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What is DITA and Why Should You Care?
DITA is a new term to many in the e-Learning field, but soon it may become a new standard and save you time and money in generating your deliverables. This article gives you the high-level overview and the basic references.
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The Human Factor: Mixing & Matching with Rapid Development Tools
Rapid e-Learning tools provide some benefits, but at the cost of tight, clean, easily maintained code. Here are some great tinkering tips for optimizing your work by using a combination of tools.
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Cameo by Yukon Learning
Would you like to shorten the time it takes for a learner to demonstrate expertise, especially if it isn’t expensive to do so? But how? Yukon Learning’s product called Cameo provides one innovative approach.
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Book Review: Social Media for Trainers, by Jane Bozarth
One of the current big questions for many instructional designers and their managers is, “What about social media? Can Twitter, Facebook, and the like deliver and support learning?” Jane Bozarth shows you how in this new book.
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Deliver the Exceptional Global Training Your International Employees Deserve!
Localization of your courses to permit their use internationally may be an excellent way to save time and money, but you must plan and design content carefully. Here are eight tips that will ensure your courseware is as effective overseas as it is at home!
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Nuts and Bolts: Too Many Tools
Cognitive overload – too much information – is one type of problem for learners. Another type of problem that designers can create for learners is too many distractions from too many tools. Here’s how to recognize the problem, and what to do about it.
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Social Networking: A Platform for Training New Managers Online?
Adoption and use of social networking by younger workers, who will soon be managers and supervisors, is growing rapidly. How can you leverage this technology to ensure they are ready for their new duties?
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A Seat at the Table: The Specialist’s Dilemma
Many professional specialists would like “a seat at the table” – that is, have a bigger say in important business decisions. But are they really prepared to sit at the table? And maybe, just maybe, if they knew what sitting at that table involved and what would be required of them, they really wouldn’t want such a seat. You be the judge…
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The Human Factor: Social Media as Mentoring Platforms
Have you ever thought of social learning platforms as knowledge management tools – ways to store an organization’s knowledge so it can be tapped as needed? Could knowledge management be mentoring with a new name? Here is a brief collection of ways to use social learning platforms to promote sharing of knowledge and experience, to give guidance to those who need it, and to get a better ROI.
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Social Is Not An Option
As we find out how learning happens, and how technology can support learning, some interesting hybrids (mash-ups?) are appearing. Four ideas dominate: informal learning, social learning, mobile learning, and games-based learning. This week’s feature looks at how a team in England is putting these together, plus features to motivate learners. The result: a very different way of learning.