Mon.Sep 26, 2016

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McDonald’s Selects Inkling to Deliver Critical Operating Procedures to More Than 750,000 Workers

Inkling

Inkling releases major platform enhancements to support mobile devices in retail and restaurant environments. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 27, 2016 — Inkling today announced that McDonald’s has deployed its mobile platform to standardize and streamline restaurant operations across the US and Canada. By eliminating printed paper, PDF and Word files, Inkling enables the real-time delivery of standard operating procedures to over 14,500 locations.

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6 Game Types for Learning

LearnDash

Incorporating gaming methodology into formal learning events is a great way to help learners grasp complex concepts. It can be used in nearly every context including the educational sector, corporate setting, and non-profit industry. What might not be as well known is that the use of games for teaching initiatives is more than just throwing up leaderboards and ways for distributing points.

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US Beef and Kineo win gold at the Brandon Hall awards

Kineo

Brandon Hall Group has recognized Kineo’s work with United States Beef Corporation (US Beef) in the category of best blended learning. Kineo is thrilled to take home gold in this category of the HCM Excellence Awards. The Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards are highly sought after and are one of the most prestigious awards in the industry. The awards require demonstrated and measurable benefits to the business as a whole, a unique distinction highlighting that winning solutions are transforming

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Advanced Technologies Needed to Foster Online Learning - Interview with Ryan Tracey

JoomlaLMS

Today we are delighted to welcome to the JoomlaLMS blog an eLearning expert, author of E-Learning Provocateur blog and a former ELearning magazine editorial board member - Ryan Tracey. The funny thing is that when we discussed an interview topic with Ryan, he chose “Advanced technologies needed to foster online learning within the organization” because he had an opposite opinion on the topic.

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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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#INDIETECH: It’s not about being a woman, it’s about being talented.

Wisetail

Ali Knapp, Sales Director at Wisetail LMS, talks about finding qualified hardworking people helped to close the gender gap in the tech industry. The post #INDIETECH: It’s not about being a woman, it’s about being talented. appeared first on Wisetail.

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How Mobile Learning Challenges Can Be Conquered

CommLab India

If the prediction by Gartner is anything to go by, a massive 70% of the mobile workforce will be using tablets by 2017. This statistic is enough for you to venture into the world of mobile learning if you haven’t yet. Mobile learning is learning through mobile devices such as Smartphones, iPads, and tablets. Delivering training to your mobile salesforce on their mobile devices to help them access information just-in-time is a boon.

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Why User Experience is the New Brand Loyalty Program

eLearningMind

It’s a scenario we’re all too familiar with: You get a new toy–a TV; a bookshelf; a new phone–and the second it’s out of the box, you want it to be fully functional. But we’re also all too familiar with the woes of something new, and from assembly frustration to a steep learning curve, you might be stuck reading manuals and using trial and error to learn how to use or put together something new.

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Making Flash-based Courses Engaging and Mobile-compatible

CommLab India

Lectora Inspire 16 to the Rescue. Have you developed hundreds of online courses using Adobe Flash? Are you worried that these courses would become redundant because of their incompatibility with mobile devices? Well, you are not alone. Many firms have developed a large number of e-learning courses in Adobe Flash in the days before the mobile revolution.

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LMS RFP Tips: How to Find Your Best Learning Technology Fit

Talented Learning

Is the LMS RFP a Necessary Evil? A Nice-to-Have? Or Something More? A Request for Proposal (RFP) is one of the most widely used yet controversial tools for learning management systems buyers. Some people hate them. Others love them. Either way, it’s usually foolish to buy an LMS without one. The LMS RFP has developed a bad reputation because it is easily misunderstood.

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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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How do we measure value creation from training?

CrossKnowledge

In a previous article we looked at the five levels of impact in any exhaustive training evaluation process that reflect the key challenges involved in high-quality evaluation. We also looked at the limitations of evaluations due to non-measurable (intangible) factors. In this second article, we’ll be looking at the different aspects of training evaluation represented in diagram form, the three key principles that will help you to evaluate effectively, and a few tips to avoid the issue of intangi

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Buzzword Decoder: Serious Games and Gamification by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Serious learning games present opportunities to create engaging and interesting content that learners voluntarily spend time. with—and learn from. Gamification also engages learners and might draw them in to spend more time with eLearning. content. This article explains both approaches.

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5 Ways to Add Excitement to Your Online Learning Offerings

SkyPrep

Employees who learn together can bond in creative environments and the result is an increased level of innovation in your company. Even though you may have transferred your learning options from traditional seminars with scheduled trainers to online programs, there are still ways you can build collaborations between online learners. Here are 5 ways to foster your company’s culture of learning together even when you are using online approaches that are essentially set up to encourage employ

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The Fall 2016 CLO Symposium Plus+ Backchannel #CLOSym

David Kelly

This post curates resources shared via the backchannel of the Fall 2016 CLO Symposium Plus+ being held September 26 – 27 in Scottsdale, Arizona. I am a huge proponent of backchannel learning. There are many conferences I would love to be able to attend, but most people can only accommodate one or two each year. The backchannel is an excellent resource for learning from a conference or event, even if you are unable to attend in-person.

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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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5 Ways to Add Excitement to Your Online Learning Offerings

SkyPrep

Employees who learn together can bond in creative environments and the result is an increased level of innovation in your company. Even though you may have transferred your learning options from traditional seminars with scheduled trainers to online programs, there are still ways you can build collaborations between online learners. Here are 5 ways to foster your company’s culture of learning together even when you are using online approaches that are essentially set up to encourage employ

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Toolkit: Upgrading Minds, Upgrading Tools: Raptivity and iSpring by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

As time passes, more authoring tools have moved from our hard drives to the cloud. Pricing has changed, at the same time, from periodic purchase of a new version on a new CD or DVD to an annual subscription that results in a new version over. time through incremental updates. Here is Joe’s take on this, plus news about changes to two important tools.

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LinkedIn Offers Premium Members Learning In-Channel

CLO Magazine

Last week professional social network LinkedIn pulled back the curtain on how it will tap into its 2015 purchase of online course provider Lynda.com. During a press event, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner announced the redesign of the platform to improve user experience. He also unveiled LinkedIn Learning. Powered by Lynda.com, the new feature offers members access to online courses — recommending ones closely aligned with people’s individual career paths based on professional data they’ve provided.

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Best Strategies for Implementing Mobile Learning

Designing Digitally

The best way to implement learning through mobile is to leverage its numerous benefits. For that, we need to understand the power of mobile. Let’s go through the key benefits of using a mobile device over traditional computers. Title: A Communication Hub That’s Personal Description: Apart from being an eLearning platform , mobile devices are a communication hub.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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What Are The Different Types of Pressure Tests for Engine Test Stands?

cogentys

Did you know that companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research and development for off-highway vehicle engines? A portion of the R&D goes into developing specialized engine test. [click link to visit website for full episode, links, other content and more!].

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9 Must-Consider Topics When Designing Partner or Reseller Training

Mindflash

Online training is an effective way to arm your partners and value-added resellers with knowledge. It’s scalable—you can train thousands at once while retaining your own corporate brand in the training materials. A highly trained, extended sales force can increase your revenue through increased sales of your products and services. And, you can sell your online training courses themselves to your partners and resellers, should you choose to do so.

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9 Tips To Boost eLearning Course Participation

TalentLMS

Most trainers complain that the eLearning course participants communicate with the trainer, but not with their peers! Some even complain of total lack of participation. Learner buy-in is a common problem, and trainers need to learn how to secure participation early on and keep it going as the course progresses. In this article, we’ll share a few suggestions on how to promote eLearning course participation as a trainer.

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Creating an Interesting E-learning GUI Design in Articulate Storyline – Part 6

CommLab India

In my previous blog , I shared a few tips on adding page numbers to courses using variables in Articulate Storyline. In this blog, let us see how to add the Play/Pause and Replay buttons to a customized GUI (Graphical User Interface). Play/Pause and Replay buttons : Articulate Storyline provides the Play/Pause/Replay feature by default in the GUI of a course, but when you customize the GUI, you need to add the Play/Pause and Replay buttons in each slide.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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Culture Eats Strategy at Wells Fargo

The Performance Improvement Blog

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast," a quote famously attributed to Peter Drucker , is being played out dramatically in the crisis at Wells Fargo Bank. Apparently, the culture in the Wells Fargo workplace is not aligned with the espoused values of the company. This misalignment has tarnished the brand built on an image of trust and customer care, resulted in the dismissal of over 5,000 employees, poses a threat to the tenure of top executives, and resulted in a precipitous decline in the marke

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Microlearning Activities – 4 Reasons They are Ideal for Compliance Training

CommLab India

Microlearning has been the trending word in the e-learning world for quite some time now. Also, the decreasing attention span of humans (8 seconds 1 ) is fueling the need for microlearning. But, what exactly is microlearning? Microlearning refers to the delivery of online learning content in the form of short learning nuggets. Each nugget deals with one learning point and is not more than 3-5 minutes long, sometimes even shorter.

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Benefits of Customized E-learning for Credit Card Security Training [Infographic]

CommLab India

The functioning of every bank is unique. From receiving credit card information to payments, different banks have different transaction processes in place. There are plenty of payment processing companies in the market for banks to choose from. So, delivering training via an off-the-shelf course will not suffice your bank’s unique credit card security requirements.