If you’re like me, you’ve seen plenty of elearning orientations that are mostly page-turners or text-laden. Here’s an awesome example of an orientation that puts the viewer “inside of the experience.” Forget about telling “the how-to” or “this is what you learn” to someone. What about placing the participant  INTO the story. Why tell them what they will experience…let them experience it? Note how this drips of empathy and connection without the use of text/slogans. The experience drives ...

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Hey! Happy New Year! Woo-hoo! Thanks so much to all who visited last year! Here are the top most viewed 2010 posts:
1   Shift Happened. Got Social Learning? 
2   Augmented Reality, Future for eLearning?
3   Top 10 eLearning Elements: Going from Good to Great Design
4   Need an Online Portfolio Fast? Use a Blog Template. Really.
5   Social Media & Learning: Hello. We’re Way Past Fad

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It’s been an incredible year for the learning industry. Innovations in mobile technologies, the arrival of the ipad (was it just this year?) and the continued evolution of social learning,  are just some highlights of a year that saw learning design continue to mature along side emerging and maturing technologies. What a ride! Useful tools and helpful resources in a wide array of media help make consulting, managing, designing and developing much easier than even 24 ...

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As I read Wired Magazine’s ”7 Essential Skills You Didn’t Learn in College” recently I wondered what would be that golden nugget skill, that diamond in the ruff … that big fat talent that would potentially help overshadow or balance a person’s fatal flaw particularly in today’s fast-moving corporate learning industry? It’s being able to build buy-in. Yes, knowing design theories, technology, cognitive science, and management are all necessary technical skill areas.  In terms of a must-have-soft-skill, a skill incredibly necessary for a twenty-something’s ...

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