Don't Miss Our September 16 & 17 Online Forum: E-Learning Instructional and Graphic Design Best Practices

Designing for Success on September 16 & 17: E-Learning Instructional and Graphic Design Best Practices This Online Forum will examine both the structure of e-Learning content (instructional design) and its look and feel (graphic design). Often, we put the most effort into the former – making sure we teach the right topics in the correct order – but we neglect the latter. Good instructional design is critical, but no matter how good the content, the learners need to be able to navigate the course easily. In E-Learning Instructional and Graphic Design Best Practices, you will learn techniques for designing the content, and how to best present that content to ensure that the learners learn! Find out more about this Online Forum HERE. technology hosted by: Guild OPT OUT Information If you would like to stop receiving eLearning Guild Online Forum announcements, please visit http://www.elearningguild.com/events-unsubscribe.cfm?eid=todd.vaccaro@gmail.com. You may also contact us at The eLearning Guild, 375 E Street, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 or 707.566.8990.

There's Still Time Register for Next Week's Online Forum: Incorporating Gaming into Your e-Learning

Incorporating Games & Gaming Techniques into Your e-Learning Online Forum Next Week, August 12 & 13 There's still time to register for our August Online Forum, Incorporating Games & Gaming Techniques into Your e-Learning. The gaming community can teach e-Learning professionals a lot. Games can be highly engaging and very “sticky." To help you develop your own Serious Games, this Online Forum will show you the best that games have to offer the world of e-Learning. We still have space available for next week's forum so Register Now! More information on the program can be found HERE >>>   technology hosted by: Guild OPT OUT Information If you would like to stop receiving eLearning Guild Online Forum announcements, please visit http://www.elearningguild.com/events-unsubscribe.cfm?eid=todd.vaccaro@gmail.com. You may also contact us at The eLearning Guild, 375 E Street, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 or 707.566.8990.

Register for the August Online Forum: Incorporating Games & Gaming Techniques into Your e-Learning

Get in the Game on August 12 & 13! Incorporating Games & Gaming Techniques into Your e-Learning The gaming community can teach e-Learning professionals a lot. Learn how in our August Online Forum, Incorporating Games & Gaming Techniques into Your e-Learning. Games can be highly engaging, very "sticky" (the learners actually want to keep playing!), and can deal with complex scenarios in a clean, logical manner. To help you develop your own Serious Games, this Online Forum will show you the best that games have to offer. The issues of budgets, tools, storytelling, and levels of engagement are just some of the topics addressed. There will be sessions on applying gaming principles to the building of  simple yet highly effective games, as well as high-level 3-D games. Find out more about this Online Forum HERE. technology hosted by: Guild OPT OUT Information If you would like to stop receiving eLearning Guild Online Forum announcements, please visit http://www.elearningguild.com/events-unsubscribe.cfm?eid=todd.vaccaro@gmail.com. You may also contact us at The eLearning Guild, 375 E Street, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 or 707.566.8990.

Don't Miss the Next Online Forum, "Getting Started with e-Learning," July 15 & 16

Don't Miss the Next Online Forum, July 15 & 16: Getting Started with e-Learning New to e-Learning? Then you won't want to miss our next Online Forum, Getting Started with e-Learning, July 15 & 16. Getting started on your first e-Learning project can be daunting. Should you build your first course or outsource it? What tools should you use? How much will it cost, and how long will it take? How do you get stakeholder and learner buy-in? These are just some of the questions that this Online Forum will answer. This Forum will give a solid foundation to those starting their first e-Learning initiative, or those who have tried unsuccessfully to develop e-Learning and need to make a fresh start. Find out more about this Online Forum HERE >>> technology hosted by: Guild OPT OUT Information If you would like to stop receiving eLearning Guild Online Forum announcements, please visit http://www.elearningguild.com/events-unsubscribe.cfm?eid=todd.vaccaro@gmail.com. You may also contact us at The eLearning Guild, 375 E Street, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 or 707.566.8990.

LS Mag Update - Mobile Learning: Obstacles and Solutions, Best in Class Online Collaborative Course Authoring and More...

Articles Conference Contact June 16, 2010
Mobile Learning: Obstacles and Solutions by Joe Ganci Seven industry experts who are speaking at mLearnCon in San Diego this week answer three simple questions about mobile learning: What are the obstacles to practical delivery of learning via mobile devices? What will it take to solve these problems? When do you think this will happen? If you create or manage online learning in your organization, you must read their replies. More... Best in Class Online Collaborative Course Authoring Take advantage of centralized course authoring with this award-winning web-based solution that lets designers and subject matter experts (SMEs) collaboratively capture, storyboard, develop, review, test, and publish Flash-based courses – without having to know Flash. Advanced developers leverage the included Flash source files and e-Learning SDK. All output is SCORM compliant, rich-media compatible, and works on most PC and Mac browsers. Start a 30-day Trial. Feature Overcoming Obstacles To Avoid "Shovelware" e-Learning Strategies by Brian Miller Many organizations continue to struggle with fundamental obstacles that prevent them from implementing effective asynchronous e-Learning strategies. Some of these barriers will invariably lead to poor strategies for learning in virtual worlds or on mobile devices. Here’s what you can do to improve effectiveness in a tough situation. More... Column Nuts and Bolts: Find Your 20% by Jane Bozarth Good practice in instructional design means being aware of cognitive overload and avoiding it – in other words, not giving learners more than they can handle, and certainly not more than they will use. This month, Jane gives you a strategy (and a visualization!) for dealing with the desire to include everything and the kitchen sink in your e-Learning design. More... Column Marc My Words: Thinking About Mobile Learning in the Age of iPad by Marc Rosenberg Up to now, most definitions of mobile learning centered on the device; personal digital assistants (PDAs), now morphed into smartphones, were the primary vehicles for delivering mobile learning. The argument was that laptops were too heavy and cumbersome to be truly mobile, but now netbooks have addressed this problem; whether they will survive in the age of iPad-like devices remains to be seen. More... Snippet Mobile Learning at the Tipping Point by Ara A. Ohanian Mobile learning is a valuable addition to organizational learning strategy. Implemented correctly, it provides an excellent means to deliver knowledge rapidly across an enterprise, to ensure that people understand new corporate initiatives, or that new product knowledge is quickly available to those who need it. More...
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Online Forum: Best Practices for Incorporating Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 into Your e-Learning

Don't Miss the Next Online Forum, April 8 & 9: Best Practices for Incorporating Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 into Your e-Learning Web 2.0 is no longer a new thing. Over the past few years, many organizations have successfully incorporated wikis, Podcasts, and other Web 2.0 technologies into their learning solutions bag of tricks. This Online Forum will show you real-life examples of how to use these technologies to enhance, supplement, or replace your current learning initiatives. You will also see how you can use some of the cutting-edge Semantic Web technologies to deliver successful e-Learning. Look for sessions like these: Beginning to Blog: Starting Your Own and Learning from Others' Real Results from Virtual Worlds: First Case Studies Show Real Dollar Value User-generated Learning: Why Everyone is Now an Instructional Designer Blending Google Wave and XML-based Tools into the Modern Classroom Shifting the Mindset: Integrating e-Learning 2.0 into Your Training Culture Find out more about this Online Forum HERE >>> technology hosted by: Guild OPT OUT Information If you would like to stop receiving eLearning Guild Online Forum announcements, please visit http://www.elearningguild.com/events-unsubscribe.cfm?eid=todd.vaccaro@gmail.com. You may also contact us at The eLearning Guild, 375 E Street, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 or 707.566.8990.

Subtext: What if everyone had Google Chrome

Google Sidewiki, is a very interesting concept, but it also relies upon the premise that everyone has chrome. Which is happening, but that's why the made this, to get more people involved in Chrome. however, a lot of this already happens with StumbleUpon, it's just not Google. I'll play with this for a while, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to depart from StumbleUpon's quirky cast of internet friends.

in reference to: http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fldmleagmkblgoeodhdlhdejhhngdihi (view on Google Sidewiki)

Cultural Change and Learning Online: Online Social Networks Enable Individuals

October 19, 2009

In This Issue... Webinar on Tuesday: The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games RECESSION-PROOF Your E-Learning Through Collaborative Authoring DevLearn 09— Now More than Ever The True Value of Online Training New Guild Research Report: The Evolution of the LMS Learning Solutions Magazine this week: Change and Learning Online Social Networking Status Update Industry News

Webinar: The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games If you are a Guild Member, Member Plus, or Premium Member, be sure to join us tomorrow, Tuesday, October 20, for our free Thought Leaders Webinar, featuring Clark Aldrich, author of the new book, The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games. Learn about the differences between educational simulations, serious games, and virtual worlds, when to use each, and how to launch a successful program that meets your organization's goals, needs, and capabilities. Register Here >> RECESSION-PROOF Your E-Learning Through Collaborative Authoring Sponsor In today's economic climate, training departments are being asked to do more with less. In a push to utilize more Learning 2.0 instruments, organizations are seeking out cost effective tools to combat a decrease in budgets and personnel. We believe a collaborative approach to development and deployment is the key. Spend 30 minutes and let us introduce to you an easy-to-use, collaborative authoring solution that is revolutionizing how trainers are communicating and dramatically shortening their QA cycles, saving both time and money. See it for yourself here. Early Registrants receive a copy of our Special Report: 10 Rapid E-Learning Short-Cuts. DevLearn|09 ... Now MoreThan Ever! As the economy starts to show signs of improvement, demand for training will increase because to drive organizational growth means getting new employees, business partners, and customers up to speed quickly. Is your organization ready to meet this demand? Now, more than ever, DevLearn 2009 is the right conference at the right time. DevLearn 2009 Conference & Expo offers the most comprehensive program focused entirely on the tools and technologies you'll need — and the sharpest ideas for the design, development, delivery, and management of truly effective e-Learning. Get ahead of the curve. Invest in the future success of your enterprise.  Sign up for DevLearn right now and be ready... Keynote: Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0: The State of an Art Join opening keynote Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as he guides us through an exploration of how technology is impacting the enterprise in new and powerful ways and changing the way we work and learn. DevLearn 2009 is now just 3 weeks away! Join us in San Jose and Register today! FYI: There are still rooms available at the Fairmont at reasonable prices. Check here for info The True Value of Online Training Sponsor Some of the best advice for companies during an economic downturn: Leave no stone unturned — especially when evaluating ways to cut costs, improve performance, and generally work smarter. That's precisely why organizations are choosing Web-based training over costly in-person training. This new white paper explores the benefits and true ROI of online training and takes an in-depth look at how two innovative companies successfully implemented Web-based training. DOWNLOAD New Guild Research Report Released The Evolution of the LMS: From Management to Learning How are traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) dealing with the challenges posed by a participatory Web 2.0 world, where open source education systems, user-generated content, and myriad online content and process management systems are challenging the LMS's centrality in eLearning? Find out in this in-depth report Cultural Change and Learning Online: Online Social Networks Enable Individuals It's not possible to introduce social networks for e-Learning without considering their effect on an organization's total business process. Social networks are a disruptive process, and managers of e-Learning initiatives would do well to keep this in mind. Read this week's article to understand the dimensions of this job!   Social Networking Status Update LinkedIN - Jody Bryant asks: "Wading through Authorware — is it worth my time? " Discuss Now >> LinkedIN - Scott Baker wants to discuss "Copyright concerns for publicly sold training." Discuss Now >> Industry News subscribe via Twitter CollegeNET has released IT Impact, a Web-based change and configuration management tool for higher education that adheres to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards. More... Elluminate, Inc., announced that it has acquired Edtuit, the company that developed the Elluminate-sponsored LearnCentral™ social learning network. LearnCentral combines asynchronous social networking with Elluminate's real-time online communication, collaboration, and education environment. More... Flash Professional CS5 will allow developers to build applications for Apple's iPhone. The forthcoming release of Adobe's multimedia authoring tool was unveiled Monday at the Adobe MAX 2009 conference, underway in Los Angeles this week. More... Moodlerooms is integrating the EQUELLA digital repository into its learning management platform, powered by the open-source Moodle LMS. Through a new partnership with The Learning Edge North America, the platform will incorporate EQUELLA without adding any new licensing fees. More... Mozilla is pushing ahead with its open video support in the Firefox web browser. Current developer builds of Firefox 3.6, expected to arrive later this year, now include a full-screen option for movies embedded using the HTML5 video tag. More... Odijoo, the first online learning platform to give trainers their own secure space from which to create, deliver, and monetize online courses, was released. Odijoo, which means "teacher" in Swahili, is a free-to-use web-based application that combines course creation, learning management, hosting, e-commerce, and social networking tools. More... Rapid Intake announced the addition of SWiSH, a rapid Flash animation tool, to its rapid e-Learning software ProForm Rapid eLearning Studio. More... Contact Us The eLearning Guild, 375 E Street, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 +1.707.566.8990 Do you need more Info? Use our Information Request Form!

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