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Use of Course Management to Facilitate Corporate Learning | Rob Abel
- Course management systems (CMSs) are ubiquitous in U.S. higher education.
- Use of CMSs such as ANGEL, Blackboard, and Moodle are increasing in corporate learning.
- Collaborative learning, Web 2.0, and hybrid delivery are at the center of these trends.
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Generating Successful User Adoption of Online Learning | Greg Bashar
- Adoption Challenges
- Opening the lines of communication
- Creating a successful plan
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Why Visual Storytelling is Effective for Instruction | Daniel Bliton
- The benefits of storytelling, and visual storytelling.
- Is it good for all audiences, or just digital natives?
- The ABC approach to creating a sticky story.
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Push vs. Pull Learning: Telling Someone What to Learn or Enabling Them to Find It on their Own | Julie Clow
- "Push" learning is the traditional ISD model.
- "Pull" learning typically starts at the search box.
- There are important differences in designing "push" versus "pull" learning.
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Using e-Learning for Compliance Training | Donna Cochran
- Compliance to what?
- Know the rules – regulatory agencies don't always love e-Learning.
- Proving effective training is serious business.
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Using Second Life for Corporate Training | David Dannenberg
- The real Second Life user-base.
- Training that works in Second Life.
- Why corporate training programs should use Second Life.
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Using Games to Test Skills and Competencies | Stephen Davies
- How games assess people
- Building assessment from congitinve and heuristic task analysis
- Automation of assessment through machine learning
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To “e” or Not to “e”: That Is the Question | Jane Dowd
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Turning Your Ordinary Website into an Extraordinary Online Learning Tool | Janet Emery
- Why websites should be seen as e-Learning tools
- The difference between an ordinary site and online learning
- How to create on-demand tools that enhance performance
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The 70/20/10 Model of Organizational Learning: How to Build Solutions to Support Informal Learning across the Enterprise | Tom Eucker
- Implications of the 70/20/10 model
- Informal learning opportunities and options
- Integrated enterprise solution
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How to Get your Authoring Tools to Work Together | Joe Ganci
- Why bother with mixing authoring tools at all?
- What types of information need to pass between tools?
- How do you ensure that you are using the best methods?
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Educational Uses of Online Meeting Tools | Amy H. Garbrick
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Why Use Skills Assessment at All? | Tom Grobicki
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How do you target your training?
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Who are you training, and why?
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Are you doing a good job?
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Serious Games for Soft Skills Development: Why Are Games Great Vehicles for Soft Skills Development? | Joel Hobbs
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Behavior change requires developing new and preferred alternatives to ingrained behaviors.
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Serious games provide unique opportunities to encourage attitudinal change through practice, feedback, and reinforcement.
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Emerging leaders benefit from practicing complex, nuanced problem solving in a time-compressed simulation of real-world challenges.
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Bridging the Gap Between Page Turning and Learning Engagement | Steve Howard
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We walk before we can run – we page turn before we engage.
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What does learner engagement mean to you?
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Creating learner engagement doesn’t have to be expensive or time consuming.
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Rapid Vs. Not so Rapid Development Tools | Fran Keefe
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What is a Rapid tool, and what makes it Rapid anyway?
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How does using a Rapid Tool differ from using a Non-Rapid Tool?
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Is one better then the other? I.e., are there limitations to using Rapid tools that don't exist with Not-so-Rapid Tools?
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Global e-Learning Localization | Joe DiDamo
- Translation is expensive! Do we really need to do it?
- Got Global? Discussion of best practices for localization.
- Multilingual communications as a business imperative.
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Web 2.0 Training Trends: Fashionable or Useful? | Matt Lobel
- Why use Web 2.0 technology and techniques in training?
- What techniques or technologies generate the most successful learning experience?
- How should you blend these into a "traditional" online training program?
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Challenges and Issues of Customer Education | Kathy Napierala
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Customer education can be a major competitive advantage.
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With customer demographics, and technological diversity, come challenges.
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Creative solutions bring increased revenue and customer loyalty.
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Design Considerations for Immersive Learning Solutions | Koreen Olbrish
- Thinking beyond recreating a classroom environment (aka, expand your virtual horizons)
- Opportunities for combining synchronous and asynchronous learning
- Strategies for avoiding “seductive augmentation” in virtual environments
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E-Learning Vendor Selection: Best Practices and Lessons Learned | Patricia R. Ownes
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Document the content development process step-by-step.
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Set clear expectations regarding vendor capabilities and deliverables.
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Define types, specifications, and quantities of components (graphics, etc.).
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Techniques and Best Practices in Measuring Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes | Jeff Place
- Where and when to measure learning
- How reliable and valid are your results?
- What results do you communicate to stakeholders?
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More than an Event: Developing Pre and Post Learning Activities | Ron Price
- Much of the focus of learning is on a training event
- Learning is more than an event
- How does seeing learning as a process broaden our opportunities to teach and learn?
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Migrating Content When you Upgrade your LMS | Robby Robson
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The Challenge of the Millennials: Drivers of the Next Generation of Innovation | Claire Schooley
- Learning is changing … fast
- The future workforce must out-innovate and out-design the competition
- Millennials bring new ideas, new approaches, and more
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Developing Courseware with a Virtual Development Team | Todd Slater
- Managing the virtual team
- The art and tools of keeping connected
- Keeping versions under control
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Developing Guidelines and Templates: The Management Perspective | Virginia Spence
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Creating site guidelines versus content development guidelines
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Setting a tone appropriate for your e-Learning audience and/or industry (i.e. business conservative, fun, cartoonish, etc.)
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Affording your level of interactivity
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Overcoming Organizational Resistance to Web 2.0 | Tom Stone
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The varied concerns of management, executives, IT, HR, and legal
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Best practices – what you can do!
- Lessons learned – what you should not do!
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The Pluses and Minuses of Social Media and User-generated Content | Will Thalheimer
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Where will social media provide obvious benefits?
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Where will it underperform, or create problems?
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How can we leverage benefits and avoid hype-driven traps?
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Moving From Teaching to Facilitating Online | Michael Sunnarborg
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Top Misconceptions in e-Learning | Reuben Tozman
- Misconceptions about SCORM compliance
- Learning Management Systems versus Learning Content Management Systems
- Vendor and consumer responsibilities to eliminate misconceptions
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Incorporating Wikis into Daily Team Activities: Generating Stakeholder Support | Rachel Troychock
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