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by Bill Brandon

August 10, 2010

Trivantis Corporation has released Lectora Inspire, which adds screen capture, screen recording, and Flash animation technologies to the company’s flagship tool.

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by Allison Rossett

August 9, 2010

While mobile learning gets the lion’s share of attention, mobile performance support also received much session time at The eLearning Guild’s recent mLearnCon 2010. The two ideas, learning and performance support, are different but related ways to improve results produced by human beings. This week’s feature explains the differences and also the ways in which the two work together.

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by Bill Brandon

August 4, 2010

Little more than a year after release as a “preview,” Google Wave has gone flat. Google announced this afternoon that it is shutting down development of the communication tool as a standalone product.

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by Jane Bozarth

August 3, 2010

Designers often overload learners with information, hurting learning and learner motivation, and thereby undercutting the very thing we say we want to accomplish. A designer can avoid this by understanding cognitive load theory and memory; in particular, the concepts of working memory and long term memory. Here’s some applied theory you can put to work immediately!

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by Jeff Batt

August 3, 2010

You can build branching soft skill simulations that play like a game. The simulations you build can have multiple outcomes. Here is a five-step tip for creating these in ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio and Unison Collaborative Course Authoring.

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by Stephen Haskin

August 2, 2010

Video is becoming more important as an element of learning delivery strategies, through channels ranging from social media and mobile, to desktop and virtual environments. Yet it is difficult to find information about the basic equipment you need for video production. Here is an updated look at video hardware, and advice on choosing what fits your budget.

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by Anne Derryberry

July 28, 2010

Apple’s new devices, the iPad and the iPhone 4, will soon have two things in common: sleek hardware design, and the operating system that runs them. Previously called iPhone OS, Apple’s newly-branded iOS 4 provides a number of features that make the devices running it far more suitable to a work environment than past releases. But what does iOS 4 offer for e-Learning? Here’s our review.

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by Anne Derryberry

July 27, 2010

Journalism and education have much in common, besides the fact that both are in dire straits. Journalism intends to inform us about the world, and education aims to help us succeed in that same world. Could games be the nexus between these two pursuits that are so vital to democracy?

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by Mike Dickinson

July 26, 2010

Designing compliance training can be a great challenge, on many levels. Blended learning, including classroom, games, online elements, and scenarios, is an excellent way to deal with this, but creating it is not necessarily simple or easy. Here is the story of how one (very small) training department backed into a highly effective solution over three years of effort.

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by Jeff Batt

July 21, 2010

While Rapid Intake Unison is a good tool for creating interactive activities, you can also use it to upload and convert PowerPoint presentations, including animation, audio, and synchronization timing settings. Here’s a step-by-step guide!

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