Online New Hire Training

I've been working on a 13 day New Hire online training course for about 4 months. We are finally nearing the end of this exciting project. Coordinating the gazillon final details is challenging. Currently I'm researching the best approach to the train the trainer course and how to inform our stake holders on the final state of the material as there have been many updates. As I find some material, I'll be posting them here.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Training Forum, October 20, 2010

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Training Forum, October 20, 2010

Getting Maximum Business Impact from a Comprehensive Approach to Enterprise Learning

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Wikis, Wikis, Wikis

Great resources from Tony Karrer about using Wikis in learning. It's something I've been talking about all week so glad I came across this blog post!

Continuing Education | Training Moves With the Times | Chemical Processing

Continuing Education Training Moves With the Times Chemical Processing

Intersting article on the trend toward blended learning enviornments that use short targeted online sessions to augment traditional classroom training.

Intersting tech tool discoverd on BW Tech Meeting

As an instructional designer who used to be an instructional technologist I still yearn to hear about the latest and greatest tech toys. As a mom of two kids with a full time job I find it hard to keep up. Finally Todd Marks of Mindgrub has moved his BW Tech Meetings to an online format and is archiving it. I just finished listening to the July 29th meeting.
Coolest item: the Flipboard for the ipad!http://www.flipboard.com/
It allows you to create a personalized magazine from all the different social medial that is important to you. You can have facebook, linked in, twitter and RSS feeds. What a great way to pull all this technology together.
Now how can we apply this to workplace learning. Just imagine your employees being able to create a magazine that contained only the information that was important to them. How much more targeted would their learning be. Can't wait to see how this plays out in the market.
Another interesting topic was how Hollywood perceives technology in their movies. How will the predications play out from shows like Star Trek, Back to the Future, The Jetsons. I found this discussion entertaining and interesting.
Great job Todd!

Orientations for SMEs

At ASHA we have a great relationship with our online conference vendor iCohere. It has been enlightening to work with a talented group of professionals who listen to your concerns and respond in ways that you didn't even imagine. Robyn and Jim at icohere put together a wonderful orientation for our presenters/SME's which covers what to expect during their recording sessions. The program provides information in a short, concise manner, allows presenters to become familiar with the icohere staff (all the work is done remotely so this personalizes it a bit) and clearly states goals and procedures.
Great job Robyn and Jim!
http://icohere-presentations.com/presentations/HowTo2010/RecordingYourASHAPresentation/player.html

Joint effort pays off!

In 2007 I had an idea. Why don't we include a short snipet of our programs on their product description page in the ASHA online store.
Three years later after working with the marketing and the web teams, we finally have about 8 products with short 2-3 minute samples.

Here's what we did:
1) I reviewed each program and picked out 2-3 minutes worth of the most relevant and representative portions of the program (showing video clips, interactive exercises, graphics, animations, etc.)
2) We hired our regular video vendor, Vision Creative, to capture the clips, add music, use a standard template that we created and provide us with the finished clips
3) Our web team than added to Utube and marketing added the link to the store page

We're still working through some technical issues but currently they are up even if they aren't perfect. The clips have a dual purpose as well. They are put onto a DVD in a running loop so that marketing can show them at conventions and conferences in the ASHA store.

One email blast has already been sent to members with a link to the clip and it generated more sales than ever before!

Here's an example:
http://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsdetails&title=Instrumental+Examination+of+Adults+With+Dysphagia%3a+Anatomy+and+Physiology+Series