Best Practices
Managing Learning?

Technology can never be more than a supporting actor in the play of building high-performing cultures”. This article about the quest to manage learning, explores the challenges facing us as we move into a world where learning management is in the hands of each individual and their supporting ecosystem.

by Charles Jennings, Founder and Curator of 70:20:10 Forum

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Analysis
Integrating Meta-learning

There’s much talk about 21st Century skills, and rightly so: these skills are the necessary differentiators for individuals and organizations, going forward.  If they’re important, how do we incorporate them into systems, and track them?

by Clark Quinn, CEO – Quinnovation

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Analysis
Informal Learning – the other 80%

How organizations, particularly business organizations, can get more done. Let’s look at what informal learning is and what to do to leverage it.

by Jay Cross

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Innovation
E-learning: system integration and content migration

Mc Donalds, Banco Macro, UTN and Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, among other organizations, are working in the integration of LMS with a significant variety of management systems. 76% of the companies consider very important, while 24% considered it a relevant issue.

by Pablo Raganato, Executive Director of e- ABC America

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Analysis
Learning from social learning

The learning from an experience is only proven after the event, when the connections you made start to stick and change the way you think and behave. To facilitate the investigation we decided to eat our own metaphorical dog food and do the whole LAB online as a social learning event. by Ben Betts, CEO of HT2

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Success Stories
Success story: Louisiana State University

Utilizing Moodle, the university was able to dramatically increase CMS usage, increase training and support options, and significantly reduce reaction time

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Analysis
MOOCs and Higher Education’s Napster moment

Are MOOCs Higher Education’s Napster moment?... When a new, online and often free technology enters a marketplace and disrupts it… The author don’t think so. Let us see the expert view.

by Donald H. Taylor, Chairman - The Learning and Performance Institute

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Research & Surveys
What the future holds for global talent management

The Speexx Exchange 2013 Survey shows that talent management is becoming increasingly global and requires ongoing communication and collaboration across borders. This following article offers an insight into recent strategy trends taking place across the L&D sector.

by Armin Hopp, Founder and President of Speexx

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Solutions & Apps
12 augmented reality applications for learning and networking

Augmented reality is being installed with increasing interest in academic and corporate learning process. The m-learning and e-learning projects are no strangers to this trend, which also revolutionized the mobile marketing, digital advertising and networking, searching for new experiences. AR should be a tool in the education of students. The challenge will be to bring these technologies to the users in a way that add value.

by Nicholas Hellers, Managing Editor - America Learning Media

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Analysis
LMS Setup Fees: For some vendors it’s a cash cow

To push the idea that their LMS is inexpensive, some vendors are offsetting these costs with higher setup fees than before. Giving an illusion that the system is priced right. Sadly, it is often wrong.

by Craig Weiss (E-Learning 24/7)

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Analysis
MOOCs, MIT and Magic

Why is MIT ignoring 25 years of research into online learning and 100 years research into how students learn in its design of online courses?

by Tony Bates

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Innovation
E-learning example: Branching scenario

You’re a US Army sergeant in Afghanistan. Can you help a young lieutenant make a good impression on a Pashtun leader? That’s the challenge behind “Connect with Haji Kamal,” a thought-provoking branching scenario. Try the activity and learn how it was designed.

by Cathy Mooreconsultant in training and instructional design to large organizations in US, Europe, Australia and Latin America

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Solutions & Apps
brainpickin: helping organizations create a training academy

With a small team of 3 developers and after 1 year of development, brainpickin has been able to attract companies and organizations to create their own training academies and offer interactive and engaging on-demand tutorials.

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Success Stories
Adelaide Football Club: training at an elite level

Sports team gains competitive edge and extends off-field training time with media-rich eLearning and collaboration tools supported by Adobe® solutions

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Best Practices
Why adults learn - and the art of learner seduction

Will people be persuaded to learn only if they’re entertained? How far is this just a hook – and how far does it make the message more memorable, understandable, integrated and accessible?

by Bob Little, Senior Partner - Bob Little Press & PR

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Analysis
e-Learning challenges: taking the pulse of the industry

Overview of the main trends in the virtual education industry for the next few months. Integration, development of innovative applications that will ensure distribution of know-how in current training scenarios, content migration, video learning, social learning, cloud learning, augmented reality, Tin Can API and MOOC. The key: follow the person, not the job position

by Carlos Biscay, CEO, e-ABC Learning

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Analysis
STEM Education: Challenges for the 21st Century

K-12 and higher education models that support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), must focus on innovating content, accessibility, and delivery platforms to address the needs of today’s students and better understand how pedagogy and technology must interconnect to satisfy the needs of a dramatic evolution in how learning is happening.

by Dulce García, President - Ibero American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC)

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