Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Satisfying Competencies with Performance Checklists

November 11, 2016

Administrator, Competencies, Evaluator, How To, Learner, VTA

Competency assessments within VTA provide a great way to ensure employees are qualified for their jobs, establish an inventory of skills within your organization and foster a continuous performance improvement discussion between employees and supervisors. While most competency assessments are…

xAPI – Where’s the data? Creating statements for learning events.

March 24, 2016

Duncan Welder IV

Learner, VTA, xAPI and cmi5

xAPI Overview The experience API (xAPI) was developed to help track learning experiences that haven’t been easy to capture in a traditional learning platform. There are a number of sources for good xAPI data – Megan Torrance, with Torrance Learning,…

RISC – VTA Instructor App for Android and iOS

January 6, 2016

Duncan Welder IV

Mobile Learning, New Features, VTA

Instructor Title Screen Overview RISC Inc’s first mobile application, the PDF Annotator, was introduced at the 2014 VTALive conference in Las Vegas and mobile application development has not stopped since. Based on user feedback, RISC has been active migrating a…

RISC – VTA Student App for iOS and Android

January 6, 2016

Duncan Welder IV

Mobile Learning, New Features

Student Title Screen Overview RISC adds to its stable of mobile applications with the release of the RISC VTA Student App 1.0. The RISC Student App takes critical features from the VTA Learner and VTA Badge systems and combines them…

Why Attend xAPI Camp-Amazon (Part 2)

July 17, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

General, xAPI and cmi5

Why Attend xAPI Camp-Amazon – Insights from the Presenters Earlier in the week, we shared insights from Aaron Silvers about Connections Forum’s upcoming xAPI Camp – Amazon. We also discussed Aaron’s thoughts on the need for xAPI Camps and other…

Why Attend xAPI Camp Amazon

July 14, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

General, xAPI and cmi5

Why Attend xAPI Camp Amazon – An interview with Aaron Silvers With the second xAPI Camp around the corner on July 21st in Seattle, WA, we wanted to share how and why it came into being. In this first of…

mLearnCon 2015 in Review

June 24, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

General, Mobile Learning, xAPI and cmi5

The eLearning Guild’s 2015 mLearnCon was held in Austin, Texas this month in conjunction with the Performance Support conference at the brand-new J.W. Marriott downtown. The show seemed to grow in size a bit from last year but still retains…

Why ATD 2015?

May 11, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

e-Learning, General, Technology

Why ATD 2015? Here’s why RISC is part of this premier training and development event… The ATD 2015 International Conference & Exposition is just around the corner in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center, running May 17-20. RISC is…

Turning Technologies User Conference – RISC Inc Review

April 6, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

General, Technology

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the user conference of one of RISC Inc.’s VTA integrated technology partners, Turning Technologies. Turning Tech’s audience response system is used in academic and corporate environments as well as for conferences and…

VTA Backoffice 7.2 Gets Social! – Part 2 Managing Skills Data

March 4, 2015

Duncan Welder IV

Data Cleanup, How To, New Features, VTA

In the previous post, we looked at setting up Skills data in VTA Backoffice. In this post, we will cover VTA Backoffice tools to help you manage Skills data. (more…)

Posts by Duncan Welder IV

Satisfying Competencies with Performance Checklists

xAPI – Where’s the data? Creating statements for learning events.

RISC – VTA Instructor App for Android and iOS

RISC – VTA Student App for iOS and Android

Why Attend xAPI Camp-Amazon (Part 2)

Why Attend xAPI Camp Amazon

mLearnCon 2015 in Review

Why ATD 2015?

Turning Technologies User Conference – RISC Inc Review

VTA Backoffice 7.2 Gets Social! – Part 2 Managing Skills Data

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