Mon.Oct 20, 2014

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LearnX 2014 Delivers

B Online Learning

'LearnX – The Main Event held on 14th October in Melbourne stepped up it’s impact this year, with a change to the format not only reducing the time from 2 days to 1 action packed day, but also with the inclusion of top quality keynote speakers in Layne Beachley and Pat Farmer. Here is a […].

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Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'If you've spent any amount of time at all using Adobe Captivate, it's a good bet that you've used some of the more basic keyboard shortcuts (copy/paste, save, etc). But check out the image below for some keyboard shortcuts you might not have known existed. (Feel free to right-click the image and save it to your computer for future use.).

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HOW TO USE LMS FOR PERFORMANCE SUPPORT

Origin Learning

'Backing up the repertoire of skills and knowledge of your employees is just as important as creating it. Organizations do spend a lot of resources in the form of time, money and effort to train their new hires, but the bitter reality is- not all of it is retained. So what do we do about it? To begin with, let’s understand why we want our employees to learn.

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How to Get the Most from Temporary Workers

The Performance Improvement Blog

'This holiday season temporary hires in the U.S. are expected to surpass 800,000, the most since 1999 and two and a half times the 2008 numbers. This is according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a leading outplacement consulting firm. They observe that as the economy improves, retail sales go up and our dependency on temporary workers increases.

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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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Surfing the Future Pedagogies: Augmented Learning

TalentLMS

'What’s so great about augmented learning anyway? Another activity blamed for lost hours of youth and productivity? Teens and adults hunched over just another game controlling their emotions and relationships? A super-glorified way to present educational technology? Yes, augmented learning is all that and more: enhanced learner experience and achievement.

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Four Ways to Use Social Media for Learning in the Real World

ATD Learning Technologies

'This excerpt from Mastering Mobile Learning: Tips and Techniques for Success examines how to use social media for mobile learning. Click here to read full version.

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How Can “Performance Support” Support Your Organization?

Mindflash

'On average, learners forget 70% of the content we teach them within 24-48 hours of formal training. Performance support is a way to extend formal training to the job site, reminding learners of how to apply their formal training to get results. Back on the job after training has been completed, performance support systems give learners what they need to know at the exact moment of need.

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Five Design Tips: Practice That Works! by Stephen J. Meyer

LearningGuild

'Practice is critical for long-term learning, but research shows that learners don’t practice effectively on their own. What can. you, the instructional designer, do about that? Here are five research-based design tips that will lock in learning.

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Overhaul: Course Completion

DigitalChalk eLearning

'Course completion is an important factor for organizations that give student deadlines to complete a course. Depending on what your organization’s needs are, you can have this enforced by simply setting it up within the course completion section of the course. How does the course completion setting work? It’s simple. You choose from 4 options (if you don’t need to it, isn’t required to select any): As soon as the student fails a test.

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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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Product Review – Articulate Storyline 2

eLearning 24-7

'Hollywood is well known for making sequels. And people are well known to either like them or dislike them. Sometimes the sequel is equal if not better than the first. Other times, they are even worse. Godfather 2 – Excellent. Star Wars Phantom Menace – Talk to Star War fanatics and they will often tell you that if this was the first one, they never would have made another.

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Elements of Effective Information Design

ATD Learning Technologies

'This is the second of three posts that discuss the importance of employing information design in your soft-skills e-learning. This installment examines elements of effective information design. Click here to read full version.

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Head to Head: State vs Private Colleges

OpenSesame

'This is the third post in our new Head to Head series where we compare and contrast a variety of topics! Don''t miss eLearning Versus mLearning , Microsoft Word vs Google Docs vs LibreOffice , and be sure to check back for another post! Lately, comparisons between public and private colleges have been a hot topic in the media. Former Yale faculty member William Deresiewicz wrote a scathing piece on why state schools are preferable to Ivy League universities.

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Sify eLearning Services Exhibits at DevLearn 2014 Conference & Expo by News Editor

LearningGuild

'Sify eLearning Services, a leading provider of learning and performance support solutions, is exhibiting at DevLearn 2014 Conference & Expo. Team members from Sify will demonstrate mobile learning solutions, content gamification, enterprise social learning, and much more.

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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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Head to Head: State vs Private Colleges

OpenSesame

This is the third post in our new Head to Head series where we compare and contrast a variety of topics! Don’t miss eLearning Versus mLearning , Microsoft Word vs Google Docs vs LibreOffice , and be sure to check back for another post! Lately, comparisons between public and private colleges have been a hot topic in the media. Former Yale faculty member William Deresiewicz wrote a scathing piece on why state schools are preferable to Ivy League universities.

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Four Ways to Use Social Media for Learning in the Real World

ATD Learning Technologies

'This excerpt from Mastering Mobile Learning: Tips and Techniques for Success examines how to use social media for mobile learning. Click here to read full version.

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Want To Share Your Expertise? You’re Cursed. Here’s How To Fix It.

OpenSesame

You are an expert. That’s why you are creating online courses, right? Because you know more about your topic than others do, and you want to share your knowledge with them. But have you ever stopped to think about how your expertise could be making it harder for you to create effective online courses? It’s true. In fact, research tells us that when it comes to predicting the time it will take a beginner to master a new skill, experts are cursed.

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It’s #everyonesbusiness! Saffron Interactive develops website and branding for key campaign on perinatal mental health

Saffron Interactive

'The Everyone’s Business campaign1, has launched a new website and vibrant brand identity aimed at senior decision-makers in government and the NHS. The campaign is dedicated to ensuring that all.

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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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Elements of Effective Information Design

ATD Learning Technologies

'This is the second of three posts that discuss the importance of employing information design in your soft-skills e-learning. This installment examines elements of effective information design. Click here to read full version.

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B2B marketers seek purposeful content, strong organization

Aptara

B2B marketers seek purposeful content, strong organization. Sales strategies seeking corporate clientele are hugely important for companies in certain fields. Firms must reach prospects and give them solid enticement to buy, just as though they were running standard B2C campaigns, but with the extra pressure of their target market being made up of entities that must commit huge portions of their budget to such purchases.

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Advice for Executives: Get Some Sleep!

Marcia Conner

'Our lack of sleep deprives us of the capacity to excel. There was a time I chose to sleep only a few hours a night. I commuted between continents for months and then from the East Coast to West Coast each week for years. Habits included late night reading, early morning email, and thirty years without a nap. I believed I could achieve higher productivity by simply sleeping less.

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The Rapid Growth of Online Education

LearnDash

'Many people today are attracted to an online education because of its inherent benefits. In fact, the growing trend is to take formal elearning courses since it allows professionals to gain new skills (and sometimes certifications) at their own convenience while still pursing a career. The advantages of distance elearning for education goes beyond the corporate environment.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The Nightmarish Tale of App Store Zombies

TechSmith Camtasia

'Q: How is the App Store like a haunted house? A: It’s full of zombies. It sounds like a joke, but the stark reality is that 80% of the 1.3 million apps in the Apple App Store are zombies. 1 They never make it onto a featured list, are rarely downloaded, and live a life in the shadows. Their creators had high hopes when they launched these apps—hopes of improving users’ lives, making some money, or just getting feedback on how to improve.

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gomo learning Announces Release of gomo 2.2 by News Editor

LearningGuild

'gomo learning announces the release of gomo 2.2. The authoring tool is full of new features and improvements, promising to. help course developers easily create single-source content for multiple devices.

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