Wed.Feb 07, 2018

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Adobe Captivate 2017 for Beginners – Webinar Recording

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate for Beginners is the first of a series of hands-on webinars we’ll be running regularly this year to help everyone learn the basics of designing and developing eLearning using Adobe Captivate, with each webinar led by John Stericker, our Adobe-certified Captivate Expert and Instructor. With an understanding of your skills and interests, we’ll take a practical approach to learning, spending time on the parts that are most important to attendees and sharing tips and tric

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Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Association eLearning

What’s the difference between virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)? And can they actually be useful for training or are they just gimmicks? Let’s take a look. Virtual Reality. The learner is in a completely artificial environment. Involves wearing an enclosed headset. Example: Kraken Unleashed VR roller coaster experience at SeaWorld Orlando.

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Imagine the Possibilities for Growth with Blended Learning

ej4 eLearning

Hooray! It finally happened — you've decided to incorporate eLearning into your existing training and development programs. Your training is now going to be delivered using "blended learning," and part of you is wondering: Is this going to fundamentally change what I do around here?

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How to Run Effective Group Projects in Online Education

LearnDash

Group projects help prepare learners for the real work environments, but they’re hard to organize. Learners and employers alike share a significant concern with regard to many education programs: their lack of training for real-life work scenarios. Many learners sign up for online education to build their professional expertise in a field and gain marketable skills.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Blend with Intention: Plan for a Successful Blended Learning Campaign 

InSync Training

The term blended learning has come in and out of vogue in corporate training for the last several decades. For so long, in fact, it feels like an old-fashioned term. A term that is not modern enough for the current learning landscape. The reality is, modern learning strategies, techniques, and technologies seem to be custom designed for blended learning approach.

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About this change to the site…

Clark Quinn

So, I’d been unhappy with how hard it was to update my site. It had some problems, but I was afraid to change it because of the repercussions. Well, it turns out that’s not a problem! So what you see is my first stab at a new site. A little background… My ISP, a good friend, colleague, and mentor, was making some changes to how my sites are implemented.

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Reskilling your Employees for a Future-Proof Workforce

Time to Know

A major challenge for enterprises across industries in 2018 will be effectively attracting top talent. At the same time, employers can’t ignore their current workforce, instead, they need to come up with innovative ways to hold on to them. According to Gallup , 51% of adults currently employed in the U.S. are either keeping an eye out for new career opportunities or actively searching for a new job (with about 47% optimistic about their chances of landing one).

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Flash Mentoring: One-Time Learning for Self-Driven Development

Chronus

The dreaded moment: you have a burning question and no idea where to turn. For most people, this leads to a frantic Google search. But what if you could turn to someone instead of something for answers? With flash mentoring, participants can turn to mentors in order to learn a skill or topic of their choosing in a short amount of time. What is Flash Mentoring?

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Why the Mobile Experience Matters When Delivering Course Content

D2L

Do you remember the frustration of visiting a website on your smartphone that wasn’t designed for mobile? How excited were you to pinch and zoom … Continued.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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Keep warm with our winter TalentLMS update!

TalentLMS

2017 has been a good year for TalentLMS. And that’s putting it mildly. We sustained an over 100% year-over-year growth, we’ve grown our team, improved on our support KPIs, and we’ve managed to score a few industry awards in the process. It’s only natural that 2018 is shaping up to be an even better year! To drive this point home, we have launched a great new update release, with new features and workflow improvements that cover all aspects of the training experience.

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Outsourcing Your E-Learning Development Needs: What, Why, and How

CommLab India

Read why outsourcing e-learning will benefit you and how to choose the right vendor as the right partnership will work wonders for your training initiative.

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Multitasking: You’re Not as Productive as You Think

KnowledgeCity

Mobile technology enables us to be hyper-connected to the ever-expanding network of social and business worldwide. It enables us to multitask like never before. According to a study on technology and human potential , the negative effects of this “always on” mentality is an increased loss of patience and the need for instant gratification. As technology advances, it creates avenues for getting things done.

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Corporate Forecasts for 2018 (E and I)

eLearning 24-7

For those of us who watched the Super Bowl this past weekend, a soft drink ad, showed why forecasts are needed. The drink? Mango Diet Coke. Now, I’m a believer in taste buds and Diet Coke doesn’t support that. But, the idea that someone in Coke HQ thought Mango flavored Diet Coke would be a revenue generator, requires me to put a quick forecast on that.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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9 Great Uses for Mobile Training at Work

Convergence Training

Organizations are becoming increasingly interested in mobile training these days (also called mobile learning and M-learning). Which is great, because you can use mobile training in a lot of positive ways. But on the other hand, you don’t want to just rush into it, believing that this new technology is the silver bullet that will make training magical in the same way that people made the same claims about radio, TV, movies, filmstrips, video tapes, DVDs, the Internet, and more.

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Virtual Training Labs: Increasing the Value of Training

ReadyTech

Today’s top performing companies not only recognize the importance of their employees, but also the critical need to provide the right skills at the right time for the right people. And embracing the best training methods successfully enables employees. When organizations search for these training methods, virtual training labs cannot be overlooked.

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L&D Survey Results: Red flags, the C-suite, and more

Watershed

A lot has happened during the past year. SpaceX became the first to successfully re-launch and land the first stage of an orbital rocket. A total solar eclipse blocked out the sun across the United States. And, perhaps most surprising, executives started to take notice of L&D’s existence. In September 2016, Watershed worked with our partners at LEO to survey hundreds of L&D professionals across the globe about learning measurement within their organizations.

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Choose E-learning for Better Training Results in the Financial Sector

CommLab India

Check this blog to learn how e-learning can the meet training needs of the BFSI sector.

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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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Reskilling your Employees for a Future-Proof Workforce

Time to Know

A major challenge for enterprises across industries in 2018 will be effectively attracting top talent. At the same time, employers can’t ignore their current workforce, instead, they need to come up with innovative ways to hold on to them. According to Gallup , 51% of adults currently employed in the U.S. are either keeping an eye out for new career opportunities or actively searching for a new job (with about 47% optimistic about their chances of landing one).

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Getting to know… Fiona Bravington

Leo Learning

As part of our ‘Getting to Know’ series of blog posts, we’re talking to central members of the LEO Learning family so you can get to know them a bit better. Today we’re talking to Learning Consultant, Fiona Bravington. Describe your role at LEO Learning. I work as a learning consultant in LEO Learning’s Bid team and my role primarily revolves around analysing our clients’ requirements at the very earliest stages of their project.

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How to nail your next elearning project: Top advice from 10 experts

Elucidat

‘If you’re starting a digital learning project, the place to start is not digital.’ That’s the resounding message coming from top influencers in the workplace learning industry. We asked 10 independent experts, researchers, psychologists, innovators and learning managers what they think is critical to elearning project success. What advice would you give to anyone embarking on a digital learning project this year?

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How Story Characters Help Learners Learn Difficult and Sensitive Topics - Tip #169

Vignettes Learning

Sensitive topics, like sexual abuse or harassment, dealing with personal failures (where learners have an emotional stake) and handling "no correct answer" situations (gray areas at work), can be difficult to teach. These topics create in learners the following:? Discomfort ? - Even if they are in learning mode, they become uncomfortable since many people have strong emotional sentiments on issues like social justice, protection of the environment, and other "political" and spiritual beliefs?.

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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.

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Why you should say goodbye to your traditional LMS for good

BigTinCan

Corporate learning has fundamentally changed, and it’s killing traditional Learning Management Systems. That’s a good thing. People have a need to learn and develop like never before. We’re working in an era where machines, automation and artificial intelligence have the ability to outshine some of our human talents and compete for our jobs. That doesn't have to be as scary as it sounds.

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5 ways you can use Ed's rapid authoring tool to get the edge in your business

Ed App

For any business to survive in today’s rapidly evolving world, they need to be able to adapt to constant changes. This adds difficulty for internal training. Traditional elearning content takes a long time to create, and once completed, it rapidly becomes less and less relevant as new developments influence industries. Instructional designers feel the demand to constantly create new relevant, modern material to respond to business needs.

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Increasing the Skills of Corporate Employees Through Elearning

Designing Digitally

Skill gaps in employees cannot be overlooked. If you want to remain productive and competitive in the long run, you have to ensure that your workforce is continuously improving and increasing their skills. But, you also need to consider the investment, which is not just a monetary factor. You need to think about the time your employees spend in training since it takes away from their daily work schedule.

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L&D Survey Results: Red Flags, the C-Suite & More

Watershed

How do you stack up against your peers in learning measurement? Here are the results and trends from our Measuring the Business Impact of Learning survey.

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The Credential Everyone Wants: The PMP Certification

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification is one of many professional credentials that is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Currently, there are approximately 1.4 million PMI PMPs awarded by PMI, the world’s leading authority on management. The PMP® certification is accredited against the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and ISO/ANSI 17024 standards.

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Three Ways Technology is Changing the Learning Space (Plus One)

Learningtogo

We love our tech. Most of us in the learning profession pride ourselves on being comfortable with technology. Whenever a new tool is available, we’re ready to give it a try, eager to adopt the latest way to help people learn. We spend huge amounts of money and time attending professional conferences and we read magazines dedicated to keeping us all up to date in between those conferences.

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When and How to Select an LMS for Your Association

Web Courseworks

Successful education programs within an association entail harmonizing a diverse array of software systems. Associations must be familiar with the tools at their disposal. A Learning Management System (LMS) can be a crucial asset for managing education programs. Because every association’s learning mission is unique, there is no single strategy for success.

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5 Amazing Benefits of Personalized Online Millennial Onboarding Training[Infographic]

CommLab India

Check our infographic to know the interesting benefits of a personalized online millennial onboarding program in your organization.