Tue.Oct 18, 2016

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Instructional Design: The Process – 1

Origin Learning

Course creation and delivery have come a long way in the past couple of decades. There have been all types of blend in learning, using all possible avenues from brick-and-mortar classrooms, virtual classrooms, eLearning, digital tutorials, videos, to xAPI tracking all forms of social or informal learning. Instructional Design (ID) is a process or systematic approach to developing the various learning courses or programs.

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The great leapfrog

Kineo

For sure, there is change in the air. Who isn’t talking about digital transformation? We’re now in the early stages of the fourth industrial revolution after all. With the convergence of people and our digital and physical worlds, by 2020 our colleagues will actually be of the robotic kind (if you believe some of the doomsday articles regularly pushed out in the press).

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7 Tips to Avoid the Hidden Costs of LMS Implementation

Docebo

Ditch the unexpected expenses of LMS implementation with these 7 tips. Planning for every eventuality will only get you so far. There are times when the unexpected happens, and takes a bit out of your corporate eLearning budget. This is often the case with the hidden costs of LMS implementation. You’ve already invested a sizable sum into purchasing the software and developing your eLearning materials.

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Add SSL To Your Website (or Else)!

LearnDash

Google is Changing the Game… Don’t Leave a Target on Your Back! Often I write about the elearning industry’s latest news, tools, tips, tricks, and technology. Occasionally though I like to share insights gained that are more indirectly related. This article falls into that category. The topic I want to talk about is applicable whether you have online courses or not – and that’s implementing SSL ( Secure Sockets Layer ) for your website.

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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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Next book?

Clark Quinn

The time has come to ask: what should be my next book? I’ve written four so far: Engaging Learning was something I felt was needed because people had written about the importance of games but no one was writing about how to design them, and I could. Then, while I wanted to write about elearning strategy, my publisher wanted a book on mobile and I realized one was needed and the other likely candidates deferred.

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7 Secrets for Setting and Communicating Priorities

ej4 eLearning

If you’ve ever stayed to finish a report instead of heading off to lunch, gone for a morning run instead of grabbing an extra 20 minutes in bed, or sat through a kid’s school play, you’re familiar with setting priorities. Setting priorities isn’t just about choosing to do one thing over another; it’s about choosing to do important things first so that you can achieve your long-term goals.

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JoomlaLMS Workaround: How to Add a Forum to a JoomlaLMS Site

JoomlaLMS

As you might know, by default, JoomlaLMS is not integrated with any Joomla! forum tool. We abandoned the integration in favor of a JoomlaLMS native forum tool that is in the development stage currently. The native forum tool ought to be added to an official JoomlaLMS release before too long, meanwhile, to make the wait shorter we would like to share with you a workaround suggested by one of our quick-witted clients.

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The Link Between Critical Thinking and Effective Design

InSync Training

Curriculum design is a hot topic these days, especially with the debates over the Common Core teaching strategies in the United States. Often, many critics find that programs like the Common Core aren't helping students learn essential skills that they will need to learn. Despite the emphasis on testing and measurement, it seems that these programs might not be measuring the things that will actually help students succeed.

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3 Spooktacular Captivate Templates

eLearning Brothers

Alas, it is that time of year again, when children don the masks of ghoulish creatures and roam the streets searching for sugary goodness. The time when grown men and women cower in fear at toilet paper and eggs. And back in the day, it was a time when the barrier between the our world and the spirit realm became porous, monsters and apparitions spilling into the land of the living.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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JoomlaLMS Tips: How to Add a Forum to a JoomlaLMS Site

JoomlaLMS

As you might know, by default, JoomlaLMS is not integrated with any Joomla! forum tool. We abandoned the integration in favor of a JoomlaLMS native forum tool that is in the development stage currently. The native forum tool ought to be added to an official JoomlaLMS release before too long, meanwhile, to make the wait shorter we would like to share with you a workaround suggested by one of our quick-witted clients.

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Reduced-In-Force…Bomb Sniffer Looking for a Home

Living in Learning

Will stipulate knowledge acquisition is important, but many years of corporate L&D experience has this dog trained to recognize that training…in and of itself…only drives potential. Convinced that “knowing what to do” is great…but actually “doing it effectively” is the brass ring we all seek, but only manifests at the point-of-work…and that requires chasing a performance paradigm like a big dog.

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Gamification – A Diminishing E-learning Trend?

CommLab India

Mention the word ‘gamification’ and it evokes different reactions from the different people inhabiting the e-learning universe. For L&D professionals, it might be the trend they want to catch up with in their training; for instructional designers, it is a question of how and where to put it in the course; for the management, it is the ROI for the inputs – monetary and otherwise – that go into adding this element in the course.

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Spin a Tale, Pull ‘Em In: 6 Storytelling Techniques in eLearning

SHIFT eLearning

We all loved a trip to grandpa’s house because he had so many stories to tell. Now we flock to Facebook and browse the blogosphere in search of stories. Our fascination with stories started from the time when our hunter-gatherer ancestors sat around roaring fires and shared the day’s happenings. Just because your learners are grown-ups and spend their days immersed in numbers, charts, facts, and graphs, you shouldn’t assume that they have outgrown their liking for stories.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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How to Design Learner-centric Learning Objectives?

CommLab India

How do we ensure training programs address the performance gaps of learners? How do we ensure learners are informed of what the training has in store for them and their expected performance after the training? Well, learning objectives serve this purpose. They communicate the intent of the training to learners and often, they are the first screen learners come across before the actual learning begins.

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Tip of the Week: Tweak the templates to present your interactions creatively

Raptivity

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Free Flip Card Interaction

Rapid eLearning

A great way to learn to use the elearning software you have is to create small interactions. As I’ve noted before, at work you may end up building one hundred courses, but the reality is you just build the same course one hundred times. That’s one of the reasons I like and promote the weekly elearning challenges. They provide a mechanism to quickly build prototypes to play around with ideas and learn new production techniques.

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OpenBadges: Increasing Visibility of Association Education

WBT Systems

There has been much discussion lately about the value of digital badges for both association education and certification programs. Describing the appeal of digital badges, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory ( HASTAC ) says, “ Digital badges are a powerful new tool for identifying and validating the rich array of people’s skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and competencies.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Reinforcement Training: Make your Sales Training Count

CommLab India

According to the 2015 Training Industry Report , 42% of organizations who took part in a survey reported an increase in their training budgets. This good news tells us that training is now recognized as an important organizational function. But there is an important component of training that is still given very little or no importance at all. This component is the reinforcement of training – otherwise known as training reinforcement or reinforcement training.

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Feed the Gorilla

CLO Magazine

We are living in a world of economic uncertainty. Although the economy is growing in the U.S., some industry segments are not doing well. Across the globe, uncertainty exists in many areas. For instance, the Brexit vote is causing significant uncertainty in the UK and Europe. The price of oil is causing uncertainty and reducing budgets in oil producing countries.

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Personas Place Developer Focus on Learners' Needs by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Using personas can align designers, developers, and other stakeholders around clearer goals by creating a shared. understanding of who will use the eLearning, says Lacey Jennings of Xerox Learning Services. This knowledge helps them. create eLearning that is more impactful; it can also streamline development and maintenance. What is a persona and how. does it help?

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What is SCORM?

Growth Engineering

If you have any involvement whatsoever with online learning, you’re going to need to wrap your head around SCORM. Whether you’re dealing with eLearning content creation or the administration of a learning management system, you’ll have SCORM to thank for making things run smoothly. Let’s take a quick look at what it is and how it became the all-encompassing force in the industry!

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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The macro considerations of Instructional Design

LearnUpon

Transforming high quality content into clear and meaningful content for online consumption requires deliberate instructional design decisions. A good instructional designer knows about learning and how to support it. There are so many key elements from the macro down to the micro that will determine the quality of a course. A well designed course is clear in its instructional goal and every aspect of course design is aligned to that goal, from the biggest to the smallest design decisions.

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6 Points to Keep In Mind While Choosing an Outsourcing Content Development Partner

Aims Digital

Every organization has its core competencies; however, these organizations can’t have every possible skill under the sky; which is why, outsourcing exists. You possess the skilled personnel to focus on the core business of your organization, but some aspects of your work, the ancillary ones, need to be outsourced to an outside party. If you are looking for someone to help create content for your eLearning modules, there are a few pointers to be kept in mind while selecting the right partner.

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How to make interactive eLearning work for your corporate training program

eFront

It’d be hard to find any corporation these days which relies solely on face-to-face, classroom-based courses. Everyone has embraced eLearning because of the flexibility and convenience it offers. Yet, you’ll find some eLearning courses just don’t engage their learners at all : instead of being something new, they are the same old stuff, bundled up as a video of a presentation and offered to the learners, who – quite rightly – will ask: “What’s the point of doing this?

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Back by Popular Demand: Advanced Training at LUC 2017

Trivantis

Kick-start your 2017 Lectora® User Conference experience with a pre-conference training class! We’re offering three of our most popular classes on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati. Choose from these 3 classes: Lectora Inspire Intermediate Training. This class goes above and beyond the basic uses of Lectora, focusing primarily on the use of variables and conditional actions within a title.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.