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TOPYX Topics – Social Learning Newsletter – January 2016

TOPYX LMS

It’s 2016. It’s time to seriously discuss the benefits of social learning. Jodi Harrison, Vice President of Business and Product Development at Interactyx, was a guest on the popular radio broadcast from the Brandon Hall Group, called HCMx Radio. She joined hosts Rachel Cooke, COO and Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer & HCM Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group for this installment of the radio show / podcast.

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Adobe Captivate 9: Awesome "Hidden" Find and Replace Feature

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      While you can use Captivate's  Find and Replace  feature (located in the Edit menu) to find all kinds of things in a project (including images, animation, and Flash video), I find this feature most useful for quickly replacing words or phrases throughout a project.   In the image below, I intend to change the phrase "Watch as" with the word "Select.

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3 Steps to Knock In-House Employee Training Out of the Park

Inkling

Learning and development (L&D) should be one of your main focuses in 2016 to retain talent, and build an innovative, engaged workforce. But in-house training can be a daunting undertaking. While organizations often reach for outside assistance in developing employee training programs, it’s often simpler and more affordable for companies to develop their own, even without access to a dedicated technical team.

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Launching Your eLearning Initiative Successfully

Association eLearning

Launching a new product or service at any organization can feel like rocket science, one wrong move and BOOM! Don’t let your eLearning initiative go up in flames, plot a course for success among the association stars with these six tips. Match the courses to the learners. If you’ve done your market research you know who your target audience is. Make sure you match your course offerings to the needs of the learning audience.

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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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A sneak peek at our seminar sessions for Learning Technologies 2016

Kineo

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5 Instagram Tips and Tricks for Marketing

OpenSesame

Since its beginning in 2010, Instagram is truly a social network to be reckoned with. The mobile-friendly app boasts an incredible 300 million users and 70 million daily posts. While it’s most commonly used for personal social networking, Instagram can be a great tool for businesses to market their brand and products. . Viewers and consumers want to see engaging and exciting images, and as marketers, we want images that compel them to comment and continue the discussion beyond social media.

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How To Prove The Value of Your Employee Training Efforts

eLearningMind

Analyzing ROI for employee training programs is notoriously (and frustratingly) difficult. After all, how do you really measure the efficacy of something as abstract as learning and memory? While it may not be possible to assign an actual number or measurement to training efforts, Kirkpatrick’s model for training evaluation might be one of the best tools for figuring out how you’re doing.

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3 Strategies for Developing Original Work Activities

eFront

As with any eLearning program, the final exam or the summative assessment is an expected end. Before learners even register for a course, they are keenly interested in the nature of the final exam. Would it be an online LIVE assessment? Would it be a video submission, or would it be a project? While there are several options available for you to utilize in your course, there are some best practices developed to select the right final assessment format for your course.

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2016 L&D in EMEA: Reflections, Predictions, Disruptions

Skillsoft

It's time to sit down and take stock of what’s occurred in the learning and development industry in the EMEA region in 2015 and talk about 2016 trends.

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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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Are Authentic Leaders Hard to Find?

CLO Magazine

Some say yes. But John Addison, CEO of Addison Leadership Group, has come up with nine principles that define leadership.

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The power of emotions on learning

Matrix

Emotions are like colors. We can categorize them, like happiness, sadness, aggressiveness or excitement (to name a few), just like we do with colors: red, green, yellow, blue. A lot of emotions belong to the same category: optimism, satisfaction, fulfillment, gladness — all fall under the happiness umbrella, just like magenta, crimson, scarlet or ruby are all red.

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5 Instagram Tips and Tricks for Marketing

OpenSesame

Since its beginning in 2010, Instagram is truly a social network to be reckoned with. The mobile-friendly app boasts an incredible 300 million users and 70 million daily posts. While it’s most commonly used for personal social networking, Instagram can be a great tool for businesses to market their brand and products. . Viewers and consumers want to see engaging and exciting images, and as marketers, we want images that compel them to comment and continue the discussion beyond social media.

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Small Things Can Help Improve Employee Work Engagement

DigitalChalk eLearning

Employee satisfaction and feelings of self-worth are more important to the success of a business now more than ever before. But as American workers see good jobs continuing to be outsourced to foreign countries, a new air of uncertainty is developing in the workplace. And robots, once a fantasy of science fiction, are now a reality. Long used in automobile manufacturing to perform assembly-type work, companies are poised to place robots in white-collar jobs.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Looking Ahead at Learning in 2016

CLO Magazine

Leadership development, informal learning and technology will remain essential pieces of the learning leaders’ toolkit.

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8 Tips for Mobile Learning

Agylia

Discover the secrets to successful mobile learning programmes.

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Catching Up: ATDTK Commentary

eLearning 24-7

First off, I want to thank everyone for their patience for this delayed week’s blog. Getting sick as you know is no fun, especially when you think it clears up and then zammo it is back again. A couple of notes before hitting this week’s post. One is promotional, but hey, better than placing it within the post. Next week’s blog post will be on Tuesday – It will list the top 10 LMSs for 2016, criteria, how you can buy the report for additional details, insight including

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8 Tips for Mobile Learning

Agylia

Discover the secrets to successful mobile learning programmes.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: 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? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Mobile Learning Versus ELearning

LearnDash

There was once a time when the term “elearning” encompassed what we know today as mobile learning. When mobile learning (also referred to as mlearning) first came about it wasn’t exactly clear the difference between the two. Now the distinction isn’t as fuzzy as people generally have an understanding of what constitutes elearning versus what constitutes mobile learning.

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Downright Sneaky Lectora Tricks Part 2: Create a “Hidden Entrance” to devMode

Trivantis

In the previous Downright Sneaky Lectora® Tricks tutorial , we created the devMode variable in Lectora®. Today, we’re going to provide a way to turn it ON and OFF. Turning devMode ON and OFF. Now that you have created your devMode variable, you need a way to toggle it ON and OFF. My own methods for toggling devMode have evolved significantly over time.

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2016 Graphic Design Trends for eLearning Afficionados

eLearning Brothers

We spent a little bit of time last week talking about training and development trends that are going to be important in this new year. Similarly, we wanted to touch on some of the major graphic design trends happening in eLearning in 2016. After doing some reading around, there is a fantastic article on Medium about 16 Web & Graphic Design Trends to Watch in 2016.

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