by Elizabeth St. Germain
What really matters in e-Learning is the final product. Are your products music to the learners’ ears? Or are they just a lot of noise? Do they deliver what they promised? Here are some key tips to make your e-Learning sing!
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by Mary Arnold
Real-world meetings and classrooms require ground rules and good classroom management or facilitation skills. The Web 2.0 learning environment also needs to provide guidance and facilitation for learners, and this is part of the instructional designer’s job. Here are three questions that can help you stay on course as you work to establish a collaborative learning environment.
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by Clark Quinn
Advances in technology have provided new capabilities for learning, while spaced practice, social learning, meta-learning, and distributed cognition have given us alternative ways to support learning. The combination allows us to envision and deliver a richer learning experience that leads to persistent change in abilities – and persistent change in ability to do is our actual goal.
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by Marc Rosenberg
Training Magazine made important contributions to our field. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, editors Jack Gordon, Chris Lee, and others, and contributors like Ron Zemke, were unafraid to tackle the tough issues as well as some of the silliness of the training and e-Learning field, and to accept articles that made you think. There is no question that the field has lost one of its most strident voices.
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by Josh Little
The world is going open source, but that doesn’t mean every organization’s culture is open-sourced. New ideas and systems need nurturing. Growing a healthy learning community is a lot like growing a healthy garden. Here’s how to start your own.
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by Bill Brandon
This year, The eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering made an evolutionary morph, becoming Learning Solutions 2010. This reflects the continuing evolution of The Guild itself, to a broader perspective on learning and on the ways that technology can support it.
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by Bill Brandon
In organizations that use more than one authoring tool, managing review of e-Learning projects can be a real challenge. Here is a just-released Web-based tool that supports collaborative review of courses authored in Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, and ProForm.
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by Suzannah Green
We thought the client had a straightforward project. Then we read the details: “Deliver the entire training solution with just four small, IT-enabled classrooms. E-Learning should be engaging and interactive, but must be developed without the use of Flash animations, large graphics, audio, or video. It must run from a browser, not require plug-ins or software, and it must also run from a CD.”
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by PJ Babcock, Dan Cox
As SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions become more widely adopted, movement to collaborative online course authoring is increasing. This review explores one example of these “always on” tools that are accessible from any Web browser. The authors identify some attractive advantages, as well as some potential reasons for staying with desktop authoring.
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by Thorsten Giertz
Cost-effectiveness Analysis (CEA) is a less complex method for identifying economically beneficial e-Learning investments, as compared to Return on Investment (ROI) analysis. CEA does not require the translation of training outcomes into monetary training benefits in order to produce insightful results.
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