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Once Upon a Gamified Interstate

Association eLearning

It was a dark and lengthy car ride. I had two and a half hours of nighttime driving ahead of me and I’d had a long day. I needed to stay alert, but my usual staples (cranking up the A/C and putting on high energy music) weren’t enough. I needed something more. So I came up with a game and started playing it right then and there in my car. Goal of the Game.

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5 Tips for Choosing an Awesome eLearning Development Partner

Dashe & Thomson

If you've ever had to augment your internal team's resources by bringing in a vendor to develop eLearning, you know that selecting the wrong partner can cost a lot -- in money, time, and sometimes a bit of your sanity. Finding an eLearning development partner that is highly skilled, cost-effective, and easy to work with can make or break your project.

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3 uses of Virtual Reality in workplace education

E-Learning Provocateur

I’m always surprised when someone makes a sweeping declaration such as “No one’s using virtual reality in the workplace” I heard this very statement recently at an e-learning conference. Yep, an e-learning conference. Sure, VR is an emerging technology, but as 20 real-world examples of Virtual Reality can attest, early adopters are indeed putting it to use in the workplace.

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Creating eLearning Focus Groups: A Practical Guide

eFront

eLearning focus groups are collections of individuals who represent your main learner body and need to be actively involved in your course evaluation. Often, however, we select individuals who are able to comment on only a few aspects of the eLearning course: they provide invaluable feedback on the course aesthetics, but may not have much to say about the content, inevitably creating an evaluation gap.

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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 add the WoW factor to your CV and your learning

Saffron Interactive

So for those of you who’ve been living on one of Saturn’s moons for the last 12 years, World of Warcraft (or WoW for the indoctrinated) is what’s known as. The post How to add the WoW factor to your CV and your learning appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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ID and E-Learning Links (7/17/2016)

Experiencing eLearning

60 Free Outline Icon Sets Perfect for Contemporary Designs – Design School. Free icon sets. Some of these are very specific (Christmas and New Years), but several large sets are included that would work for elearning. tags: icon graphics free. Fix – Firefox compatibility & Smart Shape b… |Adobe Community. How to fix the bug with smart shape buttons in responsive Captivate projects (slides with smart shape buttons appear blank in Firefox). tags: firefox adobe captivate howto respo

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Pokémon Go: 3 Lessons for Instructional Designers

Allen Interactions

By Edm ond Manning , Senior Instructional Strategist. Surely you’ve heard the news stories. Pokémon Go players lured to robberies or stepping blindly into traffic. On Facebook, I read a friend’s post describing how her car was rear-ended at a stoplight. Yes, the driver was playing Pokémon Go. Yes, he confessed this to the police, alleviating my friend from any responsibility.

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4 ways microlearning can empower employees and drive training success

Docebo

Microlearning reinforces critical knowledge in bite-sized chunks to increase retention. Microlearning is the hottest new trend in the learning and development industry. Critical information delivered in short relevant bursts can drastically improve learning outcomes and ensure that information is actually retained, which has been the main issue with more traditional seminar and workshop type approaches.

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Curated Insights: How will Pokemon GO influence workplace learning?

Axonify

It may only be a few weeks old, but Pokemon GO has already claimed its spot as the most talked-about app of 2016. With more than 15 million active users who play for 34 minutes per day on average , Pokemon GO has a more engaged user base than Snapchat or Facebook. Meanwhile, Forbes estimates that the app generates $1.6M in daily revenue. I have long been a proponent of gaining L&D inspiration from the consumer application of technology.

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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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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge: Day 9 – Puppy Support

Learning Rebels

. It’s day 9 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Puppy Support. Well, I’m back home and my furbabies are quite happy! Ollie and Jack! Always there with puppy support and encouragement. Their undying puppy support and encouragement is what inspired this last vlog. The world needs more encouragement and support. People in our industry need our encouragement and support.

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Exploring eLearning Outsourcing? Look for Innovation

Upside Learning

‘Outside resourcing’ or Outsourcing as it’s popularly known, has been around since the 1980s. However, ‘eLearning Outsourcing’ gained prevalence in the 2000s, and has increased over time with the growth of the Internet, the extensive use of computers and later on with that of other devices in different spheres. We, at Upside Learning, have been […].

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Partner Problems – 5 Common Challenges Channel Networks Face

Docebo

Five common complications faced by channel partner network managers, and how to avoid them. Partner channels provide a cost-effective way to globalize your business by pairing with aligned organizations to sell products and services. However, these partnerships can present challenges that must be addressed to ensure a mutually beneficial relationship.

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100 Twitter accounts for Philomaths (Lovers of Learning)

Jane Hart

A philomath is a lover of learning. A philomath is not synonymous with a polymath ; a philomath is a seeker of knowledge and facts, while a polymath is a possessor of knowledge in multiple fields. (Wikipedia). Here are 100 Twitter feeds to follow for philomaths, the curious and those who would like to improve their general knowledge – from both institutions and individuals – some with a twist and many that will bring you a daily dose of learning!

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge: Day 8 – Travel Day

Learning Rebels

. It’s day 8 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Travel Day. Today was travel day. A four hour flight from California back home to Illinois. Whenever there is a travel day, there are a lot of moments that make me shake my head. Questions that fill my brain… Why do people just stop in the middle of the concourse to check their phones or try to read signs?

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Authoring Tool/ Framework Selection for Responsive eLearning Development: Lectora 16

Upside Learning

In our earlier posts , we looked at the features, advantages, and limitations of Adapt and Evolve authoring tools for responsive eLearning. In this post, we’ll take a look at the latest version of Lectora (version 16), through which we can develop responsive output for smartphones, tablets, and desktops. Lectora 16 Lectora was the first […].

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Webinar: How to Drive Sales Growth by Integrating Your LMS and CRM

Docebo

Integrate your LMS and CRM to drive revenue by effectively managing training for sales staff, partners and customers. Your CRM is essential for tracking and reporting on sales performance. Your LMS is essential for training your salespeople, partners and customers who deliver those sales results. Integrating your CRM with your LMS provides a critical link between the two most important tools for driving overall sales performance.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

Gyrus

In the ever-changing climate of business, it is vital that organizational members are able to adapt to their surroundings. At the end of the day, it is the experience of ourselves and our colleagues that make the difference between industry acceptance and being just another small fish in the industry pond. The best way to ready ourselves for this shifting environment is Continuous Learning.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge Day 10 & 11: Building Excitement

Learning Rebels

. It’s day 10 & 11 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Building Excitement. It would seem like I have broken a rule. Two posts, one day. Well, that’s what a Learning Rebel does…adjusts the rules for a positive outcome! Positive Deviance! I found myself one day behind in the challenge. It’s my challenge and I’m one day behind???

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Psychology of Corporate eLearning: 5 Things to Consider

eLearning Brothers

There comes a point in time when our inner voice starts whispering: “You are not clever and interesting enough. You’ll undergo degradation if you don’t start learning anything new right now!” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? It’s not about learning how to prepare for life. It’s about learning a set of new skills or improving the existed ones to succeed in career and stay competitive on the market.

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Alipay adds 500 million new customers for your LMS ecommerce business

Docebo

China is ready to learn, and with Alipay you can sell the knowledge they want. With the latest update, Docebo added support for China’s most used digital wallet service, Alipay. With one simple integration, Docebo added 500 million potential customers in China to your LMS hosted elearning ecommerce business. Integrating Stripe and Alipay with the Docebo LMS adds tremendous value to our customers interested in selling their elearning materials in China.

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Little and often: the learning diet that advocates bitesize nuggets at regular intervals

Kineo

It’s long been advised that learning should be split into bitesize chunks that are easier to digest. But what about when we should consume these? The combination of short assets and a spaced practice to digest them is becoming de rigeur in learning circles. So what does this mean for how we design learning programmes?

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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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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge: Day 6 – It’s About Perspective

Learning Rebels

It’s day 6 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – It’s About Perspective. Today the daughter and I went to Universal Studio’s City Walk. This time we went with a good friend of mine and we picked up a souvenir that became the basis of my aha moment today. I’m very interested in your opinion about other people’s perspective, and how we can best address this perspective when it doesn’t agree with our own.

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Part 5: Managing Virtual Classroom Strategy Implementation Challenges

InSync Training

Recently InSync Training worked with a multinational software company to maximize the value of their existing learning content by transitioning it to the virtual and blended classroom. During this process, we discovered seven specific areas that we needed to address to facilitate this transition. We believe these challenges are universal to virtual classroom implementation.

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Monday Morsels – Avoid Employee Lawsuits and Breaches In Security

Edmego Learning

Monday Morsels. Security Breach Because of a Lack of Compliance Training. Is your company’s information protected? Is it secure? Do your employees know the security protocols for your organization? This morsel I read by Lowcards triggered some thoughts for me. This expression struck me: “ Most of those surveyed still do not believe their employees know enough about their company’s security risks “ There are way too many opinions floating out there when it comes to co

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The Power of Beliefs

The Performance Improvement Blog

Beliefs shape work behavior and influence the culture of an organization. If you want a culture in which employees are learning, developing, and contributing to the organization’s success, you need to address the beliefs that they carry in their heads, and whether, according to Chris Argyris , their espoused theory (what they say they believe) and their theory-in-use (beliefs that direct actual behavior) are congruent.

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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