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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

If you’re new to eLearning or online training, it can seem like you’re wading through alphabet soup with all the various anagrams and terminology used in this industry. SCORM, LMS, AMS, LCMS, API, JITT, what does it all mean?! Grab a spoon, and let’s dig in to the soup, with this eLearning glossary. eLearning -Also referred to as internet-based learning, web-based learning, and online learning is any training or education delivered via computer.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 1 Anxiety

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety, (Part 2 Information Overload coming May 17th). The Anxiety of a New Job. Although it might sound counterintuitive, the anxiety that employees feel to perform on the job at the outset of a training program actually helps them to retain information more effectively. 1,2. This makes the curve of anxiety the most crucial stage of a training program.

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Research Shows Companies Should Encourage Social Learning

TOPYX LMS

Knowledge is attained very differently today than it was in the past. Modern students sit in classrooms for hours at a time as information is fed to them through lectures and PowerPoint presentations. How different this type of modern information transmission is from that of centuries past when behaviors and theories were learned by observation and practice.

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ID and E-Learning Links (5/8/16)

Experiencing eLearning

The More People We Connect with on LinkedIn, the Less Valuable It Becomes. Many users are beginning to discover, however, that a larger number of social network connections may be less valuable than a smaller, more intimate circle. With an enormous collection of friends or followers on a network, you lose the benefits of intimacy, discoverability, and trust, all of which can work better when you have fewer connections.

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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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6 Tips To Improve Customer Service With Online Training

Docebo

How To Improve Customer Service With Online Training. The quality of your customer service has the potential to make or break your business. A negative experience can lead to bad word of mouth, unfavorable online reviews, and high customer complaint rates. A positive experience, on the other hand, has the power to boost your sales, increase customer loyalty, and ensure the future success of your organization.

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The Future of Work and Learning 1: The Professional Ecosystem

Jane Hart

“Each of us is the center of the universe. So is everyone else.” e e cummings. In my previous post I looked at the individual’s perspective of workplace learning and included a graphic showing how individuals learn at and for work in 10 main ways. Essentially, I was describing a Professional Ecosystem (PES) – a set of organisational and personal, interconnecting and interacting elements – content, people, software, services, apps, etc – that helps an individual. do their

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Webinar Preview: Beyond Multiple Choice Questions

Web Courseworks

Clark Aldrich. On May 31st, our Managing eLearning: Thought Leaders series will continue with the webinar “Beyond Multiple Choice Questions” by Clark Aldrich. This guest post by Clark serves to provide an overview of the upcoming webinar. Register Here for the FREE webinar on May 31st. Multiple choice questions have been a mainstay of assessments and other knowledge checks because they are relatively easy to produce, can be graded automatically, and the results are easily comparable.

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5 Reasons Why ILT Remains Vital

Administrate

The continued growth of elearning is impressive, with recent studies suggesting a 11% compound annual growth rate in the global corporate elearning market expected until at least 2020. Technology’s widespread adoption in learning is further reinforced by another study confirming that just 3% of over 300 companies surveyed “have no plans to Read More.

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E-Learning Interaction Building Tools Comparison

Raptivity

An eLearning course looks incomplete without interactions. No one likes to take a boring page turner course. Interactions help in making the course engaging and collaborative. They foster active learning through a meaningful interchange between the course and learners. We are excited to bring out the first ever Interaction Building Tools Comparison.

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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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SaaS LMS – A Must-have for Training Companies (Presentation)

Upside Learning

Exactly 3 weeks back I had written a blog post – 10 Reasons why Training Companies must invest in a SaaS LMS. Soon after it was published, I realized that it lent itself pretty well for a presentation format. And so, without any ado, the content was rewritten from a presentation perspective, images added, and […].

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Policy Management For HR Nerds…Wait…Am I Allowed To Say That?

Edmego Learning

Policy Management For HR Nerds…Wait…Am I Allowed To Say That? Policy management is an absolutely crucial tool for human resource departments. Without it employees open themselves up to all kinds of potential lawsuits. Too many employees pull the ignorance clause on their company’s and then the HR department is struggling to provide the necessary documentation to legal counsel.

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5 Tips to Leverage eLearning in your Organization with Moodle

Lambda Solutions

Moodle isn’t just for the higher education sector, it’s used by countless organizations in healthcare, enterprise, and even non-profit arenas to ensure employees are provided with learning opportunities to meet their performance goals. If you are in the market for a learning management system that meets your unique learning needs, this blog will provide you with an overview of some of the many benefits you will gain from implementing Moodle into your organization.

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

Gyrus

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook.

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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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Captivate 9 – What’s Improved and What’s New!

Upside Learning

The new version of Captivate, Version 9, has a lot of new features and enhancements over Version 8. Apart from introducing ‘Captivate Draft‘, which helps you to quickly create wireframe storyboards on iPads and review them with your SMEs, this version also has an all new Asset Library that gives access to 25000+ images, SVG […].

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Microlearning: The Resources You Need to Plan and Execute Future Learning Projects

Allen Interactions

With the realization of a new-age learning style, microlearning has been a huge trend in the realm of learning development and e-learning. If you Google ‘microlearning resources’ you will see over 88,000 results populate. The sheer volume of information makes it challenging to decipher and find credible information and sources.

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Is Customer Delight your Goal?

Origin Learning

How would you feel if your technology talks your language? What if there’s a medium that can make you participative and groom you personally and professionally? What if organizations are enabled to come out of their cocoons? What would you do to ‘liberate’ yourself from the clasp of a closed environment to a world that is zestful, transparent, and collaborative?

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Creating a Leaderboard in Storyline Using Tin Can API

Learnnovators

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of gamifying a course? Points? Badges? Scores? Levels? While all of this can be added in a course, it is not until you include a leaderboard that the gamification experience feels ‘complete’. With a leaderboard, there is a social element involved, with users pitched against one another, and engaged in constructive competition with their peers.

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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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16 Metrics of Healthy Customer Service-Oriented Businesses: Part One

Inkling

At Inkling, enabling operational excellence for enterprise companies is what we’re all about, and helping them deliver first-rate customer experiences is key. So when we came across Forbes’ blog post identifying five crucial customer-centric employee traits , we were intrigued. Duly inspired, we have compiled our own list of metrics that define a healthy customer service-oriented business.

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H5P

CourseArc

We recently discovered H5P , which allows you to create, share, and reuse interactive HTML content. Anyone can setup a free account with H5P or you can install it as a plugin to WordPress or Drupal. H5P allows you to create a variety of different content types. Check out two examples below: Sample Image with Interactive Hotspots. Sample Interactive Video – Check out 3:23 and 4:57. .

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Customer Experience Key to Product Design

Origin Learning

Let’s start by presuming that your social learning flight has taken off. We are just as eager as you are to share our experience that could perhaps shape your learning curve. What if you had learning at your fingertips, quite literally? Imagine what the compelling ‘touches’ and ‘swipes’ could actually do to hook and keep your learners engaged!

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Articulate Storyline: "Drop Correct" and "Drop Incorrect" States

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kal Hadi     Perhaps you're already familiar with states in Articulate Storyline such as normal, hover, down, visited, hidden, and disabled, but not quite acquainted or aware of two additional object states known as "Drop Correct" and "Drop Incorrect." Let's discuss where, how, and when to take advantage of these states.

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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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Culture of Learning Research from ATD & i4cp

The Performance Improvement Blog

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) and Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) collaborated on a study of a “culture of learning” in organizations and the impact of that culture on performance. They define a culture in this way: A culture of learning, or learning culture, is one in which employees continuously seek, share, and apply new knowledge and skills to improve individual and organizational performance.

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Ongoing Evaluation

CourseArc

At CourseArc we have created hundreds of engaging online modules for our clients and in this process we have found that many K-12 organizations, universities, and corporate training departments have few to no resources with formal training in instructional design. That’s why we are excited to release our free, self-paced course , titled Principles of Instructional Design: A Roadmap for Creating Engaging eLearning Content.

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Curated Insights: Why knowledge sharing at work is a good thing

Axonify

Knowledge sharing has always been an important part of the workplace. Historically, organizations have relied heavily on tenured employees and legally required documentation to help people do their jobs. However, as organizations continue to go global and roles become more and more complex, this dated approach just doesn’t work anymore. The best information remains locked away in the minds of your top performers, only to walk out the door when they leave the company.

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Adobe Captivate 9 Introduction Video Course Now Available on Adobe KnowHow

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Get a Jump-Start On Mastering This Awesome eLearning Development Tool! If you're looking to learn Adobe Captivate. and quickly. this beginner course is for you. During the 6 chapters that make up this course you'll learn how to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch. The lesson will include adding slides, applying themes, adding images and text, and adding interactive buttons.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.