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New: How Google Fiber will Change Online Education
This month, Google announced my city (Provo, Utah) as the third Google Fiber city. As my neighbors and I collectively rejoiced about our good fortune, a lot of the attention was on how the super fast speeds and free services will improve our community schools. With a connection to every household and the ability to stream multimedia that may be hindered by slower speeds, our students have a lot to look forward to.
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New: 7 Horrible, Awful, No-Good Reasons to Enroll in an Online College
Not every reason to enroll in an online college is a good one. In fact, online college isn't the right choice for a lot of learners.

Before you enroll, make sure your motives and expectations are in the right place. And, make sure you're not just signing up for one of these horrible, awful, no-good reasons.
How to Find a Local Online Charter School
If you're considering enrolling your child in an online charter high school, middle school, or elementary school, you'll need to know how to find one that enrolls students in your area. Online charter schools are publicly funded, but they are not managed nationally. Instead, these schools are governed by state or local school districts and only enroll students within their boundaries. Here's how to find an online charter school for your child.
Online Professors Tell All: Student Pet Peeves
What annoys, angers, or frustrates your online professors? Find out in this article. Or, if you're a professor with student pet peeves, join in with your own stories.
How to Take Your Summer Semester Online
Even if you're enrolled in a traditional college, you may be able to spend the next few months studying in the sun. Many colleges will allow students to take summer classes online, even if those classes aren't available at your school. By following these online summer semester steps, you can find out what your school's policy is for taking online classes and transferring them for credit.
Horrible, Awful, No-Good Online Classes
Have you ever had a ridiculously awful online class? Unfortunately, not every distance learning experience is a positive one. Share your very bad class story here and learn from what other frustrated students have to say.
Get Help from Your Online Professor Before It's Too Late
As the semester winds down, now is the time to make sure you get the help that you need to complete any of your online courses. If you're struggling or have a question, don't ignore the impulse to ask for help. Online instructors are real people and they are compensated for helping their students learn. Here's how to form a positive relationship with your online professors and ask for help.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Want to take an online course from a top-notch ivy league school for free. Take a look at MIT OpenCourseWare for no-cost access to dozens of courses on topics like engineering, science, and math.

Rapid Elearning

The Rapid eLearning Blog

How to Use PowerPoint to Create Custom Stock Images
Many of the blog’s readers are forced to work with limited resources especially when it comes to building the assets for their elearning courses. As many of you have discovered, when working with limited resources we have to MacGyver much of our production. In a recent post on how to create templates for online training, [...]
Here’s How to Build an E-Learning Template That Will Rock Your World
Okay, if an elearning template’s going to rock your world you need to get out of your cubicle and go take a walk outside. Enjoy the life around you. Then come back and finish reading this blog post. I’ll be waiting. Ready? Now that things are in perspective let’s drop the hyperbole and look at [...]
How to Build Your Own Graphics for Online Training Courses
At a recent workshop I was showing someone how I make some of the graphics I use for the blog. As I was showing her an idea, she said that while she already knew the basic steps what she really found valuable was watching me do it and then explain why I did what I [...]
3 Ways to Improve Your E-learning Design Skills
I get lots of questions about improving skills and becoming better at elearning. Usually people ask about good school programs and book recommendations. Going to school is an option and it may be a good one. However, it’s not always the best option if you really want to learn to build better courses. We debated [...]
How to Create an E-Learning Template That Works
Templates are great because they provide some structure to the design of your online training. But many times templates become so rigid that instead of helping the training design, they inhibit it. In today’s post we’ll look at ways to build an elearning template that will guide the course design, but leave enough flexibility to [...]
Are You Using These 3 Ways to Identify the Objectives of Your Online Training Program?
Not all elearning courses are created equal. Some seek to share information and build awareness while others may focus on action or changing behaviors. When building elearning courses, I usually separate them into two buckets: information or performance. The objective of an information-based course is performance support and not performance activity. Think of it more [...]
How to Avoid Building Online Training That Wastes Time
Building an effective online training program requires packaging the right content with the right type of learning experience. However that often doesn’t happen because it’s easier to pull a lot of information together, create some slides, and then publish a course. To top it off, many of these types of online courses are merely repacked [...]
The World’s Largest Repository of Free Online Learning Tutorials
Here’s a common scenario. Someone emails and asks about an elearning tutorial I have on the blog. It’s not always easy to find the specific tutorial buried in a given post. In fact, there are many times I either forgot that I had created that tutorial or I can’t recall where it’s at either. I [...]

Internet Time Blog

Making Learning Stick
There’s no point learning something in the first place if you forget it before you can put it to use. Here’s a recording of my recent webinar on making learning stick. I’ll be in Italy the next two weeks, then in the UK for a week, and wrapping up with a week in the [...]
13 books on learning, people, organizations, corporate culture, and change
This morning I conducted a webinar on Making Learning Stick. Funny, isn’t it, that we invest so much to help people learn and so little to help them remember? Lots of what we learn goes down the drain before becoming converted to action. To encourage participation, I gave away my favorite books for making the [...]
Innovation. Maybe.
“All human institutions since the dawn of prehistory or earlier had always been designed to prevent change–all of them: family, government, church, army. Change has always been a catastrophic threat to human security.” Peter R. Drucker “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to [...]
On vacation
Alexa reports that “Based on internet averages, internettime.com is visited more frequently by females who are in the age range 55-64, have no children, have no college education and browse this site from work.” Go figger. This is for them. My wife Uta, dog Flirt, and I are taking a week off the grid getting [...]
Nailed! How managers develop proficiency
Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency “Our study suggested that managers learn mostly from informal learning, that proficiency is the product of informal learning, and that metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation skills moderate informal learning and the transfer process. In the light of these findings, companies should harness and leverage informal [...]
More of Jay than you planned on
This is a recording of a two-hour session with Prof Curt Bonk at Indiana University. Informal learning, 702010, complexity, amygdala learning, eLearning, and more. Unless you have a lot of time on your hands or are a Jay-junkie, I wouldn’t bother. The content’s not bad — there’s just too damn much of it!
Informal Learning – the other 80%
Years ago a start-up commissioned me to write a white paper that would help put them on the map. I wrote the paper that follows. It’s probably the most popular thing I’ve ever written. The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I think it’s held up rather well. I’ll [...]
Learning Styles, ha, ha, ha, ha
I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. Normally, I would not expect to get many chuckles from a 186-page report entitled Learning styles and pedagogy post-16 learning A systematic and critical review, 2004, by Frank Coffield, Institute of Education, University of [...]

Jarche

Harold Jarche

Networked individuals trump organizations
2005 was the year when more than 50% of US workers’ occupations involved non-routine cognitive work, that long-awaited milestone. - Stowe Boyd “Work has become distributed, discontinuous, and decentralized, hence, 3D”, says Stowe. As hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, so does work … Continue reading →
Social tools or tools that are social?
They might all be called ‘social networks’, but Facebook is very different from Twitter, which is very different from Instagram, which is very different from Foursquare. It’s quite likely that we’ll see a rise of niche-specific solutions, because a social … Continue reading →
Shifting work
Note: this is a synthesis of several previous posts. The death of middle class jobs (Associated Press): As software becomes even more sophisticated, victims are expected to include those who juggle tasks, such as supervisors and managers — workers who thought … Continue reading →
London Summer Picnic
For the past 18 months, Jane Hart has been hosting the Social Learning Centre, offering a wide variety of resources, coaching, and workshops. I have run several workshops as well, some alone, and others jointly with Jane. We have learned … Continue reading →
Sense-making in practice
Maria Popova at BrainPickings.org does an excellent review of the 1936 book, You Can Do Anything by James Mangan. She covers in detail the section on 14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge. These align nicely with the Seek : Sense : … Continue reading →
The new enclosure movement
ENCLOSURE: In English social and economic history, enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly held in the open field system. Once enclosed, these uses … Continue reading →
This is my work
The ability to learn is the only lasting competitive advantage for any organization. Hyper-connected work environments require people with better sense-making, collaboration, and cooperation skills. Social learning plays a significant role in this. Democratic workplaces that foster trust can share … Continue reading →
The new work
All work today can be reduced to just four basic types of jobs, according to Lou Adler. His company identified four prototypical jobs after developing thousands of job descriptions over the years. Everything starts with an idea. This is the … Continue reading →

Litmos LMS

10 Things I Learned at C3 2013
Last week was C3, the sales, marketing, hiring and learning conference put on by our parent company, CallidusCloud. It included keynotes by industry leaders, break out sessions, certificate programs and…
It’s the end of the quarter, do you know where your Sales Team is?
The best way to sell a product is to build a relationship and gain the prospect’s trust. It is hard for anyone, company or individual, to purchase a product when…
The One Thing to Know About Hiring and Retaining the Y Generation
I thought I was a rare bird in my craving to Learn. My bio on Quora is “Looking for new ways to grow.” I have joined and participated in education…
Have You Voted in the 2013 ELearning Awards?
The polls for the ELearning awards are approaching the end and they are approaching fast. The polls close May 1st, so if you have not done so already, I want to ask for…
Robots May Grade Your Next Essay Exam
I have been noticing a heated debate wandering around the internet that has perked my interest. The debate is based on a recently released study and asks the question: Do…
Corporate Universities
A Corporate University is a way for businesses to teach their employees how to do things their way. Thousands of companies, including many Litmos customers, are adopting this new idea of training…
C3 is Coming!
We are gearing up for the big C3 conference at the Aria in Las Vegas, May 5th-7th. By attending, you will meet with our founders and lead developers to hear about our…
Stats on LMS Costing & Implementation Time – The 2013 Edition
I was reading through old Litmos blog posts, as I do from time to time, I came across a three year old post written by Nicole, my blogging predecessor. The post was…

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