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MAY 10, 2019

Whether you’re replacing an existing learning management system or starting fresh, your success will depend on how you demonstrate its benefits to your staff. Provide context & make it simple. Here’s how to get your workforce to log on and learn.

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JUNE 14, 2019

When gamification techniques are used in compliance training, they provide powerful mechanisms to meet core needs that, in turn, inspire learners to complete required courses. One Absorb LMS customer, a global sports merchandise provider, allows learners to redeem the points they earn for merchandise after they achieve certain levels.

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Compliance Training Compliance Gamification Issue 155

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JUNE 18, 2019

Courses must provide a seamless, mobile LMS experience across multiple platforms, and be heavily personalized and engaging. When you’re ready to share your prototype, give users plenty of chances to provide honest feedback. According to Wired , millennials like sleek interactive learning applications.

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LMS Design Module Storyboard 151

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APRIL 1, 2014

Here’s a typical course completion e-mail: Here’s a variation that contains a couple of recommendations: Adding recommendations to your communications with learners can provide measurable benefits: Increased enrolment, course completion, and certifications obtained. For commercial learning content providers, increased sales.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Tell stories about the real people who are benefiting from your employees’ contributions. Provide learning & development opportunities. A sense of purpose is very personal. Introduce people and help them build relationships.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The aim of the presentation is to provide an overview of workplace learning technology in 2012. The bottom line is that, faced with so much content, learners can benefit from digital content curation. A LMS simply provides an on-ramp to content someone has concluded is potentially valuable in learning new skills or information.

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Association Learning Management System LMS Learning Management System Wiki 223

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AUGUST 12, 2019

One remedy that benefits the employee and the company is learning. Even something as simple as providing regular, detailed feedback can reduce the risk of burnout. A culture that rewards 12-hour workdays and where people feel uncomfortable taking time off is unhealthy for workers—and for the business. Learning promotes engagement.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The aim of the presentation is to provide an overview of workplace learning technology in 2012. The bottom line is that, faced with so much content, learners can benefit from digital content curation. A LMS simply provides an on-ramp to content someone has concluded is potentially valuable in learning new skills or information.

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Association Learning Management System LMS Learning Management System Wiki 208

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JUNE 6, 2016

A year later, tight budgets had transformed their strategy to providing 95 per cent self-paced content. Learners today are provided with a multitude of learning activities including: Videos to watch. What benefit does the Hours of Learning Completed metric provide in this scenario? The Solution.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The learning matrix report provides, at a glance, a summary of where all or a subgroup of learners are in regards to their course activities. One of the benefits of a learning matrix report is that it can provide a great snapshot of learners’ progress in a curriculum or course bundle.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Since we tend to overestimate our own knowledge of a subject, exams also provide an important feedback mechanism. Exams designed to provide this type of reality-check feedback really shouldn’t count for as much of the final mark as an exam designed to measure overall knowledge of the learning content. Did you fail the first exam?

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eLearning Strategy Strategy LMS Develop 130

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JANUARY 11, 2016

The organization shopping for the software benefits from putting together a good RFP because nearly all vendors invited to participate will submit a proposal. List the country of origin of all components Provide the name and curriculum vitae of the mechanic who assembled the bicycle. North America, Europe, Asia, etc.)

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LMS RFP Learning Management System Podium 190

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AUGUST 21, 2019

The program celebrated the diversity of thought and experience they gained and used it to benefit GE’s business approach. Your learning management system content can support mentoring programs by providing courses and training for mentors and mentees about how to make the most out of their relationships.

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Mentoring Association Learning Management System Diversity Training Bloom 127

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In 2 of our previous blog posts, we defined the meaning of Extended Enterprise (training, development, certification or support provided to your external non-employees) and reviewed its measurable benefits. The Absorb team was able to provide a template for importing existing data that made migrating systems simple and seamless.

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Enterprise LMS Metrics Module 158

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Since we tend to overestimate our own knowledge of a subject, exams also provide an important feedback mechanism. Exams designed to provide this type of reality-check feedback really shouldn’t count for as much of the final mark as an exam designed to measure overall knowledge of the learning content. Did you fail the first exam?

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eLearning Strategy Strategy LMS Develop 113

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JUNE 6, 2013

Mark Smith’s article in the encyclopaedia of informal education titled ’ Keeping a learning journal ‘ describes the following benefits: The first and obvious use of writing a journal is that it helps us to remember something later. Second, the act of putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) engages our brains.

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Journal Association Learning Management System Skills LMS 249

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Since we tend to overestimate our own knowledge of a subject, exams also provide an important feedback mechanism. Exams designed to provide this type of reality-check feedback really shouldn’t count for as much of the final mark as an exam designed to measure overall knowledge of the learning content. Did you fail the first exam?

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eLearning Strategy Strategy LMS Develop 106

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MAY 31, 2019

To fully immerse your staff in peer-to-peer learning and encourage innovation, optional integrations with videoconferencing providers can put them in a virtual room for real-time discussion. They can also determine what courses are available in the future. Sustained learning. Learning is a marathon and a sprint.

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Trends Compliance Training LMS Develop 127

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APRIL 1, 2014

Here’s a typical course completion e-mail: Here’s a variation that contains a couple of recommendations: Adding recommendations to your communications with learners can provide measurable benefits: Increased enrolment, course completion, and certifications obtained. For commercial learning content providers, increased sales.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Here’s a typical course completion e-mail: Here’s a variation that contains a couple of recommendations: Adding recommendations to your communications with learners can provide measurable benefits: Increased enrolment, course completion, and certifications obtained. For commercial learning content providers, increased sales.

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LMS Learning Management System Adoption Adopt 100

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APRIL 4, 2016

As an added benefit, new features regularly and magically appear in the LMS without the need for Jim in IT to load CD-ROMs onto a server every couple of months. Installed software was hot. Now it’s viewed as passé.

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Association Learning Management System Wiki LMS Association LMS 190

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Expect Measurable Benefits from Employee Alignment. These provide thousands of professionally produced courses on a host of topics and skills in frequent demand, including timely regulatory updates. Use a cascading set of goals that link corporate objectives to L&D objectives. Source: Brandon Hall Learning Measurement 2018.

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Corporate eLearning LMS Compliance Training Brandon Hall 132

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Learning and development was an easy cost-slashing target; companies soon discovered that online learning could provide huge savings compared to traditional classroom-based instruction. Publicly-traded companies that saw their valuations drop significantly were desperate to cut costs, thus raising their profits and stock price.

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Online Learning Education Online Stock 186

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Learning and development was an easy cost-slashing target; companies soon discovered that online learning could provide huge savings compared to traditional classroom-based instruction. Publicly-traded companies that saw their valuations drop significantly were desperate to cut costs, thus raising their profits and stock price.

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Online Learning Education Online Stock 185