Mon.Dec 05, 2016

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The Déjà Vu of Learning Business Process Outsourcing

Infopro Learning

The Similarities between L&D and IT. As a person who comes from an IT outsourcing background, I believe the learning industry resembles the Information & Technology industry more than most people realize. For example, the Managed Learning Services (MLS) which InfoPro Learning offers, is very similar to modern IT outsourcing, following the same holistic approach to the procedure – from the standard processes, skills, and technology.

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#C2Xmas: Day 6 – Histography

Jane Hart

Day 6 of the Countdown to Xmas continues here. Histography: Where every dot is an historical event – plotted along a timeline. [link]. Interactive timelines are always fun to use. Nowadays there are lots of tools to help create your own. Do you have any to share?

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4 Common ELearning Interactions

LearnDash

One thing that people like about an elearning course is when it contains various interaction points. This keeps the learner engaged and thinking about the content in different ways. Without interactions the entire experience is boring and arguably ineffective. If it is your responsibility to create elearning on a particular subject you should look for ways to incorporate interaction points.

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eLearning Coffee Breaks - Episode 6

Raptivity

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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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Corporate Training: Four Fab Practices for Online Compliance Training

CommLab India

What is the reaction of an employee who is taking a typical online compliance training course? A bored look, repeated yawns, and clicking the ‘Next’ button to get through the course as soon as possible. Unfortunately, there is no escaping compliance training as it is a mandatory part of corporate training. As for the attitude of employees toward this training, you cannot blame them.

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3 Steps to Maximize Volunteer Engagement

Litmos

A nonprofit would be just an idea without the volunteers that power the steam in your organization. However, volunteer burnout is a very real thing, and being civic minded doesn’t necessarily make a person an effective volunteer. A recent study by Pantheon Institute showed that the estimated value of volunteer time was $23.56 per hour—pretty significant for individuals working without pay.

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Converting Flash-based E-learning Content to HTML5 Why and How

CommLab India

For years, Adobe Flash was the uncrowned king of the e-learning world. This highly flexible software could be used to develop wonderful animations, interactivities of a very high quality including drag and drop, simulations, role plays and so on -it facilitated harnessing the creative powers of online course developers. Companies across the world developed hundreds of online courses using this highly flexible tool.

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Supply and Demand, the Battle for Knowledge and Skills

CLO Magazine

The world is changing incredibly fast, and like hamsters on the spinning wheel, learning leaders are trying to keep up. Sadly, many of us are running faster and faster and falling ever further behind. The issue here is not the state of the world, but how we are reacting to it. Best practice is becoming an ever-elusive guiding principle when it comes to the external realities impacting corporate human capital strategy, and the learning required to implement those strategies.

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How to Implement Spaced Learning into Your eLearning Strategy

eLearning Brothers

Spaced learning will be one of the key eLearning techniques to look out for in 2017. At least, that’s according to John Curran, expert in Instructional Design and chair of the eLearning Network. I know what you’re thinking. Spaced learning is old news. It dates back to 1885 when Ebbinghaus theorized the Forgetting Curve—the concept that we forget things over time unless we revisit them.

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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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Wal-Mart Partners Locally to Build Next-Gen Workforce

CLO Magazine

Businesses and their philanthropic arms continue to forge new paths to find and develop workers who are equipped to operate and advance in today’s economy. Among them is the Walmart Foundation, which granted a $10.9 million grant to Chicago’s workforce development board to help launch a training center for retail workers this fall. “One of the goals is to make Cook County a leader in regional economic development.

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Essential techniques to drive training uptake: Part 2

Saffron Interactive

I recently posted a blog containing three tips on how to use Dr. Robert Cialdini’s Six key principles of influence to drive learner engagement with your elearning and on your. The post Essential techniques to drive training uptake: Part 2 appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Excellence in Executive Education

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. Recognizes executive education providers that have delivered a targeted executive education program for a client that has delivered measurable results. . The Regis Co. . Three years ago, Ernst & Young LLP had an ambitious idea — to increase growth in all service lines. This strategy, known as Vision 2020, focused on winning the market by providing top-notch customer service, creating high-performing teams by hiring the best people, and supporting member fir

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Nuts and Bolts: Music as a Design Element by Jane Bozarth

LearningGuild

The film and game industries have known it forever: Music is a critical part of user experience, creating atmosphere, supporting memory, and cueing emotion. As a designer of learning experiences, are you using music as a strategic design element? Here are some ideas for adding it to your toolbox.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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Excellence in Partnership

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. Recognizes vendors or consultants who have effectively supported a client’s learning and development function to set strategy or establish or implement a program via consulting or whole or partial outsources services. GP Strategies. Three years ago, health care company Merck & Co. was under pressure to adapt to industry changes and cut operating costs by the end of 2015.

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Say Less Not More

Training Industry

Are you ever frustrated in a meeting or a conference call? There are lots of people and lots of noise. It feels like you can’t even hear yourself think, let alone be heard by anyone else. So what do we do? Try harder, speak louder and speak more! How about when it’s your turn, when you have the stage? You have a vision in mind of the point you’d like to make – except that that your vision of the message is unencumbered by the agendas of everyone else.

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Excellence in Blended Learning

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. Recognizes vendors that have deployed a variety of tools in support of a client’s learning program that delivers engaging learning combining multiple modalities. Intrepid Learning, Inc. . When Newell Brands built its Growth Game Plan — a business strategy aligned with the company’s structural changes — it sought help from Intrepid Learning, a vendor focused on learning-centric design, short content, applied learning and social features.

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eLearning Tools Keep Remote Employees Connected by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Tools and strategies that make eLearning engaging, when applied creatively, can keep remote employees engaged as well. Here are six tips for creating an office culture in which remote employees feel included.

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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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Excellence in E-Learning

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. Recognizes vendors that have rolled out an innovative and effective e-learning program or suite for a client. GP Strategies . Identity theft is just bad. Having bank account information stolen by hackers or dealing with other mischief from cyber thieves can be a pain to deal with too. Knowing the seriousness of such attacks, MasterCard set out to decrease the percentage of employees opening up phishing emails from the industry standard of 24 percent down to 15 p

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Social, mobile, video and the future of digital content

Aptara

Social, mobile, video and the future of digital content. The world of digital publishing has changed tremendously over the years, with the rise of heavy social media consumption initiating a major transformation in content creation and distribution. Research firm The Diffusion Group recently found that consumers now spend at least 50 hours a week in front of a digital screen, with smartphones quickly becoming the preferred device, Rapid TV News reported.

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The Business Partnership Award

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. For learning executives who have implemented a significant measurement or evaluation program. that has demonstrated exceptional business impact from their workforce development programs. Potential results may include measures of employee retention, sales, revenue growth, customer satisfaction or cost reduction, among others.

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How technology is fueling the learning transformation

Aptara

How technology is fueling the learning transformation. Digital technologies have redefined the learning experience, causing a radical shift not just in how we deliver information, but how we process and apply it as well. As eLearning tools and innovations become increasingly mobile, agile, accessible and intelligent, they are reshaping how we both think about and approach education.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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The Business Impact Award

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. For learning executives who have implemented a significant measurement or evaluation program that has demonstrated exceptional business impact from their workforce development programs. Potential results may include measures of employee retention, sales, revenue growth, customer satisfaction or cost reduction, among others.

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How to Create Engaging Content That Won’t Make Your Employees Swipe Left

eLearningMind

At the risk of divulging some of our favorite apps, we will admit that there’s something gratifying about being able to demonstrate rejection with a single swipe. In a social scene where you have about five seconds to make a good impression, creating an immediate connection with your audience can do more than get you a date. But how do you get engaging content?

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Excellence in Academic Partnerships

CLO Magazine

Learning in Practice Awards 2016. Recognizes accredited academic learning institutions that have partnered with an organization in the past year to develop skills, competency or knowledge in a general employee population. INSEAD. Technology has enabled higher education to become more accessible, and the need for customization spurred a close-knit partnership between Accenture and French graduate business school INSEAD to launch one of the first company-specific online learning programs for stra

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The Importance of Online Training: 5 Benefits For Your Employees

CommLab India

The e-learning market is now 18 years old (the word “e-learning” was coined in 1998). And since then, its usage has been rapidly increasing and changing the corporate world. A research conducted by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reported that nearly one-third of all learning content made available is in the form of e-learning.

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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.