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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Lost Among the Realities: A Guide to Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Immersive or augmented experiences are innovative tools that could transform eLearning. This guide explains virtual, augmented, and mixed realities.
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Add Social Networks to Virtual Classrooms to Spark Collaboration
The collaborative tools built into most virtual classroom platforms, along with private spaces on social or office networking platforms, provide opportunities for learners to collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues.
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Learning Leaders: Allison Rossett on Performance Support and Critical Thinking
Guild Master Allison Rossett emphasizes that “Less is more” when considering the future of eLearning: small, usable apps; morsels of eLearning; more mobile; more sharing; more curation. “Quality comes from smaller assets targeted to individual needs, with obvious, strong links to strategic organizational goals,” she said.
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Accessibility from the Ground Up: Understandable eLearning Uses Plain Language
Creating eLearning that uses plain English—simple, everyday words and unambiguous sentences—and clear, logical design removes barriers for many learners, including those who have some disabilities as well as those who learned English as adults or have low literacy skills.
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Buzzword Decoder: User-Centered Design and Universal Design
Designing eLearning with the user in mind creates a better overall learner experience. You can accomplish this through user testing or by taking a universal approach to creating broadly usable eLearning.
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Could Virtual Reality-Based eLearning Transform Employee Behavior and Attitudes?
Immersive experiences have a powerful impact on attitudes and behavior. Ongoing research on whether VR can enhance soft skills, such as empathy, or influence or change behavior could dramatically change the future of eLearning.
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Reimagining the Virtual Classroom
Flipping the virtual classroom to move away from lectures and add collaborative activities can reinvigorate eLearning while blending asynchronous with synchronous sessions.
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Capture Learners’ Attention with Multimodal eLearning
Learners have different abilities, interests, and preferences. Presenting eLearning in different modalities—text, video, interactive—can keep more learners engaged.
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Accessibility from the Ground Up: Remove Barriers to eLearning Content
Accessible eLearning must be operable to all learners, and that includes people whose disabilities make using a mouse impossible. In addition, learners should be able to control timers and any animated content; they should be able to skip content, too.
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Mobile Microlearning: A Natural Venue for Spaced Learning
Using mobile-friendly microlearning to implement a spaced repetition or spaced learning program can add up to increased engagement that boosts learner performance.