August 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
Did you know that Coggno’s user interface and various tools are fully integrated with Apple software?
The addition of Apple Podcast Producer to our LMS allows for streamlined recording, uploading, and converting of your proprietary content into a podcast for wider and more convenient distribution. Anyone can access it remotely, obtaining optimized playback on a variety of devices, including iPods and mobile phones. Learners and educators can meet their needs anytime and anywhere with our unique e-learning business model.
Our LMS’s e-learning applications also comprise iReader. This tool grants authors the ability to upload Microsoft Office documents onto the Coggno LMS straight from your desktop. Your content library can be populated instantly with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, and other files.
August 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
You have content. You know how to phrase it. Now, how do you structure it? Structure is the key for a smooth-flowing, and thus easier to grasp, learning system.
What knowledge do you want your audience to end up with? What do you think they will start out knowing? How do reconcile these two streams of thought? Once again, the trick here lies in empathy. Learners crave simplicity and coherence in a learning system, which means you will want to remain lineal throughout.
So split it up into chapters, footnotes, end notes, dice it, sauté it, grill it—just make sure your learning system remains consistent to spare your learners confusion.
Read up on the topic here.
August 25th, 2008 by Robin Green
Language is the filter through which we perceive the world. It would make sense to deduce, consequently, that a successful learning system considers that how you word you content is just about, if not just as, significant as what the content is.
This may not be as obvious as you imagine.
Not only should the concepts be communicated clearly, but it would be beneficial to convey them using positive and encouraging language as well (particularly at the beginning, when learners are most apprehensive). Presenting learners with even daunting tasks, when in lighthearted language, doubtless makes your learning system easier to digest. It’s all about perspective.
Refrain from incorporating elevated language into your learning system until you’re sure your audience will understand.
Empathizing with your audience helps. Remember when you were taking, instead of authoring, courses? Learning systems aren’t all abstract thought! They include a psychological factor, which greatly influences the reception and impact of information. Please visit this article for further details on learning systems and language.
August 22nd, 2008 by Robin Green
The goal of a successful learning system is for the transfer of dynamic instructional content to a learner result in him or her finding the information useful and retaining it longer. To reach this level of efficiency, it is indispensable to consider the learner’s particular needs and psychological standpoint. Not an effortless task.
As stated in the previous post, ADDIE is a smart approach to take in a learning system. This is because it gravitates around comprehending the latest trends in learning and requirements, who the particular trainers and learners are, and the past, present, and future of training modes and requirements of a learning system.
However, this framework is static. A contemporary learning system calls for further versatility as well; the learning system must be dynamic, allow the learner to apply the new information, and the learned concepts must be useful.
Find additional details and ideas in the Dynamic Construction of Instructional Content article.
August 22nd, 2008 by Robin Green
Almost anyone can create an online training course. And with Coggno’s
learning system, even decent online training. But how do you make yours
spectacular in such a competitive professional realm?
They say there is a trick to every trade. Ours is sticking to the following tips.
1) Employ dynamic instructional content by pursuing the ADDIE
(Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model
of instructional design on our learning system. [It is also known as
ISD (Instructional System Design) and SAT (System Approach to
Training).]
2) Mind your discourse. Essentially, begin with layman’s terms, or your learners may not be able to keep up.
3) Structure can be as important as content. Put yourself in your
audience’s shoes and organize your course on our learning system
accordingly. Meaning, keep in mind what you want your learners to
accomplish by the end of the course, and exactly how you want them to
get there, starting at the beginning.
They may sound obvious to you, but the mistake of overlooking what lies
conspicuously beneath our noses is ubiquitous. So take extra advantage
of our learning system! Apply these fundamental concepts and reap the
prolific results.
August 22nd, 2008 by Robin Green
Coggno introduces an exciting new development: Projects Exchange.
Thanks to this new feature in our LMS, organizations seeking training, as well as instructional design and courseware professionals, can manage their training and learning projects responses in a more interactive fashion. Our LMS’s Projects Exchange provides a means for you to communicate and respond to the posters more efficiently.
It’s easy, free, and it may just lead you to your next excellent job, trainer, or professional!
This constitutes just one more way in which Coggno’s LMS connects educators with learners.
Go to www.coggno.com and click on the Projects tab.
While you’re there, check out the rest of Coggno’s best-in-breed, free LMS. Sign up as an Author, create a Coggno page for yourself or your company, and set up e-Learning for your organization, client, or for sale through our marketplace.
Enjoy!
August 22nd, 2008 by Robin Green
Chances are you lack the time, if not the know-how, to design the learning modules for a question bank to aid you in your training or education. Especially, when you’d probably rather spend that valuable time formulating the content of those questions for your coursework. Lo and behold, Coggno’s LMS once more comes to the rescue.
Use our LMS to create eight different types of questions, classify them by level of difficulty and category, add images, and place them into an assessment when ready. Using the questions from your bank, populate your assessments according to category or difficulty level, and include explanations for your learners to review.
Visit Coggno today to see how extensively we can help you develop and disseminate your teaching and training materials.
August 21st, 2008 by Robin Green
In this post, we will look at another aspect of Coggno’s LMS—the ingenious video tool.
Our tool even supports multiple input file formats, so you don’t have to deal with manual conversions. In case you’re thinking of utilizing videos for your training, our LMS video tool treats you to the following features:
• Multiple input video formats (MPEG, QuickTime, Flash Video, WMV)
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited video quality
• Video conversion on the server
• Video preview
• Integration with Coggno community and assessment tools
Many people—visual learners in particular—prefer videos to text and/or audio. With Coggno’s LMS video tool, you can cater to your audience’s demands with utmost convenience.
