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Best Practices for Blended Learning Design

Web Courseworks

Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Association educational leaders who are responsible for developing adult learning programs often struggle with defining what makes for a quality educational program, especially one that relies heavily on technology.

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Writing & Grammar: A Peculiar Kind of Parallelism

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby  I was reading my current favorite author the other day, but something was wrong. The text did not flow as smoothly as usual. I had to read one paragraph three times to figure out who shot whom (yes, my current recreational reading is in the spy/action/detective genre). And then I stumbled over a raggedy sentence that made me stop to look at its grammar.

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Best Practices for Blended Learning Design

Web Courseworks

A Case Study of the UW Professional Life Coaching Certificate Program. Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Association educational leaders who are responsible for developing adult learning programs often struggle with defining what makes for a quality educational program, especially one that relies heavily on technology.

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Beyond Static, One-Time Training Events

Axonify

The job of an Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) sales rep is only becoming more demanding. Besides needing to remember increasing amounts of medical product information, reps must also keep up with changing medical policies and procedures. The company’s outdated approach to training was falling short and Ethicon knew it had to radically change its approach.

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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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Recorded Training: Author on the mobile… Author for the mobile

Adobe Captivate

Topic: Author on the mobile… Author for the mobile Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Sr. Adobe eLearning Evangelist, as she shows you how to create mobile learning courses using mobile devices alongside Adobe Captivate 9. Learn how to create storyboards using Adobe Captivate Draft, share it for review with colleagues and clients, implement feedback, and then open […].

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On Demand: Complete eLearning Journey; from prototyping to responsive to learning management

Adobe Captivate

As an eLearning designer wouldn’t it be great if you could take charge of your eLearning environment right from storyboarding your ideas to generating responsive eLearning courses to being able to effectively deploy and track your learners’ performance? With Adobe eLearning solutions, you can. Give expression to your ideas using Adobe Captivate Draft, the all-new […].

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Top 5 Free HR Tools for Employee Assessment

InsiderHub

The post Top 5 Free HR Tools for Employee Assessment appeared first on CollectMyThoughts.

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Selfie number 5

Learning with e's

In this series of short posts, I'm writing about my top ten selfies with people who have inspired me or have influenced my thinking. Previous selfie posts can also be viewed on this blog. I first met Alec Couros among that amazing gathering of people at the inaugural PLE (Personal Learning Environment) conference in Barcelona, in 2010. Alec is Professor of educational technology at the University of Regina in Canada.

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Is Your Organization Losing Its Brain? Collecting Stories to Transfer Knowledge

Vignettes Learning

Are you perceiving symptoms of your organization losing knowledge and expertise? Oftentimes, top executives are not aware of the wealth of knowledge that's lost as experienced employees retire and carry their expertise with them. "In the U.S., roughly 10,000 people reach retirement age every day. And though not everyone who turns 62 or 65 retires right away, enough do that some companies are trying to head off the problem.Losing veteran workers is a challenge, even for big companies like General

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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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Using Real Life Scenarios In eLearning: 5 Advantages

PulseLearning

As published by eLearningIndustry.com, in this article I will share with you 5 advantages of using very real life scenarios in eLearning. Real life scenarios can add much needed flavor to otherwise vanilla eLearning. Out are the old school text based scenarios; in are graphic novels and comic strip panels using real employee and workplace […].

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Episodic Learning-Learning Like Watching Your Favorite Soap Opera!

Vignettes Learning

Have you ever wished learning can be fun while at the same time in-depth? The current dilemma is that if you want to go deeper on the subject, you have to weather through the boredom created by traditional information delivery. But if you want to go the way of fun, well, you just have to scratch the surface. This shouldn't be the case! There has to be a way to learn and have fun at the same time!

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How Fortune 1000 Company, Discover Financial Services, Innovates with eLearning

KZO Innovations

There is a fundamental shift taking place in the customer service industry as technology increasingly allows customers to self-service. And, successful brands like Discover Financial Services, a 2015 Fortune 1000 company, are working to prepare for the future with innovative training programs. Discover has been recognized for its flagship skills assessment program started in 2013 called Customer Service 2.0, which helps evaluate new employees in its call centers.

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The Importance of Creating an Employee Training Manual

WalkMe Training Station

A growing business with an increasing number of staff such requires an employee training manual in order to simplify and improve the training of its employees. This is because the more personnel a company has the greater its need for a formalized system of administration, and one such tool of administration are training manuals. Aside from helping your personnel understand what they are expected to learn, training manuals also strengthen whatever training program your company already has in plac

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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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5 Ideas for Supporting Employee Learning

Degreed

In our August webinar, “Bring Your Own Learning,” we explored the data behind the Bring Your Own Learning trend and discussed how you can manage the BYOL shift. As part of the data we shared, 77% of employees told us that their own self-directed learning was more effective towards helping them be successful in their profession. These are adults, they know what they need and they know what their strengths and weaknesses are.

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Moodle vs Totara – which is the right choice for you?

Paradiso

Moodle vs Totara: Understanding the differences. Anyone who has spent even a fraction of time looking into the world of elearning and the learning management system will have come across the rather abstract names of Moodle and Totara. Despite sounding like the son and daughter of some bohemian celebrity couple, they are actually two different incarnations of the same thing, and that thing is an open source LMS which is used by million of people worldwide and is ‘free’ to get hold of.

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Moodle vs Totara – which is the right choice for you?

Paradiso

Moodle vs Totara: Understanding the differences. Anyone who has spent even a fraction of time looking into the world of elearning and the learning management system will have come across the rather abstract names of Moodle and Totara. Despite sounding like the son and daughter of some bohemian celebrity couple, they are actually two different incarnations of the same thing, and that thing is an open source LMS which is used by million of people worldwide and is ‘free’ to get hold of.

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