Pamela Hogle
Senior Content Manager, Learning Guild
Pamela S. Hogle, a senior content manager at the Learning Guild, focuses on eLearning technology and trends and explores the ways that L&D professionals can lead changes in mindset and behavior throughout their organizations. She brings these interests to her work producing engaging and relevant content for the Guild and for Learning Guild conferences. An experienced journalist, technical writer, and eLearning content developer, Pam has worked in Israel and the United States. She holds master’s degrees in journalism and human-canine life sciences.
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Buzzword Decoder: xAPI Primer
What are xAPI, SCORM, and cmi5? This primer will help you sort out key buzzwords that are necessary to understanding what xAPI is and how it fits with eLearning.
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Beacons: A Shiny New Tool for Delivering Context-Specific Content
A beacon, working with an app on a smartphone or tablet device, can help learners find their way, provide useful information, or track progress. A beacon-based program can provide managers with big-picture data or track individual learners’ progress through an eLearning program.
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It’s Not a Dream: 360-Degree Video Puts Immersive Storytelling Within Reach
Creating 360-degree video requires shooting and stitching together two or more video streams. Adding sound and avoiding parallax error both present challenges that developers don’t face when using standard video. Here are some ideas to help you get started!
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xAPI Captures Learning Activity, Wherever It Occurs
As recognition grows that learning can be mobile, can be informal, and can take place anywhere, xAPI offers a way to track that learning and even to figure out how it might correlate with job performance.
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Forgetting Helps You Remember: Why Spaced Learning Works
Whatever paradigm is used, eLearning offers a variety of ways to implement spaced learning. The “spacing” can occur within a single session or by scheduling sessions several hours or days apart. And spacing can apply to time, content, or both.
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Degrees of Immersion: Use 360-Degree Video to Create Compelling Storytelling
Using 360-degree video puts the viewer literally in the center of the action. Two-dimensional photography or video cannot always convey the visual aspects of a place adequately or give viewers a full sense of what it’s like to be there; 360-degree photography or video offers a fuller perspective.
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Learning Leaders: Allison Rossett on Designing Engaging eLearning
Accessibility, mobile availability, and engaging design are not oppositional, according to Guild Master Allison Rossett. It’s important to create personalized eLearning that fits learners’ circumstances.
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Buzzword Decoder: Virtual Classroom
Converting in-person instruction to virtual eLearning can save travel costs and make it feasible to offer the training to many more learners, particularly in companies with multiple sites or a mobile or remote workforce. It’s possible to combine elements of synchronous training with elements of asynchronous eLearning, creating a “flipped classroom” model.
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Build People, Not (Only) Processes
Using eLearning to develop employees’ potential beyond day-to-day job skills is a great way to position a company for future success.
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eLearning Tools Keep Remote Employees Connected
Tools and strategies that make eLearning engaging, when applied creatively, can keep remote employees engaged as well. Here are six tips for creating an office culture in which remote employees feel included.