Sat.Aug 27, 2016 - Fri.Sep 02, 2016

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TechSmith Camtasia: Multiple Object Formatting Made Easy

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        When developing eLearning, one important goal is to ensure consistency from object to object. In addition, unless you're a top-notch designer you should use just a few fonts and a limited color palette. (Lest you run the risk of creating an eLearning lesson that, despite your good intentions, is visually overwhelming to your learners.).

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Presentation Skills: How to Have a Great Learning Experience

Infopro Learning

One of the best articles about presentation skills I’ve seen is “ How to Give a Killer Presentation ,” It appeared in the June 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review and was written by Chris Anderson. He’s the curator of TED, described as a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED talks started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design.

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Ten Tips for Hiring a Stellar eLearning Freelancer by David Wood

LearningGuild

Are you looking for help developing eLearning content? The fast-growing freelance market can provide a wealth of skills and expertise that is cost-effective, flexible, and agile. These 10 tips will help you hire the best eLearning freelancer.

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2016 eLearning Hype Curve Follow Up

Web Courseworks

Last December, we placed some of eLearning’s most interesting trends on the hype curve. Now that we are over halfway through 2016, we felt it was time to reflect on how well our predictions played out here at Web Courseworks as well as the eLearning industry. Innovation Trigger. Physical Simulators and EHR-integrated Performance Improvement Activities – Next Generation CME White Paper.

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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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Book Review: Performance-Focused Smile Sheets

Experiencing eLearning

On a scale from 1 to 5, how useful are your current level 1 evaluations or “smile sheets”? Completely worthless. Mostly worthless. Not too bad. Mostly useful. Extremely useful. Chances are, your training evaluations aren’t very helpful. How much useful information do you really get from those forms? If you know that one of your courses is averaging a 3.5 and another course is averaging a 4.2, what does that really mean?

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What Instructional Designers Really Do

Association eLearning

I want to apologize. I write about instructional design (ID) all the time but I’ve never stopped to explain what Instructional Designers really do. There are numerous definitions for it and many of them are somewhat wordy and technical. So, here’s my personal definition instead: Instructional design is the art/science of making things make sense. That’s it in a nutshell.

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A Cautionary Tale of Putting all Your Training Eggs in One Basket

Administrate

Meet Phil. Phil is 26 and since graduating from University, he’s been working as the sole Training Coordinator for ‘Worksite Safety Success’, a medium-sized health and safety training company, providing Instructor-led Training to construction workers. You may note that Phil looks rather happy (and wonderfully posed). He’s picturing himself Scuba Read More Published on September 1, 2016.

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Getting Into the Flow: How Casual Games Increase Learning Engagement

Axonify

People are more disengaged than ever. A poll by the Gallup organization estimates that in 2015, “the majority (50.8%) of employees were ‘not engaged,’ while another 17.2% were ‘actively disengaged’.” “Actively disengaged” is one of my favorite phrases. I interpret it to mean that a person actually has to work to be disengaged; they have to try to be disengaged.

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Coaching in your Learning and Development Program

Gyrus

The Role of Coaching in your Learning and Development Program. As summer winds down, and the intense heat we have been experiencing here in Virginia starts to subside, it can only mean one thing. For those of you who do not know where I am going with this, it is finally here! The full gauntlet of college football officially kicks off this weekend! As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry?

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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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Calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) for your LMS

Lambda Solutions

If you’re adopting a learning management system (LMS), then chances are you will need to prove the return on investment (ROI). The method for proving ROI of your LMS will depend on the method your company is currently using for training. We’ll explore some of the differences below.

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Putting Trust First

Learning Rebels

First a short story. . This weekend I was out and about when I was hit with the inspiration to make Chili Verde. I had all the ingredients at home, except for tomatillos. This would mean a trip to my favorite market, but it was really out of the way so I decided to stop by another popular store in the area. What a mistake. No, No, No. All I saw upon entering the store, were a series of signs that said no this, no that.

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What it means to transform workplace learning

Jane Hart

This is a re-work of a previous post. There is a lot of talk about transforming workplace learning. But what does it actually mean? A recent Harvard Business Review article, What do you really mean by business “transformation” describes three different “categories of effort, and this is valuable to help us understand workplace learning transformation.

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS. Your learning program has been managing itself for years, or at least that’s what your boss thinks. But you know the dark secret that is lurking barely below the surface. You spend a ridiculous amount of time organizing and determining methods of learning dispersal among personnel within your organization.

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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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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

Performance Learning Productivity

Last Thursday 25th August marked the centenary of the US National Parks Service. The natural beauty of these places across the North American continent is unquestionable. They are amongst some of the greatest treasures the USA and the world possess. But they haven’t always been seen that way. The father of today’s National Parks was John Muir. Born in Dunbar on the south east coast of Scotland, Muir was the son of a Calvinist who believed anything that distracted from Bible studies was frivolous

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Cloud Authoring

Web Courseworks

The “Cloud”. Ever since “the cloud” came to the internet and computer world, it has always had this magic allure. The cloud is a space in the internet that stores your data, can be accessed from anywhere in the world, but it’s intangible. “The Cloud” has been created into a buzzword that people assume refers to a mystical, giant hard drive that floats somewhere deep in our internet’s space-time continuum and makes life very easy for those who want to store and share a lot of data.

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2016 LMS Market Overview

Lambda Solutions

The learning management system (LMS) market is growing fast and it doesn’t look like its about to slow down anytime soon. According to Forbes the LMS market was well over $2.5 billion and will grow to $8 billion by 2018 with North America leading the market share.

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The Changing World of Work

The Performance Improvement Blog

Microsoft and PopTech have created an eight part video series that describes how the world of work is changing, in both the company workplace and the global workplace. . The videos present these eight core themes: Digital technology and an abundance of information are causing profound changes in the way people work. To be competitive, companies are shifting from a focus on “efficiency of process” to a focus on “effectiveness of outcomes.”.

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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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Managing eLearning Projects

CourseArc

Just like most other projects, eLearning projects can quickly become unmanageable – courses grow out of scope or Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to request multiple changes. Why does this happen, and how can it be avoided? Managing expectations is key to ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within scope. Many SMEs do not know much about eLearning; therefore, frequently they do not know what to expect.

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Social Learning: August Pick of the Posts

Jane Hart

The focus of my August Pick of the Posts is social learning, and these posts all include some great graphics too. In It’s Not About “Doing” Social Jane Bozarth (2 August) shows how Pokemon Go gets it right. “Here’s the thing: People talk about their work all the time. And they’ll find someone to talk to about it. They’ll talk about problems.

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GAMIFICATION FOR CORPORATE LEARNING

Learnnovators

The post GAMIFICATION FOR CORPORATE LEARNING appeared first on Learnnovators.

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The Data Behind Game Based Learning

LearnDash

For many people the thought of using “games” in a classroom environment seems like it would be more of a distraction than anything else. I can recall times during grade school when we would have a classroom oriented game and things would get out of hand quickly. Some children would become way too competitive, others would dominate their group, and others still would disengage altogether.

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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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iSpring Authoring Tool and JoomlaLMS. 10% Discount Coupon is inside

JoomlaLMS

Here at JoomlaLMS we are constantly asked to recommend an authoring tool that first, works well with JoomlaLMS Learning Management System, and second, doesn’t break the client’s budget. If the first criterion is easily met (JoomlaLMS is AICC, SCORM 1.2 and 2004 compliant and works fine with any authoring tool supporting those formats), the second one slightly puzzles us as the authoring tools’ prices, in the case of wide functionality, can be over $2000.

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Collaborating when it matters

Clark Quinn

A dear friend and colleague just wrote about his recent (and urgent) chemo and surgery. I won’t bore you with the details (the odds are you don’t know him), but one thing stuck with me that I do want to share. As context, he discovered he had a rare and aggressive cancer, and this ventured into the unknown, with a sense of urgency. He fortunately had access to arguably the world’s best resources on this, but the ‘rare’ bit means that there wasn’t a lot of

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Dr. Jane Bozarth – Show Your Work

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. Dr. Jane Bozarth holds an M.Ed. in Training & Development/Technology in Training and a doctorate in Adult Education. In addition to writing several books on learning best practices, she served as a member of “Training Magazine’s book review team for 10 years and now writes a monthly column, “Nuts and Bolts” for the eLearning Guild’s online “Learning Solutions Magazine”.

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Should We Create ELearning on Mobile?

LearnDash

Over the years there has been a lot of hype around mobile learning, and with good reason as all indicators show that mobile learning is very much on the rise. Employees and students alike aren’t required to sit at a computer to go through an online course. They can access it from anywhere using smartphones and tablets. From the airport, the grocery store, or on the couch.

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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