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Enhancing Learning through Technology – Part I

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This is a talk I gave recently to a group of educator/trainers within the U of M Health System. Although it contains many UMHS-specific references, the concepts outlined in it can be applied to other training environments as well. There’s nothing particularly original here, just some suggestions for how to select among different technologies commonly available. This was the first part of a two-part presentation. The second part featured tips for creating engagement and improving digital photography.

 

Best Practice Showcase: Enhancing Learning through Technology

Our team has lots of tools you can use to create online training. There are so many choices, in fact, that it can be difficult to decide which to select when you’re starting a new project.  

To help you sort through all the options, I’m going to give you some typical instructional situations and suggest tools that might best support them, without breaking the budget in the process. These are all things you can use – they don’t require a computer science degree to get a good result!

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The role of search in corporate learning programs

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Enterprise Search as Learning Technology

With the current training industry interest in elearning trends like informal learning, social and collaborative Web 2.0 learning technologies, it’s easy to overlook the importance of the humble search box as a learning tool.

More important now than ever

As companies seek to increase productivity with fewer people and resources, one way to improve efficiency is to create better connections between people and the information they need to do their jobs. It’s not hard to make big improvements in the search situation companies’ internal networks: the barriers that exist between knowledge workers and and information resources within company intranets are profound and economically significant. They fall into several categories:

  1. Information is hidden away in personal folders in documents that cannot be accessed through the web, and are not searched by a search engine.
  2. Web-based information that could have wider access is locked down to a small group of people.
  3. Information is available, but not located where people think to look for it.
  4. Information is available and can be searched but there are problems with the search engine’s judgement or display which prevent the user from finding it.
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A SCORM-ready template: Part 1F. Modifying the CSS styles

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Modifying the CSS styles

The css styles are defined in several sheets. Any of the styles can be overridden by adding a new definition for the selector to /css-local/userStyles.js or to individual pages or even individual elements on a page. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO change any of the files inside the css/ folder but you can add your own overrides to userStyles.css.

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Create multi-sco learning modules using the Reload Editor: Part III

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Reload Editor Tutorial Part III – Adding Attributes

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  1. Once you have added some resources, they become available to select in the Referenced elements menu in the Item’s Attributes.

    To associate an item with its resource, under Organization, select the item. Its Attributes appear below.

    Reload - referenced Element

  2. You may change the item name at the top of the attributes area to the title of the SCO.

    Reload - Changed Name

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Getting Questionmark Perception to work with Docent 6.5

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Making Questionmark Perception quizzes SCORM-compliant, AND compatible with Docent 6.5 LMS was a big piece of our recent Docent implementation project, since we had many legacy quizzes.

Here are the steps involved:

  1. Install QMWise (available from Questionmark.com) on the Perception server.
  2. Install Content packager (available from Questionmark.com) on your workstation
    ( tip, do NOT have SSL enabled on the server – it blocks QMWise communication if the certificate is slightly misnamed).
  3. Read the Knowledgebase article “How can I call Perception from a SCORM-compliant Learning Management System?”
  4. Get the files scorm.pip and perceptionSCO.htm from Questionmark.com.
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