Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

If you’re not familiar with Mayer’s Principles, this blog post from Digital Learning Institute explains them in a nutshell. I’ve got it pinned to my bulletin board for quick reference when I forget which number is which. This doesn’t affect your price and helps to offset the cost of maintaining this blog. Dyscalculia.)

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. AI is welcomed by those with dyslexia, and other learning issues, helping to mitigate some of the challenges associated with reading, writing, and processing information. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 14, 2020

When you write a story for learning, you need a few essential elements: a protagonist (the main character), the protagonist’s goal , and the challenges the protagonist faces. Will’s recommendations from his research are also summarized on his blog. The protagonist should be someone your learners identify with.

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Avilar

AUGUST 7, 2024

They refer to specific abilities that people have and can demonstrate while performing their professional duties.” Writing a blog is a skill. We’re big believers in harnessing skills and competencies (or capabilities) to address workforce and business issues. Capabilities are related to skills.

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

He frequently shares about accessible elearning development through our Learning Dispatch blog and newsletter. It’s sometimes referred to as web-based training, sometimes as online training. For more on this topic, see Grove’s blog posts on accessibility business case arguments ). Why do I need to do that? What Is Elearning?

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2009

There’s more talk about Digital natives going around; Jeremiah Owyang blogged from the Corporate Social Networking Conference in Amsterdam. Time and again, this talk about Digital natives and the millenials comes up, and there still isn’t much agreement about the key issues at hand. “If it’s online, it must be true!

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2014

It’s something I remembered while writing my last blog post about user-generated content. Here I shall share with you that review, unadulterated from its original form, except for the graphic of the user empowerment continuum and the hyperlink to the reference, both of which I have added for this post. Carr-Chellman, A. &

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2012

My live blogged notes from Julie Dirksen’s Friday session. You learn things that the SME might not have told you – they print out the form to compare it, there are other reference materials he has nearby, he jots some notes down that he’ll need 3 screens later. It’s not fiction writing. Write a script. hours each.

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The Learning Dispatch

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It’s sometimes referred to as web-based training, sometimes as online training. For more on this topic, see Grove’s blog posts on accessibility business case arguments ). For example, WCAG requires that non-text content (such as images) have a text alternative (often referred to as “alt text.”). What Is Elearning? the version 2.1

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 22, 2012

We in the learning industry talk about it a lot in conferences, and blog about it, but relatively few of us are doing anything substantial with mobile learning “on the ground.” A pilot program in Pakistan involves sending SMS messages to learners in order to improve their reading and writing skills. THAT IS ALL!)”.

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Paradiso Solutions

MARCH 12, 2025

Mastering the art of essay writing has been a long-lasting challenge for learners and writers globally. There are numerous AI-powered solutions available on the internet that significantly assist learners in different aspects of essay writing. Ways AI Helps Learners to Become Masters of Writing Essays Now, lets move on to the ways.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

In this simple definition: • Mobile Technology – refers to any device that is designed to provide access to information in any location, or while on the move. And when it matures, which is starting as I write this, it’ll become a substantial part of the training blend. Does content already exist in another form?

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Upside Learning

MARCH 26, 2013

A: Reading this blog post – The Four Stages of Mobile Maturity – might help you to find how most organizations move on an evolutionary path as they mature in their adoption of mobile learning. How do you address IE browser issues in Storyline? At what maturity level should a company look towards mobile Learning?

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Affiliate marketing refers to the process through which affiliates earn a commission for promoting the products or services of another person or company. You don’t have to create your own product or handle fulfillment, customer support, or any other issues associated with trying to bring a product to market.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 27, 2014

The blog--even after the extensive upgrade we purchased last quarter--was still slow to load on mobile devices. It is not merely reference or support material. I think the person who wrote the sentence is expressing outrage, or at least disappointment, that the blog is still slow. Writing & Grammar'

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 19, 2016

When you write a story for learning, you need a few essential elements such as a protagonist (the main character), the protagonist’s goal, and the challenges the protagonist faces. Mark, a technical writer with mobility issues who requires assistive technology. Luisa, the VP of HR and an expert in accessibility issues.

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Arlo Training & Events Software

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Both AI and GenAI are terms that are thrown around a lot, and used interchangeably but Scott emphasizes the importance of distinguishing the differences between the two terms: Artificial Intelligence Refers to machines or systems designed to mimic human-like thinking and decision-making. Generative AI Is a specific subset of AI.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

by Jennie Ruby    A few weeks ago I issued a  challenge to standardize the abbreviations  in the following paragraph using either the general audience or the scientific audience rules: The flowerbed should be 12 feet wide and 5 ft deep. Writing & Grammar' code into a search tool.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

My sales person had some unkind words for me in the parking lot later, but I’ll tell you how it turned out at the end of this blog post. “My When other parties are involved, a consultant may serve as a sign that an organization is trying to correct an existing problem, such as a compliance issue. References.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2006

Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Comments are very much welcome.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

We started the morning with introductions, asking people to share their burning issues. We need models to help stop the stream of consciousness writing. He had to pass the test before the ticket was issued. Screen grabs of the entire program that he then referred to as he took the test. How do I speed up the process?

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In cognitive science, this is referred to as ‘inert knowledge’. You may use knowledge to guide your performance, and you need feedback referring to that knowledge to tune your performance, but the knowledge is secondary, and the performance is primary. However, there are issues to be addressed, both pro and con.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Blogging -- It's Good for You. Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Blog 10. Or as Karyn Romeis & Barry Sampson both said - I've learned more via blogging over the past year than I learned in the preceding several years!

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Docebo

MARCH 20, 2023

AI and ML can help reduce the scaling issue via hyper-personalization. You can ask ChapGPT to give you 7 blog topics on the biggest challenges in professional development (another prompt used in the webinar) and it’ll get good stuff to you in a few seconds. But that’s expensive. Often prohibitively so.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

I wasn’t involved in the writing of the serious manifesto (and am nearly incapable of being serious), so I don’t know what role, if any, my publication had. Synergistic with the emphasis on moving L&D forward, the point about not doing well what L&D is doing refers to formal learning. Articles/Blog Posts.

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Infopro Learning

AUGUST 21, 2015

My thoughts have taken shape in this blog and I hope reading it will be worthwhile. The prolonged practice of creating conventional training made me feel like I was part of a bucket brigade , passing buckets for someone else to put out the fire-writing my own decline into obsolescence. Management issues. Inadequate feedback.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2012

However, the granularity of the activities is at issue. Taking this framework provides a reference for learners to take control of their own learning, and develop their ability to be better learners. You could be assigning studio and classroom and community projects, and getting back write-ups, performances, and more.

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CourseArc

APRIL 18, 2024

Tips to Write for Clarity and Understanding Put information in logical order, with the important details first. Use an active voice, with a clear “actor “in your writing. Plain language writing keeps learners focused on the content rather than struggling to understand the language, leading to increased engagement and motivation.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

But, I'm going to try to make a practice of creating blog posts around some of the questions. The other situation is if you are building something that is not a course, e.g., it's reference material. Most LMS systems have ways to launch these kinds of reference systems (they are just a web page after all). That's great!

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 4, 2014

I’m happy to say that the ASTD Handbook meets my demands in every regard, and although I haven’t read through all 980 pages of this massive reference guide, I’ve searched the handbook multiple times and always come away with excellent analysis and hints on what to explore next. Who can tackle that important topic?

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the common themes on my blog is the world we live in with availability of trillions of web pages, millions of people, and thousands of tools, has meant a significant and continuous change in our work literacy. It also has an impact on Learning Design and Learning Organizations … more on this below. Read the Whole Thing ?

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Ed App

JUNE 29, 2022

Quality control (QC) issues are ranked as one of the top 10 headaches in any organization. We’ve listed down the 10 most common quality control issues and solutions to help your team get a better handle on these problems. Quality Control Issues # 1 – Lack of Product Understanding.

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Yukon Learning

JANUARY 16, 2025

These checklists range from simple one-page guides to multi-page processes, depending on their purpose, such as: full project draft cycles translation best practices accessibility considerations screen recording guidelines For this post, well focus on a general checklist , which we refer to simply as our Developer Checklist.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 25, 2013

Possessing good writing, education and training backgrounds would certainly help anyone who aspires to become an elearning story-based curriculum developer. In my past blog , If your Content is 1,000 pages, how do you discover the 10% key performance content? Allow me to use myself as reference to explain further the said ‘dilemma’.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Before I start, it is best to issue a few disclaimers: I am not a neuroscientist; this blog post is not written with appropriate scientific method. While, others must spend days scrutinizing a tidbit of information to determine its worth, write the virtual book, and shelf it in the library stacks in their mind.

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Tesseract Learning

AUGUST 13, 2020

In this blog, I will help you understand what performance support is all about and how it will help your employees do their jobs better. This form of learning should be focused on solving performance issues at work and getting the tasks done. The ultimate goal of L&D is to help improve employee performance. Think Micro.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Write down the learners’ answers. Work-flow issues and choosing the right tasks – get to a behavior focused list, not a task list. If you’re interested in what Bob has to say and want to read more, here are my blogged notes of Bob Mosher’s presentation last spring at Learning Solutions. (not teaching, not training) 2.

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