Thu.May 26, 2016

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Bustin’ 5 Talent Development myths for breakfast

eFront

You’d think that the modern world, and even more so, the modern enterprise, has eradicated myth. That myths went the way of the Dodo, along with the Olympian Gods, King Arthur, Thor and Loki. You’d be surprised. Myths today are still as prevalent as ever — they just progressed from being about water nymphs or the Yeti to covering all aspects of modern life, from dietary advice and financing to eLearning.

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6 Must-have Features in a SaaS LMS for 2016

Upside Learning

SaaS is here and now! Today, almost every software there is, is available as a ‘service’, including the LMS, which is more prevalent in its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) avatar. Justifying this is Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Software Survey that reveals significant adoption of SaaS across a wide variety of application areas as application buyers demand business […].

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Bustin’ 5 Talent Development myths for breakfast

eFront

You’d think that the modern world, and even more so, the modern enterprise, has eradicated myth. That myths went the way of the Dodo, along with the Olympian Gods, King Arthur, Thor and Loki. You’d be surprised. Myths today are still as prevalent as ever — they just progressed from being about water nymphs or the Yeti to covering all aspects of modern life, from dietary advice and financing to eLearning.

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Buying a LMS is Like Dating

Wisetail

Now and again we ask our clients if they would like to write a piece for us to share with the greater LMS world. We ask them to write about anything that’s on their mind and we see where it goes. In this case, anything turned out to be a very insightful and entertaining perspective connecting the purchase of an LMS to another of life's more stressful experiences: dating.

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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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TOPYX Topics – Social Learning Newsletter – May 2016

TOPYX LMS

Refer an LMS Client and Get Paid – Webinar. Everyone is welcome to learn more about how you can earn a commission for referring over a company or nonprofit entity that is looking to improve their learning and development efforts who signs an annual subscription to the award winning TOPYX® social learning management system. Sign up for this FREE webinar on Jun 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT.

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Informal Learning

CourseArc

While formal training plays a tremendous role in improving learners’ competencies, most real learning occurs on the job through informal knowledge sharing, coaching, and direct observations. Thus, informal learning is now becoming an indispensable part of a blended learning solution. It’s a fact that even the best eLearning course cannot teach people how to operate an aircraft because operating an aircraft is a psychomotor skill, which requires real-life practice.

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How ‘Learn One, Teach One’ Can Advance Your Training

Administrate

In the acronym filled learning world, you might be forgiven for not having heard of LOTO (Learn One, Teach One). Or even EOTO (Each One Teach One), LODOTO (Learn One, Do One, Teach One) and SODOTO (See One, Do One, Teach One). They all essentially mean the same thing – someone learns something Read More.

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3 Tips For Online Learner Engagement

LearnDash

Taking an online course can be boring. In many cases you sign-up for the course, go to the first lesson, and begin watching a video. If you’re lucky then there is a transcript included, but that’s not always the case. So there you are staring at your computer screen absorbing as much information as you can. Hopefully the video is developed according to elearning best-practice or you will be in for a long day.

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Heading in the right direction

Clark Quinn

Most of our educational approaches – K12, Higher Ed, and organizational – are fundamentally wrong. What I see in schools, classrooms, and corporations are information presentation and knowledge testing. Which isn’t bad in and of itself, except that it won’t lead to new abilities to do ! And this bothers me. As a consequence, I took a stand trying to create a curricula that wasn’t about content, but instead about action.

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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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Is Your Organization Ready for eLearning?

eLearning Brothers

The value of eLearning is abundantly apparent to those of us working in the training and development industry. We could list hundreds of ways that it benefits learners and the larger institution. However, while we see the benefits and advantages of using eLearning, that doesn’t always mean that an organization is ready to embrace eLearning with open arms.

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What an Effective Onboarding eLearning Course Should Look Like

SHIFT eLearning

Modern Employee Training Goes Beyond Company Handbook Distribution. Staff retention within a company is an aspect that can be difficult to master. Losing a valuable employee has damaging financial and managerial effects. When someone in your company leaves, you are left with a gaping hole where a wheel used to be. In order to fill it, you will need to enlist your recruiting team to find new candidates, manage to hire the right one, then re-train the next wheel to function as well as or better th

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3 PowerPoint Layout Templates For a Better Look

eLearning Brothers

PowerPoint is an essential tool in the modern world. It’s useful for business, teaching, and a myriad of other situations. PowerPoint also has great eLearning applications, thus making it invaluable to eLearning experts the world over. But the mere act of owning the PowerPoint software doesn’t imbue a person with magical eLearning powers and excellent design skills.

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Why You Should Time Your eLearning Like A Marketing Campaign

eLearningMind

Marketers understand the importance of the “magic hour”: that unicorn-like time zone where users open their emails, watch ads, and otherwise engage with the latest campaign. It’s clear that certain times of the day are more popular than others for increasing engagement rates, which is why you don’t usually get special offers at midnight. But what if the same logic and analytics applied to make a marketing campaign more effective was applied to eLearning?

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Brexit – A CDSM Perspective on the British Referendum

CDSM

What is ‘Brexit’? The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is facing unprecedented times as the country awaits an in-out referendum on its membership of the European Union. The term ‘Brexit’ has been coined to describe the event since its inception in the Conservative government’s 2015 general election manifesto pledge. In the referendum, British citizens will be asked the question ‘Should the UK remain a member of the EU or leave?

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1 Secret Rule That Will Improve Your Career and Your Life

OpenSesame

Do you feel stagnation and repetition in your career? Is every day at work the same dull and depressing 8 hours of torture? Do you feel like you could do more with your life, inside and outside of the workplace? Most importantly, are you ready to start a set of changes that will permanently improve every facet of your life? Every day, there are a plethora of new articles released that supposedly will change all aspects of your life into something idealistic and brilliantly unique.

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Why a blended approach to new manager training makes sense

Kineo

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LUC 2016 Recap: Sharing Bright Ideas in Sunny Florida

Trivantis

We’re back from the 2016 Lectora® User Conference—and we brought a lot of bright ideas with us. Lectora developers are creating some incredible training that they shared in fantastic breakout sessions. I know that I was impressed with the course examples presented at LUC 2016—it was great to meet more Lectora users and hear their enthusiasm! Laura Overton kicked off the conference with an inspirational keynote presentation on The Bright Future of Learning and how to be ready for it.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Cross-Generational Mentorship: Why Age Should Be No Object

Everwise

You just started work at a fast-paced, growing company. You have some solid experience under your belt, you feel good about your career prospects, and you’re excited to network with people inside and outside the company. You run into a rising star in your field at several networking events. You’re struck by the person’s ideas, connections, rocket-ship career trajectory, and willingness to talk to you about your new position and the things you hope to accomplish.

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1 Secret Rule That Will Improve Your Career and Your Life

OpenSesame

Do you feel stagnation and repetition in your career? Is every day at work the same dull and depressing 8 hours of torture? Do you feel like you could do more with your life, inside and outside of the workplace? Most importantly, are you ready to start a set of changes that will permanently improve every facet of your life? Every day, there are a plethora of new articles released that supposedly will change all aspects of your life into something idealistic and brilliantly unique.

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Hidden costs of an LMS: What to expect

Matrix

No matter how people call it — dollars, pounds, yens, euros, rubles, crowns — money comes with power. That’s why everyone strives to get a piece of it. It takes a lot of knowledge and sound common sense to make money and manage it. With so many variables and risks, it can be hard to make a decision on how to spend the currency that we work so hard to get.

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day at DigitalChalk

DigitalChalk eLearning

What is Global Accessibility Awareness Day? Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) aims to encourage the creators of technology systems to consider how they can improve accessibility to their platforms. GAAD was created by Joe Devon and Jennison Asuncion in 2011. So every year on the third Thursday in May (May 19th in 2016), each of us in the technology industryis encouraged to take a closer look at a specific component of our system and evaluate it in terms of accessibility.

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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.

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