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Find list of Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs (in alphabetical order) that Upside Learning team follows. 1. Adventures in Corporate Education 2. Bersin & Associates : Blogs 3. Big Dog, Little Dog 4. Blogger in Middle-earth 5. Bozarthzone 6. Clark Aldrich On Simulations and Serious Games 7. Clive on Learning 8. Connectivism 9. Daretoshare 10. Dave's Whiteboard 11. Donald Clark Plan B 12. eLearning Blog // Don't Waste Your Time… 13. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) 14. E-Learning Curve Blog 15. eLearning in the Corporate Sector 16. eLearning Technology 17. eLearning Weekly 18. elearningpost 19. elearnspace 20. Engaged Learning 21. Experiencing E-Learning 22. Harold Jarche 23. ID and Other Reflections 24. In the Middle of the Curve 25. Informal Learning Blog 26. Internet Time Blog 27. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day 28. Kapp Notes 29. Learn and Lead 30. Learning Conversations 31. Learning TRENDS 32. Learning Visions 33. Learnlets 34. Making Change - Ideas for Lively eLearning 35. Mobile Learning 36. Nigel Paine 37. Stephen's Web 38. T+D Blog 39. Take An E-Learning Break 40. The Bamboo Project Blog 41. The eLearning Coach 42. The Learning Circuits Blog 43. The Rapid eLearning Blog 44. The Upside Learning Solutions Blog 45. TogetherLearn 46. Will at Work Learning 47. Workplace Learning Today

A since deceased, highly-regarded fellow faculty member, Anthony (Tony) Athos, occasionally sat on a bench on a nice day at the Harvard Business School, apparently staring off into space. When asked what he was doing, ever the iconoclast, he would say, "Nothing." His colleagues, trained to admire and teach action, would walk away shaking their heads and asking each other, "Is he alright?" It is perhaps no coincidence that Tony often came up with some of the most profound insights at faculty meetings and informal gatherings. This story captures much of the sense of the responses to this month's question about why managers don't think deeply. The list of causes was much longer than the list of proposed responses. But in the process, some other questions were posed. Ben Kirk kicked off the list of reasons for the phenomenon when he commented, "… what rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to … reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not likely to understand, encourage, or recognize deep thinking in others. Adnan Younis added the possibility that "… managers are not trained for it." Dianne Jacobs cited the possibility that persisting assumptions borne out of success serve as "roadblocks to act on needed change" (proposed by those who engage in deep thinking?). Ulysses U. Pardey, whose comment triggered my recollection of Tony Athos, wrote that "Time-for-thinking is a special moment which can be resource consuming and an unsafe activity …" (Fortunately, Athos held a tenured position in an academic organization.) A number of comments alluded to the triumph of bureaucracies and large organizations over deep thinking. As Lorre Zuppan said, "I think Jeff Immelt's efforts to protect deep thinking reflect a nice sentiment but … If his team could carry the ball, would he need to announce that he's protecting it?" Tom Henkel was more succinct: "Ther

ed with an understanding of how people learn, you're able to construct effective and efficient learning activities.  Unfortunately, much of what we call elearning today falls flat; mainly because we take a very narrow approach to instructional design. First, we treat the event of elearning as the total learning process.  But the reality is that the elearning course is just part of the learning process.  Instructional design considerations can be broader than just the immediate elearning course.  I discussed this a bit in this post on effective elearning.  Ideally, the instructional design considers the big picture including ongoing performance support outside of the elearning course.

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It's now six months since Harbinger Knowledge Products - makers of Raptivity®, the award-winning, rapid e-learning development software tool that comes with a library of pre-built customisable interactions, most of which are interactive - launched 'Raptivity Evolve' for its Raptivity premium customers. In that time, it's produced five new interaction modules collaborating with Raptivity users, in response to these users' suggestions.

Team Raptivity recently organized an exclusive event named 'Top 5 eLearning Trends of 2013', for professionals and leaders committed to integrating the best in learning practices, using the latest available tools for enhancing the overall learning experience.

Templates can be very helpful in providing the structure of online learning activities; however some templates can limit creativity and make presentations become very cookie-cutter and boring. Templates can also allow for the rapid creation of learning activities which enable timely development and revisions. If templates are easy to use and flexible; they facilitate the design of relevant, current, and creative activities.

Raptivity comes up with weekly workshop which you can attend. Many customers find Raptivity weekly workshop helpful. This webinar will help you to understand how Raptivity can be used in the most powerful way. The workshop will consist of detailed introduction, tips and tricks of how Raptivity works as a rapid development tool to create interactive elearning courses.

Dialog based learning, indeed, is a proven way of teaching and keeping learners engaged.Today, we will understand how dialogs help us add a human touch to our courses, thus making them more engaging and interesting for the learners. Let's take a quick look to see how dialogs help us bid boredom goodbye from our courses.

What are the key elements of technology enhanced learning objects? The basic principles of instructional design and user experience design apply to designing quality technology enhanced learning objects.

To help the learner remember and recall the learning material. Raptivity had organized a special webinar titled 'Making Learning Stick!' on Apr 30, 2013 with Jay Cross, CEO and Chief Unlearning Officer, Internet Time Alliance as the guest speaker.

46-page .pdf book by Tom Kuhlman -- Using Articulate for E-Learning. He is a creative master.

Having learners achieve the objectives of a course is critical for their ongoing training and development. The course design, including the learning interactions, can have a significant impact on the success of the learning objectives being achieved.

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No one wants to take time and trouble, using their expertise, to produce something that's not as effective as it should be. This is just as true of online learning designers and developers as it is of anyone. Read more …

One of the issues I've always had with online learning is programming a question to have some type of interaction when the student does not initially answer the question correctly the first time. Most tools provide multiple ways to provide feedback. This feedback comes either per answer or per question or at the end of a series of questions.

Raptivity's commitment to constantly enhance on the customer collaboration front has yielded another win-win situation for both the parties involved. Based on various feedbacks, suggestions and discussions with its wide customer base, Raptivity has successfully reenergised its overall user interface (UI).

With eLearning authoring software and interactivity builders, you too can turn bad, ugly PowerPoint presentations into good-looking and interactive eLearning courses.

Gamification is a powerful tool to engage learners, whether customers or employees, to change behaviors, develop skills or drive innovation. When a course is "gamified" correctly, itnot only improves user engagement but also lowers cost, and makes implementation easier.