Thu.Feb 04, 2016

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How to keep a diverse workforce engaged?

Origin Learning

Learning needs, pace, moods…. The command and control economy era is over. Smart and strategy-driven business environments are in vogue. Technology absorption is happening at a frenetic pace. Clearly, learning too is undergoing fundamental shifts – a metamorphosis of sorts. Traditional learning methods have either gotten a makeover or have become obsolete.

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The Best of Both Worlds: LMS for Learners and Trainers

TOPYX LMS

Employees and employers have unique roles in the corporate world. The average employee’s day is spent scrambling to make deadlines and meet the expectations of managers. Things are a little different for employers. These individuals spend their time making major decisions for their companies, hiring and firing employees, establishing policies and procedures, etc.

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Microlearning - A Practitioner’s Guide: An Overview

Raptivity

In this fast-paced world, human tendency is to do everything as quick as possible. This applies to learning as well. Learning in a short time therefore becomes a critical question to ponder, for eLearning course creators and instructional designers. Microlearning replaces and relieves from the cognitive overload faced while learning. Moreover, it aligns well with the requirement of next gen learners of taking short learning modules on the go.

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Virtually There: Learner Engagement in the Modern Classroom

InSync Training

Learner engagement turns on three factors: an emotional response to the training; an intellectual response to the training; and an environmental response to the learning. Engaging learners has always been a challenge. Not only has training evolved into a blended learning model, the “ Modern Classroom ” is influenced by multicultural cohorts, a mobile workforce, and social networking tools.

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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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eLearning: When Should You Record Your Voiceover Audio?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      Adding voiceover audio to eLearning enhances the learner experience. And before you spend thousands of dollars hiring voiceover talent to record your audio, you should know: your voice is fine (nobody likes their own voice so trust me on this, yours will do nicely). I've been creating eLearning for years (and years and years).

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The Risk With Udemy And Similar Sites

LearnDash

When someone comes to the conclusion that they want to sell an online course, their next step is to research various ways that they can make it happen. In the end, it usually comes down to one of two choices: Make your own website to create & sell the courses. Use a hosted solution. The reason people gravitate towards #2 is because in their mind it means they can get to market quicker.

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LMS Reporting is Broken

Wisetail

When we say LMS reporting is broken, it's because as we talk to people searching for a new LMS we are continually surprised by how they simply cannot get the right information the right people. Learn more. The post LMS Reporting is Broken appeared first on Wisetail.

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Subject Matter Experts: From Smackdown to Nirvana

Dashe & Thomson

Working effectively with subject matter experts (SMEs) is absolutely critical for instructional designers and trainers who want to be successful. SMEs bring the content to life and provide both relevance and context. However, it can often seem like you and your SME are speaking two different languages, causing the instructional design process and, more importantly, communication to break down.

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3 Tips for Improving eLearning Usability

SHIFT eLearning

How would you like it if vegetables at the supermarket were stocked with meat or milk? You wouldn’t find the produce in the first place. There’s a reason why the Table of Contents is placed within the first few pages of every book. There’s a reason why the streetlights are not tucked away amidst a maze of store signs. The reason is usability or how easy or difficult it is to find your way through a user interface.

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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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SMEs: From Smackdown to Nirvana

Dashe & Thomson

Subject matter experts (SMEs) are the lifeline of work for instructional designers, trainers, and facilitators of learning. SMEs bring the content to life and provide both relevance and context. However, it can often seem like you and your SME are speaking two different languages, causing the instructional design process and, more importantly, communication to break down.

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F+W Media Scales Its Online Learning Business with Thought Industries

Thought Industries

In order to scale any learning business , your content has to be organized, accessible and able to be distributed across your properties with relative ease. F+W, a media and eCommerce company, recently faced the challenge of having various learning businesses and their related materials spread across multiple platforms, making it difficult to get to market quickly and really grow their online presence with consistency.

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Downright Sneaky Lectora Tricks Part 5: Creating a MORE SECRET Secret Passageway

Trivantis

Part 1: How to Build a Backdoor in Your Course. Part 2: Create a “Hidden Entrance” to devMode. Part 3: Add a devMode Indicator. Part 4: Unlocking the Master Control Panel. In the previous Downright Sneaky Tricks tutorials for Lectora® , you learned how to create devMode , turn it on and off with a hidden button , add an indicator , and give yourself special powers .

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Wearing out our welcome

Learning with e's

David Kelly addressing Learning Technology delegates I launched a new module for my first year students today called 'Digital Reputation and Digital Literacies'. Here's the blurb: Module Overview This module explores living and learning in the digital age, with a particular focus on digital reputation, e-safety and digital literacies. All students will be expected to undertake projects and directed study to explore a range of digital environments, and gain an understanding of the threats and opp

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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The Challenge of Creating a Business Plan for Learning

Skillsoft

You can experience this simulation called “CLO for a Day” at the Center for Talent Reporting Conference in Dallas February 24-26.

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6 Effective Ways To Increase Employee Productivity

eFront

For all the improvements in communications, business IT, collaboration tools and technology in general, running a productive team remains as hard as it ever was. If anything, it might even be more hard, since we not only have tons of new distractions to tempt us, let they who have not checked their Facebook at work cast the first stone, but we have also invented tons of novel technology-enabled busy work.

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5 Gamification mistakes to avoid

Matrix

Gamification is no longer just a buzzword in the e-learning arena. The use of game thinking and gaming tools in non-game contexts of learning has proved its usability countless times, by improving the attitude towards learning, increasing learner engagement and motivation and boosting productivity. When done right, gamification can have great results in terms of revenue growth.

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A close look at training and mobile technology

CrossKnowledge

An HR study by Sierra-Cedar in 2015* uncovered a growing interest in HR departments for mobile applications: employees have indeed become increasingly mobile-savvy and able to work while on the go. Mobile devices are slowly becoming the main point of contact that connects employees and their company. More than any other identified key points, training is where these changes must be anticipated first.

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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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Random Thought.

There Is No Chalk

Tip the half empty/half full experiment on its head: Do you think "necessity is the mother of invention", or that "everything that can be invented, has been"? Maybe I'm optimistic, but I think most people, when asked, would choose the former over the latter. Our 21st century times practically demand it, almost instinctively.

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Free the Clock: Embrace Interruptions

NuggetHead

I’ve been working at-home now for four years. I traded 15 years of rush hour traffic anxiety, wasted hours sitting in useless meetings, smelling burnt microwave popcorn or reheated leftover pot roast, random walk-up conversations, and countless other distractions that crushed creativity and productivity. Did I leave the anxiety when I swapped business casual for jeans and t-shirts?

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Six Obstacles To Building Communities In Organizations

Learnnovators

Rachel Happe begins her latest post, 10 Trends for the Future of Communities , with a comprehensive description of the various intersecting and intermingling streams and characteristics that inform communities, and I am quoting her below: “ Communities sit at the intersection of a number of trends; social media, digital transformation, a generational shift to prioritize purposeful work, the future of work, change management, leadership and social learning.” This is one of the most in

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