Tue.Jun 12, 2018

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Designing a game

Clark Quinn

When I was a young academic in Australia, a colleague asked me if I would talk to some folks about a game. He knew that I had designed games before returning to grad school, and had subsequently done one on my thesis research. This group, the Australian Children’s Welfare Agency, had an ‘After Care’ project to assist kids who needed to live independently.

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Webinar: How to Choose an Authoring Tool: Essential Checklist – Tuesday 19 June 2018, 09:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Adobe Captivate

Let’s face it: we all need a little help sometimes. Whether you’re a manager, an instructional designer, a developer, a programmer, or some combination—no matter what your role is, sooner or later you need to choose an authoring tool to develop eLearning content. But how to decide? In this topic, we’ll discuss various criteria and decision points to help you figure out which authoring tool is the best fit for you.

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How to Engage New Employees with a Successful Onboarding Program

Infopro Learning

New employee training should be more than checking a box. It should lay the foundation for your employee experience. It’s rare that anyone would deny that a successful onboarding program in important. The first 90 days on the job are the most critical for the long-term success of your employees. And 20 percent of turnover happens in the first 45 days of employment.

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Managing the Self-Directed Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Five). There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!” She plugs a jack directly into her brain and downloads the skills. Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine….

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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How to Engage New Employees with a Successful Onboarding Program

Infopro Learning

New employee training should be more than checking a box. It should lay the foundation for your employee experience. It’s rare that anyone would deny that a successful onboarding program in important. The first 90 days on the job are the most critical for the long-term success of your employees. And 20 percent of turnover happens in the first 45 days of employment.

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Full-Managed Cloud Hosting for Moodle Vs. Self-Hosting

Lambda Solutions

Once your organization has made a decision to use Moodle as your chosen learning management system (LMS) , another big decision lies ahead. Do you host it yourself or rely on a Moodle hosting services partner to guide you? Many factors play into this decision. Keeping a large project like a Moodle implementation in-house can be overwhelming, time restrictive, and, believe it or not, can end up being more costly than outsourcing to a Moodle hosted provider.

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Managing the Self-Directed Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Five). There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!” She plugs a jack directly into her brain and downloads the skills. Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine….

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Better Than Bullet Points: Alternative Text Slide Designs

Mike Taylor

One of the most common challenges for anyone designing slides for presentations or elearning projects is what do with text content. Not only can too much text can be boring, it can distract your audience from the message you want them to take away. In many projects it is difficult, if not impossible to get rid of all the text, it is super useful to have a few tricks up your sleeve for handling slide text.

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Game-Based eLearning: Making GBL Effective Through Avatars And Immersive Stories

eLearning Industry

Good games have strong, avatar-based play and compelling storylines that keep players on tenterhooks throughout the experience. In my experience, I have found avatars and immersive stories work very well in eLearning games. In this article, I will share my understanding of this gamification solution. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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How to Create Alternative Text for Images for Accessibility and SEO

TechSmith Camtasia

If you create or publish digital content of any kind, it’s likely by now you’ve at least heard something about the importance of creating content that’s accessible for people with disabilities. Alternative text (also called “alt text”) helps ensure people who are blind or visually impaired, or who may have other physical or cognitive disabilities can access and understand visual content such as images, charts, and graphs.

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7 Things To Do When Switching From Instructor-Led To Online Training

eLearning Industry

Without proper knowledge about the conversion process of ILT to eLearning, organizations may find it difficult to get it right. This article shares 7 tips that will make the conversion from instructor-led training to online learning undemanding and easy. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Key Strategies for Successful Employee Enablement

Enyota Learning

What if we said that, more often than not, organizations are unable to capitalize on their huge talent pool because they focus on creating engagement rather than enablement? Our point is, enabled employees are sure to be engaged employees. These employees feel that they have a stake in the game and that what they do matters because the organization gives them every opportunity to perform.

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Stop Wasting Time With Compliance eLearning: 3 Strategies To Help

eLearning Industry

Getting learners engaged with policies, procedures and annual compliance eLearning is hard. But if you want to go beyond box ticking and genuinely reduce risks to your business, you need to get smart about how you design compliance eLearning. Here are 3 tips for a better, time-smart approach. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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A Mix of Technologies and Approaches- The Perfect Combination to Empower Your Employees

AbaraLMS

In our previous blog “The beauty of empowering your employees” we took a look at why is it important as an organization to train your employees. The benefits range from reduced attrition rates to a significant boost in employee morale, and everything in between. And now, as an organization that understands the beauty of [ ] The post A Mix of Technologies and Approaches- The Perfect Combination to Empower Your Employees appeared first on Abara LMS.

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Lesson 8. Touch Ups: Ensure Efficacy, Viability, & Accessibility In Your Content

eLearning Industry

Learn how to meet accessibility standards in your eLearning courses, analyze course results, and update your content to increase knowledge retention. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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7 Innovations in Onboarding and the Benefits of Each

Coreaxis

Onboarding is often confused with orientation. Orientation is when the newly hired employee(s) tour the office and fill out the requisite paperwork. They spend the day learning about employee benefits, company policies, and where to find the best food truck. Orientation is the first day of a new school year, specifically in high school. Onboarding is different.

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Can You Afford NOT To Have A Learning Chatbot For Learning Support? Otto Is Here To Boost Your Workplace Performance

eLearning Industry

Organizations have long realized that there’s a gap between what’s taught at training and what employees need in the workplace. It’s not that the information is wrong, it’s more that it’s not there when really needed. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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How to Get Helpful Video Feedback

TechSmith Camtasia

A video, like any form of content, typically requires peer review and stakeholder approval before it’s ready for distribution. Whether it’s for use on your website, in an email campaign, or for an advertisement on social media, getting video feedback will always make for a better and, ultimately more effective, final product. Feedback is necessary, but not always fun—often, we take it personally…but we shouldn’t!

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On Demand Training: The Importance Of Tracking Learner Performance And How To Achieve It With NextGen LMS

eLearning Industry

NextGen LMSs are designed to support today’s workforce and achieve better performance, but what should you actually be measuring and and how can you achieve this with a NextGen LMS? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Attraction Marketing Tips For Extended Enterprise Learning Success

Talented Learning

Are you responsible for marketing educational content to customers, channels partners or other audiences that operate outside of your organization? If so, how easy is it for you to connect with these audiences and convince them to engage in training? If you think this process is challenging, you’re not alone. A few months ago, we asked nearly 100 learning professionals to finish the question: “Attracting new or returning external learners to buy or consume content is…”

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Free Webinar: Strategies To Create Compelling And Immersive Compliance Training - Featuring 8 Examples

eLearning Industry

Join EI Design for a free webinar on compliance training for tips, techniques, and examples of compliance training to achieve your organizational compliance mandate in the true sense. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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E-Learning – Your Best Bet for Corporate Training

CommLab India

E-learning has become a favorite among Fortune Global 500 companies. Check this blog to know why investing in e-learning is the right step to take.

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3 Types of Learning Analytics – An Introduction

Riptide Software

Using analytics for learning and development is quickly gaining traction in usage and popularity. This is especially true for large and enterprise organizations. Having the ability to gain data and meaningful insights from learning activities helps organizations improve not only … Read More. The post 3 Types of Learning Analytics – An Introduction appeared first on Riptide Elements.

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The Need for the Human Factor in an AI World - Tip #191

Vignettes Learning

How do you imagine a future with AI? Will the world be run by machines and computers? Or are humans still an important part of the picture? An AI Named Quixote Quixote is an AI system that learns about ethics and human values by listening to simple stories. According to Mark O. Riedl and Brent Harrison, creators of Quixote and researchers at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, the AI system reverse engineers’ human values through stories; narratives tell Quixo

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Game-Based eLearning: Making GBL Effective Through Avatars And Immersive Stories

Tesseract Learning

Good games have strong, avatar-based play and compelling storylines to keep learners engaged.

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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.