By Elearning on
1/28/2008 5:15 PM
The American Society of Training and Development is offering a certification program, Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP™) for workplace learning and performance professionals. The program covers 9 areas of expertise:
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Designing and Learning
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Delivering Training
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Improving Human Performance
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Measuring and Evaluating
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Facilitating Organizational Change
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Managing the Learning Function
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Coaching
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Managing Organizational Knowledge
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By Elearning on
1/17/2008 11:38 AM
Albert Mehrabian, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, UCLA, is best known for his publications on the importance of verbal and nonverbal messages. In his studies Mehrabian comes to the conclusion that there are three elements to face-to-face communication:
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Words (7%)
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Tone of Voice (38%)
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Body Language (55%)
The relative importance of verbal and nonverbal messages were derived from experiments dealing with communications of feelings and attiudes.
How does this effect E-learning? Does it have a different effect on E-learning dealing with the communication of information vs. professional development training such as leadership training?
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By Elearning on
1/14/2008 5:49 PM
Conference Alerts offers a listing of E-Learning conferences worldwide at http://www.conferencealerts.com/elearning.htm. Be warned that the list is not comprehensive. For example the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference which MicroAssist will be attending is not on the list (http://tk07.astd.org/TK2008.htm)
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By Elearning on
1/14/2008 5:26 PM
Qipit.com ("Clip It") offers a free service that allos you to copy whiteboards and documents with your camera phone (or a camera)
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By Elearning on
1/4/2008 2:59 PM
Silke Fleischer from Adobe has a wonderful chart for Adobe Development Tool Selection. Looks a bit like the Periodic Table for E-learning. Click here.
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By Elearning on
11/2/2007 5:11 PM
At the end of our What does E-Learning Cost Lunch and Learn a number of attendees came up to us and started discussing thoughts on what they need to consider when issuing an E-Learning RFP. Issuing an E-Learning RFP can be a complex undertaking--you have to think about business goals, technology, technology infrastructure, instructional goals, instructional modalities, etc. At the request of one of the attendees I worked with the panel and started pulling our thoughts together on issuing an RFP. Here is the initial draft of a document on some of the things our panel would consider.
Things to consider before issuing an E-Learning RFP
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By Elearning on
10/24/2007 5:24 PM
The E-Learning Guild asked its members the most important reasons for measuring results. The top 3 reasons from all industries were:
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Provided the learners with information/feedback (38.3%)
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Meet organizational requirements for our learning program (37.8%)
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Meet regulatory demands or certification standards (29.2%)
The healthcare industry by contrast did not care as much about providing learners with information/feedback--they were much more focused on legal compliance. Is this the nature of compliance training? Is there a better way? Does it help to achieve true compliance if all the learner is doing is passing a quick test to meet some legal requirement without truly understanding and absorbing the material. Doesn't i ...
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By Elearning on
10/16/2007 2:54 PM
My friend Jerry Aiyathurai from JC Factor sent me a website http://www.blowntobits.com/b2b/ link which uses Flash well to teach. A lot of the time Flash animations are used as decoration (kinda like stock photos stuck off to the side). In this case Flash is crucial to the teaching process revealing information a small chunk at a time. Of course they want to sell you the book (and probably some consulting) so they don't give ita ll to you on the website.
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By Elearning on
10/9/2007 2:56 PM
456 Berea Street is one of my goto blogs for keeping up with accessibility issues that effect e-learning and accessibility. Recently they posted an excellent article on 10 color (ok being British they spelled it colour) contrast checking tools to improve accessibility. Why should you care about color contrast? People with color blindness and other visual impairments and even people viewing the Web under less than ideal circumstances (Mobile browsers) may not be able to read the text easily if you do not have sufficient color contrast.
To read the complete article go to 456 Berea Street.
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By Elearning on
10/4/2007 11:13 PM
One of my favorite spots for finding great E-Learning information the E-Learning Guild has published a free book called The E-Learning Guild's Handbook of E-Learning Strategy. The handbook talks about Design Strategies for Online and Blended Learning, How to Engage Learners, Elements of a Successful E-Learning Strategy, and even a guide for students on what it takes to maximize learning from an online course.
Great download.
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