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Writing Effective eLearning Narration: Making It Easy to Read, Say, and Comprehend

Association eLearning

Many courses rely upon voiceover to help connect with their learners. This is a solid approach and, when used well, can make for great learning experiences. But what I have found is that the narrated portion of courses is often written like something you would find in a textbook. The problem here is that all people, regardless of age or experience with digital media, generally expect the narration to be conversational.

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eLearning: Cloud Review and Collaboration with ReviewLink

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Stephanie Ivec    One of the biggest hidden challenges when it comes to developing eLearning is getting feedback from your client, collaborating on course content with internal team members, or getting final project approval.   Sure, you can manage the collaboration or feedback process the old fashioned way--email. However, managing dozens upon dozens of project emails can quickly become a daunting task.

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Learning in the Modern Workplace is more than training or e-learning

Jane Hart

I think I have now pinned down the main reason why some people could not understand the points I was making in my post, The L&D world is splitting in two. It’s because Traditionalists see LEARNING as something to be designed, delivered and managed – in the form of some classroom training or e-learning – and LEARNERS as […].

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3 Big Don’ts When Converting Instructor-Led Training to eLearning

SHIFT eLearning

With benefits like automation, consistent messaging, wider reach, and the ability to provide 24/7 learning, eLearning is an option that more and more companies have started to embrace. But now what do you do with those PowerPoint slides that you created ages ago and had been delivering to your employees since then? If that training program is effective, don’t ditch it.

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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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Writing Effective eLearning Narration: Making It Easy to Read, Say, and Comprehend

Association eLearning

Many courses rely upon voiceover to help connect with their learners. This is a solid approach and, when used well, can make for great learning experiences. But what I have found is that the narrated portion of courses is often written like something you would find in a textbook. The problem here is that all people, regardless of age or experience with digital media, generally expect the narration to be conversational.

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The Uberfication of Workplace Learning

Jane Hart

I wanted to thank all of you who responded so positively to my post on The L&D world is splitting in two – either publicly or privately – to tell me about what you are doing to bring about fundamental change in your own L&D departments. It was particularly encouraging to read that a lot of […].

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Introduction to Blended Learning [Interview with Ben Rimes]

JoomlaLMS

Blended learning approach has been here for a while and it is likely to have been applied by thousands of teachers worldwide. The question is whether we know everything about blended learning technique and correctly use the LMS potential to create digital spaces and reinforce face-to-face learning environments. To make sure about that we talked to an eLearning expert and Director of Curriculum and Instructional Technology at Mattawan Consolidated School - Ben Rimes.

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The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point

The Performance Improvement Blog

This post by David Grebow first appeared in LinkedIn Pulse on November 15, 2015. When Stephen Gill and I were researching and writing our latest book, Only Smart Companies Win, about what it means to create and work in a “Learning Culture”, we tried to imagine what it would mean to develop training programs in that culture. In the current Training Culture's formal [1] ‘push’ model, training is pushed or chosen for the trainees.

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Why This? Why Now? “Working Out Loud”

Learning Rebels

Have you ever started working on a project only to find out that someone else in your organization is working on the same project? Have you ever been stuck trying to research data in your organization only to find out the guy next door did all that research work last year, and all you had to do was go next door for your answers? Yep. Been there, done that – and from these experiences, I learned to talk more about projects I was working on.

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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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An LMS Works Hard So That HR Doesn’t Have To

TOPYX LMS

In your opinion, what purpose does a learning management system (LMS) serve? If you’re like most people, your answer will be something along the lines of, “To facilitate training.” This is absolutely correct. An eLearning system certainly provides companies with accessible and affordable training options. But, beyond this, an LMS has numerous functions that help businesses operate at optimum capacities.

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5 Ways a Strong Learning Culture Provides ROI

ej4 eLearning

For many companies, investing in training and training resources tends toward two extremes. On one extreme, companies lean towards mediocrity: just enough training to say it got done, with as little money spent as possible. On the other, companies will “chase the shiny,” grabbing every new technology and teaching method that comes down the pike. [.].

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A Conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin Kruse

Kapp Notes

I’ve known Kevin Kruse for many years. He and I met at a meeting of the Society for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Trainers (now L-TEN) over a decade ago. Since that first meeting, we’ve co-presented on the topic of evidence-based training, worked together when he was a CEO of one of his many companies, collaborated on parts of his ground-breaking website/blog eLearning Guru and frequently meet up at speaking engagements.

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An Advanced LMS Reporting Solution for Moodle

Lambda Solutions

We announced a few months ago that Lambda Analytika™ for Moodle was on its way, Well, it's finally here, and it comes with a plethora of new features and functions. To celebrate the launch of this highly anticipated Analytika release, we are providing a special offer. If you purchase Lambda Analytika before December 21st 2015, your first 6 months is on us!

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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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How to become a Community Manager (online workshop)

Jane Hart

Next public online workshop runs: 23 NOVEMBER – 18 DECEMBER 2015 Setting up and running an online community takes time and effort. In this online workshop we look at how to support the planning, launch and running of an online community. Agenda This 4-week online workshop covers the following topics: Planning the community Launching […].

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Getting Training to Stick with Bite-Sized Learning

ej4 eLearning

Let’s be honest: most training does not transfer well into the “real world.” You can sit someone down and expose them to a rigorous 48-hour training session, and even if they ace the material, precious little might come of it. The problem is exactly that traditional format where information is blasted at the learner [.]. The post Getting Training to Stick with Bite-Sized Learning appeared first on.

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Moving Classroom Training to eLearning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby    When information needs to be moved to a new medium, we have a tendency to try to make the new medium fit the mold of the old. When the Internet was in its early days, websites would often look just like a document: whole paragraphs of text with headings, filling the screen from side to side. But soon we realized that reading on the screen was ineffective, and we learned that a good website  chunks  the material and uses a series of hierarchical hyperlink

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Using Tin Can API and WordPress

LearnDash

Not too long ago elearning courses that were created in programs like Articulate and Adobe Captivate were held prisoner to specific learning management systems. And the name of these handcuffs was SCORM. While certainly revolutionary during its heyday, SCORM started to pale in comparison to many of the light-weight, flexible APIs available in other applications.

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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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A Framework For Content Curation

Learnnovators

In conversation at EduTECH earlier this year, Harold Jarche evoked George E. P. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful”. Of course, the purpose of a model is to simplify a complex system so that something purposeful can be done within it. By definition, then, the model can only ever be an approximation of reality; by human error, furthermore, it won’t be as approximate as it could be.

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Numbers Don’t Lie: Why Bite-Sized Learning is Better for Your Learners (and You too)

SHIFT eLearning

Bite-sized learning or Microlearning. It is the latest buzzword in the eLearning world. Designers and developers discuss it when they meet around the water cooler. HR and training managers have found ways to implement it in their learning strategies. The top brass of companies is no longer questioning its efficacy. Day-long PowerPoint training sessions are passé; microlearning is a new (and effective) way to train adult corporate learners.

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Facilitating Knowledge Work #wolweek

Clark Quinn

In the course of some work with a social business agency, was wondering how to represent the notion of facilitating continual innovation. This representation emerged from my cogitations, and while it’s not quite right, I thought I’d share it as part of Work Out Loud week. The core is the 5 R’s: Researching the opportunities, processing your explorations by either Representing them or putting them into practice (Reify) and Reflecting on those, and then Releasing them.

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Axonify Solves the Employee Knowledge Problem

Axonify

Think about the biggest challenges you’re facing in your organization. Maybe your sales team isn’t closing deals. Maybe your store associates aren’t demonstrating your high standards of customer service. Maybe your employees aren’t following policies and procedures and are making mistakes that are putting your business at risk. Maybe you’re struggling to keep associates safe on the job.

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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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INFOGRAPHIC: 3 Facts About Mindset In Learning

Learnnovators

Mindset is an often ignored yet crucial factor in learning. Here are three well established aspects of mindset in learning, and each is supported with tips for learning designers to make the most of them. Check out our infographic, or view the text here: 1. YOU CAN PRIME YOUR BRAIN. “ You’ll spend decades oblivious to babies, prams and child care centers… But when you or your partner become pregnant, you’ll suddenly see them everywhere. ”.

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Boost your L&D visibility & credibility – The Annual Learning Report

CrossKnowledge

Corporate L&D has evolved over the past 60 years with one recurring question: how to capture and demonstrate the added value and performance of L&D. Both desk research and recent interviews with 50+ CLOs underline that even today, many of the biggest corporate learning functions struggle to show their added value. Many believe that the ROI is not always the best and ultimate solution to show the added value of contemporary L&D.

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How Much Does it Really Cost to Train an Employee?

eLearningMind

We’ve heard the numbers before: The average company spends around $1,208 per employee per year on training costs. But that statistics can be misleading, especially when company size and industry come into play. The truth is that the costs to truly train an employee vary widely–and in some cases, may be much more than necessary. Since training is only as effective as its content and delivery method, the true cost of ineffective training might be much, much more.

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Evolution of the Desk: From the 1980s to 2015

Jane Hart

This fab Vine video was created by Harvard Innovation Lab (via The Next Web).

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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.