Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Just read an article in our local newspaper that indicated the state of Pennsylvania spent $30 million dollars last year on testing. It kinda made me sick…especially since fill-in-the-blank testing only really has value when measuring a person’s ability to be successful at fill-in-the-blank tests, no real-world application. Games would be so much better at teaching application.
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
More than 2 years back, I had carried out a SWOT analysis of the LMS to get some understanding on the LMS scenario. Today, after the rapid evolution of the LMS – hastened by several factors, right from the inclusion of social learning tools, to an ever increasing need for usability – many things have changed, and still continue to change, in the LMS.
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Raptivity
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Team Raptivity extends warm thanks to all the participants of the complimentary webinar “Raptivity launches Games and Simulations – Now in HTML5” held on Wednesday, 12th September, 2012. It was conducted in US friendly time zone catering to eLearning enthusiasts. [.].
Challenge to Learn
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
In a few weeks’ time easygenerator will make a big step towards meeting her mission to change eLearning. We are in the final stages of launching a free edition of easygenerator; it will be available in the first half of October. The official launch will be at November 1st at the DevLearn conference in Las Vegas. In this post I would like to explain why this is such a big thing for us and hopefully for the e-Learning community.
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LearnDash
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Many instructional designers enjoy a telecommuting schedule. Given the nature of the work involved for elearning development, it isn’t always necessary to be in the office 100% of the time, which is great for both the instructional designer and the client. However, despite all of the advantages, some organizations are still hesitant to pull the trigger on a telecommute schedule because of some misconceptions.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
As learning professionals, it is important that we understand that novice learners and expert learners demand/require and need a different approach to instruction. You cannot develop learning events for novices using the same instructional strategies as you do for someone who has a high level of knowledge in a content area. In fact, Ruth Clark points to reach that indicates that”many of the instructional methods that are effective for novices either have no effect or, in some cases, depres
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
We struggle to come to terms with the volumes of information that stream past us each day. More and more, we depend on digital agents to help us navigate that ‘data stream’ and glean information from it, and then to make sense of it. These digital agents can be looked at simply as computer programs that are connected to the information resources of the inter-webs, they could reside on your mobile phone as an application or accessed as one might a ‘cloud service’.
Living in Learning
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
We began to blend training with some on-line content. It was good stuff. It was sexy. It was Flash-based; top drawer content, and we wound up perpetuating performance impact shortfalls with much greater efficiency. We were deploying learning. We were not implementing learning, and there is a significant difference between the two. We decided that the problem was based upon not being able to get to the “next level” of training.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
by AJ George If you need to create an Infographic, there are better programs than PowerPoint that you could use. Photoshop would be a good choice, or maybe Fireworks. That being said, PowerPoint is likely on your office computer right now. Additionally, PowerPoint is often underutilized as a design platform and is surprisingly agile. One reason PowerPoint isn't the first program people think of for Infographics is that infographics are traditionally not the same size as a PowerPoint s
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LearnDash
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
One of the biggest challenges facing eLearning professionals today is convincing leadership that it makes good business sense to implement an eLearning program. The corporate decision makers are often gun-shy of eLearning because they feel that can’t effectively measure its success (of course, we know this not to be true). Undoubtedly, someone in the room will ask how to measure the ROI of an eLearning implementation.
Allison Rossett
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
Words without actions. Words without actions. That’s how I described the status of mobile learning in an article in eLearn magazine ten months ago. My point then was that mobile offers immense potential for learning and support but that it is not yet making much of a difference in the enterprise. When San Diego State University (SDSU) colleague Jim Marshall and I surveyed more than a thousand educators in companies, agencies and universities about their eLearning practices, they reported
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Here are some tips for teaching expert learners. As employees and learners gain experience performing tasks and learning information, they develop mental representations known as mental models or a schema. These mental models are used by individuals to drive performance, make decisions and interpret a situation. These models are not necessarily completely accurate understandings but they are useful representations of how the elements of a situation, concept or idea interact with one another and
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
You have finally switched over to a new LMS. A major load has been lifted off your shoulders. You now plan to sit back and let the new LMS take its time to set in. But before you get too comfortable with the new LMS, it’s important you evaluate how good the switch has been for you. Evaluating the success of the switch will not only help you in analyzing your choice of the new LMS and efficiency of the switching process, but it will also help you align your new LMS to the emerging trends and esta
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.
Web Courseworks
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Reflecting on this in Chicago October 24th! During the past few years, I have seen a lot of discussion about whether or not Learning Management Systems (LMS) are dead. Recently, cell phones and tablets and the strong use of social media has disrupted the concept/meaning of what an LMS is. Over the past ten years, [.].
Dashe & Thomson
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Oh, those fateful words. The ones that you wish you could call back and place deep in the confines of your brain, as far away from consciousness as possible: “In my next blog I’ll discuss some of the challenges related to mobile learning development, and suggest some solutions.”. What a blithe, naïve promise. Woe is me! OnlineColleges.net came to the rescue with their post The 10 Biggest Downsides to Mobile Learning.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Learning in a social organisation: a clickable guide is a major new online resource and a work in progress. You can download a clicklable printable PDF version to act as your own hub to the online materials, or view it through the Slideshare viewer below. Slide 1 is the visual guide, slide 2 is the text guide. The links on the PDF will take you to the main pages of the online resource, where you will find a summary of the topic area together with links to other useful sources: articles, blog p
mLearning Revolution
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
'I get asked this question all the time. Here’s my answer. Here’s how wikipedia defines killer application as it pertains to marketing: A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, a programming language, software platform, or an operating system.
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
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
This Saturday I am running my first ever International Length Triathlon in Atlantic City, NJ. Yes, I am going to swim one mile, bike 20 and then run 6.2 miles. I am optimistic that I will be able to complete the entire ordeal race in under 3 hours. This race reminded me of a blog posting I did way back in 2009 called Triathlon Training Should be the Model for all Learning.
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
In a previous post my colleague Jason Clymer explored 3 key reasons to switch LMS. Jason lists the Product or the Vendor or the Cost as possible reasons. In this post I am listing the key components of the LMS Switching Process. Understanding these key components and putting them in practice while switching an LMS will not only ensure that the switch happens hassle-free but will also ensure that the switch will result in a positive outcome for a long time!
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
A few days ago, my colleague Jay Cross wrote a post on plagiarism , dealing with the fact that some of his work (even an example of some of our collaborative work) was being used without attribution. He preceded me in the use of Creative Commons licensing, but from his example (and Harold Jarche), I placed a BY – NC – SA license in the side bar.
Dashe & Thomson
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Oh, those fateful words. The ones that you wish you could call back and place deep in the confines of your brain, as far away from consciousness as possible: “In my next blog I’ll discuss some of the challenges related to mobile learning development, and suggest some solutions.” What a blithe, naïve promise. Woe is [.] The post Barriers to Implementing Mobile Learning appeared first on Social Learning Blog.
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Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Voting closes: 12 noon BST (=GMT+1) Sunday 30 September 2012. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 will be revealed on Monday 1 October 2012. This is the 6th annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list I am compiling from the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. Now over 400 votes in! The 2011 list has had over 160,000 views on this website and over 560,000 views on Slideshare , which shows there is huge interest in how these tools can be used for teaching, training and personal learning.
Absorb LMS
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
Shortly after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange plummeting, I interviewed a director of learning and development at one of the major semiconductor companies. She mentioned that in 2000, about 95 per cent of the learning and development taking place within the company consisted of traditional instructor-led, classroom-based sessions.
Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
These techniques can be used for Instructor-Led Training or eLearning modules. These ideas originated in work done by Mark Lepper, a researcher from Stanford University and Thomas Malone also a researcher from Stanford who’s work includes extensive investigations into why games are fun and motivational. The two teamed up and wrote what they called “The Taxonomy of Intrinsic Motivation.” Here is a brief summary and some related references.
Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Mobile technology penetration is racing ahead in the corporate workplace, with the BYOD (bring your own device) movement affecting companies in varied ways. During some time off earlier this month, I’ve been ruminating how a ‘mobile learning ecosystem’ evolves in an organization; here are ten questions I asked. Thought you might find them interesting.
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Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Join me this Thursday, September 27 at 11:30 EST for another webinar in Kineo's fall series: Creating Effective Design Models. At Kineo, we've been creating our own names for the design models or patterns that we find ourselves applying over and over again to solve different types of learning challenges with our clients. Having a common language that we use.
Ontuitive
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
In September I attended the eLearning Guild’s new conference, Performance Support Symposium. Ontuitive’s Bob Mosher kicked it off with a mighty bang, offering the jaw-dropping suggestion that we cast off training in favor of performance support.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Among the many things my colleague Jane Hard does for our community is to compile the Top 100 Tools for learning each year. I think it’s a very interesting exercise, showing how we ourselves learn, and the fact that it’s been going on for a number of years provides interesting insight. Here are my tools, in no particular order: WordPress is how I host and write this Learnlets blog, thinking out loud.
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