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Corporate MOOCs Reveal How Badging Can Boost Your Brand

Web Courseworks

This week, Managing eLearning features a guest post from Lauren Gray, a Marketing Intern at Web Courseworks. MOOCs are Maturing . A Massive Open Online Course, otherwise known as a MOOC, provides users with unlimited participation and access via the web by including interactive user forums to support community interactions between the users and the instructors.

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Building Trust in Sales: The Doctor is in… and Listening

ej4 eLearning

Really, the title says it all. People buy from people they trust. And building trust means being willing to listen as much as anything else. Why are we writing about something so obvious? Consider: The vast majority of sales and marketing literature discusses problem solving; most modern companies call their products and services solutions. [.]. The post Building Trust in Sales: The Doctor is in… and Listening appeared first on.

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Corporate MOOCs Reveal How Badging Can Boost Your Brand

Web Courseworks

This week, Managing eLearning features a guest post from Lauren Gray, a Marketing Intern at Web Courseworks. MOOCs are Maturing . A Massive Open Online Course, otherwise known as a MOOC, provides users with unlimited participation and access via the web by including interactive user forums to support community interactions between the users and the instructors.

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A Personal Video Studio is at your Fingertips with Adobe Presenter Video Express

Adobe Captivate

Today Adobe released Adobe Presenter 11 and Adobe Presenter Video Express 11. Presenter Video Express is included with purchases of Adobe Presenter 11, but now you can subscribe to Presenter Video Express alone if you just want the video tool. In this post, I’ll tell you about both tools, describe what’s new, and share my […].

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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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All our yesterdays

Learning with e's

Kenneth Wheeler (aged about 8 years old in 1936) with his mother Don't ever tell me that technology is only for the young. About four years ago I introduced my Dad to Facebook. Now aged 87, at first he struggled to get to grips with it, just as he had done when we gave him a mobile phone ( "It's all gone dead, boy." - "Yes it will, Dad. You need to make sure you keep recharging the battery" ).

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Ways to Action-Map your eLearning Scenarios

eFront

Scenario-based eLearning is quickly becoming the main focus of eLearning design. This is owing to the fact that eLearning programs are required to emulate the real-world/job context of the learner. You depict the real world by adding scenarios to your eLearning courses. Here are 5 effective ways to ensure your scenarios are convincing and yield authentic responses from your learners.

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Slack Vs. Hipchat: Which Works Best for Informal Learning?

eLearningMind

Full disclosure: At eLearning Mind, we love Slack. The platform allows us to easily talk between departments and helps to close the gap caused by having offices on opposite sides of the country. But we were also curious about Slack’s biggest competitor, Hipchat. When compared side-by-side, both have their pros and cons. Both are methods for informal communication.

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Facts about neuroscience that you need to know… [Infographic]

CDSM

Neuroscience … it’s the hot topic in Learning & Development at the moment. But what exactly is it, and what should it mean to you? At CDSM, we’ve been busy picking through the research, and we’ve created a nifty infographic to highlight the facts about neuroscience that you need to know. And if you’re wondering what impact neuroscience has on L&D, we look at four ways to integrate rapidly-evolving neuroscience into your e-learning.

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Five Resources: Tips for Strategic LMS Challenges by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

Learning management systems have been important for learning in many organizations for years, and they continue to be. important as new technologies appear. However, there are new strategic questions that affect LMS selection and use. Here. are five resources from The eLearning Guild’s archives that will provide examples and ideas that may match your. challenges!

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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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Serious Games - How Learning Can Be Not So Serious

Designing Digitally

Think learning is serious business? Well, you’re right. But learning can also be interesting, fun and engaging at the same time. By using non-traditional delivery techniques, training designers have found that they are better able to gain and hold the attention of their learning audience. Some of the best techniques for doing this involve the use of games in the delivery of training.

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When Less Learning Is Really More

OpenSesame

Does this description sound familiar? Your organization’s learning solutions/programs have long cycle-times to define and execute & significant expense or disruption while providing limited ability to measure Return of Investment (ROI) or business impact. Replace ‘learning solutions’ in the sentence above with the title of any ‘program’ and the reaction from leadership would be the same- “a nice to have expense that will be reduced or eliminated when spending pressure is applied’.

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Why You Need the New ReviewLink

Trivantis

You may have already heard the big news. If not, I’m pleased to announce that ReviewLink™ 3 now allows you to upload Captivate® and Storyline® courses in addition to publishing Lectora® titles for review. We know that our users have many different tools in their eLearning development toolboxes, and we wanted you to be able to enjoy the timesaving features of ReviewLink—no matter how you created your course.

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Back To Basics: What is ADDIE?

Obsidian Learning

We’ve covered some of the basic concepts in Instructional Design and Terminology in our previous Back To Basics segments. This week we wanted to discuss one of the most common instructional design models, ADDIE. ADDIE is an acronym for a model of instructional design and development. It is composed of five phases: A nalysis. D esign. D evelopment. I mplementation, E valuation.

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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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Top 10 Free Marketing Tools for SMBs

InsiderHub

The post Top 10 Free Marketing Tools for SMBs appeared first on InsiderHub.

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Leadership Lessons from Top Performing Learning Organizations

Skillsoft

By Kevin Young Discover how global L&D leaders are harnessing technology to modernize learning – and generating impressive improvements in productivity and staff engagement. Join our complimentary webinar to hear from Laura Overton, Managing Director of Towards Maturity, who will be sharing key findings and trends from the 2015-16 Towards Maturity Benchmark Report.

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When Less Learning Is Really More

OpenSesame

Does this description sound familiar? Your organization’s learning solutions/programs have long cycle-times to define and execute & significant expense or disruption while providing limited ability to measure Return of Investment (ROI) or business impact. Replace ‘learning solutions’ in the sentence above with the title of any ‘program’ and the reaction from leadership would be the same- “a nice to have expense that will be reduced or eliminated when spending pressure is applied’.

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Demonstrating Your Training Program’s Return on Investment

CrossKnowledge

If you’ve missed the previous article … Technology can make professional learning affordable, easy, and convenient. As distance‐learning programs grow ever more popular, companies have discovered that technology‐ driven learning can be a critical tool to communicate new information and regulations with far‐flung workers, and to help businesses that are experiencing significant growth get employ- ees quickly on the same page.

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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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Insight Sharing - How They "Meet and Mate"

Vignettes Learning

Have you ever shared your thoughts with someone? On a grander scale, have you tried sharing your work or a potential masterpiece with like-minded people? Sharing your work simply means that it is where your mind is at. It is where your expertise can be found. The patterns of your insights showcase your expertise areas. Of course you can imagine the satisfaction you get when you receive the approval of people you respect.

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Why a LMS is as Vital as Staff Performance Management

Mindflash

Managing your employee’s performance is vital, right? In 2013, 95% of organizations in a research sample of over 1,000 companies worldwide stated that they set individual goals, whilst 89% used performance ratings (Source: Global Performance Management Survey Report ). It seems performance management in business remains in use and of chief importance.

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Mark Oehlert - Untitled Article

Mark Oehlert

Hi. Wow. Is this thing still on? Thinking about cranking it up again.I know, there have sooooo many requests. Hmmm.

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WordPress Is Becoming The Best LMS

LearnDash

Just recently LearnDash was included as a Top 5 LMS Off the Beaten Track, and a nifty infographic was created that sums up both the benefits and potential opportunity areas. While the infographic itself is just a brief summary, it does emphasize a point that I have been harping on since we first started our WordPress learning management system. Specifically: WordPress is proving to be an excellent platform for online learning.

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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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Mark Oehlert - Untitled Article

Mark Oehlert

Hi. Wow. Is this thing still on? Thinking about cranking it up again.I know, there have sooooo many requests. Hmmm.

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Facts about neuroscience that you need to know… [Text Only Version]

CDSM

[ View Infographic ]. “Our brains build our learning, learning builds our brains.” – CIPD. Human attention span – 8.25 seconds. Goldfish attention span – 9 seconds. Humans handle approx. 40,000,000 pieces of information every second, but only 40 of those make it to our conscious brains. The speed that the brain can be process information is as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec(that’s about 431 km/hr).

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