Tue.Mar 24, 2015

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How Games & Gamification Can Help Align Processes and Procedures

Knowledge Guru

'Some people cringe when they hear the words “process” or “procedure.” Others appreciate and value them. Either way, processes and procedures are essential to a successful organization. That’s why so much of the training organizations deliver year after year is supposed to help align employees with a process or teach them a procedure they must follow.

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Top 6 Things LMS Buyers Need To Know

Upside Learning

'Every organisation has its specific LMS requirement. Purchasing a new Learning Management System (LMS) to manage your organisational learning initiatives, or replacing your existing one, both require considerable amount of considerations. It is preeminent that an organisation purchase an LMS based on the requisites. However, the common practice is to mirror what other companies have […].

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Modern Workplace Learning: The Workshops

Jane Hart

'As there has been a lot of interest in my Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) framework (and particularly in my post that differentiated social collaboration and social learning), I am posting here about a new series of online workshops that I am running to help with the different aspects of the framework. I’ve plotted how they fit onto […].

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Four Benefits of Blended Learning for Clinical Training

Lambda Solutions

'Healthcare professionals work in high-pressure and high-stress environments, where they must be prepared on a daily basis for any and every situation, life-threatening or otherwise. So isn’t it safe to say that it benefits everyone when these professionals have the most effective systems for training, and education? Clinicians’ knowledge has to be up-to-date, and it needs to be delivered efficiently.

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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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Mapping Organisational Structures in LearnFlex LMS

B Online Learning

'I’ve discussed the importance of data in past articles but it’s tended to gear more towards importing legacy achievement or user data and the issues that can arise when these aren’t correct. LearnFlex also lets you map your organisational structure by creating Business Units which represents your company’s internal layout or training reporting structure.

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The Accidental Designer: Book Group Discussion Guide

Learning Visions

'Looking to develop your team''s ID skills? Want to have a good starting point for a team meeting discussion? At the request of a client who was starting a discussion group for her team on The Accidental Instructional Designer, I created a Book Group Discussion Guide. You can download the guide for free from the ATD Press page: The Accidental Instructional Designer covers nearly every aspect of the e-learning design process.

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Learning Solutions “Play to Learn” Workshop Resources

Kapp Notes

'Here are the resources for the 2015 Learning Solutions “Play to Learn” Workshop. It was a little sad for me to present without my friend Sharon Boller who is recovering from surgery. Missing her presence at the workshop. She is CEO of Bottom Line Performance Inc. Here are the slides from the workshop. Here are some additional resources: Bottom Line Performance Game Blog.

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Video Security In Your Online Courses

LearnDash

'At some point or another you will need to decide whether video is a good option for your online course. Depending on the content and the audience, using videos for elearning is often a great way to present the information. In my experience, video presentation is often well suited for any training that requires demonstrations, but there are many other use-cases.

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The High Fidelity Learning Experience of Medical Simulations

dVinci Interactive

'Video Interview with Penn State College of Medicine’s Assoc. Dean for Clinical Simulation. The path to mastery and improved performance involves practice and experience. This is true if you are an athlete, a helicopter pilot, a paramedic or a customer service representative. For education and professional development in the medical field, simulations have provided practice and experiential learning opportunities for years.

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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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Tip of the Week: Positioning Image/Text

Raptivity

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The Mud on MOOCs

eLearning Brothers

'The rapid advance of computers and the internet has provided us with some amazing teachers and tools for education. The popularity of educational and informational content on the internet is a testament to the fact that people truly want to learn, and that computers are an excellent tool for doing so. This is great news for the eLearning industry. If a significant portion of the online world is interested and motivated enough learn new skills and facts online, surely eLearning organizations can

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Are You Writing Rockin’ Course Objectives? 7 Do’s and Don’ts

SHIFT eLearning

'What do you want your learners to think or care about? What do you expect them to accomplish? Can you answer these questions? You should! They''ll help you define clear and sound course objetives without wasting time and energy. However, a bunch of phrases that are put together and doesn’t clearly relate what the learners should be able to achieve at the end of the course is of no use.

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How to Create Successful Training

Rapid eLearning

'I was chatting with someone recently who was complaining that the organization’s elearning courses weren’t successful. After some conversation, it turns out that the courses were mostly information-based courses. The organization did a great job pulling content together, but outside of the content (and some nice looking slides) there wasn’t much to the courses.

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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.

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Battle lines

Learning with e's

'In yesterday''s post entitled '' The Battle for Education '', I showed a chart that characterised two opposing educational philosophies - traditional and progressive. I argued that educators are in a battle over how education is conducted, and this will determine our children''s futures. Often, the differences between the two philosophies determine how students are treated, how they are assessed and ultimately, how they view their education and their own achievements.

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3 reasons to get on board with mobile recruitment

InsiderHub

'In today’s fast-paced world, job recruitment methods are changing drastically to meet demands of an online society. Companies no longer need to personally search far and wide for qualified job candidates, and mobile recruitment provides a lot of benefits to HR professional today. Here are three good reasons to get on board. 1. Mobile recruitment is the way of the future.

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The Role of The L&D Manager in Creating A Learning Culture

OpenSesame

'Peruse most any business publication or take a look at survey data of industry executives and you’ll see that senior leaders cite innovation, agility, and adeptness at change management to be of paramount importance as their organizations seek a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced economy. Of course the ability to innovate or navigate change doesn’t happen through osmosis or merely because it’s desired; it requires embedding the appropriate values and behaviors within the cultural DNA o

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Using Page Layouts in Lectora and Lectora Online

Trivantis

'Page layouts in Lectora® and Lectora® Online determine where objects are placed on a page. Using them makes it easy to apply a consistent experience for your learners. For example, if your title includes a number of pages containing an image and related text, you can use page layouts to ensure that the image and text will always appear in the same location on those pages.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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Naming Names – LMS Mini Reviews

eLearning 24-7

'This is a new every other month segment, where some LMSs are listed and insight into a variety of items is presented. In future posts, three random systems will land a “quick take” mini review. . And when I say mini, I mean mini – like maximum of three paragraphs. What is happening with some better known vendors or those on my radar of up and coming will be equally presented.

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How the Austin Hackathon Turned into Gamified Courses by Cole Leslie

LearningGuild

'In November 2014, Certification Game held a hackathon with the intent of finding the best course design methodology for. immersive and gamified eLearning. Participants came up with some very intelligent ideas that became pillars of the design. that the development team was able to implement in their first course. Here’s the story.

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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

In a recent New York Times blog post, Farhad Manjoo writes about a new messaging app that “ may finally sink email.” The app, called Slack , is intended to facilitate group discussion and collaboration, and it works across a wide range of devices. One particularly intriguing feature of Slack is that most chats are archived and available for searching.

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HapYak Interactive Video Now Analyzes Over 100,000,000 Data Points per Month by News Editor

LearningGuild

'HapYak Interactive Video, the leader in the interactive video space, announced today that its platform now creates more. than 100 million data points monthly. Representatives from HapYak will be available at Learning Solutions 2015 to share. their eLearning best practices.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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The Role of The L&D Manager in Creating A Learning Culture

OpenSesame

Peruse most any business publication or take a look at survey data of industry executives and you’ll see that senior leaders cite innovation, agility, and adeptness at change management to be of paramount importance as their organizations seek a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced economy. Of course the ability to innovate or navigate change doesn’t happen through osmosis or merely because it’s desired; it requires embedding the appropriate values and behaviors within the cultural DNA of

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Global Learning Support Releases AC3 by News Editor

LearningGuild

'Global Learning Support (GLS), a pioneer in the eLearning sector, announces the release of AC3, a simple and effective. piece of cloud software designed to measure a student’s commitment to completing a course.

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5 Tips to Make Your Video Content Work Harder

KZO Innovations

'The creation of a corporate video requires significant amounts of both time and money. Therefore, it is essential to ensure that your video content is worth the investment. A lot of businesses post videos on their website, optimize the SEO, and that’s it. However, with some considerable planning and thought, you can discover numerous ways to make your videos work even harder.

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Kelly Rossi: What's the Most Challenging Thing About Being a Project Manager?

The Learning Dispatch

'Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here''s Kelly''s view on the most challenging thing about being an Elearning Project Manager.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr