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Must-have skills for User Experience (UX) design in eLearning

eFront

The hype about User Experience (UX) design skills is not at all exaggerated. The good news is that anyone with eLearning development skills can train to improve their UX strategies. UX designers have a deeper understanding of user – technology interaction preferences. They understand the nuances of interface features and obstructions. They can advise very well on UX needs of a browsing situation.

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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: How eLearning Puts Job-Seekers Ahead

OpenSesame

Let’s be honest; trying to find a job is scary. The thought of an interview alone is enough to make millions of people around the world break into a cold sweat. In addition to the intimidating screening and interviewing process, people often doubt whether they have the qualifications to succeed at a potential job. Companies preach that prospective employees must have the necessary KSA’s– knowledge, skills and abilities– to be successful.

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How to Train and Develop Millennials

Gyrus

How to Train and Develop Millennials. Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. There are some really fun ones out there, about how millennials are weaker than their parents, and how their neurological wiring explains their short attention spans. Most importantly these articles are mostly drawn up in the marketing world, and with good reason.

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ID and E-Learning Links (8/21/16)

Experiencing eLearning

Best Practices for Effective PowerPoint Presentations Assessment | Think Outside The Slide. A lengthy and thorough checklist for effective PowerPoint presentations. Although the list is set up by asking if you “not often” or “almost always” follow the best practices in general, you could easily adapt this as a checklist for reviewing a specific presentation. tags: powerpoint presentation.

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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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The 20 Must-Have Moodle Plugins

Lambda Solutions

One of the greatest thing about Moodle’s Open-Source framework, other than the cost savings, is the ability to customize your online courses to your exact specifications. Hundreds of custom third-party plugins are offered for free by Moodle contributors, which once installed, can change the look, feel and functionality of your Moodle to suit your organizations personal learning requirements.

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Integrating LMS and CRM Systems for Optimal ROI

Docebo

Leveraging Data to Reveal the ROI of LMS and CRM Integration. As we recently discussed, siloed enterprise management systems seem to be in their dying days. It’s no longer sufficient for standalone systems to function individually, separate from other systems that keep an operation up and running and up to speed. And in few areas is this more apparent than with the near-ubiquitous CRM systems we see in place across enterprises of all sizes.

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Authoring Tool/ Framework Selection for Responsive eLearning Development: Captivate 9

Upside Learning

We’ll end our series on responsive eLearning authoring tools with a look at the features, advantages, and limitations of Captivate 9. In our earlier posts, we looked at Adapt, Evolve, Lectora 16, Elucidat, and gomo. Captivate 9 Captivate 9, a proprietary tool from Adobe, supports a desktop-first approach with page turning navigation. It offers a […].

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Learning Management Systems Promote Knowledge Sharing

TOPYX LMS

There are few intangible things that are as sought after in the corporate world as good company culture. Leaders know that their organizations’ ultimate success and growth is dependent upon culture, not solely, but majorly. F. John Reh wrote, “ Company culture is important because it can make or break your company. Companies with an adaptive culture that is aligned to their business goals routinely outperform their competitors.

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Motivating Online Learners – the MUSIC Model

B Online Learning

This blog was inspired by one of our Master eLearning Course (MEC) students, Catharina. She wrote a fantastic blog post (in our online learning community) reflecting on her own actions and practice when trying to motivate students completing online courses. Catharina questioned how do we motivate ‘adult learners where the course isn’t compulsory and there […].

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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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Interactive video – not just for popstars

Kineo

Have you been on the perfect date with Honda? Have you helped fill Ellie Goulding's world with colour? Or maybe a spot of Scandi house-snooping has tempted you to revolutionise your storage space with IKEA. .

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Social Media: Searching for Work on LinkedIn

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    As a freelancer, people are always asking me how I find work. The answer for me has two parts:  I have a strong LinkedIn profile. I have a small pool of recruiters who know my skill set and find work FOR me. That is where you want to be: having people looking for work FOR you.  In this series of articles, I'm going to share some of my LinkedIn job-hunting tips with you.

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Learning Management Systems Promote Knowledge Sharing

TOPYX LMS

There are few intangible things that are as sought after in the corporate world as good company culture. Leaders know that their organizations’ ultimate success and growth is dependent upon culture, not solely, but majorly. F. John Reh wrote, “ Company culture is important because it can make or break your company. Companies with an adaptive culture that is aligned to their business goals routinely outperform their competitors.

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5 Key Traits of Digital Learners

Administrate

Millennials, the Net Generation, Digital Natives, Digital Learners – however you label them, the modern learner is evolving. Is your organisation and training programme evolving to accommodate them? Organisational change is a massive challenge, especially change at the same pace as that of technological advancement. Scott Brinker, Editor of Marketing Technology blog chiefmartec.com, proposed Read More Published on August 25, 2016.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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Modern Workplace Learning is Not Just About Technology

Axonify

It’s about keeping up with the needs of people. This statement was at the heart of our most recent webinar: 9 Essential Principles for Modernizing Your Learning Ecosystem , presented by our Principal Learning Strategist, JD Dillon. So how can you make your learning ecosystem people-centric? Here are three ideas that JD shared during the webinar: See employees as people first and employees second – People have flaws, it’s sometimes harder to admit that if you think of us as employees first.

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eLearning: Is it Time to Jump on the xAPI Bandwagon?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Megan Torrance      xAPI and the Tin Can Project. it's possible that you've been hearing about these terms for years. Or maybe someone just dropped one or both terms into a conversation and you're feeling left out. It's okay. Few eLearning developers have ever developed or seen an eLearning project that uses xAPI.

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10 Reasons to Use an Online Review Tool

eLearning Brothers

If you are still using spreadsheets to collect feedback from stakeholders, there is a better way. Over the last few years services have sprung up to help you create better courses by simplifying the process of collecting feedback from team members, clients, SMEs, and others. Some of the most popular are: ReviewMyElearning.com , ReviewLink , OQAR , and CourseInspector.

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The Modern Workplace Learning Challenge

Jane Hart

Challenge Road Sign with dramatic clouds and sky. THE PUBLIC CHALLENGE RUNS 5 SEPTEMBER – 25 NOVEMBER. (or email Jane.Hart@C4LPT.co.uk to organise a private, bespoke challenge for your team). Modern Workplace Learning doesn’t just mean modernizing training and e-learning, but radically changing the way you think about and support learning in the organisation.

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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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A Conversation with Allessandria Polizzi

Kapp Notes

I had a great conversation the other day with Allessandria Polizzi. Who has had an interesting career working with a variety of organizations including 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut. We talked about the industry, talent management, her exciting new venture and the upcoming “Silver Tsunami” Here are some of the highlights. Kapp: You have been in the field of Learning and Development and Talent Development for a number of years, what types of projects do you find the most interesting and chal

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Improving Performance in the Workplace

Web Courseworks

Performance improvement is defined as “the systematic process of identifying and analyzing the root causes of performance issues, and implementing big picture solutions across an organization.” A definition is helpful to understand performance improvement, but how does it actually occur and function in the workplace? Steps to successfully improve performance: Consider institutional context.

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10 Principles of Organizational Learning DNA

The Performance Improvement Blog

How do we know if an organization has the “DNA” that predisposes it to organizational learning? Gary Neilson and Jaime Estupinan have been studying and writing about "organizational DNA" for the past 10 years. They explain the term this way: We use the term organizational DNA as a metaphor for the underlying organizational and cultural design factors that define an organization’s personality and determine whether it is strong or weak in executing strategy.

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Three Tips to Avoid the “Dark Side” of Microlearning

Allen Interactions

By. Ellen Burns-Johnson , Instructional Designer /. @EllenBJohnson So you’re thinking about creating. microlearning. Maybe your learners demand it. Maybe your superiors are giving you thinly-veiled suggestions. Maybe the Galactic Empire showed up at your planet and now you need to quickly train a squadron of rebels to fight back.

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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

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#1 Consideration When Migrating an LMS

LearnDash

Making changes in the software that runs your business can be a very stressful decision. The larger your organization, the bigger the project. This is particular true with learning management systems. If you are in a company with thousands of employees and they all have to access the LMS at some point then you are looking at a migration that could take months, not weeks.

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Unleashing Creativity to Boost Performance and Engagement

ej4 eLearning

This is a story about finding creativity in something that normally does not come across as imaginative nor inventive: templates. The story starts almost 20 years ago, when a trio of Israeli researchers working at The Jerusalem School of Business Administration set out to see if good advertisements—the ones that seem the most creative, the most inspired, and that have the most impact—could be generated by a process that was teachable.

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The rise of the MWL Intrapreneur

Jane Hart

I recently read a powerful blog post by Helen Blunden called Learning & Development need to get their groove back. Helen is the recipient of the inaugural Jay Cross Memorial Award, and has wide experience both of working within L&D and more recently as a external consultant. All of which has led her to the conclusion. “the more I’m working and talking with other businesses, professions, and industries outside L&D, it’s becoming painfully obvious that we are falling behind”.

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Trying out videos

Clark Quinn

DevLearn , the elearning conference I’ll be attending in November, has suggested adding videos to promote your talks. I haven’t done much with video (though I did just do this <6 minute one about my proposed learning pedagogy), but I’ve found the ‘narrated presentation’ capability built into Keynote to be of interest, so I’ve been playing with it.

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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.