http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:46:23 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001028.html I work in a small learning management department in a large Health System. One of the "forever" problems we'd like to solve, is how to get out of the way of our many clinical subject matter experts and make it EASY for them to put trackable learning content online by themselves. Why is this still a problem in this age... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001012.html The field of Healthcare today is filled with opportunities for improvement. Inconsistent treatment, preventable illness, and medical errors that result in injury are all too common, along with enormous inefficiency and waste. The Institute of Medicine, the medical arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is leading an initiative that descibes a better organizing principle for healthcare - a... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/001004.html One thing a Learning Management System does very well is convey an implicit, if perhaps unearned, sense of authority to the learning activities it contains. To those of us who tend to do our learning informally, it may seem a bit quaint, but in the TinCan era, as the corporate LMS becomes a side-show to the main act of "all... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000997.html Like many corporate learning departments, ours spends a substantial amount of effort creating and delivering mandatory learning programs. Fire Safety, Infection Control, and Corporate Compliance are just a few of the required activities taken by thousands of people every year. Because they affect so many people, it would be nice if they were as relevant, interesting and responsive to changing... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000992.html We use Captivate with our LMS both as standalone SCORM modules that communicate directly with the LMS, and as embedded quizzes inside custom learning modules. Communication of the Captivate score back to the learning module was done using a trick suggested by Adobe's Andrew Chemey which involved redefining the built-in sendMail function Captivate used to send an email report of... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000989.html Something I've been thinking a lot about lately, since we have been looking at learning systems, is the idea of friction. My definition of friction is anything that either lowers our expectations of the results we can get from a particular tool or process to the point that we either change our expectations of the results or abandon them altogether.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000982.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000919.html Supporting Informal LearningInformal learning is particularly useful where learners are not novices in a subject area and have some background, but are trying to add skills or need additional support for the details of unfamiliar tasks. Training people to find the information they need when they need it may work as well as training them to remember all the information... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000910.html In Captivate versions up to version 4, it used to be easy to copy slides from one project to another. by simply importing slides from any other project. But Captivate 5 lacks the import slides feature! 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