Search results for: “michael allen”
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Cognitive Apprenticeship: Develop the Thinking for Outcomes Needed in Today’s Workplace
There is growing evidence that today’s learning, focused on presenting information and testing knowledge, is ineffective when it comes to producing meaningful outcomes for business. Is there a better way to create learning experiences? Clark Quinn lays out a fundamental model that incorporates the ways people naturally learn, together with some extensions he has found…
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Bad Gamification Won’t Fix Bad eLearning: Seven Principles That Will
Gamification is the use of game elements to motivate people to complete tasks. According to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Education, gamification is sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment, where interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Why? This article connects poor gamification implementation and poor eLearning design, and it suggests what we…
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Up in the Air on Faculty Evaluation
Technology changes job assessment and online teaching and learning practices in higher education (and other organizations as well). This includes the empowerment of new groups of stakeholders, including students, leading in some institutions to political pressure to implement new assessments to improve teaching and learning. Here is how these forces are playing out at one…
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Research Spotlight: Mobile Learning Perspectives
Mobile learning (mLearning) is a topic that continues to grow and evolve. Today, mobile is ubiquitous, seeming to pervade every aspect of life and business. In The eLearning Guild’s latest eBook, managers and practitioners with strong hands-on experience in mobile learning development present their best thinking on five fundamental questions about how to realize the…
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New eBook: Engagement That Works: Tips from Learning Solutions Thought Leaders
Engagement is key to effective eLearning, but it isn’t always easy to achieve. The eLearning Guild’s new eBook, Engagement That Works: Tips from Learning Solutions Thought Leaders, offers tips from 39 experts to will help you get and hold learners’ attention.
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Professional Development Tips from The eLearning Guild
The eLearning Guild offers more opportunities and resources for your professional development than can be easily counted, but here are 21 of them (maybe more than that) for your consideration.
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Amplifying the Experience API: xAPI Camp at DevLearn 2015
The xAPI allows interpretation of meaning of the total data created by the learning ecology and provides predictability. The xAPI Camp in Seattle in July highlighted new use cases, collaborative exploration, and more. Learn more here about the event and about the upcoming xAPI Camp September 29 in Las Vegas, co-sited with The eLearning Guild’s…
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New Guild Masters and mLearning DemoFest Winners Announced at mLearnCon
At the co-located 2015 events mLearnCon and Performance Support Symposium in Austin, Texas, The eLearning Guild announced two new Guild Masters. In addition, nine demonstrations were chosen as winners at the mLearning DemoFest held during mLearnCon.
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Ten Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Started Out in eLearning
This is graduation season, when commencement speakers share wisdom and advice. If you don’t have graduation parties in your immediate future, where can you turn to get inspired to take on the “next big thing”? Where do you go for advice? eLearning leaders share the advice they wish someone had given them at the beginning.
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Streamline Real-time Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation with Cisco Collaborative Knowledge
Cisco Collaborative Knowledge improves employee engagement and workforce productivity by building smarter, more agile workforces.