Wed.Sep 28, 2016

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I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development – Part 3

Association eLearning

Part 2 discussed five outdated Learning and Development (L&D) practices and why they don’t work. This final installment is going to visit the other side of the coin. Here are five updated practices that will help improve your Learning and Development for everyone, not just millennials. Updated Practice 1: Treat Learning as a Process. People remember things they encounter often, even if it’s only for a few seconds or minutes at a time.

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5 Reasons Mobile Learning Rocks

LearnDash

Mobile learning use is quickly on the rise and with good reason: we use mobile devices more than traditional laptops. This essentially means that the elearning market needs to adapt and begin catering to the mobile learning experience. Some may even contend that elearning should be developed with a “mobile learning first” approach. It makes some sense.

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Supercharge Course Sales with Digital Marketing – Part 3: Paid Social Media & Email

Administrate

Time for a recap! So far in our ‘Supercharge Course Sales’ series we’ve discussed visibility – how to create great content and optimise it well, promotion – through Pay-Per-Click advertising and retargeting and finally tracking – to ensure you have transparency on the performance of your website and online advertising.

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Reflecting practice

Clark Quinn

Someone opined on yesterday’s post that it’s hard to find time for reflection, and I agree it’s hard. You need to find ways to make it systematic, as it’s hard to make persistent change. So I responded with three personal suggestions, and thought I’d share them here, and also think about what the organizational response could be.

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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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Articulate Storyline: Give Me Some Space

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kal Hadi     Hitting the sweet spot when it comes to line and paragraph spacing in Storyline can be annoyingly troublesome if you are not aware of the subtle options available to you. The spacing controls are of course available under the  Paragraph ,  Line Spacing  area of the  Home  tab on the Ribbon when text is selected in a slide or notes:   When accessed, the  Line Spacing  drop-down menu includes line spacing presets in

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Practical Tools to Enhance Training Reinforcement

ej4 eLearning

There’s an old saying that says, “Knowing is half the battle.” That’s true, and a good reminder of the importance of learning. Still, it leaves one wondering “What’s the other half?”. Answering that question is not just playing arm-chair philosopher by pondering a proverb. There are real-world implications hidden in that quote. When 80 percent of training courses fail to be recalled by employees, it is important to understand what other elements are needed to retain and apply training informatio

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Design for Non Designers – Typography

B Online Learning

Get our free eBook when you follow our blog! Designing for Non Designers – Typography by Matt Blackstock Typography is one of those words that you hear banded about by graphic designers. It’s all about the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols used to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when […].

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What are your SMART eLearning goals for 2017?

eLearning Brothers

There are only three months left in 2016, so it’s time to look at your professional eLearning goals and what you want to achieve in 2017. Many people in the corporate and educational worlds embrace the SMART Goal methodology— because it works. If you want to set goals that you’re likely to achieve in 2017, make sure they are SMART: Specific: To achieve a goal, you need to have a clear target that will inspire you to make progress.

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Five Essential Elements that Complete an E-learning Course

CommLab India

Every course available online can’t be termed e-learning. E-learning should help course takers learn. It should adhere to Instructional Design principles so that learning is effective. Aimed at specific target audience, armed with measurable learning objectives, authentic content created in co-ordination with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), assessments, and the flexibility to track learners’ progress – these are the elements that make an e-learning a complete package.

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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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How technology can change formal learning

Matrix

When I was a student thinking of joining the workforce, I jumped right into the vicious circle of inexperienced job seekers. All employers demanded some working experience, even the ones advertising for entry-level positions. It seemed impossible to get a first working experience. Anyway, I sent my work-experience-less resume to some employers and, to my surprise, a few of them showed interest in me.

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Ideas to Represent Learning Objectives Using Articulate Storyline [Infographic]

CommLab India

As we know, learning objectives play a vital role in an e-learning course as they generate learner interest by sharing what they will be able to accomplish after completing the course. But in most cases, we present learning objectives in the form of a bulleted list. This is not always effective. If you are taking an e-learning course for the first time, you may read them with great interest.

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2016 Learning In Practice Award Winners

CLO Magazine

Chief Learning Officer magazine is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Learning in Practice Awards. Celebrating those who have crafted new and innovative education initiatives, the Learning in Practice Awards recognize learning executives, organizations and vendors in the learning and development industry. The awards were first established in 2003 to recognize learning leaders that have demonstrated excellence in the design and delivery of employee development programs.

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Keynotes I’m Most Looking Forward to in the HR Tech Conference

WalkMe Training Station

HR Tech is coming up! Are you ready for the biggest conference in the industry? It took one look at the agenda and the impressive list of exhibitors to understand just how busy this mega-event is going to be. And with so much to do, it’s important to keep things in order, and make an organized list of the keynotes and speeches you want to attend.

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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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Mick Ebeling to Keynote TechKnowledge 2017

ATD Learning Technologies

Working to expand the human possibilities of technology, Mick Ebeling was named one of Wired magazine's 2015 Make Tech Human thought leaders. In 2014, he was awarded the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award and named one of Ad Age's Top 50 Most Creative People. The CEO of Not Impossible Labs, Mick founded the organization that develops creative solutions to address real-world problems on his firm belief that nothing is impossible.

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Design for Mobile First: CSS Best Practices for Responsive HTML by Jeff Batt

LearningGuild

“Design for mobile first” is advice that we see and hear often, but what does it mean? Does this mean we actually design our. mobile solutions first and then design again for everything else, or does it mean we should just have in our plans that we. should also publish to mobile? The answer is surprisingly simple, and you will find that answer here.

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The Potential for Augmented and Virtual Reality

ATD Learning Technologies

In this podcast, Learning Technologies Community Manager Justin Brusino speaks with design and development expert Chad Udell about virtual reality and augmented reality. Listen to the podcast to learn how these two technologies can be harnessed in the learning and development field. In the podcast, Chad answers questions such as: What is the difference between augmented reality and virtual reality?

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Accelerating Innovation in eLearning

OpenSesame

At OpenSesame, we’ve been working to make enterprise elearning easier. Since the early days of our company, we’ve sought to overcome the challenges of traditional learning programs while saving companies 40-50% throughout the process. For many training managers, sourcing content from multiple places while getting locked into lengthy contracts was a challenging reality.

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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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Are we inventors or just googlers?

LearnUpon

Our New User Interface was released earlier this month. It is the result of an eight month project which required huge amounts of creativity, hard work and an endless supply of coffee. Early In the process one particular question molded our strategy: Are we inventors or just good googlers? At LearnUpon, whilst being both, we recently decided to focus on becoming better inventors.

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Trainers Lets Retire the Gotcha

Training Industry

There’s a common facilitation technique used in training situations that needs to go away. Let’s call it the “Gotcha.” This technique intentionally leads learners to fail in some way, by leading them either to an incorrect answer or to fail an activity. Sometimes it’s used as an engagement or attention-grabbing technique. Other times, it’s used to test learners’ prior knowledge or highlight deficiencies in their understanding.

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How to Identify Subject Matter Experts

Growth Engineering

As your training programme grows, you’ll need plenty of fresh content on a regular basis to keep your learners engaged. Producing the content isn’t a problem when you have a great team of instructional designers. When they have the right tools at their disposal, it’s even easier. However, every piece of learning content you create needs the input of a subject matter expert.

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Learning Leaders: Sue Bohle on the Growth of Serious Games in Corporate eLearning by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Serious games in corporate eLearning are experiencing tremendous growth. The impetus is younger employees who see the. value of games for any kind of learning. In this interview, pioneer Sue Bohle gives her perspective on where serious games. are headed.

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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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Accelerating Innovation in eLearning

OpenSesame

At OpenSesame, we’ve been working to make enterprise elearning easier. Since the early days of our company, we’ve sought to overcome the challenges of traditional learning programs while saving companies 40-50% throughout the process. For many training managers, sourcing content from multiple places while getting locked into lengthy contracts was a challenging reality.

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Selling and Merchandising Online Courses on Your Site: Best Practices for Increased Conversion

Thought Industries

Buying an online course is a big decision and never, ever an impulse buy at any price. Whether the learner is setting out to improve their understanding of a hobby or craft, or looking to develop their career, each and everyone who purchases an online course turns up with a preprogrammed list of immediate objections – yes objections.

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Leap of Faith: How one Professional Made Big Changes in her Career

Everwise

After almost nine years working in finance for the state of North Carolina, Tameka Davis wanted to work in a more dynamic, mission-driven environment — one that gave her room to grow and let her do good in her own community. “I was kind of at a standstill at my career,” she says, looking back. “There was no room for advancement and I wanted to learn more.

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Improve your entrepreneurial skills with these online courses

Teachlr

If you want to become a successful entrepreneur these online courses are for you. And they are on sale until October 4th. The post Improve your entrepreneurial skills with these online courses appeared first on Teachlr Blog.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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How to Capture & Track Social Learning [Worksheet]

Watershed

In this blended learning blog post, we'll guide you through different ways on how to capture and track social learning across your organization.

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Case Study: E-Learning from Scratch, Possible with iSpring

iSpring Solutions

0. Shared. Efes Rus is one of the Russia’s biggest beer producers, a division of an international brewery Anadolu Efes. Currently Efes Rus has 6 brewhouses and 1 malthouse on the asset side. We began to build the system in early 2015 and had to find an e-Learning development tool which would let us create high-quality mobile-ready courses. Read more ».

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xAPI – What it can mean for your learning Program

Gyrus

xAPI – What it can mean for your learning Program. In the Learning and Development industry a very buzzworthy topic is xAPI (xAPI is also known as Tin Can API or the Experience API in case you have heard or read additional posts elsewhere, it will herein be referred to solely as xAPI within this blog post). The concept is everywhere… you are reading blogs left and right explaining what it is and its characteristics.

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