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Scenarios for Boring Training Topics

Experiencing eLearning

Several people have asked me, “How do you come up with scenarios for boring training topics? I have to do this content that’s really dry and tedious.” That’s a concern with a lot of the training we create. Compliance training can have very detailed rules, regulatory training can be filled with dense language, and technical training can be overwhelmed with complex systems.

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5 SEO Mistakes to AVOID for Your Online Course

LearnDash

Good SEO practices can build strength, but bad ones can undermine all your efforts. Here’s how to avoid some of the worst errors. In our recent post on building SEO strength , we talked about the basic best practices you can follow to help grow organic traffic to your course website. However, as with almost any marketing strategy, there’s also many mistakes you can make along the way, either by following a bad strategy, or by being misled by bad advice.

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OER for Precedent

CourseArc

OER for Precedent. Why an Open Educational Resources Model Means More Opportunities for All Learners. Our system is broken. Like many inside and outside the education system in the United States and globally, the cry for equity has been bellowed for years. We all know the system is broken, yet major changes are not instituted, or fully embraced and utilized to their fullest potential.

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How Do Training And Development Affect Company Culture?

Gyrus

Upskilling the employees is the ultimate need of every company. Training and development in human resource management not just equips the workforce but also enhances the company culture. Want to know how? Read this blog.

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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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Competition For Attention, Is L&D Being Left Behind?

eLearning Industry

Attention is often described as the link between perception and memory; if we pay more attention to something, we are more likely to remember it later. But with so many other options available, how can L&D programs compete to capture and maximize learners’ limited time and attention? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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6 Notable Employee Onboarding Benefits

eLearning Industry

We hire new employees because they have a much-needed expertise in their field, but we still need new hires to become experts in our company culture, policies, and processes. As systems and processes continue to change, it’s becoming more difficult to expect new hires to have the skills and knowledge needed to navigate those processes. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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7 actions Retail L&D teams can take to help retain talent

Elucidat

In the US, Retail is seeing more employees walk away than any other industry. In fact, Retail had its largest one month exodus ever in 2021. Piling on the pressure to those retail organizations that have already had to make redundancies due to Covid, resignations are biting hard. So what can Retail L&D teams do to help stop talent from walking out the door?

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eLearning Accessibility: How To Design Virtual Training Programs For Learners With Disabilities

eLearning Industry

Creating accessibility in eLearning design requires more than compliance with legal requirements. In this article, I outline how accessible virtual training designs make learning content easy to use for learners with disabilities or special needs. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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6 Best Practices for Making Data-Driven Business Decisions

BlueVolt

Everyone in the supply chain from manufacturers to retailers collects data, but is everyone using that data to make effective and impactful business decisions? The following list highlights six best practices that business leaders should consider prior to using data to make goals or initiatives.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Doing More With Less: Innovative Tips To Leverage Virtual Training Technology In Your Organization

eLearning Industry

Virtual training technology gives you the power to fill gaps and achieve your goals on a global scale. But how do you maximize these tools to improve ROI and leverage existing content? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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7 Best Tips To Support Employees Working From Home

Roundtable Learning

Do you have a partially or fully remote workforce? Perhaps your organization has recently adopted a hybrid work model and is looking for strategies to better manage your remote teams. . No matter the size of your remote workforce, you may find it challenging to support your employees and meet their needs without in-person collaboration. . At Roundtable Learning, we know that remote work is here to stay.

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The Retail Bulletin HR Summit 2021

Elucidat

Find out how to win against “the great resignation”! Check out the recording of this awesome panel discussion from the recent Retail Bulletin HR Summit, on retaining talent, with our very own Kirstie Greany. Retailers, more so than many other industries, are desperately battling “the great resignation”. This comes on top of retail redundancies that took place during the pandemic.

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7 Successful Black Friday Landing Page Examples You Need to See

learnWorlds

Black Friday is just around the corner! This year’s Black Friday falls on the 26th of November, and most businesses have already started preparing for the day. Since Black Friday season marks the biggest annual sales season, it’s high time you put those discounted price tags out and start selling online courses to interested students. Create a beautiful online school without any technical skills.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Trust: the superglue your organization needs

Matrix

Today’s news is all about a staffing shortage on a global level. There are several reasons for this, some related to the global health crisis, some to generational characteristics, and some to how certain jobs are perceived in society. If your company doesn’t yet face this challenge, that is great! However, it’s still good to stay ahead of it and make sure you not only get to keep your top talent but rank as a good employer.

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What is Cross-Selling & How to Automate It (with Examples)

AccessAlly

Do you spend a lot of time and money to acquire new customers? To let you in on a little secret, we all do. It’s just part of doing business in these modern times. The downside is that spending so much time and money acquiring new customers can leave you spinning your wheels at times.

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Human-centered leadership: Five actions for the new paradigm

CLO Magazine

COVID-19 created a new paradigm for the way we work—and organizations across the globe are stepping back to redefine what work means for their employees and culture. There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. Human-centered leaders must recognize and create a new social contract between the employee and employer that balances the organization’s needs with the needs of its employees, customers and community.

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Improve Training Effectiveness With VR: A Future-forward Case Study

Training Industry

Improve Training Effectiveness With VR: A Future-forward Case Study - Read more by Kevin Brewer on Training Industry.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: 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? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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Learning with purpose

CLO Magazine

The Department of Veterans Affairs has one important advantage when it comes to creating a world-class learning organization. “All of our employees are passionate about our mission,” says Angela DeSarro, chief learning officer in the Office of Information and Technology and director of IT workforce development. The core mission of the VA is to care for veterans and their families.

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The Renewed Push for Personalized Learning

Magic EdTech

What is personalized learning? Where did this new push for it come from? Personalized learning is an educational approach that aims to customize learning for each student’s individual needs, skills, and interests. Every student has their own manner of absorbing and perceiving information that may not always coincide with the traditional teaching methods.

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The new frontier: Why visionary CLOs are switching focus to developing technical teams rather than people managers

CLO Magazine

The race to develop talent is changing its focus. Historically, success relied on developing extraordinary leaders to inspire and lead large groups of people. But today, and in the future, the new challenge for learning teams is to create an edge for their organization by radically improving their development of technical specialists. Engineers, economists, researchers, software developers and data scientists — they’re in the vanguard of innovation.

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How you should use LMS Banners to Boost Internal Comms

Intellek

This blog comes from Intellek HQ and stresses the importance of using LMS Banners for internal comms in a Learning Management System (LMS). They can be created for a number of reasons ranging from company-wide general information and important announcements to specific topics like working from home guidelines and learner advice. Why use LMS Communication… <p>The post How you should use LMS Banners to Boost Internal Comms first appeared on Intellek.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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7 Workarounds to Make Components in Rise Accessible

Maestro

Articulate (and by extension Rise) is turning its attention towards accessibility. And we couldn’t be happier! So, we’ve put together an up to date list of accessible components in Rise , but that’s not all. Our team has also come up with some helpful tips and tricks so that you can make sure your courses are as accessible as possible! Check out our 7 workarounds below and get started creating more accessible courses for your learners. .

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What mistakes while buying technology can prove to be harmful to companies?

Creativ Technologies

The organizations are now paying so much attention to the training processes. It’s crucial for them because a lack of knowledge of employees can put the entire company’s future at stake. The companies are investing in new technologies to ensure that employees work with the best. But, how can the employees be informed about the same? The company’s IT department, which introduced such changes has to prove the utility of such software for example, if, with a better LMS, you can show that you are ex

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The Corporate Disconnect Between People Strategy & Learning Strategy

Meridian

There is a significant disconnect between what leaders intuitively know is important versus how we will get our future leaders to carry the torch. Leadership misses the mark when it comes to the critical importance of learning strategy in corporate training. Leaders often build their corporate strategy around areas that will help their business sustain profitability.

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Training Content from the Real Influencers

Litmos

The word “influencer” has certainly evolved over the last several years, mostly as a result of social media, where almost anyone can express their opinions as expert guidance. As I write this in 2021, the word “influencer” could be used to describe a world leader with massive political or financial power, an entertainment or sports celebrity with dramatic effect on culture, or a random person in gym clothes with an Instagram page, who swears that crushed-up peppers and ic

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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The Dark Side of WYSIWYG

Xyleme

If you aren’t familiar with the term, “WYSIWYG,” it is an acronym for “What You See Is What You Get.” Off-the-shelf WYSIWYG tools such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, or other HTML-based authoring tools, such as Articulate Storyline & 360 or Adobe Captivate, remain popular choices for organizations who are trying to get projects out the door.

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SCORM Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Answered by Experts

learnWorlds

Here is everything you need to know about SCORMs. During our recent webinar, LearnWorlds’ Senior Product Marketing Manager, Sara Cortellazzi, Panos Siozos, Ph.D., CEO at LearnWorlds, and Paul Schneider, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Business Development at dominKnow answered all your questions about SCORMs. Having received such a positive response and engagement, we thought we’d write this blog post in order to share our SCORM knowledge with the course creator community.

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Human-centered leadership: Five actions for the new paradigm

CLO Magazine

COVID-19 created a new paradigm for the way we work—and organizations across the globe are stepping back to redefine what work means for their employees and culture. There has never been a more urgent call for human-centered leadership. Human-centered leaders must recognize and create a new social contract between the employee and employer that balances the organization’s needs with the needs of its employees, customers and community.