Thu.Jan 02, 2014

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5 Applications for Analogies in eLearning

eLearning Brothers

'Early in my training career, I became frustrated. I was designing and teaching technical support training. The typical process involved taking 25 people “off the street” and training them to be technical support representatives in two weeks. As the classes rolled on, I noticed a consistent pattern—there were always 1-3 people in every class who couldn’t catch on and would ultimately be let go (if not in training, then shortly after they reached production).

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Year in Review - 2013

The Performance Improvement Blog

'Throughout 2013, I used this blog to illuminate important leadership and management issues. The topics ranged from changing organizational culture to evaluating training programs to making managers responsible for employee learning to creating a learning culture. As a way of review, I’ve selected five blog posts from the past year that seem to have had the most interest for readers.

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Top 10 eLearning Statistics for 2013

DigitalChalk eLearning

'The training industry has changed dramatically over the past ten years as eLearning and mobile technologies have gone from early-adopter novelties to mainstream essentials. Of course, there are still plenty of traditional companies who haven’t conformed to the rest of the corporate world. Looking forward, the eLearning industry doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.

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Learning Resolutions: Be Better, Not Right

OpenSesame

'A while ago a friend of mine, the crazy smart Karl Fast, tweeted: User experience design is not about right vs. wrong, it''s about better vs. worse. Ask yourself "is this better" instead of "is this right." . When I talked to him about it further, the distinction was this: “Right” is based on expertise (if I’m an expert, I should know the “right” answer to a design problem), but it’s really fragile.

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Training: Go Mobile with Adobe Captivate 7.0.1

Adobe Captivate

'Topic: Go Mobile with Adobe Captivate 7.0.1 Date and time: Thursday, 23rd January, 2014 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: The new update for Adobe Captivate 7 is loaded with enhancements to help you create stunning mobile learning courses using the HTML5 publish option. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, as she shows […].

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Training: The exciting new features and enhancements in Adobe Captivate 7.0.1

Adobe Captivate

'Topic: The exciting new features and enhancements in Adobe Captivate 7.0.1 Date and time: Thursday, 9th January, 2014 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, to learn about the new features and enhancements in Adobe Captivate 7.0.1. She will demonstrate the enhancements related to HTML5, Advanced Actions, Variables, […].

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The EdTech Bowl - UCF defeats Baylor

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

'Since I live in ARIZONA, and the Fiesta Bowl is a pretty big deal, I thought it might be fun to start a little Bowl game of my own. Here''s how it will go. I''ll review each school playing in the big game and decide which school has the best EdTech Program. Okay, okay, don''t get all bent out of shape. This is OBVIOUSLY not a scientific study and I will no doubt make someone mad.

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Meet compliance training requirements with ProProfs

ProProfs

'Whether you’re a business looking to create a certification course on internal company policies, or an institution that has accreditation requirements, ProProfs Compliance Certificate feature helps you easily create certification courses for meeting your compliance requirements. No organization today can disregard the importance of compliance training.

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Using Data from Online Learning to Fuel Association Growth

Association eLearning

'Not many people enjoy reading data, but if you think about how it can affect your association’s online learning for the better, you might relish it. A major lesson I learned from a conference session at this year’s ASAE Annual Meeting was the idea that data should be connected , not just collected. That really stuck with me and led me to dig deeper into how connecting eLearning data from members to the product and membership services can benefit your association. 1) Big Data.

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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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Evidence of ELearning’s Positive Impact

LearnDash

'Many people today praise elearning for the way it is accessible, can keep the costs of training down, and even bolster a company’s bottom line. Elearning is being used in both the corporate and educational sectors. These are all great benefits, however elearning can do so much more than this. The rise of elearning in education is no mystery in developed nations.

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Shock of the new

Learning with e's

'Down through the ages, there has always been resistance to change. The infographic on this page bears testament to that fact. Specifically, there has always been opposition to new technologies. Sabotage - a word synonymous with destruction through deliberate subversion, was first coined following the 15th century attempts of Dutch workers to break the newly introduced and very unpopular textile looms.

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The Weary Optmist

Jay Cross

'I am half way through reading a novel entitled The Weary Optimist, a novel of Bad Bosses, Bad Jobs, Bad Sex and “The 36 Reasons To Be Glad You Don’t Work in Human Resources” by Dale Dauten. I’m ROTFL. We would try to create training designed for the very people who made the crack about getting out of training classes. We developed online training experiences, and if they watched the videos and answered a few questions about htem, they could skip attendance at the classro