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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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Nuts and Bolts: The Learner Experience
Happy New Year! Jane leads the year off with her review of topics from 2016.
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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Merging Knowledge, Technology, and People
It’s the age-old question: “How do we get more for less with what we have?” The answer directly relates to the advantage and survival of an organization in a globally competitive world. Thankfully, knowledge-centric systems are showing up in the software market. These modern technologies allow eLearners to learn and apply vital organizational knowledge faster and more easily.
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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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Metafocus: Best Practices for Designing VR Corporate Training Experiences and Games
We know a little about what works in virtual reality. We know a lot about what doesn’t. But corporate trainers excited about incorporating VR into their training programs can learn much from VR game designers and developers, 360-degree documentarians, and other entertainment VR content creators. This column explores best practices that you can apply to VR corporate training experiences.
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Remote HTML5 and xAPI Can Work with Your LMS
Remotely viewing and tracking learning events while using an LMS to build and manage curriculums is becoming a more frequent real-world requirement for many designers and developers. Unfortunately, not all LMSs are “friendly” to learning event types that happen outside the LMS. This article shows you a way to overcome these situations.
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Raise the Bar: YouTube, the World’s Largest LMS
If you and your organization are not on YouTube, you are missing out—even if you are an in-house learning and development group. The mechanical process for developing a YouTube presence has been well documented elsewhere. YouTube strategy is perhaps more difficult to get correct. Here are some tips for getting your YouTube channel off to a strong start.
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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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Toolkit: Articulate 360 Review, Continued
Last month’s Toolkit provided an overview of Articulate’s new 360 Suite, and in-depth reviews of the updated Storyline 360 and Articulate Review. This month, Joe offers coverage of the rest of the tools in the suite.
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Leading the Target: Challenges for 2017
Is the time right for another disruption in the status quo for learning and development? Has something already tipped? Maybe the next disruption has already started, but not with technology per se. Change is coming—and it won’t always be what you expect. Here is a forecast for 2017.