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  • 20 ways of thinking about digital literacy in higher education

    Education: Online learning | guardian.co.uk
    Eliza Anyangwe
    15 May 2012 | 11:28 am
    From understanding what digital literacy is, to developing skills and establishing ethical principles for students, our live chat panel share ideas and resources for universitiesJosie Fraser, social and educational technologist, Leicester City CouncilFirst define what you mean by digital literacy: The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge + critical thinking + social engagement. Then it's worth knowing its main characteristics:• It supports and helps develop traditional literacies• It's a life-long practice• It's about skills,…

  • NowBoard- New Interactive Whiteboard Tool from Learning Resources

    Assistive Technology
    9 May 2012 | 8:25 pm
    Always on the look out for new tools for the classroom, I came across a new interactive tool called Now!Board, from Learning Resources. For years Learning Resources has been developing innovative and interactive tools for the classroom but this is their first foray into the interactive whiteboard space which has been defined by companies like Smarttech, Promethean, and Mimio. Each of the aforementioned companies, has garnered a fair share of the interactive whiteboard space by providing both high quality products and content that teachers could use right out of the box. Learning Resources…

  • Before You Go Mobile: 28 Mobile Learning Questions to Ask

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    molly.horn
    13 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Thumbnail Image:  Sunday, May 13, 2012 Posted By:  Jessica Athey For many organizations who want to dive into mobile learning, it’s not just about the desire to create and deliver mLearning for employees –it’s about how to do it and how to do it well. It is essential for organizations to explore their online e-Learning including motivations, needs, restraints and requirements for mobile delivery before the development process begins.   Explore these 28 mobile learning questions to equip yourself with the best strategy and e-Learning tools for successful mobile development…

  • From eLearn Magazine: Series of Interviews with Elearning Experts

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    Judy Unrein
    9 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    I’ve been catching up on blog and article reading lately and wanted to share this gem. Here’s a series on eLearn Magazine by Jeanette Campos: super IDs, talking about what they do. Some of my favorite quotes: Cammy Bean: When your business partners know that they can trust you, when they know you are going to follow through, you have more opportunity to push them toward better, more creative, solutions. Kevin Thorn: You can never take for granted the extra 10 minutes you have at lunch to grab a book or find a tutorial. Because today, there is no excuse for not learning your craft.

  • Supercharge Rapid e-Learning Content with Flash Animations

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    Molly Horn
    13 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Make PowerPoint Presentations GreatPowerPoint PresentationsRapid e-Learning SoftwareAdding life to your PowerPoint Presentations is effortless when you use Snap! by Lectora® rapid e-Learning software. With Snap! by Lectora, you can easily wow your audience by using electrifying Flash animations and videos. Check out the short video tutorial below to learn how to supercharge your content in just three simple steps:     Flash animations can breathe life into dry and sterile presentations. Using Flash in Snap! by Lectora presentations is a great way to:   Engage your learners and…
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    Education: Online learning | guardian.co.uk

  • 20 ways of thinking about digital literacy in higher education

    Eliza Anyangwe
    15 May 2012 | 11:28 am
    From understanding what digital literacy is, to developing skills and establishing ethical principles for students, our live chat panel share ideas and resources for universitiesJosie Fraser, social and educational technologist, Leicester City CouncilFirst define what you mean by digital literacy: The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge + critical thinking + social engagement. Then it's worth knowing its main characteristics:• It supports and helps develop traditional literacies• It's a life-long practice• It's about skills,…

  • A great debate

    10 May 2012 | 3:46 am
    How can getting involved in debating contribute to your professional development, as well as benefiting your students? Jason Vit explains, in the first of a series of blogs from the ESUWhat do solitary confinement, chocolate money, alcohol and violent video games have in common? It's not, in fact, my idea of a good weekend's entertainment – although I suppose it could be! These are actually a few of the topics that students around the country have been debating this year both as part of class teaching and after-school clubs.Thousands of schools enter teams in debating competitions organised…

  • Open for business? Why universities must collaborate on OpenCourseWare

    25 Apr 2012 | 11:44 am
    The digital revolution has begun and successful institutions will be those that use the opportunity to collaborate, grow and widen their influence, says Anka MulderLeading higher education specialists from across the world convened at Cambridge University in April for a landmark global conference on the future of online learning. The contrast here between the ancient and the modern, the traditional and the new, reflects the challenges of standardising the digital learning revolution across higher education globally.The Cambridge conference was hosted by the OpenCourseWare Consortium, a…

  • Forget the business case, open online courses are about learning

    16 Apr 2012 | 5:45 am
    Will Massive Open Online Courses replace the conventional system? Probably not, but they can offer something different, says Bonnie StewartEver since MITx was unveiled last December, futurists have been predicting what it might all mean for higher education. They're calling it "The Great Disruption", a brand name worthy of Nostradamus. The Globe and Mail says it's about time. The Atlantic is envisioning a post-campus America.For those of us actually enrolled in Massive Open Online Courses, though – or those like me who have enlisted both to teach and learn within these experimental course…

  • The power of Twitter

    Matt Britland
    31 Mar 2012 | 2:31 am
    How I became a convert to Twitter• The teaching and education community on Twitter is truly inspirationalI signed up for Twitter several years ago but struggled to understand the point. What is it? What is it for? What information can I share in 140 characters? I did what millions of other people do: followed famous people, sportsmen, rappers, comedians and actors. Much of the time, it turned out, they didn't have anything that interesting to say and, after a few weeks, I gave up on it.Then, as the site grew in popularity, I decided to give it another chance. I had about 30 followers,…
 
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  • The Minerva Project: The World’s First Online Ivy-League University

    30 Apr 2012 | 6:17 pm
    Rigorous classes, lectures from top-notch professors, and a world-wide network. That may not sound like a typical online college, but the Minerva Project plans to change all that. Planned for 2014, Minvera plans to give an Harvard-style education to students on the web. Is it too good to be true? Find out in this new article: The Minerva Project.

  • Khan Academy

    30 Apr 2012 | 4:13 pm
    Forget about difficult-to-understand math textbooks and dry, confusing lectures. Khan Academy offers simple, learning-friendly video tutorials in technical subjects such as math and science. Learn how to make the most of these revolutionary resources and how you can even use them to earn college credit by checking out the new article here: Khan Academy.

  • The For-Profit Problem

    29 Apr 2012 | 6:16 pm
    Are non-profit online colleges always a better choice? Not necessarily. However, for-profit online colleges pose some potential problems that students need to be aware of. Take a look at this article to learn the pros and cons of for-profit online universities.

  • Online Students: How Do You Stay Motivated?

    22 Apr 2012 | 6:25 pm
    Without strict deadlines and face-to-face meetings, it can often be difficult for online students to keep up with their studies. How do you keep yourself motivated as an online learner? Share your story and see what other students have to say.

  • Bad Apple: What to Do If You're Stuck with a Not-So-Great Online Instructor

    15 Apr 2012 | 4:54 pm
    Is your online class suffering due to a lack of feedback? Not enough teacher interaction? Unclear directions? If you have an online professor that just isn't making the cut, you don't have to sit back and do nothing (in fact, ignoring the situation could make it worse in the long run). Instead, take a look at this list of 5 ways you can take action to improve the situation and make sure a bad apple doesn't jeopardize your education.
 
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    The Rapid eLearning Blog

  • Are You Qualified to Build E-Learning Courses?

    tom
    15 May 2012 | 2:53 am
    In a recent post I made this comment about rapid elearning tools: Rapid elearning played a role in the evolution of elearning mostly because it took course creation out of the hands of a few programmers and placed it into the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. Someone asked if that’s a good thing to place the tools in the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. It’s a good question. But is it the right question? Technology Should Be Easy to Use It’s a good thing when technology gets easier to use. It empowers people to do more and it creates opportunity for the ones…

  • The Next Generation of E-Learning

    tom
    8 May 2012 | 2:15 am
    Rapid elearning played a role in the evolution of elearning mostly because it took course creation out of the hands of a few programmers and placed it into the hands of anyone who wanted to create a course. I see this as the democratization of elearning. And it runs parallel to how digital media’s empowered people all over the world to create and deliver content using a host of online tools and social media applications. Some people lament this democratization. They think that only they should be able to create and deliver courses because they apparently have some sort of special training.

  • How to Create Interactive E-Learning

    tom
    1 May 2012 | 2:30 am
    I get a lot of questions about interactivity from those who are just getting started. Typically they begin with a lot of subject matter content and they’re not quite sure how to make the course interactive. There’s a lot to consider when it comes to building interactive elearning. But if someone’s just getting started here are the three tips that I usually share: Make it Relevant The first step to interactivity is relevance. The worst thing is having to take an elearning course that is completely meaningless. I’ve never had a job where I’m in a position to be bribed. Yet in many of…

  • FAQ: How Do You Manage the Graphics in Your E-Learning Course?

    tom
    24 Apr 2012 | 2:54 am
    I’ve been on the road a lot lately doing elearning workshops and Articulate jam sessions. After the sessions I usually get some really good questions that are probably common to many of us. Today, we’ll look at how to manage the images used in elearning courses. Essentially there’s no right or wrong way to manage your images. Do what works best for you and your team. Here are a few ideas: Be Consistent in How You Manage Course Files & Assets We can waste a lot of time looking for images and assets that are spread across multiple computers and network drives. To help alleviate that,…

  • 5 PowerPoint E-Learning Tips & A Free Template

    tom
    17 Apr 2012 | 2:14 am
    One of the topics we cover in the elearning workshops is how to quickly create templates to help move the elearning courses out of that PowerPoint look. At a previous workshop someone wanted to see how this was done so we created one quickly in class. I like to do these templates because they help bring out a few ideas. Ideas to Inspire Your Creativity Most of us aren’t graphic designers and we struggle to come up with a nice looking design. One way to work around that is to be inspired by those who have graphic design skills. As a habit, I like to review website designs for ideas. I learn…
 
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    Internet Time Blog

  • Social business takes social learning

    Jay Cross
    7 May 2012 | 2:10 pm
    Join Jane Hart and me for an online conversation on Wednesday 23 May 18.30-19.30 pm GMT, 13.30-14.30 pm ET, 10.30-11.30 am PT. We will talk about whatever you want to talk about. Leave your questions below. Better still, become a member of the Social Learning Centre (free) and leave your questions in the In Conversation with Jay Cross group there.

  • Best articles on Working Smarter, April 2012

    Jay Cross
    1 May 2012 | 5:43 pm
    GEORGE SIEMENS APRIL 19, 2012 Remaking education in the image of our desires The current generation of students will witness the remaking of our education system. Education faces enormous pressure. It’s much, much bigger. MORE >> DAVID WEINBERGER APRIL 24, 2012 [2b2k][everythingismisc]“Big data for books”: Harvard puts metadata for 12M library items into the public domain (Here’s a version of the text of a submission I just made to BoingBong through their “Submitterator”). Harvard University has today put into the public domain (CC0) full bibliographic information about…

  • The new workplace

    Jay Cross
    1 May 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference. Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. Informal learning tops many training department agendas. Companies are attracted by the low price tag. However, few of them are doing much systematically. They’ve converted a few programs but they’ve failed to improve their learning ecosystems. We’ve shifted how we think about learning since the Informal Learning book came out. It’s a new ball game and we need to play by new rules.

  • Controversy over Informal Learning

    Jay Cross
    28 Apr 2012 | 11:45 pm
    When the book on informal learning came out, nay-sayers attacked me as some kind of loony. Some still do. I’ve got a thick skin. QUESTION: How do you know that informal learning works? ANSWER: How did you learn to walk and talk? How did you learn to kiss? QUESTION: How can you measure what people learn? ANSWER: By judging what they do. Has their performance improved? QUESTION: How can we assess the ROI of informal learning? ANSWER: Cost-benefit analysis. But hold it, how to you assess the ROI of formal learning? QUESTION: How do you know learning on the job is 80% informal? ANSWER: Study…

  • Informal Learning is Business

    Jay Cross
    28 Apr 2012 | 11:42 pm
    This is the second in a series of posts about how business can profit from informal learning. We’re recapping the book before getting into the current scene. What makes informal learning effective Informal learning is effective because it’s personal. The individual calls the shots. The learner is responsible. It’s real. We learn in context, with others, as we live and work. Recognizing this fact is the first step to crafting an effective learning strategy. People with experience like to learn but hate to be taught. People who already know the lay of the land don’t want a…
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    Harold Jarche

  • It is time to simplify

    Harold Jarche
    15 May 2012 | 8:03 am
    The five informal learning methods described in yesterday’s post on Learning in the Workplace have one thing in common. They are all relatively simple. Most of today’s larger companies have a complicated structure. Over time, to enable growth and efficiencies, more processes have been put in place. New layers of control and supervision continue to appear, silos are created, and knowledge acquisition is formalized in an attempt to gain efficiency through specialization. As companies get bigger, internal growth and innovation reach a tipping point, and companies rely on mergers and…

  • Learning in the workplace

    Harold Jarche
    14 May 2012 | 7:53 am
    Jane Hart asked readers “how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace?” Here are the top five ways that people learn, with my comments below on how this can be facilitated in the organization, either by management or the learning support group. Notice that these are all informal. The more formal methods, like courses, ranked much lower on the survey results. Email (keeping up to date inside the organization) Since email is the number one method of keeping up to date, find ways to make it easier or replace it with a world without email.  Using internal blogs for any…

  • When we remove artificial boundaries

    Harold Jarche
    12 May 2012 | 3:33 pm
    “The central change with Enterprise 2.0 and ideas of managing knowledge [is] not managing knowledge anymore — get out of the way, let people do what they want to do, and harvest the stuff that emerges from it because good stuff will emerge. So, it’s been a fairly deep shift in thinking about how to capture and organize and manage knowledge in an organization.” ~ Andy McAfee

  • Thanks for the code

    Harold Jarche
    12 May 2012 | 11:42 am
    One of my earlier blog posts is still online, which I stumbled upon this week, much to my surprise. Note: Nine years ago I was warning how production jobs were leaving Canada and getting outsourced. Deep conversations about R&D in this Province never materialized though. The industry was much too focused on “jobs”, which were subsidized by the government. One of the few large eLearning R&D projects in the province just finished last year. The private sector partner is an Ontario company and no further R&D is happening in New Brunswick. I later shifted to using Blogger…

  • Etiquette for sharing

    Harold Jarche
    11 May 2012 | 6:58 am
    Many people like to share things online. Twitter is full of links to other websites. For a long time you needed to use URL shorteners to ensure you stayed within Twitter’s 140 character limit. There are now many to choose from, including open source and full-service analytics. Now Twitter has its own URL shortener – t.co – that converts every link that is shared. This is so Twitter can analyze all of this sharing and then sell the aggregated information. One problem with using a third-party URL shortener with Twitter is that you are adding another potential point of…
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    Litmos LMS

  • April 2012: Your Litmos questions answered

    Nicole Fougere
    10 May 2012 | 4:02 pm
    Q: Is it possible to view a learner’s assessment answers? A: Yes. A breakdown of a learner’s assessment answers can be viewed by going to the Reports tab and then under Quick Reports > Assessments > {Assessment Name} > {Learners Name}.   Q: One of the delegates did not receive the invitation to the platform. Does the “Send login email” link at the right panel do this? Otherwise, how else can we re-send an invitation? A. To re-send just one user’s login information email out to them again, click on the People tab, then click in to the…

  • San Francisco’s Yammer On Tour Event #yamtour

    Nicole Fougere
    27 Apr 2012 | 6:02 pm
    A friend of mine  works as a ‘Customer Success Manager’ at Yammer and he invited me along to the Yammer On Tour event in San Francisco on Tuesday this week. It was a really   well organized event and there were a whole load of people in attendance for the Keynote, Product Announcements, Case Studies, and Customer Panel in the main room. Yammer Founder and CEO, David Sacks (@davidsacks), kicked off the keynote with the product announcements which includes some exciting new features like Premium groups, Universal search, Activity Stream Aggregation, and Integration Partners. This…

  • Why Articulate Storyline is the missing piece in the puzzle

    Nicole Fougere
    23 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    Recently I was chatting on Skype with good friend and eLearning professional Ant Pugh, and the conversation turned to content authoring tools. Inevitably, the upcoming release of Articulate Storyline came up and while I am a beta tester (along with everyone else who’s interested in it), Ant’s excitement about the potential of it in his job was bubbling over. I asked if he would be happy to put together his thoughts on how he sees it impacting his working life, so here it is… Thanks Ant! As both an Instructional Designer and the manager of eLearning at my company, Articulate…

  • Top 10 Learning Management System (LMS) Must-Haves (cont.)

    Nicole Fougere
    20 Apr 2012 | 6:24 pm
    Here is that Top 10 Learning Management System (LMS) Must-Haves list from Wednesday continued: 6.     Make sure the LMS has the flexibility to import all types of content that you have now and will have in the future This includes selecting a SCORM-certified system if you need it, or if you think you will be using an authoring tool that publishes to SCORM in the future. 7.     On-going upgrades to the product Look for a vendor that offers on-going development to the LMS, because this means it will always be cutting edge. This is great because you won’t be left behind and find…

  • Top 10 Learning Management System (LMS) Must-Haves

    Nicole Fougere
    18 Apr 2012 | 12:33 pm
    We talk to a lot of people every day about their learning needs and what they are looking for in a Learning Management System (LMS). Back in the day we very quickly realized that as much as we would love to sell our LMS to everyone that was interested, coaching them instead around the best practices in the LMS selection process ensures they get the right system for the job, and this equals less headaches all around. Below is the top 10 ‘must-haves’ that we have come to know from our audience, and I consider these to be totally relevant to anyone out there shopping for a…
 
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  • Remaking education in the image of our desires

    gsiemens
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:59 pm
    The current generation of students will witness the remaking of our education system. Change is happening on many fronts: economic, technological, paradigmatic, social, and the natural cycles of change that occur in complex social/technical systems. People have attempted to define change principles: Christensen’s disruptive innovation, Schumpeter’s creative destruction, Kuhn’s revolution structures, Paul A. David’s model of long systemic change, and (my personal favorite) Carlota Perez’ techno-economic revolutions. Each of these are a different lens for viewing…

  • Blackboard’s identity crisis, Desire2Learn’s optimism, and Instructure’s coolness

    gsiemens
    6 Apr 2012 | 1:34 pm
    Since Blackboard announced its acquisition of several Moodle partners, numerous voices have chimed in to explore what it means to education. In particular, Michael Fieldstein (as usual) has a wide ranging and thoughtful response: What the heck happened? and Phil Hill captures the tone/responses from major players. A common response to the longterm impact of these acquisitions has been to link Blackboard’s manoeuvre with the IBM’s transformation into a services company. This comparison is particularly silly because IBM was heavily invested in a hardware field that was being…

  • Distributed research lab: request for feedback

    gsiemens
    5 Apr 2012 | 8:58 am
    One of the things that I like most about blogging and social media is the ability to share partially-formed ideas and open them to critique. As I stated in a previous post, I recently had a mild disappointment in enacting a research project. And it got me thinking about why important research is often not conducted because granting agencies are actually not horribly innovative. What is established as a clear trend may receive research dollars, but early stage ideas are often only able to access small pockets of funds. It’s a shame. Research usually only happens when research dollars are…

  • This kids, is why hallucinogenics and the internet don’t mix

    gsiemens
    26 Mar 2012 | 4:58 pm
    I had to do a quick double take on this article (first, to determine if it was April 1, anywhere in the world): Evolution Unbound: Blackboard embraces open source. This is what I imagine the experience would be like if one dropped hallucinogenics and browsed the web – a feeling of incredulity and weird confusion that can only come from time and reality being featured in a will it blend video. I’m not surprised that Blackboard is interested in openness. They’ve made overtures in the past. At the EDUCAUSE conference in October, they were clear that they wanted to partner with…

  • What does a disrupted education system look like?

    gsiemens
    12 Mar 2012 | 5:50 am
    A group of us (Clark Quinn, Jay Cross, Stephen Downes, Grainne Conole, Martin Weller, and numerous others) are in New Dehli this week at the EDGEx conference. The event is being streamed live. Some great resources on Indian education can be accessed here (bottom tab on left-side menu) Slides from my presentation this morning are here: Edgex Disruption View more PowerPoint from gsiemens
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    Cathy Moore

  • Scenarios: What are they good for?

    Cathy Moore
    2 May 2012 | 6:50 pm
    “Why do you want to use scenarios?” your client asks. “Why can’t we use the quizzes that we’ve always used?” Sometimes the best way to convince a client is to show them through examples. Present one of their quiz questions three ways, so the client can see for themselves the deeper thought required by a scenario-style question. Here’s an example. What kind of thinking is required by each type of question? 1. Quiz question Which of the following is the most secure way to carry sensitive data?     A. On a laptop…

  • How action mapping can change your design process

    Cathy Moore
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:57 pm
    Happy action mapping users say that the model helps them create lively elearning. But would it fit into your design workflow? Action mapping makes stakeholders work together to analyze the performance problem, commit to the same measurable goal, and agree to focus on activities rather than information. This can be a big change to the typical course development workflow. Without action mapping: The client says, “I need a course.” You say, “Okay.” The client gives you a pile of content, the phone number of a subject matter expert (SME), and a deadline. You create a…

  • Are learners idiots?

    Cathy Moore
    13 Dec 2011 | 9:02 pm
    Be sure to read this paragraph. It tells you that in this post, you’ll learn how to manage stakeholders who want to treat learners like idiots. If you have trouble reading the paragraph, click the speaker icon located in the bottom right-hand corner of this screen and a professional narrator will read the text to you in a soothing voice that slides like oil over any functioning brain cells and gently smothers them. Now read the next paragraph. “Assume intelligence,” Jerry Weissman tells us in Presentations in Action. “Your audience has been there, done that, and they…

  • How to create a memorable mini-scenario

    Cathy Moore
    12 Oct 2011 | 9:03 pm
    Often we’re told, “Put this information into a course.” But what happens if we put the information into a job aid instead, and then design mini-scenarios that help learners use the job aid? This approach not only keeps boring blather out of our elearning, it can also make our activities more memorable. Here’s how it could work. Example Let’s say we’re designing a course on needle safety for a hospital. A common approach would be to display some slides of information about dos and don’ts, and then to present a generic fact check, like,…

  • Do they just know it, or can they USE it?

    Cathy Moore
    28 Sep 2011 | 9:47 am
    It’s easy and tempting to write activities that test whether learners know something. How can we make learners use their knowledge as well? You might be familiar with Bloom’s Taxonomy. Its current form identifies six categories of intellectual performance, from remembering to creating. To make the taxonomy easier to apply, I grabbed my Unsubtle Machete of Oversimplification and in a few whacks reduced the categories to just two: Know activities ask learners to retrieve and maybe categorize or explain information. Use activities ask learners to apply information to realistic…
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    Online Learning Update

  • Harvard and MIT point to online learning future in higher ed

    Ray Schroeder
    15 May 2012 | 7:10 pm
    By the Boston Globe (Editorial) What value the certificate ends up having — if any — will be up to the market. But the fact that online classes are new and unfamiliar doesn’t mean they won’t eventually be recognized as meaningful.   Now, having MIT and Harvard involved in online education makes it a lot more likely the classes offered by edX will be rigorous, and that the credentials it awards will be taken seriously.  The long-standing higher-education formula — four years at a high-cost residential college — has served many students well, and will continue to do so. But…

  • Online Learning: Weatherford: Online Universities Key to Increasing Florida’s College Graduates

    Ray Schroeder
    15 May 2012 | 7:06 pm
    By JOHN O’CONNOR, WUSF Florida’s next House Speaker says increasing the number of college graduates will require online universities. Online schools won’t replace traditional universities, Rep. Will Weatherford said, but make higher education more accessible and affordable. Online learning and online classrooms, he said, is the key to growing an educated community, a strong nucleus of young people who have earned post-secondary degrees and a pool of smart people attractive to top businesses or companies looking for new places to locate.

  • NYU Dean to Devote His Sabbatical to Expanding U. of the People

    Ray Schroeder
    15 May 2012 | 7:01 pm
    By Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Ed Dalton Conley’s research on how social and economic opportunities are distributed has prompted him to get involved in bringing college-level teaching to students who need an education that costs next to nothing. “Spreading education to populations that currently don’t have access to it might do some good in the world,” he says. That reasoning led Mr. Conley, a prominent sociologist, to accept the post of dean of arts and sciences at the online University of the People, which has access as its motivating rationale. The…

  • Innosight Institute Releases Updated ‘Blended Learning’ Definition and Models for Implementation

    Ray Schroeder
    14 May 2012 | 7:10 pm
    by Innosight Innosight Institute – a non-profit think tank co-founded by innovation expert Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School – today released the report “Classifying K-12 blended learning,” which defines the emerging phenomenon of mixing online learning into brick-and-mortar schools. “Today, more than four million students are participating in some kind of formal online learning program, often blended into the traditional schoolhouse” The white paper is co-authored by Innosight Institute Senior Education Research Fellow Heather Staker and Executive Director…

  • Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels?

    Ray Schroeder
    14 May 2012 | 7:05 pm
    BY: Cathy Davidson, Fast CoExist Adding some technology to the educational process is one thing, but truly revolutionary learning experiences take a deeper sort of innovation, which you can see at a program at Duke working for change in Haiti. We all know what a traditional college classroom looks like: students in rows stare glassy-eyed at the professor who drones on, paying more attention to the equations he’s writing on the board than the students he’s supposed to be teaching. No wonder many are proposing using digital technology to “flip” the classroom. In flipping, students do…
 
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    E-Learning Journeys

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    13 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Digital Citizenship - ISTE online course A self-paced course offered by ISTE on digital citizenship. tags: acrossmydesk digitalcitizenship onlinelearning Connected Learning Connected learning is when you’re pursuing knowledge and expertise around something you care deeply about, and you’re supported by friends and institutions who share and recognize this common passion or purpose. Click here to learn more about the connected learning model and the research that supports it. tags: connected_learning education viralvideo acrossmydesk Learning to Change-Changing to Learn - YouTube tags:…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    6 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    Third Culture Kid | A Third Culture Kid’s Guide to College | Denizen tags: thirdculturekids acrossmydesk Living with Laptops: Digital Citizenship for Parents Excellent slide presentation by Kim Cofino at Yokohama International School revealing essential ideas and objectives for living with technology. tags: acrossmydesk digitalcitizenship Eco-Libris | How Green is the iPad tags: ipad acrossmydesk green Free Download: Digital Citizenship Poster | Edmodo – Safe Social Networking for Schools tags: acrossmydesk digitalcitizenship edmodo Digital handshakes » Anne Fox "The digital handshake is…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    29 Apr 2012 | 5:31 am
    UK - Inside Government - Innovation in Education This one-day event on April 26 will provide opportunity for delegates to analyse the future of innovation in education in the UK. Interesting......Some preamble on the website:The Next Gen Report, published in February 2011, highlighted the lack of emphasis the UK’s current education system places on ICT. The report called for an urgent revision of this to ensure that the UK remains globally competitive in an age when innovation, technology and entrepreneurship are vital to economic growth. In response to this report the government stated…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    22 Apr 2012 | 5:30 am
    @julielindsay :: Twitter Birthday - twbirthday.com Ok, this is so gimicky, but fun. :-)Thanks to jo Mcleay for being my 'godfather' tags: Twitter acrossmydesk Beyond laptops The portal for the annual conference 'Beyond Laptops' hosted by Yokohama International School, Japan. tags: acrossmydesk 1:1 laptop education conference iPads in the Classroom are Changing the Face of Education | Mac|Life tags: acrossmydesk ipads education Dumbing Down : Stager-to-Go "Although I’m only 48, I have been working in educational computing for thirty years. When I started, we taught children to program. We…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    8 Apr 2012 | 5:30 am
    Load Up Your iPad with a Massive Library of Over 38,000 Free eBooks "The iPad is a great device to read on, and if your digital library is feeling a little bare then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve found some of the best places to get free ebooks, ready to be downloaded and opened with iBooks on your shiny new iPad (or iPhone, iPod, Kindle, Nook, or Android, for that matter)." tags: ebooks acrossmydesk ipad free Gaming: Leveling Up Global Competence - Global Learning - Education Week A great article by Honor Moorman, one of our Flat Classroom teachers and Asia Society consultant.
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    always learning

  • The Three Strike Rule

    Kim Cofino
    4 May 2012 | 8:19 pm
    We’ve had a pretty successful first year of our Connected Learning Community. For the most part, things have run really smoothly, and our Responsible Use Agreement (the green section of our CLC Handbook), designed last year by a team of students, parents, teachers and admin, has stood the test of time (so far). But there has been one specific area where we’ve done quite a bit of work this year: appropriate consequences for the misuse or unethical use of technology. Of course, we had all of the rules and expectations outlined from the start, so that students and parents would be…

  • Digital Citizenship Week

    Kim Cofino
    28 Apr 2012 | 9:51 pm
    Last week was our first Digital Citizenship Week at YIS, and it was fantastic! We focused primarily on the Middle School to get an idea of how an event like this would work for our students, teachers and parents. Here’s what we did: Learning objective: A renewed focus on the choices we make and how they affect us, specifically about balance, responsibility and safety. Guiding Question: How are you a responsible digital citizen? Conversation Starters (Daily Theme) We started each day with an open discussion (based on the themes listed below) in morning tutor group (homeroom) inspired by…

  • Moving #beyondlaptops…

    Kim Cofino
    25 Apr 2012 | 1:23 am
    Last week was a busy one at YIS. We had our first Digital Citizenship Week, with tons of great learning and reflection opportunities for our middle school students (more to come on this later), two meetings (Tues night & all day Saturday) of our YIS COETAIL cohort, and our #beyondlaptops mini-conference. Needless to say, by the time Sunday rolled around I was exhausted. And exhilarated. I am so fortunate to be working at a school that encourages risk-taking, creativity, openness, collaboration and sharing. Not only is everything we do open and accessible, but we regularly welcome other…

  • Status Update: 3 Key Learnings from our 1:1 Implementation

    Kim Cofino
    14 Apr 2012 | 4:14 am
    I haven’t been blogging much this year, mostly because so many fantastic things are going on at YIS that are keeping me super busy. One of which has been the implementation of our Connected Learning Community (1:1 program) this school year. It’s been such a pleasure to see how smoothly the program has been going overall. From the first two non-formal days of school, to the creative uses of our primary technology tools by teachers and students, to the commitment of our school community to continue learning together. Although things have been going really well, we have learned quite…

  • Are You a Tech Pilot?

    Kim Cofino
    29 Jan 2012 | 5:20 am
    I’m always looking for ways to build a sustainable, job-embedded, professional development model for technology. As much as I love running after school sessions for teachers, and even with all of the fantastic opportunities we have at YIS, like COETAIL and the weekend workshops we regularly host (our next one is coming up this weekend with Andrew Churches!), I still believe the most successful PD is takes place during a regular school day. So, for the last few months, my amazing Middle School Vice Principal, Susie, and I have been working on ways that we can support our teachers at all…
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  • In None We Trust

    Chris
    8 May 2012 | 10:46 pm
    I wonder how many teachers would be prepared to gather all their students together at a school assembly sometime and say the following to them ... "Look, we just need you all to know that we do NOT trust you.  We've talked about it, and we think that given the opportunity, you will all get up to no good and make poor decisions.  Because of this, we plan to closely monitor your every move and to make sure that you don't get away with anything, ever. We plan to prevent you from doing common tasks that are probably perfectly fine and safe.  However, since we are, after all, assuming that you…

  • An Open Letter to Telstra on 3G Data Use

    Chris
    14 Apr 2012 | 9:35 am
    Hello Telstra. I'm one of your customers. I have my mobile phone service with you... the reception is reasonable, at least it seems to be better than most of the other Australian Telcos. You charge a little more for it, but hey, I've tried the others and I don't mind paying a little more for a service that actually works... But, Telstra, can I tell you what really sucks? I recently bought a new wifi+3G iPad. It should really be a 4G iPad, but apparently you and Apple can't agree on what the term 4G actually means. So ok, it's still just a 3G iPad, and I guess I can live with that. But I'd…

  • Can The Network Deliver?

    Chris
    29 Mar 2012 | 5:31 am
    Ok, here's a little test of network theory. Some background. On February 14 this year, I asked my beautiful partner Linda to marry me. She said yes. Yay! So we are planning a wedding. In fact we are planning two weddings, one in Canada and one in Australia. As you can imagine, there's a fair bit of expense involved in doing that. Then a couple of weeks ago, Linda spotted a contest on Facebook where you submit a photo or short video, and get people to vote for you. As most of you know, I haven't always been very complimentary about my Facebook experiences, but just to support Linda I…

  • Philly to Sydney with Year 2

    Chris
    21 Mar 2012 | 8:27 am
    If you like, you can skip right to the bottom of this post and just watch the video, but I always find the story behind the story kind of interesting. So I thought you  might like to know a little bit about how and why this video was made. It started out with a simple tweet from my buddy Kim Sivick in Philadelphia.  It started a conversation that went something like this... Do I know anyone who might make a quick Welcome to Australia video? I sure do. And besides, I owe Kim a favour. When I was running blogging workshops with our staff last year I was hoping to tap into the experiences of…

  • Beyond Working For The Man

    Chris
    16 Mar 2012 | 6:38 pm
    I remember being at a university Open Day once and walking past some girls, obviously in their final year of high school, trying to decide what course they should enroll in at uni. I couldn't help overhearing their conversation about how they planned to choose... one was considering study based on the likelihood of getting a job from it, and her friend was considering her future choices based on which career paid the most. While I suppose these are both somewhat relevant factors, the idea that young people would be making choices about their life direction based on which had the shorter job…
 
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  • NowBoard- New Interactive Whiteboard Tool from Learning Resources

    9 May 2012 | 8:25 pm
    Always on the look out for new tools for the classroom, I came across a new interactive tool called Now!Board, from Learning Resources. For years Learning Resources has been developing innovative and interactive tools for the classroom but this is their first foray into the interactive whiteboard space which has been defined by companies like Smarttech, Promethean, and Mimio. Each of the aforementioned companies, has garnered a fair share of the interactive whiteboard space by providing both high quality products and content that teachers could use right out of the box. Learning Resources…

  • Next Generation of PersonalBrain Released as “TheBrain®

    23 Apr 2012 | 12:37 pm
    TheBrain 7 Augments Dynamic Knowledge Connections to Increase Focus and Data Accessibility on Users’ Desktops and in the Cloud. Marina del Rey, CA – April 23, 2012 – TheBrain Technologies, the leading provider of dynamic visualization and knowledge management software, announced its newest release, TheBrain 7. The software enables people to connect information into infinite mind maps, modeling thinking and relationships in the real world. TheBrain software, formerly known as PersonalBrain, has been downloaded by over a million users who seek to organize, visualize and share information…

  • Snap&Read- Simple & Elegant Text to Speech Utility

    19 Apr 2012 | 6:44 pm
    Snap&Read Reading Interface I have had a chance this week to test out Snap&Read from Don Johnston, Inc which is a clever reading utility for Windows and Mac users. Snap&Read floats on top of your existing applications and when you need it to read some text you simply click on and drag a rectangular region around the text that you want to read and voila the text is instantly read, complete with highlighting. Snap&Read uses the high quality Acapela speech engine and by going into the Settings you can easily slow down or increase the reading speed. Users can select from Ryan or…

  • Using the Boogie Board RIP with the Virtual Desktop Companion

    18 Apr 2012 | 2:48 pm
    I have been having a lot of fun using my Boogie Board RIP over the last couple of weeks just doodling and drawing. However, I wanted to see if I could integrate it into my teaching and blogging and came up with a way to do both. Using the Virtual Desktop Companion software which is now available for Windows on the website, I was able to connect my Boogie Board RIP and everything that I write could be seen on my computer in real time with the software installed. Pairing up the Boogie Board RIP and ScreenR, I was able to create a short video with audio to show you…

  • Integrating Livescribe Pencasts with Moodle

    9 Apr 2012 | 9:21 pm
    Tonight, I was teaching my graduate course and we covered different strategies that can be employed for students note taking. We spoke about outlining, mind mapping, and giving students partially filled in materials to help them with note taking skills. This lead me into a demonstration of marrying the Cornell Note Taking Method with the Livescribe Smartpen. I divided the page in my Livescribe notebook into the necessary columns and explained to my students how this could be used in the classroom to help students record the main ideas of the lecture. With the Livescribe Pulse pen I was able…
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  • ADDIE Re-Energized – An Introduction to Agile Scrum

    karlgrieb
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:16 pm
    Forget everything you know about ADDIE?  No way! Brian Fishbone and Jennifer Singer from Vanguard University will introduce you to re-energizing the instructional design process using the flexible, collaborative, and nimble Agile Scrum approach. In this enlightening session, you can expect to: Hear about why learning professionals are applying an Agile Scrum approach to instructional [...]

  • A Visual Approach to eLearning Design and Development

    karlgrieb
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:14 pm
    ASTD Greater Philadelphia Chapter eLearning SIG A Visual Approach to eLearning Design and Development On April 19th, Jeff Brenner provided an engaging presentation. He shared concepts and tips with live demos on ways to improve the way we visually present information.  The process begins by creating the audio script. Screen designs can then be drafted [...]

  • A Review of Dr. Karl Kapp’s new book, Gamification

    karlgrieb
    23 Apr 2012 | 7:11 pm
    “Gamification” is a name that not many people outside of training (and possibly even inside training) are familiar with. Essentially, Gamification means the use of game mechanics to make learning and instruction more fun. Using games in training or learning seems to be a touchy subject for many. There seems to be a stigma attached [...]

  • A Visual Approach to eLearning Design and Development

    karlgrieb
    3 Apr 2012 | 7:15 pm
    Learners are exposed to rich media content every day. Videos, animations, and impactful “infographics” are all over the internet. Expectations have been raised for the content that is presented. Writing a solid script is just the beginning for eLearning development. The way in which that script is presented is key for how well the course [...]

  • The Off-Shoring of ISD, and What You Can Do About It

    karlgrieb
    25 Mar 2012 | 6:26 pm
    Program Description: Gus Prestera delivered a sobering presentation on the Off-shoring of Instructional Design Work, and what we as designers can do to combat this in a dual format webinar/live presentation at the Drexel Lebow Campus   Session Overview:  Do you think your job is safe from off-shoring because it’s client-facing and design-oriented?  A great [...]
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  • Mobile Learning Analyst RJ Jacquez to guest host #TalkTech chat on mLearning, HTML5, and more.

    Steve Boller
    15 May 2012 | 3:29 pm
    We are pleased to announce that our friend and colleague RJ Jacquez (@rjacquez) will be guest hosting our weekly #TalkTech chat this Thursday, May 17th at 3 pm EST. RJ is a former Senior Evangelist for Adobe who now spends his time as a Mobile Learning Analyst and consultant. His blog, The m-Learning Revolution Blog, is a highly regarded resource for the latest in mLearning news, trends, and analysis. He also actively shares mLearning information via his Facebook Page. Our staff has had many a great conversation with RJ on Twitter and the relationship is yet another example of how powerful…

  • Brandon’s App of the Week – SayHi Translate

    Brandon
    10 May 2012 | 9:25 am
    Each week Brandon Penticuff, Bottom-Line Performance’s Director of Technology and admitted app-obsessed iOS user will share an app that he is using that week. Whether it is an app to make you more productive, teach you something, or simply entertain you, we hope that you’ll enjoy learning about them! This week’s app is “SayHi Translate”, an extremely impressive “Pocket Interpreter” that will enable you to quickly translate phrases that you speak out loud into many different languages. Your conversation can also be translated the other way, with your communication partner’s…

  • Why Your Training Shuts Learners Down

    Steve Boller
    8 May 2012 | 8:25 am
    Are Your Learners Disengaged? It’s true: no one likes being forced to do anything. L&D professionals have the tough task of taking job related information and making it easy to learn while appeasing all the appropriate company stakeholders. Budgets are shrinking and the ubiquity of “rapid authoring tools” is making it more and more tempting to churn out eLearning in-house that is cost-effective and easy to produce. But if your learning solution is not designed with the learner’s human characteristics and preferences in mind, it will fail…no matter how…

  • Brandon’s App of the Week – Art Authority for iPad

    Brandon
    3 May 2012 | 11:52 am
    Each week Brandon Penticuff, Bottom-Line Performance’s Director of Technology and admitted app-obsessed iOS user will share an app that he is using that week. Whether it is an app to make you more productive, teach you something, or simply entertain you, we hope that you’ll enjoy learning about them! This week’s app is “Art Authority for iPad”, an amazing virtual museum that will put over 50,000 of the worlds best artistic works at your fingertips on your iPad (a separate app is available for iPhone). You can browse the app by it’s 8 period-specific rooms that each contain a…

  • mLearning Thoughts: 3 Mobile Learning Examples You Might Have Missed

    Steve Boller
    1 May 2012 | 7:46 am
    If you are reading this, you already know mobile learning is a hot topic. You also know that incorporating social media into mobile learning is even more of a buzz term. With the price of an iPad 2 now dropped to just $400, the prospect of implementing a smart phone or tablet-based solution across your organization is probably looking more and more attractive. But how do you know what is actually practical, and what are some examples of how mobile learning is already being used? While we all love using our fancy phones and tablets, let’s not forget to learn a lesson from the past. With…
 
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    Clive on Learning

  • Time to tame the HiPPO

    11 May 2012 | 3:49 am
    In the latest edition of Wired magazine I came across  the term 'HiPPO' - the highest paid person's opinion. The term is widely used in web design and usability circles to refer to those people who have the final word on any design issue on the basis that they're the highest paid person in the room. Apparently, the evidence suggests that those dotcoms for which design decisions are made on the basis of some powerful person's opinion do much less well than those which base their decisions on data. I'm not surprised.I've worked with some pretty outrageous HiPPOS in my time, usually…

  • This house believes the only way is e-learning

    4 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    This was the motion I had to argue for in a debate last week at a conference of NHS pharmacists. I definitely got the short straw because it's impossible to defend an absolute. And of course e-learning is not the only way. I decided to argue instead for the idea that e-learning (defined very broadly) is where attention should be focused given the problems we're currently facing in workplace learning.Here's a rough outline of my argument:First of all we have some pretty significant problems:A scarcity of budget for trainingA scarcity of teacher/trainer timeA scarcity of time for learner to…

  • Bert lives on in StrumSchool

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:51 am
    When I was 11, my older brother returned from a long trip abroad with a Hofner electric guitar, which he had tried unsuccessfully to learn. He gave it to me, along with a copy of Bert Weedon's Play In A Day, the now legendary book which enabled tens of thousands of British people to learn the guitar. Just like scores of guitar superstars from the 1960s, I started with Bobbie Shaftoe Went to Sea.I went on to teach guitar in my spare time for some five years or more. And when I discovered computers, just about my first programming project was to put together what I called the Apple Guitar…

  • The only way to build confidence is to practise and get feedback

    25 Apr 2012 | 12:07 pm
    Over the past couple of years I've been making quite a play on the need to design formal learning interventions so that they focus on inspiring and confidence building and not on dumping knowledge. In my experience of talking to 100s of trainers, the typical workplace intervention consists of 75% theory and 25% practice. This has two effects:Learners are overwhelmed with new knowledge that they cannot hope to retain.Learners have nowhere near enough time to develop confidence in applying new knowledge and skills, meaning they often leave the course in a state of 'conscious incompetence'.

  • Collaboration is what we do nowadays: get over it

    23 Apr 2012 | 2:44 pm
    Stephen Downes pointed out an article in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning by Neus Capdeferro and Margarida Romero entitled Are online learners frustrated with collaborative learning experiences? This caught my attention because I'm a great believer in and keen user of this approach. My experience has been extremely positive and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Anyway, the authors claim:Despite the pedagogical advantages of collaborative learning, online learners can perceive collaborative learning activities as frustrating experiences.The study…
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    Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

  • Have We Lost the S...in ISD? What Should Workforce Learning Graduates Hear from You?

    Brent Schlenker
    14 May 2012 | 12:32 pm
    Allison Rossett posted a fabulous fake commencement address 2 days ago.  I loved it.  She nails a point I'd like to emphasize here.  The work we do at one level is extremely focused on the micro solutions we call courses, but more than ever we need to be thinking about, and designing, systems.  And I'm not talking about Learning Management Systems.  Just reading her post made me realize that so much of our industry is focused on the ID, Instructional Design. And back when I first started in this business it was mostly referred to as ISD, Instructional SYSTEMS Design.

  • The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: The Book Tour Continues

    Brent Schlenker
    10 May 2012 | 10:53 am
    Dr. Karl Kapp has written a new book titled The Gamification of Learning and Instruction.  And it's a great pleasure to be asked by Karl to review the book for his blog book tour.  I don't consider myself a good book reviewer but I enjoy being part of the tour and appreciate him trusting in my ability. Let me start by saying that I sort of rolled my eyes when I heard there was a book being written on gamification.  It just felt too early.  The term is barely understandable by those who use it regularly, and even less so by those who aren't "into it". After reading the book…

  • Mobile Learning Report Shows Significant Increase in Intent to do MORE mLearning

    Brent Schlenker
    9 May 2012 | 3:22 pm
    Mobile Learning: The Time is Now was just released by The eLearning Guild.  With the mobile market being the fastest growing industry you'd be wise to pay attention to how mobile devices impact your learning audience and in turn how you develop and deliver your learning solutions. Guild members have shared the impact of mobile learning on their organizations and their strategies.  The questions they've answered have given us a solid picture of the mobile learning space. "The number of Guild members who say they intend to use mLearning continues to increase. In 2010, 45.6% of Guild…

  • Thinking about Clearing the Cloudy Air of our Industry

    Brent Schlenker
    20 Apr 2012 | 11:49 am
    The alphabet soup of the training industry continues to grow and change.  The terms get mixed in marketing materials, and confused during otherwise productive conversations.  In my role within The eLearning Guild for the last few years I've had the pleasure of many conversations.  I've met a lot of people and gotten to know some very well.  The interesting thing is that I continue to hear frustration in the tone of many conversations with many interactions turning into arguments.  It's interesting to listen to these conversations because I know the parties involved…

  • 14% of Employees Value Corporate Training as Essential to their Learning

    Brent Schlenker
    17 Apr 2012 | 11:15 am
    14% is not good. Shocking? No? Almost 70% went even further and marked company training as somewhat or not important. What's up with that? As someone who has suffered through horrific corporate training experiences this does not surprise me. As someone who has spent more than 15 years working to make corporate training better, this annoys me. From Jane's blog post: "But I think the biggest take-away from my survey is that we can no longer assume we know how people like to learn in the workplace nor how we think people should learn." You can read more about Jane Hart's…
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  • Teaching matters

    Derek Wenmoth
    10 May 2012 | 3:26 am
    I found this video clip when reading a post by George Lucas, filmmaker and founder of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, publisher of Edutopia titled Education: the single most important job. In it he talks about the need for educators to harness the power of the Internet to experience a force that is revolutionizing education and offering opportunities to reach and engage diverse learners. George asks "What is more powerful in education than a student who is guided by an adult who truly cares — someone who knows your name, who encourages you, and is committed to your success…

  • New Horizon Report published

    Derek Wenmoth
    8 May 2012 | 9:44 pm
    Another edition of the annual Horizon Report has just been released, this one focusing specifically on the context of Australian Tertiary Education from 2012-2017.  I had the privilege of being involved on the advisory board again this year, and found it once more a very stimulating and thought provoking experience – led capably by Larry Johnson who seems to have a happy knack for pulling lots of disperate threads together into a cohesive whole! This year's report contains a lot of things that have appeared in previous years – not surprising given the nature of the field…

  • The wrong drivers

    Derek Wenmoth
    6 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
      A tweet from my colleague Karen this morning had me watching this video of Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, discussing the often-used strategies that do not improve learning in schools before describing the strategies that have been proven effective. It seems very topical to me at the moment as I have been working on a response to the government's inquiry into 21st Century Learning Environments and Digital Literacy, and thinking also about  recent discussions I've been involved in regarding the future of NZ's education system and the…

  • How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education

    Derek Wenmoth
    1 May 2012 | 5:20 am
    I've just been reading this interesting publication from the Brookings institution titled How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education. At the beginning of the report there is a quote from Alan Daly, at the University of California at San Diego, who predicts that "Education innovation will shift away from experts and capacity building to focus on networks… We have to start thinking about the expertise that resides in the system, and we have to be connected in order to make use of it. [Education] is moving away from large-scale prescriptive approaches to more…

  • New TED website released for education

    Derek Wenmoth
    25 Apr 2012 | 2:33 pm
    After more than a year of planning and dreaming, the folks at TED are today launching their TED-Ed website, a new open platform for using video in education.   It allows any teacher to take a video of their choice (yes, any video on YouTube, not just from TED) and make it the heart of a "lesson" that can easily be assigned in class or as homework, complete with context, follow-up questions and further resources.  The site is in beta, but there's enough there to show the potential of the new format.   This whole process is explained really well in the video at the…
 
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  • Kirkpatrick 4-levels of evaluation: Happy sheets? Surely past its sell-by date?

    Donald Clark
    4 May 2012 | 6:18 am
    Kirkpatrick has for decades been the only game in town in the evaluation of training, although hardly known in education. In his early Techniques for evaluation training programmes (1959) and Evaluating training programmes: The four levels (1994), he proposed a standard approach to the evaluation of training that became a de facto standard. It is a simple and sensible schema but has it stood the test of time?Four levels of evaluationLevel 1 ReactionAt reaction level one asks learners, usually through ‘happy sheets’ to comment on the adequacy of the training, the approach and perceived…

  • Gardner Multiple Intelligences or school subjects mirrored?

    Donald Clark
    3 May 2012 | 5:06 am
    Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is opposed to the idea of intelligence being a single measurable attribute. His is a direct attack on the practice of psychometric tests and behaviourism, relying more on genetic, instinctual and evolutionary arguments to build a picture of the mind. He also disputes the Piaget notion of fixed developmental stages, claiming that a child can be at various stages of development across different intelligences.Evidence for intelligencesHe viewed intelligence as “the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or…

  • Eysenck (1916-1997) Bad ass of assessment?

    Donald Clark
    2 May 2012 | 3:42 am
    Binet, the man responsible for inventing the IQ (intelligence quotient) test, warned against it being seen as a sound measure for individual intelligence or that it should be seen as ‘fixed’. His warnings were not heeded as education itself became fixated with the search and definition of a single measure of intelligence – IQ. Hans Eysenck was the figure around whom much of the IQ debate figured in the 20th century. What is less well known is his work on personality types and his opposition to psychoanalysis and Freud in particular, explained in The Decline and Fall of the Freudian…

  • Honey & Mumford All styles no substance?

    Donald Clark
    1 May 2012 | 5:32 am
    If VAK became a well-marketed, viral success in education, Honey & Mumford was the viral success in adult education and training. Once again, a derivative model, this time from Kolb, rather than NLP, took an experiential model and applied to general management skillsFour learning stylesTheir learning styles were then labelled:1.Activist – dive in and learn by doing2. Reflector – stand- back, observe, think and then act3. Theorist – require theory, models, and concepts and analysis4. Pragmatist – experimenters who like to apply things in the real worldThe learner is asked to…

  • Fleming VAKuous learning styles?

    Donald Clark
    1 May 2012 | 5:25 am
    In education during the 1980s and 90s we saw the rise of learning theories that were weak on research but strong on marketing. Learning styles, literally dozens of different theories that categorise types of learners, began to be promoted but one, above all, won the viral battle in schools – VAK.Fleming's VAK/VARK modelAn unfortunate offspring of the pseudoscience that is NLP, Neil Fleming’s 1987 variation on VAK, was the VARK learning styles model. This took the unproven proposition in NLP that we approach learning with a dominant sensory mode, namely visual, auditory or kinaesthetic.1.
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  • An Amplification of the power of Game-Based Learning in the Corporate World

    mark oehlert
    15 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    I read Julie Brink's recent article  on Game-based Learning for the Corporate World, and I just wanted to add to what I think Julie was trying to do - which is promote game0based learning as a viable and powerful option. This post is in no way intended to be snarky or derisive and I'm actually thankful to Julie for getting me off my butt and actually spitting out something on a topic I really believe in. I'm perfectly in line with what I think the goal of this article is..to convince people that games represent a powerful medium for learning in a range of environments,…

  • Not Convergence but Confluence...what the heck some Consilience too

    mark oehlert
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:28 pm
    I'm sensing something in the tabs. There is a shift in the flow of the infostream. Eddies of data are harboring tadpoles of nascent thoughts. I'm also listening to the Writer's Almanac every morning. Is it showing?  This isn't feeling like a calm highway merging...this feels like a confluence...the rumbling, jumbled, hydraulic coming together of two or more rivers...there are multiple flows...multiple possible, potential directions, but which flow will dominate...which water will run on top and get featured in all those awesome Instagram pictures of rivers with artsy film…

  • Reading the tea Leaves in my tabs: Our ecosystem is Commodified

    mark oehlert
    19 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    I read my browser tabs like tea leaves I think. I look across the top row there and I try to discern what the tabs are telling me. Is there something bubbling up? What's gaining heat or buzz? I'm not saying my tabs are richer than others or more aromatic, its just one way I try to make sense of some of this stuff (I would also read actual tea leaves but they're so hard to find these days).   commodify; specifically  to render (a good or service) widely available and interchangeable with one provided by another company The latest group of tabs to catch my eye include the…

  • Hazing Story from Dartmouth (Disclaimer: I'm in a fraternity)

    mark oehlert
    4 Apr 2012 | 7:38 am
    So I've had this story in my tabs for like a week now and I haven't known what to do with it. The story is about a student who went to Dartmouth and who subsequently reported on the hazing and alcohol abuse he saw there and that he participated in.  Fair warning - the story recounts some pretty horrific practices. There's lot of drinking. Vomiting. Physical violence. Sexual harassment. Sexual assault. And on it goes. Now like ti says in the title, I'm in a fraternity. Not the one mentioned in the story but still. I've been in it for decades and am one of those people…

  • Pinterest? Not a fan..but I'm paying attention..the Re-Rise of the Visual

    mark oehlert
    3 Apr 2012 | 7:10 am
    I think I have a Pinterest account. I may have pinned something at some time. Oh yeah, here it is....this is what I saw when I logged into Pinterest this morning....for some reason it thinks I'm VERY into aprons. Anyway, that's not the point (BTW I do have  HUGE apron collection ;-)). The point is I'm watching Pinterest explode and wondering what's up.  I'm also watching the birth and growth of visual resumes. I'm watching long-time visual people/expertise matchers like introNetworks provide in-depth integration with enterprise-grade social media platforms like…
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    E-Learning Acupuncture

  • Humanline - more free images for educational use

    20 Apr 2012 | 2:12 pm
    I know I have written about free photo repositories before (here and here). Here’s the new kid on the block: Humanline. It’s an image library of arts, history and science that is mainly focused on licensing images for use in education (your ears should perk up now) and for commercial use. On the education side, a careful read of the license shows that for most applications usage is free of cost. The usual credit-line requirement is there; much like a Creative Commons-type license. There is a pre-validation step that you must undergo when applying for your free educational account that…

  • Top Four HOT Concepts in Distance Learning

    13 Apr 2012 | 2:02 pm
    Distance Learning itself. At my institution, we are scratching our heads a little bit wondering why we have an above average number of enrollments in our distance learning courses. The same enrollment boom is occurring at other institutions like Bryan College. However, if you do a quick Google search and read a few reports it is clear that the pundits have been predicting that distance learning enrollments will rise. Student seem to be gravitating towards learning opportunities that are not tied to them having to be in any particular location at a prescribed time during the day or week. So…

  • Educate the Mobile Generation: Convert WORD documents to ePub and MOBI

    14 Mar 2012 | 10:19 am
    You’ve seen the headlines and heard the buzz as much as I have: smartphones are taking over the planet, e-books are selling like hotcakes, and, tablets like the iPad are cannibalizing laptop and desktop computer sales. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to conclude that Mobile computing in the hottest trend in technology since electricity was invented. With this fact in mind, I asked myself this question – are my course materials mobile-friendly? Can my students easily get the materials in my course onto their mobile device be it an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android Smartphone, Sony eBook…

  • Video is KING in distance education

    5 Mar 2012 | 10:19 am
    With the field of Distance Education exploding due to the maturation of the Internet, it’s no wonder more good quality free academic content is finding its way on the web. Here’s a great example that I just learned about from Dr. James Harris at the University of Leeds in England. It’s called The Faculties and it contains video snipits of senior-level highschool (or junior-level university) lectures spanning several fields including Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Math, and Psychology. To date, they have produced over 360 videos with a promise of more to follow. If you are not in…

  • Teaching and Learning Centres: Who Needs Them?

    2 Feb 2012 | 12:17 pm
    Short Answer: we do. Long Answer: I work at an established Military College. By established I mean 1876. Futhermore, this Military College has been empowered to confer university degrees since 1959. So these two facts together will lend most observers to believe that teaching and learning has been going on here for many years. So why isn’t there a Teaching and Learning Centre here? Hmm. I don’t really know. The question was raised again in my mind when I read the excellent report by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario entitled Teaching and Learning Centres: Their Evolving Role…
 
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    Learning Reflections

  • Moving beyond 70:20:10 - Reflections on the LSG Webinar

    David Perring
    10 May 2012 | 8:58 am
    What is 70:20:10?Following my recent webinar on ‘Moving beyond 70:20:10’ for the Learning and Skills Group, I wanted to delve a bit deeper into this high profile model. Some L&D professionals build impassioned cases around it, in a desire to support informal and social learning, whilst others view it as a dangerous over simplification. So I wanted to reflect on its usefulness in more detail. I’m sure if you’re reading this that you’re familiar with the concept of the 70:20:10 model but just in case, Charles Jennings provides us with a great explanation:“About 70 per cent of…

  • LSG Webinar: Moving beyond 70:20:10: Building a context-driven learning strategy

    David Perring
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:37 am
    One of the most popular terms used in L&D today is 70:20:10. Talk to almost any L&D leader and they will say it’s the foundation for their Learning Strategy. But, how useful is the 70:20:10 model in really helping you build a practical learning strategy and architecture? How do you move beyond the numbers and start to build a context-driven approach to performance development? Based on Elearnity’s corporate research, David Perring will explore: The danger of absolutes and how learning context is KingApproaches to visualising your Learning Strategy and why it's…

  • Thanks Taleo Research: A Few Talent Experts You Should Follow

    David Wilson
    4 Apr 2012 | 11:06 am
    Here's a very nice extract from a blog post on the Taleo Research blog called A Few Talent Experts You Should Follow. David Wilkins, Taleo's VP of Research, wrote this following attending our Symposium roundtable event in London on the 28th March. Elearnity Symposium, David Wilson, and David PerringFor those of you in the US who haven’t heard of Elearnity, it’s time to take notice.  These guys know their stuff, and they host an amazing event.  Both David’s know the European market cold and they know learning – not just the technology, but the design, implementation, and…

  • Choosing the Perfect Partner?

    David Perring
    29 Feb 2012 | 12:06 pm
    So, the dust has settled on the Learning Technologies event and no doubt attendees have gone back to the office with a bag full of leaflets to look at some time in the future. And exhibitors will have returned to their HQs with fists full of business cards to follow up. You might have just put all your leaflets straight in the bin, they might be sat buried in your in-tray, or you might even be having conversations with some of the companies you met about how you could work together. But, how do you get from these early stages of speed dating at a show, to actually finding your ideal match?

  • Learning and Skills Group Webinar

    David Perring
    9 Feb 2012 | 6:57 am
    - Lessons in Choosing Your Ideal Learning Systems Platform and PartnerWhether its choosing an LMS or an e-learning authoring platform, organisations often spend many months researching the market and trying to select the right vendor partners. But even the best RFP process or functional requirements document is only part of the story, and organisations often still choose products that they struggle to implement or end up replacing within a short period of time. Based on Elearnity's corporate research, David Wilson discussed some of the key reasons why companies sometimes choose the…
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    Cammy Bean's Learning Visions

  • Nancy Duarte: Creating Stories that Resonate #storytraining

    9 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
    These are my live blogged notes from an eLearning Guild/Citrix presentation with Nancy Duarte, author of Resonate and Silde:ology.  The story: a likeable hero, she encounters roadblocks, she emerges transformed (the perfect three part story structure) Organizations need to keep creating ideas to continue to reinvent themselves. The lifecycle of an org (start, grow, mature, decline)…so we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.  And that’s what good presentations can do.  They can spawn ideas to reinvent… good stories make our hearts race.  But there’s often a gap…

  • Learning to Fly

    6 May 2012 | 1:10 pm
    A few weeks ago, after an Easter candy sugar fueled meltdown, my six year old daughter learned how to ride a bike without training wheels.  In about 20 minutes.  Here’s how it went down: “Hey, let’s take off those training wheels and see what happens…” “Really, mom? OK…” I held onto the back of her back a couple of times and then just let go. She was off.  A few weeks later, she’s zipping up and down our street like an old pro, a face full of wild exuberance.  It’s good to be a kid. Some thoughts from her experience: She started at the beginning and…

  • Karl Kapp Book Tour: The Gamification of Learning and Instruction #gamiLI

    1 May 2012 | 9:55 pm
    It’s the Cammy Bean stop on the blog book tour for Karl Kapp’s newest book: The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education Karl Kapp is a professor of instructional technology in Bloomsburg University’s Department of Instructional Technology in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He’s one of my favorite professors that I've never actually studied with (although he has taught me a ton).  Over the years, Karl and I have had wonderful arguments about gamers and gender and instructional design. He took me on my first tour of Second…

  • A conversation on measurement and metrics (#ASTDLN)

    24 Apr 2012 | 2:24 pm
    These are my notes from the final workshop session at ASTD Learn Now in San Francisco.  Bob Mosher and Conrad Gottfredson of Ontuitive are leading a conversation on metrics and measurement.  The things that we currently measure about learning are things that the learner doesn't really care about.  (% of course completions, pass/fail rate, # student days, etc.) Bob Mosher -- there is value in smile sheets.  Research shows that if people like you're training, they'll take more.  There is defendable data when 12,000 people say that class was good. When we measure the…

  • Chad Udell on Tools for Mobile Development (#ASTDLN)

    24 Apr 2012 | 12:40 pm
    Chad Udell (@visualrinse) of Float Learning is doing a quick rundown of tools he uses to help design, manage and build mobile projects.  This is day two of the ASTD Learn Now conference in San Francisco. UI Stencils http://www.uistencils.com/ Use these templates and tools for rapid prototypes that are to scale for the device you're building to... Project management tools like basecamp, assembla http://www.assembla.com/ Prototyping tools Fieldtest - web based tool to create fast mobile prototypes. http://fieldtestapp.com/ (focused on smartphones and up = android,…
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    Learn-Learn-Learn

  • Decided the approach to take to include social computing in a learning program

    Rory
    11 May 2012 | 8:17 am
    Okay, so the title is somewhat long and certainly not “sexy” … but it’s clear as to what this post is about. I’ve been working through how to incorporate social computing into learning programs … I’ve mused about this in two prior posts: Social layer in learning Beginning conversations and thoughts on social tech in learning Now, we have a decision to use social media tech for a learning program. There are some challenges, though … Some are technical challenges; still others are akin to cultural challenges (organizational culture, that is); while others are learning challenges…

  • Friday Fun

    Rory
    11 May 2012 | 5:52 am
    I had the pleasure of seeing “Once” – the new musical on Broadway. As of today, it’s been nominated for 11 Tony Awards (more than any other show this season). Based on the movie of the same name, Once is perhaps the best piece of theater I’ve seen in a very very long time. Here’s the cast … yes, the entire cast plays and sings … in the song, Falling Slowly. Filed under: Friday Fun Tagged: Broadway, Once

  • Friday fun

    Rory
    4 May 2012 | 6:08 am
    I used to work with a group that sang and signed (only a few songs) … and I count that as one of the most wonderful experiences I’ve had.  So this week’s video is a little something that is poetic – and perhaps a bit inspiring to some. (Not so much the song, per se. But the interpretation!) Filed under: Friday Fun, video Tagged: American Sign Language, ASL, video, what amazing creatures we humans are

  • Social layer in learning

    Rory
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:26 am
    Following up from my previous thoughts on the use of social computing in learning … I’ve had several conversations about how to incorporate social computing technology into learning experiences. At the time I thought of it in two ways: Embedded – that is, having something built into the learning experience itself that learners could access while completing the training program. Ongoing community – where learners could then gather after the training event and continue to expand and deepen their understanding. Well, now I’m seeing it a bit differently … that…

  • Friday fun

    Rory
    20 Apr 2012 | 8:59 am
    What’s better than a Friday? Why, Friday with the Muppets, of course … Filed under: Friday Fun, humor Tagged: Bohemian Rhapsoy, Friday Fun, Muppets, video
 
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    Learnlets

  • Mobile Changes Everything?

    Clark
    15 May 2012 | 8:06 am
    As a prelude to a small webinar I’ll be doing next week (though it also serves to tee up the free Best of mLearnCon webinar I’ll be doing for the eLearning Guild next week as well, here’re some deliberately provocative thoughts on mobile: According to Tomi Ahonen, mobile is the fastest growing industry ever.  But just because everyone has one, what does it mean?  I think the implications are broader, but here I want to talk specifically about work and learning.  I want to suggest that it has the opportunity to totally upend the organization.  How? By broadening our…

  • New Mobile Report Out

    Clark
    10 May 2012 | 7:20 am
    I’m happy to report that the eLearning Guild has just released this year’s mobile learning research report I authored for them (after doing the same last year).  It’s free if you’re already a paid member of the Guild, which has other benefits (e.g. similar free access to other coming research reports, Thought Leader Webinars, etc).  Combining my summary of the ‘state of the industry’ with the results of surveys of the Guild’s membership, it’s a snapshot of the state of mobile learning. I should admit that there’s a bias in the report,…

  • Mentoring

    Clark
    9 May 2012 | 7:27 am
    I was talking today with an organization that has mentoring as a very core feature of their culture, and it got me reflecting on the fantastic luck I’ve had in my career.  Even before working, I had some great teachers, and then many folks have helped shape me through my job experience. Dick Bergeron was a 12th grade teacher at SPHS who really helped me understand a different path to learning and thinking. He did what I now know to be reciprocal teaching, had us take turns talking about what we were learning from our reading, and discussing it, with him facilitating our reflection. I…

  • Educational Game Design Q&A

    Clark
    4 May 2012 | 7:11 am
    I was contacted for a research project, and asked a series of questions. Thought I’d document the answers here, too. Q0. How many years have you been designing educational games? Over 30, actually, off and on.  Started with my first job out of college, designing and programming educational computer games.  Been a recurrent theme in my career since then. Q1. Please walk us through your process for creating an educational game from concept to implementation. Please use one of your games as an example. A long answer is the only option (it’s a big process).  Using a design…

  • Thinking well and, well, not so well

    Clark
    3 May 2012 | 7:24 am
    A number of books have crossed my path for a variety of reasons, and there’re some lessons to be extracted from three of them.  All have to do with looking at how our brains work, and some lessons therefrom.  There have been quite a bit of kerfuffle about ‘brain-based learning’, of which too much is inappropriate inferences from neuroscience to learning.  What I’m doing here is not that, but instead reporting on three books, only one of which has an explicit discussion of implications for both education and work. Still, valuable insight comes from all three. Let me…
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    The Bamboo Project

  • Attention is All

    Michele Martin
    14 May 2012 | 9:48 am
    Our instinct is to try to ignore what’s going wrong so it doesn’t bring us down all the time. But really, the key to improving what we don’t like in our lives is to pay attention to it. By paying attention we can’t help but make it better.                             --Penelope Trunk For the past several months, I've been avoiding mirrors. I noticed my clothes getting tighter, but I didnt' really want to see this, so I pretended that wasn't happening. If I didn't give my rising weight attention, then maybe it would go away. This weekend, though, I was forced…

  • The Hunger for Conversation

    Michele Martin
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:15 am
    One of my current projects involves managing an online community of practice for professionals who help people with disabilities find employment. For the past year we've struggled to get folks engaged. Often it feels like I'm throwing information into a digital abyss.  This is a grant-funded project and I'm in the last year of the grant, so decided that we needed to try something different. Going for broke, as it were. So I proposed to the funders that we begin experimenting with face-to-face conversations, what we're calling "Connecting Coffees." These are one hour networking events at…

  • "Preying on Our Own Better Selves"

    Michele Martin
    12 Apr 2012 | 9:05 am
    We hunger for inspiration, purpose, exhilaration — but mostly, we settle for lives of annihilating boredom, alternating with sheer panic. Perhaps we get our fix of "life" through the finely honed narratives of the hundreds of channels of reality TV and "news" we're smilingly offered night after pixelated night. We want contracts that don't steal our future — but we're often unwilling to walk away from those that already have. Perhaps we feel a sense of moral responsibility to pay our debts — but I'd suggest the greater, perhaps greatest moral responsibility is choosing to live. . . …

  • Stop Asking the Wrong Questions

    Michele Martin
    10 Apr 2012 | 7:31 am
    To me, the most energizing questions are those that involve people's values, hopes and ideals--questions that relate to something that's larger than them where they can connect and contribute. People don't have a lot of energy around questions that are about removing pain."                                 --Verna Allee A lot of the work I do with people ends up being around removing pain. There's a problem to be solved or something to be improved or they are at a career crossroads and need to get out--NOW! What I find most challenging in these situations is…

  • Being Honest With Yourself and Starting from Where You Are

    Michele Martin
    5 Apr 2012 | 11:48 am
    A post from Chris Brogan has me thinking this morning:  Jacqueline brought me iced coffee a few weeks ago, and I commented that it tasted especially delicious. She said, “I used two sugars instead of one or none, the way you usually say you like it.” As is often the case with me, I ended up thinking about a bit more than how many sugars I take in my coffee. The truth is, I wasn’t really being honest with myself. I can say I prefer my coffee black, but what I was really saying was, “I know that I’m supposed to have it black.” I prefer my coffee with two sugars. It’s much nicer…
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    The Learning Circuits Blog

  • Gamification Blog Book Tour: Week Five Stops and Week Four Recap

    Karl Kapp
    14 May 2012 | 8:21 am
    TODAY'S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP:May 15: John Rice Educational Games Research Stops for Week FiveMay 14: Andrew Hughes Designing DigitallyMay 15: John Rice Educational Games Research May 16: Christy Tucker Experiencing E-LearningMay 17: Bob Becker The Blended LearnerMay 18: Surprise Stop (stay tuned for more info)Plus we have added a few new dates and stops (stay tuned) we are also having a webinar event with Dan Bliton who challenges attendees to the game "Are you smarter than Karl Kapp". Dan will be hosting the game and conducting an interview with me on the 24th of May during BAH open webinar…

  • My commencement address for the workforce learning class of 2012

    Allison
    10 May 2012 | 3:02 pm
    I admit it. I love when people seek my opinion. That happened a lot in Denver, at ASTD 2012:I am entering the field. What do I do to make a success of it? Let’s pretend that somebody asked me to deliver a commencement speech in response to that question, preferably on a lush, ivy covered campus, near amiable watering holes. Thank you for inviting me to share this wonderful occasion with the workforce learning graduates of 2012....Let me begin by congratulating you on your career choice. I am sure you and your family are delighted—after all you could have chosen to go to law…

  • Allison Rossett Guest Post: Evaluation—Words Into Action?

    Ryann Ellis
    7 May 2012 | 11:38 am
    This is one of those topics that never goes away. It reigns supreme in just about every needs study for workplace learning professionals. We say we want to do more and know more. We are eager to check out more tools, and get a better handle on the situation. The topic—evaluation. We speak fluent Kirkpatrick. When workplace learning and performance (WLP) professionals are asked about the four levels of evaluation, in the USA and beyond, they respond in unison: “Level 1 is reaction, 2 is knowledge; 3 is behavior in the workplace; and Level 4 is results.” But knowing is not doing, not even…

  • Gamification Blog Book Tour, Week Four Stops and Week Two Recap

    Karl Kapp
    6 May 2012 | 1:11 pm
    TODAY'S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP:May 11: Zaid Ali Alsagoff Zaid Learn And if you missed a couple of recent stops, check out Mike Qaissaunee's post Gamification of Learning and Instruction and Koreen Olbrish's The Shamification of Gamification . And Larry Hiner at drlarryhiner as well as Catherine Lombardozzi at her Gamification Whistle Stop.The Gamification of Learning and Instruction blog book tour has been a lot of fun, with interesting comments and exciting dialogues and some in-person stops. Here are the stops for week four and a recap of week three.Week Four:May 7: Mike Qaissaunee…

  • Introducing May Guest Blogger Allison Rossett

    Ryann Ellis
    1 May 2012 | 12:10 pm
    May’s blogger has been a steadfast friend and contributor to ASTD. Allison Rossett is knowledgeable about needs analysis, technology-based learning, persistence and engagement in a world with increasing amounts of technology-based independent learning. Her official bio reads something like this: Dr. Allison Rossett, long-time Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is a consultant in learning and technology-based performance. A member of Training magazine’s HRD Hall of Fame, Allison serves on the Board for the Elearning Guild and Chief Learning Officer magazine.
 
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    Will at Work Learning

  • Case Question -- Concept Mapping, Question Answering, Multiple Sessions

    Will Thalheimer
    10 May 2012 | 8:48 pm
    In this scenario, John and his best instructional-design team have to decide whether to utilize concept mapping, question answering, or multiple sessions instead of just presenting material in the normal way. Can you help them make the best decisions?

  • Stealth Messaging for Chief Learning Officers (and other learning executives)

    Will Thalheimer
    4 May 2012 | 3:42 pm
    After years of being embedded as a consultant in organizations who have struggled to move their stakeholders beyond a training-centric model to a performance-improvement approach, I finally realized that our painstakingly slow progress might be due to our own failures in getting our messages heard. We in the workplace learning field are over-reliant on conveying our messages in a way that attempts to connect to our stakeholders' logical, analytical, conscious cognitive processing. The problem with this -- beside the fact that it is obviously not working -- is that most cognition occurs…

  • Work-Learning Research highly ranked on search engines.

    Will Thalheimer
    3 Apr 2012 | 1:09 pm
    The Work-Learning Research website is ranked as follows: #4 on Google #4 on Bing #7 on Yahoo When searching for "learning research." Interestingly, we hardly ever get paid to do research. Mostly we get paid to use research wisdom to make practical recommendations, for example in the following areas: Learning Design E-Learning Training Onboarding Safety Learning Evaluation Organizational Change Leadership Development Improving the Learning Department's Results Making Fundamental Change in Your Organization's Learning Practices Research for me is a labor of love, and also, a…

  • Five Failures Translated into French

    Will Thalheimer
    2 Apr 2012 | 8:53 pm
    My post on the Five Failures of Workplace Learning Professionals has been translated into French: FRENCH  Original in American English Many thanks to Frédéric Domon of Entreprise Collaborative. http://www.entreprisecollaborative.com/index.php/fr/articles/231-5-erreurs-de-la-formation-en-entreprise

  • Instructional Designers vs. Scientists, A Challenge for You!

    Will Thalheimer
    17 Mar 2012 | 9:17 am
    Who is better at crafting an instructional message about science, scientists or instructional designers? I say we instructional designers SHOULD be able to do a better job, so I'm encouraging YOU, my colleagues, to give Alan Alda's Flame Challenge a try. Here's Alda's challenge: "We’re asking scientists to answer the question – “What is a flame?” – in a way that an 11-year-old would find intelligible and maybe even fun." You can read the full challenge by clicking here. The deadline is April 2nd, so you better get moving!! To see what you're up…
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    Upside Learning Blog

  • Not Just Mobile Learning, Mobile Everything

    Amit Garg
    8 May 2012 | 4:51 am
    When our clients consider mobile learning, we often find them stuck in trying to deliver learning (training) on mobile devices. The key to exploiting the potential of mobile learning is to think of mobile beyond their learning content delivery capability. To appreciate the true potential of mobile devices we need to consider what Tomi Ahonen has to say. He calls Mobiles as the 7th Mass Media and lists their unique characteristics: It’s the first personal mass media. It brings two almost opposite words together. It is permanently carried almost everywhere you go. It is always on and…

  • 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads

    Aneesh Bhat
    3 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    Of late, many of our clients have asked us to develop courses for deployment over PCs but which can also be viewed over the iPad. While the demand for HTML5 courses is yet to catch up, the demand is growing stronger nevertheless. This hardly comes as a surprise given that the iPad dominates the worldwide tablet market. As per data published by Good Technology in their Good Technology Device Activations Report | Q1 2012, the iPad 2 averaged 17.7 percent of their enterprise activations in the first quarter of 2012 in the US. In just a month since its release, the iPad 3 snagged 4.3 percent of…

  • Implementing mLearning In The Workplace

    Amit Garg
    2 May 2012 | 4:36 am
    Last week at the CIPD HRD show in London, I conducted a session on “Implementing Mobile Learning in the Workplace: Benefits, Strategies, and Success Factors”. I think it went very well though we could have done with a little more time on hand discussing the points in more details. Here’s the slide deck of the same. Implementing mLearning In The Workplace View more presentations from Upside Learning We also released a ebook on getting started with mobile learning last week which you may find useful. Download here. Share your thoughts or comments below or get in touch at…

  • Mobile Learning And The BYOD Movement

    Aneesh Bhat
    30 Apr 2012 | 4:32 am
    Trawling through my feeds across various social media, I’ve been noticing a spurt in the number of discussions around the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) movement. Some organizations have embraced it with open arms while many are still apprehensive about security risks that BYOD poses. No matter what your organization’s view on BYOD is, one thing is certain – the BYOD movement has gathered steam and gained an unstoppable momentum. ‘Bring Your Own Device’ or BYOD, refers to an organizations employees using their personal devices (usually Smartphones/Tablets) at the workplace to…

  • Mobile Learning – A Quick Start Guide: Get The Free eBook

    Abhijit Kadle
    25 Apr 2012 | 4:23 am
    We have been saying it  over and over again – mobile learning is here to stay! It’s only a matter of time before you will need to be invovled in it. As fascinating as mobile learning is, it is extremely dynamic; and evolves at a blinding pace. This leads to organizations being unsure of how to formulate even a basic mLearning Strategy. We’ve shared some of our thinking on mobile learning through blogs posts in the recent past and thought it worthwhile to collect the information into a single booklet for you. This eBook called ‘Mobile Learning – A Quick Start Guide’ can…
 
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    Janet Clarey

  • A Glimpse of Your Future Workforce – Now in Middle School

    Janet
    7 May 2012 | 8:29 am
    Six months ago Thomas Suarez, a 6th grader from Los Angeles, spoke at a TEDS event about the making and sale of an “app”  he created on his own – “Bustin Jieber” (a whack-a-mole type anti-Justin-Bieber game.)  (There’s nearly 2 million views of the video on YouTube so you may have seen it.) Anyway, he’s quite eloquent and now owns his own company. While he’s clearly much further ahead than the majority of 6th graders I know, his actions offer a glimpse of our future workforce. Suarez, who is self taught, started to build, create and sell his…

  • Why Should Mobile Learning Be on Your Mind?

    Janet
    1 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    I read the article Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years“  and, coupled with some research on mobile video I’m doing, paused because I suddenly felt like I was missing something. It was one of those “wait – what?” moments that I sometimes get as an analyst because you know, I have to know this stuff. Anyway, the author of the article, Eric Jackson, shares two schools of thought – first, the outsized influence management teams have on organizational outcomes and second, the idea that managers don’t really…

  • Another Stake in Ground for Blackboard: Two New Investments in the Open-source E-learning Market

    Janet
    29 Mar 2012 | 9:47 am
    Blackboard’s statement of principles about open source says it is “committed to supporting the growth, development and use of open source technologies in education worldwide.” Blackboard also says it “expects to make significant contributions to the community to help ensure that open source options remain strong, reliable and sustainable for all.”  To that end, Blackboard has launched a new business called Blackboard Education Open Source Services – a good thing, right? Read on… In support of this broader vision, Blackboard announced on Monday that it had acquired two companies…

  • Curatr: Using Visualization Navigation for Static Content with Social and Gamification Elements

    Janet
    1 Mar 2012 | 10:25 am
    I have been playing around with Curatr for a few weeks now not only as a platform for social learning but as a social publishing tool as well. Curatr is a stand-alone or integrated (with API) cloud-based platform that allows you to browse content  in a more visible fashion and more… Publishing research and publishing self-paced, text- and image-based e-learning are similar. Over time, you end up with a great deal of content. Search for something broad like “RSS” and you’ll likely find links to documents, videos, presentation, case studies, research reports, tools,…

  • Alternate Reality Games Part 1 – A Good Fit for L&D?

    Janet
    13 Jan 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Alternate Reality Game (ARG)…an interactive story-based game, delivered through multiple “real world” modes (i.e., text, phone, Internet, print, and others) within which players must participate interactively and work collectively to solve “real world” problems the story presents. In our most recent High-Impact Learning Organization research, to be published shortly, we asked organizations to rate themselves from poor to excellent on their e-learning capabilities. Not surprisingly, the entry point for e-learning – the creation of simple, self-paced e-learning –…
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  • Deke’s Techniques: Making a model emerge from water in Photoshop

    Colleen Wheeler, content curator
    15 May 2012 | 8:19 pm
    This week’s Deke’s Techniques tutorial demonstrates how to take an otherwise land-locked model and make her appear to emerge from water. The key to this deceptively simple technique is to create a properly aligned, reflected version of the model’s image, that is based on a common smart object so that any changes to the original are reflected in the duplicate. After you flip the duplicate upside down, your first step is to create a soft transition between the two images. In this video, Deke shows you how to set up a gradient transition in the intersection between the…

  • lynda.com featured in Three Models of Distance Learning article from sbomagazine.com

    Chelsea Adams, Managing Editor
    15 May 2012 | 1:58 pm
    A recent article on sbomagazine.com, the web site for School Band & Orchestra magazine, featured lynda.com in an article on distance learning, and the role technology plays in education today. The article begins by stating that “technology is changing how we deliver education,” and continues to identify and discuss three models for technology-based distance learning. Read the whole article, Distance Learning: Music Technology Courses & Workshops, at www.sbomagazine.com.  

  • This week’s Featured Five: Choosing your lynda.com Photoshop course

    Colleen Wheeler, content curator
    14 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    For this week’s featured five new tutorials, I have a sampling of movies from five different Photoshop courses we offer in the lynda.com library, each with a slightly different approach, scope, or focus. With the announcement of CS6, we’ve updated three of our mainstay Photoshop training courses, and when you combine that with our existing content, it can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start or which course is right for your needs. Here are some quick descriptions and free movie samples of five of our Photoshop offerings, from the encyclopedic to the specific, to…

  • Why you should learn PHP after HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

    Ray Villalobos, lynda.com author
    12 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    PHP in Action using my iPad Earlier in my design career I read an insightful book by Roger Black called Websites that Work. One of his rules of design was that after black and white, red was the third color. White is the brightest color, and black has the most contrast to white, but red is the color that gives you the most bang for the buck if you’re looking to get your text noticed. That three-color premise makes me think back to development languages—specifically, which are important, why they are important, and in what order they should be approached. I’m a big fan of PHP, and…

  • Memories of a Friend: Reflecting on the life of Hillman Curtis

    Chris Orwig | Author
    11 May 2012 | 10:31 pm
    Silence is the sound of finality. And that was all I heard when I received the news that Hillman Curtis was gone. Hillman was a huge inspiration to me and many of you know him from his films, books, or conference talks. He had a stunning visual sensibility, thoughtful eyes, and a kind and creative heart. I like how one of my good friends put it, “Hillman had a gentle and quiet side to him in which he allowed his work to pass through to become much bigger.” By any yardstick, Hillman was a big success. Yet, to be successful it typically requires talking loudly or at least talking a lot.
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    Managing eLearning

  • Healthcare Education Technology Handshakes – 2012 MedBiquitous Conference

    Jon Aleckson
    1 May 2012 | 10:42 am
    I am speaking on a panel this Friday at Johns Hopkins at the MedBiquious Conference.  Sounds really cool, but it’s really pretty geeky stuff.  I am still studying up on the various “interface” standards this group sets.  I hope to post an update on my understanding and reflection after the conference. The MedBiquitous Conference is over [...]

  • Lessons from eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions Conference

    Jon Aleckson
    2 Apr 2012 | 9:27 am
    eLearning Guild a True Community of Practice The Learning Solutions Conference serves as the largest of the eLearning Guild’s yearly conferences and brings together professionals seeking to identify, deploy and manage technology-based learning solutions. I was unable to attend the event last week, but I caught up with Jean Marrapodi, eLearning Guild and Learning Solutions Conference veteran, [...]

  • So you want to eliminate the online teacher?

    Jon Aleckson
    21 Mar 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Your member Experts should lead online courses I often get inquiries from national associations looking to move their face to face workshops online.  The first myth I often need to dispel is the concept that an expert instructor is no longer needed; the second is the notion that online courses carry higher profit margins.  Research [...]

  • Career in Adult Education: Attend the UPCEA Conference

    Jon Aleckson
    6 Mar 2012 | 10:38 am
    The University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) began as an initiative at the University of Wisconsin – Madison nearly one hundred years ago. The association seeks to make education more available to adult learners and serves as an industry resource for continuing education institutions and affiliated organizations. Recently proposed reforms promote the incorporation of more [...]

  • Conducting Good Virtual Meetings

    Jon Aleckson
    17 Feb 2012 | 3:44 pm
    “Do you see the L?” “Yes, we see the L,” came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, “Do you see the O.” “Yes, we see the O.” Then we typed the G, and the system crashed … ” (source). Technology has come a long way since the first ARPANET link was established [...]
 
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    Mobile Learning Blog

  • Punflay & Mobl21 at MobiLE 2012

    admin
    23 Apr 2012 | 1:10 am
    Derek Keenan, a professional learning coach in 21st century learning and technology at Bert Church High School in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada presented Mobl21 and Punflay apps at MobiLE 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona.  The presentation titled, The Educational Implications of App Innovations, showcased how developers are beginning to make a difference in education through their products. Below is an excerpt of Derek’s blog post: Emantras has a well polished Learning Management System called Mobl21.  The key advantage of this system versus many of the free platforms available is the ability to…

  • 9 Ways Mobile is Moving into Academia

    admin
    27 Mar 2012 | 10:41 pm
    Staff writers at Best Colleges Online have put together a great article on the nine ways mobile devices are expanding in the academic world. Below is an edited version of the article: Mobile phones are ubiquitous among students, both in college and K-12. And while some schools shun the use of cell phones, others are embracing them as a powerful tool. Marketing, learning, and mobile access are just some of the ways academia is taking advantage of what mobile has to offer. EXPANDING UNIVERSITY APPS AND MOBILE WEB: Universities around the world have learned the value of mobile devices,…

  • The Mobile Learning Experience is approaching!

    admin
    20 Feb 2012 | 4:56 am
    Check out Tony Vincent’s very interesting post about the upcoming Mobile Learning Experience 2012. EXCERPT: Classroom teachers, technology coordinators, administrators, special educators, and others interested in reaching today’s students are gathering in Phoenix, Arizona April 11-13 for Mobile Learning Experience 2012. Mobile Learning Experience 2012 has already received registrations from all over the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It’s very powerful to network with those in attendance. In fact, even if there was no program the conference would…

  • A Day in the Life of an M-Learner

    admin
    16 Jan 2012 | 10:15 pm

  • Mobile Learning: Case Studies do the talking

    admin
    4 Jan 2012 | 3:01 am
    So Mobile Learning is established and here to stay. School after school are implementing iPads, and almost everyone in education is debating about disruptive technologies, flipped classrooms, and educational apps. Let’s look at some of the mobile learning cases implemented in schools. School: Southern University of New Orleans Devices: Multiple, iOS devices, and PSPs.  Students also recorded learning diaries with their cameras or cellphones. Objective: SUNO created the Department of Mobile Learning which was set up not only to help learners stay connected to the university, but to help…
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  • Indefinite Hiatus

    Ellen
    24 Apr 2012 | 12:44 pm
    Regular aLearning blog readers have probably noticed a sudden drop in activity here. No worries! We’re fine. But we are involved in some other areas these days and providing up-to-date insight on association-related elearning topics hasn’t been at the top of the list, sorry to say. Previous posts on various topics continue to garner so many hits daily that the blog will sit, waiting and ready for new posts, when the time comes. In the meantime, please know that the aLearning Fundamentals tutorials — always free and never requiring registration — are still live and will…

  • February March April Quick Links

    Ellen
    11 Apr 2012 | 12:07 pm
    Yes, aLearning has been distracted these past few months with some non-blog projects… so although a few of these resource items are a little older than a month or two, they’ve been re-vetted and we think they’re still worth your attention. LMS Resources The most popular topics on this blog are those on LMSes. They get the most initial hits, and some posts that even date back a few years are still getting a lot of attention. Having said that, here are a few excellent resources — in no particular order — if you’re trying to decide whether to get an LMS or…

  • Get Latest Tagoras Report on Virtual Events — FREE

    Ellen
    2 Apr 2012 | 7:21 pm
    For just this week, if you sign up for the Tagoras Research Community list — which is free to join — you will receive a complimentary copy of Association Virtual Events: State of the Sector. It’s a win-win! Don’t wait — the offer will expire at the end of this week (April 6 or so). For details and to sign up, see this page on their Web site: http://www.tagoras.com/catalog/virtual-events/ If you’re not really in the profile for getting this report gratis, but you have a vested interested in finding out about the status of virtual events in the association…

  • What Corporate Trainers Can Learn from Associations

    Ellen
    8 Mar 2012 | 12:08 pm
    In her reaction to our recent post, “Did You Feel That?” Adrienne Gross said, “One thing that technology can’t really help with though is motivation: ‘I want to do this training.’” I responded by agreeing that we can lead people to training but we can’t make them learn. And that got me thinking about a key difference between corporate training and association training. Our problems are 180-degrees in difference. Corporate trainers struggle to get learners engaged. Often they’re showing up for courses because they’ve been sent, the…

  • Don’t Assume Anything

    Ellen
    5 Mar 2012 | 3:11 pm
    You’ve heard that old expression, right? Don’t assume anything, it makes an “ass” out of “u” and “me.” Haven’t ranted in awhile, but I ran into one of those situations lately that had me swearing under my breath. And it had to do with some of you, probably. Yes, you. You who have your blog comments linked to particular response vehicles. Nothing worse that reading a long post, getting into the point of view expressed in it, drafting and editing a thoughtful response, then starting to submit it when — wait! What’s this?!?!? I…
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    New Think Tank

  • Java Video Tutorial 40

    admin
    12 May 2012 | 9:10 pm
    I will fulfill many requests in this Java JApplet tutorial. Make a Java JApplet Tutorial. Show how to turn my Personality Test into a Java application.

  • Java Video Tutorial 39

    admin
    9 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    In this part of the Java Video Tutorial, I cover the JEditorPane Swing component. It allows you to both display rich text and HTML documents.

  • Java Video Tutorial 38

    admin
    6 May 2012 | 7:16 pm
    In this tutorial I show you how to add and delete rows in a JTable that will then effect the database. I also cover allowing the user to change the database on a cell basis.

  • New Personality Test

    admin
    2 May 2012 | 3:19 pm
    I built a personality test based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. My aim is to make a personality test that works, but also was easy to use.

  • Java Video Tutorial 37

    admin
    1 May 2012 | 5:28 pm
    I continue showing how to use JTables with MySQL. You'll learn how to pull information from a database, add a row, delete a row, convert a String into a SQL Date and much more.
 
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    Helge Scherlund's eLearning News

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    10 May 2012 | 7:08 am
    I apologize but there are still problems with my blog.I'm working hard to recover my missing post. Best regardsHelge

  • TED launches new education platform with customized teaching tools

    10 May 2012 | 6:32 am
    Here's what's new on eSchool News site today. Site of the Week http://ed.ted.com TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading big ideas through a series of conferences and a free video platform, has continued its expansion into education by launching a brand-new TED-Ed website with tools to help teachers use video in the classroom. The new platform allows educators to customize videos with follow-up questions and assignments, TED says—an initiative that could help power the “flipped learning” model. This is the second phase of TED’s expansion into education, following the launch…

  • 10 Surprising Brands Killing It on Pinterest

    10 May 2012 | 6:21 am
    Becky Celestine has been in touch to remind us about this published article below. Photo: OnlineMBA Pinterest is a great place to collect images and links to ideas you love, products that rock, and just about anything else under the sun. While most users of the site are still individuals, brands and big businesses have taken note of the major traffic the social media site has been seeing in recent months, and many have begun creating their own Pinterest boards, pinning things from their own sites as well as from around the web. There are hundreds of brands currently using Pinterest for…

  • 12 Telling Stats on Female MBAs

    10 May 2012 | 5:41 am
    Alissa Alvarez has been in touch to remind us about this published article below.  Photo: OnlineMBA Just a few decades ago, the thought of a woman owning a business or running a large multi-national company might have drawn sneers or snickers in the business world (and might still from those who are less enlightened), but luckily things have by and large changed for the better for women in business. Today, women own about 29% of all businesses in the United States and account for about 16% of all corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies. Yet despite significant gains over the past 50…

  • 5 Sources for Free Online Classes

    8 May 2012 | 6:23 am
    Today I have Audrey Porterman as guest blogger. Please be sure to check out her unique guest post. Guest posts are always welcome, please contact me Online degree programs are a great way to get the education you need and still have the flexibility to work, raise a family, or pursue other goals. Taking courses online is also a great way to continue your education, getting additional training where needed to advance your skills or just pursue continuing education for your own pleasure. Many respected institutions of higher education are now making some of their online offerings available for…
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    E-learning Examples

  • The Life of Julia

    david
    12 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    The Life of Julia Take a look at how President Obama’s policies help one woman over her lifetime—and how Mitt Romney would change her story. View the interactive graphic

  • The Golden Age of Couture – Exhibition

    david
    12 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    The Golden Age of Couture – Exhibition V&A is the world’s greatest museum of design and the arts: its collections cover two thousand years up to the present, in virtually every medium and from Britain, Europe and Asia. View the interactive timeline is the world's greatest museum of design and the arts: its collections cover two thousand years up to the present, in virtually every medium and from Britain, Europe and Asia.

  • Pentax – Timeline

    david
    12 May 2012 | 10:38 am
    Pentax – Timeline Browse our timeline to see our most significant product releases and company milestones. View the HTML5 timeline

  • Quiz: Who’s that voice?

    david
    7 May 2012 | 5:43 am
    Quiz: Who’s that voice? Big-name celebrities long have done some voice-over work for commercials. But advertisers increasingly are turning to them to gain attention for their ad campaigns. That means professional voice-over artists are feeling the pinch. Roll over the images below to play the clips. Can you guess which actor voiced which commercial? View the interactive quiz

  • Social Media Guidelines at Hitachi Data Systems

    david
    3 May 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Social Media Guidelines at Hitachi Data Systems by Hitachi Data Systems View the Articulate Storyline example (See more examples in the Articulate Storyline showcase)
 
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    Solution Manual For All

  • Kulliyat E Ghani - Ghani Khan - Ebook Download

    13 May 2012 | 5:02 am
    Book Name: Kulliyat e GhaniAuthor: Ghani KhanGenre: PoetryFile Type: PDFDownload Link: Click Here To Download

  • Elementary Linear Algebra -Howard Anton - Ebook + Solution

    4 Mar 2012 | 12:49 pm
    Title: Elementary Linear AlgebraAuthor: Howard Anton, Resource: Ebook + SolutionDocument Type: PDF DocumentFile Size: 16MbDownload Link: Click Here To Download Link

  • The Pollution Biology of Aquatic Oligochaetes - Ebook - Pilar

    3 Mar 2012 | 4:48 am
          Title: The Pollution Biology Of Aquatic OligochaetesAuthor: Pillar Rodriguez, Trefor ReynoldsonFile Type: PDF DocumentDownload Link: Click Here To Download

  • Information Systems Today - Joe Valacich - Ebook 5th Edition

    19 Feb 2012 | 1:41 pm
    Title: Information Systems Today: Managing In The Digital WorldAuthor: Joe Valacich, Christoph SchneiderPublisher: Prentice HallFile Type: PDF DocumentResource:EbookDownload Link: Click Here To Download EbookBuy Ebook:  Information Systems Today, Student Value Edition (5th Edition)

  • Fundamentals Of Electric Circuits 3e - Sadiku - Solution Manual

    25 Dec 2011 | 9:55 am
    Book Title:  Fundamentals of Electric CircuitAuthor        Sadiku and Charles K. AlexandarPublisher   McGraw HillResource:   Solution ManualFile Type:     PDF DocumentBook Description                       The book talks about almost all the subjects and topics of electrical circuits with clarity and in a simple way. The way material is presented is awesome and each logical step is explained. You will…
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    Finance Training Course

  • Startups: How to build a financial model and breathe life into it

    uzma
    14 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Considering embarking on the road to entrepreneurship? Clueless about financial modeling? In this post we aim to provide a basic explanation of financial modeling and its importance for startups. We begin by asking the following questions: Should you focus on the best case or worst case scenario for your financial statements? How deep should you go in your analysis? What is credibility and how is it achieved? How do footfall and ticket size apply to financial modelling? What are top-down and bottom-up approaches to financial modelling? What is the Break-Even level? What should your final…

  • MonteCarlo Simulation: A introduction to simulating N(d1) and N(d2) in Excel.

    Jawwad
    14 May 2012 | 4:56 am
    The full Monte Carlo Simulation training course is now available for free. Take a quick look see at the three part series that uses Monte Carlo Simulation to show the difference between our two friends from the Black Scholes equation: N(d1) and N(d2). Brought to you by the fine folks at FinanceTrainingCourse.com

  • Pricing Ladder Options using a Monte Carlo Simulator

    uzma
    9 May 2012 | 5:16 am
    Ladder options are options where the strike is reset whenever the price of the underlying asset reaches certain trigger levels or rungs during the tenor of the option. When the next strike or rung of the ladder option is triggered the profit between the old and new rungs/ strike prices are locked in. The rungs of a ladder option can be structured in one or both directions to allow for greater flexibility in the option design. For a call option, assuming that all the rungs are in one direction (i.e. all long calls), on maturity the payoff will be the maximum of the underlying asset’s price…

  • Crude Oil Price outlook – Media review

    Jawwad
    11 Apr 2012 | 1:00 am
    Will it go up or come down? At US$100+ a barrel for WTI and 120+ for Brent, Crude Oil has stayed higher at these level much longer than we expected. The only question is if this stability is here to stay or are we going to see another shock in the summer with the arrival of the driving season in the US, this May. Here are a few hints from recent media coverage about the direction of oil prices in the coming months. Noted by Moming Zhou of Bloomberg, the first update was Fed’s reluctance to add another stimulus to the economy. Combined with the upcoming refinery turnaround season in…

  • Finance Funnies: The best of the lighter side in Finance

    Jawwad
    4 Apr 2012 | 6:43 am
    Every Monday morning, I go through my favorite search engine looking for a reason to smile with Finance. Here is this week’s crop. On “The Recovery” On Immigration and Republicans On Executive Compensation on the Street
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    CoursePark

  • 4 Suggestions for Marketing your Business Locally

    Josh
    15 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    Marketing your business locally may not be an easy thing to do, but it can be done when you use the things in your community to your advantage. Every community has its own thing it’s known for and when you utilize those things you’ll find you’ll be able to market to people in their own element. While each community is different, some of the things you have going on may be included in this list. 1. Sporting Events If your community has a sports team they sell tickets too or if you have youth sporting events you may have the ability to sponsor them. You’ll need to have a…

  • 2 Manuals all Businesses Should Have in Place

    Josh
    14 May 2012 | 9:13 am
    It doesn’t matter if you have two employees or 200 employees it’s important to have manuals in place for everything that’s done in your business. When you have a specific person do one task, she may be the only person that knows how to do that task and that’s not good. If she wants to take time off, gets sick, or quits, your business will struggle until you figure out how to do the task. Every task that goes on in your business needs to have step by step instructions written out and every policy you have in place needs to be typed out and posted in a common place for…

  • Leadership Friday Favs

    Josh
    11 May 2012 | 9:46 am
    Ongoing learning, exploring, making a sustainable positive difference, paying it forward, and developing others are in our DNA here at Get Your BIG On. The team at BIG is doing research all the time; it might fact-finding for something we’re writing, creating content for a development session or speech, or working for a client. We see lots of worthy material while doing our work (what a delightful perk!), so we share the highlights via our “Leadership Friday Favs,” a short-cut to information you may not have the time to look up but might be interested in knowing. Our weekly…

  • Tips for Taking a Vacation from your Business

    Josh
    10 May 2012 | 9:50 am
    As a business owner you may find it hard to take time off. Your business is how you support your family and without that income you wouldn’t be able to pay the bills. While you may find it hard to step away from your business, it’s important to make it happen. If you’ve worked for months or even years without a vacation, it’s time to make it happen. It doesn’t matter if you have a storefront or if your business is run completely online, taking a vacation is something you must do on occasion. If you don’t you’ll find you won’t have the energy to…

  • Tips for Reaching Business Success with a Temporary or Seasonal Employee

    Josh
    9 May 2012 | 8:03 am
    Summer is fast approaching and that means it’s time to hire your temporary or seasonal employees. If you’ve ever thought about hiring these types of employees, you must know how to handle them correctly. It’s not an easy process from start to finish, but when it’s done correctly you’ll have the best employee possible. The first thing you need to do is look at the big picture with your business and decide if you have the ability to hire someone that’ll be temporary only and nothing more. It would depend on the type of company you run and the reason you feel…
 
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    C2 Workshop's E-Learning Blog

  • Creative Writing Versus CMoS and MSTP

    C2 Workshop
    14 May 2012 | 10:15 am
    The concept of ‘putting the pen to paper’ for me, was – still is – an irresistible proposition. And, a very charming one at that. I used to reflect, how things have become so simple these days! Do I feel like writing something? And, want the whole world to read what I have written? All I have to do is, just open my laptop, translate my thoughts into words and ‘publish’ them. That’s it. Mission accomplished! In a way – In every way, to be precise - this charm of writing is what has brought me around into ‘Instructional Design’. But, why ‘Instructional Design’, of all…

  • Happy Easter !!!

    C2 Workshop
    8 Apr 2012 | 7:41 am

  • iPad - The Future of E-Learning?

    C2 Workshop
    21 Feb 2012 | 3:03 am
    All of five years old and ready for an iPad! I was flummoxed. Certainly my friend was spoiling her son. What would he ever do with it? I mean he still lisps. But technology has come a long way. A recent article in AdAge.com, “How the iPad became Child's Play – and a Learning Tool” discussed this very phenomena - how easy it is for toddlers to use an iPad. So the iPad is an excellent medium for knowledge delivery. And with Internet access, it enables easier reading than a laptop or PC for, say, text-rich websites and learning portals. But, while an iPad can definitely engage kids…

  • Defining E-Learning Objectives - Part III

    C2 Workshop
    17 Jan 2012 | 7:47 pm
    We wound up the last blog post with the question, “Even if I manage to craft measurable behavioral objectives, how far would I succeed in MOTIVATING my learners?”If you are, by any chance, landing straight on this post, please visit the earlier two posts, before taking off from here.Motivation is a wonderful state of mind. If I am motivated to do something, I wouldn’t let anything – anything – stop me from going after what I want. I just wouldn’t rest till I accomplish my mission. It’s as simple as that!The same philosophy applies to my learners as well.As an instructional…

  • Happy New Year!!!

    C2 Workshop
    30 Dec 2011 | 11:18 pm
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    Learning Ecosystems

  • Adobe announces next generation of Digital Publishing Suite

    Daniel Christian
    15 May 2012 | 8:58 pm
    Adobe announces next generation of Digital Publishing Suite Over 25 Million Digital Issues Delivered to Date, 120,000 Downloads Every Day; Meredith Corporation Selects DPS Excerpt: NEW YORK — May 15, 2012 — At Adobe’s annual Digital Publishing Summit,Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a series of groundbreaking new features for Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) that will allow media companies and corporate publishers to deliver unparalleled reach and monetize their unique content in new ways. Among the new features are Content Viewer for iPhone, social…

  • Drawing on the iPad: 12 touchscreen styluses reviewed [Caldwell]

    Daniel Christian
    15 May 2012 | 8:54 pm
       

  • Cognition & the intrinsic user experience [Julien]

    Daniel Christian
    15 May 2012 | 8:27 pm
    Cognition & the intrinsic user experience — from UX Magazine by Jordan Julien Excerpt: Over the past few years there’s been a lot of discussion around whether an experience can be designed. But it seems like everyone’s just getting hung up on semantics; an experience can be designed, but the user will always have the opportunity to experience it in a unique way. The reason every experience has the potential to be unique to the user is, in part, because cognition is unique to each user. Cognition is about knowledge and understanding, so there’s a ton of…

  • The current state of — and the near future of — the TV

    Daniel Christian
    15 May 2012 | 8:08 pm
    Beyond Smart TV: ‘Surfaces’ prototype reveals the television of tomorrow — from wired.com by Christina Bonnington Excerpt: “In a few years’ time, you’ll be able to buy a TV that covers an entire wall, acting like wallpaper,” NDS chief marketing officer Nigel Smith told Wired. In this way, the TV could take the form of a gigantic canvas, providing layers of additional information, as well as different levels of immersion. Because wall-sized TVs are hard to come by, NDS created a $30,000 setup comprised of six LCDs arranged in a rectangular array. The onscreen system is coded…

  • ClassicalKidsLive.com — great site to introduce kids to classical music/musicians

    Daniel Christian
    15 May 2012 | 7:38 pm
    From the About Us page: The Classical Kids LIVE! Theatrical Symphony Concert Series brings to life Susan Hammond’s best-selling audio stories for student and family audiences. Over two million children and adults throughout North America and abroad have enjoyed these magically staged concerts designed to bring to life the extraordinary lives and the musical masterpieces of the great classical composers. Having received more parenting, music industry, and educational awards and honors than any other entity of its kind, Classical Kids is proud to say, “We’re making a…
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    MinuteBio

  • The Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center

    Jeff
    6 May 2012 | 9:24 pm
    Last week, I had the pleasure of touring the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. This is a training center that uses numerous types of simulations – everything from live actors to mannequin and online sims. As I toured the center, I tweeted a few pictures and some notes, which I am sharing below. Simulation Center's observation area for proctors. Looking into one of the Simulation Center's examination rooms from observation area. Simulation Center's Operating Room   Simulation Center Mannequin. They breathe, move, bleed, have a pulse, specific medical issues, etc.

  • I Saw a Virtual Patient at MedBiquitous

    Jeff
    2 May 2012 | 9:34 pm
    I am currently attending the MedBiquitous conference, which is hosted at Johns Hopkins (my employer) and focuses on how learning technologies can transform heath care education. Today, I attended some great sessions including one on using virtual patients in training. Several organizations shared the tools used develop these virtual worlds. One, CliniSpace, had a nice interface and from the demo appears to have an easy to use authoring mode. I was also impressed on how authors can quickly add or change scenarios on the fly during a simulation. Below is a video that gives a glance at…

  • New eBook from the eLearning Guild – “58 Tips for Breakthrough Instructional Design”

    Jeff
    9 Apr 2012 | 9:01 pm
    I have always enjoyed the eLearning Guild’s eBooks and they just released a new one – 58 Tips for Breakthrough Instructional Design. It has some great tips on research, design, development and project management, all coming from 14 experts in the field. Oh yeah, it’s free too. Access it here. Past eLearning Guild ebooks are also available for download. As a side note, you may have noticed it has been quite a while since my last post. Work, and life, have been extremely busy for me. However, I am making it a point to get back on track with writing new posts. Thanks for your…

  • Deconstructing My #DemoFest Course – Part 3 (Development) #DevLearn

    Jeff
    22 Jan 2012 | 10:06 pm
    Of the questions asked of me during DemoFest, I think most were regarding development tools. In regards to development tools used, the course is truly a Frankencourse, a term I believed coined by David Anderson (@eLearning). So here are the development tools I used for this project. Adobe Flash – The initial interface was built in Flash. This provided greater ease of animating the characters, creating the navigation, which is non-linear and not as simple as adding next and back buttons of which it has none. However, the Flash movie sits within Articulate Presenter and navigates to an…

  • Deconstructing My #DemoFest Course – Part 2 #DevLearn

    Jeff
    29 Nov 2011 | 10:29 pm
    In my last post I gave an overview of my DemoFest course, Intro to Office 2010. I would like to delve into the analysis and design of the course. When this project was brought to me it involved training for both a Windows 7 and Office 2010 upgrade, which is why some of the documents included here references Windows 7 in addition to the Office upgrade. My first step for any training project is the needs analysis, albeit it is often very informal when on short time-lines like this project. Because I had been teaching a…
 
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  • Supercharge Rapid e-Learning Content with Flash Animations

    Molly Horn
    13 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Make PowerPoint Presentations GreatPowerPoint PresentationsRapid e-Learning SoftwareAdding life to your PowerPoint Presentations is effortless when you use Snap! by Lectora® rapid e-Learning software. With Snap! by Lectora, you can easily wow your audience by using electrifying Flash animations and videos. Check out the short video tutorial below to learn how to supercharge your content in just three simple steps:     Flash animations can breathe life into dry and sterile presentations. Using Flash in Snap! by Lectora presentations is a great way to:   Engage your learners and…

  • 3 Quick Tips for Customizing Your Snap! by Lectora Table of Contents

    Molly Horn
    8 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    PowerPoint to FlashRapid e-Learning SoftwareRapid e-Learning PowerPoint PresentationsSnap! by Lectora rapid e-Learning software makes it easy to quickly customize your rapid e‑Learning courses and presentations using the Slide Explorer. The Slide Explorer is the organizational “hub” for your Snap! by Lectora® course or PowerPoint to Flash creations. This is where you can customize your table of contents, rename and reorganize slides and indicate navigation and branching for your content.   Within the Slide Explorer, you’ll find customization options for the Snap! by Lectora…

  • Snap! Empower Rapid e-Learning Tricks from Rick Nielsen

    Molly Horn
    2 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Make PowerPoint Presentations GreatPowerPoint PresentationsRapid e-Learning SoftwareRick Nielsen, of eLearning Radio, is back again with another great podcast to share his knowledge about rapid e-Learning software and the power of fantastic Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder. In his latest podcast, Rick shares how he was asked to create a flash animation for a client, but did not have time to do the hard coding. Snap! Empower stepped in to save the day, as Rick discovered how to harness and manipulate elements to provide a fast and easy solution. Want to learn how to leverage…

  • Only 26 Spots Left - 2012 Lectora User Conference!

    Molly Horn
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:00 pm
    e-Learning Authoring ToolsRapid e-Learning PowerPoint PresentationsThe 2012 Lectora User Conference in Chicago is just 3 weeks away – and there are ONLY 26 spots left. Looking to spice up your Snap! by Lectora® rapid e-Learning courses and PowerPoint presentations? Want to super-charge your Snap! Empower™ Flash animations? This is your chance.   Act fast - space is filling quickly and the deadline to reserve your room at the Downtown Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile, the official conference hotel and the heart of all the action, expires next Monday, May 7.   Don’t miss your…

  • Easy Ways to Motivate Learners with Storytelling in Rapid e-Learning

    Molly Horn
    29 Apr 2012 | 10:00 pm
    e-Learning TrendsRapid e-Learning SoftwareThe best rapid e-Learning courses include all of the information, tools and resources to arm learners with the best possible set of skills for their careers. But, what about instilling motivation? Building morale? Storytelling through e-Learning can be an effective way to engage and motivate your learners using stories of success and hard work to convey the determination, achievement and success at your organization. According to Shawn Achor in the Harvard Business Review, a happy and engaged workforce raises sales by 37%, productivity by 31% and…
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  • You’re Already Good Enough to Create

    Dennis Callahan
    6 May 2012 | 7:03 am
    Would you like to create more but feel like you’re not all that creative or talented?  Guess what – lots of other people do too, so don’t feel bad (it won’t help you anyway).  But, there is one thing that you can do that will help you create.  You can admit (to yourself) the reason why you are not creating. You’re Scared The reason you’re not creating might be different than what you think.  It’s probably fear, a fear of yourself. Before you dismiss this, think about it for a moment.  There may be other symptoms (e.g., lack of time, motivation,…

  • Learning By Creating

    Dennis Callahan
    29 Apr 2012 | 9:44 am
    As you approach problems, decisions and opportunities, do any of these statements sound like you? If I could find the “best way” to do this, then this will solve my problem. I need to find out as much as I can about what others have done in order to learn something new. I don’t have time to make mistakes, I need to find the perfect solution before I begin creating. Do you notice anything missing from the statements above?  How about creating? Creating is a powerful method for learning. Stephen Downes captures this well in his Learning by Creating post. “I think that, in general,…

  • Tinker and You Will Learn

    Dennis Callahan
    24 Apr 2012 | 6:06 am
      Harold Jarche just posted To learn, we must do.  This is especially true in the age of social media.  You actually have to do something in order to learn.  The more you do, the more you’ll learn. Another word for doing is “tinkering.”  Tinkering means you can’t wait until all conditions are perfect to begin and you don’t know what you’re going to get.  You use your curiosity and begin exploring by doing. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~Theodore Roosevelt Kids are great examples of tinkering. Here’s an inspiring story…

  • 50 Quotes About Failure

    Dennis Callahan
    16 Apr 2012 | 12:24 pm
    This is part of my 50 quotes series: 50 Quotes About Knowledge, 50 Quotes About Learning, 50 Quotes About Teaching “There is no failure.  Only feedback.”  ~Robert Allen “Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.” ~ Anonymous “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~Thomas A. Edison “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ~Henry Ford “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of…

  • Undercover Learning and Performance Professional

    Dennis Callahan
    10 Apr 2012 | 7:47 pm
    Have you ever seen the show “Undercover Boss?”  The CEO goes “undercover” within his/her company as a regular employee to see how thing really work.  The CEO is treated as a regular employee and sees the good and bad without filters from employees. You think things are a certain way but how do you know if you are removed from the day-today? You could ask questions but you might be given answers based on how others see you (e.g., CEO, learning and performance professional). If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ~Bernard Baruch Or  – if people see you as a…
 
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  • Lectora User Conference Showcase: PepsiCo

    Stephanie Johnson
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Thumbnail Image:  Monday, May 14, 2012 Posted By:  Jessica Athey Session Information: PepsiCo: Bringing Learning to a Mobile Workforce Thursday, May 24 12:45–2:00 p.m. Join Marvin Mullins Senior Specialist, Frito-Lay Sales Capability & Training as he takes you on a journey detailing how PepsiCo, using Lectora® e-Learning software, successfully instituted a robust mobile learning project to reduce the financial impact that occurs with instructor led reinforcement training. This session will uncover the challenges and successes faced by PepsiCo as they developed a unique mobile…

  • Before You Go Mobile: 28 Mobile Learning Questions to Ask

    molly.horn
    13 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Thumbnail Image:  Sunday, May 13, 2012 Posted By:  Jessica Athey For many organizations who want to dive into mobile learning, it’s not just about the desire to create and deliver mLearning for employees –it’s about how to do it and how to do it well. It is essential for organizations to explore their online e-Learning including motivations, needs, restraints and requirements for mobile delivery before the development process begins.   Explore these 28 mobile learning questions to equip yourself with the best strategy and e-Learning tools for successful mobile development…

  • Supercharge Rapid e-Learning Content with Flash Animations

    Molly Horn
    13 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Make PowerPoint Presentations GreatPowerPoint PresentationsRapid e-Learning SoftwareAdding life to your PowerPoint Presentations is effortless when you use Snap! by Lectora® rapid e-Learning software. With Snap! by Lectora, you can easily wow your audience by using electrifying Flash animations and videos. Check out the short video tutorial below to learn how to supercharge your content in just three simple steps:     Flash animations can breathe life into dry and sterile presentations. Using Flash in Snap! by Lectora presentations is a great way to:   Engage your learners and…

  • Lectora User Conference Showcase: Michael Sheyahshe

    Stephanie Johnson
    10 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Thumbnail Image:  Thursday, May 10, 2012 Posted By:  Jessica Athey Session Information KAPOW!!! Comic Book-Styled Exercises to Increase Interactivity and Engagement Wednesday, May 23rd 2:30-3:45 p.m. Ramp up your e-Learning content and learn how to put the KAPOW in your courses created with Lectora® e-Learning software with Michael Sheyahshe, ICF International, in his session KAPOW!!! Comic Book-Styled Exercises to Increase Interactivity and Engagement, on Wednesday, May 23 at the Lectora User Conference in Chicago. In an increasingly digital age, the content and aesthetics of an…

  • 3 Quick Tips for Customizing Your Snap! by Lectora Table of Contents

    Molly Horn
    8 May 2012 | 10:00 pm
    PowerPoint to FlashRapid e-Learning SoftwareRapid e-Learning PowerPoint PresentationsSnap! by Lectora rapid e-Learning software makes it easy to quickly customize your rapid e‑Learning courses and presentations using the Slide Explorer. The Slide Explorer is the organizational “hub” for your Snap! by Lectora® course or PowerPoint to Flash creations. This is where you can customize your table of contents, rename and reorganize slides and indicate navigation and branching for your content.   Within the Slide Explorer, you’ll find customization options for the Snap! by Lectora…
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  • Review of ASTD International Trade Expo

    Craig Weiss
    11 May 2012 | 2:03 pm
    With great anticipation I entered the huge expo at ASTD International show earlier this week. Lots of vendors, lots of potential. However with hope comes disappointment, and that disappointment appeared numerous times. There were vendors that had nice LMSs and cool features. There were some very slick products. Yet, overall the show was lame. It just wasn’t me thinking this, I heard it from attendees and even other vendors who were trolling the floor. Time to hit the floor The Show Angle In the past this show has been heavily geared to instructor led training in the corporate space.

  • How to Sell a LMS

    Craig Weiss
    4 May 2012 | 2:43 pm
    One of my favorite movies of all time is Glengarry Glen Ross. The film should be required viewing to anyone who is in sales because it hits at the heart of so many things, I hear from salespeople all the time. But, when it comes to LMS sales, aggressive selling doesn’t work nor does misleading. Forgetting to listen, lack of follow through and failing to understand who is your audience are constant faux pas that cannot continue. Well, at least if you want to sell your system. Listening We do this every day. We talk to people – friends, colleagues, the person at the store, etc., and…

  • Education learning management system trends

    Craig Weiss
    27 Apr 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Many in the education market are still in love with open source systems, such as Moodle. However, they often do not realize – until it is too late, that “free” isn’t really free because customization has to constantly exist, support, among other things. That is why there is an uptick in the number of commercial systems available in the education sector. With that comes trends. Available at your local college and school – NOT! Trend 1 Mobile Learning This is one of the most shocking trends in the space – the significant lack of mobile learning in these…

  • E-Learning 101

    Craig Weiss
    19 Apr 2012 | 3:11 pm
    This post is dedicated to my father, Frank J. Weiss, who passed away on 4-7-12. He often found it difficult to explain to others what I did and more importantly, what is e-learning. Part of the reason was, he wasn’t tech savvy although he was willing to take it for a drive. I think a lot of people in our space are like my Dad. Very smart people who are either new to the space, non or somewhat tech savvy, and find themselves hearing a lot of terminology, a lot of confusing marketing spin and get confused – at no fault of their own. Wake Up! The reality of e-learning is that…

  • LMS Stories – Fantasy or Reality?

    Craig Weiss
    30 Mar 2012 | 1:49 pm
    I love a good story. A story that has solid characters, a nice foundation, possible scenarios – that may be true, but who really knows, in other words, a fantasy. Thankfully scenarios such as the end of the world, isn’t upon us. Dragons and knights aren’t heading down the e-learning path. Beowulf is not lurking behind the corner. Dracula isn’t hanging out at your favorite restaurant. Or are they? Utopia Everyone loves my system. Our retention rates are 95%, heck even 100%. As I have noted numerous times, if you listen to vendors, everyone loves their system, they have…
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  • The ToolBar, Episode 13 — The Bitter Episode

    Judy Unrein
    11 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    Oops! I’ve forgotten all week to post this here: Brian and I recorded Episode #Lucky13 of The ToolBar, aka The Bitter Episode. Listeners have since commented that it’s “bitter veneer wrapped around a good cause”, “not as bitter as expected” (kinda like Brian’s beer) and “not so much bitter as whiny”. Clearly, your mileage may vary. But at least you get to hear us gripe about one listener’s new favorite term: Navigation Rage. I drank Chainbreaker White IPA and Brian drank Angry Goat. More Share/Save Options

  • From eLearn Magazine: Series of Interviews with Elearning Experts

    Judy Unrein
    9 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    I’ve been catching up on blog and article reading lately and wanted to share this gem. Here’s a series on eLearn Magazine by Jeanette Campos: super IDs, talking about what they do. Some of my favorite quotes: Cammy Bean: When your business partners know that they can trust you, when they know you are going to follow through, you have more opportunity to push them toward better, more creative, solutions. Kevin Thorn: You can never take for granted the extra 10 minutes you have at lunch to grab a book or find a tutorial. Because today, there is no excuse for not learning your craft.

  • Quick Lesson from The Avengers

    Judy Unrein
    8 May 2012 | 2:27 am
    Love this tweet that John Gruber quoted today, and can’t help feeling there’s a lesson for all creators in there: You can spend $800,000 on a certain special effect, and the audience can yawn. Enhance it with a genuine laugh and the audience is vibrating — Ruben Bolling (@RubenBolling) May 5, 2012 More Share/Save Options

  • Maintenance Post – Fixing the RSS Feed

    Judy Unrein
    7 May 2012 | 10:22 pm
    My RSS feed has apparently not been working for about a month, so my apologies if your newsreader just got flooded. This post is to make sure everything is right again. More Share/Save Options

  • Call for Proposals for TechKnowledge 2013

    Judy Unrein
    7 May 2012 | 11:29 am
    Title pretty much says it all… Proposals will be accepted May 7th through June 11th and the conference will be in San Jose, January 30th – Feb 1, 2013. Complete instructions and submission form here. See you in San Jose! More Share/Save Options
 
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  • Freelancing: Working with Your Spouse

    Jenise
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    May of 2011, I published the following post about how Darling Husband (DH) and I made a major move to pursue a dream: http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2011/05/live-your-dream/ A new chapter has started as DH joins me in my independent consulting work. So, my blog may have occasional posts on spouses working together. The thrills and chills. Yikes! We had our first “team meeting” regarding a storyboard I often use for e-learning design and development. Well, ehem, I realized I needed to keep my personal feelings about my beloved storyboard on the down-low as I felt frustration grow…

  • E-mails, Twitter, and Blogs

    Jenise
    27 Mar 2012 | 10:10 am
    Last week, I received an e-mail message that made me pause and ponder. It wasn’t an unusual message, it was similar to others I’ve received over time, especially over the past one-and-a-half to two years. Someone in cyberspace reached out, yet again, and asked for my advice, assistance, and ideas. Maybe it was the way the person worded their message, or perhaps it’s just timing, but the message caused me to pause and realize that this “little” blog of mine is read by some people, and it influences them. And, I felt a little surprised (and pleased) by that. I…

  • Video of the Month: Thiagi – Rapid Instructional Design

    Jenise
    3 Feb 2012 | 9:22 am
    The following video is from 2008, and that’s one thing I enjoy about YouTube. It curates a huge library of interesting reference videos. This month’s video has a duration of 1:43:47, so find a cozy seating area and your favorite beverage. Thiagi begins at 8:32 (if you want to queue it up). Description Learn how Thiagi and his team undertake complete instructional design projects without the use of time-consuming, low-value-added, traditional ISD models. Thiagi has created, tested and successfully applied his own model that produces rapid prototypes tomorrow. Learn how to reduce…

  • TGIF: e-Learning Take Time to Read

    Jenise
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:47 am
    I confess I have a busy day today as I’m wrapping up a long-term e-learning project that I will miss a great deal. The team worked together in a way that used to exist only in my dreams. We “kicked butt” and created an effective and learner-centered asynchronous course that also meets business objectives and goals. The L&D leadership has set up new processes and procedures for working on projects with their business units that seem to come out of our instructional design textbooks of our dreams. I know this may sound silly, but the L&D leadership “gets…

  • Mobile Monday: Tapworthy by Josh Clark – Chapter 1

    Jenise
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:45 am
    Tapworthy by Josh Clark Josh Clark, the author of “Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps“, and the owner of GlobalMoxie.com. I read the Introduction and Chapter 1 this past week, and my summary statement is: Design your iPhone app for the user. Design an elegant iPhone app based on who the users is and how the user will actually use your app. Josh is up front with the fact, as we all know, that there are a “gazillion” iPhone apps in the app store. What will make your app, and my app, stand out is an elegant, user-focused design. Now, that may sound like a given, but…
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  • Freelancing: Working with Your Spouse

    Jenise
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    May of 2011, I published the following post about how Darling Husband (DH) and I made a major move to pursue a dream: http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2011/05/live-your-dream/ A new chapter has started as DH joins me in my independent consulting work. So, my blog may have occasional posts on spouses working together. The thrills and chills. Yikes! We had our first “team meeting” regarding a storyboard I often use for e-learning design and development. Well, ehem, I realized I needed to keep my personal feelings about my beloved storyboard on the down-low as I felt frustration grow…

  • E-mails, Twitter, and Blogs

    Jenise
    27 Mar 2012 | 10:10 am
    Last week, I received an e-mail message that made me pause and ponder. It wasn’t an unusual message, it was similar to others I’ve received over time, especially over the past one-and-a-half to two years. Someone in cyberspace reached out, yet again, and asked for my advice, assistance, and ideas. Maybe it was the way the person worded their message, or perhaps it’s just timing, but the message caused me to pause and realize that this “little” blog of mine is read by some people, and it influences them. And, I felt a little surprised (and pleased) by that. I…

  • Video of the Month: Thiagi – Rapid Instructional Design

    Jenise
    3 Feb 2012 | 9:22 am
    The following video is from 2008, and that’s one thing I enjoy about YouTube. It curates a huge library of interesting reference videos. This month’s video has a duration of 1:43:47, so find a cozy seating area and your favorite beverage. Thiagi begins at 8:32 (if you want to queue it up). Description Learn how Thiagi and his team undertake complete instructional design projects without the use of time-consuming, low-value-added, traditional ISD models. Thiagi has created, tested and successfully applied his own model that produces rapid prototypes tomorrow. Learn how to reduce…

  • TGIF: e-Learning Take Time to Read

    Jenise
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:47 am
    I confess I have a busy day today as I’m wrapping up a long-term e-learning project that I will miss a great deal. The team worked together in a way that used to exist only in my dreams. We “kicked butt” and created an effective and learner-centered asynchronous course that also meets business objectives and goals. The L&D leadership has set up new processes and procedures for working on projects with their business units that seem to come out of our instructional design textbooks of our dreams. I know this may sound silly, but the L&D leadership “gets…

  • Mobile Monday: Tapworthy by Josh Clark – Chapter 1

    Jenise
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:45 am
    Tapworthy by Josh Clark Josh Clark, the author of “Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps“, and the owner of GlobalMoxie.com. I read the Introduction and Chapter 1 this past week, and my summary statement is: Design your iPhone app for the user. Design an elegant iPhone app based on who the users is and how the user will actually use your app. Josh is up front with the fact, as we all know, that there are a “gazillion” iPhone apps in the app store. What will make your app, and my app, stand out is an elegant, user-focused design. Now, that may sound like a given, but…
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  • Healthcare Education Technology Handshakes – 2012 MedBiquitous Conference

    Jon Aleckson
    1 May 2012 | 10:42 am
    I am speaking on a panel this Friday at Johns Hopkins at the MedBiquious Conference.  Sounds really cool, but it’s really pretty geeky stuff.  I am still studying up on the various “interface” standards this group sets.  I hope to post an update on my understanding and reflection after the conference. The MedBiquitous Conference is over [...]

  • Lessons from eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions Conference

    Jon Aleckson
    2 Apr 2012 | 9:27 am
    eLearning Guild a True Community of Practice The Learning Solutions Conference serves as the largest of the eLearning Guild’s yearly conferences and brings together professionals seeking to identify, deploy and manage technology-based learning solutions. I was unable to attend the event last week, but I caught up with Jean Marrapodi, eLearning Guild and Learning Solutions Conference veteran, [...]

  • So you want to eliminate the online teacher?

    Jon Aleckson
    21 Mar 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Your member Experts should lead online courses I often get inquiries from national associations looking to move their face to face workshops online.  The first myth I often need to dispel is the concept that an expert instructor is no longer needed; the second is the notion that online courses carry higher profit margins.  Research [...]

  • Career in Adult Education: Attend the UPCEA Conference

    Jon Aleckson
    6 Mar 2012 | 10:38 am
    The University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) began as an initiative at the University of Wisconsin – Madison nearly one hundred years ago. The association seeks to make education more available to adult learners and serves as an industry resource for continuing education institutions and affiliated organizations. Recently proposed reforms promote the incorporation of more [...]

  • Conducting Good Virtual Meetings

    Jon Aleckson
    17 Feb 2012 | 3:44 pm
    “Do you see the L?” “Yes, we see the L,” came the response. We typed the O, and we asked, “Do you see the O.” “Yes, we see the O.” Then we typed the G, and the system crashed … ” (source). Technology has come a long way since the first ARPANET link was established [...]
 
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  • Our Thoughts on Articulate Storyline

    Diane Elkins
    2 May 2012 | 10:36 am
    Many people have been asking about what Articulate Storyline can do for you and how it compares to Articulate Studio, Captivate, and Lectora. In this podcast, Diane Elkins and Desirée Pinder share their perspective on Storyline. They introduce you to the tool, discuss some of the features, and explain the differences between Storyline and some of the other authoring tools they use. Hear who they think is winning the authoring tool race between Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora for the following categories: Ease of Use Power Graphics Mobile Publishing 508 Price Listen now.

  • The Thinking Behind a Branching Scenario

    Diane Elkins
    26 Apr 2012 | 10:35 pm
    A common question we get about authoring tools is whether or not a given tool can do branching scenarios. The fact is, branching scenarios can be extremely easy to assemble. The functional requirements can be very simple—you just need to go to one page with the click of one button and another page with the click of another button. You can even do it in PowerPoint with action buttons. Just because they are easy to assemble doesn’t mean they are easy to create. The real work in the branching scenario is the thinking—the logic behind the choices and the feedback. If you can get the…

  • Straight PowerPoint Conversion?

    Diane Elkins
    5 Apr 2012 | 8:17 am
    The promise of PowerPoint conversion tools is that you can take existing content and turn it into e-learning in just a few clicks. This can make it faster than ever to create good e-learning…or it can make it faster than ever to create BAD e-learning. Here are three reasons why a straight conversion of existing PowerPoint slides might be a bad idea—and what you can do about it. 1. The slides may contain only part of the content. If the slides were developed for a live presentation, they may contain only 30-50% of the content, with the rest being conveyed by the presenter. Without…

  • What is the Value of Games in E-Learning?

    Desiree (Ward) Pinder
    27 Mar 2012 | 11:34 pm
    I was raised in a household where video games were not allowed. My mother believed they were a waste of time, had no value, and – worse – could have negative effects. While she was right about the idea that video games CAN have negative effects (as researchers have shown that violent videogames can alter brain function), games can have value. We have created games that present value in e-learning courses by using them to teach content and test knowledge. And, now I have a 7-year-old who wants to play video games – just because! (Can you believe it?) So, I’ve done some research and…

  • My New Best Friend: The Genovation MacroMaster 683

    Diane Elkins
    19 Mar 2012 | 5:57 pm
    Last week, I talked about my addiction to keyboard shortcuts to help me reduce my development time. Well, it gets worse! I’d like to introduce to you my new best friend, the Genovation MacroMaster 683. What is it? I’m so glad you asked. It is a 24-key, programmable keypad that lets me set up keystroke combinations that can shorten tasks in just about any software. For example: When I’m going over an edit list in Excel and want to highlight a row pink to flag a problem, I can do that with one button. (And turn it gray with another button when the edit item is closed.) When I’m…
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  • Do you “Train” or “Facilitate Learning”?

    Sachin Pandey
    14 May 2012 | 1:55 am
    In the last decade or so, organizations have done every bit they can to become effective learning and development OR training organizations. Training managers work round the clock to ensure that employees learn and grow in their chosen domains. The moot question is whether the training programs are effective enough to achieve the overall organizational mission and fulfil business needs while, at the same time, maintaining high interest and motivation level in employees.

  • Instructional Design Challenges for Smaller Screens

    Arunima Majumdar
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:56 am
    Mobile learning is fast gaining pace as a popular medium of imparting knowledge amongst the new-age learners of today. Most of us carry (or at least aspire to carry) a high-end mobile device – be it a Smartphone or a tablet. This proximity to the device, at all times, creates a huge opportunity to make learning material available to the learner – anywhere, anytime.

  • Don’t attempt to convert e-Learning to m-Learning – they’re different.

    Gireesh Sharma
    11 Apr 2012 | 10:25 am
    Recently I participated in a LinkedIn discussion started by one of the Learning and Development Managers in my LinkedIn Group – The eLearning Guild. The question raised by the member was – “What are the key challenges in developing e-Learning content for mobile devices?” If you want to participate in the discussion, here is the way to go. Here are my key takeaways based on the comments by several community members, each having vast experience in the e-Learning industry.

  • Emerging technologies & challenges in e-Learning content creation: Global resourcing to rescue

    Vivek Pandey
    28 Mar 2012 | 1:16 pm
    The dynamics of e-Learning Industry have recently witnessed swift changes due to emergence of new technologies in recent past. Delivery platforms are seeing a paradigm shift from desktops to mobiles & tablet computers, operating systems are transiting from Windows to Android and iOS, programming tools maturing from Adobe Flash to HTML 5, Rapid Authoring tools are also going through a metamorphosis and so on so forth.

  • Benefits of e-Learning Debate (Part 1) – Reduce Training Time by Half

    Gireesh Sharma
    15 Mar 2012 | 7:39 am
    A debate on advantages and benefits of e-Learning is a common scenario in G-Cube. Whether it is our e-Learning consultant discussing with the customer, or an Instructional Designer arguing with the Graphics Designer over an e-Learning Screen layout or the Project Manager discussing how quickly can we deliver the learning module to client; there is always a buzz over e-Learning. During one of the discussions I and my colleague Anusha Jain, an e-Learning consultant (having experience of more than 5 years in implementing e-Learning solutions) had a long debate on an interesting edge of…
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  • Deke’s Techniques: Making a model emerge from water in Photoshop

    Colleen Wheeler, content curator
    15 May 2012 | 8:19 pm
    This week’s Deke’s Techniques tutorial demonstrates how to take an otherwise land-locked model and make her appear to emerge from water. The key to this deceptively simple technique is to create a properly aligned, reflected version of the model’s image, that is based on a common smart object so that any changes to the original are reflected in the duplicate. After you flip the duplicate upside down, your first step is to create a soft transition between the two images. In this video, Deke shows you how to set up a gradient transition in the intersection between the…

  • lynda.com featured in Three Models of Distance Learning article from sbomagazine.com

    Chelsea Adams, Managing Editor
    15 May 2012 | 1:58 pm
    A recent article on sbomagazine.com, the web site for School Band & Orchestra magazine, featured lynda.com in an article on distance learning, and the role technology plays in education today. The article begins by stating that “technology is changing how we deliver education,” and continues to identify and discuss three models for technology-based distance learning. Read the whole article, Distance Learning: Music Technology Courses & Workshops, at www.sbomagazine.com.  

  • This week’s Featured Five: Choosing your lynda.com Photoshop course

    Colleen Wheeler, content curator
    14 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    For this week’s featured five new tutorials, I have a sampling of movies from five different Photoshop courses we offer in the lynda.com library, each with a slightly different approach, scope, or focus. With the announcement of CS6, we’ve updated three of our mainstay Photoshop training courses, and when you combine that with our existing content, it can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start or which course is right for your needs. Here are some quick descriptions and free movie samples of five of our Photoshop offerings, from the encyclopedic to the specific, to…

  • Why you should learn PHP after HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

    Ray Villalobos, lynda.com author
    12 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    PHP in Action using my iPad Earlier in my design career I read an insightful book by Roger Black called Websites that Work. One of his rules of design was that after black and white, red was the third color. White is the brightest color, and black has the most contrast to white, but red is the color that gives you the most bang for the buck if you’re looking to get your text noticed. That three-color premise makes me think back to development languages—specifically, which are important, why they are important, and in what order they should be approached. I’m a big fan of PHP, and…

  • Memories of a Friend: Reflecting on the life of Hillman Curtis

    Chris Orwig | Author
    11 May 2012 | 10:31 pm
    Silence is the sound of finality. And that was all I heard when I received the news that Hillman Curtis was gone. Hillman was a huge inspiration to me and many of you know him from his films, books, or conference talks. He had a stunning visual sensibility, thoughtful eyes, and a kind and creative heart. I like how one of my good friends put it, “Hillman had a gentle and quiet side to him in which he allowed his work to pass through to become much bigger.” By any yardstick, Hillman was a big success. Yet, to be successful it typically requires talking loudly or at least talking a lot.
 
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  • Organizational Approaches to mLearning

    Aruna Vayuvegula
    16 May 2012 | 5:29 am
    Your organization intends to implement mLearning soon and probably the question that is foremost on your mind is: What is the approach that you can adopt? As a part of your mLearning strategy, you need to decide on the approach that is best suited for implementing mobile learning in your organization. Basically, there are three approaches towards mobile learning. You can choose the best option based on the context and learning objective. Push Learning: Push learning essentially refers to the approach where content or information is “pushed” to the learners. Here, learners have…

  • Learning and Development Strategy that Meets Employee Aspirations

    Aruna Vayuvegula
    15 May 2012 | 4:33 am
    Sage Open recently published an article by Jerry P Haenisch titled, “Factors Affecting the Productivity of Government Workers”. It is interesting that a significant percentage of the respondents (35.5%) attributed poor supervision and management as the factors that limit their ability to perform productively. What it means, is that employees are looking for guidance and direction from their supervisors; who perhaps are not trained for the purpose. These findings are as much applicable to the private sector as to the public sector. The report emphasizes the need for formal training…

  • Factors Affecting Employee Performance – Training Options

    Aruna Vayuvegula
    14 May 2012 | 1:38 am
    Faced with decreasing performance levels of employees, some questions that are likely to occupy a manager’s mind would be – What training can I give them to increase their productivity and performance? How can I motivate them so that they perform to the best of their abilities? However, before deciding on a training program, the manager needs to identify the factors that affect the productivity and performance of employees. Unless you know the causes, you will not be able to find the solutions. The causes for dwindling productivity of employees could be any of the following factors:…

  • Why is Sales Process Training a Necessity?

    Aruna Vayuvegula
    11 May 2012 | 5:33 am
    A sales process provides your sales team with step-by-step guidelines for selling, keeping in mind the unique context of your organization, domain and market. Providing sales process training is not all that difficult in today’s eLearning environment. In fact you don’t even have to wait until you have a group of people to be trained. You can create an eLearning course for sales process training that can be accessed easily by new employees. Now let’s see why providing sales process training for your sales team is a necessity. Organizational strategy Sales people, who have been with your…

  • Instructional Strategy Based on Cognitive Load Theory

    Aruna Vayuvegula
    10 May 2012 | 1:46 am
    We might have all heard a great deal about working memory and long term memory and their influence on instructional design. It is said that the working memory has limited capacity and can only process a defined amount of information at a given point of time. Cognitive psychologist George Miller says that the working memory can process 7 ± 2 chunks of information at a time. It is widely referred to as Miller’s law. How is this theory applicable when designing eLearning courses? Instructional designers can play a key role to free the working memory of learners by managing the cognitive load…
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  • Getting Started with QuickBooks

    Bill
    10 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Even if you don’t run your own company, you’ve probably heard of QuickBooks, the most popular accounting software for small businesses. QuickBooks is a great way to organize company finances, keep track of sales, monitor expenses, create invoices, or even pay your bills. A lot of you have been asking for QuickBooks help and tutorials for a long time—we hope this proves to be a good start! Our guide below will help you choose the right version of QuickBooks for your needs, direct you to free tutorial videos and provide a variety of additional links and resources. QuickBooks Online…

  • New Google Chrome Tutorial Now Available

    mia
    7 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Last Friday, we launched our new Chrome tutorial on the popular web browser from Google. Due to its simple design, fast speed and strong security features, the use of Google Chrome has increased greatly in the past year and now is in hot competition with Internet Explorer for web browser dominance. As a matter of fact, in the global market share, Chrome actually beat Internet Explorer on March 18 for the very first time (according to StatCounter).  Whether it becomes the dominant browser in the United States remains to be seen, but we thought it was at least time to create a tutorial for…

  • Back Up Your Computer with Mozy or Carbonite

    Amy
    3 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Have you ever thought about what you might do if one of the following situations happens to you? Your laptop or computer seemed to be working fine yesterday. Today it turns on, but it won’t boot up and the screen won’t turn on. You are worried you’ve lost all of your personal files and photos. Your children have been playing computer games on the family computer and you discover later that they have deleted folders from the hard drive. You aren’t sure which ones are missing. You’ve worked hard on a presentation at work. You save it on your flash drive and put…

  • Resources for Learning Photoshop

    Amy
    26 Apr 2012 | 9:01 am
    Photoshop has become a popular photo editing tool in recent years. It offers a lot of great options for photographers and digital artists, including the ability to allow the user to create original works of art. Recently, we’ve heard your requests to learn more about how to use this software, and we’ve gathered some resources to help you get started. It’s important to mention that the complete Adobe Photoshop software package retails at $699.99. If that is a little out of your price range, we have found some other options to choose from: Photoshop Elements ($91.88 –…

  • News Reader Apps: Flipboard vs Zite vs Pulse

    Bill
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am
    Technology is making it easier than ever before to stay connected with the latest news and information you care about, but sometimes the flow of content can start to feel a little overwhelming. As more and more material becomes available online, finding it easily also becomes more challenging. With so many different websites to choose from, even deciding where to start can be difficult. Sometimes all the choices can feel overwhelming If all this sounds a little too familiar, you might consider using one of the many powerful apps for your mobile device that collect and organize news. These…
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  • Finding Affordable Online Colleges: Online Masters Degree [VIDEO]

    Kayleigh Gilbert
    14 May 2012 | 3:18 am
    An online masters degree can cost as little as $5,500, or up to $33,000. Research by Get Educated highlights the top things to look for in finding an affordable masters degree online. A quick view of this video buyer’s guide … Continue reading →

  • Business Degrees Online: Best Majors for Highest Paying Jobs [VIDEO]

    Vicky Phillips
    7 May 2012 | 9:49 am
    According to the U.S. Department of Education, one-third of all bachelors degrees are business degrees. Get Educated has published rankings of the best online colleges for more than a decade. Our surveys show that business degrees online don’t have to … Continue reading →

  • Technology in the Classroom: 5 Tips to Engage Blended Learning Students

    Chris Olson
    19 Apr 2012 | 10:44 am
    Education has changed dramatically since the digital revolution, and technology in the classroom is no exception. When I began taking college classes at Dakota State University about 15 years ago, I had never sent an email or browsed this “Internet” … Continue reading →

  • Write Winning Scholarship Essays: The Simple, Quirky, Underdog Tale

    jessw
    16 Apr 2012 | 12:22 pm
    Editor’s Note: If you have this hunch that just one, amazing, polished essay can make-or-break your chances for college admission or needed scholarships, you’re right. Essays are a big deal, not to be rushed or scuttled in your haste to … Continue reading →

  • Finding Affordable Online Colleges: Bachelors Degree [VIDEO]

    jessw
    13 Apr 2012 | 9:50 am
    Get Educated has published rankings of the best online colleges for more than a decade.  We’re committed to helping students like you find great deals on colleges, and become a savvy consumer when it comes to spending money on your … Continue reading →
 
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  • HTML 5 – Replay of browser wars

    eNyota Blog
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:42 am
    Once upon a time there was a web browser called Netscape Navigator… The early days of the Internet! Those were the days with where people still used Windows 95, 98 and computer monitors with 800 X 600 screen resolution, among other unimaginable things today. Some people would remember what Netscape Navigator was and what happened after that with Internet Explorer. The stuff competitive case studies and anti-trust stories are made of. We often meet people who never heard of Netscape. Ah! Youth! For those developers who remember it, it was a time of confusion. For those who have never heard…

  • Storyline – a game changer for mLearning development

    eNyota Blog
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:42 am
    Just like so many of you out there, we attended the webinar on Storyline and were all praises for the tool. And now that we are one of its beta testers, we are quite thrilled with the experience. It takes development to another level and its ability to publish in multiple formats like Flash, HTML 5 and iOS is the most impressive one for us. We have reproduced one of our most complex courses using the tool and are planning to share the output in our upcoming whitepaper on mLearning. For running the courses published by Storyline on an iPad one has to launch it through their application. The…

  • mLearning – Hurdles Before The Big Leap

    eNyota Blog
    26 Mar 2012 | 7:38 am
    Let us start by saying that writing a blog post on this subject is pretty tricky. And frankly the thought of skipping it did cross our minds. But we have decided to go with it anyway. Even at the risk of sounding cynical. We have gone through hundreds of blogs, articles, opinions and discussion forums concentrated around how mLearning is the red hot thing in 2012, how it’s becoming a very integral part of everyone’s learning strategies, and speculations around the way it would be implemented by organizations. We very much endorse the same views. However we don’t want to call it the…

  • The “New iPad” or iPad 2.5?

    eNyota Blog
    16 Mar 2012 | 6:43 am
    We all anticipated the launch of iPad 3 but probably we don’t need to spell out how limited we found the upgrades to be, considering Apple themselves couldn’t decide to give it a better name than the generic “The New iPad”. Not that we were over optimistic about Apple actually including the features we had in our wish list, as written in our previous post. But even then “The New iPad” was a tad disappointing for most, especially us in the eLearning industry. While Apple may be saying that the pre-orders were a sold out pretty soon, but for a larger section of people, it left…

  • Why Tablets will win the mLearning race against Smart Phones?

    eNyota Blog
    1 Mar 2012 | 2:55 am
    The one strategy that everyone wants to get it right is mLearning? It is a space that is evolving so quickly that it is difficult to stay ahead of the curve and one has to be extremely cautious while making the choices. And one such choice is that of the device itself. Wikipedia defines mLearning as any sort of learning that happens when the learner is not at a fixed, predetermined location, or learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies. For a very long time mobile learning automatically meant learning on the mobile…
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  • What is a Stay-at-home Mom’s Work Worth? [infographic]

    Mike
    11 May 2012 | 10:53 am
    Obviously there’s no putting a price tag on the real value of a Mom, but if you consider all the jobs Moms do day in and day out (plus overtime), you might be surprised to see just how high their market value really is. Continue reading “What is a Stay-at-home Mom’s Work Worth? [infographic]” »

  • What is a Working Mom Really Worth? [infographic]

    Mike
    11 May 2012 | 10:51 am
    Obviously there’s no putting a price tag on the real value of a Mom, but if you consider all the jobs Moms do day in and day out (plus overtime), you might be surprised to see just how high their market value really is. Continue reading “What is a Working Mom Really Worth? [infographic]” »

  • Is An MBA Degree Worth It?

    Craig
    9 May 2012 | 3:13 pm
    There is plenty of evidence that shows earning a Master’s degree can increase your earning potential and employability. However, if you’re already working full time or just graduated with a bachelors degree and student loans, the cost in time and money for more education can seem quite high. A recent article on my local news … Continue reading “Is An MBA Degree Worth It?” »

  • What they don’t tell you at graduation

    Joseph
    2 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    If you’ve ever attended a graduation ceremony or commencement, you know they’re often full of flowery language and optimistic advice for the future. For those of you who prefer your advice a little more practical, we echo some good advice given in this week’s Wall Street Journal: 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won’t Tell You. … Continue reading “What they don’t tell you at graduation” »

  • Education inspiration #4

    Joseph
    24 Apr 2012 | 3:29 pm
    What do a president, a statistician, a chinese philosopher and an education reformer all have in common? They all had strong words to say about , and they’re all featured in this week’s education inspiration graphics. As an added bonus, each of these images is sized perfectly to fit as a wallpaper for your iphone … Continue reading “Education inspiration #4” »
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  • Why You Need Responsible Social Media Use Training

    Swanny
    26 Apr 2012 | 7:14 pm
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  • Why You Need Code of Conduct Training

    Swanny
    25 Apr 2012 | 6:46 pm
    Free demo of the Code of Conduct Training Course Compliance course library [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!]

  • Why you Need to Purchase a HTML5 Authoring Tool

    Swanny
    5 Apr 2012 | 7:05 pm
    Why you Need to Purchase a HTML5 Authoring Tool Reason #1: Flash based eLearning content won’t play on the iPad or  iPhone.     You get the picture of a Lego you see here…... [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!]

  • How to Create Custom eLearning Courses for the Restaurant Industry

    Swanny
    4 Apr 2012 | 6:30 pm
    How to Create Custom eLearning Courses for the Restaurant Industry With eLearning programs being rapidly implemented in the Restaurant Business, many training and development professionals  come to... [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!]

  • The Latest on HTML5 Authoring Tools for Mobile LMS

    Swanny
    3 Apr 2012 | 7:05 pm
    HTML5 Authoring Tools for Mobile LMS HTML5 seems to be gaining momentum every hour of every day. Why? Because Corporate America wants to access their eLearning on their iPad. Period! Our phones are... [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!]
 
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