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Numerous instructional designers talk about their dilemmas when creating e-learning courses. One common option is to use off-the-shelf tools such as MS Office to create their e-learning content. However, this often leads to having to struggle to get this content translated into other languages.

This issue was recently addressed in the latest Reusability 2.0 webinar “Simplifying Compliance Training”. The webinar was mostly centered on knowledge management for compliance training. One of the questions posed to the panelists was how language translation related to content delivery and control. Mark Hellinger, President and CEO of Xyleme, answered:

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“My belief is that very few people go to work to do a bad job. I’d say that 98% of people who go to work want to do a great job.” - John Catlin, CEO, TACTICS Consulting

A portion of the November 6th webinar, Reusability 2.0: Simplifying Compliance Training, included a discussion between Catlin and panel host Cushing Anderson, VP of HR for IDC, on how to make it easy for employees to do their jobs well.

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Be sure to stop back by on the 20th, when we’ll be hosting the Working/Learning Blog Carnival. Until then, here’s a grab bag of edubloggers and others who are interested in expanding people’s capacity to think effectively …

Janet Clarey: Responding to the monthly Learning Circuits question, a look at how a newbie can approach e-learning.

Harold Jarche: Instructional design with a greedy algorithm may allow more agility.

Brain Blogger: The brain blogging carnival awaits you. (via)

Ken Carroll: Will the economic crunch pave the way for widespread networked learning as a viable replacement for many venues of formal education?

Apemyp: A brief overview of Xerox’ blended learning supported SAP software rollout, using an approach that cost them less and still boosted worker productivity.

Educators and the deep, blue digital …

The Learning Circuits Blog: The question for May is if there’s a difference between instructional design for digital immigrants vs. digital natives.

Karyn’s erratic learning journey: Responding to the question for May, Karyn says no and anyway, you have to do a fresh needs assessment for each instructional design project.

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We were recently able to talk with both Elliott Masie and Dr. Conrad Gottfredson about informal learning, multichannel publishing and performance support for the Xyleme podcast series.

Challenge and Need

Gottfredson said that it was the job of learning professionals to support learners throughout their journey, and has identified five key moments of need where they require support. He started by listing the two traditional points of need; when learning new information and when building on past learning. He then added three additional stages where learners often need on-demand information and assistance; applying and remembering what they’ve learned, troubleshooting and resolving problems, and when facing change.

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So what do you get when you cross a course storyboard with PowerPoint? Answer: a dead end road.

Unfortunately, it’s not a joke; it’s what we see time and time again with corporate training organizations. Instructional designers pour their blood, sweat and tears into the production planning process, creating storyboards with tools that produce custom code which is useless for building the actual courses they are designing. It takes about a second to figure out that there has to be a better way.

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Jeff Katzman and I recently gave the following presentation at Eliott Masie’s Learning2007. It’s called Reusability 2.0: Real World Strategies for Designing Learning Content for Reuse. This was the first time we gave this presentation, so, not having set stratospheric expectations, we were a bit taken aback by the overwhelmingly positive response to the session.

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This blog entry will be the first in a series that explores the concepts and best practices for creating learning content reusability.

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