To celebrate the official opening of the new Melbourne office, Kineo are hosting a free lunchtime briefing session on Global Trends in E-Learning.

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KINEO NEWSLETTER
Issue 76 – February 2012  

Contents this month:

1. Free guide: Mobile Learning in practice 
2. Case study: Vodafone Ireland Totara LMS and e-learning
3. Kineo Essentials: New range, try them out… 
4. Top tip: Designing backwards is the way forward
5. Market update: Learning Technologies round up, market acquisitions
6. ASTD show report: All the buzz from Las Vegas
7. News and events: Kineo Bootcamp USA,  Warner Bros event in LA, Totara award win, now hiring

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Mobile learning has pushed beyond the ‘what if’ hype to ‘what now’ – how do we make this work for real. Our guide on designing mobile e-learning focuses on just that, with:

• 10 design tips for designing mobile e-learning to make an impact
• 10 examples of where and how to use mobile to best effect

It’s part one of a series of free guides on mobile learning in practice. Look out for part 2 in March, where we’ll focus on implementing mobile learning, to help you with the decision making process around tools and technologies.

Download Mobile Learning Guide (10.47MB, PDF)

This month we report on major e-learning events held last month in London and Las Vegas. Attendance at both events was higher than ever. This growing interest in e-learning solutions and a buoyant e-learning market, has meant HR and talent management companies are keen for a piece of the action. Looks like some people were doing a little shopping at the show too. This week we saw another acquisition of an e-learning company by a talent management vendor keen to expand its reach into the e-learning market.

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What happens in Vegas should never stay in Vegas.  At least not when it’s a learning conference, right?

This year’s ASTD Tech Knowledge 2012 was held at the Rio in Las Vegas, featuring great keynote sessions from Jane McGonigal, Stuart Crabb of Facebook, and Lisa Doyle of the Veterans’ Administration.  With a conference program that was chock full, participants had a tough time deciding which sessions to attend: there were concurrent sessions and creation stations, TK Chats (informal conversation with industry experts on varied topics), and endless hallway conversations. 

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Effective learning solutions always have and always will begin and end with the learner.

We invite you to join Kineo and your LA peers for a free networking event at the Warner Bros. on February 28^th to share best practices in leveraging technology and great design to create learning experiences that make an impact.   Featured sessions include:

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"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." ~ Rainer Marie Rilke, from “Letters to a Young Poet"

Words to live by. And, it turns out, words by which to design instruction.

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Kineo announced today that Zack Harvey has been appointed as a Business Development Manager for Kineo Pacific in Melbourne, Australia. Zack’s appointment marks Kineo Pacific’s expansion into Melbourne to better support its expanding list of Australian clients.

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Chances are your learners have mobile devices. Their potential as a channel for learning is great.  A new channel brings new challenge to the learning professional – how do you bring mobile learning into the organization? What works in practice? How do you separate the hype from the reality? Kineo shares the answers to these and more in a new guide to mobile learning released this week.

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Kineo’s e-learning website was recently acclaimed as the top UK learning and technology website and one of the top ten globally (see the full list at http://nowcomms.com/?p=349), the only custom e-learning services company globally in the top 10. Rather than rest on this achievement, Kineo has launched a fresh new version of the website with a range of improvements, new case studies and demos.

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