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LMS Selection Guide for SMBs (eBook)

Upside Learning

Are you a small- or medium-sized business looking at investing in a Learning Management System to manage your learning/training activities? If your answer is positive, you know just too well how buying one, with your limited budget and resources, is a big deal. To be able to leverage the LMS to the fullest and justify […].

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Webinar – How to Refer an LMS Client and Get Paid

TOPYX LMS

Sign up for this FREE webinar on Jun 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT. Webinar Sign-up. Everyone is welcome to attend this webinar to learn more about how you can earn a commission for referring over a company that is looking to improve their learning and development efforts with a new learning management system (LMS) or to replace an old LMS. One referral that becomes a client could be worth over $5,500!

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Training Trends Provide Opportunities for Learning Leaders

dVinci Interactive

Video interview with the President of Training Industry, Inc. We recently attended the Training Industry Conference and Expo (TICE) in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the conference, we conducted a number of interviews with learning and development leaders from major organizations to share over the coming weeks on the JPL Learning Solutions video blog. Training Industry, Inc. produces the conference so attendees can share ideas and explore innovative solutions that drive performance results.

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The Top 5 Sights and Sounds at ATD International 2016

Inkling

The annual ATD International Conference boasts one of the largest gatherings for folks in learning and development, human resources, talent acquisition, and the like. This year, held in the Mile-High City, did not disappoint. Attendees from all over the world were able to choose from numerous speaking sessions, visit exhibitor booths, and network with partners and peers.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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50+ things you think if you have an old workplace learning mindset

Jane Hart

The difference between those organisations who are really moving ahead in the new world of workplace learning and doing things differently and those who are just tinkering with the traditional workplace training model is a new mindset. Here are 50+ things you think if you have an old workplace learning mindset compiled my colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance – and embedded in the post below.

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Using an Iterative Process to Bake Successful e-Learning Results

Allen Interactions

By Edm ond Manning , Senior Instructional Strategist. "I don't have a spring-form pan. Can I use a regular cake pan for this raspberry truffle cheesecake?" – TV show host to guest chef, HGTV. I saw this question asked on television one Saturday afternoon. One might argue that this TV show host didn't ask me this question directly. One might even argue that the question is not related to e-learning.

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ATD 2016: How Docebo is leading the conversation around 70:20:10

Docebo

ATD 2016: How Docebo is leading the conversation around 70:20:10 for online training platforms. It’s the final day of ATD 2016 , and our team is plugging away visiting with as many conference attendees as we can. The level of feedback we’ve gotten from both clients who have been part of the Docebo family for years, as well as people who have never even heard of our platform has made an enormous contribution to the way we see our market.

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What's the ROI on Quality?

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s something you don’t hear every day: the quality of your company's learning and communication content plays a significant role in how people view your company. Think about it: how often have you been impressed with the vocabulary used, or maybe not used, when viewing a company’s web page? Do misspellings, poor punctuation, spacing errors, misused words, passive voice and dangling modifiers make you worry about that company’s ability to be thorough, accurate, and meticulous with your compan

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Latest Add-On Enables Learner Notes!

LearnDash

You now have an entire new way to encourage your learners to interact with your course content. We are excited to be the first WordPress LMS to give your learners the ability to easily take real-time course notes! One of the most important aspects of successful online courses is learner engagement. It’s a major reason why you see courses using points, badges, various quiz formats, forums, assignments, and notifications.

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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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Inkling Delivered #KnowledgeParadise at ATD 2016

Inkling

Inkling just returned from one of our most successful conferences to-date: ATD 2016 in Denver, CO. As a sponsor we took advantage of the three day event to talk to trainers and learning professionals from all different industries about how to innovate and go-mobile with Inkling! We enjoyed great weather, great food and great company in the Mile High City.

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4 New Plugins for Tracking Time Spent Learning in Online Courses

Lambda Solutions

If administrators and teachers had insight into how much time learners are actively spending in their courses, and had the ability to both restrict access to activities based on this time, and generate reports with this data, they would be able to better ensure and monitor learner success and knowledge retention. To provide this requirement, Lambda Solutions has built a set of plugins that allow administrators to track the time learners actively spend in courses and course activities!

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The Power of Song and Rhyme in eLearning

Association eLearning

We get songs stuck in our heads all the time. They’re powerful things, as advertisers know well. But have you ever considered using them as part of an eLearning program? Just about anything can be set to a tune and when it’s done well songs can help learners recall information. Frankly, they can be more fun than standard narration too. Rhymes can accomplish the same things, but don’t require any music.

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Praxair: Enhancing the Skills of Women Leaders with the Welch Way

Skillsoft

In a recent webinar, talent development professionals from Praxair shared how the company is developing women leaders using Skillsoft’s Welch Way.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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The Zombies Are Coming—To Help You Learn

ATD Learning Technologies

It didn’t take long for Karl Kapp to be “seduced” by the idea of creating an epic 3-D video game for salespeople—considering the idea included zombies. During “Zombie Salesapocalypse: Making an Epic 3-D Immersive Sales Video Game,” Kapp took the audience through the process of putting together a game that is still in development.

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Bad Gamification Won't Fix Bad eLearning: Seven Principles That Will by Fiona Quigley

LearningGuild

Gamification is the use of game elements to motivate people to complete tasks. According to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Education, though, gamification is sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment, where interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Why? This article connects poor gamification implementation and poor eLearning design, and it suggests what we can do about both.

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An Experienced Mentor on Building a Successful Partnership

Everwise

Frank Dreier attributes a great deal of his success as a senior executive at Fortune 500 companies to mentorship. Though Frank never got paired with an official mentor, his supervisors early on filled the role in an unofficial capacity. “Every boss I had was also a mentor, so I got some outstanding business advice,” Frank says, looking back. This advice was usually given over a casual post-work beer or during an impromptu chat in the break room.

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Choosing the right approach for mobile app development

Aptara

Choosing the right approach for mobile app development. Mobile applications have radically transformed the way organizations develop, deliver and manage communications and processes. The rapid proliferation of handheld devices and accumulating channels of connectivity have led to these apps becoming widely adopted for both business enterprise and eLearning initiatives.

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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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How To Create A WordPress Flipbook

DocTypes

If you create highly visual content, a Yumpu Flipbook is a great way to display your work in a convenient way that won’t ruin your blog’s responsiveness. It’s something different – a way to stand out in your niche. Start today with Yumpu.com! Turning Your Content Into A WordPress Flipbook Through Google Analytics, you can. Read more » The post How To Create A WordPress Flipbook appeared first on DocTypes.

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What Does Your Brain Learn from Multi-tasking?

Learningtogo

It’s no longer newsworthy to report that multi-tasking is a myth. Neuroscience has discovered what psychology long suspected – our brain doesn’t really perform multiple cognitive tasks at the same time. Rather, it switches attention between them, spending precious fractions of a second to re-orient to the new task at hand with each switch. According to one frequently cited study , someone who frequently switches tasks throughout the day is 40% less productive than someone who focuses on one task

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Successful digital content publishing requires specific IT skills

Aptara

Successful digital content publishing requires specific IT skills. The Internet of Things has not just altered the way authors and marketers publish content today; it has also transformed the way communication materials are created and how the stories are told. Digital platforms have provided people with more channels than ever before to distribute, access and engage with information.

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Fresh no-fluff, just-stuff TalentLMS update on the Cloud!

TalentLMS

The best thing about creating eLearning software with ease of use and real customer needs as your priorities, is that you only get to work on substantial features. Whereas many software companies put out products and services meant to look good on comparison matrices, our releases aim to be immediately useful to our customers. It’s a “no fluff, just stuff” mentality that has served us well.

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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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