Mon.Aug 29, 2016

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Ten Tips for Hiring a Stellar eLearning Freelancer by David Wood

LearningGuild

Are you looking for help developing eLearning content? The fast-growing freelance market can provide a wealth of skills and expertise that is cost-effective, flexible, and agile. These 10 tips will help you hire the best eLearning freelancer.

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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Follow Up

Web Courseworks

Last December, we placed some of eLearning’s most interesting trends on the hype curve. Now that we are over halfway through 2016, we felt it was time to reflect on how well our predictions played out here at Web Courseworks as well as the eLearning industry. Innovation Trigger. Physical Simulators and EHR-integrated Performance Improvement Activities – Next Generation CME White Paper.

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS. Your learning program has been managing itself for years, or at least that’s what your boss thinks. But you know the dark secret that is lurking barely below the surface. You spend a ridiculous amount of time organizing and determining methods of learning dispersal among personnel within your organization.

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Demand for Online Proctoring is Growing

LearnDash

The rapid growth the elearning industry has created opportunities in many segments. Today we see a ton of learning management systems, social learning program, course retailers, online course marketplaces, mobile learning platforms, and so on. There is quite a bit of innovation in the elearning space, especially evident in the last five years. With more and more people taking online courses for formal degrees the idea of an online course isn’t as off-putting as it once was in the past.

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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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Butchers, Bakers, Candlestick-makers: Cutout People for Your Industry

eLearning Brothers

In case you haven’t been asked enough since you were two years old, I’ll ask it again: What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher? A writer? Butcher, baker, candlestick-maker? Whatever you ultimately choose, there’s a good chance that an eLearning course could help you on your path to reaching that goal. And wouldn’t it be doubly helpful if the course featured cutout characters relevant to your line of work?

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Benefits of moving your online learning platform to the Cloud

TalentLMS

Every half-decade in IT sees the rise of its own star technology. Some, like AI in the seventies or Grid computing in late nineties, proved to be either fads or prototypes rushed to market before their time. Others, like the Information Superhighway (today known simply as “the internet”), and the Cloud (which emerged as common IT term sometime in the mid-noughties) were destined to catch on and forever change the way we do business.

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Essential Steps for E-learning Course Development [Infographic]

CommLab India

Implementing e-learning for the first time can be a daunting task. You need to understand aspects of instructional design and e-learning development methods that are involved in the development of interactive e-learning courses. Developing an e-learning course involves a few steps which, if followed correctly, will bring optimum results. Want to know what the steps are?

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Why Mindfulness Deserves a Place in Your Leadership Training

eLearningMind

It seems like something you’d hear while meditating during yoga class: Mindfulness teaches us to be present and deliberate in choice and action. But mindfulness has made its way from the yoga mat to the office in some organizations, and the benefits have been significant and even scientifically proven. The shift to soft skills as part of leadership training should encourage mindfulness, so it’s worth understanding why keeping mindfulness on your mind could make all the difference.

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Behavior Research Links

Usable Learning

So, I was just talking to someone interesting in doing user research for behavior change, and I put together a set of links for her. I thought it was a useful list, so also posting it here: This is a nice collection of resources about UX User Research, including a list of people to follow: [link] articles/complete-beginners- guide-to-design-research/.

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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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The Perfect Fit: The Device Agnostic Future of eLearning

OpenSesame

Today’s eLearning environment sometimes reminds me of one of my favorite movies… Austin Powers. In Austin Powers, a quirky British secret agent from the 1960s is cryogenically frozen and brought back 30 years later to a world that is very different from the one he left. Hilarity ensues. . Likewise, many of the eLearning courses that are available today seem to be cryogenically frozen from the early days of web-based training.

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Could Your Culture Benefit from Co-Creation?

CLO Magazine

Co-creating organizational culture can reinvigorate organizations by fully engaging employees, improving performance and increasing productivity. Healthy organizational culture often has clear guiding principles or values, which help employees thrive in today’s ever-changing world. However, employees often struggle with what they can believe and value at their workplace, especially when they face challenging situations such as budgets cuts, restructuring and increasing workload demands.

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The Perfect Fit: The Device Agnostic Future of eLearning

OpenSesame

Today’s eLearning environment sometimes reminds me of one of my favorite movies… Austin Powers. In Austin Powers, a quirky British secret agent from the 1960s is cryogenically frozen and brought back 30 years later to a world that is very different from the one he left. Hilarity ensues. . Likewise, many of the eLearning courses that are available today seem to be cryogenically frozen from the early days of web-based training.

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Why Employees Benefit from Game-Based Learning, Serious Games

Designing Digitally

Can Serious Games Really Teach Employees? Organizations today are integrating game-based learning into everyday applications and changing the way employees work. According to the report, “Harnessing the Power of Videogames for Learning,” from the 2006 Summit on Educational Games by the Federation of American Scientists, learners remember 10 percent of anything they read; 20 percent of anything they hear; and 50 percent of anything that is explained to them by showing them the entire procedure.

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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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Game Based Learning – Competition

eLearning 24-7

I don’t know about you, but I want to see who really does an awesome job at creating game based courses for learning. In just the past few weeks, I’ve heard from many folks on my social media channels talking about how game based learning is poor, at least from what they have seen. I can’t completely disagree with them, although I have seen some really cool stuff.

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Buzzword Decoder: Microlearning by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Breaking long-format online or in-person training into small “nuggets”—microlearning—makes it possible to give learners the. information they need at the time they need it, at their desktops or via mobile devices.

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Higher Ed’s Commitment to Freedom of Inquiry Benefits Business

CLO Magazine

Earlier this year a study in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience suggested that some of us are hardwired to be more agreeable than others. For some, being in the middle of a disagreement is especially trying. It activates the same part of the brain that lights up, so to speak, when it experiences cognitive dissonance — that moment of mental distress, when, for instance, you’re being told one thing but see something that’s contradictory to it.

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Toolkit: Axonify Revealed by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

Even though Axonify says it is not a learning management system (LMS), it has definite similarities to one. But it goes even. further into the world of building, measuring, and adjusting employee knowledge in larger enterprises. Journey into that. world and see why Axonify calls itself an “employee knowledge platform.” It seems to be leading a very good trend in many. respects.

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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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Is It the End for Embattled Education Provider ITT?

CLO Magazine

The U.S. Department of Education will no longer allow ITT Educational Services Inc., the managing company of ITT Technical Institute, to enroll new students who use federal financial aid, the Associated Press reported. The latest restriction the department has levied on troubled ITT Educational Services Inc. might be a fatal one, forcing the for-profit college chain to close its doors.

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iSpring QuizMaker: Changes in Sending Quiz Results

iSpring Solutions

0. Shared. Until recently, iSpring QuizMaker suggested using students' emails to send quiz results on their behalf. However, recipients' mail servers would often block these letters. To prevent that from happening, all quiz results are now sent from iSpring. Read more ».

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Govexec – Managing Your Workforce When Employees Are All Over the Map

Mindflash

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Knowledge Guru Adds 2 New Question Types to Quest App

Knowledge Guru

The kinds of questions you can create in Knowledge Guru’s Quest app now include “Select all that apply,” and “Answer in Order” questions (aka “Ranking questions). These two question types enable you to provide learners with variety and increase the learning power of a Quest game. We have created a short game called QType Guru that contains questions about Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning.

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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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What’s new in the world of digital learning

CrossKnowledge

The longest days of summer are already gone, businesses are slowing down and one by one employees are enjoying a well-deserved vacation: what more perfect time to get acquainted with the trends of the digital learning world?! As they do each year, last April the Brandon Hall published its latest study on the status and results of various learning solutions.

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Kitaboo Makes Associations Engage Better

Kitaboo

Every time we talk to our customers and prospects, we realize the unlimited possibilities, which exist for Kitaboo. Last week we had meetings with two of the largest associations in North America. One of them is in the field of medical sciences and the other is an association of professional media artists. And both the conversations showed some of the unique problems, Kitaboo solves for our customers.

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A Step-By-Step Outsourcing Guide For eLearning Content Development

EI Design

Before you begin your outsourcing initiative, you need to watch out for several factors that can impact its success. In this article, I will share a step-by-step outsourcing guide based on my 14 year experience of providing offshore eLearning content development services to customers worldwide. eLearning Content Development: A Step-By-Step Outsourcing Guide.

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Customized Credit Card Security Online Training for Your Banking Sales Staff

CommLab India

Ashley, a banking representative receives a credit card payment for processing; she decides to process the payment herself as suggested in an off-the-shelf online course assigned by the management. She is oblivious of the fact that all payments must be processed thorough flagship merchant services. This blunder eventually led to an enquiry on Ashley’s actions.

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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.