Fri.Jun 17, 2016

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An Inside Look on Life as an Inkblot: Inkling’s 2016 Summer Picnic

Inkling

Inkling is made up of amazing Inkblots. Each year we hold a company-wide picnic, with activities thoughtfully designed to stretch our understanding of one another beyond the daily office dynamic. This year, we took the old-fashioned notion of a company picnic and really brought it to life. Our goal wasn’t to merely bring the whole team together in an engaging setting, outside of the workplace.

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TOPYX LMS Recognized for Tin Can API Adoption

TOPYX LMS

It doesn’t matter if you call it xAPI, Experience API, or Tin Can API – It’s all the same thing. Why so many names? I have no idea. But, I do know that TOPYX learning management system (LMS) software is recognized for implementing the Tin Can API functionality as a part of the low, flat fee (no user or data fee) pricing structure for all of the award-winning features TOPYX offers.

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How Does Watching Videos Improve Learner Engagement?

Origin Learning

A symbol or an icon that kicks in engagement and triggers excitement intrigues you enough to immediately rush to touch and see what unfolds before you. That is the sheer pleasure of engagement that video learning can bring among learners. The workforce profile is changing globally. The buzz is around millennials when it comes to recruitment, training, or planning the skill development framework.

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Did you know your employees are wasting 2 hours every day (and it’s not their fault)?

Axonify

12 hour days. 50 hour weeks. It feels like we never have enough time to get everything done at work. Regardless of industry, business moves at breakneck speed and innovation is the name of the game. So, if we need our people to put as much time and energy as possible into their work, why are we letting them waste 2 hours PER DAY looking for the information they need to solve their problems?

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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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Can VR make learning viral?

Origin Learning

Sensory, stimulating, and sticky – that’s how learners would want their learning to be. And, that is a demand that is influencing organizations – large, medium and small enterprises – to evaluate the latest trends, technologies, and tools that would make this a reality. So, how then can the perennial challenge faced by global enterprises be handled, to make it a win-win for all stakeholders?

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Can VR Make Learning Viral?

Origin Learning

Sensory, stimulating, and sticky – that’s how learners would want their learning to be. And, that is a demand that is influencing organizations – large, medium and small enterprises – to evaluate the latest trends, technologies, and tools that would make this a reality. So, how then can the perennial challenge faced by global enterprises be handled, to make it a win-win for all stakeholders?

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16 Factors that Lead to Poor Performance at the Workplace

CommLab India

Employees differ in their personalities and these differences influence the way they react to the external and internal pressures that exist in any organization. Most employees spend more that 50% of their waking hours at the workplace and its environment greatly influences their performance and mental framework. It has been observed that this mental framework has a direct impact on their individual performance which ultimately affects the organization as a whole.

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Team Learning Up With Talent

CLO Magazine

Traditional CLOs are up against a serious challenge right now, according to Dave Koll, enterprise learning leader for CGB Enterprises Inc., a grain and transportation company headquartered outside of New Orleans. It’s not enough to have a learning management system and a portfolio of content. “If they aren’t solving clearly defined business problems, they aren’t adding value,” he said.

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Emotional Quotient vs. Intelligence Quotient: What is Really Needed to Succeed

CommLab India

Before analyzing EQ and IQ, let us familiarize ourselves with what exactly these terms mean. Emotional Quotient (EQ) refers to an employee’s understanding of his or her emotions along with his or her colleagues’ emotions at the workplace to create better work coordination and environment. In one study, experienced partners with high EI in a multinational firm delivered $1.2 million additional profit from their accounts.

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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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Employees Demand Training Over Other Learning Opportunities

CLO Magazine

Finding the best way to create the most productive workforce remains at the top on any employer’s list of priorities. The solution begins with ensuring employee job satisfaction. But how can employers create job satisfaction? Some offer tuition reimbursement programs, mentorships, international fellowships or sabbaticals amongst other learning opportunities.

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Individual vs. Group Brainstorming – The Difference

CommLab India

Brainstorming is an effective tool to mine ideas out of your mind. It helps you explore various, and at times, instantaneous ideas to find creative solutions or business processes. There are two brainstorming methods – individual and group. Though both of them have their own advantages in terms of providing stimuli for idea generation, people are more creative when they brainstorm on their own rather than in groups.

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Learning Technology’s Role in Recruiting for Culture Fit

CLO Magazine

MOOCS, massive open online courses, and small private online courses, or SPOCs, are increasingly popular learning and development tools, especially when it comes to onboarding and training. However, there’s another option: use MOOCs to gauge cultural fit in the recruiting process. The traditional recruiting process is built to gauge technical skill well, but it often does not take into account cultural fit, according to Bonnie Evans, global client services director at Xerox Global Learning Solut

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Ethics in the Workplace: 3 Ways to Build and Maintain An Ethical Workplace Culture

CommLab India

We all know workplace ethics are a crucial part of employment, and organizations that follow certain business ethics have better chances of survival, compared to those whose only goal is to earn profits, even if they have to make several compromises to achieve their goals. The recent cases of scandals, frauds, and irregularities in various organizations have led to ethics in the workplace making a strong comeback.

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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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The Week That Was, June 13-17

CLO Magazine

These were the top five stories on CLOmedia.com for the week of June 13. The Executive Roadmap to Self-Reflection : Strategic self-reflection can help a leader expand their viewpoint and decision-making capability, acknowledge alternative beliefs and create a bridge between information and wisdom. Is Learning Measurement Turning a Corner? Notoriously tough to execute, efforts to measure learning impact are seeing an increase in satisfaction and support.

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Elements of Storyboards for Designing Interactive E-Learning

CommLab India

From desktops to mobiles, e-learning has come a long way and gained a lot of popularity. The foundation of any good e-learning course is a good storyboard. An e-learning storyboard is a document which combines instructions on using video, text, audio elements, still photos, graphics, and interactivities wherein the information in each of these mediums complements the main message.

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Paradiso’s Teeming Mahara Alliance

Paradiso

We are official Mahara Partners (and a proud one at that)! Mahara, as a stand-alone e-portfolio system can be integrated into Paradiso LMS easily. And the beauty of this merger lies in the fact that it helps the learners in the LMS create an online archive of their learning, as they keep progressing through the courses. The ePortfolio profile that gets generated gives users the ability to show off what they’ve learned in an exciting and interactive e-learning environment.

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Effective Graphics

CourseArc

Everyone knows that graphics play a vital role in training. Good visuals help learners absorb material more effectively and make training memorable. Bad visuals, on the other hand, distract learners, and can be detrimental to the learning process. To design truly valuable courses, eLearning professionals should be aware of the fundamental graphic design tips and tricks.

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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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3 Elements of a Strong Organizational Culture to Achieve Better Sales Output

CommLab India

Often organizations are obsessed with numbers and sales output and tend to forget the basic elements of developing a strong organizational culture. But these elements lay the foundation for a strong organizational culture that will eventually result in better sales output. Why is a Strong Organizational Culture Needed to Increase Sales Output? The organizational or corporate culture reflects the attitude of sales people who are responsible for sales output.

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Learning Management Systems Oozing with Epic Meaning

Growth Engineering

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking a lot about Epic Meaning. We’ve covered everything from what it is , to how to infuse it into your learning solution , to how to maintain it on an ongoing basis. Now that we’ve established how to give a learning solution Epic Meaning, it’s time to look at some examples of Epic Meaning done right! We work with some amazing companies who make the most our Academy LMS and its customisation features.

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4 Authoring Tools to Convert Flash-based E-learning Courses to HTML5

CommLab India

As a training manager, you must have spent quite a few thousands developing Flash-based e-learning courses for your team. Thus, the plan ‘ HTML5 by Default ‘ revealed by Google last week might have struck you hard because according to this plan, Flash will be disabled in its browser, Chrome, by the fourth quarter of this year. Now, you must be worrying that you need to redevelop your existing Flash-based courses to ensure they support HTML5, right?

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5 Tips to Transform Your PowerPoint to Interactive E-learning Course [Infographic]

CommLab India

Every organization has a lot of PowerPoint presentations developed for classroom training programs and converting these PowerPoint presentations into e-learning courses is one of the major challenges for organizations. These PowerPoint presentations cannot serve as self-paced learning material in the absence of an instructor. So, publishing PPT files as e-learning courses, using rapid authoring tools, doesn’t serve the purpose.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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What, Why, & How of ERP End-User Training with Articulate Storyline [Infographic]

CommLab India

One of the most important factors for the success of ERP software implementation is end-user training. If the end-users of the software do not know how to work on it, then the software will not yield the desired result; which means your ERP implementation will fail. In many organizations, end-user training is usually an afterthought in most ERP projects.

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Creating Effective Learning Objectives for E-Learning : 5 Tips to Know

CommLab India

I just finished reading the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and liked Habit #2 in particular: Begin with the end in mind. I felt it relates perfectly to our e-learning objectives. That is what our learning objectives should begin with – the end objectives – they should convey to learners what they should be able to do after completing the online e-learning course.

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How to Take Audio Back-up from Existing Articulate Storyline Course

CommLab India

While developing an e-learning course, there may be some situations where you will need to update the audio files. Consider an e-learning course being developed in Articulate Storyline where you update a few audio files or replace a few words in some slides. Now your course, along with the audio is ready. Do you retain a copy of your final audio files?

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