To celebrate the approaching year-end, I compiled a list of ten useful things I've learned and added to my toolkit in 2010. 1. How easy it is to make useful videos with a webcam, Screenr, iMovie and a quiet room. 2. Closed networks & organizational silos = closed minds. 3. There's a technical term for that midmorning coffee break or lunch outing with colleagues: "Developing my Social Learning Network". 4. Break your courses into several short chunks of content. ... [more]
OpenSesame is a marketplace for connecting the buyers and sellers of elearning courses. We want to reach beyond the market of the existing elearning developers and offer growth opportunities to designers with little experience with elearning courses or subject matter experts new to designing training courses. To that end, we've created an overview of the components of effective, interesting and informative elearning courses. Start by putting yourself in the learner’s position. Their goal is to participate in an engaging experience with information and content that en ... [more]
In the first two posts in our Content Revolution series, we discussed how entertainment and information content is becoming digital and chunked. This post will discuss the third component of the content revolution: the social layer. ... [more]
#lrnchat is a weekly Twitter-based discussion among the community of training and elearning professionals. It occurs twice each Thursday, at 11:30-1pm EDT and then again at 8:30-10pm EDT. While structured as a collaborative discussion on the theory and practice of leading learning, the chat has its own ecology of peers and friends who provide thought-provoking advice, ideas and support. ... [more]
Our previous post Everything That Can Be Digital, Will Be examines the migration of corporate training from traditional instructor-led training to elearning in the context of the digitization of other forms of media, like news, television and music. The conclusion from the data is obvious: Content that can be digital, whether news stories or songs, will be, because digital content is portable, flexible, convenient and affordable.The data also reveal a second point. Not only do consumers want their content to be digital, they want to consume it on their own terms. Content buyers ... [more]
Just before Thanksgiving, the American Society for Training & Development released the 2010 State of the Industry Report, a fantastic resource chock full of information on the corporate learning and professional development marketplace. Did you know, for example, that U.S. ... [more]
"Everything that can be digital, will be." Attributed to Benny Landa, founder of Indigo, the world's first commercially successful digital offset printing press, in 1993. In the past 15 years, the digitization of media has made content more flexible, affordable and accessible. Content streams from news to music are rapidly transitioning to digital delivery. This transition is also evident in the world of corporate training with the emergence of elearning. What do other media transition stories tell us about the evolving market for elearning? Newspapers Become RSS ... [more]
OpenSesame relies on the widely-recognized SCORM and AICC standards to ensure that we can connect any author’s courses to any learner’s LMS. Standards are like chalk on a chalkboard: they are the tools that enable us to keep our promise to unlock elearning for authors and consumers through a simple, open marketplace. We have heard from many content creators who have mixed SCORM and non-SCORM content within their libraries. Perhaps their lessons meet the SCORM standard while their quizzes are delivered through a non-SCORM interface. ... [more]
Creating effective elearning courses is kind of like building a collage: a bit of video here, a couple of graphics there, a simulation here and eventually everything comes together to create an engaging and informative experience. If you are an e-learning developer, you know that different media and design techniques are appropriate for different learning needs. The key to building a unique learning experience is keeping your mind open to using new tools and approaches. ... [more]
I recently joined a discussion in the ELearning Guild’s LinkedIn group with this subject line: “How important is SCORM compliance today? ... [more]
