Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I’ve been away from the blog for a while; work assignments have required that I travel to North America. After some long flights and the resultant jetlag, I’m just starting to get back into the groove now. As I was looking through my feeds this morning, I noticed a post from Karl Kapp in which he mentions a presentation by the Chapman Alliance, which talks about development costs for an hour of Elearning based on a survey.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Industry gurus have long maintained that authoring tools can be either powerful or easy to use. They say: choose one. I say: I want both. Is that possible? Well yes, if the tool designers pay attention to flexibility. Consider interactivity templates. The very idea of a template connotes a cookie-cutter approach. Easy to learn, easy to use. How do the template designers maintain the ease of use and yet provide powerful features that the course designer can control?

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

A few days ago my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Harold Jarche, shared this article, written by Deb Lavoy, with me: Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0. The first few paragraphs say it all! “Social Business” is not about technology, or about “corporate culture.” It is a socio-political historical shift that is bigger, broader and much more fascinating.

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The training industry has seen plenty of debate around whether or not organizations can and should take steps to strengthen social learning. Everyone agrees that social learning is very important and that somewhere between 70% and 80% of all learning is done socially and/or informally. Many thought leaders in the industry believe social learning is something that happens spontaneously and continuously, and that any attempt by an organization to capture, share or strengthen these critical infor

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Ragnaros the Firelord is an incredibly powerful Elemental Lord and master of all fire elementals from the popular RPG Game World of Warcraft. Facing him is a difficult challenge. People who play video games are used to challenges, they need to figure out how to navigate a level, they face a “boss&# who wants to destroy their character and force them to start a level over again and they are challenged by increasingly difficulty activities in a game based environment.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Yesterday, in my first posting on this topic, I showed how “social learning” is not just about a new training trend or about adding social media into the “blend&# or acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System, but a fundamental change in how we need to view workplace learning. And that in order stay in tune with new ways of working and learning, the L&D function needs to move from a “Command and Control” approach to one that I called “Encourage and Engage”.

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Plenty has been written about why employees are slow to adopt enterprise collaboration tools. Most opinions on the matter, however, don’t provide satisfying conclusions about why collaboration tools are so slow to gain traction in large organizations. As with more traditional IT initiatives, the old “senior executive support” mantra is frequently cited as a key to successful user adoption.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Training Quarterly just publishey my article Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. You can find the article here. The article provides 3 ways in which an instructional designer can think like a game designer. I was originally thinking about 4 but one had to go due to space constraints so I’ve add the fourth here. Can you think of any other?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. Instead of importing content into RoboHelp from either Adobe FrameMaker or Microsoft Word, you can create a link between RoboHelp and the source document. One tactical advantage to linking to content instead of importing is if the Subject Matter Expert (SME) updates the source document, a few simple clicks in RoboHelp will update the RoboHelp project with the updated content.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

This article first appeared in TrainingZone on 9 September 2011, but is reproduced here for those who don’t have a TZ account. During social learning month I am writing some weekly articles with some key resources about social learning. This is the second instalment. 1. My first piece this week comes from Michael Rose, who has written an article called Social Learning for a Social Workplace.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I had a conversation today with someone who was still trying to get senior executives in his organization to buy into the whole concept of elearning. He said they’d all just had to go through two hours of state-mandated Sexual Harrassment training. Endless text on the page. Boring, boring, boring. What I call “Read ‘em and weep elearning”. Read ‘em and weep.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Sometimes I worry about the myths that are out there about learning. Ok, to be honest I worry about them a lot. Learning styles, generational differences, digital natives, the list goes on. But one that has personally been surfacing a lot is the type of activity that leads to meaningful learning. So it’s time for me to lay it out, for the record.

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Are You An Expert?: Stereotyping the SME Tomorrow, I will be participating in the 2011 Midwest Forum on Talent Management right here in Madison, WI. The event is back for another year of discussion with nationally recognized speakers on accelerating quality company talent. I am delighted to be speaking at this conference on engaging with [.].

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Today, I am speaking a LearningLive in Birmingham. The topic of my session is “From managing and controlling learning, to enabling and supporting learning&#. I am going to be talking about the ideas in my last two posting: Social learning doesn’t mean what you think it means – Part 1 and Part 2.

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Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This post is the second in a series about ‘make e-Learning work: Outcome learning’. Click here for the first post. I will be presenting on this topic at the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas. Before looking at outcome learning from the perspective of the manager, the developer and the employee in the next posts, I need to clarify some of the elements I use in this approach.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Work smarter, not harder. Have you heard that? I did, in my first job out of college; my boss said it, but it wasn’t clear what it meant. What does ‘work smarter’ mean? I already thought I was working smarter. Well, as I’ve learned (in conjunction with my ITA colleagues), it means a number of things that organizations can, and should, do.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I had a chance to give a presentation to the South Florida ASTD chapter virtually this evening, would have loved to have been there in person. The beauty and curse of technology. Anyway, here are the slides and some resources. Here are the slides from the presentation: Gadgets, Games and Google For Learning South FL Presentation. View more presentations from Karl Kapp.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

What do today's learners expect from an online learning experience? What do you expect? I pinged my PLN and came up with these descriptors. What would you add?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The latest Inspire 10X10 from RealTime Performance is about "managing change". It strikes me that in this day and age, in this economy, and given the global nature of our lives, if an organization is not thinking about change then it is risking unsustainability. I can't think of a business, a nonprofit, or a government agency that is not faced with dramatic change in what and how it does things. .

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The notion that soon everything will be in the cloud, and we’ll just use an interface surface near us is not new. The notion is that the technology will recognize you and present your environment, ready for you to accomplish your goals. This is a nice idea, and I can see it working, but it’s not trivial. Contrast this to the element that Judy Brown talks about as important component of mobile learning.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The other day, I got a great comment about my post Are You Challenging Your Learners? Don’t treat them like babies. The question: When do you think people in your class reach their threshold level? When does it turn from ‘difficult/challenging’ to ‘impossible’ – leaving the student frustrated and ready to give up? I teach adults who have a very low computer literacy level yet live in an environment where technology is required for learning (northern Arctic).

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

“Buckets of rain, buckets of tears, got all them buckets coming out of my ears…buckets of moonbeams in my hands.” ~ Bob Dylan Us Instructional Designers like buckets. Neat little containers. Helpful for sorting things out. Good for pouring. I’ve been thinking lately about buckets of content. Most of the elearning we seem to create falls into these buckets: Softskills Procedures Induction/New Hire Product Knowledge Awareness/Communications Does this list seem right to you?

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Challenge to Learn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

I’m visiting our development team in the Ukraine for the fourth time. This is the first time that I went alone, the previous times I was accompanied by a Russian speaking colleague. It proved to be a challenge; most Ukrainians know as much English as I speak Russian (I know ‘privyet’, which means ‘hello’). The previous times I stayed in our own house.

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Living in Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The first step out onto the steel cable came with almost no hesitation. The safety harness ensured that I would only plunge about three-feet of the fifty or so I hung above terra firma. The exposed rocks that appeared below me added more weight than I reckoned the safety harness would support. I resolved to never take another glance south of my position on what started to look like an endless shuffle to the next tree and the security of a solid looking wooden platform.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Don’t forget to hear The Truth About Social Learning [link] with @ janebozarth #. Learning the game of social media – FT.com – [link] #. RT @ EdenTreeToolkit : Jane Hart @ C4PLT talks about working and learning smarter ahead of her # LEARNINGLIVE session: [link] #. Social Learning for a Social Workplace [link] #. Here’s my first curated piece for Training Zone’s Social Learning month: Social learning: resources part 1 [link] #.

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Integrated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

By Joseph Suarez. Two fundamental questions constantly in the mind of anyone navigating through an eLearning course are, “Where am I?” and “How do I get back to where I was?”. That’s exactly why popping up an overlay of additional content without loading into a new page or slide can be advantageous. Without breaking the user’s navigational frame of reference, additional content, feedback, or interactivity can be presented.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

The arrival of shared media in Second Life, has meant among other things, that I can now give access to our vle and all its facilities to students from inside the virtual world. The effect of this is producing not only a merging of the two virtual environments, but also my two blogs it would seem, and so I post a link to this latest article on Shimmer-Island from here.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Here is the audio version of my Training Quarterly article titled Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer.

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