February, 2015

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Learning and Cognitive Load

B Online Learning

'In a previous post, I looked at the fundamentals of cognitive load theory. In summary, to assist learners in transferring information from their working memory to their long-term memory, we need to present the information in such a way that it reduces extraneous cognitive load (non-relevant items) and, if possible, increases germane cognitive load (items […].

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Getting Started with Online Member Education

Association eLearning

'Way back when I was just a marketing minion working in development at a nonprofit, I used to attend workshops and classes that would help me learn more about my industry. Although I didn’t join the associations that put these things on, I voraciously ate up the content they were offering, as often as my employer would allow me to attend. I have since moved on, from marketing minion to marketing maven, but have never forgotten the associations that taught me a thing or two.

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How To Fill The Void of Missing Powerpoint Clipart

eLearning Brothers

'Due to the “internet of things,” Microsoft Office decided to kill off their Clipart library in December 2014. The Clipart library has been available within the PowerPoint and MS Word programs since the mid-1990s. From what we can tell, the main reasons for this move by Microsoft is three-fold. Their existing library within the MS Office programs fails to capitalize on a huge piece of their business: Bing/Images/Image Search.

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The HR Challenge: Analyze Your Corporate Training Needs

eFront

'If there is one thing that holds true for developing eLearning training materials, it’s planning, planning and planning. You can’t go wrong with that one. Think of a training course a result of relentless hard work and dedication. In fact, it’s not uncommon to spend 40 hours to develop a course to yield only 2 hours of training time. With this perspective, we need to make sure we plan in detail, we plan with all details and we rule out unnecessary details.

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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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eLearning in the Workplace

TalentLMS

'Workplace learning, professional development and eLearning are phrases with increasingly blurred meanings. Information technology systems are used to develop business infrastructure and conduct operational protocols like CRM, Finance and Human Resources. The same systems are extended to include learning management systems (LMS) that enable education and employee development. eLearning has become the cornerstone of education services to the mobile and the busy employee.

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Keeping the Learning Going

B Online Learning

'Recently, I was talking to some friends of mine who work in learning and development and they were telling me that it’s coming up to that time of the year when everyone needs to retake their mandatory eLearning courses on privacy and bullying & harassment. They were saying that during the year there’s not too […].

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Tips for Creating Good E-learning Content

Origin Learning

'eLearning has now become the most preferred option for all kinds of learners mainly for its quick and easy learning methods, user-friendly interface, flexibility etc. among many others. Every new avenue that could remotely bring in a change in the way people live and operate will soon be shoveled for innovations and eventually pillaged to make the best of what it has to offer and eLearning is no exception.

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The Global Virtual Classroom: Share Your Stories & Tips

InSync Training

'Request for Contributions: Do you have experience facilitating in a virtual classroom with participants from around the globe? What worked? What didn''t work? What are you going do do differently? Please share your stories and tips. We''d love to include as many as possible in our next whitepaper, titled "Making The Virtual Classroom Global.". You can respond right here, or send an email to jennifer@insynctraining.com.

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eLearning: Creating a Self-Video with Adobe Video Express

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby  Adobe Presenter Video Express is a new version of the video software that comes with  Adobe Presenter 10. With it you can record a video of both you and your computer screen at the same time. When you open it from the Presenter ribbon within PowerPoint, you can create a video of yourself and your PowerPoint slides. Once you have recorded your video, you can then edit the project to show either your face, the computer screen, or both.

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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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DIY or Outsource? 5 Benefits of Cloud Based Moodle Hosting

Lambda Solutions

'One of the major decisions organizations have to make when implementing an LMS is whether to go with DIY (do-it-yourself), or outsourced hosting. Cloud based software is an advanced form of hosting that incorporates greater support and service levels, and offloads the aforementioned duties to the managed hosting firm.

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

ID Reflections

'While the title of the post specifies MOOCs, the skills and mindsets I have explored in the post are, IMHO, required by all to survive and thrive in the digital and connected world. And participating in MOOCs could well be one of the ways to inculcate and hone the skills. I have been writing about MOOCs in the context of workplace learning from different perspectives for some time now.

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Supporting Social Learning in the Organisation

Jane Hart

'Yesterday, I participated in an #exploresocial Twitter chat. Here are some of my tweets and links I shared, in answer to the question, what is the role of L&D in social learning? My first tweet was … Mostly, just get out of the way #exploresocial — Jane Hart (C4LPT) (@C4LPT) February 25, 2015 I said […].

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Small is Big: Converting PDFs to E-Learning Modules

Origin Learning

'What does a PDF bring to mind? Pages and pages of words? Lengthy research documents? Boredom at its peak? And no escape? Well to some extent that’s true, considering the omnipresent nature of these documents that haunt you everywhere. PDFs have almost become a standard for writing company announcements, policies, terms and conditions, how to’s, newsletters, training material and what not.

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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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So This Happened. Recovering from a Webinar Fail

InSync Training

'This is a real-life webinar disaster that happened to ME this week. Keep reading to the end to review our 4-Step Disaster Recovery Process and learn how to maintain credibility when virtual classes and webinars start to experience problems.

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Add-On Brings Infusionsoft to LearnDash

LearnDash

'Recently we announced that we had opened the doors for other app developers to create add-ons and integrations for LearnDash WordPress LMS. Today, the folks at Memberium have officially announced their integration with LearnDash. The biggest advantage of their integration is that you can now leverage the powerful Infusionsoft platform with your online courses.

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Sell your eLearning course? Here are three options

Challenge to Learn

'More and more people are creating eLearning and for very different purposes. Making money with them is often one. This post will tell you how to do that. Create your eLearning courses and sell them. Some of the services offer an authoring facility, for other you need to create your course in eLearning software like Easygenerator. Notice that some of them will require you to upload your courses in a specific format (Scorm or AICC).

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The Dangers of “Push” Training: A True Story

KnowledgeStar

'This post was written with Sue Fry the Chief Creative Officer at KnowledgeStar. A recent experience proved how dangerous adhering to the old “push” model can be. In consulting with one of the world’s best-known NGOs, I conducted an exhaustive series of interviews with Managers and Directors at different levels, located in countries around the […].

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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.

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Social Media: Creating a LinkedIn Summary That Gets You Noticed

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Sally Cox    There is an art to creating a strong LinkedIn profile. One of the most powerful assets in your LinkedIn profile is the Summary. Most people put minimal thought into it, but honestly, it's a golden opportunity to make yourself shine. Tips to Creating a Stronger Profile. Be clear on your objective before you begin. What do you want recruiters and prospective employers to gain from reading your summary?

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mLearning more than mobile elearning?

Clark Quinn

'Someone tweeted about their mobile learning credo, and mentioned the typical ‘mlearning is elearning, extended’ view. Which I rejected, as I believe mlearning is much more (and so should elearning be). And then I thought about it some more. So I’ll lay out my thinking, and see what you think. I have been touting that mLearning could and should be focused, as should P&D , on anything that helps us achieve our goals better.

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Social and Emotional Learning: Measuring the Success of E-Learning

Origin Learning

'What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)? By definition, Social and Emotional Learning is “The process through which people gather and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.”.

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Employee-Manager Learning Alliance

The Performance Improvement Blog

'In 1994, The Learning Alliance was published. This book, by Rob Brinkerhoff and myself, made the case that HRD (human resource development) was changing dramatically and that the key to employee learning had shifted from the training department to the relationship (i.e., alliance) between managers and the learners they supervise. We wrote in the first paragraph of the Preface: A revolution is taking place in the development of human resources.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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NJEdge.net Storytelling and Gamification Workshop Resources

Kapp Notes

'Here are slides, links notes and other items of interest related to my presentation at NJEdge.net Gamification Conference. I have also included instructions, in a slide deck that show how to write on a PowerPoint Slide as you are presenting. First the slides. Also, here are step-by-step instructions for adding text right onto a PowerPoint Slide as you are presenting.

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Ask The Experts: Steve Drake

Association eLearning

'Jack McGrath: Hi and welcome to another in our series Ask the Experts. My name is Jack McGrath. Today I’m going to be talking to Steve Drake who’s president of SCD Group. Welcome Steve. Steve Drake: Hi, how’re you doing? It’s great to be with you. McGrath: Good. Couple of questions for you: Your blog, you talk about saving time by curating and sharing important information.

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Moving Beyond E-Learning (online workshop)

Jane Hart

'“The role of L&D is shifting: from creator of a portfolio of training elements to enabler of learning” Want to find out more about how to help your organisation move forward? Come and join the next online workshop, Moving Beyond E-Learning running 2 March – 3 April. The way we learn in the workplace is changing; […].

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Making ‘sense’

Clark Quinn

'I recently wrote about wearables , where I focused on form factor and information channels. An article I recently read talked about a guy who builds spy gear, and near the end he talked about some things that started me thinking about an extension of that for all mobile, not just wearables. The topic is sensors. In the article, he talks about how, in the future, glasses could detect whether you’ve been around bomb-making materials: “You can literally see residue on someone if you

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.