Tue.Aug 23, 2016

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The 20 Must-Have Moodle Plugins

Lambda Solutions

One of the greatest thing about Moodle’s Open-Source framework, other than the cost savings, is the ability to customize your online courses to your exact specifications. Hundreds of custom third-party plugins are offered for free by Moodle contributors, which once installed, can change the look, feel and functionality of your Moodle to suit your organizations personal learning requirements.

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A Conversation with Allessandria Polizzi

Kapp Notes

I had a great conversation the other day with Allessandria Polizzi. Who has had an interesting career working with a variety of organizations including 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut. We talked about the industry, talent management, her exciting new venture and the upcoming “Silver Tsunami” Here are some of the highlights. Kapp: You have been in the field of Learning and Development and Talent Development for a number of years, what types of projects do you find the most interesting and chal

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Unleashing Creativity to Boost Performance and Engagement

ej4 eLearning

This is a story about finding creativity in something that normally does not come across as imaginative nor inventive: templates. The story starts almost 20 years ago, when a trio of Israeli researchers working at The Jerusalem School of Business Administration set out to see if good advertisements—the ones that seem the most creative, the most inspired, and that have the most impact—could be generated by a process that was teachable.

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Remembering that People (Not Machines) Power the Internet

LearnDash

Have you ever been involved in a business transaction online that didn’t work out to your expectations? Maybe the seller never delivered your product. Maybe it came late. Or broken. Maybe you ordered a piece of software and it didn’t work properly. I think we all have had a “less-than-perfect” online shopping experience at some point in our lives.

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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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Editorializing

Clark Quinn

I recently wrote about serious comics , and realized there’s a form I hadn’t addressed yet has some valuable insights. The value in looking at other approaches is that it provides lateral insight (I’m currently reading Stephen Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From ) that we may be able to transfer. And the source this time is editorial cartoons.

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Editorializing

Clark Quinn

I recently wrote about serious comics , and realized there’s a form I hadn’t addressed yet has some valuable insights. The value in looking at other approaches is that it provides lateral insight (I’m currently reading Stephen Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From ) that we may be able to transfer. And the source this time is editorial cartoons.

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Increasing Diversity with Equitable Training

dVinci Interactive

Melissa Walker, M.Ed, Assistant Director, Educational Equity, Penn State University. Research shows that training investments are much greater at the executive levels of an organization. According to Melissa Walker’s research, this imbalanced distribution of training resources can perpetuate a lack of diversity at higher levels of the organization. She believes that by taking a more equitable approach to training, organizations will be stronger and more diverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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What Learners Want: Anytime, Anywhere, 5 Minutes or Less (Webinar)

Knowledge Guru

Your employees are already learning on their mobile devices. They are used to interacting with apps and websites that provide an excellent user experience. Unfortunately, some corporate training struggles to even provide an adequate user experience! And while mobile learning adoption is speeding up, many organizations still lag behind. According to The Brandon Hall Group’s 2016 State of Mobile Learning Survey , only 10% of organizations reported that most or all learning material is mobile

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eLearning Stock Assets and Camtasia Templates

eLearning Brothers

Some of the most exciting parts of the Camtasia Templates Packages are in the Stock Asset Library. We’re talking about videos, songs and sounds, and images. You will also find the Additional Assets library that has buttons, icons, arrows, speech bubbles, and other items that are incredibly useful in projects. These items expand your toolbox, allowing you to add high-quality graphics to any part of your Camtasia productions!

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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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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

In January we posted about image file types. Now it’s video’s turn. While there is a plethora of video file types, which consist of codecs and containers, choosing the right one doesn’t have to be complicated … but it certainly can be. Let’s dig into this jargon bin and try to simplify things by the end of this post. Codecs (are for compression).

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Our Digital Future 2: Smart clothing

Learning with e's

We can't accurately predict what will happen in the future, but we expect it will be different to anything we have already experienced. One recent disruptive innovation is mobile technology. It's astounding to think that only in recent years have we had the capability to create connected technology that can be carried with us, anywhere we go. Wearable connected technologies are now common place.

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Things You Should Know to Succeed at Gamification for Corporate Learning

SHIFT eLearning

Yes, gamification is BIG right now in the eLearning and training industries. Yes, it’s effective in engaging participants. Yes, everyone is doing it. However, this shouldn’t be the only reason to incorporate gamification into your HR programs.

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Why Digital Badges are the Future of Association Education

WBT Systems

Why are Digital Badges the future of Association Education? The way we learn is constantly evolving. Association members use their professional social networks, curated feeds, and a myriad of other digital channels to enhance their professional skills. At the same time, the means whereby learning/training is recognized, accredited and validated is also changing.

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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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Expand IT Knowledge Sharing to Benefit Your Business

Skillsoft

IT knowledge sharing can help ease the burden on support teams, ultimately reducing service costs and ticket resolution times. Here are some examples.

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Online Training Job Aids: Critical Information Just a Click Away!

CommLab India

“Never memorize something that you can look up.” – Albert Einstein. Do we really need job aids in the digital era? Let’s check this scenario. A sales executive is about to meet a prospect. He forgot the latest changes in the price list of products. His company slashed the rates of a wide range of products in an offer and he is not sure of them.

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The Pros of Social Media for E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

The training industry is changing rapidly and technology plays a big role in that change, especially social media. However, like any change, there are positives and negatives that come with it. Today, I’d like to discuss a few pros of social media as it relates to our industry and then I’ll follow it up with a post on some of the cons. What is Social Media?

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Tip of the Week: Include narrations for interactions using your own voice!

Raptivity

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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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How To Create Engaging Compliance Courses Using Gamification And Microlearning

EI Design

When you think of compliance courses, possibly the first word that comes to mind is boring. Well, they tend to be boring but can be uplifted to offer better learner engagement. In this article, you will see how you can create engaging compliance courses using gamification and microlearning approaches. Using Gamification And Microlearning To Create Engaging Compliance Courses.

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The big dopamine scandal

Saffron Interactive

It’s 7:05, you left the house two minutes late, struggled with your keys in the door and have just got to the end of the road to see your bus. The post The big dopamine scandal appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Online training practices destined to increase employee productivity

eFront

Increased productivity has been a constant goal for modern economies ever since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Up to the late 20th century, however, increasing employee productivity either involved technological innovation (going from the steam engine to electricity, moving from the telegraph to the telephone, inventing more efficient materials, etc.) or, more often than not, plainly working harder.

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[Free eBook] Culture, Content, LMS: Prepare for eLearning success

LearnUpon

The rise of eLearning promises serious benefits, including reduced costs, time savings, and more efficient content development. Many companies are now analyzing their training offerings to assess the ROI that blended learning can deliver. This free eBook was inspired by the benefits we’ve seen eLearning bring to hundreds of organizations worldwide.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Informal Learning Calls for Hands-off Management by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Social media platforms make it easy to develop large “professional” learning networks. A learning network can arise around. use of the same software tool, discussion of learning strategy or eLearning design and development models, or exploration. of content on the same topic. Learn about it here!

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We’re hiring! Customer Support Representative (New York)

LearnUpon

About the Role. LearnUpon is looking to hire an experienced technical support representative to join our rapidly growing support team. This isn’t your average support role, you will become a trusted partner to our ever growing customer base and will be exposed to a wide variety of technical issues. You will be their main point of contact for guidance on how best they can integrate LearnUpon into their business to achieve maximum benefit.

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Deeper Design: Working Out Loud by Clark N. Quinn

LearningGuild

This is the start of a narration, a story—working out loud, in other words—about how a small group of designers decided to build a better way to support learning. The end of this narration will come in September, when the team releases its product, free of charge, to the world. Enjoy the view as you travel along with the team under the guidance of The eLearning Guild’s first Guild Master.

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We’re hiring! Customer Success Specialists

LearnUpon

About the Role. The Customer Success Specialist will be responsible for successfully onboarding and training of customers onto our LearnUpon Platform. Reporting to the Customer Success Manager, you will be part of the Customer Success team which has significant and direct impact on Customer retention. This team is vital to our Company and is responsible for getting customers up and running on our Platform, and proactively ensuring their continued usage and satisfaction.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.