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3 Questions to Consider Before Developing New eLearning

Association eLearning

Developing new eLearning is a big undertaking. While it may be tempting to dive right in and start designing, it’s important to answer several critical questions first. Having a solid grasp on your goals and resources keeps the project on target and getting these answers early on gives you the information you need to create a detailed plan. With that in mind, here are some general questions, and some specific ones, you should ask before you begin.

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15 Benefits of eLearning: Time to convince the naysayers!

TalentLMS

eLearning is beginning to seep into the very basis of knowledge development and technology innovation. With the passage of time, scholars and researchers have conducted numerous longitudinal studies to demonstrate the benefits of eLearning. In this article, we’ll share with you the latest benefits outlined by researchers in the field of eLearning. .

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2 Things Good Leaders Do to Create a Great Workplace

Infopro Learning

We all want to work in a great place. In our current 2016 jargon, this also is called striving for a “culture of employee engagement.” Articles and books abound in providing theories, research results and outcomes on productivity and profitability, motivating us to put certain practices into place. Expensive? Not really. Hard to do? Definitely!

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What is 70:20:10 and How Can Your Organization Benefit From It?

Docebo

An LMS Supporting the 70:20:10 Framework Will Engage Your Learners and Fuel Your Business. Training employees, whether through a part of onboarding or promotion, can be stressful, but it’s important that your learners are engaged and retaining the required knowledge. We talk a lot about the 70:20:10 learning model, and we know it works, but training professionals in much of the world have yet to adopt this approach.

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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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6 Reasons Mobile Learning appeals to Modern Learners

InSync Training

The mobile explosion is sweeping the globe. Here in the U.S., statistics from Pew Research tell us that 64 percent of American adults now own a smartphone of some kind. This proliferation of mobile devices - coupled with the rise of the millennial generation - has ushered in the era of the modern learner. No longer content with having to absorb large chunks of learning content served up on a desktop computer, modern learners prefer to consume “bite-sized” lessons on the tablet or smartphone of t

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Top 3 Reasons for Replacing eLearning Providers

Upside Learning

The latest Brandon Hall Report is a revelation for all who are interested in the eLearning outsourcing landscape. It breaks some myths that had so far clouded the path towards outsourcing, one of the popular one was that cost drives eLearning outsourcing. On the contrary the study found that quality, innovation, trust etc. play the […].

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Leverage Web Conferencing Integrations In Your LMS to Accelerate Learning

Docebo

An LMS with multiple web conferencing integrations will boost your learner’s engagement. A learning management system (LMS) with web conferencing features will benefit your company by adding a social aspect to your learning and development. Studies show synchronous elearning engages your employees and helps them retain the knowledge required for their position.

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The Importance of Training and Development for Start-ups

Gyrus

The Importance of Training and Development for Start-ups and Small Businesses. With the hectic nature of start-up organizations today, one can easily make a claim that it is never too early to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured Learning, Training, and Development program. When starting out with a blank slate or attempting to move an organization into a direction in which they have never been.

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Managing eLearning: Fall Webinar Series

Web Courseworks

Web Courseworks is proud to present our Managing eLearning Fall Thought Leaders Series. The guests that we bring in to speak are leaders in the eLearning industry and come from a variety of backgrounds. Here are the highlights to look forward to this fall: Cloud Authoring. Who’s talking: Paul Schneider and Jon Aleckson. What’s it about: Dr. Schneider and Dr.

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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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Authoring Tool/ Framework Selection for Responsive eLearning Development: Elucidat

Upside Learning

Our earlier posts looked at the features, advantages, and limitations of Adapt, Evolve, and Lectora 16 for responsive eLearning authoring. This time, we’ll take a look at Elucidat, an easy-to-use WYSIWYG tool for authoring responsive eLearning. Elucidat Elucidat is a true WYSIWYG editor, which means that what you see as an author is pretty close […].

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Report: Integrating your CRM and LMS to Drive Sales and Fuel Performance

Docebo

Uncover the Real Profit Producing Power of your CRM With an LMS Integration. In his new publication, David Patterson of the elearning consultancy and training firm Learning Light examines the growing popularity of customer relationship management tools, despite widespread low adoption, and reveals how a learning management system can help companies guarantee these powerful tools are contributing to growing revenue while helping to cut administrative costs.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 28: Just Do It!

Learning Rebels

It’s Day 28 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Just do it! There are only a couple of days left in the 30 Day challenge for me. I’m sure I’ll be reflecting on what I learned and the goals that I set personally. Giving myself more than a few moments of reflection. There have been a few people who have stuck with it, and I’ll talk about those brave souls on day 30.

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Empowering Employee-Led Learning

Jane Hart

Over the last 10 years (since I’ve been running my Top 100 Tools for Learning survey) I’ve written lots of posts and articles about how the way the Web is changing the way we learn. And recently there have been a number of other studies that have concurred with my findings! One of my own recent posts considered the individual’s perspective of workplace learning and how L&D departments can learn from this to modernize their own practices.

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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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Making eLearning More Engaging for the Technical Learner

CourseArc

It is not a secret that most technical subject matter including training for new software, tools, or applications is boring. While all eLearning courses must be instructionally sound, fun, and engaging, technical training is much harder to design as the content is almost always dull and, at the same time, extremely critical for accurately performing the job.

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Four Instructional Design Lessons Inspired by the Lord of the Rings

Allen Interactions

By Kody Jackson, MA, Instructional Writer Intern. Instructional design is a lot like The Lord of the Rings. This isn’t the most obvious of comparisons, I’ll admit. Everyone in Middle Earth, after all, rides around on horses. We certainly don’t get to do that here at Allen Interactions.at least not until the Culture Committee puts in that petting zoo I’ve been begging for.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge: Day 26 – My Dying Plant

Learning Rebels

It’s Day 26 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – My Dying Plant. Today is the day. I couldn’t pass up it’s sad leaves any longer. You see, I have a pretty good green thumb, for plants that grow outside. Then, even those plants are categorized into two levels: plants I can eat and perennials (plants that come back year after year).

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Yesterday’s Procrastination – Today’s Waste of Time

Edmego Learning

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday ~~ Don Marquis. This is one of my new favorite quotes. We are all guilty of procrastinating in one way or another. There may be parts of our job that we hate doing but we have no choice. We hate working on our taxes so we put it off until tomorrow. We may be assigned projects that just seem tantamount to climbing a mountain and so we say to ourselves: “I will do it tomorrow.

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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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Top 5 Reasons Why Your Enterprise Content Needs to Be on HTML5

Inkling

Within the last year, we’ve seen the biggest players moving towards HTML5 to provide rich, cross-platform web applications – Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and YouTube just to name a few. The snowball effect continuous as enterprise companies move away from Flash. To further increase the mobile experience of users, enterprises need to re-evaluate the existing process of creating and distributing content. 1.

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JoomlaLMS vs Guru LMS vs King LMS vs Shika LMS

JoomlaLMS

“Do you have a side by side comparison of JoomlaLMS and Guru LMS?”. “I am comparing JoomlaLMS and King LMS”. “How is JoomlaLMS different from Shika LMS?”. These are only a few examples of the pre-sale requests we get at the JoomlaLMS website.

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Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

The Performance Improvement Blog

Improving employee learning and performance in organizations today means systems change. I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.), external inputs (home life, economy, social network, competition, etc.), and the quality of the learning interventions (formal training, coaching, mentorin

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 27: Dust Bunnies

Learning Rebels

It’s Day 27 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Dust Bunnies! My office is driving me crazy. I’m not the most organized person, but now it’s straining even my easy-going nature. I suppose this is good news, I have a variety of projects and proposals that need attention. Therefore, my desk is scattered with notes, sticky notes, and other assorted pieces of paper.

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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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TechSmith Camtasia: Backing Up and Sharing Projects

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        While producing a Camtasia project, assets such as videos, images, and audio clips can be imported from your hard drive, a network drive, or other external resource. During the development process, I always encourage my students to backup the project as often as possible (I backup at least once a day). Backing up a project can be as simple as dragging the project folder from your local drive to a network drive.

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Using Curation to Make Sense of Content Overload

InSync Training

BYTE Session Recap. Today’s workforce is learning in new ways, and it’s deeply impacting the way Learning and Development professionals need to approach training. Not only do we need to design effective traditional learning programs, but we also need to provide structure to the informal learning taking place on a daily basis in our organizations. Recently, Sarah Danzl, Director of Enterprise Marketing and Communications at Degreed , provided a timely recommendation for managing this changing lan

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What's the Difference Between Moodle and Totara LMS?

Lambda Solutions

If at any point you have researched cloud hosted learning management systems, there’s a good chance you’ve come across both Moodle and Totara LMS. Moodle is the world’s most popular LMS, with over 85 million users across the globe. Totara was built off of Moodle’s foundation, with extended features designed for enterprise clients. While Totara has recently parted ways with Moodle , they still share many similarities.

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Analyzing Workforce Data for Better Training

dVinci Interactive

Dr. Brandy Parker, Senior Analyst, Workforce Analytics Team, Johnson & Johnson. With more than 125,000 employees, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) generates an almost endless amount of workforce data. Inside this data lies value that can be used to help the organization improve performance and make better decisions. But as with any data analytics initiative, it requires a skilled team with specific goals in order to unlock the most value.

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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.