ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 Wrap-up

What happens in Vegas should never stay in Vegas.  At least not when it’s a learning conference, right?

This year’s ASTD Tech Knowledge 2012 was held at the Rio in Las Vegas, featuring great keynote sessions from Jane McGonigal, Stuart Crabb of Facebook, and Lisa Doyle of the Veterans’ Administration.  With a conference program that was chock full, participants had a tough time deciding which sessions to attend: there were concurrent sessions and creation stations, TK Chats (informal conversation with industry experts on varied topics), and endless hallway conversations. 

The Accidental Instructional Designer

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor? A teacher? A firefighter? An eLearning instructional designer (ID) doing corporate training?  Hmmm... yeah, probably not that last one.

ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 Preview

While our UK colleagues prepare for Learning Technologies in London, our US team sets their sights, once again, on Las Vegas, baby. It’s ASTD’s TK12, a convergence of 1,500 learning professional from all over the US and the world. The main conference runs January 25-27, 2012.

DevLearn 2011

This year, the eLearning Guild hosted a week of learning in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The Vegas tagline: “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” – but that’s not the case when you put a bunch of learning professionals together who are eager to share.

So what were the big takeaways and trends from this year’s show?

European Totara LMS Conference event review

The first European Totara LMS conference took place in London in September 2011. Steve Rayson reports on a day which saw case studies from Tesco and MediaPharm and the unveiling of an exciting new product roadmap for Totara, a custom distribution of Moodle designed for the corporate enterprise market.

Articulate Storyline - sneak preview event review

Storyline is the latest development tool shortly to be launched by Articulate. You may be familiar with Articulate already.  Their products are among the most used desktop tools out there and ones that we at Kineo use every day. Storyline is not a replacement for Articulate Studio: it’s a totally different product - and we have been working with a Beta version to see what it can do.

Promise Trade Show event review

Bengt Gustafsson, Director of Kineo Sweden, reports from a recent tradeshow, where Kineo’s M&S e-learning caught some people’s attention.

Elearning Africa Show Report

Kineo exhibited at the eLearning Africa Conference in Dar es Salaam from the 25^th-27^th May. Kineo South Africa’s Managing Director, Mike Cawood, was there - here’s a quick round up of his observations.

We were too busy to attend the Learning & Skills Group event this week, but just to prove how keen we were to follow the action we decided to do a review via Twitter. We have also provided our top ten tips for those of you tweeting from an event, since most of us spend as much time tweeting from events as we do participating in them.

E-learning Tools round-up: five to watch

Cammy Bean shares her views on three new tools from ASTD 2011.

ASTD TechKnowledge 2011 Review

Learning conferences present us with wonderful opportunities to take the professional zeitgeist and connect with the pulse of what’s really happening in the trenches of learning and development.

From February 2-4 we were taking the pulse at ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2011: three days in San Jose, CA, focused on the themes of Define, Design and Deliver.

So what’s ticking this year?

Learning Techologies 2011 preview

We’ll be at Learning Technologies 2011 later this month on 26^th and 27^th January and it’d be great to see you there. Learning Technologies is definitely the go-to show in the UK, you can pre book here.

Entrance to the exhibition is free. Last year, we were voted in the exit poll as the company that people had the most profitable discussions with. Come and have one this year...

Professional Bodies Wise-up to Moodle

Kineo organised a Moodle workshop for professional bodies this week. If this is an area you've not come across before, professional bodies are non-profit organisations which aim to further their respective professions by balancing the needs of individuals within the profession with safeguarding the public interest in relation to that profession. Many professional bodies are involved in professional education programs and professional certification, hence their keen interest in learning management systems like Moodle.

ASTD TechKnowledge 11 preview

San Jose will be the place to be come early February (well, any time of the year, it’s pretty sweet).  Join Kineo on the stand for ASTD’s Upcoming TechKnowledge 2011 (TK11) happening February 2-4 in San Jose, CA. Here we give a quick rundown of what to expect.

DevLearn 2010 – Show Preview

We’re all fired up about DevLearn 2010, kicking off this week in San Francisco. Not only do we get to ride trolley cars between events and eat sourdough bread and Ghirardelli chocolate, but we also get to catch up on all the latest e-learning industry buzz, reconnect with a lot of old friends, and forge new connections.

So what do we have on tap, aside from a nice pint of Anchor Steam?

Towards Maturity - Take Part in their Benchmarking Survey

We’re big admirers of the work that Towards Maturity do inpromoting the benefits of using learning technologies in the workplace. Their 2010 benchmark survey is up and running, and we’d urge you to make the time to take part.

Slideshare: Where is Rapid Headed?

Rapid e-learning has grown  - and grown up- since we first started talking about it and doing it back in 2006. At a recent E-learning Network event in London, Kineo's Stuart Chadwick led a discussion on the state of the rapid e-learning nation.

Kineo Insights: Aligning E-Learning with Business Goals

In our latest Kineo Insights webinar held on April 28, 2010, we had a lively conversation with some great minds in Learning & Development:

· Will Thalheimer, Learning-and-Performance Consultant and Researcher

· Vince Serritella, Former CLO WW Grainger and Director Motorola University

· Mike Booth, Learning & Technologies Manager, Cable & Wireless

Our panelists got quite passionate as we talked about defining the mission of an L&D organization and some best practices and potential pitfalls we may encounter along the way.

Kineo TV: Switched On...

New Skills for Instructional Designers

We had a great time in Orlando at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions Conference & Expo. A big highlight was Cammy’s presentation on Friday with Ellen Wagner of Sage Road Solutions and Koreen Olbrish of Tandem Learning: “New Skills for Instructional Designers.”

Summer Reading List for 2010

Up here in the northern hemisphere, it’s that time of year again. Time to pack up your beach bag, slink off to the hammock, and take of your shoes. But that doesn’t mean the learning needs to stop! We’ve always got a book nearby to keep our brains from turning off too much.

This year, we asked searched our own souls and asked our network what books we should be reading. The network doesn’t disappoint!

Survey: Course Completion Stats

It's often been said that a course is only as good as its implementation. Completion levels don't tell the whole story about successful implementation, but they're a key part of the story.

Our New Site: What do You Think?

We've just refreshed the site (Jan 2010) and are keen to get your feedback. So if you've got 2 more minutes, let us know what you think. We're planning a more substantial refresh later in 2010, so it'd be great to get your thoughts.

You can take the survey here.

Thanks for your time and we hope you're enjoying the site.

E-Learning Practices Survey

Survey says: What you told us about your e-learning challenges

In last month’s Newsletter, we launched Part 1 of our eLearning Best Practices survey. We take a look at the results and trends.

DevLearn 09: Show report

The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn ’09 in San Jose, California was a non-stop west coast jamboree of e-learning tools, talks and tradeshow. We set up our booth Tuesday afternoon and didn’t stop until we boarded our flights home on Friday afternoon.

Our key takeway? E-learning is alive and well and living in California. Ok, we can be a bit more specific. From the Expo, to e-learning karaoke, to the sessions, here’s some of what we soaked up.

Notes from New York: trying times, best of times?

Strategies for Delivering Effective E-Learning in Trying Times

On a warm November morning in Manhattan we gathered for a lively seminar with vertigo-inducing views of the streets below. On our minds: How do we deliver e-learning in trying times? And will the traffic below ever clear? Our session notes are below. We focused on the formed question. The traffic never did clear.

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Making webinars work better

Pressure on training travel spend? Looking to reduce your carbon footprint? If so, you might be looking at webinars as a substitute for face to face training. But does one translate simply to the other? We think not. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE

And we’ve just run our own Webinar on Webinars to spread the word on what makes good learning in a webinar (yes, we felt a little dizzy too). If you caught it, you’ll already know some of our trade secrets. If not, check out our tips below. It’s all about the sharing.

E-learning best practices survey & Free Articulate skin

How does your e-learning stack up? We've created a short survey to gather your views. And we'll reward your time with a free Articulate skin. Fair enough?

Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase

Kineo U.S. CEO Steve Lowenthal led a breakout session entitled Moodle: Changing the Face of Corporate eLearning at the Chicago eLearning and Technology Showcase on August 19th.

Kineo @ Learning Technologies

Kineo is sponsoring and will present at Learning Technologies again this year, and here we share a quick preview of what we'll be doing at the show.