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If You Want To Get Something Done, Get Out Of The Office « Annie Murphy Paul
If You Want To Get Something Done, Get Out Of The Office « Annie Murphy Paul
Case study on how allowing employees to work from home increased productivity
<p>“The results we saw at Ctrip blew me away. Ctrip was thinking that it could save money on space and furniture if people worked from home and that the savings would outweigh the productivity hit it would take when employees left the discipline of the office environment.</p> <p>“Instead, we found that people working from home completed 13.5% more calls than the staff in the office did—meaning that Ctrip got almost an extra workday a week out of them. They also quit at half the rate of people in the office—way beyond what we anticipated. And predictably, at-home workers reported much higher job satisfaction.”</p>
<p>One other fascinating insight from the interview: Bloom notes that those who liked the work-at-home option most were people:</p> <p>” . . . who have established social lives—older workers, married workers, parents. We found that the younger workers whose social lives are more connected to the office tend to not want to work from home as much.</p>
·anniemurphypaul.com·
If You Want To Get Something Done, Get Out Of The Office « Annie Murphy Paul
How To Choose An Authoring Tool For Your HTML eLearning Development | The Upside Learning Blog
How To Choose An Authoring Tool For Your HTML eLearning Development | The Upside Learning Blog
Comparison of Lectora, Storyline, and Captivate. Some good details I haven't seen elsewhere, like how each program loads the framework and content and how that affects performance. A few inaccuracies (you can still create a non-ADA compliant course in Lectora even if you check the 508 box, for example).
·upsidelearning.com·
How To Choose An Authoring Tool For Your HTML eLearning Development | The Upside Learning Blog
Periodic Table of Storytelling
Periodic Table of Storytelling
Tropes for storytelling. The examples are primarily TV series, but this could be inspiration for e-learning stories too.
·designthroughstorytelling.net·
Periodic Table of Storytelling
Review My eLearning
Review My eLearning
Tool to collect feedback on SCORM courses. Reviewers can make comments without having to switch windows. All comments are collected in a dashboard. Cheapest plan is 1 course for $15/month, with other plans available.
·reviewmyelearning.com·
Review My eLearning
The Manifesto | Serious eLearning Manifesto
The Manifesto | Serious eLearning Manifesto
Principles for "serious elearning"
<h5>Provide Realistic Practice</h5> <p>We will provide learners sufficient levels of realistic practice; for example, simulations, scenario-based decision making, case-based evaluations, and authentic exercises.</p>
<h5>Enlist Authentic Contexts</h5> <p>We will provide learners with sufficient experience in making decisions in authentic contexts.</p>
<h5>Provide Realistic Consequences</h5> <p>When providing performance feedback during learning, we will provide learners with a sense of the real-world consequences.</p>
·elearningmanifesto.org·
The Manifesto | Serious eLearning Manifesto
The Best Add-Ons for Google Drive
The Best Add-Ons for Google Drive
Lifehacker's list of add ons for Google Docs and Sheets. HelloFax lets you fax documents (HelloSign lets you sign them). UberConference adds an audio conference call to a Google Doc so you can talk while collaborating. There's also an option to track changes like in Word
·lifehacker.com·
The Best Add-Ons for Google Drive
eLearning Guild Research: Gender Issues in Pay, or What You Don't Know Does Hurt You by Patti Shank : Learning Solutions Magazine
eLearning Guild Research: Gender Issues in Pay, or What You Don't Know Does Hurt You by Patti Shank : Learning Solutions Magazine
Patti Shank on the gender gap in e-learning pay (almost 10% lower on average). Educate yourself and do a better job negotiating your own salary, at least as one way to improve the issue.
·learningsolutionsmag.com·
eLearning Guild Research: Gender Issues in Pay, or What You Don't Know Does Hurt You by Patti Shank : Learning Solutions Magazine
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software Solutions powered by Capterra
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software Solutions powered by Capterra
Capterra's analysis of top LMSs by customers, users, and social media popularity. Many people only review 2-3 LMSs before making a decision. This list gives people some additional choices to review while still being a manageable list. The explanation of their research is linked below the infographic.
·capterra.com·
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software Solutions powered by Capterra
How to Share Your E-learning Course for Free With Google Drive - E-Learning Heroes
How to Share Your E-learning Course for Free With Google Drive - E-Learning Heroes
Step by step directions on sharing Articulate courses in Google Drive. This would be great for a portfolio. I haven't tested it, but the directions probably work for Captivate or other tools as well. An alternate (slightly simpler) set of directions for getting the hosting URL are here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2881970?hl=en
·community.articulate.com·
How to Share Your E-learning Course for Free With Google Drive - E-Learning Heroes
Timid Instructional Designers Deserve What They Get
Timid Instructional Designers Deserve What They Get
When clients ask for crappy e-learning or provide unreasonable deadlines that don't allow for quality development, we need to push back. Being timid doesn't makes us team players, just pushovers. This is one of the benefits of freelance work for me--I can set boundaries and turn down the crappy jobs to focus on more rewarding work.
·skillagents.com·
Timid Instructional Designers Deserve What They Get