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Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best

Association eLearning

Chapter 1: The Basics. Quality assurance, or QA as it is better known, is a vastly important yet surprisingly underappreciated aspect of eLearning. Most course creators and teams do a fine job of working out the errors, called “bugs,” prior to delivery. But what good is a course if the learner can’t access it properly or the assessment doesn’t score correctly?

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What Will eLearning Look Like in the Year 2066?

eLearning Brothers

I grew up watching re-runs of a popular cartoon called The Jetsons. If you haven’t watched ever watched it, you should check out an episode. But for now, let it suffice to say the original 1960s storyline is about a family of four (the Jetsons) that lives “in a futuristic utopia of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.”.

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Build a stronger team, faster: Best practices in employee onboarding

Docebo

Build a stronger team, faster: Best practices in employee onboarding Most rapid-growth technology companies have simply neglected to implement an efficient strategy for onboarding new hires , despite the obvious need. A new publication from Docebo explores why most companies don’t have an onboarding strategy , and outlines some critical first steps toward building a solid plan that incorporates a versatile learning managment system (LMS) to support experiential learning.

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Future of Video in Corporate Training

Upside Learning

Videos have always held a great deal of attraction. The fact that a well presented/designed video tends to capture immediate and prolonged attention is well documented. Videos have always been effective mediums of telling stories and also used as multi-device solutions, and short videos for performance support. The reason is simple, a picture is worth […].

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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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Socially Acceptable

Clark Quinn

I was talking with my ITA colleagues, and we were discussing the state of awareness of social learning. And we were somewhat concerned that at least from some evidence, there’re some misconceptions around about social learning. So I thought I’d take another shot at it. First, let me make the case why it’s important. There are number of reasons to be interested in social learning: it’s more natural : our learning mechanisms were social before they were formal. it’s

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Leaders Learning about Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Recently, I conducted a workshop for the leadership team of a company that wants to increase the impact of its training programs. I explained the limitations of formal training and the need for taking an organizational learning perspective. I argued that in order for any kind of learning intervention (training, coaching, mentoring, action learning, etc.) to have a positive impact on achieving the organization’s goals, managers had to take an active role in supporting learning.

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Myth #4: The 70:20:10 learning model is a rule, a law or a theory

Docebo

Is 70:20:10 a ‘rule’ or a ‘law?’ See what industry experts say about this commonly held myth As we continue to explore the myths and realities around the 70:20:10 learning model , and how its core principles can be applied to a learning management system (LMS) , it’s important to understand that the framework is not fixed on the “70:20:10” ratio from which the name is derived.

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College Grads: Pick ELearning as a Career

LearnDash

It is the beginning of Spring and just around the corner there will be millions of young, hopeful college grads entering into the workforce. If you’re soon to be finished with school it’s an exciting time, but it’s also a scary time as getting a job has become increasingly difficult recently given the limited demand and surplus of supply.

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Introduction to Memory and Multimedia Whitepaper

ICS Learning

We’ve all heard the myriad of eLearning buzzwords right? The mantra of Instructional Designers, confidently projected from the proverbial mountaintop by the eLearning industries leading thinkers. "Engage the learner. Create interactive content. Gamification! This is the key to successful eLearning.".

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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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Online Course Bookings Demystified – Whiteboard Wednesday

Administrate

Whiteboard Wednesday is a chance for a member of the Administrate team to share some gems from their knowledge and experience with you, our loyal blog readers. This month, Natasha Serafimovska breaks down the differences between integrated and non-integrated online course bookings. Essential info whether you work within a training Read More.

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The honeycomb of social media

Origin Learning

Once you are into the honeycomb of social media, it is an entwined relationship as hundreds of avenues open up.

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10 Steps to Create Your Own Learning Objects (L.O.s)

TalentLMS

What kind of images come to your mind when you think of learning objects ? Do you think of trainees in a lab or at home working through a set of interactive exercises? Or remote employees working on the same interactive exercise in a collaborative manner? Or maybe some technical employees working on a simulation exercise to practice the right protocol from the safety of their computers?

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Prepare the future of Learning for the Genz

CrossKnowledge

Who are these people? This generation, now reaching college age, was born between the mid 1990’s to roughly 2010 and is so new that there is not a clever, catch all phrase to describe them. According to Social Explorer’s Professor Susan Weber-Stoger, Generation Z has 60 million people, one million more than generation Z. This generation is also growing in diversity.

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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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Is the Traditional Classroom Dying? Not Really.

ATD Learning Technologies

Will talent development professionals eventually spend more time counting eyes on screens than they do bodies in chairs? Looking at the graph of learning hours available by delivery method, that’s a natural question to ask. According to ATD’s 2015 State of the Industry report, the availability of instructor-led, classroom-based delivery fell in five of the six years between 2008 and 2014.

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Video - My Learning Journey - Part 1

InSync Training

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Catch the latest buzz on Learning Solutions 2016

Kineo

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The Gamification Explosion (History Of Gamification Pt.3)

Growth Engineering

If you’ve been following out History of Gamification series, you’ll have learned all about the pioneers who laid the groundwork for the world we live in today. If not, just follow the links for part one and two! Pt1: Countdown to Gamification . Pt2: The Birth of Gamification . When we left you, we were almost a decade into the 21st century. With companies like Bunchball and Foursquare generating user engagement with game mechanics, the potential of gamification was starting to get noticed in a

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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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Catch the latest buzz on Learning Solutions 2016

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Four Kinds of Work, Three Kinds of Learning by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

The natures of work and of the workplace are evolving rapidly in response to some very specific forces. This brief article. looks at one possible outcome of this evolution, presents some key concepts about three types of learning, and suggests a. challenge this presents to us as learning practitioners.

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Come Train With the Experts at the LUC 2016

Trivantis

Guess what? This could be you, except with beachfront views instead of office walls*: Our Lectora® experts will be warming up for the 2016 Lectora User Conference by putting on a whole day of training in Fort Lauderdale. Join us Tuesday, May 17, for optional pre-conference training to kick-start your LUC 2016 experience. Choose from these 3 classes: Lectora Inspire Intermediate Training.

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7 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About LMS Implementation

ATD Learning Technologies

You have selected your new learning management system. Now what? Here are seven things I wish someone had told me about implementation—before I implemented my organization’s LMS. #1: Users Don’t Differentiate Between LMS and Content. The actual LMS contributes to just 50 percent of the user experience; the remaining 50 percent is content.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Who really wins?

eLearning 24-7

As we age, we are taught that there are two types of people, winners and losers. We learn it whenever we play or involved with athletics. We learn it in business, especially sales. We learn it with today’s gamification – I mean there is only one person at the top, the rest are beneath them. . Society identifies and recognizes the winners.

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