Absorb LMS

APRIL 4, 2016

Make sure your team is buying an LMS for the year you’re in. Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology. Fresh out of university, I worked as a content developer and designed and authored hundreds of hours of online courses. As an analyst a decade later, I wrote industry reports about learning management systems, authoring tools, and other technologies.

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Edmego Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Maximizing Retention In E-Learning – Part 3. When it comes to maximizing retention in the workplace, your overall efforts will yield its own measure in results. In Part 1 we talked about the overall learning culture that needs to be in place. In Part 2 we reviewed some of the core segments of training and learning that need to be in place whether it is instructor led or in an e-learning format.

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Inkling

APRIL 4, 2016

As smartphones, tablets, and wearables flood our personal lives, corporate mobility is becoming a necessity—not just an advantage. With half of the world’s population having a mobile plan, people are increasingly accustomed to accessing the personal information and services they need through any device, easy-to-use applications, and ever-faster bandwidth.

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Edmego Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

Maximizing Retention In E-Learning – Part 3. When it comes to maximizing retention in the workplace, your overall efforts will yield its own measure in results. In Part 1 we talked about the overall learning culture that needs to be in place. In Part 2 we reviewed some of the core segments of training and learning that need to be in place whether it is instructor led or in an e-learning format.

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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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LearnDash

APRIL 4, 2016

There are many paths to creating and selling an online course. Some people choose to build out the course and then market it. Others prefer to market it first (pre-sell) and then build it. While both methods get the job done, there are some inherent benefits to the second approach. First, we must remember that your time costs money. You can’t get time back which is why it’s extremely valuable.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 4, 2016

Like a hidden oasis in a desert landscape, Camtasia Studio from TechSmith is a gem of a tool for the eLearning world. Not only is it an amazing video tool that allows for quick screen capture and easy timeline editing, but it also has hotspots to jump to specific points (allowing for things like branched progression) in the video timeline and a quizzing tool.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 4, 2016

by Sally Cox    You've selected a palette of colors for your eLearning project, so your concerns about color are over, right? Not exactly. Simply picking a handful of colors doesn't mean they will complement each other and guide the learner through your course. What's that you say? You didn't know that color can be an eLearning guide?

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 4, 2016

A big part of the eLearning market lies in business training materials. Companies will always need to train their employees to orient them to the work environment, standard operating procedures, and corporate philosophy. It’s important to make the layout of any eLearning course interesting to look at, but in the case of many business courses, they also need to have a bit of class and sophistication.

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WalkMe Training Station

APRIL 4, 2016

Everyone loves Game of Thrones, except the people who love the books and can’t believe what they did to Stannis. But did you know that this hit TV show contains many lessons about team management? Let’s take a look. How to Increase Employee Productivity – Lessons from Daenerys Targaryen. Productive employees and a productive team can be the difference between reclaiming your kingdom and winding up dead in the Dothraki Sea.

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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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Learning with e's

APRIL 4, 2016

How do you represent your learning? Some people display framed certificates on their walls, or photos of their degree ceremony. Others keep a CV in which they list all their achievements, or a collection of memorabilia of their time at college or university. Many keep libraries of books, journals and other media on their shelves, used for reference to remind them of theories, principles or methods they wish to recall.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 4, 2016

Role-playing is one of the most powerful teaching strategies. It uncovers the complex personalities of your learners, while they engage with each other and the eLearning program within their roles. But we cannot use role-playing in just any eLearning course. What situations allow us to use role-playing, then? And what are the varieties of role-playing strategies?

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OpenSesame

APRIL 4, 2016

Currently at OpenSesame, we’re all a bit distracted. You see, right outside our window there is ongoing construction, and the sound of jackhammers at 10 in the morning isn’t the best way to get ideas flowing. At certain points throughout the year, there will be distractions out of your control. Whether it be construction, an office celebration, or really anything with loud noises, sometimes you need to get work done, but your regular routine just isn’t cutting it. .

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eLearningMind

APRIL 4, 2016

By now, you’ve probably heard about language-learning wunderkind, Duolingo. It’s a relatively small, free app that promises to teach users foreign languages, from French to Portuguese; 16 languages in all. With more than 100,000 active users every day, there’s a lot to be learned from the success of what is essentially a bite-sized learning game. How is Duolingo keeping users glued to their lessons?

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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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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 4, 2016

A Harvard Business Review article “ What’s Lost When Experts Retire ” reminded me about the dire need to rethink our roles as learning professionals and leaders: My sense is that our current of definitions and understanding of expertise may be at odds and stacked against helping novices to become experts. These are some ideas I have pondered on. I continue to plow the literature on expertise and find it most exhilarating and inspiring.

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LearningGuild

APRIL 4, 2016

How many issues do you face in delivering training to your organization? People widely dispersed geographically? Lack of. learner availability? Employees who have to be covered across work shifts? No travel funds? If you aren’t using virtual. meeting software to meet these challenges, maybe you should. Drop “webinar” from your vocabulary, and learn to use the. virtual whiteboard!

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Degreed

APRIL 4, 2016

The age of big data has landed us in a world where we expect every online experience to be personalized to our unique interests and curated for our desires. We take for granted the personal experience presented to us on Facebook and Linkedin, the recommendations on Netflix, and personalized playlists on Spotify and Pandora. We assume online retailers will only promote relevant products to us, and get frustrated when promotions aren’t relevant.

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Saffron Interactive

APRIL 4, 2016

In a previous blogpost, I discussed how and where to use video in elearning. These days, creating video isn’t a demanding task, and there are many tools that can help. The post Five things you shouldn’t forget when creating video for elearning appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 4, 2016

Currently at OpenSesame, we’re all a bit distracted. You see, right outside our window there is ongoing construction, and the sound of jackhammers at 10 in the morning isn’t the best way to get ideas flowing. At certain points throughout the year, there will be distractions out of your control. Whether it be construction, an office celebration, or really anything with loud noises, sometimes you need to get work done, but your regular routine just isn’t cutting it. .

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Mindflash

APRIL 4, 2016

Time management is all about managing our behaviors, our work environments, and our focus. The illusion of time management is that it is all a matter of discipline and structure rather than about attention and focus. Traditional time management training and tips are systems and self-discipline based. From Stephen Coveys’ Seven Habits, to Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog, to David Allen’s Getting Things Done , the messages are to systematize and prioritize our lives by listing each task, setting S.M.A

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DigitalChalk eLearning

APRIL 4, 2016

While creating courses you may need to make specific, or all, elements required to prevent users from skipping over important information. How do I set an element as required? Go to the ‘Manage Courses’ tab. Click on the course title you would like to set required elements for. Select ‘Required Elements’ from the left sub-menu. Check, or uncheck, the boxes to the left of the element names.

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iSpring Solutions

APRIL 4, 2016

0. Shared. Starting from April 1 st , iSpring Learn LMS has a new pricing policy. The new subscription plans provide the LMS users with more flexible options and help save money. Now an unlimited number of users can be added to the account, and only learners who actually access courses are billed rather than all users registered in the LMS. Before April 1 st , subscription plans were calculated depending on the number of users registered in the account.

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Paradiso

APRIL 4, 2016

We understand your dilemma Mr. Training Manager, when we say you got more than a few hundred people joining your organization next week, and you’ve to make them undergo the induction training. In addition, you still have a few from the previous batch of joinees who have yet to finish their induction as well as compliance training. Do you realize why this might be happening Mr.

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Designing Digitally

APRIL 4, 2016

For employees who are strangers to working in other parts of the world, it is the responsibility of the employer to deliver a consistent and clear message about the organization’s values and identity in the face of growth. To deeply ingrain the culture and goals of the company in the minds of the employees, soft training skills are often employed. The following factors would help companies, which are trying to build, maintain and train a unified team message.

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