Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

As we knock on 2010’s doors, it’s a good time to look at what we did on this blog in 2009. We started this blog in March 2009 and in its 10 month existence has more than a 100 posts. The blog now has about 500 subscribers and has received more than 53000 page views and more than 200 comments. Here’s a screen grab of tag cloud for our posts: Here is a list of some of the best posts of 2009: Top 20 Most Viewed Posts. 1.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 28, 2009

If you’re developing eLearning on your own with minimal help from a graphics team, you might want to check out e-Learning Templates.com. Put together by two guys who call themselves “The eLearning Brothers”, the site offers PPT templates you can use in your Articulate courses, along with complete course style kits to Flash based eLearning games and quizzes.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Its that time of year again where everyone wants to know what's coming up in 2010. Or we look back at 2009 and reflect. Both are excellent practices, but I think everyone has pretty much covered all of the bases. If you can't find any, then just leave me a comment and I'll see what I can find for you. This might not be much of a look into 2010 but I definitely feel a new trend.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

It’s time for that annual ritual of looking back at the year. Unlike last year , this year I’m actually reviewing before the new year starts. What did I do this year? A few things come to mind. In January, we officially launched Sakai as our LMS , marking the end of a long process of choosing the right system and converting all our courses.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Workplace Learning Today pointed me to a post Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History. I use similar kinds of examples in my presentations (and posts such as Work Skills Keeping Up? ). I thought it might be fun for me to catalog some of the ones that I’ve used in my presentations and other places as well as have this ready for future presentations.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2009

With increasing bandwidths and better compression techniques available, use of videos in Flash platform based eLearning courses is on the rise. However, often we find videos not being used optimally. This could leave your learners with a bad experience. Here are a few technical aspects to keep in mind when working with videos. Please do share any others that you may know in comments area. 1.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 5, 2009

By Jay Lambert. Being in the realm of performance improvement, we are always searching for ways to improve our own processes. So it was an “aha” moment when I read Gerry Wasiluk’s post about the DADDIE model on the Articulate Forum. Basically, his former group borrowed from Six Sigma and added the ‘Define’ step to the beginning of the learning industry-standard ADDIE model.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Entreprise Collaborative , a cross-cultural endeavor bridging English and French to provide a jumping off point on organizational collective intelligence (and co-led by my Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche ), is launching a blog carnival. The first topic is: the future of the training department in the Collaborative Enterprise. I’ve written before about the changes I see coming for organizations (e.g. here ), and they’re driven by the changes I am seeing in business and

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Follow up to the eLearning Guild’s DemoFest held at DevLrn in San Jose this November. These are favorites of that event. (These are my live blogged notes from the presentation. eLearning Guild will make recorded presentation available on their website. [link] ) Brent Schlenker: This year a lot of great entries. This year didn’t do awards format – wanted it to be a sharing format for attendees to show what they do. iPhone App: Helping Parents Grades K-5 (Terri Gutierrez) Oregon Center for Applied

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

One of my most popular posts each year is my list of predictions. In fact, my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 , was most popular post for 2009 (see 2009 Top Posts and Topics ) and it came up pretty high in the recent Top 125 eLearning Posts of 2009. I will definitely be coming out with my 2010 predictions. In fact, I’ll be doing a virtual presentation around it as well.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 23, 2009

With all the bad news in the virtual worlds space this week (read Not a Good Week for the Virtual World Space ), I wanted to point out that many healthy 3D virtual immersive environments still exist and more are coming on line daily. Here are three more virtual worlds to explore Blue Mars Hanging out in the visually rich Blue Mars Virtual Immersive Environment.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2009

A lot of companies today face a resource situation that’s not unique in this age. A few key individuals holding important technical and project management knowledge is quite common. Such key knowledge in the hands of few prevents it from being disseminated broadly and leads to an unhealthy dependence on those individuals. Recently, I was asked to propose a solution that addressed just such a business concern.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 28, 2009

By Shelley A. Gable. Many organizations are converting pieces of their classroom training into eLearning modules. While there are a lot of advantages to eLearning - reduced delivery costs, on-demand availability regardless of time and location, consistent delivery, etc. - this delivery method might not be optimal for all of your training needs. I've worked on a couple of projects over the past year that have involved analyzing the training needs of a particular business unit and determining whic

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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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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

In the conversation with Kris Rockwell of Hybrid Learning I mentioned previously , we talked about the definition of mobile learning. We both agreed that it wasn’t about loading your average asynchronous elearning course onto the phone, and that it was more about performance support. Brevity is the soul of mobile, as well as wit. And I also am happy to think of mobile as an augment to formal learning: reactivating knowledge, distributing practice, contextualizing learning, and even perf

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Performance Learning Productivity

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Trust is very important in our lives. As children we put our trust in our parents. As we grew we learned to make decisions regarding when we should trust and when we should be more circumspect. When we start a new job or project we spend time figuring out who we can turn to for advice, who we can trust, and whose advice we need to double-check. With the rise of the networked society and the increasing use of social networking tools, trust is probably on our minds every day.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I mentioned in my post 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? that we are seeing more and more about Add-ins & Mashups as a means to build richer learning experiences. I particularly cited a DevLearn demo of twitter being embedded inside Captivate as the basis of a social learning experience. They’ve posted on the Adobe Captivate blog - Collaborative learning using Captivate and Twitter.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 21, 2009

It is official, the Learning in 3D book tour will start on January 11, 2010. We've got over 30 bloggers on the tour with a special Twitter hashtag of #lrn3d, a Twitter book give away, a 20% discount from the publisher and even a "prize" for folks that follow the entire tour and leave a comment on every blog. Details will be forthcoming. The tour promises to be an exciting event so get ready.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Yesterday Google released a visual search engine called Google Goggles. It is available right now as an application for Android 1.6+ (i.e. Donut or Eclair) based mobile devices. It uses several sophisticated image recognition techniques like object recognition, OCR, face matching, etc. This will prove useful for m-learning - users can take a snapshot of any object and Google Goggles will provide relevant information about it.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 21, 2009

YouTube is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Well, maybe that's not a good description of YouTube. It's more like the wild west of video. You have to be careful where you go and sometimes you find something completely unexpected. However, with the right set of instructions and proper organization, YouTube can be a great environment for learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 8, 2009

What if the learner’s experience was ‘hard fun’: challenging, but engaging, yielding a desirable experience, not just an event to be tolerated, OR what is learning experience design? Can you imagine creating a ‘course’ that wins raving fans? It’s about designing learning that is not only effective but seriously engaging.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 18, 2009

COP15 was a fiasco. At the eleventh hour, the world’s governments are cobbling together half‑baked emissions targets, after 2 weeks of posturing, grandstanding and generally faffing about. Why bother? At the next summit, they’ll realise they’ve got no hope of meeting those targets, so they’ll try to weasel out of the agreement just like they tried to weasel out of Kyoto.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts come through eLearning Learning that provide eLearning templates or toolkits or other kinds of interesting resources. Here are 20 of them: e-Learning Methodology Toolkit: templates to design and manage your e-learning projects Free downloadable storyboard templates Amazing eLearning Flash Template Bundle Storyboard Templates and Resources How to Create a Visual Design for Your E-Learning Scenario Here’s a Free PowerPoint Template & How I Made It Here

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This Thursday I am on a great panel doing a webinar for Meridian Knowledge Solutions. I hope you can join me and this exciting panel. The Webinar is called " Future of eLearning Content " and is scheduled for December 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. ET. Short Description If you’re responsible for buying or managing your organization's training content, don’t miss this free, 45-minute online discussion.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Often the real meaning and potential impact of a database can be hidden behind all the raw names and numbers, but a well-chosen visualization can bring the data to life. Google fusion is a cloud based application from Google where you can share and visualize data online. You can visualize data in a number of forms like: Map, Intensity Map, Bar, Pie chart, Table, line etc.

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Integrated Learnings

DECEMBER 8, 2009

By Shelley A. Gable. I think we've all heard the buzz about social and collaborative learning. Based on their research, Bersin & Associates suggests that "modern" corporate training organizations are transitioning to collaborative, talent-driven learning. A survey conducted by The MASIE Center earlier this year indicates a similar trend. Many blog posts have contemplated how Web 2.0 technologies can enhance workplace learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I love talking with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues, they’re always sparking me to new thoughts. In our chat, we were talking about learning, and I riffed off Charles’ comment about defining learning to opine that I see learning as a persistent behavior change (in the same context). It’s very behaviorist-influenced (given that I’m a cognitive/connectionist/constructivist type), but the point is that it needs to manifest.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2009

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 2, 2009

While strife with technical challenges, Nancy White and John Smith’s presentation at LearnTrends 2009 ( LearnTrends 2009 Recordings ) provided some really interesting food for thought. In some ways this relates closely to the post on Selling Learning Communities. By way of background, Nancy White and John Smith are gurus around all things Communities and Networks.

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