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How to Help Your Employees L-O-V-E Online Learning

TOPYX LMS

In her article The Role of Emotions in Learning , she wrote, “When the limbic system interprets a situation as being ‘safe’, it facilitates learning by releasing another set of chemicals that open the higher cognitive centers of the brain, namely, the cortical region.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Design and Market Sector Differences

Learning Visions

But even within the corporate market, I know the roles of the instructional designer vary widely. Im guessing youre designing online distance learning courses. Im in the weird place of for-profit education, which really has characteristics of both market sectors. I primarily design self-paced eLearning programs. What do you do?

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Learning and Development Glossary

Petra Mayer

Asynchronous Learning. The role is common to large companies and multinational organizations. In simple words, the person usually deals with defining user roles and creating learning courses. LTI is a standard created by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. Bloom’s Taxonomy. CLO (Chief Learning Officer). Simulation.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Big Question: Instructional Design as a Spectrum

Learning Visions

Im wondering if we should be talking about tiers of instructional design. Craft distance learning events for college credit that pull together elements of both asynchronous and synchronous learning experiences. Today Im feeling more like a hazy purple. Many instructional designers find their way into this job rather randomly.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Designers: Do You Have a Degree in ID?

Learning Visions

Im curious what other folks experiences has been. Im so happy to see you post this up. Im struggling with this right now. Im not on to trying to source another college or university to try out. In the academic field, I presume one is designing both asynchronous and synchronous distance learning experiences.

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6 Effective Ways To Increase Employee Productivity

eFront

The exact details will, of course, depend on your employees’ roles and responsibilities, but there are a few standard productivity metrics to keep an eye on. For any person-to-person communication that needs to be more “real time”, invest in an business-focused instant messaging (IM) service like Slack.

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Micro-Learning as a Workplace Learning Strategy

Learnnovators

In my earlier posts, I have written about the possible roles it can play in formal, informal and incidental learning. Tweet chats, telephone conversations, IMs, coffee time discussions – any and all of these can be micro-learning. It can happen anytime, anywhere, in any form – synchronously, asynchronously, and semi-synchronously.