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Single-Source Workshop with Bryan Chapman and Xyleme Recap

Bryan Chapman is renowned for teaching world-class organizations how to implement successful single-source learning development strategies. On September 12^th, Bryan practiced what he has been preaching all along during a webinar attended by nearly 1000. He took his single-source workshop materials and using Xyleme LCMS technology, created a full course on the topic. His main focus: the idea that from a single-source, content can be output to any format: student guides, instructor guides, eLearning, tablet apps and smartphone apps, just to name a few.

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Content as a Service

By Jeffrey Katzman

For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. Once gone, we lose all connection and control of our content – and this has some obvious drawbacks:

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Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning

By Dawn Poulos

Wrong Way Last month, I moderated an educational webinar on mobile learning and I was fortunate enough to get some of the leading experts in the field, Judy Brown, Tyson Greer and Allison Rossett, to participate in an online panel discussion to discuss a broad range of topics around mLearning and mSupport.

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Four Ways User-Generated Content (UGC) Can Make its Way into Formal Learning

By Dawn Poulos

Handshake This past week, I’ve been reading and referring to Jane Hart’s article The State of Social Learning Today and some Thoughts for the Future of L&D in 2010 quite a bit. As always, Jane combines a wealth of information with some remarkable insights on where organizational learning is (or should be) headed.

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Ben Martin on Effective Content Globalization (Part II)

By Sarah Danzl

In the second of this two-part podcast on content globalization, Ben Martin, a recognized expert in “write once and reuse” content management strategies and an authority in reuse of information across multiple languages, explores – from a strategic point of view – what best practices organizations should follow to effectively globalize their content.

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