Adobe provides a reference card for Accessible PDF creation from Word. This reference cards covers the most common issues in regards to accessibility when creating PDF's. These include:
I had the pleasure of presenting "How much does E-Learning Cost?" three times today at DIR's Learning Expo (whew!). I ran into Sue Tedford who runs the Adobe User Group and she gave me a link to her website which has a bunch of resources for Training. Check it out at www.sueresources.com
I saw an interesting question on the ASTD Discussion Boards on preventing cheating with online testing. We faced this problem with numerous clients. Some of the things we did to reduce cheating included:
This paper describes how Moodle was introduced as the new Learning Management System (LMS) to the University of the South Pacific with the aim of improving teaching and learning. This whitepaper examines the development process from test and selection of the platform through to project planning, gathering of political support within the institution, technical factors, the design and roll out of training, the impact and consequences, the growth and future prospects of the platform are discussed, with a focus on the university’s redesigned online law program.
The American Society of Training and Development is offering a certification program, Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP™) for workplace learning and performance professionals. The program covers 9 areas of expertise:
Albert Mehrabian, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, UCLA, is best known for his publications on the importance of verbal and nonverbal messages. In his studies Mehrabian comes to the conclusion that there are three elements to face-to-face communication:
Snap a photo of a whiteboard with your camera phone and email it to Qipit.com. The webapp cleans up the picture and puts it on the website. Perfect for taking notes in class or for the a moderator to quickly take notes. Go to www.qipit.com.
Conference Alerts offers a listing of E-Learning conferences worldwide at http://www.conferencealerts.com/elearning.htm. Be warned that the list is not comprehensive. For example the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference which MicroAssist will be attending is not on the list (http://tk07.astd.org/TK2008.htm)
