Tue.Sep 15, 2015

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Google Apps Integration in Moodle

Lambda Solutions

This is a new integration between Moodle and Google, allowing you to benefit from the two platforms working seamlessly together. You will need to centralize the authentication process. You can choose whether you want to login using Google Apps credentials, Moodle credentials, or an existing identity provider (if your institution has a centralized directory).

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VR – The Next Leap in Learning

Origin Learning

Compel to learn? That’s history. Check out the new medium to learn – Virtual Reality. It is the next leap in learning. VR is exciting and so immersive that one is compelled to find out more. The edge of paper ceases to exist, encouraging animators in the most exhilarating ways to hone their craft. The “full immersion” into a drawing has to be experienced to know what it feels like.

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Meet Your Employees’ Social Learning Needs with an LMS

TOPYX LMS

Human beings are social creatures. Whether introverted or extroverted in personality, people have a strong need for social interactions and meaningful relationships. In addition to being social, we are also highly adaptable and have an impressive ability to quickly adopt new behaviors. Part of what allows us to absorb new information is our capacity to learn from others and from the observations recorded in our collective history.

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Video - Virtual Classroom Tools: Breakout Rooms

InSync Training

Breakout rooms allow groups of two or more participants to meet and collaborate during a larger live online session. Breakout rooms can be used to create interaction and collaboration by making your content more learner-centered. Include this feature in your virtual classroom instructional designs, and participants will not only meet and collaborate with other participants, but they’ll also be more engaged.

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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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ALIGN!

Clark Quinn

I’m recognizing that there’s an opportunity to provide more support for implementing the Revolution. So I’ve been thinking through what sort of process might be a way to go about making progress. Given that the core focus in on aligning with how we think, work, and learn (elements we’re largely missing), I thought I’d see whether that could provide a framework.

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LEARNNOVATORS WINS GOLD AT BRANDON HALL EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2015

Learnnovators

Chennai (India). Learnnovators, a leading provider of innovative learning solutions, has won Gold in the 2015 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards in the ‘Best Use of Performance Support’ category. This award is in recognition of a unique and innovative solution titled MPSS that Learnnovators designed and developed for their client MTAB. MPSS (or Mobile Performance Support Solution) is a mobile app-based performance support solution made up of byte-sized video tutorials and PDF-based Quick Reference G

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6 Things You Can Do to Build Your E-Learning Skills

Rapid eLearning

When I look back at my early work, I’m surprised I’ve lasted this long. A lot of the courses I built years ago just weren’t very good. But that’s okay. I may not have built good courses to start, but I did do some things in the early years to build my elearning skills that helped me grow and learn to build better courses over time.

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9 Ways to Use Video in Your Online Training Courses

SHIFT eLearning

With the rapid rise of smartphone and tablet penetration across the globe, high-resolution screens and improvements in broadbands speeds and connectivity, o nline video consumption continues to grow. According to Cisco's 2014 Report , M obile video accounts for 55 percent of all data traffic. The same trend is visible in eLearning. For instance, Video was ranked 3rd on the list of top formats for mLearning ( ASTD 2012 ).

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Continuous Learning: Training for the Time-Strapped Manager

Skillsoft

It is critical for today’s organizations to deliver relevant, contextual learning opportunities in the moment of need, to empower employees to drive their own development and reach their goals.

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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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Transform your PowerPoint into a PowerCast using Camtasia!

TechSmith Camtasia

Today’s guest blogger is Michael F. Ruffini, Ed.D.! Michael is a Professor of Educational Technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate educational technology courses in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Michael wrote a fantastic book on communication and learning through screencasts called PowerCasts – Creating Dynamic PowerPoint Screencasts with Camtasia Studio.

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Learning with e's

It was a pleasure to spend some time with Jonathan Worth following his ALT-C keynote in Manchester last week. We got on just fine because we discovered that we have a lot in common, not least of which was that we both did formal training as photographers, in the pre- digital age. And so we took time reminiscing over all the tasks we needed to perform as we learnt photography in the studio and the darkroom to produce our work and remarked on how much more involved and difficult it was to make ima

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Tip of the Week: Want your learners to be able to restart or replay an interaction?

Raptivity

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Design Dos & Don’ts: Images and More

Trivantis

Creating effective eLearning courses requires good design—even if you don’t have a design background. In this new blog series, “Design Dos & Don’ts,” we’re asking designers to share essential graphic design tips and suggestions, along with what not to do in your eLearning courses. For this post, I asked two of our design experts here at Trivantis—Tony Cavalier and Anthony LaQuatra—to share design tips that eLearning developers could use to create effective and professional-looking courses.

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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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Hail to the Designer: The Neuroscience Behind Presidential Campaign Logos

eLearningMind

When it comes to politics, logo design might be just as hotly debated as a candidate’s position on health care. But rest assured: Like a pre-written campaign speech, a candidate’s logo is the product of the best and brightest minds from a team of political experts that exploit the way your brain works to cause certain emotions. So, what’s the difference between a logo that leaves you cold and one that inspires American pride?

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OpenSesame Partners With ej4 to Add 700+ Courses to OpenSesame Plus

OpenSesame

OpenSesame is announcing an expanded partnership with video-based learning company ej4 to add 700+ mobile-friendly and short format courses to the OpenSesame Plus program. Launched in 2014, OpenSesame Plus is a first of its kind elearning subscription program that offers access to thousands of online courses from award winning providers for a low monthly fee.

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Startup Hiring Practices: How ELM Used Culture as a Currency

eLearningMind

It’s a bit of a business catch-22: Startups are in desperate need of brilliant talent to take off, but the best of the best are already working with more established companies. At ELM, we’re well-versed in startup hiring; especially since just two years ago, practically no one had even heard of us. That’s why we needed to rethink the hiring process as not hiring, but recruiting.

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mLevel to Showcase Latest Solutions at DevLearn 2015 by News Editor

LearningGuild

mLevel will showcase their latest offerings: Academy, an adaptive learning tool, and Shape Escape, a hot and exciting game.

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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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7 Traits of an Effective Video

KZO Innovations

People are watching a ton of videos every day – but what kinds of videos best resonate? When it comes down to it, videos that feel authentic make the biggest impact. Since 52% of marketing professionals worldwide name video as the type of content with the best ROI, propelling humanized marketing through video is ideal. Here, we’ll discuss 7 important qualities that successful videos demonstrate.

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Three Tutorials, a Case Study, and a Fun Infographic: Guild Links by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

Useful techniques for PowerPoint, Articulate Storyline, and Adobe Captivate, plus using scenario-based exams to better. prepare tech-support and help-desk teams, and a fun little infographic on work life.

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Safaris Popforms Acquisition Expands Offerings for a New Generation of Managers

Training Industry

This June, Safari acquired Popforms, including its website, courses, videos, newsletters and interactive exercises. The acquisition grew from a year-long content partnership between the two companies. Safari is one of the world’s largest online subscription libraries of video training courses and books for professionals. Over 1.7 million people use Safari’s library, which includes more than 30,000 books, videos, audiobooks and conference talks from over 200 publishers and training providers.

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OpenSesame Partners With ej4 to Add 700+ Courses to OpenSesame Plus

OpenSesame

OpenSesame is announcing an expanded partnership with video-based learning company ej4 to add 700+ mobile-friendly and short format courses to the OpenSesame Plus program. Launched in 2014, OpenSesame Plus is a first of its kind elearning subscription program that offers access to thousands of online courses from award winning providers for a low monthly fee.

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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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Ideal training combines tech and tactics

Aptara

Ideal training combines tech and tactics. The process of training employees has undergone a transformation in recent years. Once, expensive seminars were the only way to impart information to a large group of workers, meaning that companies had to carefully choose when to launch such a session and what to teach. Now, with eLearning solutions becoming a popular and enduring part of the landscape, those time and money restrictions have vanished.

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Social Learning Facts You Should Know

LearnDash

The concept of social learning can be somewhat unclear. Isn’t all learning “social” in some respect? If we overthink the semantics then I agree that social learning can seem somewhat redundant. The textbook definition for social learning is as follows: Social learning theory (Albert Bandura) posits that learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context and can occur purely through observation or direct instruction, even in the absence of motor reproduction or

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The cloud comes to business: Are companies ready?

Aptara

The cloud comes to business: Are companies ready? Cloud computing has changed several long-held rules and assumptions when it comes to businesses' use of technology. Organizations that have become accustomed to certain practices over the years will have to consider new methodologies. This begs further questions: Are these firms' staff members prepared to make the transition?

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A force to be reckoned with: Salesforce integrated with TalentLMS

TalentLMS

While TalentLMS is a hugely capable eLearning platform on its own, its capabilities grow exponentially (that’s mathspeak for “quite a lot”) when you take advantage of its myriads of integration possibilities. From our suite of built-in integration options to over 300 websites and services ready to be integrated with TalentLMS through its support for the Zapier middleware, if a service or software is even remotely popular, you can integrate TalentLMS with it.

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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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Celebrate Your Expertise - Share and Standout

Vignettes Learning

In the previous tip we talked about sharing your insights. In this fifth installement of the five-part blog series about The All-New TrainingMagNetwork.com Open Learning Environment, we will talk about presenting yourself as an expert and specialist of a specific field. TMN members can share with friends, peers, leaders and if they wish, in the world of social media like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.