Mon.Oct 29, 2018

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#DevLearn 2018: The death of the Learning styles, microlearning, and Millennials

Challenge to Learn

Back home after DevLearn 2018 and the one thing that stands out is the annihilation of three big learning buzzwords: Learning Styles, Microlearning and Millennials. Learning styles. The e-learning guild published a couple of new reports, I attended a session on them. One of the reports is "The truth about teaching to learning styles and what to do instead" by Jane Bozarth.

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Innovative Learning: Strategies for Fostering Different Thinking

Lambda Solutions

How are new ideas received in your organization? Is innovative learning part of your L&D strategy? Do people feel comfortable with voicing their opinions and thoughts? Is a new idea likely to result in a change? Listening to new ideas and encouraging outside-the-box thinking are characteristics of innovative businesses. An organization that doesn't value and encourage innovation can become stagnant and miss out on opportunities.

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How to Research Your Course Audience

LearnDash

How do you learn more about your audience if you can’t ask them directly? We’ve talked before about the importance of finding your audience. It’s not just about their age or knowledge level, which are both important for choosing appropriate subject matter. It’s also about the life experience of your learners, what they bring with them to the course, and how you can connect with it through the lessons you offer and the examples you choose.

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Video Training Is Critical for Employee Success

KnowledgeCity

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth? A Forrester report claims it’s about two million. To be more specific, the report indicates that one minute of online video equals approximately 1.8 million written words if the old adage holds true. Consequently, video training is a valuable tool that your organization may not be able to afford to ignore for much longer.

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Take Onboarding to New Heights

To respond to rapid changes in demand, Delta Air Lines needed an employee onboarding program designed and implemented in 4 weeks. AllenComm not only delivered on time, but their collaboration with Delta also revolutionized how the org supports learning and demonstrated that experiential learning within a hybrid learning ecosystem can significantly increase speed to proficiency.

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Training Industry Selected Gyrus Systems as a 2018 Gamification Watch List Company

Gyrus

Gyrus Systems , a leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) vendor, announced today it has been selected as a 2018 Gamification Watch List company by Training Industry.com. “The companies selected for the Top 20 Gamification List lead the way in engaging learners through innovative techniques, virtual reality, augmented reality, virtual worlds and simulations,” said Ken Taylor, president of Training Industry, Inc.

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10 Awesome Ways To Use Mobile Learning For Employee Training

eLearning Industry

Mobile learning for employee training is fast becoming an essential part of training delivery. In this article, I share 10 ways to showcase how you can use mobile learning for employee training for formal training and Performance Support (job aids). This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Top of Mind: Learning in the Age of Acceleration

CLO Magazine

Jesse Jackson. Responsible L&D professionals are rapidly responding to the fact that we are living in an increasingly transformative period. This new period, classified as the age of acceleration, is described by kinetic changes occurring across our collective professional and personal experiences. This acceleration is also illustrated by massive disruption happening at high velocity to our traditional business practices.

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How To Incorporate Mobile Learning Into Your Training Process

eLearning Industry

47% of businesses now use mobile learning for their training needs. Understanding how to incorporate mobile learning into your training process is becoming more and more important. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What Kylie Minogue taught me about motivation and structure in elearning

Learning Pool

What Kylie Minogue taught me about motivation and structure in elearning I recently went to see Kylie Minogue in concert for the first time. She was extraordinary. I came away full of emotion and excitement, and the feeling that I was one of the lucky few who was there to experience THAT particular gig, because Read more. The post What Kylie Minogue taught me about motivation and structure in elearning appeared first on Learning Pool | e-learning content and learning management systems.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Your Input Needed: Help Measure The Business Impact Of Learning

eLearning Industry

Third annual LEO Learning and Watershed survey aims to benchmark industry progress in measuring organisational Learning and Development. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Introducing EdApp Small Team Edition

Ed App

At EdApp, we are committed to better learning outcomes, whether it be for employees at large corporations, educational institutions or smaller teams. Something we consistently hear from smaller companies and small businesses owners is that they want access to practical and relevant training material to upskill their staff – of course delivered in the fun, engaging and informative style EdApp is renowned for.

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The Principles of Learning and How You Can Adapt Them to E-Learning

Capytech

The Principles of Learning and How You Can Adapt Them to E-Learning. The Principles of Learning describe the factors and situations that facilitate learning and help people retain information. There are six principles: Readiness. Exercise. Effect. Primacy. Recency. Intensity. Let’s look at each as well as how you can use them when developing an e-learning course.

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Recommended Research: Constructivism & Learning Technology

Adobe Captivate

Last week, we had an awesome virtual class on how to implement an effective gamification strategy within a corporate learning environment! Here is the recording and slideshare. In class, we briefly touched on some learning theories and research related to constructivism and the effective use of technology, games and gamification within the overall learning environment.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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ATD LearnNow: Learn xAPI Workshop

eLearning Industry

Be guided through the development of your own xAPI-enabled project at this 1.5 day, hands-on workshop. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Career Advice From Julie Betts

CLO Magazine

Julie Betts. You didn’t begin your career as a learning leader. You were in customer-facing roles at Pitney Bowes. Can you tell us about the trigger moment that brought you into L&D? I graduated from Michigan State University with a science degree. I was interested in pursuing a role as an account manager sales executive in the pharmaceutical industry.

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The World Is Your Office: Getting Enterprise Mobility Right

eLearning Industry

Ubiquitous connectivity has changed how we communicate and work. Today, we examine how companies can embrace enterprise mobility to increase their productivity and empower their employees. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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ADDIE Training Model: What Is It and How Can You Use It?

TalentLMS

“‘ADDIE training model?’ Oh, God! Is this another term in the learning universe I need to learn?” I can hear some of you crying. The answer is yes. But it’s an essential one that will actually help you create better courses, so keep reading! *insert whip sound effect here*. The ADDIE model of instructional design is used by instructional designers all over the world as part of their online, offline, or even blended learning sessions.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Head, hand and heart

Learning with e's

Photo from Pxhere I can't speak for anyone else, but my own personal learning is most enriched when I'm in conversations with others. Whether it is sat during a break in a conference schedule; over a few drinks in the evening with a couple of colleagues; in breakout sessions; or simply sat discussing ideas across a social media channel; all of these can be rich veins of new thinking for me.

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Serious Learning Games Can Invigorate Compliance Training

LearningGuild

Serious Learning Games Can Invigorate Compliance Training. pamela-hogle. Mon, 10/29/2018 - 01:00.

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How To Develop Compliance Training Solutions – Featuring A Case Study For The Healthcare Industry

eLearning Industry

Thanks to high stakes, it's more important than ever for compliance training to be effective and engaging. Take a look at the Allencomm process for creating a corporate compliance training solution for the healthcare industry, and how the strategy was designed to impact its learners. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How Will Randomizing Test Questions Help You Enhance E-learning Assessments?

CommLab India

Randomizing test questions is a great strategy to improve the effectiveness of assessments in e-learning. Check this blog to gain an insight on the right reasons to randomize test questions.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Learning Ecosystems: How The Behr Paint Company replaced the LMS

Watershed

As you start to consider your learning ecosystem , you’ll need to reflect on the role of the LMS. For most organizations, the LMS continues to play an important role in conjunction with other ecosystem elements (our next blog post will look at organizations who have done just that). But, there are times when you may want to replace part or all of your LMS when implementing xAPI.

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Five Creative Ways to Attract Top Talent

KnowledgeCity

It’s no wonder the competition for today’s top talent is fierce—high performers are 400 percent more productive than average employees. That’s a huge difference in output, and a hefty incentive to attract top talent in the job market. So, what is your organization doing to make itself attractive to the best and brightest the job market has to offer?

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How to do Online Training for Government the Right Way

Avilar

We know that the U.S. federal government is actively working to modernize the federal workforce to meet the fast-evolving nature of 21st-century work. There’s a push to update technology systems to improve mobile access and citizen engagement. Human resource leaders are revamping outdated recruitment methods and building educational partnerships to fill a pipeline of younger workers who can fill skills gaps.

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Instructional Design: Planning Success

Solo Learning

Have you done your research on instructional design? There are an abundance of models; ADDIE, MPI, SAM , Bloom’s Taxonomy to name a few. Each one aims to make the acquisition of knowledge and skills more efficient, effective, and appealing. Here are six things you should define before picking one. Instructional Design Objectives. Operating in the real world, you try to maximize your training budget to meet objectives.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Introducing EdApp Small Team Edition

Ed App

At EdApp, we are committed to better learning outcomes, whether it be for employees at large corporations, educational institutions or smaller teams. Something we consistently hear from smaller companies and small businesses owners is that they want access to practical and relevant training material to upskill their staff – of course delivered in the fun, engaging and informative style EdApp is renowned for.

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AI in Learning and Development: What You Need to Know

Continu

Few things are trendier right now than artificial intelligence. AI shows up in marketing, transportation, logistics, performance management, and pretty much everywhere else. So it’s no surprise that the learning and development industry is talking about it too. But how might AI impact L&D? Will it help employees learn more effectively? (The answer isn’t always clear.

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Installing adobe Captivate 2019 problem

Adobe Captivate

I download a trial version of Adobe Captivate 2019 from Adobe site, when I try to install it on my PC, it gives me a blank screen, only CP logo, I take the same files and try to install it on my brother’s PC, it works without any problem. My laptop is: Dell precision M6500, windows 7, 8GB Rams, last version of Flash Player installed, Java installed, and I have more than 100 free space in PC system drive.