Tue.Aug 19, 2014

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Virtual Teams Are Here To Stay (No Matter What Yahoo Says)

InSync Training

'How InSync Training Enables Its Virtual Workforce. If you are a regular follower of this blog, you probably know that our company, InSync Training , specializes in live online training. We work with clients all over the world to develop their live online training content, produce/facilitate their sessions and train their trainers to ensure their trainers are confident and prepared to handle the complete delivery of their synchronous training.

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Can Elearning Improve Productivity?

Origin Learning

'One of the most elementary goals of any business is to increase its productivity. Irrespective of the industry that you operate in, you would always want that you get greater output per unit of input that you invest in the form of time, number of people involved at their different levels of pay and various monetary and other resources. In an effort to increase it, innumerable studies have been conducted across organizations of different industries to determine the causes of low employee product

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Borrow this University Business Model to Sell Certification Programs

Absorb LMS

'You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you spent your high school years sitting in your friend’s basement learning to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven on a Gibson Flying V guitar instead of studying for final exams.

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Pay it forward. Be a mentor.

Torrance Learning

It’s about time. Are you ready? The world needs you to be a mentor. Megan’s recent blog post on DBusiness Daily News: It’s Time for You to be The Mentor has gotten more than a bit of traction. We think it’s because people are ready to help others grow and, at the same time, grow their own skills and knowledge. The DBusiness blog post touches on some reasons to be a mentor and a number of ways to do it.

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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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Borrow this University Business Model to Sell Certification Programs

Absorb LMS

'You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you spent your high school years sitting in your friend’s basement learning to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven on a Gibson Flying V guitar instead of studying for final exams.

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Borrow this University Business Model to Sell Certification Programs

Absorb LMS

You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you spent your high school years sitting in your friend’s basement learning to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven on a Gibson Flying V guitar instead of studying for final exams.

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How to Get the Most Out of Layering in Lectora

eLearning Brothers

'Do you ever wish there was a way to get more control over layering in your Lectora titles? Good news, there is! Understand How to Use Lectora Layers. The trick is to understand how Lectora layers things. There are two parts to the layering, and together, they follow a predictable hierarchy. First — layering. Layers at the top of the explorer are furthest in the background, and things at the bottom are furthest in the foreground.

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Become an e-Learning Rockstar with FREE Templates

Trivantis

'Now’s your chance to create rocking e-Learning courses. Buy or renew Lectora® now, and get 1 year FREE access to thousands of awesome graphics in the eLearning Brothers Template Library. . What’s so great about templates? Skip the stress of staring at a blank e-Learning slide. Jumpstart your course development and save time with pre-made templates and graphics.

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An Elearning Design Reading List

Usable Learning

'Several things have led to me actually writing a blog post. First, I’m home for two whole weeks straight (this alone is a small miracle). I’m also relatively up to date with my inbox and to do list (much larger miracles). I’m also indulging in some productive procrastination (which is probably the real reason). Anyway, I typically keep a list of resources when I teach the ATD (ASTD) Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate, and I keep thinking that I should pu

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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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Color Me Intrigued: e-Learning and the Psychology of Color

Trivantis

'Color psychology is a fascinating field. With a little insight into the psychology of color, you can combine colors in your e-Learning course design to invoke certain emotions and engage your learners more. Let’s take a look at a few basic colors and what they represent and what type of e-Learning you might want to use them for: Red. If you want to draw attention to a key concept in your e-Learning content, use red.

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Why You Should Subscribe to Learning Solutions Magazine Today! by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

'Content—text, video, images, audio, links, blogs, websites—is everything on the web, including eLearning. This mass of content contains much that is useful to you professionally (when you can find it), and much. that is frankly pretty sketchy. Learning Solutions Magazine is a free, organized island of useful professional. information in this sea, and you should subscribe to it!

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Provoking Learners with Story Questions

Vignettes Learning

Why are questions powerful and important? How do we design them to provoke, instigate and encourage learners to think and reflect and apply learning ideas? Shifting Gears Story questions help learners "shift gears" in their minds during learning and un-learning. Story questions act like automatic shifting mechanisms to transition the learners from fact to event to owning the story.

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Customer Service: The Bank Teller Edition

OpenSesame

The customer service industry is multi-faceted—you can be a waiter or waitress in a restaurant, a sales person at a department store, or a cashier at the local market. Many people don’t think of banking as part of the customer service industry, or if they do it tends to be with negative connotations. Banks tend to have a stereotype of bad customer service, which leads to unhappy customers and can potentially lead to customers closing their accounts.

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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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The Lectora User’s Conference and my First Big Presentation - Part 7: Practice practice practice (um)

The Learning Dispatch

'By Mary Word We have been discussing the content of the presentation, and the challenges and solutions at the core of it. I have not gone into the nitty-gritty detail of it, but I think I have covered the high points. I have provided a few takeaways that you can apply to your own challenges, and use to make your own solutions. Maybe some specifics, too, if you are a Lectora developer.

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Experience the Thrill of Restaurant eLearning

cogentys

'Thrills? Yes, indeed thrills! I am not kidding, just take a look at these courses and your head should fill right up with tons of thrilling restaurant eLearning ideas and concepts. Remember this. [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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Where eLearning is Headed: How to Get From Here to There

SHIFT eLearning

'Today technology is transforming the eLearning industry. It is changing and will continue to change the way we communicate with learners, the way we design courses, how we learn and teach. Therefore, eLearning professionals have to adapt and find new ways to meet changing times. Simply incorporating different tools to their your current eLearning training strategy isn’t enough. eLearning professionals must understand and embrace the meaning and the implications of these changes in the eLearning

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The Origins of Gamification

LearnDash

'Lately there have been many learning programs that have started to implement gaming elements to help drive home main learning points and to get the learner thinking about the material from another perspective. The concept of using games to accompany lessons likely started in the K-12 environment, but has since found its way into professional organizations, and now into elearning.

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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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Get 83% more responses with mobile surveys

ProProfs

'Today, mobile technology has been adopted on an unrivalled scale. With an ever increasingly large audience performing business, social and consumer transactions over the phone, you can no longer assume that your surveys will be responded to via laptops or desktop computers. Keeping this in mind, we at ProProfs decided to offer all our customers the gift of speed and ease of use.

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