Association eLearning

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

'According to BigFish games, 58% of Americans play video games , with 68% of that population older than 18. In fact, the average age of a video gamer is 35 – a key demographic we’d all like to include in our association’s ranks, right? Why are games so popular, and how can we leverage gamification for association learning? Like any effective learning project, it’s critical to define your audience and determine if gamification is a good fit.

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B Online Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'Some of the B Online Learning team have spent the last few weeks in the USA. We like to travel every few years to keep up to date with industry happenings and more importantly to see what’s on the horizon. What was obvious this trip is how far Australia have progressed in the last few years that […].

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'AMERICAN FORK, Utah–eLearning Brothers today announced that it has acquired privately held eLearningImages.com , an online library of eLearning images that focuses on people-images in the eLearning space. With this acquisition, the eLearning Brothers library has more than doubled the number of eLearning assets over the last 12 months. This purchase is a critical step in expanding the world’s largest eLearning library for CLOs, HR and training professionals, instructional designers, eLe

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SHIFT eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

'Most likely you have seen the movie Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you haven’t, chances are you know what it is about. Whether you love or hate 80’s science fiction, if you develop eLearning courses this movie has something for you. The secret is in how the story is built.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

'Photo Credit: Cameraman Phil via Compfight cc. Instructional designers often need to write voice over scripts, but many of us have never received any formal training on how writing for voice over is different from other writing. I recently completed a project with Jill Goldman of Goldivox. She did a terrific job and brought energy and life to my script (as a great voice over professional can).

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Association eLearning

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

'The question is becoming more and more common — “Should I use PowerPoint (PPT) or Prezi?” The two presentation programs share many of the same features, such as the ability to include text, images, audio, and video. But whereas PowerPoint tends to progress linearly from one slide to the next in a fixed sequence, Prezi uses “paths” to move between content by zooming out to reveal a big-picture overview, or zooming in to show details.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

'In 2009, Steve Jobs famously declared Flash to be buggy and resource hungry and the whole world moved to HTML5. He did elaborate his thoughts in this article where he said “new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and on PCs too)” In that last bit […].

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JoomlaLMS

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

'ELearning Content Chunking is a Key! The term “Chunking” has been here for a while, however, not everybody knows where it came from and how to use it in eLearning practice to teach with the best possible outcome. Today’s article is here to highlight the most important aspects and guide you through the content chunking process.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'Most people today agree that elearning is good for business, and a viable way to train people. It is being used in education and corporate sectors alike with great success. We are a digital culture, so elearning is becoming more natural as we rely heavily upon mobile technology in our daily lives. That said, even though many people would agree that elearning is good, they may not necessarily know why.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

'Instructional designers sometimes run into pitfalls when writing voice over scripts. Jill Goldman of Goldivox is a voice over professional who graciously agreed to share with me the issues she sometimes sees in scripts. I’ll share her perspective in block quotes below, along with my own tips. This is part 3 of my series on writing voice over scripts.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

'(a version of this article was originally written as background for an #OzLearn chat held on Twitter, 11th November 2014) The Power of Embedded Learning A common finding that has emerged from study after study over the past few years is that learning which is embedded in work seems to be more effective than learning away from work. If people learn as part of the workflow then this learning is more likely to impact performance in a positive way.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

'I recently posted a blog concerning the optimal class size for virtual training. I wanted to share more than my personal opinion, so I asked members of our Facebook Virtual Classroom Community of Practice what they thought.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'What began as an attempt to improve the telegraph, more than a hundred years ago, has evolved into the single most important piece of consumer electronics in the world, acting not only as a communications device but now as a learning tool too. It’s the mobile phone. While some of the first smartphones had touch […].

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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JoomlaLMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'10 Reasons to Build Your ELearning Project With JoomlaLMS [Infographic]. With so many LMS options available on the market, choosing the right eLearning platform can be daunting as there are so many criteria to take into consideration. We asked our customers around the globe what made them choose JoomlaLMS and compiled an infographic to share the results with you.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

'You can find online courses in pretty much any industry today. From for-profit organizations to educational institutions, it seems everyone is using elearning in some form or another. And naturally, whenever there is elearning, there are bound to be online quizzes. At first glance, creating an online quiz seems straightforward. However, it doesn’t take long to realize that the entire process is more of an art than a science.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

'If we as instructional designers write scripts that are easy for voice over talent to understand, the voice over professionals we work with can record and edit those scripts faster. We’ll end up with a better end product. A few formatting guidelines can make our scripts clearer and easier to use. This is part 2 in my series of posts on tips for creating voice over scripts.

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Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'They say that even a blind squirrel will find a nut eventually, and I am living proof of that concept. So there I was at DevLearn 2014 locked in to speak at a couple of breakout sessions and facilitate a tabletop discussion at the crack of dawn on day one. I’m on a Performance Support mission of “seek and learn” and purely by accident I stumbled over a pre-conference session Tuesday afternoon before the conference ever started called the xAPI Hyperdrive.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

'Size DOES matter. In the virtual classroom, how many is too many? Imagine you are about to teach a class on conducting effective performance reviews to new hire supervisors. You’ve taught this class at least a dozen times before with great results. Feedback in the classroom largely focuses on the collaborative nature of the activities and the opportunity to be critiqued.

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Jane Hart

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'In the past, individuals were trained to do their jobs once and this would last them their whole careers. Over time, as job roles became more sophisticated or new technology or procedures were introduced, training became a full-time operation to keep people knowledgeable, skilled and up to date. But the world is now changing so […].

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Lambda Solutions

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

'Healthcare Thought Leader Series—Dr. Neel Shah on Decreasing the Cost of Care through Education & Technology The conversation around rapidly rising healthcare costs started in the 80′s when healthcare costs grew significantly faster than the economy through the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s. Even though the increase in healthcare spending began to slow in the […] The post The Rising Cost of Care: Decreasing Costs with Education and Technology appeared first on Lambda Sol

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'Have you been considering going back to school to finish your education? Perhaps you already have a degree, and instead believe that your professional prospects will be expanded by an advanced degree. While that is certainly one possibility, your immediate job prospects might be better served by enrolling in a certificate program online instead. Online certificate and diploma programs offer the student concentrated classes for practical skills, delivered in a convenient and cost-effective way.

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Origin Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

'Okay, so device-agnostic content is the talk of the town. It has to be. With umpteen devices of all kinds releasing every other day, it is almost impossible (and very, very arduous if possible) to tailor website layout to each specific device. As a result, web designers and programmers have found a smarter way out: forget the device. Yes, device agnosticism is all about focusing on the content and designing it in a way that instead of being tied to any particular device, it serves to perform we

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

'I am not the kind to crystal gaze. I lay no claim to being able to predict the future. Now that my disclaimers are in place, let me explain the premise of the post title and what I intend to discuss in this post. I am trying to re-imagine how my work will shape up five years from now. Five years seem like a pretty short time but in today''s context, it can be a very long time.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

'Finding the Right Hired Gun: A Conversation with Elaine Biech. CIOs, CTOs, and other technology executives are often saddled with problems that their staff hasn’t demonstrated an ability to solve, either due to a lack of knowledge, resources, or drive. These problems usually have a direct and measurable effect on the business value being delivered by the technology group, and certainly can cause angst amongst the rest of the business leadership.

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Jane Hart

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

'In my previous blog post I talked about why ORGANISATIONS need self-managed learners, so in this post I want to look at why INDIVIDUALS need to be self-managed learners. The world is changing fast, and this is having an impact on the world of work. So, for instance, there is no such thing as a job for […].

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Lambda Solutions

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

'Depending on which side of the fence you fall on, you are either in favor of open source learning management systems (LMS) or not. Being in the open source business for over 12 years now we have come to understand that it is a pretty polarized debate. There are some though, that wisely sit in […] The post Why Top Organizations are Choosing Open Source LMS?

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

'The Mozilla Open Badge Program is a digital program to recognize skills and achievements. The program is relatively new, being only a few years old, but is growing quickly due to our advancing technological world. For many years, organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and others used physical badges to display the skills and accomplishments of the scouts, while trying to foster a positive environment for learning and involvement.

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Origin Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

'Choosing the right Learning Management System is an arduous task and if not done carefully, may lead to a substantial waste of time and money. But most importantly, it may fail to achieve its main purpose: of creating the right online learning environment in the organization. Look out for the following things before you make the big decision: Customizable and intuitive interface.

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