Quick Wins
Wiki that has performance support materials that goes along with your eLearning on that new software applicationat first ... strategy against which actions can be measured and be found either to support an long-range plan or not to support it or to ... organizational culture aspects to enterprise adoption of enterprise 2.0 / web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0. And I think it's easy to ... makes adoption of Web 2.0 tools likely is that they are easy to adopt and have immediate value for the individual and ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 23, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
... campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for ... and E-Learning, Part II. 18. E-Performance Essentials: ELearning and Social Software An interesting article - Early e ... . Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary : eLearning Technology 84. Theories and models of and for online ... for the 21st Century 93. Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems 94. eLearn: Case Studies ... My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share.
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
... eLearning - Emergence or Big System, and Future Platforms for eLearning.So while the session focused on organizational adoption ... / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools ... from LinkedIn, Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong!, Spending or Wasting Time on Web 2.0 Tools? and have ... Software ⬠TeamPage ⬢ WordPress Wiki Tools ⬢ Atlassian Confluence ⬢ BEA Pages ⬢ Jive Software - Clearspace ... Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsSCORM Test
... there in working with LMS vendors to do scorm tests?Or is it pretty much that you are using scorm testing tools and then ... There have been lots of good comments and discussion on the post Test SCORM Courses with an LMS : eLearning Technology ... wrappers, and various test tools such as Trident, Reload player (http://www.reload.ac.uk/scormplayer.html), SCORM Test Track, remote debugging using tools like WebEx, HTTP traffic tracking with tools like Firebug, and some other things. Quite a ... thoughts. They asked:"Why is testing courseware different? Why assume that the client or someone else is supposed ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 14, 2008 - CommentsEPSS and ePerformance
... hold to you (a search on esupport or e-support gets you mostly remote software support sources)? It seems like no term has taken such a firm grasp as elearning, to describe what we think is a real value-add for our clients.This is a ... tools aimed at helping them DO more than LEARN. eLearning and EPSS as terms really are not appropriate for this kind of ... . So, for some time, we have added "ecoaching" to our "elearning" offering, to describe our electronic support options. Now, go to Google...you get plenty of hits if you search ecoaching, or eperformance, for that matter, but they mostly ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, January 5, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
... picture is a loosely coupled collection of tools, then what's the role of a central piece of software?Discussion will ... of our current developers and finding people who match up makes it tough.Deciding if I should be speaking more or less ... a simple, clear answer.Why am I not finding more opportunities to create front-end tools?I am a big believer in the ... solutions look like marriage matching (eHarmony), action planning solutions (large retailer), marketing support tools (large ... learners.Find Lots of Examples of eLearning 2.0I've already started to identify some of the initial eLearning 2.0 ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsCommunities / Social Networking and LMS Merger
... eLearning; anyone who thinks otherwise or who is not yet planning for the shift is going to be left wondering what the heck happened in just a few years.I've not seen a lot about Mzinga in the eLearning world, but it represents something pretty interesting. Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company.From what I can gather from ... the LMS and tools market. We are beginning to see dominance by a few bigger vendors and if you can't be one of ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 6, 2007 - CommentsFlash Quiz Tools
... and survey types.Rapid Intake Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio creates interactive Flash-based AICC or SCORM-conformant ... Update June 2008 - added one free flash quiz tool based on a question I received. This tool is listed at the bottom.A ... user responses, instead they wanted them to be fun. I suggested a couple of tools, but then wondered if I had given them ... for tools in the test / quiz category. Note: there are additional rating items such as would use again, vendor responsiveness, etc.Note - the empty column now contains links to more information on the tools. So I could quickly ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
9 24 Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) 1,724 2 11 Personal Learning for ... is eLearning 2.0? 6,890 16 152 Rapid eLearning Tools 4,337 11 35 First Time Visitor ... Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools 1,140 9 43 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD OC 972 1 6 eLearning Software 967 0 1 Better Conferences - Response Needed 959 38 16 Fun ... -ups 701 6 13 Articulate, Captivate, Dreamweaver and Lectora Tops in eLearning Authoring Tool ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentsFacebook as a Learning Platform
... or private groupsJoin groupsHold group conversations (threaded discussions)While there are a lot of other features ... any social networking software is overcoming the hurdle of getting users to start using yet another social networking ... are.In fact, this makes me wonder if it can overcome a bit of the 1% rule (or even the update to the 1% Rule).So, instead of ... . Leverage it as a means of getting the word out, as a social networking layer, as a discussion tool. And, again, your ... would expect that this is a place where we will see eLearning Startups - New Wave Coming.
eLearning Technology - Monday, October 15, 2007 - CommentsSoftware Upgrade Training and Support
... people changing just the software version and interfaces or are process changes happening also? Many times, upgrades ... your solution with the pilots of the system.You can also check out my post on: Software Simulation eLearning for some ... training about 80% of these employees using a combination of self-study eLearning courses and webinars. Everything will be tracked in our LMS. Applications training can be excruciatingly boring, especially when taken as a self-study eLearning ... eLearning Course Be? In this case, it's identifying what the minimum amount of upfront training that's required to ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, September 24, 2007 - CommentsLMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers
... and 1,000 learners with a count of 1 or more.Some notes on these numbers...These are being reported out of the larger ... in this research. I mentioned in previously in LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise. An LMS is a big, expensive tool that ... don't necessarily know what you need later on. Note: this represents a lot of the market whether they admit it or not ... you don't want an integrated solution. So large companies with Oracle or SAP implementations are going to start going ... LMS?Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations BehindLeading with an LMS - Harmful to Your Health (or ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, September 20, 2007 - CommentseLearning Tools
Posts on eLearning Tools:What is Rapid eLearning?eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and MoreeLearning Course Authoring Tool Satisfaction - MoreAuthoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsUse of Wikis as Compared to Other ToolsCaptivate ... Reference HybridsDirection of eLearning Solutions - Emergence or Big SystemFuture Platforms for eLearning SolutionsView of eLearning Development Software - Ease vs. PowerPoint Solutions vs. Suites and Composition in eLearning SolutionsRapid eLearning ToolsVirtual Classroom Instruction - ResourcesSoftware Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentseLearning Solutions
Posts on eLearning Solutions:What is Rapid eLearning?Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-upsShift in eLearning Solutions from Pure Courseware towards Reference HybridsDirection of eLearning Solutions - Emergence or Big SystemFuture Platforms for eLearning SolutionsView of eLearning Development Software - Ease vs. PowerPoint Solutions vs. Suites and Composition in eLearning SolutionsRapid eLearning ToolsVirtual Classroom Instruction - ResourcesSoftware Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsHot Topics in Training
33% effective 5 5 3 -2 -40% software 6 4 2 -2 -50% tools 8 4 2 -2 -50 ... eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 this would be downnotable dropping topics: games, simulations, knowledge, interactive and blendedThe fact that blended did not appear in a topic might suggest that it is assumed at this point - or maybe it's dead ... Interactivity to your eLearning" are sure to pack the room. I wonder if the steady increase in rapid and the ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, May 4, 2007 - CommentseLearning Software
... eLearning Software posts:eLearning Software Tools Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Software Satisfaction - Satisfaction survey results for eLearning Software.eLearning Software Satisfaction (More) - follow-up on satisfaction results ... Tools) - eLearning Software aimed at producing Software Simulations.eLearning Software - Wikis, Blogs and More ... and Articulate for Interactive Slide-Based Presentations - two eLearning Software tools for a particular kind of ... eLearning Software approach.Direction of eLearning Software - Emergence or Big System - a trend in eLearning ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 26, 2007 - CommentsCaptivate and Articulate for Interactive Slide-Based Presentations
... products and if you look at my posts: Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction and eLearning Course Authoring Tool Satisfaction - More you can see that both of these tools score pretty high in satisfaction. So I'm not alone in my opinion about these tools.Certainly, as the person asking the questions states, if you were going for Software Simulation eLearning then Captivate (or the other tools list in my post) would be more appropriate than Captivate. But, in ... for that kind of content. All good.However, this project doesn't involve ANY simulations, demonstrations, or ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - CommentsAn Aha Moment - del.icio.us as Indicator of Valuable Content - Importantly My Content
To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog 1,799 0:01:34 16 22 4. Rapid eLearning Tools 1,308 ... . Second Life and Learning 616 0:01:45 4 7 10. Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to ... Learner WANT an LMS?eLearning Technology: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary Web 2.0 and ... Blog Home Page 10,584 0:02:40 NA 100 1. What is eLearning 2.0? 3,256 0 ... for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective 1,023 ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 2, 2007 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Tools in the Enterprise
... content management system that houses reference material. It could be information about how to use some software, or interesting content that people have collected about a topic, or whatever. It's just a really easy way for a group of people ... editor and publishing your pages somewhere. It's easier than RoboInfo.Is it widespread among eLearning ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - CommentsCourse Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction
... image.Courseware Authoring Tool Satisfaction -Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction -I'm only showing tools with 15 or more evaluations.List of Tools and Vendors:Keynote - KnowledgePlanet On-Demand.. Articulate Rapid e-Learning StudioMicrosoft Word ... about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels ... Articulate Adobe Systems, Inc. Altova OnDemand Software Adobe Systems, Inc. eLearning Consultants Pte.. Desire2Learn Inc ... Rapid eLearning SN.. Lectora QMIND Design Collaboration P1.. Raptivity KnowledgePresenter Brainshark ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, February 23, 2007 - CommentsActivity in Last Six Months
LearningSoftware Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools)Captivate File Size Tricks for Software Training via SimulationsDo ... tool"Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge - Decisions Learning Professionals ... months. I found some interesting things (at least to me)...Here are the 25 most visited pages...What is eLearning 2.0?First Time Visitor GuideTop Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to BlogRapid eLearning ToolsFun Headline GeneratorPersonal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Incredibly Cool!
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - CommentsLCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Predictions
... revolution going on in eLearning similar to 1996 when I saw that web-delivery of tools, content, etc. would grow to ... with Wikis, and more (Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development)I found myself no longer recommending the use of RoboInfo or other similar programs for reference materials. Wikis are way better even if the end ... memory of 2006 comes from a comment made during a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis ... glutton for more of this, take a look at:Does eLearning 2.0 Make a Difference?Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - CommentsCorporate Learning Laggards?
... because of Software as a Service, innovation happens really fast and gets to consumers quickly. Corporate IT just can't keep ... different choices for itself than it does for the rest of the corporation. For example, they may have access to sites or have installed desktop search or have other things that they restrict from the rest of the corporation.What's interesting in eLearning is that it used to be that corporations were way out in front of what was happening in the consumer space ... salespeople that had video-based selling skills simulations, an online reference, tools, and more. It was truly a ground ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - CommentsPersonal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools
In my previous post, I examined Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. That post focused primarily on how Social Bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us or Yahoo My ... scenario, I've chosen tools that (a) I'm most familiar with, (b) are provide as Software Services, (c) are free - a big ... involvement of the learning department, i.e., they need some kind of rapid eLearning tool that can be used by SMEs. The ... how to use these tools to figure out if they should be part of your eLearning Strategy...Let me know what you think.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, September 21, 2006 - CommentsWikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki
... you do about having a page on Rapid eLearning that might list products that are rapid eLearning tools. This is done on ... eLearning with links to all the relevant tools. I personally believe that it won't happen on Wikipedia.Why isn't it ... in Wikipedia.I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts ... a place where you can find a Wiki that covers eLearning concepts.But the answer is much more interesting than that. You can certainly go to Wikipedia and find information about learning concepts including eLearning and eLearning 2.0.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, September 14, 2006 - CommentsQ&A - eLearning Standards Especially SCORM
... started:Is it mandatory to use SCORM while developing an E-learning Software?SCORM is as close as you get to Mandatory in the world of eLearning. You want to implement your courseware to the SCORM standard if you plan to have it launched and/or ... eLearning world. However, as Pierre pointed out in the comments (and I've edited the text here based on his comments ... SCORM).There are also standards such as WebDAV that are going to be important for authoring tool implementations in the ... case for SCORM; overview of SCORM including kinds of SCORM learning objects, online or offline learning objects, ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - CommentsThe Business Web
... significant of a shift we are seeing in software. This is something I've pointed to before: Promise of Web 2.0 and eLearning ... companies disregarded the movement to software as service, claiming it was limited technically, or isolated to a specific ... copy of the email:"Is it the end of software as we know it?Just three weeks ago, Bill Gates announced he would leave his day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft, and turn his title of Chief Software Architect over to Ray Ozzie. Why did he ... called, "Services Disruption,ââ¬Âý where he stated the future would be dominated not by software like that made ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - CommentsThinking Outside the Training Box
During any use of Online Reference or eLearning, make it easy to collect questions that can be submitted in a batch (learning mode) or immediately.Office hours - After the launch of the training, hold regularly scheduled virtual meetings to discuss questions or issues that have come up. Also, ask for input on any tips that people have for each other. This will fizzle out after a while, but as new things roll-out, it becomes important again.Web Site - Use Wiki software or similarly easy to use tool to keep an up-to-date site where you minimally have pointers to your reference materials ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, July 10, 2006 - CommentsShift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids
... but can be PDF or other document types. It can be created using Wiki software, a content management system, web editing software or even Microsoft Word stored as HTML. It's designed to provide either real-time support for work tasks or near ... the point).The other categories for Learning Technology. The sub-categories here are:Course Development Tools Software and System Simulation Development Tools Soft Skills and Technical Simulation Development Tools Tests or Instructional ... Just when you've made the transition from the prior generation of CBT authoring tools (e.g., Authorware, Toolbook) ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 25, 2006 - CommentsFirewalls and Security in Software as a Service
... software behind the firewall.Keywords: eLearning 2.0, Web 2.0 ... One of the interesting outcomes of my recent course - Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary - was general consensus around:Software as a Service is Great for Learning Professionals inside CorporationsFirewall restrictions still pose a problem for SOME servicesSecurity is a concern, but generally should not stop useThe reason that Software as a Service is so attractive is that it is often hard to get Corporate IT to spend time on getting even simple software ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 22, 2006 - Comments