http://www.mindmuze.com/blog MindMuze Blog Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:18:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently had the opportunity to attend a mobile learning seminar hosted by CSTD here in Toronto. The key note speaker was Dr. Mohammad Alley from Athabasca University. Dr. Alley is recognized as a world visionary when it comes to Mobile Learning. He talked about what is ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/08/13/mobile-learning-session-at-cstd/ The first deadline for the Customer Service Standard is coming up rather quickly. That’s right, public sector organizations have 5 months left! Are your policies ready? Is your training plan in place? I’ve been following this act and standard for some time now and I recently came across some interesting ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/08/07/five-more-months%e2%80%a6/ In my previous post, I looked at how professional skills are acquired after many hours of background research and practice. Which often requires hours upon hours of learning delivery. But let’s focus on what Corporate Executives are demanding of their workforce. They have hired the new employee, assuming that those ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/24/rapid-learning-%e2%80%93-too-much-talk-about-tools-part-2/ To finish up our discussion on implementing online learning into your training and development mix we are going to end things off with content. I have yet to come across an organization that solely using eLearning for all training and education needs. At this point it is important to do ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/22/how-and-when-to-implement-online-learning-to-the-mix-%e2%80%93-content/ "Learning at the speed of change" is a reference to the fact that change is the only constant and the speed of change is increasing. The speed with which an organization learns collectively and individually will determine their fate in the coming years.  Information overload is only going to get ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/22/rapid-learning-%e2%80%93-too-much-talk-about-tools-part-1/ Let’s continue our discussion on including eLearning into the learning strategy of an organization for the first time. We have already covered the learning management system as well as the instructional design process. Let’s shift our focus to the development process. Similar questions arise here, in house or contract the ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/17/how-and-when-to-implement-online-learning-to-the-mix-%e2%80%93-development/ Last week I began a discussion on how to ramp up an organization planning to implement eLearning into their corporate education function, starting with the learning management system. For this post let’s explore instructional design. The question here is should it be done in house or contracted out? Let’s explore ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/09/how-and-when-to-implement-online-learning-into-the-mix-%e2%80%93-instructional-design/ Seeing as how its 2009 and eLearning exploded onto the scene somewhere around 1998, we cannot assume every organization has the infrastructure to support online learning methods. In fact some of you reading this work for organizations that do not use eLearning nor do they believe they should. However, with ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/02/how-and-when-to-implement-online-learning-into-the-mix-%e2%80%93-the-learning-management-system/ We here at MindMuze we are really excited about a new web-based authoring system called Shift being added to our repertoire of tools.  It represents a real departure from the traditional client-based applications because it allows anyone to create an eLearning course. And I mean anyone! Basically, if you can ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/02/our-new-web-based-authoring-system-is-a-blast/ I have been asked by many clients over the years about Learning Management Systems (LMS).  It is very interesting to get an understanding of what people think a LMS can do for them.  Some feel it will change the way they work and do their jobs in a training department ... http://www.mindmuze.com/blog/2009/07/01/do-we-really-need-to-track-everything-in-our-lms/