July, 2020

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How an LMS Can Promote Business Agility in the Age of COVID-19

TOPYX LMS

COVID-19 has made it clear that the only thing consistent in the business world is change. Having an agile mindset concerning business practices helps organizations become more confident in the face of uncertainty, which can lead to better business outcomes. According to HelpNetSecurity.com, 1 other organizational benefits of business agility include: A greater competitive advantage.

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I’m Writing a Second Edition of The eLearning Designer’s Handbook!

Tim Slade

It was nearly five years ago when I started thinking about writing a book to share everything I knew about designing and developing eLearning. At the time, the mear thought of writing my own book seemed like an enormous task, and it was! In fact, it wasn’t my first time working on a book. At that point, I had already co-authored several of the E-Learning Uncovered books and was well-versed in the self-publishing process.

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Build a Branching Scenario in Google Forms

Experiencing eLearning

While tailor-made tools like Twine may be easier for building branching scenarios, it’s possible to use a survey tool like Google Forms. Most survey tools have the option to jump to different questions or sections based on responses. Using that ability, you can create a simple branching scenario in Google Forms. Try the scenario. Try the scenario yourself to see how it works.

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How Do Millennials Learn? 5 Challenges L&D Managers Face When Training Millennial Employees

eLearning Industry

Millennials place a higher value on opportunities for training and development, but they also learn differently than the others. More traditional training programs have been proven to be less effective when it comes to training younger generations. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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 Important Differences Between Agile and ADDIE in L&D

Infopro Learning

The ADDIE and Agile frameworks are two development methodologies that are leveraged to guide L&D teams through a project. The philosophies of the ADDIE and Agile methodologies share many of the same practices. Both the Agile and ADDIE methodologies include analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation as part of their process, but the Agile methodology has distinct characteristics that set it apart from ADDIE.

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Thinking about reframing

Clark Quinn

I found something interesting, and wanted to share, but…I realize this is supposed to be about my learnings about learning. So, I’m framing it as thinking about reframing ;). Seriously, it’s about extant models and opportunities to rethink. So, to begin with, I’ve been somewhat frustrated with the traditional model of capitalism.

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The leader’s new clothes

E-Learning Provocateur

From $7 billion to nearly $14 billion. That’s how much the spend on leadership training by American corporations grew over the preceding 15 years, according to Kaiser and Curphy in their 2013 paper Leadership development: The failure of an industry and the opportunity for consulting psychologists. Over that same period we witnessed the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the implosion of Enron, and of course the Global Financial Crisis.

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3 eLearning Design Goals – Visualise, Gamify and Personalise

B Online Learning

I recently spoke at an eLearning forum on eLearning design trends which made me reflect on where I’m currently at with my elearning […]. The post 3 eLearning Design Goals – Visualise, Gamify and Personalise appeared first on B Online Learning.

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How To Make Your eLearning Content Interesting: The Importance Of Scripting And Storyboarding

eLearning Industry

In order to design an efficient training program, you need to have engaging, interesting content. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Eight Ways L&D Needs To Adapt To A Post-COVID Future

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Learning and development professionals have had to abruptly adapt to changing circumstances. But what does the future of learning look like now?

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How to Scale Up Your LearnDash Infrastructure

LearnDash

Your course website needs to handle a larger load. Here’s how to prepare it for growth. One of our most frequently asked pre-sales questions has to do with the user capacity for our plugin. Sometimes this question comes from a large organization that wants to be able to onboard a whole lot of users at one time, whereas in other cases, it comes from users who are seeing their course numbers grow and want to prepare for continued success.

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Losing our collective minds?

Clark Quinn

So, after that mess on Twitter, I next see on LinkedIn a recognized personage who proceeds to claim that learning styles are legit. And, the basis for this claim is fundamentally wrong. So I’m beginning to fear that we’re losing our collective minds! Let me be clear about the claim, the problem, and a healthy approach. The claim started like this: I know there is a huge camp of folks who say no one has learning styles and they provide all types of links of others who concur.

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CourseArc Develops Tool that Enables Sharing of Course Content Across Counties and States

CourseArc

In a time where collaborative virtual learning needs to happen at breakneck speed, CourseArc, a content authoring and management tool, has developed a feature that enables the sharing of course content across counties and states. CourseArc’s client, the Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance (VLLA), an association of the chiefs of some of the most innovative virtual programs in the United States, is one of the first to utilize this new feature.

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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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3 Ways to Help Your Employees Find Ongoing Success with Remote Training

TOPYX LMS

The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was reported on January 21st, 2020. 1 Since then, millions of employees have made the transition from working from the office to working from home. On April 21st, it was reported that 66 percent of all employees in the U.S. were working from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. 2. While some individuals have begun returning to the office, others have remained at home. “ About 74 percent of CFOs surveyed by Gartner expect some of their employees who

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Stories from the Virtual Trenches: 3 Common Virtual Classroom Challenges

InSync Training

Like in all professions, Learning & Development faces its fair share of challenges. Changing global dynamics, evolving business needs, and a diverse audience all contribute to a complex, and confusing, pathway forward. The virtual classroom offers a solution to many of the broad obstacles training functions face. This learning environment supports organizations of all sizes and types, while seamlessly integrating into comprehensive, personalized, easily updated blends.

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POINT-OF-WORK: Office of Workforce Capability (OWC)?

Living in Learning

Is it time to create an organizational entity scoped and chartered to ensure sustained workforce capability? Is it time to enable performance IN Workflows at Moments of Need found at Point-of-Work? Ask the operational stakeholders if they are after knowledge…or the capability to execute at Point-of-Work to add measurable value to the bottom line.

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Should You Use a Subdomain for LearnDash?

LearnDash

Whether or not you set up your e-learning course on a subdomain has implications for SEO and user experience. One question that can be a stumbling block for new users is whether they should host their course on a subdomain of their website or as a regular subdirectory. This can be a difficult question with significant implications for the rest of your site, and as such, we felt they were worth digging into.

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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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Mythless Learning Design

Clark Quinn

If I’m going to rail against myths in learning, it makes sense to be clear about what learning design without myths looks like. Let me lay out a little of what mythless learning design is, or should be. Learning with myths manifests in many ways. Redundant development to accommodate learning styles, or generations. Shortened to be appropriate for millennials or the attention span of a goldfish.

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Virtual Training: The Do's and Don't's - Synapse

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Moving in-person training to virtual training has fast become a necessity. Check out these do's and don'ts for delivering virtual instructor-led training.

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Everything You Need To Know About MailChimp Email Marketing To Sell Online Courses

Lambda Solutions

Discover why email marketing is important and how to get the best results using MailChimp for marketing online courses and growing your brand.

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(The Right) Learning Modalities To Deliver Digital Learning: Part 5

eLearning Industry

This article will help you blend asynchronous and synchronous elements in your online courses. This is the final article in the series on using digital modalities and includes important insights on "how" to best combine them. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Getting Started With Microlearning In Your Organization

dominKnow

Microlearning is one tool of many that every learning and development team should have at its disposal to help us. When used well, microlearning really can mean small content can have big effects for your organization. But micro learning isn't a one-size fits all solution. There are many uses where it can provide an ideal fit to a problem, but there are also contexts where microlearning isn't a good solution fit.

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Talent Marketplace Platforms Explode Into View

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Over the last five years companies have been working to improve internal talent mobility. Not only does it save money on recruiting, it enables compaines to find internal expertise which is often hidden in the organization. And it creates a strong sense of engagement and belonging in the workforce. Why is this such a big. Read more» The post Talent Marketplace Platforms Explode Into View appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Top 5 Red Flags for Freelancers

Devlin Peck

As a freelancer, you want clients that respect your time and expertise. However, "problem clients" don't respect you, and they cut into your bottom line. By looking out for these red flags, you can identify problem clients before agreeing to work with them.

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How Business Acumen Can help You to Understand Earnings Calls

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Learn what Business Acumen skills are needed to fully understand the potential impacts of the potentially disastrous upcoming company earnings reports

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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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Back to Basics: Motivating Employees During Uncertainty and Change

TLNT: Training and L&D

Today, many businesses in the United States are rethinking the way they operate and plan for the future, with everything from workplace culture and policies to employee incentives and the physical office environment evolving in real time. Underlying this rethink is the question of how to keep employees motivated as they are working remotely or in the office under new social distancing guidelines.

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Using Social Media As A Disruptive Innovation For Virtual Learning

eLearning Industry

This article discusses how social media can potentially spark a new educational trend for increasing student engagement in a Virtual Learning Environment. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Getting Started with xAPI

dominKnow

In the past decade probably no other new technology in the elearning space has offered more potential for changing how and what we can do for our organizations than the Experience API, or xAPI for short. Here at dominKnow, we’re big supporters of xAPI and we have clients that make great use of it already.xAPI offers so many possibilities for the learning and development industry.

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