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5 Rules of Designing Responsive E-learning

CommLab India

Learn how to design your courses to best suit a responsive design, using 5 basic principles.

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If Your Training Doesn’t Stick, You Need Microlearning

Learning Rebels

It’s a story old as time… There is a need to roll out companywide sensitivity training, food safety training, or sexual harassment training, everyone must participate and it must stick. Being the good L&D person you are, you put together a training program. You design the program with engaging interactions. You create a powerpoint that will not put people to sleep.

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5 Ways to Elevate Your Sales Training With Learning Technology

Docebo

Sales training in fast-moving business environments is most effective when supported by innovative learning technologies. At the end of the day, every business (of any size) has the same goal: to generate revenue. Doing so requires a number of mechanisms to function like a well-oiled machine – the key component: knowledgeable and effective sales people.

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How do you convert traditional training content to microlearning?

Axonify

I’m often asked the following question: “How do you convert traditional content to microlearning?” The answer? You don’t. Well, not exactly … Before we get into the details, first, let’s revisit the definition of microlearning : Microlearning is an approach to training that delivers content in short, focused bites. To be effective, microlearning must fit naturally into the daily workflow, engage employees in voluntary participation, be based in brain science (how people actually learn), ad

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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The Optimistic View

Clark Quinn

In yesterday’s post , I quipped about how L&D wasn’t doing well, and I want to clarify my perspective. Because, you see, I’m an optimist! I really only complain to create improvement. And so let me wax philosophical about why we can and should be hopeful about L&D. Organizations need to learn. And they learn as a function of individuals learning, alone and together.

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5 Easy Steps To Becoming A Better eLearning Designer

eLearning Industry

Regardless of what you do or how long you've been doing it, you should always be looking for ways to get better. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Tips for Elevating Your eLearning Career

Tim Slade

If you’ve been working in the eLearning industry for any amount of time, you know that we work in an industry that is continually evolving and growing. For that sake of your eLearning career, it’s more important than ever to stay current and competitive! Here are five simple tips for elevating your eLearning career. Speak at an eLearning Conference.

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Continuous Learning & Development; more than just continuous training

Jane Hart

Lifelong learning is more important than ever. It is clear that companies now need to provide continuous learning opportunities, and ensure that they’re promoting lifelong learning within their organization. So what does this actually mean?

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Word of Mouth L&D

The Simple Shift

Hugh MacLeod recently wrote about Word of Mouth Advertising and the importance of this for many businesses. Couple this with the famous Cluetrain quote of “Markets are Conversations” and you have the recipe for what matters most; your customers sharing and singing the praise of your service or product and changing other’s attitudes and behaviors. […].

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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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5 Reasons Outsourcing eLearning Development Is A Smart Move

eLearning Industry

Organizations have realized the benefits of outsourcing eLearning development such as increased completion rates and cost-effectiveness, and many have started hiring expert vendors to realize their training objectives. Read to know why outsourcing eLearning development is a smart move. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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When Technology is your Friend: Regaining Control of your Content

Challenge to Learn

In today's digital learning boom, it's easy for university educators to feel like they're losing control of their own classrooms. As power shifts towards university administrations instead of educators, and e-learning becomes more prominent, learning content is becoming increasingly centralized. Instead of perceiving technology as a threat to their independence, university educators should see it as a chance to share the responsibility for creating e-learning content.

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4 Ways to Reward Learners for Sharing Your Course

LearnDash

Reward programs can build customer loyalty, show appreciation, and promote motivation. Most of us have heard that it’s easier to retain a current customer than recruit a new one. In fact, some research in online retail suggests that just 1% of a website’s users generate as much as 40% of its revenue. Old customers stick with what they know, and if their first purchase works out, they’re likely to buy more on their return.

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Continuous Learning & Development (Workshop)

Jane Hart

Next public workshop runs 11 June – 8 July 2018 Continuous learning and development in the workplace doesn’t mean continuous training or self-study.

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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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iSpring Suite 9: eLearning Authoring Tool For Creating HTML5 Courses

eLearning Industry

Online courses are becoming more popular thanks to interactions, videos, and other multimedia that helps people master a topic. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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4 LMS Features that Help Companies Track Employee Training

TOPYX LMS

Roughly 40 percent of employees leave their job within one year as a result of receiving sub-par training, according to a study mentioned by go2HR.¹ That means training is crucial to employee retention. Many company leaders understand that training has a direct impact on employee satisfaction and therefore strive to provide quality continuing education.

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Serious Learning Games 101

InSync Training

Virtually There Session recap. Have you heard? Modern learners love games. In fact, with the right design, these games have the power to increase learner engagement and boost retention. Our organizations and stakeholders, though, often struggle to understand the value of games. “Having fun doesn’t equal skill building,” is a common refrain. How do we prove them wrong if they won’t buy in?

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TEACHING ONLINE: Instructors Take Note!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, COTP. That’s right: note taking. It’s not just for students, anymore!    Of course we are used to thinking of note-taking as a student activity. And it certainly still is. In one of my online classes just this week, one of my students said, “Hold on, hold on! I’ve got to get this down!” before she would go on with answering a question I had asked her.

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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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6 Most Hated UI Tricks To Avoid For Web Design

eLearning Industry

Check out these useful and 6 most hated UI tricks to avoid in order to improve your web design and user flow. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Push Training vs. Pull Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Four). . Push training is a siloed, top-down, management-driven approach that sends people to formal training events where they receive nice-to-know information—as in, it will be nice to know someday. People are not connected to one another during or after the training event, and do not collaborate.

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PERFORMANCE SUPPORT: Is Devolution in Training Blocking Evolution in Performance?

Living in Learning

Many of my Performance Support colleagues and I have lamented over and struggled to find why the adoption of performance support technology has been so difficult. Having been in the L&D discipline for over 30 years, I can see why, and it’s not a failure of L&D. It’s a failure of the Training paradigm in which we’ve devolved as we have evolved.

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Book Update #3: Only One Chapter Left!

Tim Slade

Hey Gang! It’s time for another update on The eLearning Designer’s Handbook. This week, I’m down to only one chapter left to write, which is the Introduction! I’m hoping that I’ll be able to send it all off to the editor by the time the weekend is over. Check out this week’s update video for additional details on my progress and for my answers to your questions about the book!

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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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iSpring Suite 9: A Whole New Level Of Best eLearning Authoring

eLearning Industry

iSpring has recently unveiled the 9th version of iSpring Suite authoring toolkit. It introduces 6 video formats for creating advanced eLearning content, which means you’ll be able to implement twice as many eLearning scenarios. We’re going hands-on with the tool to find out what it’s all about. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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When to Hire Help for Your WordPress LMS

LearnDash

Many people who want to start an online course business intend to bootstrap the venture, but sometimes that will cost you more money than hiring someone to help. It is a scenario I have come across many times before: Someone has a great idea for a course because they are an expert in their field. They then get a WordPress site through one of the many hosting options.

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6 Benefits of an LMS for Large Companies

TOPYX LMS

All companies face challenges in effectively training employees, but those challenges become even greater as the size and complexity of the enterprise grows. However, as training becomes more difficult to manage, the benefits of an LMS , have greater impact as well.

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Office Safety Training for Employees

ej4 eLearning

When you think of safety training, your mind goes to factory and warehouse workers wearing hard hats and using forklifts. We can't forget safety training for office employees. I was thinking about how I always say “be careful” to my friends and family, and how that applies to my co-workers.

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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.