If you are saying, this is post is not related to you,
you are mistaken.
Knowingly or unknowingly , you will look for these resources at times ,
be it personal or professional.
Because Learning and Development is the need for everyone .
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Resources for Learning Information
This
list includes various websites that can be used to gather information related
to learning and development, including resources to help you build learning
programs.
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http://www.neuroleadership.org/resources/links.shtml - The NeuroLeadership instituteis a network of
individuals and organizations seeking to get involved in the neuroscience of
leadership field. Various resources
(including webinars, videos, and articles) are available on the topic of
Neuroleadership through this website, as well as through the NeuroLeadership
Group website: http://www.neuroleadership.com/global/content/resources
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http://www.ted.com/ - This site includes a plethora of videos on the
topics of technology, entertainment, and design. Many of them are not only inspirational, but
can provide content or follow-up content to learning programs just by sharing
the link to the video.
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http://talentmgt.com/ - This site
includes the Talent Management magazine, as well as other valuable resources dedicated
to Talent Management, which includes the Learning function.
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http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/ - This site
includes videos, articles, and other resources, including a place to ask
training-related questions for others to answer.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/moneywatch/ - This business
site includes various news articles, videos, and podcasts which will help keep
you savvy of what’s going on the business world. It also has an easy to use search function
which allows you to separate videos from articles. I have used several of the short videos (for
example: Leila’s House of Corrections) as training resources.
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www.lynda.com – Learn software,
creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals.
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www.coursera.org – Coursera is an
education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in
the world to offer MOOCs (massive open online courses) for anyone to take, for
free.
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www.doodle.com – Use Doodle for
easy event scheduling. You can propose several dates and times and the
participants can indicate their availability online.
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http://teamtreehouse.com/ - Gives guidance on
iPhone, Android apps and starting a business website
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www.astd.com – most probably are
aware; American Society of Training & Development which has many free
resources available, although a lot of the content is only available for paid
memberships.
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www.myendnoteweb.com – Search, organize
and share research. Automatically format bibliographies with bibliography
technology.
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http://scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud-features/ - Scorm
Cloud – Course Testing (not recommended for delivery of proprietary
content)
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - Audacity – free audio editing tool, great for
editing e-learning narration
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http://www.crowdsourcing.org/
Crowd techniques websites, which can be
applied for developing Crowd Learning program as well
learning
Interactions
This
list includes various websites that can be used to help make your learning
programs interactive, which includes icebreakers and games.
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www.PollEverywhere.com – Poll
everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with
standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any
venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print – using SMS,
web, or Twitter.
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www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ - With
this widget, you can make beautiful interactive timelines that you can drag
horizontally or by using your mouse-wheel.
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www.quizlet.com – Quizlet
is a website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study
and game modes.
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www.wordle.net – Wordle
lets you generate word clouds from test that you provide. You can tweak your
clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. (Bethany is also
familiar with this)
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www.voki.com –
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars
and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
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www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/ - ProProfs
is a free online quiz maker with powerful customizable features, which help
instructors and teachers to create online tests, quizzes and exams for
employees or students.
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www.popplet.com – Popplet
creates visual representations, graphic organizers, and timelines. It can also
be used for mind-mapping and presentations.
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http://www.thiagi.com/games.html - this site includes hundreds of icebreakers, team-building
activities and other ways to keep an audience engaged and participative in any
learning event.
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http://www.wilderdom.com/games/ - although this site is built more for children activities, many
of the activities have been used successfully in the business world.
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www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/ helping young
people to become better learners, both in school and out.
Presentation Delivery Tools
This
list includes various websites that can be used to make the delivery of your
learning programs truly engaging.
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www.powtoon.com – Bring
your presentations to life in a powerful way! Even the simplest, driest topics
and reports gain fresh zest and energy when they’re communicated through
animated videos. With dynamic characters, eye-popping images, and active text
sequences (and much more!). PowToon helps you capture your audience’s attention
and imagination, far beyond the flat, stilted PowerPoint presentations you used
to rely on.
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www.prezi.com – Web-based
presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas on
a virtual canvas. Prezi lets you create non-linear, “zooming” presentations.
Create a map of your ideas, images, videos, then show overview, zoom to
details, amaze and convince. Prezi is very simple to use.
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https://moodle.org – Moodle
is a Course Management System (CMS). It is a Free web application that
educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
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http://bigbluebutton.org – BigBlueButton
enables universities and colleges to develop a high-quality learning experience
to remote students.
Evaluation
This
list includes various websites that can be used to help you evaluate the
effectiveness of your learning programs.
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http://www.kirkpatrickpartners.com -
a plethora of information about the
different levels of training evaluation can be found on this website.
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www.surveymonkey.com – SurveyMonkey
is an online survey tool. It allows users to design surveys, collect responses,
and analyze the responses of their created surveys. Users can also get access
to survey questions and professional templates.
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www.questionpro.com – An
online survey tool that allows users to design surveys, collect responses and
analyze results. There is a free edition
of this tool, as well as version with more functionality for a monthly or
yearly cost. There are also additional
resources (articles) regarding the use of online surveys
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http://www.esurveyspro.com/Resources.aspx - useful
information regarding the design / development of various online surveys, as
well as a tool to develop online surveys
Additional Tools –
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http://www.eskillz.com/index.html - eSkillz Support – Recorded best
practices videos (specific to the Oracle/Taleo platform)
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http://status.learn.com/ - Learn.com/Oracle – Support Blog (many
other LMSs have support channels)
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http://www.wildapricot.com/ - a free platform to use
for webinar based learning or long-distance learning situations
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https://join.me/
- another free
resource to use to conduct webinars or long-distance style training
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www.slideshark.com - free mobile app that enables uses
to show PowerPoint from an iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch in a professional manner.
