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Bottoms up! Let’s change the rules…

Saffron Interactive

It’s that time of year again, you know, when at the top of your inbox is an all staff communication reminding you to put time aside to prepare for a. The post Bottoms up! Let’s change the rules… appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

To what extent does your organization have a learning culture? Before you take your first step on your journey, know where you are starting. Look around your organization. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel? What is your current culture? Using Edgar Schein ’s definition of organizational culture, you’ll want to know to what extent: Underlying beliefs and assumptions support learning in your organization.

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Adobe Captivate: Restricting Keyboard Tabbing

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        Allowing a learner to use the keyboard to navigate around a published Adobe Captivate project is a large part of ensuring that your project is accessible (you learn about accessibility and Section 508 compliance during  our live, online, 2-day advanced Captivate class ). However, if you've added a Table of Contents and/or a playbar to your Captivate project, you might want to ensure that only slide items can be accessed via tabbing.

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What Can Blended Learning Mean For Defense And Industry?

Origin Learning

What is the singular point of similarity between defense and business enterprises? Both would like to be seen or considered as the “employer of choice”. Therefore, the uniformity of challenges across defense and organization(s) is what strikes you. Challenge, commitment, dedication, talent, vision, mission, strategy and a list of adjectives, attributes and qualities come to mind when the word defense pops up.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Happy Independence Day

Learningtogo

Every October 31, while many in the U.S. are celebrating Halloween, I’m celebrating my personal Independence Day. On that day, I turned in my badge and keys and left my corporate training job to start Learningtogo, 11 years ago. I didn’t know where my first clients would come from but somehow I had the confidence to go out on my own and I’ve never regretted it, not even for a minute.

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Get Down to Business with Storyline

eLearning Brothers

Trade and business are what drive the economy. Most business happens in offices large and small throughout the world, whether these be small businesses operating out of someone’s apartment or Fortune 500 companies based in gargantuan skyscrapers. These office jobs, scattered throughout many industries, are where the mental muscles are truly flexed with workers and managers alike typing away, sending messages, balancing accounts, and directing the logistics of the company’s business p

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The Rise of MLearning: Breaking eLearning Traditions

PulseLearning

In 2014, we passed the tipping point where the number of users of mobile devices outweighed the number of desktop computer users worldwide. Now in 2016, the time users spend accessing mobile digital media is significantly higher at 51% compared to on desktop, 42%. Because many people sit behind a desktop computer during business hours, […]. The post The Rise of MLearning: Breaking eLearning Traditions appeared first on PulseLearning.

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Leadership in time of crisis

Learning with e's

Today marks the centennial of the bloodiest battle in the history of the British Army. On July 1, 1916, British and Allied forces engaged with German forces in the Battle of the Somme. The first day was a disaster. The Allied forces sustained more than 54,000 casualties with 19,240 dead in just 24 hours. They gained barely three square miles of territory, and the battle raged on for another 5 months.

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The Rise of MLearning: Breaking eLearning Traditions

PulseLearning

In 2014, we passed the tipping point where the number of users of mobile devices outweighed the number of desktop computer users worldwide. Now in 2016, the time users spend accessing mobile digital media is significantly higher at 51% compared to on desktop, 42%. Because many people sit behind a desktop computer during business hours, […]. The post The Rise of MLearning: Breaking eLearning Traditions appeared first on PulseLearning.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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5 Ways to Crush the Forgetting Curve

CLO Magazine

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus completed the seminal research on memory. He was the first to describe the learning curve, which depicts the rate at which people learn information. He also discovered the spacing effect, the superiority of “spaced” vs. “massed” learning. For example, when students cram for a test, they may do well yet have little to no retention beyond the exam.

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We live life in First Person, then why a Third Person E-learning for our Learners?

Eat Learn Repeat

Have you heard the term FPS anytime? No? Do you remember that game your kid keeps playing where you’ll only see two hands holding a gun, running all around and shooting other people? That’s an FPS (First Person Shooter) game. Video games have many categories but when it comes to how the player experiences the game environment, there are two types, 1 st person and 3 rd person.

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The Week That Was, June 27-July 1

CLO Magazine

These were the top five stories on CLOmedia.com for the week of June 27. Tags: recap The post The Week That Was, June 27-July 1 appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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Building Meaningful Peer Connections Among Women of Color

Everwise

Seeing that women of color are too often left out of diversity conversations, Cynthia Owyung , the former Head of Talent Development, Employee Engagement and Inclusion at GitHub, put together the inaugural Women of Color Leadership Conference. The sold-out conference of 200 convened this past Tuesday, and the day began with a fireside chat featuring Shellye Archambeau, CEO of Metric Stream.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Why video game mechanics work, and how they’re used to engage online learners

Growth Engineering

An estimated two billion people play video games, and the global video game market will generate just shy of $100 billion in 2016, according to the latest research published by Newzoo. That’s a lot of players, and an awful lot of spending! A large factor in the meteoric success of video games lies in their ability to engage players in ways that most other media could only dream of.

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Curated Insights: What does it mean to modernize workplace learning?

Axonify

“We want to modernize our learning culture,” said the chief learning officer. Everyone nodded in agreement, but had absolutely no idea what a “modern learning culture” really is or how to build one. Sound familiar? L&D organizations in every industry and on every continent (except Antarctica of course) are having a difficult time justifying their value to operational partners because they have failed to keep pace with the changing workplace.

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My pick of the best posts of June 2016

Jane Hart

Here are my favourite 10 posts from June 2016 taken from those I have shared on Twitter last month. 1 – We start with another great infographic from Arun Pradan: Work is Learning (how to burst the training bubble) – shown right – which summarizes a lot of the work from us in the Internet Time Alliance. 2 – In The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

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Curated Insights: What does it mean to modernize workplace learning?

Axonify

“We want to modernize our learning culture,” said the chief learning officer. Everyone nodded in agreement, but had absolutely no idea what a “modern learning culture” really is or how to build one. Sound familiar? L&D organizations in every industry and on every continent (except Antarctica of course) are having a difficult time justifying their value to operational partners because they have failed to keep pace with the changing workplace.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: 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? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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How to convert a project into a Hard copy in Articulate Storyline

CommLab India

Did you know Articulate Storyline provides an option to publish eLearning courses into a Word document? One of our clients, a leading precision instruments manufacturer, leveraged this feature very well, letting learners export the course to a Word document after successful completion of course. This acts as a reference guide in case learners wants to brush up their knowledge later.

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3 Tips to Ensure Impactful Compliance Communication

CommLab India

According to an article by Lisa DiBenedetto in The Compliance & Ethics Blog , communication is an integral part of a compliance program. . What exactly is compliance communication? It is the way of communicating various factors about your organization’s compliance such as its importance, the penalty of breaching it, and more. But it is not just enough for the organization’s leaders to pay lip service to the importance of compliance.

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4 Strategies To Train End Users On The New ERP System [Infographic]

CommLab India

End user training is the most important step of the ERP implementation process. The better the end users are trained on the new software, better will be the chances of successful implementation. So how can you train your end users effectively on the new ERP system? You can follow some strategies like beginning with the key players, using simulations, and more.

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