 22, 2011
ASAE Conference On August 6-9, 2011, I will be attending the ASAE conference in St. Louis, MO. ASAE is a membership organization of more than 22,000 association executives and industry partners representing more than 11,000 organizations. The 2011 conference will “offer you focused learning sessions, thought-provoking speakers, a solutions-filled expo hall, and plenty of networking opportunities to [.].
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Jane Hart
JULY 22, 2011
Tweet. The term Social Learning (big S, big L) has been used to describe the use of social media in learning for quite a few years now, so why we have seen the recent spate of blog postings expressing concern about the fact? To provide a bit of history, the term Social Learning (big S, big L) emerged from the previously (more cumbersome) terms E-Learning 2.0 and Learning 2.0.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 20, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. A fellow Captivate developer sent me an email asking for advice. It seemed that he had just completed a slick eLearning lesson in Captivate. But as soon as he published the lesson, an email arrived from his application developer informing him that the application had just been updated. There were "minor" changes to the interface that needed to be included in the eLearning lesson.
The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 19, 2011
It sounds like something Yogi Berra said. Regardless of whether or not he did, it’s an engaging way for Martin Ashcroft, Editor-In-Chief of Business Excellence , to begin a post about the relationship between strategy, execution, and culture and how our thinking about these aspects of organization success have changed over time. Strategy and execution are certainly important, but without a culture that supports employee engagement, long-term success is unlikely.
Clark Quinn
JULY 22, 2011
Ordinarily, I don’t even look at vendor products when offered free trials. I like to remain unbiased, and not give free advice. I retain the right to look at what interests me, not what might be commercially expedient (a perverted legacy of my academic tenure, no doubt :). However, two things interested me about this particular offer. First, it was an iPad app supporting design.
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Kapp Notes
JULY 20, 2011
To start with, when creating an educational game, the various skill levels of current and future players must be considered. The approach taken to motive and attract a new or novice player needs to be different from the approach used to hold onto players who consider themselves masters of the game. For a novice, an important first step is to guide them into the game gently but with a great deal of attraction and interest.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 22, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. One of my RoboHelp clients wanted a watermark to appear on a majority of their topics. Specifically, the client wanted their logo to remain stationary right in the middle of their topics. As users scrolled up or down, the client wanted the topic text to move over the logo. The solution to adding this kind of effect to multiple RoboHelp topics is surprisingly simple. ( Note: The following steps will work in RoboHelp versions 7, 8 and 9.).
Jane Hart
JULY 20, 2011
Tweet. I’m continuing to update my State of Learning in the Workplace Today piece: Leading Learning Forward: From Learning Management to Learning Leadership. This is clearly a work in progress, but currently it consists of: Part 1: 20 reasons the traditional Training/L&D Department needs to change. Part 2: Guidance for leading learning forward.
Integrated Learnings
JULY 17, 2011
By Joseph Suarez. Video can be an engaging enhancement to an eLearning course built with Lectora. However, there may be times when video needs to be controlled without the default video playback controls. These controls can also visually clash with an eLearning course’s template or theme. For example, a red and white course template will create a distracting visual contrast to Windows Media Player’s black and blue controls.
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Dashe & Thomson
JULY 17, 2011
Scott Cooksey is a speaker and trainer, who has delivered corporate training across North America and the Caribbean (Australia in September 2011!) for a major seminar training company and hundreds of speeches for Monster.com ‘s Making It Count Program over the past four years. He has also spoken at a number of events with which he was contracted directly as the Keynote or breakout session speaker.
Kapp Notes
JULY 19, 2011
Last night in class we had the opportunity to check out VenueGen and see how it functioned. The software provided a great opportunity for students to see a professional virtual world and to explore how it functioned. We held the class in the VenueGen courtroom to experience how virtual environments could be used to ground learners in the actual context and we learned how the courtroom venue is being used for mock trials and even for lawyers discussing issues with clients in a familiar setting.
Web Courseworks
JULY 18, 2011
I wanted to take a moment to give credit where it is due and say congratulations to the Moridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison for the release of their new game, Virulent. One of our staff members at Web Courseworks, took it upon himself to write up a review on [.].
Learning Visions
JULY 22, 2011
ASTD has just released their 2011 Salary & Compensation Report for the L&D field. Let's discuss: Median salary for men is $80,000-$90,000; for women it is $70,000-$80,000 The proportion of men earning $120,000 or more is twice that of women Women are not as well represented in higher paying categories of L&D. There is a dearth of women in executive ranks and higher compensated specialties, possessing advanced degrees, or having 20 or more years of experience.
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Dashe & Thomson
JULY 21, 2011
My first foray into the world of training happened about 12 years ago. The World Health Organization (WHO) wanted to capitalize on the informal learning environment that had developed around their in-house systems. As in so many organizations, application “gurus” had sprung up in various departments, and were called on to help other users solve practical problems on the fly.
The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 20, 2011
My previous post was about the impact of culture on two contrasting news organizations. In UK Parliament hearings yesterday, we heard another example of the negative impact culture can have on a media company. Rupert Murdoch , CEO of News Corporation, said he was not responsible for phone hacking and payoffs by the staff of his News of the World tabloid.
KnowledgeStar
JULY 19, 2011
This post should not need to be written … Everytime, and I mean every time, you learn to do anything, you have done so by trial and error. Genius short circuits the process. Talent gets it quicker, but the process of learning is the same. Trial. and. error. The latest findings from the neurosciences show [.].
Living in Learning
JULY 20, 2011
To some, the words “learning ecosystem” may smack of jargon, or at a minimum, offer a veiled attempt to spin an old tale by attaching a new title. Not so. Google “learning ecosystems” and prepare to wade through over 12 million returns. Funny thing – I Googled that phrase a few years ago and found only a fraction of what is there today. The “learning ecosystem” concept is a new reality in corporate America, and in this new reality, we must consider the shrinking role Training plays.
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Mindflash
JULY 20, 2011
From on-site laundry service to made-to-order sushi, the following companies offer their employees some serious perks. But do companies know what their employees really want? One age-old study says otherwise. (Click image to enlarge).
TechSmith Camtasia
JULY 20, 2011
Photo credit: Speedin'. Camtasia for Mac users may have noticed something different in your screencast projects after installing our free Lion-ready update a couple of weeks ago. It's the good kind of different, not the other kind. The version history for Camtasia for Mac 1.2.2 includes this rather modest item: "Overall improved recording performance." What, in fact, happened is that our development team rewrote the TechSmith Capture Codec, a core element of our recording engine.
Clive on Learning
JULY 21, 2011
I have noticed in recent discussions just how confusing it can get when social learning is regarded as synonymous with the use of social media. First of all, social learning pre-dates social media by thousands of years. We have always and always will learn socially. It isn't the only way we learn but it is a highly significant element. Secondly, social media has very many outcomes other than learning.
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