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Seamless Learning: Forget MOOCs, Mobile Learning, and Ubiquitous Access
With so many new training technologies and trends appearing one after the other, we face a major challenge: ensuring a smooth, simple training environment for all our learners. Here’s a look at how to create a seamless learning environment. Check the parts that your training strategy covers and the parts that you can optimize or add.
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Introducing Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) to a Corporate Audience
Many organizations have a concentration of jobs requiring a broad base of connections to people and information; the people in these jobs probably used traditional learning to help them attain key roles. An overlooked key to their success and growth is a type of learning in which they may not have even known they were engaged. Here’s how Domino’s Pizza put PKM into practice.
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Interactive Video: The Next Big Thing in Mobile
Studies have shown that interactive video increases attention, engagement, recall, satisfaction, and time spent watching a video. Most interactive video has a marketing aim, but some pioneers are beginning to use it for learning. This article explains the concepts, gives an overview of the techniques, and provides some ideas for getting started.
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Learning Analytics in Adobe Presenter 9: Tips for Early Intervention
A key aspect of the early intervention effort is identifying students at highest risk of dropping out and providing them with timely remedial teaching. For this, we need an early warning system to identify low performers in the class—and provide more focused attention—while still managing a large distributed class. Here’s how to do this using learning analytics in Adobe Presenter 9.
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New eBook: 158 Tips on mLearning: From Planning to Implementation
As mobile device usage soars, organizations are changing their questions about mLearning from “Should we?” to “How should we?” In 158 Tips on mLearning: From Planning to Implementation, an eBook available for free from The eLearning Guild, 23 of today’s leading mobile learning experts share their thoughts and strategies to help guide your mLearning initiatives.
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The xAPI and the LMS: What Does the Future Hold?
Traditional learning management systems (LMSs) have not been useful in managing learning that happens during workplace activity, such as coaching and work assignments. The Experience API (also called “Tin Can” or “xAPI”) integrates learning and working. This final part of Steve’s series on LMSs explores the relationship between the LMS and the xAPI, and explains how the xAPI works.
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eLearning Guild Research: What Authoring Tool Do You Want to Buy?
When The eLearning Guild asked practitioners about the authoring tools they use for asynchronous eLearning development, we learned which tools they use most, which they deem most important, and which are most likely to be their next purchase. Whatever your role in eLearning, you will want to read this summary!
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Book Review: Learning Articulate Storyline by Stephanie Harnett
Since it was introduced last year, Articulate Storyline has become one of the most popular eLearning rapid-development tools on the market. The learning curve for Storyline is less steep than for some tools, but there’s still plenty to learn. Stephanie Harnett’s new book intends to fill that gap. Here’s an expert’s review of this new guide.
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Marc My Words: Don’t Dismiss Level One Evaluation
”Smile sheets.” “Happy sheets.” We often hear level-one evaluation (the learner’s reaction to instruction) dismissed as trivial or unimportant. But maybe we’ve been asking the wrong questions. Here’s why level one is important—and how to do it in a way that provides insights that matter and that supports correct assessment of your work.
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Agile Instructional Design: The Big Questions
Today’s instructional designers and eLearning developers are faced with an incredible amount of change. We work in a shifting business landscape, with new tools and processes, as we ensure our learners transfer knowledge and skills to on-the-job competence. AGILE instructional design is one approach that may help us meet these demands more quickly and effectively.