B Online Learning
JUNE 2, 2013
'In the world of eLearning development, one of the single most elusive concepts to understand and work around, is the question of how long will the development of any given piece of content take. Developers struggle to quantify it and Clients, Stakeholders and SME’s struggle to understand and support it. In this post we will [.].
Zephyr Learning
JUNE 25, 2013
'Developing elearning tends to focus on three areas – content, design and technology, which really is a given, but there is no strategic substance to focus our vision and desired outcomes. Making elearning work is a challenge, and I know from experience that there is very little emphasis placed on the people who will be taking the learning! There are three alternative areas where much of your focus should be directed when placing elearning on the path for success: Engagement.
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LearnDash
JUNE 9, 2013
'Advances in technology generally define the latest trends in any industry, and the elearning industry is no different. New devices and APIs are shaping the present and future of how organizations administer and record learning. In 2013, we are starting to see how the latest technologies are making their way into formal learning delivery. The infographic below, provided by KnowledgeOne, details some of the latest and emerging trends in 2013 as they relate to elearning.
Making Change
JUNE 10, 2013
'We, the downtrodden and ignored learning and development professionals of the world, hereby shake off the shackles of convention and obedience and proclaim the arrival of a new order, a new age of enlightenment in which we valiantly defend truth, honor, and our learners by… well, by not being such pushovers. We refuse to pretend that training is always the answer.
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Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles.
Upside Learning
JUNE 26, 2013
'Last week, at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum in London, I spoke on “eLearning on Tablets: What, Why & How?” to an audience of roughly 70 people. That, I think, is a very decent number and reconfirms the growing interest in this area. I think tablets are quite unique in combining the portability of mobile [.] Related Posts: Designing eLearning For iPads (LT 2013 – Slide Deck) How To mEnable Your eLearning eLearning on iPads – 10 Bright Ideas Mobile Learning: The Fut
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Kapp Notes
JUNE 25, 2013
'Here are four interesting videos all related to design which I have been thinking about lately in terms of designing instructional experiences that are meaningful and encouraging to learners. The first video is about “finding” good ideas. It tackles the question. “Where do good ideas come from?” The next video outlines a design sprint, I’ve done something very similar, I call it a Shazam Session where, in 5 days, you can design a fairly involved prototype of a solu
Performance Learning Productivity
JUNE 24, 2013
'Over the past few years the 70:20:10 model for development has captured the imagination of organisations across the world. Some organisations apply 70:20:10 principles to targeted and specific development solutions. Others use it more strategically as a way to help them rethink and reposition their wider learning philosophies. The 70:20:10 framework is a simple concept that has developed from work carried out by various researchers over the past half-century that suggests a one-dimensional focu
LearnDash
JUNE 19, 2013
'Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you know that mobile learning (or mlearning) is on the rise. New technology is making mobile learning a realty, and the decrease in mlearning device prices is helping with overall adoption. Every day there are more and more learning apps hitting the market. The infographic below, provided by the Social Learning Project, provides some interesting facts about these mobile ed tech apps.
Making Change
JUNE 24, 2013
'Business leaders love their L&D departments! Well, maybe 20 percent of them do. “Survey after survey has repeatedly shown that the proportion of business leaders who are satisfied with their learning function’s performance is around 20 percent,” write the authors of a recent article in The European Business Review. “Last year, a survey found that more than half of managers believe that employee performance would not change if their company’s learning function were elimina
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Upside Learning
JUNE 25, 2013
'The LMSs today are not restricted to merely conducting and managing the day-to-day organizational training activities, but embrace a much larger role. But unfortunately not many organizations are leveraging these platforms to their optimum. This is mainly due to the lack of understanding of the many features they now offer. Our new eBook, ‘Getting More [.
Raptivity
JUNE 25, 2013
'Let’ play a game. The game is called “Guess this Word”. I will give you three clues that describe a word that is a current eLearning trend. The object of the game is to guess this word by the [.].
Absorb LMS
JUNE 6, 2013
'Remember reflection? That’s something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Prior to the mobile revolution, people could at times be seen staring off into space, just thinking. If you were to spot someone doing that today, you’d think “So sad.
The Performance Improvement Blog
JUNE 24, 2013
'How would you answer the question, “Why do you think learners forget what they’ve learned so quickly?” This is the question that Charles Henderson asks in the Linkedin Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group discussion. He has received nearly 700 (and counting) comments which seems quite a lot for a Linkedin group. He must have hit a nerve.
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.
LearnDash
JUNE 10, 2013
'Educational games are increasing in popularity in both educational and corporate settings. There are inherent benefits to gaming when it comes to learning, but we are starting to see that gaming is also proving to be beneficial beyond just a learning environment. Gaming is also being used in therapy across many different disciplines. To demonstrate the power gaming can have over the human mind, let’s take a look at a powerful example.
Making Change
JUNE 2, 2013
'I preach a lot about making activities realistic and showing the results of the learner’s choice. Here’s a good example of those principles from the folks at SmartBuilder. In the activity, you’ll learn the ports of a laptop and apply your knowledge in a realistic situation. Go try it , and then come back here for some discussion. A “traditional” course wouldn’t have let us explore the laptop.
Upside Learning
JUNE 11, 2013
'With the advent of mobile devices, there is a natural desire in L&D folks to put (or even push) some of their organization's existing eLearning onto mobile devices (mobile phones, tablets, and everything in between) too. A tempting proposition indeed, but one that needs some caution before actually implementing it. The first question, possibly, is [.
Raptivity
JUNE 18, 2013
'When I first heard about MOOCs, I thought they were the answers to my prayers. I could sign up for fun, interactive MOOCs for little or no money, and take them from home. I was in! What I discovered was [.].
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.
Kapp Notes
JUNE 4, 2013
'Games are emotional, in a game there are typically winners and losers. The winners feel great! The losers, don’t feel great:(. As someone creating or commissioning an instructional game, are you prepared to deal with the losers of that instructional game? That’s right, if you create an instructional game or gamification that is based on competition, some of the learners will feel great that they’ve won and some will feel lousy that their name isn’t on the leaderboard or
mLearning Revolution
JUNE 5, 2013
'If you are a Learning Professional, who needs to convince stakeholders about the importance of mobile learning, one way is to bombard them with mobile statistics, and there’s no better source than the annual Internet Trends Report presented by Mary Meeker. In 2009, Meeker published a ‘ Mobile Internet Report ,’ where she predicted that more users would connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within five years, and here we are today in the middle of the bigg
LearnDash
JUNE 24, 2013
'Learning trends are starting to take on a whole new shape as schools and businesses leverage modern technologies and strategies to creatively deliver content in various ways. Classrooms are seeing an uptick in learning management systems for blended learning purposes, while businesses are taking advantage of improved delivery methods from new APIs which better enable mobile learning.
Absorb LMS
JUNE 20, 2013
'In many organizations, workplace learning consists of getting people into a room to listen to an instructor. If the workforce is distributed, the room used may be virtual instead of physical, and the donuts served may be imaginary instead of real. When these organizations become fed up with the effort of trying to manage their learning initiatives using pen and paper, spreadsheets, and various stone-age tools, they acquire a learning management system.
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Upside Learning
JUNE 20, 2013
'With the launch of iOS 7 it is now apparent that Apple will soon be coming out with hybrid laptop/desktop and tablet devices. Patently Apple reports that Apple has already filed a patent for hybrid notebook/tablet whose display can be removed from the base containing the keyboard. How soon before the launch? We will have [.] Related Posts: Some Thoughts On Tablet Learning (aka Elearning On iPads) Microsoft Surface: Will It Help mLearning?
Challenge to Learn
JUNE 20, 2013
'The sun is setting over San José at the evening of the last day of MLearncon. Time to review 2,5 days of mLearning. It is my believe that the technical possibilities are not the limitation for mLearning anymore. Of course better, faster and cheaper would be nice. The technique is there, the users have the devices and there is enough bandwidth. But I don’t see the growth I expected.
Jane Hart
JUNE 1, 2013
'Here’s my pick of the resources from May 2013 – and this month it is quite an eclectic bunch! I’ve listed them in chronological order, and once again, I’ve provided a short quote to give a flavour of the article where I’ve not embedded the resource itself. â?¦ [.].
Learning Visions
JUNE 10, 2013
'On June 6, I presented to a lively audience on "Continuous, collaborative learning". The webinar was hosted by GoToTraining/Citrix and Training Magazine. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions! Continuous, collaborative learning: making it work for your org from Cammy Bean.
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LearnDash
JUNE 2, 2013
'As many instructional designers know, there are countless hours put into making a well made elearning course. Everything from storyboarding, drafts, re-writes, mock-trials, imaging, and so on. In the end though, the most important thing is that the learning sticks – that the learners walk away with a solid understanding of the main objectives.
Raptivity
JUNE 26, 2013
'Templates can be very helpful in providing the structure of online learning activities; however some templates can limit creativity and make presentations become very cookie-cutter and boring. Templates can also allow for the rapid creation of learning activities which enable [.].
Upside Learning
JUNE 13, 2013
'While blended learning has been a prominent trend in corporate L&D for maximizing training and development results for quite a while now, some organizations are still unsure of leveraging their Learning Management Systems (LMSs) for managing it. Implementing an LMS for managing blended learning is as crucial a task, if not more, as a new [.] Related Posts: 8 Things To Follow While Implementing Blended Learning Via… LMS Switching Guide – A Free eBook!
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