Sat.Sep 19, 2015 - Fri.Sep 25, 2015

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The Worst eLearning Course Ever

Association eLearning

You read the title correctly. This post is dedicated to pet peeves, worst practices, and other abominations that terrorize eLearning. What follows is a combination of things that give Digitec-ies nightmares and headaches. I considered listing them here, but there were quite a few and a list alone did not express the sheer torment these things can cause.

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Storyboard Workbook for Elearning: Documenting the Workflow

NuggetHead

The Learning & Development industry is a vast array of many disciplines and technologies. A deeper look into each major discipline and we see an enormous amount of energy in order to learn the skills to be proficient. Looking at Instructional Design as it applies to elearning where there are many theories, models and methodologies, it that take years of practice to become proficient.

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Accessibility: How to Order Title Objects in Lectora

Trivantis

When you are building an eLearning course, you will want to ensure that all learners—including those with visual impairments—are able to take your course. In many cases, a learner is using a screen reader software like JAWS, so in order to develop an accessible Web eLearning course, the order of the objects placed on a web page needs to be read in a logical order by the screen reader software.

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Diverse Characters In Learning Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

In response to my post on Name Generators for Learning Scenarios , someone asked, “Does it really matter if we choose John instead of Bob?” Christina, a graduate student who critiqued my blog post said she wished that post went deeper and listed some unanswered questions. “For example does the name have to be of a certain neutrality or a certain ethnicity?

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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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Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015

Jane Hart

Over 2,000 learning professionals from around the world from both education and enterprises contributed to the 9th Annual Survey of Learning Tools. Very many thanks to all those who took the time to complete the online form, write a blog post, send me an email or tweet me their selection. I have now compiled the Top […].

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Experience is the New Learning

Origin Learning

Butter-knife, scissors, and sticky tape are all you need to join the conversation around virtual reality (VR) – is Kellogg’s take. Puzzled? Curious? Need more cues on the buzz around VR? ‘Wear and watch’ the VR view. Check out the diverse use it offers. From music to media to FMCG to retail to engineering to automotive to hospitality or sports, the scope of using this technology for effective outcomes is expanding like never before!

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A Conversation with John Deligiannis of mLevel

Kapp Notes

The other day I had a great conversation with John Deligiannis. John has been in the L&D space for his entire career, and joined a company called mLevel almost 2 years ago now. John had some really interesting things to say about the learning industry and what mLevel is doing to increase learner engagement. Kapp: You’ve been in the Learning and Development space for a long time, what is the most profound change you’ve seen over the course of your career?

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The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 – and what they tell us about the future of workplace learning

Jane Hart

On 1 October between 10 and 11 am (GMT) I shall be running this webinar for the Learning & Skills Group. Click here for details how to join the webinar.

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Why Your Company Needs an LMS

TOPYX LMS

Have you ever known someone who, at first meeting, you just didn’t “click” with? Perhaps you never dreamed you and this person would become the good friends you now are. What exactly happened that elicited a desire within you to get to know this individual better? More than likely, you had a realization of his or her amazing abilities. Once you had an idea that there was much more to this person than meets the eye, you decided to pursue a friendship.

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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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How to Create a Game-Based Learning Strategy

Knowledge Guru

I was speaking to a client the other day who said only 10% of her workforce completes the training they are supposed to take on the LMS. She thinks training completion is low because the content isn’t engaging and wanted to know if a learning game could fix it. I told her that there is no “easy button,” and games are not a cure-all for for boring content or bad learning design.

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A Conversation with Author Catherine Lombardozzi

Kapp Notes

The other day I caught up with Catherine Lombardozzi who is the principle behind the firm called Learning4Learning Professionals and author of a brand new book. Catherine has been in the field of learning and development for over 30 years doing all sorts of things from the basic to the complex–she has pretty much done it all. She dedicates her energies to supporting the development of people who consult, design, develop, and teach in corporate and academic settings.

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Competency Based Training in Moodle

Lambda Solutions

When developing a Competency Based Training Program with the Moodle Outcomes Module, training managers are equipped with a process for defining competencies that are linked to a series of numbers or letters to determine the learner’s level of understanding of said competency. Unlike grades — which may be composed of test scores, participation points, attendance and projects—outcomes, like competencies, assess a series of statements which can be provided at the end of a course along with the over

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TOPYX Topics – Social Learning Newsletter – September 2015

TOPYX LMS

If it has been awhile since you reviewed what TOPYX LMS has to offer, now is the perfect time to act. Here’s why: We added new features to our already robust, easy-to-use, learning management system, including: Experience API™. (also known as xAPI and Tin Can API). Learning Record Stores (LRS). Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI). Chat Support in User Guide.

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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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[Infographic] Improve Employee Performance with Modern Learning Tools

Inkling

Here’s a very important (and often ignored) fact about employees: they forget things, just like everyone else. Even scarier? After 90 days, most employees retain less than 20% of what they learned during a course or training, due to a phenomenon known as the forgetting curve. How can companies boost employee memory in the workplace and curb the forgetting curve?

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Being a Professional Professor

Kapp Notes

It seems to me that higher education is being attached from all angles–from literal, violent attacks on campuses to an almost systematic effort to defund public education in the United States. But on the bright side, I work with wonderful, dedicated professors everyday at Bloomsburg University and across the globe who are dedicated to bettering the lives of their students.

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Watch the LearnX Main Event Keynote on the Future of LearnTech

Kineo

What have we learned from the last ten years of learning technologies and what can we expect from the next ten? Matt Johnson looks at the past to understand the future and where the industry is headed in his LearnX Keynote. .

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Can People Learn and Improve? Yes or No?

The Performance Improvement Blog

A culture, as I have written previously, is foundationally the beliefs, values, and artifacts of its people. A learning culture is an organizational culture in which beliefs, values, and artifacts support employee learning, In terms of beliefs, research is showing us that what people believe about the potential of themselves and others has a profound impact on organizations.

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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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Dead-Simple ‘Ninja’ Trick For Justifying Your ELearning Designs

LearnDash

I have come to a realization during my elearning consulting engagements: not everyone enjoys elearning but everyone has an opinion on it. If you are an instructional designer then you probably have seen this before yourself. In most cases it involves a subject matter expert (SME) refusing to set aside some time with you to discuss course content. When they finally do make the time, they spend it telling you why the course design is wrong and how it could be better.

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Biz tech

Clark Quinn

One of my arguments for the L&D revolution is the role that L&D could be playing. I believe that if L&D were truly enabling optimal execution as well as facilitating continual innovation (read: learning), then they’d be as critical to the organization as IT. And that made me think about how this role would differ. To be sure, IT is critical.

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Lessons Learnt From The Evolution Of Journalism: How To Construct a Great Interactive Experience - Part 3.1

Kineo

The right tool for the job. In my last blog I shared feature writer Jon Henley’s tips for writing good feature stories and suggested how we could apply them to digital learning content. One tip he shared during his Guardian Masterclass on digital storytelling was to identify the right type of media to tell different parts of the story. I felt it was worth expanding on this, hence the arrival of this unplanned, additional blog.

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BLP Teases Knowledge Guru Fall Release at DevLearn

Knowledge Guru

Fall is in the air. For us at BLP , that means it’s DevLearn season. DevLearn is the premier learning conference for emerging trends and technology. Our team has attended DevLearn for years to learn about the latest, greatest learning solutions before they “hit the shelves” for most of our clients. Since 2012, we have attended the conference as exhibitors to show off the latest releases of our Knowledge Guru platform.

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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.

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Session Recap - The Modern Learning Culture - What Makes it Tick?

InSync Training

I presented The Modern Learning Culture - What Makes it Tick? for InSync Training's popular BYTE series on September 16th. My goal for the session was “to talk about the drivers of the modern learning culture, how people are learning, where people are learning, and 10 things I think you can do right away to impact learning culture.”.

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Looking forward on content

Clark Quinn

At DevLearn next week, I’ll be talking about content systems in session 109. The point is that instead of monolithic content, we want to start getting more granular for more flexible delivery. And while there I’ll be talking about some of the options on how, here I want to make the case about why, in a simplified way. As an experiment (gotta keep pushing the envelope in a myriad of ways), I’ve created a video, and I want to see if I can embed it.

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Lessons Learnt From The Evolution Of Journalism - Part 3

Kineo

Digital storytelling: what makes a good story and how do you write one? Fire! Fire!* *Made you look. But fire does play a part here, as you’ll see.

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Customer Relationship Management

Lambda Solutions

Customer Relationship Management System Integrations. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems provide deep value for sales teams and organizations at large due to the capacity to track, automate and organize interactions with customers. Organizations who use Moodle for partner, client, channel or sales training began to see the benefit of having learning information synced with Salesforce.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.