DATE: August 16, 2012

CONTENTS
1. Interactive Video: A Powerful Learning Experience
2. Challenge: Technology and Talent Gaps
3. This Week's Tweets
4. What’s YOUR Latest Technology Challenge?

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1. Interactive Video: A Powerful Learning Experience

Based on our TV viewing experiences, we know that video captures passion and nuance. So it stands to reason that it often can train and inspire better than text. The problem is that video is a one-way media and learners cannot participate in the rich interactions that increase both conceptual learning and learning transfer.

In this Webinar, Portland State University Professor Art Kohn, Ph.D., describes eight techniques that convert standard training video into an immersive, integrative learning experience. These techniques include:

* Virtual audiences
* Immersive interactions
* Embedded LearningLinks
* Subject-sensitive branching
* Community integration

These techniques work together to create a powerful learning experience that can sustain audience interest and increase the chance that employees will learn and transfer that learning into their daily tasks.
 
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2. Challenge: Technology and Talent Gaps

Question:
How does an organization handle the talent gap created by new technologies? #trainingtech

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3. This Week's Tweets

What were Training readers talking about on Twitter this week? Here are a few tweets:

mbr1online: At the DC SALT conference, @judyb asked "When is the m in mLearning going away?" Mobile learning is just learning.

G4C: Maybe some ideas are just too complex to be made into games ow.ly/cZzNc

aaronesilvers: Great, clear use-case > RT @Garemoko: Why your learning site should implement Tin Can API: buff.ly/OWT9zW #tincanapi

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4. What's YOUR Challenge?

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