December, 2018

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2019 eLearning Predictions – Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

Around New Year’s Day each year, we issue our predictions for the top eLearning trends of the coming year. In the past, we’ve plotted these predictions through dead reckoning – relying on our experience living, eating and breathing online learning all day, every day throughout the year. But this year, be warned: we come armed with #data.

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Why Learning Experience Is An Evolution Of eLearning

eLearning Industry

Learning Experience (LX) is not only the 'next' evolution of eLearning, but it's also the only path eLearning can take in its growth and maturation. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Gamification and Virtual Reality Being a Trend Setter in eLearning

Swift eLearning Services

When you feel like nothing is important more than learning, then you can think out of the box and add new dimensions to your ideas. In this context, Gamification has evolved by bringing online learning as a game to immerse the learners in life-like scenarios by virtual walkthroughs smearing virtual reality with it.

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“It’s new, so everyone needs training on it.” Nope.

Making Change

“We’re introducing something new,” your client says. “So of course everyone needs to be trained on it.” Hmmm. Really? Maybe your client is thinking this: “This new thing is so bizarrely new that no adult Earthling could possibly figure it out without formal training.” Or maybe they’re really thinking this: “This new thing is a pain in my neck and I don’t know how to introduce it.

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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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When Training Is NOT The Answer

Tim Slade

Whether you’re an instructional designer, an eLearning designer, or just an everyday learning professional, a crucial part of your job is understanding when training is not the answer. It’s easy to get bogged down with the endless number of training requests that get thrown your way from your stakeholders and subject matter experts. The truth is, it doesn’t take a lot for a stakeholder to see the slightest drop in performance and conclude that “training will fix this issue!

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7 Characteristics of Winning Team Dynamics

ej4 eLearning

Have you ever wondered why some teams get everyone rowing in the same direction, while others just struggle or sink to the bottom?

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7 Things To Consider Before You Build An Online Course

eLearning Industry

The success of any online course starts with the right approach. These ultimate pre-launch tips would help you to avoid most common pitfalls and mistakes while building your online course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Custom eLearning development templates in Articulate Storyline – 5 layouts

Swift eLearning Services

We release the next set of Articulate Storyline ready-to-use introduction templates to help budding developers and instructional designer in Custom eLearning Development. Click on each image to view the template details. Introduction-007 The templates interface or the screen is divided into two halves with a slanting line. The left half has logo placeholder, title placeholder,… The post Custom eLearning development templates in Articulate Storyline – 5 layouts appeared first on Top eLearni

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How to Create a Better Blended Learning Experience on Mobile

LearnDash

How can mobile learning make blended classrooms more effective? It seems like, with every passing year, technology and daily life become increasingly wound together. With most learners bringing their technology with them into the classroom—either on their laptop or their smartphone—there’s less of a distinction between when classroom learning ends, and the out-of-class, self-directed learning begins.

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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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Learning Experience Portals?

Clark Quinn

What is a learning experience platform? Suddenly the phrase seems ubiquitous, but what does it mean? It’s been on my mental ‘todo’ list for a while, but I finally spent some time investigating the concept. And what I found as the underlying concept mostly makes sense, but I have some challenges with the label. So what am I talking about?

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Crazy Eight

E-Learning Provocateur

Is it just me or is every year a “big year”…? Well 2018 marked a decade of blogging by yours truly, and that alone is something that I’m proud of. Throughout the highs and lows that life gifted me this year, I was able to share another 8 thought bubbles in addition to my annual list of conferences. I call them my Crazy Eight and I recall them here for your enjoyment and critique… Battle scars – We can’t fight an “ism” with yet more ism. 25 mo

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5 Distinct Uses Of Self-Directed And Adaptive Learning In A Corporate Habitat

Tesseract Learning

Have you picked a new skill in the last years? Or studied a programming language on your own? In this article, I talk about the self-directed learning and its similarities with adaptive learning.

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9 New Year’s Resolutions eLearning Pros May Want To Add To Their List (2019 Edition)

eLearning Industry

Have you already set your resolutions for 2019? If you’re still trying to formulate your list, this article will help you make, and keep, your yearly resolutions to achieve eLearning success. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Avoiding the LMS Overkill

QuoDeck

“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match” Shaun Hick, Author. What LMS Overkill Is And Ways To Avoid It? In a fast-changing world, organizations need to keep their teams up to speed with the latest trends and methods for each industry. This requirement for learning has spawned the multi-billion-dollar Learning Management System (LMS) industry.

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Reskilling the Global IT Workforce to be Future-Ready

EdCast

Reskilling the Global IT Workforce to be Future-Ready By 2020, it’s estimated that 75 percent of organizations will experience business disruptions due to infrastructure and operations skills gaps, according to CIO.1 This source also stated that there are currently more IT jobs available than qualified IT professionals to fill them. Clearly, the global IT workforce is […].

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Thinking Strategically

Clark Quinn

Repurposed from another use. In today’s increasing rate of change and competition, coupled with growing ambiguity and uncertainty, L&D just can’t be about delivering courses on demand. Optimal execution, the result of formal learning, is only the cost of entry, and continual innovation will be the necessary element for organizations to thrive. Organizations have to move faster, be more agile, and adapt more effectively.

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Major Employee Training Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

ProProfs

Training your employees is the most important aspect of a business, be it a reputed company well known in the industry or a brand new startup. After all, it is the most crucial aspect that will enable your business to remain competitive and evolve. Employee training involves developing their abilities and upgrading their knowledge to meet your organizational goals.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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4 Tips On Making Your Microlearning Strategy A Success

Tesseract Learning

With the rising popularity of videos, even corporates are leveraging on using them for educating their employees. Videos can be human based or animated.

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Adapting Your On-Ground Course For Online Instruction

eLearning Industry

This article will help you adapt an on-ground course for online teaching, following some of the recommended best practices to increase learner motivation and participation. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Create Navigation in Educational Videos

learnWorlds

Navigating on a video’s timeline is a time-consuming task (especially if the video is longer than 6 minutes). The longer the video, the more difficult it gets to find and navigate to certain content sections precisely. Therefore, Learnworlds’ inner experts figured out several ways, with which we can make video easily accessible in minutes. Being able to control the video access is significant because a viewer might want to jump to another desired part of the video rather following the pre-given

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Why Companies Should Promote Learning in the Flow of Work

EdCast

Why Companies Should Promote Learning in the Flow of Work About 70 percent of employees are disengaged at work, according to Gallup.1 Disengagement causes a slew of problems for companies, including high rates of turnover and increased costs. In fact, Deloitte reported that federal agencies lose $65 billion each year to employee disengagement.2 There are […].

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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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10 Ways to Support Learning after Training

The eLearning Coach

Think of a course as laying the foundation for continuous learning rather than an end in itself. Base your designs on the advantages of using smaller courses, spaced learning, human interaction and user-generated materials.

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Five Practices to Build Emotionally Intelligent Leaders

CLO Magazine

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, the capability of individuals to identify and manage their own emotions as well as recognize those of others, has been identified as a strong indicator and predictor of effective leadership. It has been studied and researched resulting in evidence that strongly suggests organizations with emotionally intelligent leaders produce a higher return on investment and profitability.

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How Virtual reality is used in Forklift training?

CHRP-INDIA

Workers in warehouse, especially forklift operators need a lot of practical guidance, training and awareness about the industry rules before operating the fork lift. A recent survey reveals that annually, about 100,000 injuries are caused due to the inappropriate training of the workers engaged in the Forklift process. A well-thought of Forklift training is a sure shot way to lessen the number of causalities and equipment damage costs, thus rendering it a safe and secure process of lifting bulky

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Different Types Of Online Facilitation And How Each Affects Your Design

eLearning Industry

The equation of facilitation is often a tricky one to solve for many companies. Everyone knows it is important, yet the pressing question of time is always hanging over our heads. One of the best ways to handle this is to recognize what type of online facilitator is needed and design accordingly. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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5 Tips to Create Compelling Characters for eLearning

Growth Engineering

For centuries, fictional characters have been the go-to tool for teaching. We retain content better when it’s wrapped in a narrative and steered by an inspirational protagonist. The post 5 Tips to Create Compelling Characters for eLearning appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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EdCast Announces $34 Million in Funding Along with New Customer, Partner and User Milestones

EdCast

EdCast Announces $34 Million in Funding Along with New Customer, Partner and User Milestones EdCast’s Knowledge Cloud surpassed two million paid users across numerous Global 2000 enterprises, garnering investment from Softbank, REV Venture Partners, London Fund, Crescent Enterprises and others MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, December 6, 2018 — EdCast, known as the operating system for the […].

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Case Study: Using a Magazine Format for eLearning

The eLearning Coach

This magazine format was a solution to upgrading an annual compliance course. Designed in a widescreen format, it included a magazine-type cover design, letter from the editor, table of contents for the menu and a two-page spread for text, graphics and interactions.