Making Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Everyone wants it yesterday. So how can we deliver on time? Here are three possibly bizarre ideas. 1. Don’t design training. Does the client just want everyone to be “aware” of the hamster sharing policy? If so, your best bet might be to send everyone a link to the policy with the message, “Read this policy, and share hamsters according to its rules.” If you have the marketing department send the email, they can track how many people opened it and clicked the link

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B Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'There are several important things to consider when you begin planning the implementation of new functionality, integration of existing functionality or bringing in new user groups to the LMS. Some things will naturally vary depending on the type implementation you’re starting, and though there are a few best practices that you should take into account […].

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Next public online workshop runs 15 September – 10 October 2014 Most people have a smartphone and/or tablet, and one of the biggest bugbears is that when they go on a training course they are asked to turn them off to ensure there are no interruptions and that they focus on the training in hand. […].

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dVinci Interactive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Organizations frequently need to train and certify external target audiences in a specific subject matter area. They need to deliver a custom eLearning experience, an on-line assessment and a certificate of completion, usually for compliance purposes. In many cases, these organizations and their targeted learners do not have a common learning platform established to deliver and track eLearning.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Many instructional designers know that creating an elearning course is pretty straight-forward, but making that course effective takes considerable effort. There are a variety of strategies available for presenting content, each has its own merit. However, if you want to build better elearning courses, you can do so by putting your energy into building better storyboards.

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InsiderHub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Over the course of the last few years, there’s been a lot of conversation about “social” learning and its rise in popularity. However, the application of social learning is slow, and may not even take off at all, over the long term. What is social learning, and will we see more of it in coming years? In a nutshell, social learning takes concepts from popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and applies them to workplaces.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Online training is an effective way to arm your partners and value-added resellers with knowledge. It’s scalable—you can train thousands at once while retaining your own corporate brand in the training materials. A highly trained, extended sales force can increase your revenue through increased sales of your products and services. And, you can sell your online training courses themselves to your partners and resellers, should you choose to do so.

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LearningGuild

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Has technology in our schools come upon a significant barrier? Is it the schools themselves? Technology can improve learning, but we may never reach its full value if the context where it is used—the school—does not significantly change as well. There are. efforts underway to change schools, but we still have to ask if they are enough. Read here about what it will take to change the. game!

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DigitalChalk eLearning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Our last blog post focused on how to use the events notifications; in this post we are going to focus on scheduled notifications. These types of notifications are great for a number of different reasons: If you have a course that has to be completed after a certain amount of days, you can send the student an email notifying them that they have so many days remaining to complete the course.

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Saffron Interactive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Increasingly here at Saffron, we’ve been asked to create courses so that they’re suitable for translation. In today’s globalised business world, working across linguistic borders has become extremely common. This means it’s essential that you remember that any content you’re writing may need to be translated throughout the design process. When working in this way, attention to detail becomes vital, and although working in translation may seem like a daunting task, it doesn’t have to be this way

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cogentys

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Sometimes a little inspiration can go a long way to help you get the ball rolling on a monumental task like implementing a retail LMS. Here’s some advice from a company that was started in 10. [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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Saffron Interactive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

'Increasingly here at Saffron, we’ve been asked to create courses so that they’re suitable for translation. In today’s globalised business world, working across linguistic borders has become extremely common. This.

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Aptara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Marketing content going mobile en masse. Content created for marketing purposes is meant to draw customers in. This means it has to reach prospects where they are by default and pass along the company's message in a format that makes sense to the user. Achieving each of those goals may be easier if content is pitched directly to mobile devices, or at least made highly compatible with them.

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