ProProfs

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I was of the opinion that a good salesperson is the one who is a smooth talker and quick to answer questions even before you have them. Someone who will convince you to buy a product that you probably don’t even need. But the bubble burst for me when I got an opportunity to interact with some of the tech industry’s top sales professional. I came to realize that the best salespeople aren’t always the slickest talkers, rather they’re actually the most effective listeners.

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CommLab India

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This blog highlights the features of Adobe Captivate that help develop eLearning quizzes and assessments.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I built this branching scenario in the open source tool Twine. This scenario is moderately complex, with a total of 17 pages (or passages in Twine terminology) and 8 different endings. The ideal path has 5 decisions to reach the best conclusion. I generally use Twine as a prototype for review and testing purposes. You can use Twine as the finished product though, especially if you do some formatting to make it look better.

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Think about how you best learn. If you're anything like me—always on a tight schedule, short attention span, prefer pictures to words—small chunks of information in one sitting are about all you can manage. Microlearning is clearly what we need! It's not a new method (don't forget the primeval flashcard), but technology has changed its presentation, delivery, and use.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Like all other life on this planet, humans evolved in order to survive, and our brains have become spectacular survival machines. By understanding the threats our earliest ancestors faced in our early history, we can understand why our brains function the way they do today.

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Lambda Solutions

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This article is a summary of “ Moodle 3.3 - A New Experience ”, a webinar conducted by our Director of Learning Solutions, Ben Young.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Harness the power of employees’ minds! Although many companies pay lip service to the idea that employees are their most valuable asset, they remain stuck in a 20th century mindset in which employees are a liability. In our new book, MINDS AT WORK: Managing for Success in The Knowledge Economy , David Grebow and I lay the foundation for companies to compete in the 21st century knowledge economy by focusing on the incredible potential of empowering and enabling people’s minds.

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JoomlaLMS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

eLearning offers enormous benefits to businesses regardless of their size: 46% of those who apply it are more likely to be the leader in their industry. 42% attribute their increase in revenue to online learning. 58% feel prepared to meet future demands thanks to eLearning. 72% believe that eLearning provides a competitive advantage. etc. Isn’t it inspiring?

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 6, 2017

You have probably noticed the increase in the amount of videos you see across the internet. Businesses are creating YouTube channels like they were creating Facebook pages five years ago. The increased preference for video is changing the way that we learn both formally and informally. In fact, it has been reported that by 2020 roughly 82% of consumer internet traffic will be composed of internet video.

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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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Allen Interactions

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I magine – you are at a dimly-lit dinner party with four friends and an eccentric host. A flash of lighting briefly brightens the room, then all the lights go out. In the darkness, you hear a scuffle and a shout. When the lights return, the host is on the floor, not moving. All the guests remain seated in their chairs. Someone outside the room begins knocking frantically at the door….

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Association eLearning

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2015, less than half (49%) of all learning was instructor-led in a classroom without a virtual learning component, marking a steady decline over the course of seven years according to the Association of Talent Development. The conversion of classroom training to virtual training is a growing trend that cannot be ignored. But how do we successfully transition instructor-led training into a virtual training session without losing our audience?

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The Judeo-Christian story of the Garden of Eden tells us that the devil, disguised as a snake, tricks Adam and Eve into eating of the forbidden fruit on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, a recent study suggests that early, long-term exposure to snakes may have actually influenced the evolution of the human brain. Perhaps it’s not just a story, after all.

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ej4 eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Blended learning has been a growing part of corporate training for a few years now. According to Training Magazine’s 2017 Training Industry Report , companies reported that around 34.7% of training hours were delivered with blended-learning techniques in the past year—up 2.7% from just two years ago.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Community events are a great way to network with others, learn something new, or both. Here’s how you can get the most out of your next conference. If you have never gone to an industry related conference then you are missing out. I know because I used to be that person that avoided them. It wasn’t until after I started regularly attending conferences that I saw how valuable they can be for building a business, building a network, learning, and just having fun.

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Patti Shank

DECEMBER 6, 2017

L&D has its own version of fake news: fads, made-up theories (and how to implement) in conflict with what research or science says, and people selling ideas using devious means. I just had the latter happen. Just had an email sent to me that said the following (copied directly from the email): Hi Patti Just wanted to let you know we featured you in our recent post: Why Employers Should Consider Multiple Learning Styles in Their Training Processes [link] 20171128/why-employers-should- conside

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Kineo

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it one hundred times - technology is changing, and it’s taking the elearning industry with it. As improvements and upgrades continue to be made to existing tools, and new tools are becoming available, L&D pros are beginning to pivot their goals to take elearning to the next level. To quote the late department store magnate John Wanamaker , “half my advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half.

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Allen Interactions

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Part 2 of 3: Bright Horizons. Thanks for coming back. If you didn’t read Part 1 of this article, you should. Your life will be better, skin blemishes will vanish, relationships will improve, and this blog post will make a lot more sense.

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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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LearnDash

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As is often the case, this year feels like it has flown by! I am sure you hear it every year around this time… “Wow, I can’t believe it’s already December!” Well, today’s post is no different. This year saw a lot happen with regards to updates for LearnDash and our add-ons, and while not every update can make a “splash”, there are some that certainly were very well received by the LearnDash community.

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eLearning Brothers

DECEMBER 4, 2017

eLearning templates, games, Customizable Courseware …when budgets are tight, how do you convince business leaders to fund all the eLearning goodies on your wish list? To present a compelling case to upper management, business-savvy training professionals use ROI—Return On Investment—to justify the business value of budget requests. In this webinar recording, Chris Willis teaches how to speak ROI, the language of business.

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Kineo

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It is often said that culture is at the heart of all successful teams. The culture of a sporting club is generally linked to its success on and off the field.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Ok, so I can be a bit of a pedant. Blame it on my academic background, but I believe conceptual clarity is important ! If we play fast and loose with terminology, we can be be convinced of something without truly understanding it. Ultimately, we can waste money chasing unwarranted directions, and worse, perhaps even do wrong by our learners. Where do the problems arise?

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The Simple Shift

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In today’s organizations the top down, hierarchy approach is seen as the antithesis of the modern, hyper-connected world. However, efforts to shift to emphasize greater transparency and openness have often floundered (holocracy and flat management). We’re learning that the ideal form won’t always result in ideal function. Noting my recent efforts of going upstream, Jon Husband suggested I read […].

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 7, 2017

For any business project to be a success, it’s important that all parties involved know their roles and responsibilities. Whether you’re overseeing a small team or an international collaborative effort, as a project manager it’s your duty to ensure that everyone under your chain of command understands their place within the company. One way that project managers stay on top of task delegation is by utilizing a responsibility assignment matrix, also known as a linear responsibility chart or RACI

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Kineo

DECEMBER 6, 2017

As L&D professionals, we know that you work hard to create courses that are engaging and captivating with the main goal of imparting necessary knowledge on learners in a way that helps them to retain the information and put it into practical use after the fact. However, according to The Conference Board, traditional training methods result in only 37% learning transfer.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As I mentioned in an earlier post , I have been using Safari and Google to traverse the networks. And in a comment, I mentioned that the recent launch of the new Firefox browser was prompting me to switch. And that’s now been put through a test, and I thought it instructive to share my learnings. The rationale for the switch is that I don’t completely trust Google and Apple with my data.

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eLearning Brothers

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Have you ever wanted to build a fully fledged game in Articulate Storyline? Gaming is all the rage in eLearning, but without a sizable budget or external vendors, options are limited. Game elements in authoring tools are usually reduced to themed quizzes, with little actual gaming involved. However, it is possible to get some pretty deep gameplay from off-the-shelf tools.

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Jane Hart

DECEMBER 3, 2017

News and articles about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) selected by Jane Hart for the week 26 November – 2 December 2017.

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David Kelly

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A few weeks ago I was lamenting with a friend about the reports of sexual harassment being applied to Louis CK. It’s always disappointing to hear about behavior like this, but it stings a bit more when it’s applied to someone you admired and respected, which was the case for both of us when it came to Louis CK. While it was disappointing, I remember having a strange thought: There was a part of me that was actually hoping that more allegations would arise against other big names.

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