April, 2016

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TOPYX LMS Releases Salesforce AppExchange Application

TOPYX LMS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. BONITA SPRINGS, FL – Interactyx, the developer of the TOPYX® learning management system (LMS) software, is excited to announce the release of a new application on the Salesforce AppExchange that provides data integration between TOPYX and Salesforce clients. The new application is offered at no cost to clients of TOPYX and can be easily initiated from the Salesforce AppExchange at the TOPYX LMS: Salesforce Integration page.

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How to Create a Custom Review Results Slide in Articulate Storyline

eLearning Brothers

I love the versatility of Articulate Storyline 2 and the ability to forego the default options for navigation in favor of truly custom courseware. However, there’s one drawback I learned of by getting rid of all the buttons that line the bottom of the Storyline course player (Previous, Next, Submit, volume, and the seekbar): navigation for the Review Quiz function is missing!

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4 Reasons No One is Clicking on and Using Your eLearning Content

eLearningMind

You take the time to develop eLearning content and then send it out to employees, only to get back disappointing analytics and lackluster adoption rates. Where did you go wrong? Captain Obvious moment: if you can’t even entice employees to click a link or open an attachment, they’re probably not going to click through and consume your generic learning material.

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ADDIE vs AGILE: How to set up a fast and effective eLearning production process

LearnUpon

This guest post is by Steve Penfold, Customer Success Director at Elucidat. The best production process isn’t the one that gets course content before an audience as quickly as possible. The best process is the one that can reliably deliver high quality learning content that’s fit for purpose to an audience within an appropriate timeframe. According to the Project Management Institute, ineffective communication is the primary contributor to project failure one third of the time.

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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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4 Pros And Cons Of Outsourcing eLearning Development

PulseLearning

With the demand for online training increasing, outsourcing eLearning development can offer significant benefits for your organization. Because producing eLearning involves balancing key variables including time, cost, and quality, outsourcing development to the right vendor can help you achieve an equation that delivers a quality product while increasing your ROI.

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12 e-Learning trends that you need to know about

Challenge to Learn

I like to know what the trends are in e-Learning. I checked 20 posts on trends and selected the 12 trends that are mentioned most. Here they are, from large (most mentioned) to small (least mentioned). 1. Gamification. Gamification is the most mentioned trend. It is about applying game thinking and game techniques to e-Learning. It sounds cool and people really want to ride the wave of success of online games, but I have to say that I’m quite critical about applying this successfully into

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Developer Diaries: A Healthier Developer

eLearning Brothers

When working from home, Instructional Designers and Developers can easily fall into a routine that involves a lot less getting ready for the work day and a lot more getting straight to work – which can be problematic for many of us who call home their office. For myself, I know I am guilty of rolling out of bed, letting the dogs out, then promptly getting to it.

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Learning and the Scientific Method

Learningtogo

I write a lot about the science of learning, so today I thought we should talk about science. The word “science” comes from the Latin “ scientia ” which means “knowledge.” In Western culture, the ancient Greeks developed an approach toward gaining information about the world through the use of the scientific method. It goes like this: Ask a question.

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7 CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIGITAL MINDSET

Learnnovators

The post 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIGITAL MINDSET appeared first on Learnnovators.

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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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Performance Support: Just Gimme Three Clicks!

Living in Learning

Critical demands for ensuring workforce agility and resilience manifest beyond the current scope of the best training programs; the best training design, best development and delivery practices that many L&D organizations rely upon as standard methodology. For a workforce to consistently function at optimal agility and resiliency, we must evolve beyond the current linear paradigm that is only scoped to transfer knowledge and skills through training no matter how compelling and engaging we tr

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Make sure your team is buying an LMS for the year you’re in. Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology. Fresh out of university, I worked as a content developer and designed and authored hundreds of hours of online courses. As an analyst a decade later, I wrote industry reports about learning management systems, authoring tools, and other technologies.

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My view on the difficult situation in Ukraine

Challenge to Learn

The past week I have visited the Easygenerator team in Ukraine. My first visit to Ukraine was in 2010 and I since then I have visited Ukraine two or three times per year. A lot has happened in that period; here is my view on the current situation in Ukraine. I will start with a bit of background first in order to provide some context. Background on the Ukraine.

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Learning Management Systems: Why You Need One

eLearning Brothers

A Learning Management System (LMS) is a platform that enables the storage and delivery of learning content for the purpose of training and educating employees. The idea of choosing an LMS can be daunting. But before you decide to jump into the LMS search, it’s important to identify why you need this system in the first place. In addition to providing a platform that makes it relatively easy to deliver—and in some cases develop—eLearning, an LMS provides the opportunity to track and measure train

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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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Neuroscience and the Hype Cycle

Learningtogo

Image: Wikipedia [link]. I recently attended a major conference of learning professionals and was surprised to hear one of the keynote speakers say, “Neuroscience has nothing to offer educational psychology today.” While many in the room were applauding, I was a little shocked and disappointed. I get it. We’ve all seen the over-hyped, overly commercialized claims of people who are getting rich off their own flavor of “The Neuroscience of X” (Fill in any topic you wish and start making money.

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The Best Example of Gamification I Have Ever Seen

eLearning Architect

Then a friend request popped up. My mate had also been given a FitBit for Christmas and he challenged me to a 'Workweek Hustle'. Not only that, but 3 other mates were also invited to join the challenge. Suddenly I felt the urge to walk home instead of getting the bus! I found myself looking at my Fitbit app on a Thursday evening and trying to figure out how I could get an additional 10km onto my weekly total before the Friday deadline.

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Culture before Content: 3 Steps for Warming Up Your Organization to the Idea of Microlearning

Axonify

Microlearning is a hot topic right now—and for good reason. Providing solutions that align to the science of learning and fit into employees’ regular workflow should get people plenty excited. But, the reality is, not everyone may share your enthusiasm. After all, microlearning isn’t just about making shorter videos. It represents a fundamental shift in how most organizations have traditionally approached learning.

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TOPYX Topics – Social Learning Newsletter – April 2016

TOPYX LMS

Easily connect TOPYX LMS to your Salesforce instance with just a few clicks! Now, we have made it incredibly simple to manage your users between TOPYX and Salesforce with a new application. And, it’s free! The new application will allow clients to easily: Import and export user data between Salesforce and TOPYX instances. Qualify and manage user access levels and roles.

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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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Why do searches on e-Learning terms drop dramatically?

Challenge to Learn

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. On SCORM the drop is 83%. Is this a decline in interest for e-Learning or is a signal for something else? Why is this happening? I do not believe it is a declining interest in e-Learning. The e-Learning market is over 50 billion and is growing with double digits each year.

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Design for Non Designers – Repetition

B Online Learning

Repetition is a principle we use in our lives for all sorts of reasons. By repeating things we remember them. Do you recall learning your times tables as a kid? What did you do? If you were anything like me it was the first order of day in infants then primary school to recite the […].

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Past Event: Enterprise Learning! Conference 2016 (Jun 6-8, Anaheim)

Learningtogo

The Enterprise Learning! Conference 2016 (ELC16) hosts the exclusive Learning & Workplace Technology Conference for corporate, government and higher education executives. ELC16 provides executives an engaged environment to network, share and learn from leaders across the globe. Coupled with cutting edge research, Learning! 100 award winners, and expert learning technologists, this is the “Must Attend” forum for learning and performance executives.

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Amazing time to be learner?

Origin Learning

Learning by seeing and watching is fun. Learning by following your passion and your star is even more delightful! That is what the 45 degree visual of America’s poster boy: the 28-year-old sensation, professional basketball player Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry II is all about. Having notched up several wins for his team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) games, Curry has also earned the ‘sharpest’ shooter tag for his remarkable ability to ‘basket’ the ball in games that mat

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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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Curated Insights – It’s ‘game on’ for Gamification in the workplace

Axonify

I’m CONSTANTLY curating online content about learning and performance. As a learning geek, It’s my thing—well—one of my things. Every month, I’ll dig through my collections and share my favorite articles on a particular theme along with a few insights of my own. This month, I found some really interesting stuff about gamification. Gamification works—if done well.

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Learnnovators wins PLATINUM at LearnX Impact Awards 2016

Learnnovators

Learnnovators has won PLATINUM at the LearnX Impact Awards 2016 in the ‘Performance Support’ category. This award is in recognition of a unique and innovative solution titled MPSS that Learnnovators designed and developed for their client MTAB. MPSS (or Mobile Performance Support Solution) is a mobile app-based performance support solution made up of byte-sized video tutorials and PDF-based Quick Reference Guides.

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8 reasons why your authoring tool must be in the cloud

Challenge to Learn

All software and data will move to the cloud sooner or later. In this post I will explain why you should move to the cloud rather sooner than later. I have chosen 8 reasons that should convince you. 1. No IT hustle. All the software lives in the cloud and is maintained and cared for by the vendor. Your IT department does not has any involvement, neither you nor the IT department has to install anything.

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More Must-read Books on Sales, Team Culture and Beyond

Administrate

If you read part one of this series, you’ll know that the Administrate team takes self-learning very seriously, so much so that everyone is required to read a book-per-month and then share the key learnings from it with the wider team. Now it’s time for us to share more of our Read More.

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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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Webinar on Applications for Raptivity in University Classroom

Raptivity

Gamification and simulation based learning performs exceptionally well in imparting knowledge through interactivity. Research states that interactive learning helps learners to grasp more in less time. Dive deep into the research conducted by Dr. Lisa Vinney, Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Illinois State University and Dr.

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Learn better when passion drives you in this amazing time to learn

Origin Learning

Learning by seeing and watching is fun. Learning by following your passion and your star is even more delightful! That is what the 45 degree visual of America’s poster boy: the 28-year-old sensation, professional basketball player Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry II is all about. Having notched up several wins for his team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) games, Curry has also earned the ‘sharpest’ shooter tag for his remarkable ability to ‘basket’ the ball in games that mat

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Curated Insights – It’s ‘game on’ for Gamification in the workplace

Axonify

I’m CONSTANTLY curating online content about learning and performance. As a learning geek, It’s my thing—well—one of my things. Every month, I’ll dig through my collections and share my favorite articles on a particular theme along with a few insights of my own. This month, I found some really interesting stuff about gamification. Gamification works—if done well.