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TMI! Cognitive Overload and Learning

Learningtogo

If you want to get a sense of the vast amount of data exploding every second, visit Internet Live Stats and watch the numbers for Internet users, websites, emails and many other statistics updated in real time. But watch out.

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Creating a Robust Social Community within Your LMS

LearnDash

Engagement with fellow learners is a surefire way to keep them coming back. One of the common challenges faced by many online educators lies in learner retainment. Not only do many online learners struggle to complete a course , but those that do often don’t come back for more. And even when they do return their experience is often one of isolation and solo drudgery.

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Creating Content That Resonates With Your Audience

eLearning Industry

In your quest to become the ultimate expert in your niche, operating online courses and building quality content is all about being there for your audience and their needs. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Best WordPress LMS Plugins for eLearning Websites

Ayatas

In this technology-driven world, e-learning has become very popular among the people looking to advance in their career and life with little investment. WordPress has many themes which are specially created to build learning management systems for a website. In this article, we have discussed the most popular LMS Plugins for WordPress that help to create an e-learning website.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The Lonely Training Needs Assessment

Learning Rebels

What is it about a training needs assessment that makes learning professionals panic? (Jump to the bottom of this post to enter to win this month’s book giveaway). I’ve written many times, on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and on this website about the importance of asking the right questions at the right time. Not every nail needs a hammer, not every problem requires a training intervention.

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How To Design An Effective eLearning Course (Part 1/2)

eLearning Industry

To design an effective eLearning course, design with these components in your head. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Best WordPress LMS Plugins for eLearning Websites

Ayatas

In this technology-driven world, e-learning has become very popular among the people looking to advance in their career and life with little investment. WordPress has many themes which are specially created to build learning management systems for a website. In this article, we have discussed the most popular LMS Plugins for WordPress that help to create an e-learning website.

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The System Always Wins

The Simple Shift

Just beyond the org chart of authority and decision-making is what keeps it all in place; the systems of communication, trust, information flow and rewards.

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Figure it out

E-Learning Provocateur

I can honestly say I’ve never suffered from imposter syndrome. I’ve always been the type of person who likes to work out how to do something hands-on, so I can talk about it with confidence. I suppose I’ve been lucky in the sense that, throughout my career, I’ve been able to align my curiosity and sense of direction with the needs of the business.

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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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Making Multiple Choice work

Clark Quinn

For sins in my past, I’ve been thinking about assessments a bit lately. And one of the biggest problems comes from trying to find solutions that are meaningful yet easy to implement. You can ask learners to develop meaningful artifacts, but getting them assessed at scale is problematic. Mostly, auto-marked stuff is used to do trivial knowledge checks.

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What Makes Learning Games So Great?

InSync Training

When we think of corporate learning, rarely do “fun and games” come to mind. More often than not, compliance training pops into our heads, characterized by endless slide decks, droning SMEs-turned-facilitators , and uncomfortable days spent in a classroom. Folks, training has a reputation problem. Our learners perceive traditional training as outdated and ineffective.

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The Art and Science of Gratitude

Allen Interactions

We can probably all agree that in general, it's good to be grateful. And if probed we can probably all pull out one or two things that warrant saying "thanks". But why does it matter? And why does it matter for a learning company?

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3 reasons why managers should care about microlearning

Axonify

What do managers in your organization think about training? Do they like it? Do they find it a valuable use of time? Do they believe it has a positive impact on the business? Let’s start even simpler – do your managers care about training at all? The first half of my career was spent in … Continued. The post 3 reasons why managers should care about microlearning appeared first on Axonify.

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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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And the myths go on

Clark Quinn

Yet another silly post I stumbled upon. And last week at a conf someone said they liked my take-downs. If you disagree, let me know, but otherwise here’s yet another bunch of marketing hype. Hopefully no one uses this for any real decisions! This one talks about ‘generation Z’, and implications for L&D. Ok, so we’re off on the wrong foot from the get-go.

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3 Questions to Ask Before Launching a Corporate Online Learning Course

TOPYX LMS

Corporate online learning is prized for its ability to save companies money, benefit the environment, provide on-demand training, boost employee productivity, and increase workers’ ability to retain training information by up to 60 percent. 1. Online learning is so helpful in the workplace that corporations have reported it as the second most valuable method of training they use, according to eLearning Industry. 2.

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What is a Learning Consultant?

ej4 eLearning

And How Are They the Key to Corporate Learning? Sometimes I am amazed at (and proud of!) the loyalty our clients show us. We have a 95% client retention rate, and several of our clients have been with us since Day 1—meaning they have been clients for 14 years and running.

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How to Boost Learner Engagement and Drive L&D Success

Docebo

Discover how microlearning, gamification and building hype for content will boost engagement. Learner engagement is crucial to the success of your L&D activities. If your learners aren’t interacting with your content, you won’t be able to meet your learning targets for the organization. The problem is, we live in an age where attention is at a premium and learners have access to more information than they can consume.

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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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MWL Newsletter no 89

Jane Hart

Articles and news about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) for the week 28 October – 3 November 2018. [when companies should/shouldn’t invest in training, for digital transformation encourage continuous learning & more].

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How to Design and Deliver Leadership Training with an LMS

TOPYX LMS

There are a variety of critical skills gaps in the workplace, including the corporate leadership skills gap. “A glaring gap exists between the leadership skills organizations have now and the ones they will need in five years,” stated the Association for Talent Development. 1 Although this gap has become a huge problem, it has a solution: effective, consistent leadership training.

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A Permanent State of Mourning – When Will We Stop The Killing?

Learningtogo

It has long been suspected that we are hard-wired to help each other. So why are so many of us becoming cold-blooded killers?

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Social Learning & The Benefits of Employee Generated Content [Customer Story]

Docebo

Patrick Veenhoff, head of Learning & Development at Swisscom, showcases social learning’s benefits. In June 2017, Swisscom Enterprise Customers switched from a top-down L&D content generated approach to a social learning marketplace. In other words: our nearly 5,000 employees conceptualize, create and deliver all of our organization’s corporate learning content.

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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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Insights from the Internet Time Alliance (2018)

Jane Hart

On the 3rd anniversary of the death of Jay Cross, the Founder of the Internet Time Alliance, we – Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn and I – share some insights from the 5 of us over the years.

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LMS Culture with Einstein Noah and Caribou Coffee

Wisetail

Merging two companies always presents a big challenge. Einstein Bagels Bros and Caribou Coffee drive their LMS culture and overcame that challenge by using every tool at their disposal to engage team members at every level. The post LMS Culture with Einstein Noah and Caribou Coffee appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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Remembering Jay Cross

Learningtogo

Today I'm remembering one of the true pioneers of learning science, Jay Cross. Jay was a friend and mentor.

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5 Best Moodle Themes for Version 3.5

Lambda Solutions

The theme you apply to your Moodle website helps shape the user experience of your learners. A good theme should be clean, functional, and make your LMS features easy to navigate. Here are five effective themes for your Moodle 3.5 website.

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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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Spotlighting Clark Quinn in the MWL track at LearnTec 2019

Jane Hart

I am delighted that Clark Quinn will be joining us on Tuesday 29 January 2019. The title of Clark’s session is Professionalism in Practice: Debunking Learning Myths, Superstitions, and Misconceptions .

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10 Tips To Make Your Online Meetings More Productive

eLearning Industry

With offices spread across different geographical locations, remote meetings have become a norm for most organizations. But the biggest challenge of these meetings is to keep people engaged and interested. This article lists some ideas that could make these meetings more productive. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Striking a Nerve: The Benefits and Neurobiology of Story-Based Learning

Tesseract Learning

Stories have power. They delight, enchant, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They imprint a picture on our minds. In this article I will be talking about benefits of story-based learning.

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