The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 16, 2013

'by Kevin Siegel      I've met a few Captivate developers who say they have a love-hate relationship with Captivate's default Object Styles. Personally, I love Object Styles and can't think of anything to hate. As far as I'm concerned, using Object Styles will improve your development speed enormously.   Object Styles allow you to quickly update the look and feel of objects throughout your project with just a few clicks.

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dVinci Interactive

APRIL 18, 2013

'Can you train your salesperson to know everything? Businesses expect a lot from their salespeople. They expect them to be experts on their products and services, knowledgeable about their customer needs and diligent about following a sales process. Most importantly, they expect productivity and results. Customers also have high expectations of sales reps.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 8, 2013

'Our belief : At Vignettes Learning we use stories in eLearning; however, we make them interactive. The emphasis is getting learners involved in the story and not just telling the learners the story. Synthesis. Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are the royalty of their specific fields. Therefore, it is only logical to assign them the development of content in line with their expertise.

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LearnDash

APRIL 30, 2013

'If you thought that distance learning was a product of today, then you would be mistaken. In fact, the first distance learning program on record took place in 1728, when a local teacher by the name of Caleb Phillips advertised shorthand correspondence lessons offered by mail! By 1800, the growth of the U.S. Postal Service brought about an increase in the number of distance learning correspondence courses in the country.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 15, 2013

'Here are some ideas I’ve had lately about trying to separate games and gamification as concepts. A game is a self-contained unit. There is a defined “game-space” in which the players agree to engage in game activities. There is a clear beginning, middle and end to a game. There is a defined winning state of the game. The players know when they or someone else has completed the game.

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Raptivity

APRIL 23, 2013

'“CUE MUSIC FROM THE MOVIE, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY” ENTER POWERPOINT The Good Readily available, since it is included in the Microsoft Office software and the most widely used tool for putting together content for presentations Easy [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 30, 2013

'Earlier I had shared the 8 things to follow while implementing blended learning via an LMS. For some of you the question might still be – why should my, or any organization for that matter, implement blended learning via an LMS? What advantages would it bring to my current training outputs? I am sure that nothing but a few foreseeable merits of leveraging an LMS for blended learning will encourage and motivate you to think about implementing it in your organization.

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Connect Thinking

APRIL 8, 2013

'There is a lot of effort required to implement a Learning Management System (LMS), such as analysing requirements, engaging a vendor and getting the LMS ‘online’ The potential for failure during the early stages of a LMS project is obvious. An often unrecognised risk to LMS projects is the sustain phase of the LMS implementation. Here are eight (8) signs that can indicate your LMS implementation is at risk: There are no established KPI measurements: Key Performance Indicators should

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LearnDash

APRIL 23, 2013

'Recently there has been a huge emphasis of elearning, and mobile learning, within education – and for good reason. Technological advancements and the classroom’s tendency to adopt new ideas quickly has brought about a rather quick adoption of mobile learning. But does it stop there? What about mobile learning in enterprise? Studies are showing that Enterprise is primed to join the trend.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 29, 2013

'Some ideas on when to use #Gamification. ( a sneak peak of my 2014 Gamification Fieldbook). Gamification can be used to accomplish a number of goals related to learning. As with any learning intervention, gamification is not the answer to every learning situation and to gamify all content or learner experiences does not make sense. Gamification is especially effective when it is used to encourage learners to progress through content, motivate action, influence behavior and drive innovation.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 22, 2013

'The Learning in the Workplace Survey has now been taken by over 600 people, and although it is still open if you want to cast your vote, I am going to release some interim findings here today as the pattern of results has been pretty stable for some time now.â?¦ [.].

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Raptivity

APRIL 2, 2013

Recently, a friend emailed me with a request: Janhavi, I have a client who wants video in their eLearning. They want [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 23, 2013

'We’ve been tracking the growth of wearable computing devices and associated technology as they are likely to have interesting implications for learning technology. As more and more such devices and broadly platforms emerge on the market, they will provide a developer options just as the mobile operating systems do today. Right now, most of these devices seem to tethered to a phone or other mobile device, but as miniaturization continues this tethering will no longer be required.

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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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Absorb LMS

APRIL 5, 2013

'It’s been quite a few months since we presented our popular Webinar on the topic of configuring a learning management system. Since then, many of you have likely started using a new platform. Consequently, we’re repeating this popular session. Whether you’re acquiring your first learning management system or replacing an existing system, this session will present a structured approach to configuring your LMS that will make managing your learning programs a breeze.

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LearnDash

APRIL 16, 2013

'Many organizations are realizing the inherent benefits of utilizing a robust blended learning approach to their learning initiatives, in fact, by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be delivered online. But what exactly is blended learning? Blended learning can take a variety of shapes, but it is often unfairly defined vary narrowly. For those of you who are new to the concept of blended learning , it is defined as a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part

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Association eLearning

APRIL 22, 2013

'Making small choices to help the environment doesn’t always have to be complicated. Here at Digitec, we have a recycling program for all those lunch time soup cans and plastic bottles. But what else can we do to make a difference? When you consider options for keeping our planet “green”, you may not realize the impact eLearning can make. So just how beneficial is eLearning to the environment?

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Jane Hart

APRIL 29, 2013

'In my previous post I showed that an analysis of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work suggests that L&D departments should consider working more closely with people managers to support the continuous development and performance improvement of their people – both in teams and individually.â?¦ [.].

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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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Raptivity

APRIL 4, 2013

'Story – Who hasn’t heard one? We have all grown up listening to stories all through our childhood. We related ourselves to all possible characters in the story and did take away a lot of lessons in the form of [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 16, 2013

'In our earlier blog post, 5 Tips For Managing Blended Learning Through An LMS , we had discussed the ways in which organizations can mix different teaching materials and tools into an integrated learning experience using an LMS. This was mainly focused on organizations that were currently leveraging their LMSs for managing blended learning. But what about those that still haven’t treaded these waters?

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

'“if anybody says to you here’s where learning will be in five years, run in the other direction.” This is what Elliott Masie, Founder & President of The MASIE Center, said this week at the beginning of his Keynote session at the Human Capital Media Symposium for Chief Learning Officer. Masie went on to talk about trends that have the potential for changing the field dramatically.

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LearnDash

APRIL 25, 2013

'Elearning is so cool, even Justin Bieber knows about its advantages. For those of you who don’t know (or more likely, don’t care), Justin Bieber received his high school diploma last year by taking his courses via elearning. According to USA Today , “the Biebs” took various elearning courses while touring, although no details on the course content were revealed.

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KnowledgeStar

APRIL 3, 2013

The Three-Minute Lesson that Saved My Life The last new thing I learned was last week. I was sitting in the parking lot at the shopping center, vaguely listening to “Car Talk” on NPR. One of the Tappet brothers said something like “I bet you really never learned to fix those side view mirrors [.].

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Jane Hart

APRIL 16, 2013

'What is the primary role of the learning professional in an organisation today? Is it to organise and manage what people learn? by designing, creating and delivering content (training/instruction/courses/resources) then tracking that people use it, and measuring success in terms of learning activity metricsâ?¦ (e.g. [.].

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Raptivity

APRIL 11, 2013

'A couple of months back, on one of the days while browsing through some websites, I came across a blog by Jeffrey Cattel on the shift from ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’ learning. Well, to be honest, it had hardly been few [.].

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Upside Learning

APRIL 15, 2013

'Driven by the rapidly changing way the people learn in the workplace today, Learning Management Systems have had to keep pace and change in their design and capability to deliver what today’s learner is asking for. The LMS of “Now” have moved quickly to become a more encompassing learning environment and platform, capable of delivering learning and supporting performance across organizations and playing a key role in managing talent.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 16, 2013

'People often like to compare game-based learning to lectures. They want to know “which is better?” Often the answer is not that simple. While many people acknowledge different types of games for learning such as: matching games, first-person thinkers, platform games, games that require balancing resources, etc. Many people don’t realize there are also different types of lectures and most lecture types are not that good.

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LearnDash

APRIL 15, 2013

'Today we have a large variety of tools available to us for social learning, the most notable being front-runners Facebook and Twitter. There have been many suggestions on how to use twitter to supplement learning , but less has been written about Facebook supplementing learning efforts – which begs the question: can Facebook be a tool for elearning?

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Absorb LMS

APRIL 11, 2013

'Satisfaction surveys of learning management system administrators invariably identify reporting as the most reviled feature in their platform. Administrators complain about reporting being unintuitive, cumbersome, lacking customizability, not being powerful enough, and just generally being bad at displaying the data administrators want. So, why aren’t LMS vendors fixing the problem?

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