Mon.Nov 28, 2016

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Functional Stupidity at Work

The Performance Improvement Blog

We want smart phones, smart cars, and smart refrigerators, but we do not want smart employees. Or, to say it more accurately, our organizations are designed to ensure that smart employees act stupidly. This is what Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson have concluded from their research on organizations. They write: For the past two decades, management theorists have been convinced that organisations succeed or fail on the basis of their specialised knowledge.

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How Long Does It Take to Create an Online Course on WordPress?

LearnDash

WordPress has proven to be useful for purposes beyond just blogging. Common use-cases include membership sites and online courses using a learning management system plugin like LearnDash. If you are creating your own course on WordPress, you may be wondering: how long will it take? Giving an exact answer to this question is near impossible without making certain assumptions.

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A Rose by Any Other Name

InSync Training

When my kids were growing up, we started a ritual at the dinner table every night where each of us would take a turn answering the question, “What did you learn today?” Everyone had to answer, and when guests came to visit, they were encouraged to participate as well. At times the kids would roll their eyes and get cranky, but most of the time they were eager for their turn so that they could share.

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4 Driving Forces to Convert ILT to E-learning for Product Training

CommLab India

The past couple of decades have witnessed quite a few revolutionary trends in the business world. Some of these trends have not only altered the way companies do business, but also the way they train their employees. Some of these trends have become the driving forces behind moving instructor-led training – which for years, reigned supreme in the world of corporate training – online.

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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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eLearning Coffee Breaks - Episode 5

Raptivity

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Why lectures?

Learning with e's

A recent article on the BBC News website asks why lectures aren't obsolete. It seems strange that although research points to their ineffectiveness as a method of learning, lectures still figure predominantly in higher education. Some academics might argue that when faced with a large group of 150 or more students, the lecture is the only viable method.

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CLOs Can Drive Mergers and Acquisitions Success

CLO Magazine

I am a true believer that leadership is the differentiator in whether organizations are successful or not. Its why, while deciding on the topic of my dissertation in the Penn Chief Learning Officer Executive Doctoral Program at the University of Pennsylvania, I chose to explore the relationship between what I call collective leadership capability — the aggregated leadership capabilities across all levels, individual contributors through C-suite executives — and mergers and acquisition success.

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Six reasons why you should use polling in virtual classroom

WizIQ

When it comes to instruction, educators and trainers all aim for perfection — a compelling presentation that engages everyone while conveying information seamlessly and effectively. This is a short summary of this post. Visit The WizIQ Blog for full content and links.

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It’s never too late to show your product some love

TalentLMS

A few tips to launch or improve any product. You have a vision. You have an idea. You start building a product. You have an engineering team and a design team. You can’t make them work together as well as you had initially imagined. Development suffers. Crises break out. You suffer. Your clients suffer. You suffer even more. You blame the team. You blame your partners.

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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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True/False and Numeric Entry Questions on a Single Articulate Storyline Slide – Here’s How

CommLab India

Articulate Storyline allows e-learning courseware developers to use different types of default assessments such as True/False questions, single select, multiple select, numeric entry, and data entry fields. It also allows the customization of default assessments to meet client requirements. Recently we received a unique requirement from one of our clients.

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Make a Credible Business Connection

CLO Magazine

Few would dispute how important learning programs are for business results. It’s the number one thing executives want to see from learning. That business connection must be there. Fortunately, there is credible business data available in any organization, government or business to prove learning’s impact. As the value of learning unfolds, five levels of evaluation are possible: reaction, learning, application, impact and ROI, driven by objectives at each level.

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Defeating Low Bandwidth – The Biggest Enemy of Web-based Training

CommLab India

Do you intend to deliver web-based courses to your people? Are you looking to harness the full potential of the Web to train your staff? Would you like to create good online learning experiences for your workforce? Well, among the various factors you need to consider, the availability of bandwidth is inarguably the most important. This is because even the best of online courses cannot be accessed effectively if the bandwidth is inadequate.

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Together, Apart: Collaborative Learning With a Global Team

eLearningMind

In a perfect world, each training session would find your entire team in the same room, learning from each other, and building lasting team relationships. But with business expansion, teams are finding themselves all over the country, even the world. Through satellite offices, telecommuting, and global branches it means that your organization doesn’t have to be in the same time zone, let alone the same room in order to have a learning session.

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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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The PLAY Project Autism Intervention Certification Course Wins at DevLearn 2016

HT2 Labs

[PRESS RELEASE] The PLAY project wins DemoFest 'Best Blended Learning Solution - Non-Vendor' at DevLearn 2016. The post The PLAY Project Autism Intervention Certification Course Wins at DevLearn 2016 appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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Add Social Networks to Virtual Classrooms to Spark Collaboration by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

The collaborative tools built into most virtual classroom platforms, along with private spaces on social or office networking. platforms, provide opportunities for learners to collaborate with geographically dispersed colleagues.

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The 4 W’s of Microlearning Mobile Strategy

Designing Digitally

Who? What? Why? When? For a corporation to foster a successful microlearning mobile experience, these four questions must be addressed. Title: MicroLearning: What Description: Microlearning is the term used to describe brief learning experiences that are focused on a specific concept, in a variety of formats. It is designed to be "bite-sized pieces of information" , presented in an engaging and interactive way.

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Toolkit: Articulate 360: Storyline 360 and Articulate Review by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

Articulate has been hard at work, not only creating an update to Storyline as expected but changing the whole way that it. offers its products. Articulate 360 is not just an update: It includes all of the products that Articulate offers—updated versions. of those it has offered in the past, along with new ones—all under one banner.

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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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Why Custom Courseware is the Future of Enterprise Learning

Training Industry

Any time I meet with a senior management team, I always ask the same questions: “What separates you from your competition?” and “Why would I want to do business with you?” Almost without exception, these corporate leaders proceed to explain how their products and services are faster, better and more cutting-edge – whatever the unique qualities are that distinguish their business from industry rivals.

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Six reasons why you should use polling in virtual classroom

WizIQ

When it comes to instruction, educators and trainers all aim for perfection — a compelling presentation that engages everyone while conveying information seamlessly and effectively. This is a short summary of this post. Visit The WizIQ Blog for full content and links.

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Benefits of Gamification in E-Learning

Content Raven

If you want your employees to learn faster, engage more in their training, and retain what they are learning longer, consider building gamification elements into your e-learning programs.

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McDonald’s Latest Innovation Focuses on Employees to Raise Profit

WalkMe Training Station

Want some fries with that? No matter where in the world you go, chances are you’ll run into a McDonald’s. Once just an American icon, McDonald’s is now the largest global franchise in the world. People around the entire globe are enjoying McDonald’s Big Macs and more. The success of their company doesn’t just happen, it takes a lot of hard work and focus on one very important detail.

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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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Management Mistakes 101: Training Tomorrow’s Leaders

Cognology

Picture this; you’re a fresh-faced leader just getting to grips with your new role. Your main bugbear? One team member who is underperforming. It doesn’t matter how many SMART goals you set and performance conversations you have, over the next few months this individual fails to pull their socks up. To an experienced leader, this is a manageable problem with an obvious solution but, to a new manager, it’s terrifying.

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Free eBook: Why You Should Adopt Gamification For Corporate Training

EI Design

Organizations today cannot ignore the use of gamification in their learning strategy. This free eBook Why You Should Adopt Gamification For Corporate Training provides insights on how gamification is poised to impact corporate training and why it makes business sense to adopt it. Why You Should Adopt Gamification For Corporate Training. Organizations were reluctant to adopt gamification a few years ago.

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Am I an LMS? And if so.

eLearning 24-7

A few weeks back, I was speaking at an event and was asked a question, “What do you look for when you select an LMS?” I thought for a few moments because my response would vary, such as “as an analyst”, “expert”, “consumer – purchasing them on my own in the past for companies I worked at”, “client perspective” or a combination of factors.

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6 Best Practices We Can All Get Behind

CLO Magazine

Experienced and successful learning leaders know something their less successful peers don’t. Their secret isn’t about learning design or delivery or some new technology. Their secret isn’t even a secret. It is recognition, acceptance and ownership of the fact that learning alone isn’t enough to change behavior. Today’s top learning leaders recognize that how learning is implemented is every bit as critical as content, modality, learner engagement and evaluation.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Am I an LMS? And if so.

eLearning 24-7

A few weeks back, I was speaking at an event and was asked a question, “What do you look for when you select an LMS?” I thought for a few moments because my response would vary, such as “as an analyst”, “expert”, “consumer – purchasing them on my own in the past for companies I worked at”, “client perspective” or a combination of factors.

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3 Diagrammable Storyline Templates

eLearning Brothers

I would readily make the argument that humanity’s greatest success is our capacity for efficient and nuanced communication. When we want to, we as humans have the ability get across very complex and abstract ideas, simply by making noises with our mouths, gesturing with our hands, drawing a series of little shapes on paper, or pressing buttons on a keyboard.

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Online Training Programs at 4 Levels

CommLab India

“Around 90% of training resources spent on the design, development, and delivery of training events yield application results of only 15%, making training an easy target for scrutiny.” -Robert O. Brinkerhoff , a renowned learning effectiveness expert says training programs without a proper evaluation framework may not demonstrate how a particular training has contributed to the performance improvement of employees.