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Author: Manish Mohan

Can eLearning Help Change Behaviour?

August 16, 2008
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| Categories: Audience Analysis, Behaviour, Behavioural Training, Change, Change management, Design, eLearning, Instructional Design

As part of judging entries for the Brandon Hall Awards this year, I encountered an elearning module that attempted to teach the company’s sales people its new service orientation and its service oriented products. The elearning module was very well made, full of videos (actually it was practically a ‘video-based-training’ disguised as elearning) with very well written script and extremely professional production quality. The script and production quality was so good that I would have been proud of the product if it had been made by my team. I went…

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It is the Content, Stupid!

August 6, 2008
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| Categories: AdSense, Blogger, Blogging, Blogging platform, Content, Making money, postsofthepast, Technology, Typepad, Wordpress

It must be the technology bug in me or just the man in me wanting to play with new toys. In my quest to explore different blogging platforms, I have tried my hand at Blogger, Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress. Typepad required me to provide credit card information to sign-up and other platforms just didn’t seem popular enough. I searched and researched the comparisons between Blogger and Wordpress. Most comparison posts compare Blogger and self hosted Wordpress. However I found this really useful post that compares Blogger and Wordpress.com, which…

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My Top 10 Learning Tools and Techniques

August 4, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, iPhone, Learning, Lists, RSS, Social bookmarking, Social Networking, Techniques, Tools

It’s been more than 6 months since I last posted my top 10 tools for learning. I thank Jane Hart for making me think to update the list for Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ compilation of top 10 tools for learning of as many as 184 learning professionals. There are some changes since I last wrote, though many of the tools and techniques still remain in my top 10 list. Here are my top 10 tools for learning in Aug 2008. Search engines – though Google is still my…

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My Lessons in Change Management

July 17, 2008
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| Categories: Change management, Leadership, Management, Measurement

Last year I reduced my weight by about 16 kgs. It was an interesting journey. In the process I learned many things that could be applied to the corporate world, especially when one is required to bring about changes in the organization.The biggest challenge in losing weight was to have determination. And my wife was very determined that I lose weight. When bringing about major changes in an organization, it is important that senior management is determined and committed to making things happen.I tell my friends that the first step…

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Why is Audience Analysis Required?

July 16, 2008
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| Categories: Audience Analysis, Instructional Design

A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"The survey was a huge failure:In Africa they didn't know what 'food' meant,In India they didn't know what 'honest' meant,In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant,In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant,In the Middle East hey didn't know what 'solution' meant,In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant,And in the USA they didn't know what 'the rest…

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What is Blended Learning?

July 6, 2008
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| Categories: Asynchronous learning, Blended learning, Content Development, Design, eLearning, Synchronous learning

Clive Shepherd redefines his own definition of blended learning in his recent post.A blended learning solution mixes social contexts for learning (self-study, one-to-one, small group, larger community) with the aim of increasing learning effectiveness, and/or mixes learning media (face-to-face, online, print, etc.) to increase efficiency, in the context of a particular learning requirement, audience characteristics, and practical constraints and opportunities.Clive’s does a great job in separating the method and the medium. I quite agree with Clive.In my view, blended learning can be simply defined as a combination (blend!) of self…

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Social Networking and Outlook Integration

July 6, 2008
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| Categories: Outlook, Social Networking, Tools

I installed the Xobni Outlook plug-in a while back. It was initially fun checking out my email analytics. It even analyzes my email and tells me trivia like who responds to my emails faster. All very good but it mainly provides trivia information that I don’t really use. So soon the plug-in was in Collapse mode in Outlook, relegated to one of the many plug-ins that seem interesting initially.What caught my fancy is the recent Xobni release of LinkedIn integration. The plug-in now provides a LinkedIn link of email sender…

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New Look at eCube

July 4, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, eCube, Templates

eCube now has a new look and feel. I wanted something bright and refreshing. I used the WP-Polaroid for Blogger template that I downloaded from eblog templates. It took more time than I expected but in the process I created a blog template upgrade checklist. I realized that there is too much code (analytics, tracking, label customization etc.) that is embedded that needs to be ported to the new template code. And the widgets got all messed up in the new template so I had to create many widgets all…

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