Sat.Jan 03, 2015 - Fri.Jan 09, 2015

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How to be a learning mythbuster

Making Change

'“Wait, we can’t design the training that way, because Zeus will rain down fire as punishment!” You might not hear that particular myth, but I’ll bet you’ve heard many others. Here are the most popular myths I’ve heard from learning designers and their clients. Oh, those numbers in the chart? They’re just an estimate based on my experience.

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2014 Reflections on Gamification for Learning

Kapp Notes

'The year 2014 was a fantastic year for gamification with lots of companies engaging in gamified solutions, more and more people understanding what gamification is all about and several well known technology companies taking the plunge into gamification. As well as some interesting vendor offerings in the field. The interest in gamification for learning is larger than it’s ever been and continues to grow (but not as fast as some predicted…more about that later).

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How to Reduce Your Course Development Costs By 90+ Per Cent

Absorb LMS

'Learners today are presented with a wealth of choices and opportunities for learning. They can turn to Blogs, wikis, social networks, video sites, etc. to find learning content. The problem, though, is that it can be difficult to find high quality, informative learning content among a massive sea of choices. How much stuff is out there? YouTube alone experiences 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. ( https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html ). 200 billion tweets are published to Tw

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Learning by Watching: Social Cognitive Theory and Vicarious Learning

Origin Learning

'Have you ever stood in front of a machine, with little or no idea about how to operate it – say at a self-check-in counter at an international airport that has its default language set to Dutch, or in front of a self-service kiosk for a tram that requires you to input information and money to print your ticket? In such or similar situations, what do you do if you have a couple of people operating the machine before you?

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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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Learning Technologies 2015 Conference Pass, Up For Grabs!

Upside Learning

'Yes, you read it right. We’re giving away a free conference pass to one lucky L&D professional. All you have to do is share a challenge that you or your organisation faces with Multi-device Learning and you could see yourself networking with some of the most notable thinkers, visionaries and practitioners in workplace learning today […].

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Blended Virtual Training Takes Leadership Development to New Level

dVinci Interactive

'Video Interview with CorpU’s Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. As part of our video blog series, I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ed Skonecki, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at CorpU. CorpU is pioneering a new approach to leadership development that uses technology to blend content from leading academic and executive experts with custom scenarios and social collaboration to create a comprehensive and effective learning experience.

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4 Ways to Use Observational Learning for E-Learning

Origin Learning

'Knowledge and skills like how to complete a process or accomplish tangible tasks can be learnt by experimentation or reading. However, soft skills may not be so easy to teach. Vicarious or observational learning is learning by watching, since certain behaviors or skills simply cannot be learnt by attending a lecture about them or reading an e-learning module.

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Taking out the trash

E-Learning Provocateur

'Happy new year! I’m looking forward to 2015 as a time for exploring, building, experimenting, discovering, and learning. Many of us like to make New Year’s resolutions in January – which rarely survive February – but this year mine are designed to last forever. I hereby commit to the following five resolutions: No facey, no connecty.

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Games Templates vs Custom Serious Games: How to Decide What Your Employees need

Knowledge Guru

'You want to include a serious game in your training… but can you use an inexpensive game template or do you need a more expensive custom game? Here are questions you need to consider as you decide: What are you trying to achieve? How much budget do you have? How much time do you have to design and build it? How much skill do you have in game design and instructional design?

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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 Support & “The Art of War”

Living in Learning

'Training tactics are slowly changing. Events are shrinking in size. MOOCs are unhooking linearity as a design concept. Learning is being “bursted” and “microed” in more granular chunks. More video is being embedded. Things are getting more social and collaborative, but the “T” word still seems to be central to the mission. We are still Training. Knowledge retention is still the enemy.

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Social Learning Practitioner Programme

Jane Hart

'Next public online programme runs 12 January – 20 March 2015 (10 weeks) A Social Learning Practitioner is a learning professional who encourages, enables and supports knowledge sharing and collaboration across their organisation – not just in training. He/she is a role model, leading the way by showing the business what it is to be […].

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How to Reduce Your Course Development Costs By 90+ Per Cent

Absorb LMS

'Learners today are presented with a wealth of choices and opportunities for learning. They can turn to Blogs, wikis, social networks, video sites, etc. to find learning content. The problem, though, is that it can be difficult to find high quality, informative learning content among a massive sea of choices. How much stuff is out there? YouTube alone experiences 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. ( https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html ). 200 billion tweets are published to Tw

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Maybe it is rocket science!

Clark Quinn

'As I’ve been working with the Foundation over the past 6 months I’ve had the occasion to review a wide variety of elearning, more specifically in the vocational and education space, but my experience mirrors that from the corporate space: most of it isn’t very good. I realize that’s a harsh pronouncement, but I fear that it’s all too true; most of the elearning I see will have very little impact.

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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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Writing & Grammar: New Year, New Peeves

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby. I'm not sure it's the best of luck to start the New Year peeved, but when it's a grammar pet peeve, I cannot resist. Here are two pet peeves from  Laura Gillenwater , both of which I end up covering in every writing class: Two of my current pet peeves are the misuse/overuse of the word "utilize," instead of "use" and the word "impact," instead of "affect" or "effect" (depending on whether "impact" is b

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3 Reasons Why ELearning Fails

LearnDash

'More often than not, the primary reason why an organization implements an elearning program is to either rectify a problem, or to avoid problems. In either case, the idea is to combat these problems with education. To avoid having issues, companies spend a lot of money to create training, set-up learning management systems, and hire a staff of instructional designers to create the content.

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Off to TechKnowledge 2015…

Kapp Notes

'In a short period of time I will be headed to ATD’s TechKnowledge 2015, it is a fun conference with lots of great sessions and vendors. Last year a horrible snow storm stymied my attempt to head to warmer weather, I am hoping this year the same does not occur. What happened to Larry…help solve the case. If I do make it to TK 2015, I will be doing some awesome stuff.

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Shiny objects and real impact

Clark Quinn

'Yesterday I went off about how learning design should be done right and it’s not easy. In a conversation two days ago, I was talking to a group that was supporting several initiatives in adaptive learning, and I wondered if this was a good idea. Adaptive learning is desirable. If learners come from different initial abilities, learn at different rates, and have different availability, the learning should adapt.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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Learning From Others

Nick Leffler

'Over a year ago I began to share what I am learning at the moment. I did this through the hashtag #LrnToday which I also encouraged others to do. It’s been a while since I’ve reflected on how well it has worked and how I’ve updated it. A while being since I first posted about the hashtag and then later created a page for #LrnToday. Forced Reflection.

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4 Easy Tips For Effective ELearning

LearnDash

'Are you currently creating an online course – or have you in the past? As a course developer (instructional designer), you know the importance of continually improving in your craft. In general, this means staying on top of industry trends, and understanding learning design theory as it applies to the digital age. The information around these areas is great, but it can sometimes become full of too much jargon, or delve too deep into the details.

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Welcome to 2015! Blended Learning & Virtual Learning 2014 Top Topics

InSync Training

'Welcome to 2015 - a year when blended and virtual learning is going to continue to evolve. We are excited about the new content we are planning to explore and share. We are especially interested in the concept of the modern virtual classroom, exploring how social and mobile BYOD technologies support blended learning, and the impact of globalization and microlearning on training design.

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Video: Coping with Change for 2015

ej4 eLearning

'2015 is here and you have new ideas for your company. You’re probably planning out company-wide and/or department-specific goals already, and along the way some process changes will happen. The biggest challenge with any change is getting everyone on board as quickly as possible. One reason change is difficult for some is they have a fear of the unknown.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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How to Achieve an Organizational Learning Goal

The Performance Improvement Blog

'It’s that time of year again, when we pay special attention to our personal and career goals. However, how likely is it that we will actually achieve those goals? I belong to a fitness center at the local community college and I’m always fascinated by the January upsurge in activity and then the fall off around March and April each year. Hopefully, that means some people have achieved their fitness and weight loss goals, but I’m afraid that for many it means they have given up.

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Why ELearning Should Be Like Farmville

LearnDash

'Have you ever purchased a product at the store because of the packaging, and then after using it you realize it’s not that great? Or perhaps you lose interest? I think we all have gone through this experience at some point. The last time this happened to me was when I was at the grocery store.I saw a pack of gum (you know, the ones they put right in front of your face for the impulse buy).

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Articulate Storyline: Adding Buttons

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel        Buttons are the most common form of interactivity that you'll find in just about any Storyline project. Using Triggers, you can control what happens should the learner successfully click a button (such as Go to the next slide or Show Layers). Over the next few weeks I'm going to teach you how easy it is to add buttons to any Storyline slide, how to add Triggers, and how to control Button states.

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Inspiring Dedication to eLearning Efforts

ej4 eLearning

'Whenever you implement an employee training program, you probably rely on your human resources staff. These team members put together the program and decide how to distribute it among the company. Because HR individuals are so integral to the implementation process, you want to make sure each person is dedicated to your efforts to use eLearning courseware.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr