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7 ways to make dialog sound natural

Making Change

“Upon examining the data,” your scenario character says, “I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the proposal, specifically its requirement that we induce wombats to fly.” Who talks like that? No one in the real world. However, you might find your scenario characters talking like that in your first drafts. Here’s how to fix it. 1.

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Instructional Design: The Process – 1

Origin Learning

Course creation and delivery have come a long way in the past couple of decades. There have been all types of blend in learning, using all possible avenues from brick-and-mortar classrooms, virtual classrooms, eLearning, digital tutorials, videos, to xAPI tracking all forms of social or informal learning. Instructional Design (ID) is a process or systematic approach to developing the various learning courses or programs.

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What’s New in eLearning – Post #1

Upside Learning

During the past couple of months, we came across some articles, posts, and talks about design and development techniques and tips, platforms, and technologies that we felt might have potential for use in eLearning. While we explore some of them in more depth, we thought we’d go ahead and share them in case you see […].

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3 Questions You Should be Asking About Gamification

Axonify

Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with gamification expert Karl Kapp. The primary focus of the webinar was to look at some of the proof points that tie together gamification and business performance. Over the course of an hour, Karl looked at three original research studies (gathered from over two million data points in Axonify), two case studies ( Toyota Motor Sales and Walmart Logistics ) and one meta-analysis (a study of studies).

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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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4 ways you can engage with your LMS users to get real-world feedback

Kineo

Any good LMS will allow you to regularly view data to help ascertain how successful the site is. Totara LMS, for example, allows you to view reports to see course enrolment and completion, number of logins, and new users. This quantitate data tells you whether your users are adopting and engaging with the LMS and what content is popular, and while this data is great, it doesn’t tell you why your LMS is performing well (or not so well).

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3 Productivity Tools for Training Professionals

Administrate

Why work harder when you can work smarter? As our careers page attests, we’re big advocates of people who just ‘get things done’ A high level of productivity is vital if we’re to continue to deliver success to our customers, especially given that our team works a four day week. Read More. Published on October 20, 2016. The post 3 Productivity Tools for Training Professionals appeared first on Administrate.

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When Should You Use Video in eLearning?

eLearning Brothers

Lights, camera, action…everyone loves a video! And, videos make a great addition to eLearning courses. But is a video always the right option? Not always. Here are five questions to ask before you spend the time (or money) adding video to your course: Will this video help increase learners’ understanding of the topic? First things first, don’t include a video just to add some pizazz to your eLearning course.

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The great leapfrog

Kineo

For sure, there is change in the air. Who isn’t talking about digital transformation? We’re now in the early stages of the fourth industrial revolution after all. With the convergence of people and our digital and physical worlds, by 2020 our colleagues will actually be of the robotic kind (if you believe some of the doomsday articles regularly pushed out in the press).

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Self-regulation & PKM

Clark Quinn

I’m a fan of Harold Jarche’s Seek-Sense-Share (SSS) model for Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM). I was also reading about self-regulated learning , and a proposed model for that. And I realized they could be related. Naturally, I created a diagram. To start with, Harold’s model is oriented around coping with the information flow as a component of learning.

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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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Free ebook – Beginners Guide to elearning

Administrate

It’s hard to escape the ongoing buzz around ‘elearning’ and how it can enhance your training delivery, but knowing where to start with it can be very tricky. We’re big believers in the benefits of elearning, especially when used as part of a blended learning strategy, with that in mind, we’ve Read More. Published on October 19, 2016.

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Automation in LearnDash Courses

LearnDash

A popular buzzword today is “automation”, and in most cases you hear about it in the marketing context. While the concept can be a bit vague, it generally means creating automatic interactions and communication points with customers (or potential customers) based on actions that these individuals take. For example, many companies will add your email as a lead if you opt into one of their free downloads.

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The Power of Free Learnings – Non-SCORM Content

Gyrus

The Power of Free Learnings – Non-SCORM Content. In the modern world, we have access to a wide-variety of free content. There are devoted websites that provide free E-Learnings and there is even a virtual Galaxy full of compliance offerings and operational tutorials on video hosting sites such as YouTube. When evaluating your learning program, are you making the most of what is available to you?

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7 Tips to Avoid the Hidden Costs of LMS Implementation

Docebo

Ditch the unexpected expenses of LMS implementation with these 7 tips. Planning for every eventuality will only get you so far. There are times when the unexpected happens, and takes a bit out of your corporate eLearning budget. This is often the case with the hidden costs of LMS implementation. You’ve already invested a sizable sum into purchasing the software and developing your eLearning materials.

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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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Mind the Product London 2016 – Conference Review

Administrate

As you might have guessed, working in the EdTech sector, the Administrate team loves to learn. As we discussed in our blog post on ‘The How and Why of Attending Conferences‘, a big part of our learning comes from attending industry events, expanding our network and spreading the word about Administrate. Adopting Read More. Published on October 20, 2016.

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Completion Rates Plague MOOCs

LearnDash

People are often quick to give praise to online courses. They are flexible, accessible, and efficient. It is a major reason why massive open online courses (MOOCs) have hundreds of thousands of active students taking courses online. Major universities like Stanford, University of Michigan, Yale (and others) offer online courses because it helps them reach more perspective students and is good for their brand.

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TechSmith Camtasia: Major Upgrade Released

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        It's been years in the making but TechSmith has finally updated Camtasia. and boy is this upgrade worth the wait.   First and foremost, Camtasia for Windows (version 9) and the Macintosh (version 3) are now very similar allowing you to share projects across platforms. And while the version numbers are different (I wish TechSmith had settled on a common version number or name), and there are features that still aren't available in both

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Next book?

Clark Quinn

The time has come to ask: what should be my next book? I’ve written four so far: Engaging Learning was something I felt was needed because people had written about the importance of games but no one was writing about how to design them, and I could. Then, while I wanted to write about elearning strategy, my publisher wanted a book on mobile and I realized one was needed and the other likely candidates deferred.

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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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Why the Real Cost of Your Learning Management System is Higher Than You Think

Absorb LMS

Fifteen years ago, I bought my first–and likely last–home. With two young children and associated desire to have a back yard, a swing, and a tree house, I left the core of a major city and headed to the suburbs. As advised by real estate experts, I bought the lowest-priced house on a great street in an affluent neighborhood, a short block from a lakefront dotted with old trees and multi-million dollar homes.

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Add SSL To Your Website (or Else)!

LearnDash

Google is Changing the Game… Don’t Leave a Target on Your Back! Often I write about the elearning industry’s latest news, tools, tips, tricks, and technology. Occasionally though I like to share insights gained that are more indirectly related. This article falls into that category. The topic I want to talk about is applicable whether you have online courses or not – and that’s implementing SSL ( Secure Sockets Layer ) for your website.

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7 Must Have LMS Features: #7 - Open Source

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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3 Steps for Creating Online Courses Your Students Will Love and Remember

CourseArc

Seth Godin speaking at Business of Software 2010 • Image by Betsy Weber. Renowned marketer, author, online influencer, and thought leader Seth Godin famously wrote: “You don’t find customers for your products. You find products for your customers”. Seth’s advice also applies to creating eLearning content for students. Conducting a needs analysis of your audience is an important part of every instructional design process.

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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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Five more ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence

From the Coleface

Once again I had the privilege to judge the e-learning awards (now called the Learning Technology Awards). When I last judged the compliance category two years ago I wrote Five ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence . It was great to see that many of the entries reflected these five ingredients and the general improvement in learner experience.

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Create a Language Course and Profit

LearnDash

I find that people who speak multiple languages often don’t recognize that they have a greatly desired skill that others would be willing to pay money to learn. It is a major reason why language courses are some of the best selling online courses in the world. Sure, there are major programs like Rosetta Stone and DuoLingo (a personal favorite of mine ), but there is also plenty of room in the market for language courses taught by individuals.

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7 Secrets for Setting and Communicating Priorities

ej4 eLearning

If you’ve ever stayed to finish a report instead of heading off to lunch, gone for a morning run instead of grabbing an extra 20 minutes in bed, or sat through a kid’s school play, you’re familiar with setting priorities. Setting priorities isn’t just about choosing to do one thing over another; it’s about choosing to do important things first so that you can achieve your long-term goals.

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Population Health and CME

Web Courseworks

Part I of the Population Health series introduced the concept of Population Health (PH) and how PH is being applied in healthcare. We’re interested in how Population Health can have an impact on the professional development of medical professionals. Currently, the data needed for Population Health is most likely to be found in EHRs maintained by health providers and, increasingly, in clinical data registries (CDRs) maintained by professional societies and boards.

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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.