Tue.Apr 12, 2016

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How to Foster a Culture of Innovative Teams

Infopro Learning

We continually hear about innovation and strive to keep engaging our teams to put the right skills and processes for innovation into practice. At the same time, we know that fostering just the right culture for the team to be innovative is important – but often overlooked. How do you go about fostering an innovative team? Here are 4 guidelines we’ve pulled together: Make the team as diverse as possible; diversity and innovation are a proven combination… which means that one of the keys to innova

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How Flexible is Your LMS at User Management?

Absorb LMS

One of the most import questions you will face when deploying an LMS is, “how do I organize my users?” The decisions you make here will impact things like Reporting and Admin Rights, as well as Content Management, Branding, and Enrollment Rules for learners. If you plan to create your user accounts via a feed from your HRIS or payroll system, then it will be difficult to make changes down the road without impacting your integrations and processes.

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How to Foster a Culture of Innovative Teams

Infopro Learning

We continually hear about innovation and strive to keep engaging our teams to put the right skills and processes for innovation into practice. At the same time, we know that fostering just the right culture for the team to be innovative is important – but often overlooked. How do you go about fostering an innovative team? Here are 4 guidelines we’ve pulled together: Make the team as diverse as possible; diversity and innovation are a proven combination… which means that one of the keys to innova

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3 easy ways media companies can improve the quality of training content

Docebo

3 easy ways publishing companies can improve the quality of their online training materials Even the best learning management system ( LMS ) is only as good as its content. We borrowed a few tips from our friends at the learning content authoring tool Elucidat to compile a few best practices that media and publishing companies can use to improve the quality of learning content for partner training, internal employee training and customer training programs.

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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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Double Celebrations – 2016 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List & 12th Anniversary

Upside Learning

On 7th April, we celebrated our 12th corporate anniversary, and the day brought with it a special gift in form of Training Industry’s 2016 Training Outsourcing Companies Watch List. If being listed among the best 12 companies for training outsourcing doesn’t call for double celebrations, then what does? Here’s a sneak peek. The complete list […].

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Top 10 Tools for Learning 2016

Clark Quinn

It’s that time again: Jane Hart is running her 2016 (and 10th!) Top 100 Tools for Learning poll. It’s a valuable service, and points out some interesting things and it’s interesting to see the changes over time. It’s also a way to see what others are using and maybe find some new ideas. She’s now asking that you categorize them as Education, Training & Performance Support, and/or Personal Learning & Productivity.

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7 Ways to Destroy Your Learning Culture

ej4 eLearning

No business wants to destroy its learning culture. Despite there being clear benefits to having a learning culture, many organizations give little-to-no thought on how to foster one, or even discuss why they would want to. So we asked ourselves: What would it look like if we wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide for businesses on [.]. The post 7 Ways to Destroy Your Learning Culture appeared first on.

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Is The Certificate Really Obsolete?

LearnDash

I recently was reading through some elearning articles when I came across an upcoming webinar on certificates and certification in today’s digital age. The webinar is going to be presented by Andy Hicken, Director of Product Development at Web Courseworks. You can read about this presentation in more detail from the Web Courseworks blog. While I am sure there will be a lot covered in this webinar, the gist of it will be as follows (taken from the announcement): In his talk, Andy will discu

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How Flexible is Your LMS at User Management?

Absorb LMS

One of the most import questions you will face when deploying an LMS is, “how do I organize my users?” The decisions you make here will impact things like Reporting and Admin Rights, as well as Content Management, Branding, and Enrollment Rules for learners. If you plan to create your user accounts via a feed from your HRIS or payroll system, then it will be difficult to make changes down the road without impacting your integrations and processes.

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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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Kineo Learning Insights, Naturally.

Learning Visions

Every year at Kineo, we interview a group of our customers – taking a slice of the market and sharing those insights back with you. This year’s Learning Insights 2015 report, has loads of nuggets. But rather than recap them all here, I want to dig into the one that I’ve been thinking the most about, which was our very first question. We asked, “What’s been the biggest surprise in the last 10 years?

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Taking a Closer Look at Our PowerPoint Graphics

eLearning Brothers

The magnifying glass is a classic symbol of detective work. This tool has been used to get down to the bottom of many a mystery throughout the years, and your eLearning need not be an exception! Take a look through the lens at these three PowerPoint Graphics that can help your learners deduce the meaning behind your content. Click on the image to view this template in the library!

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Platinum LearnX Impact Awards Win with LafargeHolcim!

Growth Engineering

We’re only up to April, but it’s never too early in the year to be winning awards! This week we’ve found out that we’ve won big at the LearnX Impact Awards. Based in the Australian capital of Melbourne, these awards recognise and reward individuals, teams and organisations who have used learning and supporting technologies to deliver value and significantly impact employee performance and business results.

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The 4 Best Tricks to Help Learners Remember Your Content

SHIFT eLearning

It’s happened to all of us: we’re presented with information and yet we forget it. Why does it happen? One of the most common reasons is because our attention is elsewhere. It’s similar to what happens when a student is attending a lecture, yet is simultaneously spending time on their smartphone. While they may be physically present in the lecture, their divided attention leads to a failure to retain most, if not all, of the information, taught.

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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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Gamification: The Training Trend for 2016

PulseLearning

Take these two simple words, work and play. Which appeals to you the most? My guess is that most of you chose ‘play’ due to its connotations of fun, exploration, and doing things your own way. 5 Reasons Why Gamification remains a HOT Trend for 2016 Gamification provides the means of infusing an element of […]. The post Gamification: The Training Trend for 2016 appeared first on PulseLearning.

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7 must have apps for an entrepreneur in 2016

InsiderHub

The post 7 must have apps for an entrepreneur in 2016 appeared first on InsiderHub.

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3 employee retention tips every business can use.

Roundtable Learning

“One third of new hires quit their job after about six (6) months," (Ere Media, 2015). What’s going on here? To understand, we need to shift the focus away from how much we’re spending on training and development to how we’re putting those dollars to work for our organizations and our people. After all, studies show that when employees are adequately trained, motivated and empowered to take ownership of their careers, retention soars.

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Why Slow and Steady Wins in Leadership Training

eLearningMind

Leadership training? That’s easy. Leadership training that is effective and sustainable? That’s another story altogether. Too often, leadership training is approached with a boot camp mentality: Fast and intense, an afternoon is supposed to be enough to churn out the latest crop of visionaries and leaders. But those on the front lines understand that leaders need more than a quick-fire approach to training.

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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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Tip of the Week: Add a “zoom” effect to images used in Raptivity interactions

Raptivity

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Can Design Thinking Be Applied to E-Learning?

ATD Learning Technologies

For years, companies focused only on making their products aesthetically appealing and building their brand through well-crafted advertisements. However, with the onset of the knowledge era, it has become imperative for firms to provide real solutions to their customers’ needs. For this, they needed to have a holistic view of those needs. This gave rise to the systems approach, which emphasized the importance of understanding the interdependence among various factors affecting a customer n

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iSpring 8.3: Leverage New Authoring Capabilities

iSpring Solutions

2. Shared. Today the advanced iSpring 8.3* has been released! The coolest enhancement is part of the TalkMaster tool, which now allows users to record voice overs for characters. With this new option, dialogue simulations are even more realistic than ever before! Audio narrations can also be recorded with the QuizMaker tool now, which is available as a component of iSpring Suite.

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CDSM Developer Cycles in Aid of Maggie’s

CDSM

Our very own Gareth Thomas will be participating in the upcoming Dragon Ride L’Etape Wales by le Tour de France 2016 to raise funds for the charity, Maggie’s. Gareth began working at CDSM in August 2009 and plays a vital role as a Senior Developer working on our learning platform technology. Dragon Ride L’Etape Wales by le Tour de France 2016 will be taking place on Sunday 5 th June 2016 at Margam Park in Port Talbot, South Wales.

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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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Interactive Video Made Easy

Rapid eLearning

A few years back working with video was not all that easy. Most networks couldn’t support the delivery of video and producing video was expensive and really time-consuming. However, that’s changed quite a bit over the years. Rapid E-Learning Makes Interactive Video Easy. Here’s one of my favorite examples of how things changed with the advent of rapid elearning.

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Stay Current at the Experience API (xAPI) Camps by Michael Hruska

LearningGuild

The eLearning community continues to adopt use of the Experience API (xAPI) as a bridge to link learning and performance. The xAPI Camps that take place internationally at conferences, such as The eLearning Guild’s FocusOn Learning in Austin this. June, are key events where L&D leaders find out how to implement this new technology. Find out more about the camps in. this article!

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Equipping your team for the future with personalized learning

Matrix

When I was a kid, 20 years ago, I had a tricycle and I was cool. Ten years ago, all the cool kids had sneakers with rollers in the heels. Today, tricycles are kind of vintage, while roler-sneakers are so last century. Cool kids now have hoverboards. How cool is that? If ten years' times can do this to the rolling-devices-for-feet industry, I wonder what another decade has in store for it.

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Leading by Fear Can Be Toxic

Training Industry

The ability to be self-motivated and lead others is a highly important attribute in the workplace today. Strong leadership ability is on most business education and corporate performance competency lists and there are many philosophies on effective leadership behaviors. A Forbes article states that honesty, commitment, communication, delegation, confidence, positive attitude, creativity, inspiration and intuition are key traits.

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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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How to do SEO for eLearning in 3 easy steps

LearnUpon

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential to successful marketing today. And effective SEO is as important to selling online courses as anything else. This article will walk you through the three main ways you can use LearnUpon’s SEO features to help you sell more online courses. It does assume you know a little about search engine optimization already.

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Employee Training Costs – Useful Methods to Manage Your Costs

WalkMe Training Station

How an Organization Can Minimize Employee Training Costs. One of the issues in an organization that confounds many is the issue of employee training costs. What is employee training and how does it benefit the organization? Employee training involves helping one’s employees acquire skills and knowledge that will help them improve their delivery of duties.

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The risky business of learning design

Rob Hubbard

At a party recently I had a flash of insight. A number of disparate ideas suddenly aligned in my head with an almost audible ‘clunk’, lubricated by prosecco and stimulating conversation. I was talking to a couple of friends about the sports I’m into and what I enjoy about them: sailing, skiing and mountain biking. In all three of these I’m not competitive.

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