Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 21, 2011

The Human Factor: How Gender Differences Matter in Software Training by Mary Arnold : Learning Solutions Magazine. If your software training includes time to explore or “tinker,&# men and women will have different rates of success. A strategic approach may be better than going through individual features. This research focused on adding new features with an audience who was already familiar with the software; I’m not sure the same training technique would work with beginners with an

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 24, 2011

This has bubbled up in my feeds not once, but several times now. It’s an interesting graphic that actually places example iPad applications into Bloom’s levels of performance in the cognitive domain. Focussed around students, and not really workplace learning, but interesting nonetheless. Check it out.

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Making Change

AUGUST 23, 2011

If your client said, “Please create a course about our impossibly complex process,” what would you say? A. “Hmmm. That process looks really complicated. Is there any way to make it simpler?” or. B. “No problem. Would you like fries with that?” Often we know nothing about our client’s processes, and it’s tempting to think we should never question what they do.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 22, 2011

My friend and colleague, Connie Malamed (aka The eLearning Coach ) has developed a handy iPhone application that will help you become a better instructional designer making tips, definitions and ideas available right at your finger tips. GET THE APPLICATION HERE. Need to know ID.there's an app for that! I have heard buzz about the application from a number of sources including Cammy Bean’s Learning Visions where she does a great job of explaining the application.

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Raptivity

AUGUST 25, 2011

This summer has been very eventful for us. Raptivity has been completely made over and is friendlier to the user like never before. Raptivity is no more limited to its application and use. It brings unparalleled flexibility to the user [.].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 25, 2011

by AJ George. I have an update to last week's article on creating new color palettes. I had been asked if there was a way to change the default color palette and I had reported back that there was not. Well, I nerded out a bit and realized that there actually is a way to do this. Let's say you like the default Office theme because it doesn't have fancy layouts or backgrounds, but you would just like the default color palette to change.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 24, 2011

Social media is affecting all our lives – it has disrupted countries and it is unsettling organisations. Although more and more people are now using the term “social learning&# to mean the use of social media for learning, most of them are simply referring to how social media can be used within formal, social learning/training – whereas this is only a small part of the picture.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 22, 2011

That was the topic of last week’s Learning Cafe in Sydney. In short, my esteemed peers and I agreed on “yes&# , but that’s not the end of the story. Allow me to explain… According to one school of thought, L&D belongs in HR because that’s how you achieve scale. The fundamental learning and development needs in the organisation (eg leadership, culture and change) are enterprise-wide.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 21, 2011

For more than a decade in the late part of the last century (I get a kick out of saying that) my life was theatre. During that period, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing for the stage. I acted in and/or directed over 75 plays, in both academic and professional theatres in the Midwest and on the west coast, won awards in both disciplines, taught classes, and was moderately successful at supporting myself in a very tough industry.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 23, 2011

For a while now, new technologies have been made available to help deliver training in small chunks, little bits of information delivered just when they were needed…just-in-time training. These are great but, they have their limits. I am speaking with more and more people who tell me that employees go through all kinds of training but then they can’t “put it back together&# they don’t know what to do on the job or apply the “chunks&# they’ve learned.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 25, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. I am happy to report that, at least among readers of this newsletter, the past perfect is not dead. I received a lot of corrected sentences properly using the past perfect. Here, from Kris Westrum , are the corrected sentences: If I had had my coat on yesterday when the downpour started, I would not have gotten so wet. Although Tadd had his umbrella, his briefcase still got wet.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 24, 2011

Social media is affecting all our lives – it has disrupted countries and it is unsettling organisations. Although more and more people are now using the term “social learning&# to mean the use of social media for learning, most of them are simply referring to how social media can be used within formal, social learning/training – whereas this is only a small part of the picture.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 26, 2011

Lately, I’ve been giving greater thought to how the influence of the internet has changed who I am, and how I operate. This reverie was sparked a few weeks ago when I noticed that I have increasingly stopped reading online news articles to their completion, and have instead begun moving on to the next item as soon as I’ve figured out the main points. .

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2011

In something I’ve just been involved in, I realized I had a question. I’m a fan of scenarios (read: serious games), to the point that I’ve written a book about how to design them! I’m also a fan of social learning, and consequently argue for the benefits of collaborative assignments. They both have the opportunity for powerful outcomes.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 23, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. Ever been nudged? In life, getting nudged might be a good thing or a bad thing. In Captivate, it's a good thing. You can always move an object by simply dragging your mouse. But dragging an object with the mouse might prove frustrating if you only wanted to constrain the drag (only move the object up or down, but not left or right).

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 25, 2011

“Today’s incoming college freshmen represent a generation of highly-connected, tech and marketing-savvy youth who expect brands to work harder than ever. Knowing who they are and how they use technology and social media is critical to your brand’s success. So, what does it take to reach today’s teens? Read Meet2015′s latest whitepaper to learn the five ways to “friend” this new generation.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 24, 2011

Yesterday I discussed the dis-integration of learning occurring due to excessive chunking of the wrong types of content. Sure you can chunk declarative knowledge and concepts but problem-solving or situational creativity (like writing a proposal or developing a marketing plan or leading a project) requires integration of content not dis-integration.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 24, 2011

What’s In It For Learners? In organizations, we talk about addressing WIIFM (What’s In It For Me). As a key component of motivation, we want to connect to individuals viscerally. With my focus on engagement in learning, I’ve felt it’s important to address the conative (anxiety, motivation, etc) of learners as well. What I’ve meant by this has included having introductions that viscerally capture the consequences of the knowledge (positive or negative, dramatically

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The Performance Improvement Blog

AUGUST 24, 2011

As leaders, we tend to overestimate our abilities and underestimate the amount of help we need in order to improve. It’s like looking in a mirror and not seeing yourself the way others see you. Wally Bock, in his post about a Development Dimensions International (DDI) study of front-line leaders, draws three major implications: You can't trust your mirror.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 25, 2011

by Barb Binder. In two recent online classes, one FrameMaker and the other InDesign CS5 , I noticed that one of my students had inadvertently installed the International English version of their software. The FrameMaker installation was subtle. I didn't notice it until we got to our spell-check exercise and we watched as FrameMaker flagged "color" and wanted to replace it with "colour.

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Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 26, 2011

This week Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. Due to his illness he is no longer capable to stay on. I don’t have many heroes but he is one. And not just in his role as CEO. The story of his life is fascinating. Born as an unwanted child of a teen age mother, adopted, college drop-out and then founder of Apple. Making Apple a huge success with the Apple II and the Macintosh and then he had to leave Apple in 1985.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 23, 2011

At the recent Distance Teaching & Learning Conference I keynoted at, I met up with Jon Aleckson who, among other things, provided me a copy of his new book MindMeld. As the subtitle tells you, the book is about “micro collaboration between elearning designers and instructor experts&#. To put it another way, the book is primarily about how to work successfully with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 24, 2011

By Shelley A. Gable. If you’re in the Design phase of a training project, you’re likely formulating performance objectives and selecting instructional methods. If you follow Robert Mager’s model for writing objectives, they likely contain three elements (not necessarily in this order): Behavior : The observable behavior a learner must perform on the job Condition : The circumstances in which the learner must perform the behavior (consider workplace conditions and available resources for the task

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

AUGUST 23, 2011

Edge is asking an annual question. In 2010 the question was: how is internet changing the way your think? This question was presented to 151 people and they answered this question in 2-3 pages. Amazing to see how different the 151 answers are! It was a great read during the holidays, very inspiring and there were many things I recognised. Some people state that the Internet is not really changing their way of thinking, but most of the writers respond it does.

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Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 23, 2011

Last week I met with a former colleague, just catching up. He made a remark about this blog. He said it had become more a marketing blog for easygenerator and less reflective than it was before. I read back some posts and he is right. I shifted (a bit) from a personal view to a corporate (easygenerator) view. So I decided that it would be a good idea to restore that balance.

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eLearning Cyclops

AUGUST 25, 2011

eLearning Cyclops. My insights on elearning and mlearning. Pages. Home. Free eLearning. Cloud Apps. About Me. Privacy Policy. Thursday, August 25, 2011. Be Prepared for Hurricane Irene. With Hurricane Irene on its way towards the east coast (U.S.) I thought I would share the following online learning courses that may be of assistance to those in its path.

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Mindflash

AUGUST 26, 2011

The following are seven habits of which every ineffective manager has cultivated at least one. Want to be an effective manager? Kick these habits. (Click image to enlarge).

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 26, 2011

"Life is too short not to screencast." That was one of my favorite quotes of the weekend at ScreencastCamp by Mark Bly from the New American Conservatory. We just had the first ScreencastCamp earlier this month at TechSmith. ScreencastCamp was an unconference where attendees set the schedule and topics. If you couldn't attend ScreencastCamp earlier this month, I have some materials to share with you.

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