Sat.Sep 03, 2016 - Fri.Sep 09, 2016

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The Power of Story in eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Think about the last speech you heard. Do you remember all the facts and statistics? Or, do you remember the details of the story the speaker (hopefully) shared to illustrate their point? I’m willing to bet you recall the story—the problem, the characters, the climax, the solution, and how that story made you feel. It’s a similar situation with eLearning.

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Is Critical Thinking the Key to Instructional Design (And a Better World)?

Infopro Learning

Instructional Designing and Critical Thinking? We all know that thinking comes naturally to us – and has a major role in placing us at the highest hierarchical level among the rest of the species. However, the concept of thinking critically is what distinguishes leaders from ordinary thinkers. This realization was actually enforced recently, while I was talking to my friend.

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How do you create a perfect blend of the various learning components?

Origin Learning

The learning landscape is not constant, shifting the learning focus on learners, learning, skills, goals and attitude. A decade ago, there was a tug of war for the online and the traditional learning. The tussle continues even to this day with the learning modalities of both online and traditional learning overlapping in terms of treatment, elements, and components.

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Top 5 Free and Low-Cost Adobe Captivate 9 Alternatives

JoomlaLMS

Adobe Captivate 9 carries the Adobe name, giving it instant recognition. Like all products, however, even from Adobe, its popularity relies on its usefulness.

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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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Interactivity and the Flipped Classroom

Raptivity

Flipped Classroom, as defined by Wikipedia , is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom. In a flipped classroom, students watch online lectures, collaborate in online discussions, or carry out research at home and engage in concepts in the class

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7 Must Have LMS Features: #1 - Communication Channels

Lambda Solutions

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, if you know which features to look for — but with over 600 options in the LMS market, shopping for a new platform is no easy task. We're going to outlinewhich LMS features allow you to enhance the effectiveness of training delivery, increase learner engagement and retention, enhance the user experience, all while saving time and money.

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The Roadmap From ‘Digital Immigrants’ to ‘Digital Natives’

Administrate

Nearly 15 years ago, educational thought-leader Marc Prensky wrote, in a piece on ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants‘: “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” This statement was apt in 2001 and with technology’s rapid development, it’s perhaps even more valid for many of today’s ‘digital learners’ Read More Published on September 8, 2016.

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The Persistence of Memory

Learningtogo

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory. Where were you on 9/11/2001? I was teaching a virtual class early in the morning from my home in Rio Verde, Arizona. Suddenly, my students started disappearing. I had 20 participants, then 15, then 10, then none. I kept teaching until I had covered all the content, because I knew my client was sitting in and I knew what he expected.

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Fun Compliance Training – A Real Phrase

Gyrus

Fun Compliance Training – A Real Phrase. In life, there are few certainties, one in particular which you will be exposed and subjected to is compliance training. It is not everyone’s favorite and with good reason. Compliance training as we know it is meant to be a boring and highly regimented experience. But as many before me and many after me have pointed out, it does not have to be.

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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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Long-Term Impact Trends in Higher Education

Lambda Solutions

Educause recently published the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition , identifying the key trends, technologies, practices, and challenges in adopting technology in higher education. Here, we will go over the trends in higher education that could have a long term impact on the higher education sector. These trends support a shift towards student-centered learning.

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Adobe Captivate: It Takes a Community

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        One of the biggest complaints I hear constantly about Adobe Captivate is the lack of free support for the tool. Sure there's a  Captivate forum  (where you can search for and post questions on Captivate), there's a  Captivate Blog  (hosted by Adobe. you can learn about Captivate updates, features, and attend free webinars), and free YouTube videos abound.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Deliver Interactive Reference Guides to Store Employees

Inkling

It’s no secret that store employees spend a significant amount of their personal time on mobile phones. While on break, at lunch, or when the work day is over, chances are high that the first thing an employee does is check his or her phone to view new messages and find out what’s trending. The prevalence of mobile devices today and the connected attitude of workers—both young and old—means that a powerful and real-time communication tool is always in hand when off the job.

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A use for 3D Printing in the corporate sector

E-Learning Provocateur

I’ve often wondered about the relevance of 3D printing in the corporate sector because we rarely produce a thing. Our products – such as bank accounts and insurance policies – are essentially 1’s and 0’s floating in the ether. Then I attended a webinar presented by Jon Soong from Makers Empire. This Australian startup is active in the K12 sector, helping teachers bring 3D printing into their classrooms.

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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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The Learning Experience Architect: A New Role for Modern Learning

InSync Training

How are you handling all of the changes in the new Learning and Development landscape? If you’re like me, you’re realizing that having a narrow professional focus isn’t an option anymore. Instead, you’re broadening your approach in order to stay current. The Modern Classroom. Thanks to the introduction of new methodologies and technologies to our toolkits, the time for specialization has passed.

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AVOID THESE GAMIFICATION PITFALLS

Learnnovators

The post AVOID THESE GAMIFICATION PITFALLS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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The Virtual LMS Administrator

Web Courseworks

LMS administrators are a necessity for the successful implementation and upkeep of an LMS. Last year, we talked about the Anatomy of an LMS Administrator as a two-part series, where we got a day-in-the-life glimpse of what an LMS Administrator needs for success. Part One focused on the technical issues that an LMS Administrator will deal with on a regular basis, while Part Two takes an in-depth look at the larger role an LMS Administrator has in implementing and running an LMS.

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eLearning Brothers Wins Two Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards

eLearning Brothers

eLearning Brothers, along with Delorum , worked on an eLearning compliance project for MetaMythic , a company focused on delivering security and CIP training through powerful stories and experiences. This course was recently submitted to the Brandon Hall Group for consideration in their 2016 Excellence in Learning awards. We recently received word back from them that the course won not one, but two awards in two different categories!

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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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Voting for Top Tools for Learning 2016 closing soon

Jane Hart

Voting for the 2016 Top Tools for Learning – the 10th Annual Survey – closes. mid-day on Friday 23 September. that’s in just over two weeks time! Click HERE to find out how to cast your vote. The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2016 will be released on. Monday 3 October.

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Sell Courses Using Facebook Ads

LearnDash

The biggest part of creating an online courses (besides creating it) is to actively market it. In fact, I am a big proponent of marketing the course prior to it even being created. Online marketing can be overwhelming. It seems that nearly everyone says you have to produce content of some sort. Be it in a blog, writing on other sites, videos, or a podcast.

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China is mobile!

Clark Quinn

I’ve had the fortune to be hear in China speaking on mlearning. And there are a couple of interesting revelations that I hadn’t really recognized when I did the same last year that I thought I’d share. For one, while mobile is everywhere like many places, it’s more here. It seems many people carry more than one phone, for a variety of reasons (one fellow said that he carried another because the battery wouldn’t last all day!).

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Boost Business Performance by Revisiting Learning and Development Strategies

Docebo

Improve Business Performance by Revisiting L&D Strategies. To train and retain a capable, confident workforce, organizations need to establish a functional Learning and Development (L&D) strategy. It’s something we’ve discussed at length here at the Docebo blog. Some young, fast-growing organizations may be in the throes of pulling such a strategy together while other large, established businesses may have a long-standing strategy that, to date, has worked for them.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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Kineo and clients shortlisted for Learning Technologies awards

Kineo

Kineo's work with clients has been shortlisted in four categories for the Learning Technologies awards 2016. With over 15 countries represented in a range of sectors, this year's has been called ‘the biggest and most hard-fought over shortlist ever'.

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The Challenge of an Online Business

LearnDash

Starting an online business is the dream for many people. The idea of waking up in the morning to check a few emails, look at sales, and then make yourself some breakfast is quite appealing. But it’s a false reality, at least for successful online businesses. I was inspired to write this post because I was answering a pre-sales message from a perspective customer and they wanted to know how LearnDash compared to a new competing product that they had discovered.

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Out of touch

Clark Quinn

Imagine, for a moment, that you are on a remote site doing work. To get work done, we are increasingly learning, that means working with others. Other people, and other information. So, for example, you might need to find the answer to a question. It might be work related, or even personal but impacting your effectiveness. However, at the site, they don’t use the same information tools you do.

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[Webinar] Modernizing Your Store Operations to Deliver a Consistent Customer Experience

Inkling

Brands that operate multiple store locations, such as retailers and quick service restaurants, understand the importance of a consistent customer experience. Uniformity in operations is the key to delivering superior customer experiences that drive greater sales and build brand loyalty. But how do organizations enforce brand and operational standards across hundreds or potentially even thousands of stores and with such dispersed workforces?

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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.