Sat.Jun 13, 2015 - Fri.Jun 19, 2015

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Four Wishes for LMS Buyers

Association eLearning

Every week, like clockwork, I get a call from someone who wants me to recommend an LMS for their association or small business. The conversation goes something like this… Typical Phone Call Example. If an eLearning Genie would come out of a bottle and grant me four wishes for my LMS buyers, here is what I’d request. Wish #1: LMS Buyers understand what they are buying.

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Do Learning Styles Really Work?

Experiencing eLearning

Does tailoring your content for different learning styles really work? Maybe there’s a better use of your time and resources. View the presentation for more. (If you’re reading this in email or a feed reader and don’t see anything below, you may have to click through to view the presentation.). Ready to learn more? Learning Styles are NOT an Effective Guide for Learning Design.

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A framework for content curation

E-Learning Provocateur

In conversation at EduTECH earlier this month, Harold Jarche evoked George E. P. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” Of course, the purpose of a model is to simplify a complex system so that something purposeful can be done within it. By definition, then, the model can only ever be an approximation of reality; by human error, furthermore, it won’t be as approximate as it could be.

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10 eLearning Trends For 2015 – Presentation

Upside Learning

Latest trends have been known to be the game changers; be it in the fashion industry or eLearning industry. Trend watchers are constantly on the lookout for new trends in the market that have the potential to change the face of the industry. In the case of eLearning, evolving technologies and improvised approaches make up […].

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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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10 Ways Moodle is Used for Business

Lambda Solutions

When Moodle learning management system launched in 2002 for K-12 and Higher Education institutions, many did not foresee the popularity it would gain in the corporate world. Designed to help people learn in a private and collaborative environments online, organizations around the globe quickly came to realize the business applications of this open source learning management system.

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It’s AFTER training, when the real learning happens

Jane Hart

Training events – whether face-to-face or online are primarily focused on knowledge transfer or skill development. Learning is usually measured in terms of the % of people who have completed the training or passed the tests. But the real learning takes place AFTER the training has ended, when the individual is back on the job […].

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It’s Time to Stop Pushing Learning

KnowledgeStar

Our research and consulting with leading corporations has convinced us that the smartest, highest performing, most successful organization in the current global idea-based economy are learning cultures. They can respond instantly to the ever-changing requirements and demands of a fast-paced, hyper-competitive marketplace. Their employees can quickly access the technology and support to find what they need to know, when and where it is needed.

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BC Children's Hospital & Women's Hospital | I Heart Moodle Series

Lambda Solutions

How BC Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital Makes a Positive Impact with Moodle. Training is essential for professionals working in the healthcare sector. This is something that the BC Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital knows firsthand. Moodle learning management system (LMS) has allowed them to reach an audience of over 10,000 health care providers, keeping them up-to-date with learning and development materials to help them continue to provide the best possible health care to women a

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Learning goes small, social, savvy

Origin Learning

SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud – is in! The landscape of learning is rapidly changing. The push era is gone. It is now the ‘pull’ time with smaller and speedier devices dictating the learning trends universally. For instance, a simple addition of a ‘Did you know?’ page in a learning solution could improve the sales performance of an individual.

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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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Do you have a Social Media Policy?

B Online Learning

A while ago I attended a conference presentation, called Letting It All In: Social Media & Policy in Your Organisation by Michelle Lentz. The session allowed attendees the chance to reflect on why we need a social media policy and how to get started. These are some key points I got from the session. A […].

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Top 10 Questions to Evaluate a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

In a discussion started by Camilla Keen on LinkedIn, she asks, “In order to find out and evaluate if a company has an effective learning culture, what would be your top ten questions?” I commented: Are leaders communicating the importance of learning (acquiring new knowledge, skills, and capabilities) and holding managers accountable for learning and applying that learning to making a difference for the organization?

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OpenSesame Content Integration with Totara Learning Management Systems

Lambda Solutions

We are pleased to now have the capability to integrate content from OpenSesame into Totara LMS. In an industry where content development is a large pain point for organizations, OpenSesame opens the doors for Lambda Solutions to offer some amazing course content for customers. OpenSesame isn't a content provider, it is a content marketplace. What does that mean exactly?

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6 Blended Learning Success Tips

LearnDash

Blended learning is quite effective across a variety of contexts. Schools use it for their students, and companies leverage it during formal training initiatives. The goal of blended learning is simple: expose learners to content across a variety of channels, primarily in-person and digitally. The entire blended learning concept is what can make flipped classrooms so effective.

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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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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 2 – Practice Makes Perfect

Learnnovators

This is the second post in a series of six that covers Deeper eLearning. The goal of this series is to build upon good implementations of instructional design, and go deeper into the nuances of what makes learning really work. It is particularly focused on eLearning, but almost all of what is mentioned also applies to face-to-face or virtual instruction.

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Linear or Non-Linear? Which eLearning Design Approach works well?

Raptivity

There are many studies, blogs and articles available on the internet about linear and non-linear design of eLearning. There are multiple advantages and disadvantages of each approach over the other. In this post, I’m going to talk about the approach I like the most. I am not a great fan of the next/previous page pedagogical style. Clicking next on a computer gives me a feel of reading an online version of the book.

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What is Moodle LMS?

Lambda Solutions

What is Moodle LMS? Moodle LMS is the world’s most popular and most used learning management system. Why? Because it is open source and free to download. With 68 million users and 55,000 Moodle sites deployed worldwide, Moodle is a user-friendly eLearning platform that serves the learning and training needs of people from all types of institutions.

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3 Must-Have LMS Features Infographic

LearnDash

Our expectations of learning management systems are evolving as new technology continues to influence the feature sets. At one point the LMS was a static piece of software quietly humming along in the background as we read documents and viewed recorded PowerPoint presentations. Today, it has more direct interaction with the user, and in some cases can help to bolster learning.

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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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Awesome Quotes On The Evolving Nature Of Learning

Learnnovators

QUOTE. “ I heard a great story recently… of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this little girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson she did. The teacher was fascinated and she went over to her and she said, ‘What are you drawing?’ And the girl said, ‘I’m drawing a picture of God.

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Uniting Marketing and Training for a Successful Launch

dVinci Interactive

Marketers and training leaders share an important goal: to create a great customer experience. And when the two work together: Content creation becomes easier. Branding becomes more effective. Efficiencies arise from shared knowledge and resources. Messaging falls into sync. This collaboration is especially important during new product launches. Unfortunately, only 38 percent of sales reps receive formal training for launches.

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Embrace Plan B

Clark Quinn

The past two weeks, I’ve been on the road (hence the paucity of posts). And they’ve been great opportunities to engage around interesting topics, but also have provided some learning opportunities (ahem). The title of this post, by the way, came from m’lady, who was quoting what a senior Girl Scout said was the biggest lesson she learned from her leader, “to embrace Plan B” ;).

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How To Use Course Forums Effectively

LearnDash

Forums are often used in elearning as an easy way to allow learners to communicate with each other, discuss any questions they may have relating to the content, and interact with the instructor. Depending on the topic of your online course it may make sense to include a forum. From a technical standpoint, adding forums to your courses is quite simple.

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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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The Internet of Things That Help You Learn

KnowledgeStar

Talk about the Internet of Things, I have seen the future of on-the-job learning. It is an app that connects any piece of machinery, with any internet connected device you already have, with very specifically chosen information you have in the cloud. Instantly and automatically. Information can range from training to performance support to saftey […].

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8 Things You Must Never Do with Graphics in PowerPoint

eLearning Brothers

Jennifer Valley is an Instructional Designer with five years of experience. She enjoys blogging, talking on social media, and researching. PowerPoint got an unfair reputation a few years back. It seemed like everyone was trying to blame PowerPoint for poorly created eLearning material. But the real fact of the matter was the people using the tool didn’t understand some basic strategies.

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A simple way to help beginners get started with Articulate Storyline

eLearning Architect

I was hanging out in the Articulate Storyline LinkedIn group the other day when I saw someone post a request for suggestions on how best to deliver Storyline training. Having delivered several courses this year, I thought I'd jump in with a quick reply mentioning an exercise that I have developed for this exact purpose. I have found the exercise to be really successful in getting newbies started with Storyline.

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Negative Reinforcement is Good!

LearnDash

Most people are familiar with the concepts of positive and negative reinforcement, or so they think! Over the years we have seen that the definitions of these reinforcement concepts are often misconstrued. In most cases, if you were to ask someone to describe them, they would say that positive reinforcement is rewarding for a particular behavior, while negative reinforcement is administering some form of punishment.

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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.