October, 2016

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TOPYX LMS Survey Reveals 70% of Clients Expect to Grow Their Learning Management System User Base Within 12 Months

TOPYX LMS

The global Learning Management System (LMS) market is expected to grow from $5B in 2016 to $10B in the next five years, according to recent research by MarketsandMarkets. Rising needs in corporate learning and training will help fuel this growth, particularly within the midmarket as management discovers stand alone LMS systems like TOPYX® that can be deployed easily and cost effectively without the need for comprehensive human capital management software investments.

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The Instructional Designer’s Guide to Critical Thinking

Infopro Learning

As Instructional Designers, we have always exhibited critical thinking prowess without realizing how important it is in the larger scheme of things. Now, anybody would assume that this makes us natural critical thinkers, who hold the key to bridging the vast knowledge gap among people round the globe. Right? Well, that’s exactly where we need to stop and do a reality check!

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The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2016 is announced

Jane Hart

It was in 2007 that I compiled the first Top 100 Tools for Learning from the votes of learning professionals worldwide and have done so every year since then. This year to mark the 10th anniversary I have compiled the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2016. The full list appears in the left-hand sidebar; follow the links to find out more about each of the tools.

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What’s New in eLearning – Post #1

Upside Learning

During the past couple of months, we came across some articles, posts, and talks about design and development techniques and tips, platforms, and technologies that we felt might have potential for use in eLearning. While we explore some of them in more depth, we thought we’d go ahead and share them in case you see […].

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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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How to fix our senseless compliance training

E-Learning Provocateur

All big organisations have a Learning Management System. It’s used to track and record the training that the employees do. In practice, it tends to be used to administer compliance training, though it can be much broader than that. And this is a good thing. Despite the scorn that LMS’s attract, we should be tracking and recording the training that our employees do – especially compliance training.

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3 Reasons Learning Management Systems Fail (And How You Can Avoid)

TOPYX LMS

Research shows that nearly half of all organizations want to ‘fire’ their social learning management system (LMS). This statistic speaks volumes about the usefulness of the average eLearning system. Companies implement an LMS for a variety of reasons, but they all boil down to convenience, efficiency and cost. Organizational leaders have full plates and need as much help as they can get with training their personnel, creating a positive, unique company culture, and lowering their corporation’s b

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Build Vs. Buy – How To Make a Stress Free Software Decision

Administrate

How can you improve your training operation and de-stress the people around you? One of the obvious answers is to take a look at the systems and procedure you have running within your organisation. Almost immediately, you’ll find yourself evaluating different software options (perhaps several) that promise to save time and Read More Published on October 6, 2016.

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5 Reasons to Embrace Your Perfectly Imperfect e-Learning Course 

Allen Interactions

By Hannah Hunter, Instructional Writer. The Perfect e-Learning Course™ is a legendary creature that changes its shape with each new technological and aesthetic trend. It is all things to all people – classic, yet also fresh, modern, and applicable to all levels of learner experience and skill. I’ve even heard that, when you measure the readability of such a course, the scale doesn’t give you a grade level.

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UpsideLMS Blog: Your Destination for all things LMS!

Upside Learning

The Learning Management System market is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expected to grow from USD 5.22 Billion in 2016 to USD 15.72 Billion by 2021 at a CAGR of 24.7% (as per the latest report on LMS market from Markets&Markets). With this high growth and rapid adoption, comes an element of dynamism […].

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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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Gamifying The Compliance Story

Raptivity

With all training, it is important to identify the desired outcome. With compliance training, the buy-in from senior management, from the trainers, and the employees is key. For some, it may be a "check the box" that it is done. This attitude can come from managers and push downward. But, what if it is true? Perhaps the compliance training is to meet an outmoded regulation.

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Bruce Tulgan, Rainmaker Thinking

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. W hen we started our little podcast last year, many folks were very generous with their time and joined me in great conversations about learning, even though at the time our audience was very, very small. Now that it is starting to grow, I’m excited to bring back our very first guest, Bruce Tulgan , founder of Rainmaker Thinking, a research and management consulting firm, and author of the new book, Bridging the Soft Skills Gap.

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What are the 5 most powerful didactical principles?

Challenge to Learn

I’m looking for your input, what are the 5 most important didactical principles to apply when creating e-Learning? The reason I’m asking is because we are doing a project to support our users (most of them do not have an e-Learning background) in creating more effective and didactical sound content. I will explain in this post. Easygenerator is an e-Learning authoring tool for people with no e-Learning background.

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eLearning: Effective Use of Fonts

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    Different fonts evoke different emotions, and some fonts are more readable than others. There are lots of decisions to be made when choosing fonts for your eLearning projects. Here are a few of my thoughts, to help you make better font choices. Serif vs. Sans Serif. Serifs fonts contain little "tails" on some of the letters, such as those found in Times New Roman.

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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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Crash Course For Constructive Feedback

Association eLearning

Feedback is a wonderful thing, when you can understand it. When you can’t… To quote Captain Jack Sparrow, “Well that’s even more than less than unhelpful.” You get the idea. Think back to the last time you got feedback on something. Maybe it was suggested revisions for a project or the survey responses for how you did during a speaking engagement. Or maybe it was storyboard revisions for eLearning.

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The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry

Gyrus

The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. We see it all the time in this modern internet age. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Google (via a variety of enterprises) continue to break down the walls and establish new and innovative processes for consumers to integrate int

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Do We Overthink Learning?

LearnDash

Being involved so heavily in the elearning industry means that I get to think quite a bit about how it is we learn and what works best. I have written about many strategies and instruction design tactics of the years. Each one comes with merit touting studies backing-up their claims. Every year there are new apps being released and trendy theories being applied to course creation.

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Why are Scary Movies so Much Fun?

Learningtogo

Fear is generally thought of as a negative emotion. Google it and you will find thousands of articles, books and blog posts about how to face your fear and overcome it so you can be more successful, happy or brilliant. Yet fear serves a very useful purpose in our growth as a species. Fear is one of the key behaviors that keeps us alive and has done so since the time of our genetic ancestors.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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The Importance of Customer Reviews

Administrate

Show of hands, how many of you have candid, honest, reviews of your training courses featured on your website? Nope, not the cherry-picked customer testimonials with glorious quotes about how your training forever changed the life of Mr Smith from London. We’re talking genuine, gritty, honest, not-always-positive reviews that add an extra layer Read More Published on October 6, 2016.

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Because quality matters

Clark Quinn

I was reflecting on some of the actions my colleagues and I take. These are, in particular, colleagues that have been contributing to the field for a long time, ones who know what they’re talking about and that I therefore respect. I retweeted one who called for being careful of the source in message. I’ve supported another who has been on a crusade against myths.

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Challenges faced by Higher Education Institutes & How to Solve Them

Lambda Solutions

Educause recently published the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition, identifying the key trends, technologies, and challenges in adopting technology in higher education. Here, we will go over the challenges faced by higher education institutes in the digital age, and the steps they can take to solve them.

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3 Questions that Keep Product Managers Up at Night

Knowledge Guru

Product managers are passionate people. They are passionate about the products they create and the problems they solve for their customers. Product managers spend thousands of hours researching, testing and developing their products before its time to commercialize. But then it’s time for the hand-off. The success (or failure) of the new product is in the hands of the sales reps, not the people who so carefully and thoughtfully created it.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Use H5P for Engaging LearnDash Courses

LearnDash

One of the hardest things to do in any online course is to keep learners engaged with the content. If you have too many videos, it gets boring. No videos at all and it’s even worse. Images can take you only so far. And while quizzes are a great way to ‘check-in’ with learners, they too can become tedious if they’re used too much.

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Social Learning for Modern Classrooms

InSync Training

Social learning has been happening forever. People learn first, and best, from one another. Think about it: apprenticeship models have taught people trades for centuries, and oral history has imparted age-old wisdom within societies since the early days of humanity. Even though social learning is not a new concept, technology influences how the process occurs in workplace training programs.

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What is the xAPI Standard and Why is it the Future of Learning Technology?

Docebo

Get ahead of the learning technology curve by enabling xAPI in your LMS. Whether in terms of food, music, friends or significant others, we all know standard are important. The same logic applies to choosing a learning management system (LMS) with the right course content packaging tools. Thanks to the Aviation Industry Computer-based Training Committee (AICC) , elearning standards have been in place since 1988.

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Why the Real Cost of Your Learning Management System is Higher Than You Think

Absorb LMS

Fifteen years ago, I bought my first–and likely last–home. With two young children and associated desire to have a back yard, a swing, and a tree house, I left the core of a major city and headed to the suburbs. As advised by real estate experts, I bought the lowest-priced house on a great street in an affluent neighborhood, a short block from a lakefront dotted with old trees and multi-million dollar homes.

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How to Fix the 10 Biggest Mistakes in Gamification

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning)

Are you using gamification as part of your L&D strategy? SMART! According to multiple studies, gamification strategies have been proven to increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, and get stellar results, but what if your results just don’t hit the mark? According to instructional designers interviewed by The Game Agency, some errors are very common when implementing gamified learning.