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5 Key Considerations for Multi-Device Testing

Upside Learning

'Ensuring that your multi-device eLearning runs consistently and smoothly across the identified range of devices, screen sizes, browsers, and platforms is crucial to deliver an engaging and consistent learning experience for your users. But the sheer number of device-OS-browser combinations and the set of test parameters which need to be checked for EACH combination make […].

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#DevLearn Keynote with Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Learning Visions

'These are my live blogged notes from the opening keynote at DevLearn 14, happening this week in Las Vegas. Forgive any incoherencies or typos. Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson -- Science Literacy and the Future of Work Children are born scientists. We beat it out of them. Running around your house and breaking stuff – that’s scientific inquiry at work.

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The Modern Workplace Learning Landscape: more than telling people what to learn

Jane Hart

'I was recently asked to summarise my thoughts on the evolving modern workplace learning landscape and L&D’s role in it. So here it is Although people learn in many different ways, L&D has for a long time concentrated its attention on creating, delivering and managing courses. Despite the fact it has moved from a classroom to […].

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The 3 LMS Features that Increase Employee Engagement

Lambda Solutions

'We’ve written before about the pervasive issue that is stagnating economic growth in the US—employee disengagement. According to research from Gallup, only 30% of American workers are engaged. What do we mean by engaged? As Gallup defines, engaged employees “work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company [and therefore] drive innovation and […] The post The 3 LMS Features that Increase Employee Engagement appeared first on Lambda Solutions.

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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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Performance Reviews Are Bad for Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

'A survey of SHRM members conducted in August indicates that although most organizations say that a performance management system is important to them, few think that their companies are doing a good job managing performance. Given that having annual and semi-annual formal performance reviews is a key aspect of performance management in nearly all of these organizations, it’s no wonder that HR leaders don’t rate their organizations highly in this regard.

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Are you a member of the Learning Police? !!

Jane Hart

'In my view L&D’s role is to enable and support all kinds of learning in the workplace – not to try and control it all. I often hear things that sound a bit like this !!!!

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Navigating the LMS and TMS Market in 2015

Lambda Solutions

'Recent survey results from eLearning! and Government eLearning! Magazines indicate that respondents whom were primarily from the corporate, government, education or non-profit sectors plan to add, change or replace their LMS in the next two years. What percentage of these respondents?—according to researchers, 35% are looking to change their talent and/or learning management system and […] The post Navigating the LMS and TMS Market in 2015 appeared first on Lambda Solutions.

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Achieving Learning Flow with Your Online Member Education

Association eLearning

'Earlier this year, Associations Now wrote an article asking whether “binge learning” will become the new “binge watching.” This references the growing trend among Netflix subscribers who use the on-demand television and movie steaming service to watch entire television series in one sitting. The piece brought up a good point. Technology could easily create similar changes in how learners interact with and consume online learning.

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10 Benefits of Using ELearning

LearnDash

'Elearning’s staggering growth has started to replace many traditional teaching methods over the years. It is being used in both standard education environments as well as in the corporate sector. Below are 10 reasons why the elearning continues to grow in influence. 1. Elearning can reduce the costs of education. Traditional education costfor transportation to a learning facility can be extensive.

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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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Top Tips for Responsive eLearning Design #DevLearn

Learning Visions

'Responsive web design.what''s that and what does that look like in eLearning? Check out my slides from today''s session at the eLearning Guild''s DevLearn. I break it down, look at some examples of responsive websites, and then share a whole bunch of examples of responsive eLearning, built with the open source Adapt Framework. Top Tips for Responsive eLearning Design from Cammy Bean For more on Adapt and where it can take you, be sure to visit the Kineo website for more examples and case studie

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Neil deGrasse Tyson #DevLearn Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

'Neil deGrasse Tyson opened this year’s DevLearn conference. A clear crowd favorite, folks lined up to get in (despite the huge room). In a engaging, funny, and poignant talk, he made a great case for science and learning.

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Gamification of Learning Lynda.com Course Released

Kapp Notes

'Last summer I spent a week at Lynda.com headquarters and had a great time recording the course “The Gamification of Learning.” You can read about the experience here– My Adventure at Lynda.com. And now the course is live and being seen all over the globe (73 countries to date). The Gamification of Learning explores how to use game concepts to make your learning design engaging.

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5 Psychological Factors in ELearning

LearnDash

'Creating effective elearning is more than putting together fancy graphics and animations – there is also a psychological element involved with the development process. Instructional designers, the profession dedicated to creating effective live and online training, has known this for quite some time. Over the years there have been countless development models and general design tips to help maximize the effectiveness of training content.

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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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How to Avoid Scrap Learning

Dashe & Thomson

'We’ve all been there. Attending a training course, or working through an eLearning module, and thinking “This is great information. I wonder how I can apply this to my job.” And, after some thought, you realize “I can’t…at least not right now.” So what happens to the learning gains you made while going through the course? Unfortunately, unless you can apply those gains fairly immediately, they simply fall away resulting… The post How to Avoid Scrap Learning appeared first on Dashe & T

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L&D: We’re here to help you – not control you!

Jane Hart

'In my last post, I shared a tongue-in-cheek image of how some L&D departments feel the need to control all the learning that takes place in their organisation. So In this post I want to share an example of how a L&D department in a smart organisation sees its role as enabling and supporting learning more broadly in the workplace – in this […].

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DevLearn Matching Content & Strategy Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

'Here are resources describing the matching of content with the appropriate instructional strategies. Slides: DevLearn Presentation: Matching the Right Learning Content with the Right Learning Strategy from Karl Kapp. Articles and Blog Entries of Interest. Matching the Right Design Strategy to the Right Content. Matching the Right Game Type to the Right Strategy. 8 Types of Stories to Effect Change.

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Top 10 Moodle Plugins of 2014

Lambda Solutions

'Last week we released an article that provides a detailed list of the best Moodle Plugins we curated over the past 12 years. The list is extensive so if you are wanting to know the most popular plugins by number of downloads then continue reading as we provide a brief summary for the top 10 Moodle […] The post Top 10 Moodle Plugins of 2014 appeared first on Lambda Solutions.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eLearning: Add Some Character to Your Lessons

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      Let's face it, some of the eLearning content you are required to create is a bit. shall we say, dry? A tad boring? A teeny bit heavy on the text and short on graphics? One easy way to spruce up your eLearning content is to add characters (or guides). But where do you find quality images to use as guides? The good news is that both Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate offer some awesome, and most importantly, free Characters--out of the box.

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Belinda Parmar #DevLearn Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

'Belinda Parmar addressed the critical question of women in tech in a poignant way, pointing out that the small stuff is important: language, imagery, context. She concluded with small actions including new job description language and better female involvement in product development.

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The Success Case Method to Evaluate Training

Origin Learning

'By now you already know that evaluating training is a crucial step every organization must take to ensure that its training objectives are being achieved. The Success Case Method developed by Robert Brinkerhoff is another method that helps organizations answer key questions with respect to their training programs. The Success Case Method: What Is It?

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3 Critical LMS Selection Questions

LearnDash

'Choosing a learning management system (LMS) is an extremely important decision for any organization, and with so many options available, it can sometimes be difficult to determine which one is best for your needs. The reality is that there is not a “one-size-fits-all” approach to LMS selection. Every organization will have a different set of objectives and criteria during their investigation.

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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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#DevLearn session report: Learning and performance ecosystems

Challenge to Learn

'A presentation by Marc Rosenberg and Steve Foreman on ecosystems. It gives a nice overview of the components and it is a prelude to a Whitepaper by the guild that is due in November.

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Cognitive prostheses

Clark Quinn

'While our cognitive architecture has incredible capabilities (how else could we come up with advances such as Mystery Science Theater 3000?), it also has limitations. The same adaptive capabilities that let us cope with information overload in both familiar and new ways also lead to some systematic flaws. And it led me to think about the ways in which we support these limitations, as they have implications for designing solutions for our organizations.

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Writing & Grammar: Synch or Swim?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby    How do you spell the shortened form of the word synchronize? Is it  synch  or  sync ? I have seen it both ways recently, so I checked out the Webster's dictionary. I found that sync is the more frequently used variant, but that both spellings are listed. So which one is better? It turns out that when Webster's lists two spellings of a word, they may have the word "or" or the word "also" between them.

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New User Reporting in ProPanel!

LearnDash

'Today marks the release of LearnDash ProPanel version 1.5! When we first introduced ProPanel last year, it was designed to present an easier way to view user activity and to download the reports from the WordPress admin dashboard. In addition, it came with three unique admin templates. Since our major 2.0 update to the LearnDash core, we made some changes to the structure that now allows us to add some additional reports and capabilities with the ProPanel add-on.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.