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TOPYX LMS Survey Reveals 70% of Clients Expect to Grow Their Learning Management System User Base Within 12 Months

TOPYX LMS

The global Learning Management System (LMS) market is expected to grow from $5B in 2016 to $10B in the next five years, according to recent research by MarketsandMarkets. Rising needs in corporate learning and training will help fuel this growth, particularly within the midmarket as management discovers stand alone LMS systems like TOPYX® that can be deployed easily and cost effectively without the need for comprehensive human capital management software investments.

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The Instructional Designer’s Guide to Critical Thinking

Infopro Learning

As Instructional Designers, we have always exhibited critical thinking prowess without realizing how important it is in the larger scheme of things. Now, anybody would assume that this makes us natural critical thinkers, who hold the key to bridging the vast knowledge gap among people round the globe. Right? Well, that’s exactly where we need to stop and do a reality check!

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The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2016 is announced

Jane Hart

It was in 2007 that I compiled the first Top 100 Tools for Learning from the votes of learning professionals worldwide and have done so every year since then. This year to mark the 10th anniversary I have compiled the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2016. The full list appears in the left-hand sidebar; follow the links to find out more about each of the tools.

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How to fix our senseless compliance training

E-Learning Provocateur

All big organisations have a Learning Management System. It’s used to track and record the training that the employees do. In practice, it tends to be used to administer compliance training, though it can be much broader than that. And this is a good thing. Despite the scorn that LMS’s attract, we should be tracking and recording the training that our employees do – especially compliance training.

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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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Are we still the ten percenters?

Kineo

Few theories trip off the tongue of L&D professionals easier than the 70/20/10 principle. The theory was formulated by Morgan McCall and his colleagues at the Centre for Creative Leadership. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of its publication. Although 70/20/10 was never a prescribed model nor an exact science, it's found great success.

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Build Vs. Buy – How To Make a Stress Free Software Decision

Administrate

How can you improve your training operation and de-stress the people around you? One of the obvious answers is to take a look at the systems and procedure you have running within your organisation. Almost immediately, you’ll find yourself evaluating different software options (perhaps several) that promise to save time and Read More Published on October 6, 2016.

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5 Reasons to Embrace Your Perfectly Imperfect e-Learning Course 

Allen Interactions

By Hannah Hunter, Instructional Writer. The Perfect e-Learning Course™ is a legendary creature that changes its shape with each new technological and aesthetic trend. It is all things to all people – classic, yet also fresh, modern, and applicable to all levels of learner experience and skill. I’ve even heard that, when you measure the readability of such a course, the scale doesn’t give you a grade level.

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Gamifying The Compliance Story

Raptivity

With all training, it is important to identify the desired outcome. With compliance training, the buy-in from senior management, from the trainers, and the employees is key. For some, it may be a "check the box" that it is done. This attitude can come from managers and push downward. But, what if it is true? Perhaps the compliance training is to meet an outmoded regulation.

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What are the 5 most powerful didactical principles?

Challenge to Learn

I’m looking for your input, what are the 5 most important didactical principles to apply when creating e-Learning? The reason I’m asking is because we are doing a project to support our users (most of them do not have an e-Learning background) in creating more effective and didactical sound content. I will explain in this post. Easygenerator is an e-Learning authoring tool for people with no e-Learning background.

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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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eLearning: Effective Use of Fonts

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    Different fonts evoke different emotions, and some fonts are more readable than others. There are lots of decisions to be made when choosing fonts for your eLearning projects. Here are a few of my thoughts, to help you make better font choices. Serif vs. Sans Serif. Serifs fonts contain little "tails" on some of the letters, such as those found in Times New Roman.

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Crash Course For Constructive Feedback

Association eLearning

Feedback is a wonderful thing, when you can understand it. When you can’t… To quote Captain Jack Sparrow, “Well that’s even more than less than unhelpful.” You get the idea. Think back to the last time you got feedback on something. Maybe it was suggested revisions for a project or the survey responses for how you did during a speaking engagement. Or maybe it was storyboard revisions for eLearning.

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The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry

Gyrus

The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. We see it all the time in this modern internet age. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Google (via a variety of enterprises) continue to break down the walls and establish new and innovative processes for consumers to integrate int

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Do We Overthink Learning?

LearnDash

Being involved so heavily in the elearning industry means that I get to think quite a bit about how it is we learn and what works best. I have written about many strategies and instruction design tactics of the years. Each one comes with merit touting studies backing-up their claims. Every year there are new apps being released and trendy theories being applied to course creation.

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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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The Importance of Customer Reviews

Administrate

Show of hands, how many of you have candid, honest, reviews of your training courses featured on your website? Nope, not the cherry-picked customer testimonials with glorious quotes about how your training forever changed the life of Mr Smith from London. We’re talking genuine, gritty, honest, not-always-positive reviews that add an extra layer Read More Published on October 6, 2016.

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Because quality matters

Clark Quinn

I was reflecting on some of the actions my colleagues and I take. These are, in particular, colleagues that have been contributing to the field for a long time, ones who know what they’re talking about and that I therefore respect. I retweeted one who called for being careful of the source in message. I’ve supported another who has been on a crusade against myths.

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Challenges faced by Higher Education Institutes & How to Solve Them

Lambda Solutions

Educause recently published the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition, identifying the key trends, technologies, and challenges in adopting technology in higher education. Here, we will go over the challenges faced by higher education institutes in the digital age, and the steps they can take to solve them.

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Use H5P for Engaging LearnDash Courses

LearnDash

One of the hardest things to do in any online course is to keep learners engaged with the content. If you have too many videos, it gets boring. No videos at all and it’s even worse. Images can take you only so far. And while quizzes are a great way to ‘check-in’ with learners, they too can become tedious if they’re used too much.

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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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3 Questions that Keep Product Managers Up at Night

Knowledge Guru

Product managers are passionate people. They are passionate about the products they create and the problems they solve for their customers. Product managers spend thousands of hours researching, testing and developing their products before its time to commercialize. But then it’s time for the hand-off. The success (or failure) of the new product is in the hands of the sales reps, not the people who so carefully and thoughtfully created it.

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Social Learning for Modern Classrooms

InSync Training

Social learning has been happening forever. People learn first, and best, from one another. Think about it: apprenticeship models have taught people trades for centuries, and oral history has imparted age-old wisdom within societies since the early days of humanity. Even though social learning is not a new concept, technology influences how the process occurs in workplace training programs.

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Prevent Cheating in Moodle - Two-Step Authentication

Lambda Solutions

New Moodle Plug-in Helps Prevent Online Cheating. One of the benefits of online learning with Learning Management Systems is that it provides students the flexibility to learn online and take quizzes from home — but it also makes cheating much easier. Educational institutions and industry certification authorities continue to face the problem of cheating on tests.

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Come Join Us at WordCamp Ann Arbor!

LearnDash

Being involved in the WordPress industry means that I have the opportunity to meet people of all kinds of backgrounds and ambitions. This is particularly true at WordCamps – weekend conferences dedicated to all things WordPress. The presentations and conversations at WordCamps are often quite casual, entertaining, and informative. WordCamps are held all over the world so you are usually never too far from one.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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What is the xAPI Standard and Why is it the Future of Learning Technology?

Docebo

Get ahead of the learning technology curve by enabling xAPI in your LMS. Whether in terms of food, music, friends or significant others, we all know standard are important. The same logic applies to choosing a learning management system (LMS) with the right course content packaging tools. Thanks to the Aviation Industry Computer-based Training Committee (AICC) , elearning standards have been in place since 1988.

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Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education

Gyrus

Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education. When we reach our breaking point or time where we decide that we are officially done with our formal education, we often immediately disregard the skillset that made us so successful in school. This is mainly because life in the office-place is very different and entirely more demanding, or at least in terms of outward appearances significantly more time intensive (No disrespect to the all-nighters I used to pull).

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LEARNING DESIGN BEST PRINCIPLES – FROM THE LEARNNOVATORS & QUINNOVATION PROJECT

Learnnovators

The post LEARNING DESIGN BEST PRINCIPLES – FROM THE LEARNNOVATORS & QUINNOVATION PROJECT appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Should Your Courses Have Affiliates?

LearnDash

If you have created an online course… And you’re selling that course… And you want to get the word out about your course… Then chances are you have considered implementing an affiliate program. In fact, a quick look at some of the more successful internet marketers would suggest that having an affiliate program is almost essential for your course to make any sales.

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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.