Wed.May 20, 2015

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Virtually There: Making Virtual & Blended Learning Work for Adult Learners

InSync Training

Blended and virtual learning make it easy for the learner to make decisions about when to engage or disengage. It's the job of the training professional to ensure that the adult learner is motivated to participate. It is generally understood that lecture by itself is not the best way to transfer knowledge to the adult learner. In the 1970s, Malcolm Knowles introduced the basis for modern adult learning theory, focusing on a collaborative approach to learning rather than the traditional schoolhou

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A Blended Onboarding Approach [SLIDES & RECORDING]

Kineo

In our latest onboarding guide, we noticed some shocking statistics: that 22% of new hires leave within the first 6 weeks of their job, and it costs businesses double their salary to replace them. So what gives? What are we doing wrong and how can we curb this ongoing challenge that businesses are facing? .

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2015 ATD Learning Science Theater Slides

Kapp Notes

A number of folks have requested the slides and references from my Learning Science Theater presentation. Here are the slides that contain the references and, in many cases, the doi number for look up. Here are some other interesting research links, information not contained in the slides or discussed in the presentation but which may be helpful. Three Abstracts: Does Your Instruction have Too Much “Certainty”?

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Class Blog Versus Class LMS

LearnDash

Over the years we have seen an evolution occur in the WordPress ecosystem. What was once meant for blogging has evolved to a content management system, learning management system, forums, social networking, event booking, ecommerce, and so on. It has been a pretty remarkable transformation. If you’re a teacher then chances are you have some form of online learning integrated with your class.

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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 Course Exemptions to Streamline Learning in LearnFlex LMS

B Online Learning

In this article we’ll go over how to setup Course Exemptions in LearnFlex LMS and how they can be used to help prevent users from repeating unnecessary training if they have already completed a course that would be considered the equivalence, but also allow you to report on the completions should you need to track […].

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6 Surprising Things I've Learnt as a Freelance eLearning Designer

eLearning Architect

May already?? Wow, where has 2015 gone? It's been 4 months since I wrote about my decision to embark upon a new adventure into the world of freelancing, which also turned into my most shared blog so far in several years of blogging (you can read that blog post here ). I received some fantastic responses wishing me luck, some with suggestions on where to find work and some giving me advice on what to do and what not to do.

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Tip of the Week: Add Interactions to PowerPoint in a Click

Raptivity

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Women in eLearning: Language, Gender Equality, and Leadership by David Kelly

LearningGuild

Language is powerful, and context is important. Carefully choosing our words and how we use them can directly impact the. quality of gender-relations. But language goes far beyond the way it shapes interactions; it shapes the way we think. Here. are some thoughts on labeling behaviors, not persons, and the role of leaders.

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Talking Back Millennials Crave Feedback

Training Industry

Millennials have grown up in an instant gratification world, so patience is not necessarily their strong suit. Answers can be searched for, found, filed and implemented in a matter of minutes. If feedback pertaining to their job performance were searchable, millennials would be taking full advantage. Employees primarily rely on managers and supervisors for evaluations and feedback relating to performance.

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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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Experience API, cmi5, and Future SCORM by Art Werkenthin

LearningGuild

The current standard for eLearning-to-LMS communication is SCORM, the Shareable Content Object Reference Model. Originally released in 2001, SCORM is rapidly becoming obsolete. Here is an update on the path to a new standard.

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with e's

I have written a lot about Personal Learning Environments in the past, especially when they were emerging as a concept, and sounded quite new. There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from

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Video training: The competitive edge that your company (and employees) will thank you for

InsiderHub

The post Video training: The competitive edge that your company (and employees) will thank you for appeared first on CollectMyThoughts.

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Engagement Made Easy with eLearning Scenarios and Characters

Trivantis

Put your learner in the action! How? Add a scenario to your online training course, which allows your learners to make choices and experience a simulation of the content they’re learning. Lectora® Inspire 12.1 makes it easy to add scenarios and characters with the new eLearning Brothers integration, and Brother Sean explains how in an awesome video tutorial.

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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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Flash to HTML5: The Great Migration

PulseLearning

Our recent blog post by Seamus Hand, Director of Development Services as published by Training Industry Hypertext Markup Language (HTML5) and Adobe Flash are effective technologies for creating engaging online content. However, we are beginning to see a migration from Flash to HTML5, especially in the e-learning industry. While they both currently have their advantages and […].

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Notes from the Spargel Tour

Jay Cross

The last two days, the GPS in our rental car has taken us on to obscure farm roads and “the long way around” time after time. We don’t know whether we should take advice from the GPS’s calm English voice or say to hell with it and follow the signs. We’ve traveled farm roads so narrow that we had to stop to let cars come the other way.

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Why It’s Time to Rethink L&D Approaches

Degreed

On May 12 in our webinar titled Putting Learners First, VP of Product Marketing Todd Tauber, discussed how the balance of power in learning and development is shifting from HR and L&D to employees and managers. Here’s why we think its finally time to start rethinking L&D approaches and priorities. 1. L&D teams are struggling to connect with learners.

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Tech paradigm shifts call for IT systems training

Aptara

Tech paradigm shifts call for IT systems training. Change and evolution will always be constants in the IT industry. How companies deal with these changes is simply one of the metrics on which they compete. Some industry leaders will be perennially ahead of the curve, ready to engage with customers and staff through the latest solutions. Others will perpetually play catch-up or bet on ideas that never come to fruition.

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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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Why It’s Time to Rethink L&D Approaches

Degreed

On May 12 in our webinar titled Putting Learners First, VP of Product Marketing Todd Tauber, discussed how the balance of power in learning and development is shifting from HR and L&D to employees and managers. Here’s why we think its finally time to start rethinking L&D approaches and priorities. 1. L&D teams are struggling to connect with learners.

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Top 5 Tips for Mouth-watering eLearning Content

360 Training

Authors! Have you cooked up a delectable feast of content for your elearning course? After completing your first draft, it’s time to take a taste and analyze it. How is the pace of your course? Is it “well-spiced” with things that engage and delight—but not overloaded with elements fighting for attention? Does it leave your learners feeling satisfied after they consume it?

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Day 3 @ ATD 2015 ICE

Origin Learning

Day 3 of the ATD Expo began on an interesting, no-frills note with Sugata Mitra taking the center stage for his keynote session on “Who taught the termites civil engineering?” As he got straight to the point with his insights from an experiment he ran in an Indian slum in the late 90s: Placing a simple internet-connected computer in a hole-a-wall 3-feet from the ground and offering no support to the children in figuring out what the device was, Mitra explained that children don’t need teachers.A

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These Ain’t Your Daddy’s PowerPoint Graphics

eLearning Brothers

With the addition of completely customizable PowerPoint graphics to eLearning Brothers’ arsenal of awesome template libraries , you now have the tools to take your presentations to the next level. The PowerPoint Graphic Library comes equipped with over 9,000 assets built natively in PowerPoint to give you complete control, while saving you the time and effort of making things from scratch.

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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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