Sat.Mar 19, 2016 - Fri.Mar 25, 2016

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How to Write Good Assessment Questions

Association eLearning

“Can someone explain this question to me? I don’t know what it’s asking.”. “How am I supposed to know the answer to this? It wasn’t in the lesson.”. Your association can have the best course in the world, but if the assessments or knowledge checks aren’t written well they can make the whole thing fall apart. Believe it or not, it can be hard to write effective questions.

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Camtasia Studio: Locking Tracks

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        You know that saying that the cobbler's kids have the worst shoes? Or perhaps the one where the doctor's kids are always the sickest. something like that anyway. It's sort of the same thing for trainers. there's never time to attend training. When it comes to software, we're often on our own and have to learn via the "click and a prayer" methodology.   When I first started using Camtasia, I "clicked and praye

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Dynamic Language Translations for Storyline Projects

eLearning Brothers

What if I told you that you didn’t have to create multiple versions of your English courseware to serve your non-English speaking/reading learners? It’s entirely possible to manage by utilizing triggers and states when developing with Articulate Storyline 2. Granted, this solution is not ideal for everyone’s situation, but if you find this is realistic for your projects, you’re in luck!

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Simulations: Mimicking the 70

Infopro Learning

According to the 70:20:10 Framework the majority of learning is done on the job, so naturally trainers are looking for ways to incorporate this crucial area into their training portfolios. Simulations allow L&D professionals to create a structured learning environment around the 70% of learning that’s hardest to reach. There is no perfect substitute for direct experience and participation, but simulations that mimic the real thing as closely as possible can save money and (in the case of air

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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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Motivating Learners to Look Up Compliance Policies Themselves

Experiencing eLearning

In my last post, I explained how starting compliance training with a worst-case scenario can engage learners right from the start. Setting the course up with a scenario helps learners understand why the policies matter. In this post, I’ll explain a technique for keeping learners engaged throughout the course. Instead of being so boring that employees just want to click through a course as quickly as possible, this strategy gives learners a reason to actively seek out policy information and

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How to Motivate Students Online - Video Interview with Curt Bonk

JoomlaLMS

You’ve bought a Learning Management System, invested a lot of money into marketing and promotion but didn’t receive the return on investments. Students drop your classes and don’t recommend your online courses to the peers as they think the class wasn’t worth their money and time. Sounds familiar?

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Supporting all the ways people learn at work

Jane Hart

In my previous post I showed how people learn at work in a multitude of ways. In this post I want to show how organisations are supporting learning more widely across the organisation. Here is a summary of initiatives plotted onto my previous diagram (see below), and beneath it brief descriptions of the initiatives highlighted. (1) This group of initiatives are an evolution of conventional classroom training and e-learning.

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What is Responsive eLearning?

Upside Learning

You’ll wonder why this topic now. Responsive eLearning has been around for at least a couple of years now and everyone should be pretty much clear about what it is. I thought so too, till I saw some examples on different websites being passed as responsive eLearning while they were clearly not. So, what do […].

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Training Isn't Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Companies continue to put substantial resources into employee training programs with the hope that these programs will prepare their employees for jobs now and in the future. For example, AT&T is starting to retrain its entire workforce as it transitions from phone lines to the cloud. In an article for the Wall Street Journal titled, “AT&T’s Ambitious Effort to Retrain More than 100,000 Workers,” Rachel King writes: As AT&T Inc. takes on a massive effort to transform its technology i

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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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Creative Commons

CourseArc

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. The free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”.

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3 – L&D roles to support learning at work

Jane Hart

In the first post in this series I showed the many different ways that people learn at work , and in the second I talked about the activities involved in supporting all the ways people learn at work. In this third post I want to consider the L&D roles for enabling this, so in the diagram below I’ve plotted them onto the diagram I have been using in the last two posts.

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How to Engage Modern Learners: When to "Push" and When to "Pull"

InSync Training

Training Magazine Network Session Recap. On Tuesday, March 8, Training Magazine Network (TMN) provided InSync Training President Jennifer Hofmann with a platform to share “How to Engage Modern Learners: When to Push and When to Pull.” This subject resonated with the TMN audience because, as Jennifer pointed out, “Does your expectation of how you learn align with what it was even a couple of years ago?

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70:20:10 For Trainers

Learnnovators

Learning & Development Professional has been running a poll on the following question: Is the 70:20:10 model still relevant today? And I’m shocked by the results. At the time of writing this blog, over half the respondents have chosen “No”. Assuming they are all L&D professionals, the extrapolation means most of us don’t think the 70:20:10 model is relevant to our work.

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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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Healthcare Organizations Need an LMS for Survival

TOPYX LMS

Have you ever taken an airplane ride? If so, surely you recall the lengthy instructions given to you by the flight staff prior to takeoff. These instructions were delivered in order to teach you appropriate plane-travel behaviors and equip you to deal with potentially life-threatening situations. Of all the directives the flight attendants gave you, the instruction to secure your own oxygen mask before attempting to help others was perhaps the most crucial.

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Short shouldn't have to mean shallow

Kineo

In the age of giving learners what they want and a drive for shorter content, might we forget to provide deep learning? Be smart with learners' time by providing short, stretching experiences that stick.

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5 Ways Moodle Improves Higher Education

Lambda Solutions

Moodle LMS is an intuitive, and supportive environment for the independent nature of learning in higher education. There is no population more technologically skillful than post-secondary students - the virtual landscape of Moodle is one they are familiar with, and can navigate through easily. Without a major learning curve, online learning platforms like Moodle LMS are ideal for students in higher education.

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Learning Solutions 2016 Workshop Photos and Presentation Slides

Kapp Notes

Had a great time at Learning Solutions 2016 last week. Once again, Sharon Boller and I had a great time conducting our Play to Learn! workshop (if you haven’t attended that workshop, you should!) I also conducted a session highlighting some research I have been doing related to gamification. The slides are included in this post as well. Here are some of the great games the participants created.

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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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Images

CourseArc

“…unless our words, concepts, ideas are hooked onto an image, they will go in one ear, sail through the brain, and go out the other ear. Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information… Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.”. – Dr.

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CLOs, Forget Executive Education: You Need to Invest in the Frontline

Inkling

When it comes to planning a learning and development program, it’s easy to focus on the leaders that make the big decisions. But a recent report from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and the Aspen Institute’s UpSkill America suggests organizations would do well to prioritize investing in their frontline employees (defined here as workers who make less than $40,000 annually and have an associate’s degree or less).

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Jargon Watch: Just Say "No" To Trainings and eLearnings

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby  From the sound of crickets chirping in my inbox, I can only assume that I have now been written out of the lists of true grammarians for my defense of "trainings"!  The one reply I got to my article suggesting that we allow the words "training" and "eLearning" to become plural seems  to give the final word on this usage.

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The 8 Best Moodle Plugins for Course Presentation & User Experience

Lambda Solutions

Moodle Plugins are the most efficient way to get the most out of your learning management system. Think of your LMS like a smartphone - it does everything you need it to do, but sometimes you need a little more! If you want entertainment, you have a plethora of game apps to choose from. If you want to tap into social media, there's the Facebook app.

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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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Crowd source your corporate knowledge

Challenge to Learn

I’m investigating crowd sourcing of corporate knowledge. You can also call it the use of user generated content if you want. Over the past few weeks I have spoken to dozens of training managers all over the world. I found some reasons for companies to consider this option or to reject it. Here are my findings. Use cases. I started this process by talking to three companies (Nielsen, Akzo Nobel and Kaplan) who have already implemented crowd sourcing.

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Short shouldn't have to mean shallow

Kineo

In the age of giving learners what they want and a drive for shorter content, might we forget to provide deep learning? Be smart with learners' time by providing short, stretching experiences that stick.

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Global Virtual Teams: The Role of Talent Leaders

InSync Training

BYTE Session Recap. The modern workplace is continuing to evolve. Traditional in-house teams are quickly becoming globally dispersed and virtual. Our friend in the industry, Marjorie Derven , spoke with an InSync Training BYTE session audience on March 8th about this enterprise-wide transformation. This blog post will define Global Virtual Team (GVT) basics, the role of talent leaders , an approach for building a successful GVT, and additional resources.

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We are Better Together – Reflecting on 5 Key Themes at LSCon 2016

Axonify

It’s Monday and I’m tired. But, I’m tired for the best possible reason. I just spent the past week with my Axonify teammates immersed in the world of learning and performance as part of the eLearning Guild’s 2016 Learning Solutions Conference & Expo (#LSCon). With this year’s theme “Sharing What Works,” LSCon offered members of the learning and performance community a chance to come together and share stories.

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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.