Live Online Learning – a facilitators guide

Virtual classrooms provide a fantastic opportunity for any organisation that wants to get more training done more cheaply, particularly when participants are widely dispersed. Many of the skills of the classroom trainer can be transferred without difficulty to an online setting, but the experience can still be strange and sometimes a little daunting for those starting off as virtual classroom facilitators. This ebook brings together best practice guidelines from around the world and from our own extensive experience. It will provide you with invaluable support as you look to transfer your skills online.

http://onlignment.com/live-online-learning-a-facilitators-guide/

Raptivity

It is a great tool. It is very easy to use.

With award-winning Raptivity, you get:

• Pre-built library of 245+ Learning Interactions
  MindPlay, WordPlay, 3D, Games, Videos, Simulations and many more...
• Learning interaction as a single Flash File
  Fits right into your eLearning tool.
• SCORM/ AICC Trackable Interactions
  Tracks completion status, scores and responses

You can see many examples here.

A tour :  http://www.raptivity.com/Raptivity%20tour.htm

http://www.raptivity.com/

How to Create a Tabbed Notebook‏ - elearning workshop

If you’re just getting started with rapid elearning, this is a good basic workshop that takes you through some of the essential techniques.  Plus, you end up a with a nice PowerPoint template.

Here’s what’s covered:

• Building graphics in PowerPoint
• Using two files per course—one for graphics and one for production
• Learn to use PowerPoint hyperlinks
• Leverage the master slides to decrease production time
• Assembling the tabbed notebook

The author built the workshop using the same notebook so you can see an example of the output as well.  He also included the files for PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.

3-tabbed notebook

5-tabbed notebook

5-tabbed multicolor notebook

http://rapid-elearning-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/examples/tabbed-template/player.html

Is the LMS Dead?

The rise of informal and social learning within organizations around the world has prompted discussions about the relevance of the LMS in today's corporate learning, performance and workforce support programs. Is there no future for the LMS?

View the webinar recording to learn about our panelists' views on:

• The changes that social media and mobile technology brin in corporate training.
• What the increasing focus on performance support means for the LMS.
• The new role of the LMS within orgnizations.
• What applications the LMS can enable and how it should interact with other systems.

You can download the webinar from here

webinar slide presentation

Webinar Highlights

http://www.netdimensions.com/news-and-events/webinars/is-the-lms-dead-webinar.php

Raptivity Presenter

It is a great tool and very easy to use .

Create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to your PowerPoint presentations.

Leverage the library of pre-built interactions that engage your audience through active participation.

Completely customize each interaction.

It has also these packs :

Essential Pack

Business Presentation Pack

Training Presentation Pack

Visual Presentation Pack

Interactive Graphs Pack
 

You can see many examples here .

http://www.raptivity-presenter.com/presentation-product/overview

Using Performance-Based Testing to Measure Proficiency

Advances in technology are changing the way application users and IT professionals prepare for and take software proficiency exams. A superior way to administer end-of-course assessments, performance-based testing confirms an individual’s ability to perform a task as opposed to recall information. In a software skills assessment, a performance-based test measures what it is intended to measure – how well the user can do the job.

Please join us for this Training Industry, Inc. webinar, sponsored by Kaplan IT Learning, as Dr. Richard Hyde of Mind Click Ltd provides an introduction to performance-based testing, discussing with you performance-based testing systems, the cost of not implementing an accurate testing system, and the effectiveness of performance-based testing.

During this webinar you will learn:

• The challenges faced by testing and certification program managers.
• The benefits to the many stakeholders of implementing performance-based testing.
• The components of a performance-based testing system

http://www.trainingindustry.com/webinars/Using-Performance-Based-Testing-to-Measure-Proficiency.aspx

Making Online Learning Captivating, Informative & Fun

Research shows that to be most effective, learning must be engaging, enlightening and enjoyable. That’s especially true when reaching a virtual audience of learners, people who are possibly learning in isolated environments without the same social structure as physical classrooms. But with these tools to help you cross the chasm, facilitators can achieve high performance in the virtual arena.

Join us for this Training Industry Webinar, presented on the Adobe Connect platform, as we help you create virtual classrooms that are exciting, meaningful and relevant. In this captivating webinar, you’ll learn from Cynthia Clay, president/CEO of NetSpeed Learning Solutions and author of Great Webinars: How to Create Interactive Learning that is Captivating, Informative, and Fun.

At this one-hour webinar, Cindy will interact with you as she helps you:

• Avoid the 3 most common errors that make webinars dull.
• Apply 5 techniques to transform your virtual classroom.
• Adopt 3 practices to reduce the impact of technology snafus.

Register today for this free, one-hour webinar and you’ll receive a complimentary white paper describing the competencies of a skilled virtual trainer and presenter guidelines for Adobe Connect. Plus, 10 engaged participants will win a copy of Great Webinars: How to Create Interactive Learning that is Captivating, Informative, and Fun.

http://www.trainingindustry.com/webinars/Virtual-Facilitation.aspx