Jan 27

Shed the Burden of Content Management with Content as a Service

Many organizations initially underestimate the time, effort and expertise required to successfully roll out eLearning locally or globally. This can lead to ineffective training, wasted dollars and disgruntled employees. Content as a Service (CaaS) solves these problems by removing the need for organizations to manage the technology, infrastructure and administration, allowing them instead to focus on the effectiveness of the eLearning itself. Learn how CaaS enables: Reduced administration and infrastructure costs, with improved end-user experiences Scalability without needing to add headcount or develop internal expertise Ability to purchase multiple titles from multiple vendors all through one contract Download Plateau’s white paper, The Benefits of Content as a Service: Smarter SaaS , to learn how the strategic components of CaaS enable organizations to free themselves from the burden of content management and delivery and instead invest that time and effort into training their employees. Request Free!

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Mar 05

More Self-Centered Idiocy From the Social Network Fringe.

In a virtually rambling and incoherent blog post, BFChirpy seems to write about metrics, knowledge and such stuff. Take a quick look. A great example of self-indulgent writing and thinking, AND the common extreme self-centeredness of almost all the most active social media pundits and fringe members.

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Mar 01

Elearning, Distance Education, Not Equivalent to Full Time Study

Even though almost everybody can understand that:

  • a conversation on the phone is not the same as a conversation face to face
  • watching a sport on television is not the same as being there in person
  • watching people have sex is not the same as actually having it

many people believe that e-learning is the same as learning in a live group, and distance education or online learning is the same as full time study.

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Oct 14

#lrnchat – Meeting of Dunces or Rich Learning Resource? Or Both? Oct. 8th Report

lrnchat is a twitter based system to chatting which has been trumpeted by at least some of its users and hosts, as being a prime example of how Twitter, and social network platforms can be rich in learning.

Periodically we’ll check in and take a look at the chat, and highlight some of the features, so you can decide on its value. Feel free to surf the transcript for the Oct. 8 version here.

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Oct 11

What Do Intellectually Impoverished Educators/Trainers Do To Make A Living? Why They Make Up New Fancy Sounding Terms

Traditionally educators and trainers have not been leaders in intellectual pursuits. For example, tradionally SAT scores for those entering faculties of education have been the lowest among all university attendees. Why? That’s a complex question for another time, but it is clear that many people who are becoming “experts” in education and training have little background in learning theory, or hard core research, and their behavior, intellectually, tends to be suspect.

So what do these folks do to make a living. Well, they may not be the intellectual bright spots, but they sure can “invent” silly terms to take things we’ve been talking about (or discarded) years ago, repackage them in fancier terms, and then convince everyone that what they have is special.

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May 11

Free Case Study On Blended Learning Use

Title: Streamlining Blended Learning for Leadership Training
Primary Category: Human Resources
Short Description: Managing blended learning activities and ensuring that Training Professionals have the proper skills require significant time and effort.
Long Description: Learning outside the classroom created a challenge: continuing to provide high-quality, customized training without direct human interaction. In this case study, you will gain insight on strategies used to meld blended learning with a highly collaborative training, from design to implementation, the challenges of the virtual classroom and lessons learned.
Publisher: Learn.com
Mar 17

Elearning Related Free Whitepapers. Keep up with the field

Here are a few elearning and informal learning white papers that have come across our desk. Please note that these offers tend to be available for only short periods of time, so if you are interested, please grab your copies ASAP.

Top 5 Trends in Learning Technology

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