Wed.Jan 18, 2017

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Do Your Learners Speak Your Language?

Association eLearning

“Now that you’re in the beginning phase, you need to untap.”. When was the last time you tried explaining something you were familiar with to someone who was new to it? Maybe you were orienting a new team member, trying to summarize your favorite show, or teaching someone how to play a game. Lots of things have their own “in” terms. If you try using them with someone who has no clue what they mean you’re going to lose that person’s interest.

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Quality Control: Best Practices in Online Course Design and Delivery

CourseArc

Like any other product or service, online course design and development must be subjected to quality control (QC) standards to ensure that its users’ needs are truly being met. But like other design-driven products, in which subjectivity plays a key role in a course’s development and execution, the quality of eLearning products can sometimes be difficult to evaluate objectively.

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5 TED Talks (and Big Questions) for Adult Learning Professional

eLearning Alchemy

f schools kill creativity, does corporate training kill leadership? Most of these TED Talks aren’t new; however, as an adult learning professional you may have skipped them or not considered them too deeply. The best TED Talks on education focus on reforming education for children. It’s a curious conundrum then that a lot of what we’re finding creates the best learning experiences for children is to treat them like adults.

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Defining 5 Modern Instructional Strategies

InSync Training

We have explored some new language of learning definitions this week, so let’s continue our exploration by defining a few different instructional strategies that we use on a regular basis to design, develop, deliver, produce, and facilitate our modern learning campaigns. Instructional strategies are the approaches that we use in the design, development, and delivery of learning to engage our students in learning experiences.

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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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Personalized Learning for Employees

LearnDash

Elearning has come a long way since its early days. Specifically, it didn’t take long for instructional designers to realize that sitting through an elearning course can be boring. For the most part people like to interact with others. They want to be part of a community and feel like what they are learning matters in a practical sense. It is because of this that course developers have gone through great lengths to create a more personal learning experience.

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Cognitive Business

Clark Quinn

One of my mantras is that organizations need to align better with how we think, work, and learn. However, my focus has been specifically on what L&D can be doing (as that’s the folk I mostly talk to). But it occurs to me that it really goes farther. There are applications of cognitive science (including neuroscience, cognitive psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, etc) to more areas of business than just L&D.

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Webinar: How Personalized Learning Flips the Traditional L&D Model

EdCast

Join us to discuss how personalized learning flips the traditional L&D model In this webinar and we will discuss how personalization technology is changing the traditional approach of Learning and Development programs, making the discovery of content more efficient, and providing an enriched, data-driven ecosystem that integrates with your existing systems with xAPI and Learning […].

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5 Steps to Making a Viral Educational Infographic

ATD Learning Technologies

Making an educational infographic is relatively easy. Making it viral is the hard part. The following is a way to do it: STEP 1: Start with a topic that is popular (i.e., in the news, trending on social media). STEP 2: Choose a provocative title that mentions the hot topic. This is your headline. It should give people a reason to care about your infographic.

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HT2 Labs Expand US Presence With New Office, Add New Team Members

HT2 Labs

[PRESS RELEASE] Announcing the addition of a new US office and the addition of four new team members. The post HT2 Labs Expand US Presence With New Office, Add New Team Members appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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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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How to Rock Being a Training Leader

Litmos

The business of training and development is crucial to any organization’s performance. Businesses, want to gain a competitive advantage and for others the need to improve productivity or obtain better business outcomes is the pain point of the moment. Ultimately, all organizations are looking to optimize the talent of their workforce. Training is, therefore, a huge responsibility and needs motivated and skillful individuals to handle it.

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Managing Global E-learning Projects? Play Your Part Well

CommLab India

Training modules developed for multinational organizations must meet global requirements. As a project manager, it is your responsibility to ensure the modules are developed on time, within the budget and of course, surpass the expectations of your client. To ensure this, expert execution of your critical role is necessary. This post explains how you can play your part well.

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We Need to Create an Individualized Skills Cloud

CLO Magazine

Our nation’s workforce development system is at a crossroads. One reason is that workforce development is not a system, it’s a collection of mostly independent organizations making well-meaning efforts to serve the hyperlocal workforce needs in their communities. While these efforts are laudable, they are highly fragmented and typically lack the dimension and scope needed to develop and leverage economies of scale.

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Reflect to impress — the power of reflection

Saffron Interactive

One of my Saffron colleagues wrote a blog last year, Musings on my performance appraisal, in which he considered how he could build time into his day for reflection on. The post Reflect to impress — the power of reflection appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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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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Can I Add a Downloadable Document into a Rise Course?

Yukon Learning

Happy 2017! Cheers to a new year and to the new Articulate 360! Since the release of 360, we’ve received a number of questions about the new tools, but one tool has overwhelmingly attracted our students’ interest—and that is Rise. Rise challenges us to think about development differently. Instead of being a slide-based development tool, it utilizes web-based authoring to create a professional-looking, fully responsive course.

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4 adjectives that make or break a team, in any industry

TalentLMS

If you’ve ever been in the position to hire someone for your team, you know that it can be a fun, interesting, exciting but also a challenging, stressful and confusing process. Usually, you are pressured by your manager or time and money are limited. You might even find yourself in a position that you’re not sure what to look for. Before you ask yourself (or, even worse, me) what does a designer have to do with this, let me clarify: A designer is a person who understands problems and tries to so

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Mentorship and the Changing Nature of Work: An interview with Lyft’s Alyssa Schwartz

Everwise

Today is Thank Your Mentor Day and to celebrate, we’re sharing mentor and protégé stories to thank our community. . In the summer 2013, Alyssa Schwartz had just moved to San Francisco to work for a local branding firm. One day, a giant, fuzzy pink mustache attached to the grill of a car whizzed past her on the street. “I thought it was a funny hipster car at the time because who else would put that on a car?

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Where Does Reporting Fall on the Learning and Development Maturity Spectrum?

CLO Magazine

Maturity models show a journey from beginning to collect data all the way through the use of advanced and sophisticated practices and processes. The models can be very useful in conveying the journey from immature to mature, and in helping organizations assess where they are today and where they may wish to go in the future. Unfortunately, since most practitioners don’t really understand what is required to run learning like a business, most of these models show reporting as the second or third

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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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Section 508 Refresh: The Clock Is Ticking on eLearning Accessibility Requirements by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Publication of the Section 508 Refresh in the Federal Register on January 18, 2017, means that the new rules for making online content accessible take effect on March 20, 2017; compliance with the new standards is required starting January 18, 2018. This Spotlight answers some common questions about what the update means for eLearning.

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We’re hiring! Customer Support Representative (Sydney)

LearnUpon

About the Role. LearnUpon are looking to hire an experienced technical support representative to join our rapidly growing support team. This isn’t your average support role, you will become a trusted partner to our ever growing customer base and will be exposed to a wide variety of technical issues. You will be their main point of contact for guidance on how best they can integrate LearnUpon into their business to achieve maximum benefit.

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5 Story Arguments that Compel Learners to Pay Attention - Tip #117

Vignettes Learning

Learning is like watching someone else’s story. Observe what happens when you listen to a story from your parents, spouse or loved one, kids, bosses, or even a homeless person on the street. Did you notice how there’s always an argument that pops up in your mind? This happens instantly, automatically, and unconsciously. Arguments and Persuasion I remember my kids’ book when they were in high school titled “Everything’s an Argument” by Andrea Lunsford, John Ruszkiewicz and Keith Walters.

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The Case for a New Learning Program with Microlearning

cogentys

The Case for a New Learning Program with Microlearning. The fear that human attention spans are growing shorter because of technology may or may not have a basis in fact. There is no question that learning via small nuggets (microlearning) versus huge volumes of information is the wave of the future. If you’re trying to convince your boss that a new learning program based on the principles of microlearning has merit, focus on potential profits, both short-and-long-term.

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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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Review of Linkedin Learning

eLearning 24-7

“If you have complaints or concerns, maybe you should write a blog.” I never knew that it was possible. That I’d be honored with such a retort as the one above, from a salesperson at a booth at ATDTK17. At the “Linkedin Learning” booth no less. Prior to that, another interesting quote was presented to me. “We believe the future of learning is AICC.” When asked why the system does not support SCORM.

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Rating Scale (Likert) Questions

Adobe Captivate

In this video, I’m going to show you the rating scale (Likert) type question. Talk about when you might use them, and explain two issues of compatibility.

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3-D Models Provide Virtual Objects That Enhance eLearning by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Photogrammetry, using a smartphone camera and a free app, makes it possible to create 3-D models of objects or even of people! These can be used to enhance eLearning interactivity and engagement.

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Genie Claims Training Industry Title for a Second Year

Growth Engineering

What happens when you create an awesome piece of learning magic? It just keeps winning awards left, right and centre, that’s what! Less than two weeks into the new year and we’d found out that Genie, our game-based authoring tool had landed on Training Industry’s 2017 Top Authoring Tool Companies List! If you’re having a weird sense of déjà vu, don’t worry – it’s the second year in a row that Genie’s been named as one of the most innovative instructional instruments you can get!

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.