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Is Content Curation in Your Skill Set? It Should Be.
“Curation” has become something of a buzzword, but different people seem to mean different things when they use the word. At the same time, curation is fast becoming a key skill for anyone who develops content. Explore the concept and the tools with an expert curator in this article!
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Toolkit: Do You Know … dominKnow Claro?
Claro by dominKnow is one of those products that you see in the exhibit hall at every major eLearning conference (including DevLearn 2012) and yet, when you ask someone if they know about Claro, they scratch their head a bit and say, “Well, I’ve heard of it…” Claro is like a well-kept open secret. But no more! It’s time to keep this a secret no longer.
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Research for Practitioners: Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load
How much is too much when it comes to multimedia? How can you best use media other than text to support learning? This month, consider what research has taught us about the ability of the human mind to deal with attractive competition!
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The Consumerization of Learning: Vendors Must Step Up Their Games
Corporate technology buyers and users have learned to expect a host of challenges when installing any enterprise application. Isn’t it time to update the standards for enterprise software from the 1990s to meet 21st century demands for usability and mobile access? A vendor challenges other vendors to help fix what isn’t working.
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Ten Tips: Keep Learners Motivated in Your Open Online Cloud Course or MOOC (Part 6)
In an online course, running for several weeks with many participants who have different personal styles, come from different backgrounds, and speak different languages, keeping participants motivated is a significant challenge. Here are some tips from an experienced MOOC designer that will maintain the engagement and sense of fun.
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The Next Step for Learning: Practical Contextualization
Computing devices—especially mobile ones—continue to add sensors, to store and process more and more personal information (contacts, schedules, tasks, goals), and to connect more widely to other devices and to the Web. This context awareness opens huge learning opportunities. Are you ready? Here are some things to think about.
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In Memoriam: Joe Harless
Joe Harless, a huge influence for decades on the field of performance improvement, passed away on October 4. We pause a moment to reflect on the man and his contributions.
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Make Your LMS Learner-Driven
Keeping the learner’s experience with an LMS up to expectations while also meeting the needs of training administrators is a challenging assignment. The answer is to find out what the learner wants from the LMS. Here are some suggestions that may help you deliver a successful experience for all concerned.
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eLearning Guild Research: What Are the Benefits of Social Learning?
Many people think social learning is new, but it isn’t. What’s new is the ability of instructional designers to leverage online social media as a strategy to support learning. Research can help you make better use of the new social channel in your practice. Patti summarizes the benefits and points the way to recent research you can use!
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Adding Learning Analytics to Your Open Online Cloud Course or MOOC (Part 5)
How do you analyze what happens in a MOOC? For such things as the behavior of the participants, where interactions between participants take place, what the quality of those interactions was, or how can the content improve? Learning analytics will tell you! This installment of the series on StartToMOOC focuses on the online resources you can use to evaluate your MOOC.