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Marc My Words: A Salute to ISPI on Its 50th Anniversary
The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) has been a pace-setting, research-based professional organization that has influenced so many aspects of what we do in our work that it is difficult to list them all. Here is a salute to this organization!
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How to Evaluate Instruction, Including eLearning
Evaluation should be an integral part of each activity of the instructional development process, although designers often overlook it or leave it out. Evaluation is important because it is the most reliable tool for continuous improvement in training system quality. Here is a guide to conducting and reporting a training evaluation.
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Just One Question: Brenda Enders on Gamification
“Gamification” is a relatively new buzzword in application design, including eLearning. Many designers and developers aren’t quite sure what it means, or how to apply the concept in their work. Brenda Enders gives you great insights in this interview.
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Nuts and Bolts: How Can We Know What We Don’t Know?
Following up on last month’s column (“Build or Buy?”), here’s practical advice on dealing with the common misunderstandings of in-house decision makers about outsourcing. Read it, see it, try it, and know what you want.
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Content Strategy, Part 3: Digging into the Fundamentals
Content strategy means taking responsibility for the information in the organization – not control of it. It means dealing with difficult changes and challenges in the midst of growing content chaos. Content strategy is simply getting a grip on understanding what content is, where it is, and how to use it. It’s a Business 101 issue – contributing to business results. Here’s how.
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Well Read: Drive
What motivates humans? How well do the systems that companies typically use to motivate humans work? Will money and praise inspire better performance, or will autonomy, mastery, and purpose give better results? You might be surprised – see the article to learn more.
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Toolkit: Online Courses With a Twist – Rapid Course
If you have been in the eLearning field for a while, you are used to online course libraries that offer only the SCORM files for the courses. Yukon Learning has launched a promising product that provides some unique twists on a familiar idea, by including all the source files used to create and publish the course.
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Putting a Photeo Together (Part 2 of 5)
In Part 1, you learned what a Photeo is and how you might use one. In this Part, you will walk through a Photeo needs analysis and the creation and execution process, and you will learn about the software it takes to make a Photeo!
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Development Tips: Writing Your First JavaScript Application
JavaScript is becoming the most important programming language (or as some would have it, scripting language) in the world. It opens a world of powerful techniques for the developer who learns to use it. JavaScript is also critical for the mobile Web. This column will get you well on your way!
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The Human Factor: Moderators in a Creative Online Community
In online communities, members can produce tremendous amounts of content. In closely moderated communities, members submit more work, and get more feedback than members of communities with no active moderator. Here’s an exploration of what the most effective moderators do that makes a big difference.