Upside Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The battle between web technologies (read ‘ Apple and Adobe ‘) started a couple of years back when Apple decided to not support Flash on its newly launched iPad terming it buggy. Apple backed HTML5 to be the next big thing and single handedly forced the developer community to take sides. The eLearning industry was not too happy about the iPad not featuring Flash as it meant reinventing the wheel for animation and interactivity in eLearning.

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NuggetHead

OCTOBER 3, 2011

It’s been quite the busy Summer as indicated by my lack of posting on a regular basis. In fact it was over four months ago! When I started this blog I had full intentions of writing at least every other week if not once a month. However, my increasingly growing freelance business didn’t include this [.].

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 23, 2011

This is the fifth year that Jane Hart has been collecting lists of top tools for learning. The list will be finalized on November 13, but you can see the ongoing results in this list. I have contributed my lists in 2007 , 2008 , and 2009. You can contribute your top tools too. As in 2009, I’m going to divide my list into personal learning and course development.

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Making Change

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Often we’re told, “Put this information into a course.” But what happens if we put the information into a job aid instead, and then design mini-scenarios that help learners use the job aid? This approach not only keeps boring blather out of our elearning, it can also make our activities more memorable. Here’s how it could work.

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Raptivity

OCTOBER 13, 2011

It’s been an exciting time for Raptivity users so far. But then, Raptivity has flexibility and this is certainly not the end. There is always room for improvement and innovation. And so…the new enhanced Raptivity 6.6, has all this and [.].

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Have been reading about the science of ‘ Complexity ’ recently, and find that many of the aspects described apply equally well to learning. Without doubt, learning is a process that is riddled with complexity – which might the reason we don’t understand it very well. How might ‘complexity’ as a scientific concept affect learning? Especially if you consider learning as a complex adaptive network that is driven by human desire for knowledge (learning) and sociability.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Continuing my series of key social learning resources, here is this week’s selection. 1- In Jane Bozarth’s Nuts and Bolts column for Learning Solutions Magazine, this month she provides an excerpt from the eLearning Guild’s Report, Social Media for Learning. After disentangling some of the terms in use, notably “social media”, “social learning”, “social technologies”, “social platforms”, etc, she writes: “Learning practit

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from Clive Shepard’s presentation titled The New Learning Architect , part of the eLearning Guild’s Thought Leaders Webinar Series. Clive’s book of the same title is available for purchase if you have a Kindle (which I don’t, so I haven’t read the book). Additional information and excerpts from the book are available on the Onlignment site.

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Making Change

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Often we’re told, “Put this information into a course.” But what happens if we put the information into a job aid instead, and then design mini-scenarios that help learners use the job aid? This approach not only keeps boring blather out of our elearning, it can also make our activities more memorable. Here’s how it could work.

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Performance Learning Productivity

OCTOBER 16, 2011

The book ‘The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine’ is Michael Lewis’ marvellous account of the idiocy and greed that led to the sub-prime bubble and the resulting global financial crisis.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I often have conversations about the role of social media in learning processes. Sometimes people might say: ' Ok, but twitter is not learning. How can you learn from 140 characters?! The theory about learning you embrace determine how you look at social media and its importance (or unimportance). From a behaviourism point of view, twitter might not be very relevant as a means for learning.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Some other aspects of the complexity theory I found interesting: Even if the agents comprising the population of the system are complicated and heterogeneous (just as people in a learning network are), this variability tends to “average out”; while the agents may be complicated, the objects can be modeled as being homogenous as a first approximation.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 22, 2011

We are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and platforms that are becoming available – but do you really need them in the workplace? As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another as we work, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning? First of all I think I need to be very… Read the rest.

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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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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Several Captivate users build Raptivity interactions for use in their elearning and presentation materials. Adobe, the maker of Captivate, has been releasing upgrades and new versions of Captivate over the past several quarters. Naturally, their users want to stay on top of the best ways to use Raptivity within Captivate. Raptivity for its part has also kept a high pace of innovation, with new releases coming out ever so often.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 11, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from a webinar today with Float Learning: Instructional Design for Mobile #id4mlearning. Advance apologies for typos or incoherence… Brought to us today by: Adam Bockler, Float Gary Woodill, Sr. Analyst at Float @gwoodill Jeff Tillet mLearning Strategist and Evangelist at Float (formerly ID at T-mobile) @mojotillett Chad Udell at Float @visualrinse www.floatlearning.com 18 month old company with focus on mobile.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 27, 2011

According to the recent New York Times series Grading the Digital School , parents in some of the most tech savvy places in America are questioning whether the investment in classroom technology is paying off. Many are sending their children to “low-tech” schools. In Silicon Valley, the chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to the Waldorf School of the Peninsula , a nine-classroom school, and so do employees of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard. … the school’s

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Having viewed many TED presentations, I had the mistaken belief that leaders were finally learning how to use PowerPoint (and other presentation tools) effectively. Recently, however, I’ve attended presentations by very smart people (doctors, lawyers, CPAs, professors, etc.), who are leaders in their organizations, who insist on putting as many words and numbers on a slide as possible.

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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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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In July 2010, I wrote about a cheap tablet that India is developing in a public-private partnership. There was a lot of skepticism floating around how and when these will become available. Now it is here – The Aakash to be made available for about 45 USD. Four bits I found really intersting after watching the webcast , I really found this interesting: 1.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Recently I’ve been reading more and more blog posts and articles that talk of how to “manage informal learning”, so I thought it was time for another post of my own that tries to explain how this is actually misleading, and in fact misses the big picture in terms of the importance of informal learning in the workplace, and L&D’s role in supporting it.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2011

When Yehudi Menuhin was asked: "What has music taught you?" he replied: "It has taught me to listen." It is no different with product design. You design products in a flash of inspiration, and keep making them better by listening to your customers. The Raptivity 6.5 release is full of productivity features that are based on ideas that come straight from the trenches.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 16, 2011

by AJ George. I have previously written about some good, free stock image resources. In response to that article, a reader asked me if the images on these sites were royalty free and could be used in courses that he planned to sell. The short answer is that it's a case-by-case basis. Sometimes you can use the images, but only if you credit the original artist.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Created in the military during World War II, the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model has dominated curriculum design for the last 40 years. It is still taught in universities and by most train-the-trainer firms. However, according to Dave Meier, in The Accelerated Learning Handbook , the ISD model is “too slow, cumbersome, stiff, linear, and emotionally dull…to get the job done today.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2011

You do something great in a game, you get rewarded. In fact, you even get rewarded if you do something simple like bump into a gold coin. If you bump into it, you collect the coin and eventually you’ve bumped into or walked through enough gold coins to purchase something. Games provide incentives for doing what they want you to do. The search for gold coins, for example, encourages the player to explore the environment and learn more about the game-space in which they are playing.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We launched Upside2Go (for the iPhone) back in February this year. And we changed the game ; changed the way people looked at mobile learning and the way they experienced learning on the go. Today we expand the reach of Upside2Go to change this game further. Our revolutionary platform for mobile learning – Upside2Go – is now available on BlackBerry.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

After many weeks of voting, the winners of the E-Learning Council’s Top Ten Most Influential Bloggers contest have been named. I am very pleased to appear at #1 on the list alongside many of my own favourite bloggers too. Very many thanks to all who voted for me. You can view the full list of the 10 bloggers here on the E-Learning Council’s website: Introducing the Top Ten Most Influential… Read the rest.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

When a product evolves from one generation to the next, many things get better - sometimes to a point where you find it hard to imagine how they had been before. I am having one of those moments with Raptivity right now. One recently implemented feature of Raptivity 6.6 has got me thinking. It is the Enhanced Element Collection Management functionality.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 7, 2011

by AJ George. I've talked a lot about where to get free stock photos , about how to manipulate stock photos , and tips for creating your own graphics. Somehow, in the midst of all that, I remained in the dark about what is probably the best free resource I've come across in a while. When tasked with constructing eLearning on a limited budget and a limited time frame, you may be forced to take a linear approach to your navigation.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This month, the Learning Circuits Blog is back with its first “real” big question since Tony Karrer took a break from managing the blog. In the new format of a different industry thought leader managing the blog each month, Ben Betts is up to bat for October. Mr. Betts is the Managing Director for HT2 and his big question for this month is “Does Gamification Have a Role in Workplace Learning?

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