What’s New in Adobe Captivate 6

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists to learn more about the new release of Adobe Captivate 6 - the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool.

Adobe Captivate 6 helps users author and deliver HTML5-based eLearning content to virtually any device. They can create HD product demos with a new capture-as-a-video workflow and liven up courses with actors, themes, smart shapes, and interactive elements. Quizzing is now much easier and more effective with pre-tests, audio responses, and remediation.

Thursday, August 2, 2012
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM US/Pacific

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=2062141&loc=en_us&sdid=JZWNA

Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo

ELCE Offers 50+ Sessions, 60+ Experts, 6 Workshops and 4 Tracks Over 3 Days

Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo (ELCE) is singularly focused on helping executives build smarter organizations by leveraging learning and workplace technologies to IMAGINE. INSPIRE. INNOVATE. ELCE programs support employees, partners and customer performance across domestic and global enterprises.

ELCE zeros in on your objectives and offers actionable steps you can use to bring drive results. As host of the exclusive learning and workplace technology marketplace, the ELCE conference embraces strategies, tactics and solutions for attendees at all levels of their organization.

Enterprise Learning! Conference Tracks
ELCE offers four tracks Learning Technology at Work, Best Practices of the Learning! 100, Strategy & Leadership and Best of Elearning! 2012.

Choose your own path from over 50 sessions that resonate with your job focus.

Ways to Learn
Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo provides attendees the choice to mix and match from an array of learning options including sessions, certificate programs, workshops, Demo Days and Innovation Theater unsessions.

September 25-27, 2012

Hyatt Regency of Irvine, CA

http://www.elceshow.com/

Assess if a new webcasting platform is right for you

Taking sales teams out of the field for regular training and updates is both costly and detrimental to business continuity. Webinars enable organisations to deliver live and on-demand training sessions to teams in the field. However, choosing the right platform is essential to delivering a successful training webinar. Learn how you can experience next-generation webcasting with a free two-week trial of ON24 Webcast Elite.

This webinar will feature a step-by-step demonstration of how you can create fully customised webinars that deliver an interactive and engaging user experience that will take your webinars to a whole new level

This webinar will feature:

5 platform requirements for delivering successful webinars
Overview of the free Webcast Elite two-week trial
Tips on how to explore the platform
How to customise and brand your webinars
Take the risk out of assessing a new webinar platform. Register for this complimentary live-demonstration webcast and explore the power of the free two-week Webcast Elite trial. Your webinars will never be the same.

Speakers:
Mark Szelenyi
Senior Director of Webcasting
ON24, Inc.
As Senior Director of Webcasting for ON24, Mark is responsible for product direction and strategy. He comes to ON24 with over 20 years of experience working for leading technology firms in product development and marketing roles.

Mark Bornstein
Director
Content Marketing
ON24, Inc.
As Director of Content Marketing for ON24, Mark is responsible for managing content strategy and marketing communications in support of webcasting and virtual events solutions. Mark brings over 20 years of marketing, account management and communications experience with leading technology firms.

http://communication.on24.com/emeafreetrialwebcast?elq=b17f74c78d1c463baaf1f27f26deb331&elqCampaignId=892

The Mobile Learning Revolution - Webinar

Senior learning executives who are navigating the world of mobile learning should attend this webinar to learn:

In this webinar, we’re honored to have Dr. Thomas (Tom) Archibald, the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab Hub Director of Operations, under the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  Joe and Tom will share the Top 20 Uses for Mobile Learning from the ADL’s Mobile Learning Handbook, as well as cover some pre-conference workshop topics such as best practices, design considerations, and mobile learning tools available.  Attendees will be able to download the Mobile Learning Handbook, produced by ADL for free, and this workshop is worth 5 credits towards your Learning Professional Certificate (LPC).  Senior learning executives who are navigating the world of mobile learning should attend this webinar to learn:

The Top 20 Uses for Mobile Learning;
Best Practices for Implementing Mobile Learning;
Mobile Design Considerations;
Mobile Learning Tools Available; and
Where to get more information on Mobilizing Learning.

Speaker: Tom Archibald, Director of Operations at Advanced Distributed Learning Co Lab will be joined by Joe DiDonato, Editor-at-Large for the Elearning! Media Group.
Tom Archibald & Joe DiDonato will share the Top 20 Uses for Mobile Learning from the ADL's Mobile Learning Handbook, as well as cover some pre-conference workshop topics such as best practices, design considerations,
and mobile learning tools available. Attendees will be able to download the Mobile Learning Handbook, produced by ADL for free.

Date: Thursday, August 9th

Time: 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/630445170

62 Tips on Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, and Visualization for eLearning

Effective eLearning deliverables require more than just text and few random graphics. Good graphic design, user interface (UI) design, and user experience (UX) design aren’t optional – they’re necessary to ensure maximum learner comprehension and retention.

We asked some of the most noted experts in the field to give us their best tips for graphic design, UI, UX, and visualization. What follows are 62 tips from 12 contributors, focusing on topics such as what is best illustrated by a still image vs. an animation; why navigation should be at the bottom of a page; and the importance of keeping virtual keyboards in mind.

This complimentary eBook draws on the experience of top professionals who are leading sessions in The eLearning Guild’s August 2012 Online Forum, “Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, and Visualization for eLearning.” Let their expertise guide you in areas including:

Highlighting Learning
Aesthetic Considerations
Tricks and Tools

Contributing Editor, Karen Forni

http://www.elearningguild.com/surveys/?sid=209

Building Stories using StoryLine

Using the book, "Story Impacts Learning and Performance" as a point of reference, Ray Jimenez will share how he uses engaging stories and Articulate StoryLine to author"What if I die today?" - Story Impacts eLearning Exercise. 

Specifically, Ray will provide you in advance, the source code to a basic self-reflection exercise, "What if I die today?" - a Story Impacts eLearning Exercise authored in StoryLine.You will be able to investigate the authoring design prior to learning  more about the approach during the actual webinar. 
Topics to cover:

*    Building basic game-like story elements using animation, objects, scenes and
     slides, timelines, layers and triggers
*    Using variables for multiple decision points 
*    Providing game-like feedback for progress tracking
*    Download and obtain the free source code for StoryLine scenario
     "What if I die today?" (Ray Jimenez, 2012) - ideal reference for your development
*    PRE-WEBINAR SOURCE CODE FREE DOWNLOAD

Speaker:   

Ray Jimenez, Ph.D.
Chief Learning Architect of Vignettes for Training, Inc.     

Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., spent 15 years with Coopers & Lybrand in the areas of management consulting and implementation of learning technology solutions. Ray has worked with American Bankers Association, Neiman Marcus, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, Blue Cross, Goodwill Industries, Pixar Studios, and the California Institute of Technology. 

Ray is the author of 3-Minute e-Learning, Scenario-Based Learning, and Do-It-Yourself eLearning, and Story Impacts Learning and Performance. Ray is the founder of http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/ and http://www.try.storyimpacts.com/. He is the Chief Learning Architect for http://www.vignetteslearning.com/.  Webinar participants describe Ray as "fun," "engaging," "technically savvy," "provocative," "inspiring," and "has depth in eLearning experience and innovation solutions."

Date: Thursday, July12, 2012    

Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session)

Register here :

http://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/welcome/rayjimenez_jul12

Good Time.

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