Tue.Jun 21, 2016

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Designing Learning for Behavior Change

InSync Training

BYTE session recap - Talk to the Elephant: Design for Behavior Change. While people know the right things to do, many aren’t doing them. Why? On June 14th, Julie Dirksen , creator of Usable Learning , shared her perspective and theories about this commonplace quandary. Using the metaphor, “Your brain is like a rider with an elephant,” from the book, The Happiness Hypothesis , by Jonathan Haidt, Julie explained the reasons behind common behavior change challenges.

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Press Release – Administrate Appoints New CTO and Launches LITE 2016

Administrate

Edinburgh, 21 June 2016 – Administrate, an EdTech SaaS solution for training providers and corporations, has plans to hire an additional 15 engineers before the end of 2016 to support its rapid growth in UK, US and international markets. As part of this expansion, Andrew Williams has been appointed as Read More.

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LMS Branding – Beyond the Logo

Gyrus

LMS Branding – Beyond the Logo. As a new marketing person, I have a unique opportunity to engage our users, potential clients, and cohorts in the industry. With this outlook, I have undertaken the task of trying to make the Gyrus name more entrenched in your everyday life. How does someone do that? Simple, by structuring and solely acting upon a living brand strategy.

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Piloting your e-Learning Course – A Beginner’s Guide

Allen Interactions

By Hannah Hunter , Instructional Writer. Did you know that the pilot episode of Star Trek included only one member of the Enterprise crew: Mr. Spock? And in that version, Spock had dark red skin and absorbed food through a plate in his stomach? Viewers of the pilot were not shy in their opinion that the show was boring and Spock was creepy. Thankfully, Star Trek’s creators listened and completely reworked the cast and the script, creating the successful franchise we know today.

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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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Flash to Animate CC: More than just a Rechristening

Upside Learning

After having been around for 20 years, Flash Professional has now evolved into Animate CC. Animate CC leverages the familiar tools interface and rich output of its predecessor, at the same time allowing for native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. This recent development at Adobe is more than just a renaming of the tool, as […].

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3 Ways To Sell Your Courses

LearnDash

Once you have finished your online course you are probably eager to start making sales. If you have been starting the marketing process early then your initial sales will be easy to come by, but not everyone is in this position. While it certainly is ideal to begin getting the word out about your eventual course sooner rather than later, not everyone has started this way.

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5 Steps for Proving the ROI of Your Training Investment

ej4 eLearning

There’s an old meme that gets circulated on LinkedIn and other sites, reporting a conversation between a CEO and a CFO: CFO: What happens if we spend all this money training our employees and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t, and they stay? The idea, of course, is that organizations can’t afford NOT to train their employees. But where’s the proof?

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Podcast Interview, LTEN Presentation and Helpful Resources

Kapp Notes

It’s been a busy few months. Presenting, speaking and writing on games and gamification. I am in the middle of finishing two Lynda.com courses and finalizing the last chapter of a book about creating instructional games with Sharon Boller, very excited about the book. In the meantime, I’ve been busy with some presentations and interviews about gamification.

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5 Steps for Proving the ROI of Your Training Investment

ej4 eLearning

There’s an old meme that gets circulated on LinkedIn and other sites, reporting a conversation between a CEO and a CFO: CFO: What happens if we spend all this money training our employees and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t, and they stay? The idea, of course, is that organizations can’t afford NOT to train their employees. But where’s the proof?

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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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How Games Drive Sales Enablement (Webinar)

Knowledge Guru

When game elements are carefully linked to learning objectives, good things happen. And when the games are designed or chosen based on the characteristics of target learners, great things happen. This is why so many sales training professionals have started to implement games into their sales enablement programs. They’re interested in going much further than a quick energizer activity.

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eLearning Process Survey results!

Clark Quinn

So, a few weeks ago I ran a survey asking about elearning processes*, and it’s time to look at the results (I’ve closed it). eLearning process is something I’m suggesting is ripe for change, and I thought it appropriate to see what people thoughts. Some caveats: it’s self-selected, it’s limited (23 respondents), and it’s arguably readers of this blog or the other folks who pointed to it, so it’s a select group.

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What are Personal Learning Networks?

SHIFT eLearning

If you assume students are only learning from eLearning courses, you are failing to leverage a huge part of the learning process. Ask yourself where do you learn? Most of us might answer “in a classroom”, but, in reality, the majority of learning comes from other places, like Personal Learning Networks. And these networks are personal, meaning there are no two PLNs that are equal; each of us has a unique range of people we learn from including peers, coworkers, supervisors, experts and other pro

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Blue Collar Captivate Templates

eLearning Brothers

As long as we humans continue to expand and develop our existing civilizations, we are going to need people on the front lines, growing and maintaining our infrastructure and creating the goods needed to expand our society. And as long as people need physical expertise, there will be a need for a reliable way to give people that expertise. While experience is the ultimate teacher, there is plenty of room for eLearning at the table.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: 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? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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Acquiring a digital culture thanks to learning

CrossKnowledge

“Going digital” involves more than just familiarity with digital tools and environments. It refers to a culture that training departments must acquire if they want to play their part in corporate digital transformation. Training is at the heart of this transformation, which works on the assumption that all staff must reach a “threshold level” of digital culture.

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Tips to Avoid Learners’ Aversion Toward Online ERP End-User Training

CommLab India

Today the use of e-learning for corporate training is more than ever, but does that mean everyone likes it? You know the answer, don’t you? In spite of the many advantages e-learning offers, learners find many valid reasons to dislike it. They perceive the e-learning program as either out-dated, irrelevant, boring, distracting, puzzling, or overloaded.

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4 Learning Tech Scholarships Open for Application

ATD Learning Technologies

One of the industry’s custom e-learning development companies, eLearning.net, is awarding four scholarships for adult workers furthering their education in e-learning design, learning technologies, or instructional design. These scholarships are designed to help learning and development professionals pursue their own continuing education and apply the latest in instructional design theory and educational technologies to their work and build better training programs.

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7 golden rules of a successful blended learning program

CrossKnowledge

This challenging initiative is striving to balance and structure the multiplication of teaching methods at our disposal so as to optimize learning. It aims to be a more effective, high-quality blended learning program. 1. Explain what’s at stake and set concrete goals. Training is a big investment. If you want to boost the engagement of both learners and managers, explain what’s at stake in the training program.

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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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Importance of Coworker Relationships

OpenSesame

You spend the majority of your day at work–you sit at your desk, finish your tasks, and repeat the next day. Amidst all of this work in a professional environment, you come into contact with an assortment of people–coworkers in your office, on your team, or just people walking past you in the office. Whatever position they may hold, these daily interactions with your co-workers are valuable opportunities to develop strong relationships.

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3 Ways to Elevate Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Learning leaders needn’t feel wedded to traditional leadership development solutions to make a lasting impact on high potential talent. For female partners and directors at Deloitte Consulting, LLP, for example, a trip to a battlefield – pastureland, history and a lot of walking included – offered quite an education. These leaders need to be prepared to take on executive leadership roles in terms of the clients they serve as well as the internal operation of the firm itself, and a different leve

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Adobe Captivate Course Companion (A3C) to be discontinued

Adobe Captivate

Owing to low usage levels, Adobe has decided to discontinue the support for Adobe Captivate Course Companion (A3C) widget. This primarily affects users of Adobe Captivate 7 and 8. The website will continue to be live till Friday, July 15, 2016. Below are the steps to back up your data before July 15: 1. Login […].

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Tuesday Tip: eLearning Project Discovery Checklist

Trivantis

Discovery. Scope of work. Creative brief. Analysis. The planning stage. Estimate. Whatever you call it, those initial moments before a project truly begins are crucial. Knowing the full scope of the project ahead of you helps you estimate your time, and rate, accordingly. While it might seem pushy to be demanding a plethora of details about a project you haven’t even formally accepted yet, professionals across many industries are already doing just that.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Tip of the Week:Integrate Raptivity with Moodle

Raptivity

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How to Select the Right E-Learning Software

Rapid eLearning

I get a lot of questions about buying elearning software. And with that I get to see some of the ridiculous checklists that some IT groups create to compare software. Usually they place more value on number of features (regardless of their real value) than on how those features are used to create the online courses. When it comes to selecting software, it can be hard to know what to look for and what questions to ask.

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Importance of Coworker Relationships

OpenSesame

You spend the majority of your day at work--you sit at your desk, finish your tasks, and repeat the next day. Amidst all of this work in a professional environment, you come into contact with an assortment of people--coworkers in your office, on your team, or just people walking past you in the office. Whatever position they may hold, these daily interactions with your co-workers are valuable opportunities to develop strong relationships.

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Millennials Crave Feedback at Work – But They Aren’t Getting It

CLO Magazine

According to Gallup’s May 2016 report “ How Millennials Want to Work and Live ,” millennials want feedback at work – to a greater extent than previous generations – but they aren’t getting it – nor are they asking for it. Millennials, accustomed to receiving regular feedback growing up at home, in school and during extracurricular activities, seek that type of connectedness at work, but Gallup reports only 19 percent of Gen Yers receive routine feedback from their managers.

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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.