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Upskilling Employees: Advantages and Methods To Teach Staff More

eFront

Upskilling is the process of teaching current employees new skills. Upskilling is the process of teaching current employees new skills. You may also consider offering credentialing programs, meaning training that results in a professional certificate. Click To Tweet. But it doesn’t have to cause a tremendous financial setback.

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An Elearning Design Reading List

Usable Learning

Several things have led to me actually writing a blog post. Anyway, I typically keep a list of resources when I teach the ATD (ASTD) Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate, and I keep thinking that I should put the list somewhere. Connie Malamed’s Elearning Coach Website. Presentations.

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Escape from Compliance Training Jail - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

The Rapid Elearning Blog. Like the healthcare industry, there are many industries that require annual refresher or certification testing that has little to do with learning. In those cases, the goal is not so much to teach new skills; instead it is to certify existing knowledge. Escape from Compliance Training Jail.

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Book Giveaway and Other News

Usable Learning

Hey folks, So Bryan Jones at elearningart.com did a very fun interview with me for his blog. I’m also teaching a few public workshops in the next few months. I’m teaching at session of the Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate at the ATD ICE Conference on May 20-21 in Denver.

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Benefits of eLearning and Certification

BrainCert

We'll examine the benefits of eLearning, why it has become a necessity in today's world, and provide tips for implementing a successful online learning and certification program in this blog. Online quizzes, assignments, and examinations enable instructors to assess learners' understanding in real time.

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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part II)

Web Courseworks

This blog post will outline the second most important concept in delivering an online course: Consistent design of learning activities and use of Bloom’s taxonomy to encourage learner engagement in higher level learning. In Part I, Deb Adair’s comment stressed the importance of building social presence to replace live interaction.

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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part I)

Web Courseworks

In this first blog post in a series, we will discuss a main point of contention against repurposing face-to-face (F2F) workshops into eLearning: loss of human contact and interaction. Bill Winfield teaches an online course on online course design. He breaks his twenty-five students into groups of three or four.