Fri.Jun 06, 2014

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Training on the Edge: Understanding Four Generations of Workers

InSync Training

'This is the first in a series of six posts exploring current issues facing training professionals and the upcoming trends in training for the next five years. In this series we will examine what the current learning indicators show about the outlook for the modern workplace and the next five years, as well as four key trends associated with adapting training to the new context.

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Adobe RoboHelp: Show Variables in Topics

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Willam Van Weelden    In previous articles you've learned about RoboHelp's User Defined Variables (how to  create them ,  group them , and use them in  topic titles ). As a brief review, variables can contain information that occurs frequently in your project, such as a product name, company name, or copyright notice.

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How to Best Train the Gen Y

Origin Learning

'Facebook 0 Twitter 3 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 2 Pinterest 0 Every generation brings with it a new set of fads, mindsets, trends and even ethical principles, we could say. What’s relevant or right today might be flatly out of context some forty years ago. Take the e-Books or Kindle for example. The generation born around the year 2000, Gen Z as we call it almost does not believe in reading books in their paperback editions.

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Design Corner: Desktop Icon Creation Tools

TechSmith Camtasia

'This post is part of a new series brought to you by TechSmith’s talented, passionate, and sometimes quirky design team. Follow us on Twitter @TechSmithDesign. The latest version of Snagit has quite a few new icons. Upwards of 300+ in the Windows version alone. That’s a lot of files. But it’s not just the number of files, it’s that each file needs to have multiple sizes of each icon in it.

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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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Help yourself

Learning with e's

'This is number 15 in my series on learning theories. I''m working through the alphabet of psychologists and theorists, providing a brief overview of each theory, and how it can be applied in education. In my most recent post I featured Richard Gregory''s perceptual hypothesis and its applications to education. In this post, we take a look at an emerging theory of learning proposed by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon, known as Heutagogy.

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How much do we love reuse? Let's count the ways!

Xyleme

'When you think about the amount of money learning organizations spend on training and development, it''s surprising they don''t look for better ways to make the most of their content. According to the most recent study conducted by the Association for Talent Development - previously known as ASTD - the average direct cost per employee for L&D initiatives is nearly $1,200 annually.

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Keeping Online Lessons Interesting

Academy of Mine

Here are a few tips on what you can do as online educators to keep your students engaged and interested: Built Rapport The first step in online teaching should always be rapport-building. It is very hard to encourage a student that you are not able to connect with. This does not mean that you have to be close buddies in order for you to be an effective teacher, but students have to be comfortable with you for them to be able to open up and receive easily.

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New test post

eLearningArt

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How to Identify an Effective Online Teaching Strategy

Academy of Mine

Matches Student Level This means that you have to determine how much they know and how much they don’t know. The manner of teaching will largely depend upon the current knowledge and skill level of your students. Failure to identify this and weave this information into your teaching strategy will result in a mismatch between your teaching style and your student’s capability to receive and learn.

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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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A Conversation with Doug Harward

Kapp Notes

'The other day I had a chance to ask Doug Harward a few questions. Doug is the CEO and Founder of Training Industry, Inc. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading strategists for training and outsourcing business models. He is respected as one of the industry’s leading authorities on competitive analysis for training services and works with international companies and new business start-ups in building training organizations.