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Rapid E-learning: using the 80/20 rule to prioritize learning needs

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Today’s post concludes my short review of Kineo’s 80/20 approach to rapid learning content prioritization and development.Previously, I considered how the 80/20 Rule could be applied to e-learning, and suggested that Juran’s Axiom of “the vital few and the trivial many” meant that we could say 80 percent of learning results originate from 20 percent [...]

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Tags: 80:20 Rule · content development · disintermediation · knowledge worker · needs analysis · organizational development · rapid elearning · training needs

Rapid E-Learning and the 80/20 Rule

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments

My experience of the e-learning industry is that the best and most effective practitioners are always looking for even more efficient content development methodologies, media production technologies, and approaches to content distribution to enable them to design, develop and deliver content to learners.

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Tags: 80:20 Rule · content development · disintermediation · knowledge worker · needs analysis · organizational development · rapid elearning · training needs

Rapid E-learning Authoring Tool - PowerManual Demo

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

You may recall this post where I discussed a new Rapid E-Learning authoring tool I was beta-testing for a friend.
If, like me, you’ve spent extended periods of time creating manuals from other media formats, you’ll appreciate the hard work and, to be honest, tedium involved in generating, formatting, proofing, and finally producing documentation to accompany [...]

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Tags: authoring tools · content authoring · e-learning · rapid elearning · utilities

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 1: AuthorSTREAM

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m very impressed by some of the presentation-sharing tools available to educators. Over the next few days I’m going to evaluate two of them - authorSTREAM and SlideShare, starting with the former.
Now read on…
I think the best way to evaluate them is to go through the process of signing up, uploading content, using the functionality [...]

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Tags: authorstream · knowledge sharing · learning channel · online presentation tool · rapid elearning

E-Learning and the Economic Downturn: April Update

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s just over two months since I posted on Recession and the Challenge to E-learning. It’s a subject that I said I would monitoring as the “Credit Crunch” became a downturn, which may or may not lead to a recession.
As a reminder, at the time I suggested that the appropriate social and economic innovations required [...]

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Tags: content development · credit crunch · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

An Introduction to Rapid E-Learning Authoring Tools

April 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I’ve been having a little bit of fun over the last few days.
A friend of mine is developing a very cool tool that will enable courseware developers to easily convert their presentation content into neatly-formatted MS Word documents for distribution to learners. If, like me, you’ve spent extended periods of time creating manuals from other [...]

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Tags: Camtasia · REL · authoring tools · educational media · rapid elearning

Top Ten Tools for E-learning in 2008

March 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4PT) site is compiling this year’s list of Top 10 Tools for Learning. I think that it’s a worthwhile exercise to contribute your list if you feel strongly, as I do, that the more exposure learning professionals have to [...]

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Tags: Top Ten Tools · authoring tools · content development · e-learning · e-learning industry · instructional design · rapid elearning

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: e-learning industry · economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning

E-Learning and economic downturns…

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m getting some interesting feedback from a variety of sources on my blog post Recession and the challenge to e-learning. Steve McKenzie over at Eduspaces has commented that he considers e-learning to be a “recession buster …on balance costs for institutions and individuals can be saved.”
I completely agree with Steve’s assessment; the challenge as I [...]

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Tags: economic downturn · rapid elearning · recession

Recession and the challenge to e-learning

February 14th, 2008 · 7 Comments

A colleague in an area of business other than the learning industry asked me a few days ago; “Do you think that e-learning will survive a recession?”
My initial response to her was “there’s no recession… yet!” Later, I reflected on the implications of the current economic slowdown (whether or not it turns into a recession) [...]

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Tags: content development · e-learning definition · e-learning industry · rapid elearning · recession · social impact of e-learning