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Andy Pasternak from Pal-Tech presented on the topic of Learning Management Systems. The company focuses on the Federal government and providing learning solutions to those agencies. they specialize in traning technology and management and they have international expertise providing services in over 50 countries. Create and support training in multiple languages. He discussed how they […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Stacey Gawrys and Kevin Bennett from Banker’s Edge. The presentation was about how to add simple games to compliance training in the financial industry which is highly conservative. Here are some of the compliants with many compliance e-learning courses:-Just the facts–not engaging-Dry and boring-Staff just click through it yearly-End users not really happy when it […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Greg Walsh presented a presentation called “Going to the Dark Side: Out Sourcing e-Learning” He described the environment in which outsourcing takes place at Black and Decker and how his group transitioned from an internal group to primarily an external group. Of the 22 courses his group is doing this year, 21 of the courses […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Bob Christensen presented for NXLevel. He discussed their product called i-Prism which has been designed for the creation of e-learning with a great deal of flexibility and abilty to manage content and learning objects. The tool allows the inclusion of videos, quizzes and Flash animations. The tool has an scenario editor as well as a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Cliff Sobel from The Phoenix Group and James Knittel from Xerox presented a solution they jointly created and how they developed entertaining ways to get across information about their new products. Transferring knowledge that the sales reps from Xerox could use. Cliff mentioned that there were four key issues with existing training that needed to […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Our bi-annual Corporate Advisory Council has kicked off today. The first day is when companies present what they are doing and how they incorporating e-learning into their organizations. So we are blogcasting the event live as it happens so feel free to participate and join in the discussion. I did the first presentation on the […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →“In any given minute of the day, about 1.6 million people in the U.S. are using a video game console.” This according to research released by Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services, a service of The Nielsen Company. The research goes on to say that 41.1% of all TV households own at least one game console […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →As a faculty member, father and human being, my heart goes out to all of students, faculty, staff and parents at Virginia Tech. Sometimes we live in such sad times.__
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Leave a Comment (1) →Yes, it is now official, you can order Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools and Techniques for Transferring Know-How from Boomers to Gamers. The book is available at Amazon and from the publisher at Wiley’s web site. Also, check out the web site for the book www.gadgetsgamesandgizmos.com. It has an interactive game/console timeline, wiki-based […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Rumor has it that Apple is in the process of creating Wi-Fi enabled iPods. (via Gizmodo via digitimes via AppleInsider. This coupled with Nike’s iPod enabled shoe, once again show how gadgets can be used to transfer knowledge from one place to another…wi-fi allows for easy transfer. So imagine your iPod sensor from running sending […]
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