Monthly Archives: September 2009
Macro SMEconomics 101
This article was inspired by Learning Circuits’ Big Question for September 2009. One of the fundamental tenets of management says that you must manage your business around your scarcest resource. Over the past year, priority options collapsed to just one item – money. It’s easy, in these desperate times to think that the money constraint [...]
Drupal 6 Ajax Screenshot Gallery
We recently wanted to put up a carousel-style image gallery of product screenshots in our Drupal based website. After a good bit of research, I wound up with several “solutions”, but none of them did quite what I wanted; luckily I hit upon a solution by a bit of good luck simply by noticing some [...]
Flash development with open source tools
A start to finish guide for setting up an Actionscript 3 development environment using open source tools that will work within the context of an agile process on Linux, or Windows.
Posted in Flash / Flex, Technology Tagged actionscript, adobe, as3, flash, flashdevelop, flex, open source 1 Comment
Direct: from Brain to Action
What are the three biggest headaches in eLearning? Getting the knowledge out of the expert’s brain Embedding the knowledge in the learner’s actions Everything in between
eLearning Design Patterns
The concept of a design patterns was originally recognized and popularized by Christopher Alexander to make sense of the manner in which architects (of buildings) could so easily generate their designs. He identified a design pattern as a construct that: “describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes [...]
Posted in Business Issues, Processing Methods Tagged design patterns, eLearning, rapid authoring 3 Comments
Zero Cost OJT for Software
Can you do OJT with virtually no downtime? Can you train while people are completing revenue tasks? Can you train with minimal time demands on your skilled employees? If not, check out the ATEN CS228.
(Nearly) Instant IT Training
You have a new software package with more menus, tools, windows and recipes than you can count (e.g., Photoshop, SAP or Eclipse), but the learning curve is steep. You open help files, close help files, leaf through outdated books, and constantly switch from one window to another. You copy and paste snippets and commands and you always seem to lose your place. Arggh.
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Video Speaks Every Language
You have a critical, but tricky, procedure that must be followed throughout your global operation. You have vendors in China, plants in Portland and Valdosta, offices in Seoul, Stuttgart and Cairo. So far, you have relied on emails and memos, but there are clear differences in the way they are applied in different locations. Is it language? Is it local preference? Are the memos just unclear? Whatever the reason, you need to solve it. Conflicting procedures are almost worse than no procedures at all.
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Options for Embedding Video IN a Document File