What Technology is Best for Performance Support? Toolkit: What Will 2014 Bring Us? Please… Please… Please… by Joe Ganci. “We need tools that give us real power, not just the power to churn out more eLearning faster and at less expense, but to create learning that truly helps learners achieve what we hope to have them achieve.” Things have changed a lot in the 34 years I’ve worked in the eLearning field. It used to be that we had clearly delineated roles most of the time between the instructional design team and the computer-based training development team in most organizations in which I worked or that I saw elsewhere. Roles are not that clear-cut any more. Following are my thoughts at the start of 2014. I hope you’ll add your thoughts in the Comments section below. In the beginning Instructional designers were expected to know … well, instructional design … and so usually held a master of arts or a master of science degree in instructional technology or a similar field. And then PowerPoint tools happened The thinking is, “Hey everybody knows PowerPoint, so let’s build on that.”
What tools do you use? Toolkit: Five Lesser-known eLearning Tools by Joe Ganci. “The tool itself uses a metaphor of folders and screens. Each folder is a group which is flexible in nature. You can call it a topic, module, chapter, or anything else you like. The folders can be expanded and collapsed and form a tree view on the left.
A screen can be one of several basic layouts, such as text and image combinations, a more-info slide, or a short PDF document.” A word of thanks to those of you who have responded to my survey for those lesser-known eLearning tools that you either use or you would like me to review. There were a good number of responses but there is still time to vote because Part 2 will be next month. First, some announcements The Serious eLearning Manifesto was announced on March 13. Raptivity, the cool interaction builder, got a sporting new interface recently. EasyGenerator has introduced a Starter edition for $19 a month and the first month is free.
You’ve probably heard of the Oppia beta by now. And now: the first five mini-reviews Articulate Online. Toolkit: Articulate Studio '13 Pro by Joe Ganci. “Replay is a new product from Articulate. It is a video editor that lets you record screencasts while also recording yourself on a webcam if you wish. You can have videos switch out and you can have two videos play at the same time.
Replay includes a lot of nice features for a low-cost video editor.” PowerPoint add-in tools have been around for quite some time and among them none has captured the market or the imagination of eLearning designers as much as has Articulate Studio. Studio’s last major release (Studio ’09) was in September 2008. Since then, there have been nine updates to Studio but no major upgrade … until now.
As I’ve written before, PowerPoint add-in eLearning development tools give you an edge in that they let you create learning quickly and easily, but they don’t necessarily replace more powerful tools, such as Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate. What’s included in Studio ’13? PresenterQuizmakerEngage Replay Let’s take a look at each of the four applications. eLearning Authoring Tools 2013: What We're Using, What We Want : Research Library.
October 3, 2013 “Which authoring tool is best?” Is one of the most commonly asked questions about eLearning. The new Guild Research report, eLearning Authoring Tools 2013: What We’re Using, What We Want, written by Patti Shank, with Joe Ganci, provides answers from respondents’ point of view. It examines the results of a 2013 survey with 1,055 respondents that shows which asynchronous eLearning authoring tools individuals and organizations use and want and explains which features are most desired by users. The report reveals the types of courses being created with these tools, what organizations of different sizes are spending on asynchronous eLearning authoring tools, and what tools practitioners are using and want to use. An analysis of the data shows that there have been many changes over the past few years.
The report also explores details about desired features and provides a deeper understanding about what practitioners want from the authoring experience. Full Report: Practical Mobile eLearning Today: Real Solutions for Creating mLearning for Your Organization Right Now, Part 1. InShare15 Mobile Learning has become a hot-topic and therefore has been seriously laden with marketing and hype.
The excitement is very understandable, but it also makes finding information about how to actually create mobile eLearning solutions (mLearning) all the more difficult. Today’s post is intended to help you cut through the hype and get down to the business of creating actual training content that can be delivered on cell phones, tablets and other mobile devices.
In this series of blogs, I’ll explain what makes mLearning different than conventional eLearning, and how to adapt or customize your content for delivery on mobile devices. Then I’ll give you an overview of the dominant types of mLearning content, and give you some examples of how to create content of these types. Finally I’ll talk about some of the inherent tools in mobile devices that might be leveraged in order to provide new opportunities for your learning solutions. mLearning Interface Differences. Mobile Learning (mLearning) Application - NetDimensions. Mobile Devices in the Workplace: Latest Facts and Figures | Brandon Hall Group. What is your device of choice? Are you an Apple person? Android? Maybe you’re still rocking a Razr flip phone. Luckily for you, the mobile device you prefer to use will most likely not limit you in your interactions with your organization’s systems.
Well, except for you, Razr guy, you’re out of luck. According to IDC, 81% of the smartphones shipped this quarter worldwide run the Android platform, while Apple’s iOS is found on 13% of smartphones. It’s partly for this reason that Apple devices, rather than Androids, have overtaken Blackberries as the weapon of choice for organizations. Another contributor to the end to the Blackberry may be the tablet. Even in a purely BYOD environment, Apple seems to have the edge. So the upshot is this: in an enterprise environment, Apple is king, Android is fighting hard, Blackberry is fading but holding on for dear life, and Windows is making headway. InShare. Gomo learning | Multi-device authoring tool. Imagine being able to access learning from a tablet at the breakfast table, carrying on where you left off at your computer at work, then checking back in on the train journey home on your smartphone.
That’s multi-device learning at its best. We believe that learning shouldn’t be inhibited by technology, so that’s why we created our award-winning gomo learning multi-device authoring tool. gomo-created e-learning works on virtually any device, and it’s super easy to keep content up-to-date. From a single HTML5 code base, users can create content once for learners to access from smartphones, tablets and computers. Content is automatically created according to best practice adaptive and responsive design principles, meaning it always looks great no matter what devices your learners are using. This is multi-device content creation at its easiest. Enterprise Mobility Management for the Mobile Enterprise | Apperian. Enterprise App Stores explained – everything you need to know! - Mobile Experts - WorkLearnMobile. Geoff Stead Geoff is the Head of Mobile Learning for Qualcomm, based in both the UK and California.
He is one of the global leaders in mobile learning for the workplace, and contributes to WorkLearnMobile to encourage smarter use of mobile at work, across the globe. According to Brandon Hall’s hot-of-the-press mobile learning review, 100% of the top performing companies they spoke to are already doing mobile learning, and the higher up their performance ranking you go, the more m-learning you find So – you are a top performing company. You have started using a couple of mobile apps at work. But what next? One of the key components of this is creating an internal, corporate ecosystem for mobile. This is your enterprise app store. Consumer expectations of mobile are very different from corporate IT systems. Mobile: app stores are chaotically unstructured.
Here is a quick summary of the spectrum of stores available, and the strategy we at Qualcomm have adopted: So what about the vendors? Choosing-authoring-tools. Choosing-Authoring-Tools-3. “What We Got Here Is … an EPSS” by Conrad Gottfredson. In Donn Pearce’s book Cool Hand Luke, each time the captain of Road Prison 36 recaptures Luke he says to him, “What we got here is ... a failure to communicate.” And this just may well be the case now with our conversations around performance support (PS) and its range of incarnations. To begin, here are three critical clarifications: There are different types of vehicles for delivering performance support These vehicles differ in capability and quality of production As a result, they vary in their capacity to deliver business benefit What’s the difference?
Take, for example, job aids and traditional software help systems. Table 1: Electronic performance support systems compared to job aids (Gery) Table 2: Electronic performance support systems compared to traditional help systems (Gery ) Defining the EPSS In all her groundbreaking work, Gery settled in on an EPSS as the embodiment of what she proposes performance support can, and needs to be, for organizations. Gery describes an EPSS as: