The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. You can create the best-looking, most well-written eLearning lesson anyone has ever seen. But for the lesson to be effective, one of the most important things to keep in mind is that more does not mean better. If your lesson plays too long, you run the risk of losing the attention span of your learner and lowering the effectiveness of the lesson in general.   So how long is too long?

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? by Andrea on February 23, 2011 in social learning The other night I attended a lecture at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The session was part of a series I am attending on research and advances in regenerative medicine.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Pre-developed Templates! That’s the secret sauce! We have been making and using eLearning templates for years. If you need to quickly develop eLearning courses, using templates is the way to go. I developed this entire course in about an hour! In my example below I used Articulate , a rapid eLearning software that leaverages PowerPoint. I started off with a PowerPoint Course style template that I then customized to match my branding.

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eLearning Weekly

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

What are the skills you need to land an elearning job? Working in elearning taps into many skill sets. Designing or developing elearning requires experience in training and project management as much as audio and video production. I focus here on what I think are the top skills for elearning now, in 2011. These are skills that will show up on job descriptions where they list job criteria, requirements or experience.

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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.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Have you ever been tasked with developing e-learning that needed to jolt people out entrenched viewpoints? It’s a challenge, and one I certainly haven’t always succeeded in meeting myself. What if you were charged with creating learning to tackle a big problem like poverty or homelessness? The Urban Ministries of Durham , North Carolina worked with ad agency McKinney to create the game Spent.

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Making Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Decision-making scenarios work best when they require realistic decisions and avoid preaching. Let’s look at some examples. Not a real on-the-job decision. Carla, a sales person, is meeting with Amit, a new customer. She shows him a megawidget. “You’ll love this megawidget,&# Carla says. “I don’t want a megawidget,&# Amit says. “I came in here for a microwidget.&#.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Power of Your Network by Michael on February 9, 2011 in customer service , marketing , sales , social learning Whether it is building our LinkedIn Contacts or Followers on Twitter, gathering Friends on Facebook or Yammering with our fellow work teams, the buzz of “networking” is always present.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are: Time to adoption: One Year or Less. Electronic Books. Mobiles. Time to adoption: Two to Three Years. Augmented Reality.

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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Recently I have reviewed a lot of e-Learning courses to get ideas for our further product development of easygenerator. One of the things I noticed was that learning objectives often play a secondary role or no role at all. Most of the time they are only anchors to attach scores to, so you can measure if somebody has successfully completed your course.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I received two questions this week from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous. My experience with both is somewhat limited, so hopefully some of you will be able to help. PhD/EdD = Overqualified? Firstly, have you seen many folks with doctorates working in the field? Do you think a PhD/EdD makes you more competitive or does it make you overqualified?

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I recently came across a report on the Deloitte website , which estimates that global Smartphone market sales will touch 375 million by the end of 2011. This means that there are going to be millions of Smartphone users out there, who can access mobile learning anywhere, at any time. That’s a huge market whose needs we can hardly afford to ignore. Mobile hardware has its own limitations and hence we need to adhere to some critical design conventions in order to make our mobile applications a suc

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Making Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Decision-making scenarios work best when they require realistic decisions and avoid preaching. Let’s look at some examples. Not a real on-the-job decision. Carla, a sales person, is meeting with Amit, a new customer. She shows him a megawidget. “You’ll love this megawidget,&# Carla says. “I don’t want a megawidget,&# Amit says. “I came in here for a microwidget.&#.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

About a year ago, I wrote about the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. I pointed to Scribd switching from Flash to HTML, and pointed to their CTO Jared Friedman saying: "We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.

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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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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I’ve just spent the last few days overhauling the Learning Tools Directory. Over the last year there has been quite a lot of change one way or another in terms of tools. Some tools have disappeared or died (eg gnolia), others have been acquired (eg Dimdim), some have changed their name (eg twine to evri), and some have changed focus and no longer offer what they once did.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

By Shelley A. Gable. I’m a big fan of TED talks. A few weeks ago, a colleague pointed me to a recent talk, “ 7 Ways Video Games Reward the Brain ,” presented by Tom Chatfield. It sounded like a great source of inspiration for eLearning design.so I immediately clicked the link and viewed the 17-minute video. Chatfield spends the first few minutes establishing the motivational power of video games by citing feats of time and money invested by people for the sake of games.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Here we are in sunny San Jose, kicking off ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2011. These are my live-blogged notes from the opening session. Tony Bingham , President of ASTD on the future of learning… IBM Study (Capitalizing on Complexity) of senior leaders: complexity is the biggest challenge (can you help Most not equipped to cope with it Need creativity and innovation to handle that complexity (how do we teach organizations to adapt?

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I spent a day at the Learning Technologies show exhibition in London this week. There is a lot of talk of mobile, social, and informal learning at the vendor stalls this year. Good sign I’d say. Unfortunately everyone has their own definition of each of these terms. The most confused, if not misused, term seems to be mobile learning. One large learning systems provider says mobile learning is what’s done on your laptop.

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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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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Tony Karrer is the guy behind elearninglearning.com a community where all kinds of blogs about e-Learning are gathered. He also is the blogmeister of the Learning Circuits community. On that community he runs a series of post regarding ‘The big question’ The question of the month is: What are your Predictions and Plans for 2011? He asked me to write a blog with my view, so here it is.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This month's #LCBQ is the first with the Big Question Thought Leaders. It's been fun working with them and has definitely added a new spark. I'm hoping that others will join the effort. We strongly believe the #LCBQ offers an opportunity to have something online that's like a sophisticated cocktail party. Lots of discussion and debate around interesting questions for eLearning professionals.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I was updating the Directory of Learning Tools for 2011, I reviewed each and everyone of the 2,000+ tools in the list. But there was one tool that jumped out at me as being importantly different: SimplyBox - described as “the only decentralized and contextual enterprise communication solution&#. There are a number of [.].

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

by Jonathan Shoaf. My career is the Internet. If the Internet goes away, I will need to make major adaptations. It’s a little scary to be so dependent on one technology, but isn’t that how most people’s careers are? For example, home builders, auto manufacturers, plumbers, and air conditioning repairmen all depend on a certain type of technology for their careers.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

What’s the most boring eLearning project you’ve had to work on lately? This is the question I posed to the group at my presentation here at ASTD’s TechKnowledge in San Jose. We then proceeded to have a conversation about a lot of really boring things people are working on: compliance training, policy training, product knowledge training, systems training.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Globalization has changed the paradigms of business dramatically. The organizations of today need to be more agile than ever to maintain their competitive edge in the marketplace. That involves adapting to situations and regularly updating strategies, structures and processes. The global workforce today is confronted with a demanding environment in which to perform.

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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Last week we where working on USP document on easygenerator. At first we came up with a list of functionalities, it was correct but not inspiring or even really convincing. In the end we called it highlights instead of USP’s, because we realized that our bullets with text where not that unique. I did add some text about our vision and mission to it to make it more convincing, but I wasn’t really happy with it.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Well, you knew it was coming, one more reason to send out a card. First the gift card companies invent valentines day and then father’s day and now “Say No to PowerPoint&# week which is, I assume, an effort to sell more cards in a time of declining sales. As a Fastcompany short article states: Suffering from PowerPoint fatigue? You’re not alone.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The next intensive 30-day programme will take place 1-30 March 2011. Every day for 30 days we will focus on a different social technology or tool for working and learning smarter in your organization. The programme is intended for those working in L&D in organizations, and is free to purchasers of the Social Learning Handbook. Although [.].

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

In the game of cricket, they say a player's form is temporary, but the class is timeless. Likewise, when a product stands the test of time, it deepens your belief in the innovation and quality underlying it. Five years is a long time in the software industry. As we celebrate 5 successful and growing years of Raptivity , the world's first and leading rapid interactivity building tool for eLearning creators, it gives me and the team at Harbinger Group immense joy and a sense of fulfillment.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

These are my live blogged notes… Kara Swisher – All Things Digital What is happening now in Silicon Valley is a quantum leap – changing industries. 5 issues you need to be aware of (if you’re involved in delivery of information): Social Computers have traditionally been hard to use… Google is like giant yellow pages. Information is ever-changing When you apply social tools to information, it makes it more useful Quora as an example of information with social Everybody becomes a producer of conte

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