Fri.Sep 23, 2016

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What Happens When Your Employees Don’t Know?

Axonify

It’s a Saturday. You’ve had a heck of a week. After experiencing the luxury of sleeping in a little, you decide to get started on the day by tackling the usual things … shower, make breakfast, feed the children. When checking your phone (which you do about 100 times a day), you see a promotion come through for an item you’ve been wanting for a while.

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Doing Conferences Differently – How to Beat Post-Conference Depression

Learningtogo

Do you suffer from PCD? How many times has this happened to you? You’ve convinced your boss (or yourself) to pay up to $2,000 plus travel expenses so you can attend a conference in your field. You spent a few energizing, exhausting and sometimes confusing and frustrating days with thousands of strangers and maybe a few friends, learning what’s hot and what’s not in the learning and training profession.

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New Features & Improvements Coming in Totara 9.0

Lambda Solutions

The long awaited release of Totara 9.0 is finally on its way! This is the first Totara release since their move away from Moodle, so the changes and improvements are highly anticipated by all. The new release is still a few months away, but here are some of the highlights to look forward to. A majority of the improvements and new features are within Seminars and Events (formerly called "Face to Face", and "Sessions"), making these much more functional and inclusive components.

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Missing Captivate Quiz Buttons? We Can Fix It

eLearning Brothers

In their most recent update to Captivate 9.0.2, Adobe made many fantastic changes. They sped up the load and publish time for Captivate projects, they amped up the Assets tool and they provided a link to the new Captivate community. However, one change they made caused some buttons on our eLearning Brothers templates to disappear when published or previewed.

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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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Brent Schlenker – Host of Training, Learning and Development Conference 2016

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. Brent Schlenker has over 20 years of experience in the Learning and Development industry. He’s built and re-built training organizations, and developed innovative technology based learning solutions across all departments within small, medium, and large corporate structures. Brent served as the Program Director for DevLearn, a major conference provided by the eLearning Guild, from 2008 to 2012.

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Podcast: Brent Schlenker

Learningtogo

Brent Schlenker has over 20 years of experience in the Learning and Development industry. He’s built and re-built training organizations, and developed innovative technology based learning solutions across all departments within small, medium, and large corporate structures. Brent served as the Program Director for DevLearn, a major conference provided by the eLearning Guild, from 2008 to 2012.

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Video-based Learning: An Effective Tool for Sales Training

CommLab India

As part of their job, sales representatives use their skills to convince customers to buy their products. Like any other skill, sales reps acquire this skill through years of experience and continuous sales training. But, when it comes to sales training, there are certain challenges that have to be focused on. For example, sales reps are always bound with tight schedules and cannot take much time out for the training.

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Growing Your Business With Online Programs

Petra Mayer

Most entrepreneurs are looking for ways to grow their business. Yet, simply growth for the purpose of growth is not very satisfying, particularly not for Service Professionals. Many turn to the possibility to offer Online Programs. Growth serves the purpose of achieving a life-style that we aspire to. Many Service Professionals target more revenue, engaging with our ideal clients leading to a more satisfying business and a great life-style.

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Benefits of Adaptive Courses in Compliance Training [Infographic]

CommLab India

With the introduction of new rules and regulations, the burden of compliance training on companies is likely to increase. Beside this, compliance training is still held back due to lack of user engagement. With the introduction of adaptive learning in corporate training, it is worth considering it as the solution to the challenges of online compliance training.

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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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Build Gr8 Micro-Learning Course

eLearning 24-7

For months I’ve been telling folks that if they want to learn how to build outstanding courses, they should surf deep into the search engines, locate the information and begin their learning experience. I was wrong. Now before you go “WHAT?”, let me tell you why. The other day, I went deep into the search engine world, using multiple engines including DuckDuckGo, Google, Dogpile and a few others, and while I discovered a lot of information on ID insight, a lot of it was either

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How to Create 5-Slide Micro-Learning - Tiny, Succinct, Fast - Tip #108

Vignettes Learning

Micro-Learning is serving “slices” to learners instead of the “whole pie.” It supports “get-it-now,” “do-it-now” learners who require timely solutions and information in the rapid changing work arena. I have always visualized micro-lessons as kernels of knowledge that enable trainers to trickle down valuable, high-impact yet very short lessons over a period of time.

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Climbing the Mountain of Mastery

Growth Engineering

This week, we had a bit of a reshuffle in GEHQ. We needed to move the furniture around to make room for some new additions to Team GE. The hardest part was moving the awards cabinet , which was full to bursting with trophies and medals. As it came away from the wall, the strangest thing happened…. Something shifted and landed on the floor, something we’d never seen before.

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How to Create a Fantastic Feedback Loop Within Your Company

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In our previous post we looked at the internal communication crisis that a lot of companies are currently experiencing, along with the importance of feedback loops. If some of the stats we presented you with were a little shocking then you may have wondered about what you can do to take action to prevent your company from finding itself in a similar situation.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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Gamification Vs. Game-Based Learning

iSpring Solutions

0. Shared. While the terms "gamification" and "game-based learning" are often considered to be interchangeable, in fact they aren't. To understand the difference and learn how to incorporate these methods in your e-Learning projects, watch this recording of the most attended iSpring webinar ever, presented by Andrew Hughes, the president of Designing Digitally.

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How to Take a More Mindful Approach to Learning

Degreed

Before you read any further, indulge me for a moment. Tuck your phone away (unless you happen to be reading this on your phone). If you’re reading this on your computer, close the other 10 tabs you have open. Shut down your email. Now, take a few deep breaths. Are you with me? Ok. Remember this feeling. Let’s begin. At Degreed, we often talk about how learning happens all the time.

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Another MOOC in Trouble with the Department of Justice

eLearning Evangelist

U.C. Berkeley has been offering public, free MOOCs taught by their faculty. But, like the MIT/Harvard MOOCs that were identified as problems a year ago, the Berkeley MOOCs were identified as no accessible and two individuals brought their concern to the US Department of Justice. The story was reported by Inside Higher Education September 20. Included in the story is a link to the DoJ letter to UC Berkeley.

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Applying 70-20-10

easygenerator

70-20-10 is visible in most enterprises and consists of three parts: . 70% – experiential learning – skills are learned and developed simply doing the job on a day-to-day basis. 20% – social learning – skills can be attained by working with others and collaborating with colleagues. 10% – formal learning – skills are learned in a formal setting such as a training course.

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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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The Week That Was, September 19-23

CLO Magazine

Tags: recap The post The Week That Was, September 19-23 appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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70-20-10 Model – The Evidence

easygenerator

The 70-20-10 model makes sense because most of what people learn does happen on the job because this is where the most time is spent. Therefore, 70-20-10 certainly plays a more significant role than mentoring and working with colleagues and even more so than training which is a rare occurrence in the grand scheme of things. The Evidence – In the last couple of years alone, the 70-20-10 model has taken off and the introduction of mobile devices has enabled even dedicated communities created

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How to Create an Interactive Menu for Online Courses in Articulate Storyline

CommLab India

Articulate Storyline, by default, has a menu option as shown below. But most learning designers seek to customize the Menu to make the course engaging and interactive. Here, I will share one such interactive customized menu we developed in Articulate Storyline. The requirement of our client was to show the course topics in the menu such that the learner will be able to show/hide it a with slight up/down movement of the mouse as shown in the screenshots below.