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How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

The Learning Dispatch

A week at the CSUN Assistive Technology conference in San Diego leaves the mind reeling. She shared the results of her survey of those using assistive technology to access PDFs and described how to optimally organize the PDF tag tree to create maximum accessibility. So much new information! So much of it related to learning!

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How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

The Learning Dispatch

A week at the CSUN Assistive Technology conference in San Diego leaves the mind reeling. She shared the results of her survey of those using assistive technology to access PDFs and described how to optimally organize the PDF tag tree to create maximum accessibility. So much new information! So much of it related to learning!

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LinkedIn Launches Their Own LMS

LearnDash

In 2015 LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com, a premier provider in online training. No longer are they simple a content provider but the technology stack makes them a learning management system of sorts. The courses they offer are some of the best around and so are some of their instructors. It cost LinkedIn a hefty $1.5

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How to Prepare for Active Shooters in the Workplace

CLO Magazine

At work, a 2018 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that workplace homicides were up from 83 cases in 2015 to 500 cases in 2016, with shootings accounting for 79 percent of deaths. Education technology company Skillsoft, for example, offers an online active shooter training course that is free to all.

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E-Learning Today: High-Tech and High Touch

CLO Magazine

Later came the first computer-based training program, and toward the end of the 20th century, the introduction of the computer and internet set the stage for e-learning to manifest in a vibrant and voluminous market that now transforms along with technology. Don’t Be Fooled by the Shiny and New. This is particularly true for millennials.

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When It Comes to Technology, All That Glitters Is Not Gold

CLO Magazine

Executives rely on them to rapidly build employee’s skills, and vendors offer an array of dazzling new learning technologies that promise to make employees better, faster and more engaged at work. It doesn’t matter how great the technology is, if learners won’t use it, it does no one any good,” Johnson said. That is a mistake. “It

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The Inevitable Fusion of Learning and Talent

CLO Magazine

Research from Deloitte University Press titled “Global Human Capital Trends 2015, Leading in the New World of Work” indicates the percentage of companies rating learning and development as a “very high” priority tripled in a year, yet organizational readiness is rapidly declining. Technology infrastructure. HR’s role and strategy.