Wed.Aug 24, 2016

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How to Train and Develop Millennials

Gyrus

How to Train and Develop Millennials. Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. There are some really fun ones out there, about how millennials are weaker than their parents, and how their neurological wiring explains their short attention spans. Most importantly these articles are mostly drawn up in the marketing world, and with good reason.

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Motivating Online Learners – the MUSIC Model

B Online Learning

This blog was inspired by one of our Master eLearning Course (MEC) students, Catharina. She wrote a fantastic blog post (in our online learning community) reflecting on her own actions and practice when trying to motivate students completing online courses. Catharina questioned how do we motivate ‘adult learners where the course isn’t compulsory and there […].

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Social Media: Searching for Work on LinkedIn

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    As a freelancer, people are always asking me how I find work. The answer for me has two parts:  I have a strong LinkedIn profile. I have a small pool of recruiters who know my skill set and find work FOR me. That is where you want to be: having people looking for work FOR you.  In this series of articles, I'm going to share some of my LinkedIn job-hunting tips with you.

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#1 Consideration When Migrating an LMS

LearnDash

Making changes in the software that runs your business can be a very stressful decision. The larger your organization, the bigger the project. This is particular true with learning management systems. If you are in a company with thousands of employees and they all have to access the LMS at some point then you are looking at a migration that could take months, not weeks.

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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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The rise of the MWL Intrapreneur

Jane Hart

I recently read a powerful blog post by Helen Blunden called Learning & Development need to get their groove back. Helen is the recipient of the inaugural Jay Cross Memorial Award, and has wide experience both of working within L&D and more recently as a external consultant. All of which has led her to the conclusion. “the more I’m working and talking with other businesses, professions, and industries outside L&D, it’s becoming painfully obvious that we are falling behind”.

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Should Your eLearning Course Include a Test-out Option?

eLearning Brothers

You’ve spent hours, days, maybe even 12 months or more creating online learning content. It’s only natural that you want learners to view every last screen and complete all the activities you built. Even more, you want them to reap the rewards of their newfound knowledge. So when someone suggests the idea of a test-out option, you silently scream, “No!

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Trying out videos

Clark Quinn

DevLearn , the elearning conference I’ll be attending in November, has suggested adding videos to promote your talks. I haven’t done much with video (though I did just do this <6 minute one about my proposed learning pedagogy), but I’ve found the ‘narrated presentation’ capability built into Keynote to be of interest, so I’ve been playing with it.

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Pokémon Go – Lessons for the M-learning Designer

CommLab India

Pokémon Go — a mobile game that has taken the world by storm. This augmented reality app has caught the imagination of people of all ages and from all walks of life. As an online learning professional, I believe m-learning designers can learn 3 valuable lessons from the creators of this highly successful game. Lesson 1: Keep the functionality and UI simple.

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Three Must-Know Strategies for Working with SMEs

E-learning Uncovered

A good experience working with SMEs (subject-matter experts) can mean the difference between an effective versus an ineffective course; between a project that finishes on time versus a project that drags on in endless revision cycles. The truth is, you need your SMEs, and your SMEs need you! It’s your job to work with you SMEs to extract the most relevant information your learners need to know…or do (more on that later).

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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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4 Steps to Prioritize Your Blended Learning Experiences

Watershed

Learning happens everywhere—from formal online compliance training to in-person training simulations and observations—and we simply can’t track all of it. That’s why you need to choose the most important blended learning experiences to target first and then tackle them one by one. From there, you can use tools, such as xAPI, to capture and track data from those experiences.

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How to Develop a Lean Managerial Mindset

CLO Magazine

Most companies would benefit from lean thinking. Lean thinking is a business methodology first popularized by Toyota in the 1950s. It examines workflows for optimization, said Guy Parsons, founder of Value Stream Solutions and a consultant on lean principles. But the goal isn’t to optimize people out of work. It’s about trimming down the business, reducing the friction workers encounter when moving a product or service from Point A to the point where it’s in the customer’s hands.

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How to evaluate the real impact of your employee training program

TalentLMS

Abstract theories and vague innovations never had much of a shelf life in business. Sure, the business press peddled a lot of them over the years (new theories of management, economic paradigms, ways of dealing with HR, etc.), and businesses would adopt one now and then, but in the end, only those that actually proved themselves in the market survived.

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Meeting Demands for Change and Flexibility in eLearning: Bill Donoghue, CEO at Skillsoft by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

The eLearning sector faces increasing demands for change and flexibility. Learners want to control how and when they use. eLearning. One response is Skillsoft’s new content-delivery platform, focused on the learners’ experience that will include. collaborative and social-learning features.

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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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When It Comes to Technology, All That Glitters Is Not Gold

CLO Magazine

These are heady days for learning leaders. Executives rely on them to rapidly build employee’s skills, and vendors offer an array of dazzling new learning technologies that promise to make employees better, faster and more engaged at work. But CLOs need to be thoughtful about the tools they choose to ensure they deliver business results. “Technology is an enabler not a solution,” said Dani Johnson, vice president of learning and development research for Bersin by Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting, t

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Highlight Retail Career Prospects: It’s Not Just a Dead-End Job

Growth Engineering

One of the top 5 biggest challenges faced by retailers is engaging, retaining and growing talent. All organisations are fighting a daily battle against apathy and indifference in their employees, but in retail, the struggle is even harder. One of the big reasons for this is that retail suffers from the widespread stigma that it’s ‘ not a real job’. Not only is this assumption harmful, but it’s also wholly inaccurate.

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Managing Career Paths: The Role of CLO

CLO Magazine

This From the Vault article was originally published on CLOmedia.com in February 2008. Despite the threat of an economic slowdown, the demand for people with exceptional abilities and transferable skills will exceed the supply for years to come, particularly in today’s dynamic and increasingly global business environment. Indeed, we are in the early stages of the “War for Talent,” forewarned by McKinsey & Co. in the mid-1990s.

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Highlight Retail Career Prospects: It’s Not Just a Dead-End Job

Growth Engineering

One of the top 5 biggest challenges faced by retailers is engaging, retaining and growing talent. All organisations are fighting a daily battle against apathy and indifference in their employees, but in retail, the struggle is even harder. One of the big reasons for this is that retail suffers from the widespread stigma that it’s ‘ not a real job’. Not only is this assumption harmful, but it’s also wholly inaccurate.

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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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How to Identify and Prioritize Blended Learning Programs [Step 1]

Watershed

Learn how to identify and prioritize your most important blended learning programs and experiences with these helpful tips.

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HR 3.0 Puts the “Human” Back in “Human Resources”

Everwise

When companies release the next major version of software, it’s easy to mark the transition. We know when Product 2.0 gives way to Product 3.0, and how the new iteration changes the way we’ll interact with the software. The next wave of human-powered business iterations is much harder to predict and understand. We often don’t realize a paradigm shift has happened until it’s upon us.

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Six Customer Service Training Tools

iSpring Solutions

0. Shared. Every company offers more than its products. Whether it's a piece of software or clothing, there's also customer service behind it, and behind every customer service there are people. This article covers the top six customer service training tools that will help you turn new hires and even seasoned pros into communication experts. Read more ».

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4 Ways Emoticons Can Support Online Learning

CommLab India

Emoji are a great way to add personality to a text-based conversation. – Jeremy Burge, Founder of Emojipedia. We use emoticons in our messages to convey our thoughts and feelings with minimal words. Howcan we use them in online courses? Can they be used in the first place? Well, in e-learning courses, they can be used extensively in assessments, feedback pop ups, and when learners interact with each other, or with the trainer online. “Emoticons convey your feelings and expressions wi

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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InfoGraphic: 8 Tips For Creating Effective Micro Learning

Infopro Learning

An innovative and emerging learning strategy, Micro learning, refers to short, focused, comprehensive, and stand-alone learning assets, usually designed to meet definite learning outcomes and fill knowledge gaps. Creating effective micro learning is not an easy task. To be effective small, relevant, and digestible information must be provided in an engaging package that closes immediate knowledge gaps.

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Outsourcing the translation of your e-learning courses? Get the prep work right

CommLab India

Are you considering translating your e-learning courses? Are you thinking of outsourcing the translation? As an e-learning vendor with 15 years of experience and translation expertise, we at CommLab suggest you outsource your translation services to a vendor who has the required expertise to produce multiple language versions of e-learning courses. Outsourcing the translation of your e-learning courses will not only save costs but also give you access to a pool of translators with domain experti

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Top 4 Benefits of Microlearning for Millennials [Infographic]

CommLab India

Organizations worldwide are witnessing a surge of Millennial/Gen Y employees. As modern learners have grown up in the lap of technology, they are proficient in adopting the latest gadgets and advancements in technologies. Delivering online learning through these gadgets, keeping them to the point, addresses the short attention spans of Millennials and yields incredible results.

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How to Create and Edit Color Themes in Articulate Storyline

CommLab India

Colors play an important role in making an e-learning course visually appealing. But, selecting the right colors which work well together is not always an easy task. Articulate Storyline helps create and edit color themes, making the development process easier for e-learning developers. Excited to know how this can be done? Let’s go through the steps to create and edit color themes.

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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.