Sat.May 14, 2016 - Fri.May 20, 2016

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Best Practices for Voice-Over

CourseArc

Studio microphone and pop shield on mic stand. If you are designing and developing eLearning, you are most likely going to need voice-over work. As psychologist Richard Mayer points out in his book, Multimedia Learning , combining narration with visuals will help to increase learning and long-term retention of content. Here are some key principles related to creating multimedia content that Mayer shares: Redundancy Principle – People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, n

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6 Benefits of Agile ELearning Development

PulseLearning

Agile is a project management methodology used predominately in the software development industry. In recent times, Agile has been adopted by eLearning production teams due to its elastic nature, which allows the development process to respond flexibly to changing client needs. Agile differs from the traditional ADDIE model, a more rigid end-to-end process where client […].

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 2 Information Overload

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload, (Knowledge Formation coming May 24th). Information Overload. Information overload occurs in learners that have finally been exposed to on-the-job training for a new competency or role, and although they are continuing to learn and improve, there is too much new information to retain. 1.

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What’s Your Character’s Goal?

Experiencing eLearning

In Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners , I mentioned some critical elements to creating a scenario for learning: Protagonist or main character. That character’s goal. The challenges that character faces. The main character’s goal is what drives the scenario. All of the action and decisions in the scenario move you closer or further from that goal.

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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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The Difference between Training and Development.

Gyrus

The words training and development are mostly used together in the corporate world and are seen as activities focused on improving the knowledge, performance and productivity of the employees. However, there is a distinct difference between their meanings and implications, which are often overlooked by a majority of professionals. Training programs are organized by the organization to develop employees' knowledge and skills as per their job requirements.

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eLearning: Quick Tips for Engaging the Learner

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    Creating engagement with your learners greatly increases their retention of the information and makes the course that much more enjoyable. I often use the word "fun" when I describe eLearning--we're not talking balloons and unicorns here. But I want the course to be easy to navigate, thought-provoking, and an all-around pleasant experience for the learner.

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How To Get Started With ‘Snackable’ Learning

Administrate

Our consumption of media has changed radically in the last decade. Within the space of a few minutes the modern media consumer has retweeted an inspiring quote, clicked through a couple of videos on YouTube, skim read an interesting article in their feedly, watched a handful of video loops on Vine Read More.

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3 Key Things to do for Creating Engaging eLearning – Part 2

Upside Learning

This is part 2 of a 3 part blog series on creating engaging eLearning. In part 1 , I talked of Purpose. In this part I’ll be discussing about Motivation. If you have spent time watching kids, you must have observed that most things fascinate them. They have a high level of curiosity that drives […].

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Microlearning Madness: 25 Great Resources

Knowledge Guru

Over the last five to ten years, corporate learning professionals have scrambled to engage their learners in an increasingly digital world. Learning trends such as mobile, gamification, game-based learning, performance support, use of learning science and interactive video are all attempts to capture learner attention and engage them on a deeper level.

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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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Scenario mistakes to avoid #2: “Eat! Eat! You need to eat!”

Making Change

“You need to eat more!” she says, heaping your plate until it rivals Mount Everest. “Eat! Eat!” We all know the stereotype. Unfortunately, we can find ourselves turning into that stereotype when we feed information to people. “You have to know this!” we say, filling the screen to bursting. “And this! And this!

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WISETAIL WORKS ANNOUNCES $5,000 GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH BOZEMAN’S ADVENTURE BIKE CLUB, “PROJECT X” AND THE GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST

Wisetail

Wisetail Works, the charitable giving arm of Bozeman indie tech firm, Wisetail, announced today a partnership with Bozeman’s new adventure bicycling club, “Project X” and the Gallatin Valley Land Trust to protect access to public trails while promoting cycling. The post WISETAIL WORKS ANNOUNCES $5,000 GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH BOZEMAN’S ADVENTURE BIKE CLUB, “PROJECT X” AND THE GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST appeared first on Wisetail.

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Podcast – Chandra Clarke, from Inklyo shares her experience of Raptivity

Raptivity

Raptivity is all excited with its 10 years of presence in the eLearning industry and we believe that customers’ success is the backbone or the main reason behind Raptivity’s decade-long presence. A step further, we are happy to announce a mini-podcast with one of our customers citing their success story with Raptivity. Chandra Clarke, President, Inklyo, provider of online writing courses and other practical resources for writers, has been using Raptivity over five years.

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Setting Up a Successful Learning Project With Good Storyboarding

InSync Training

Storyboards go back to the 1930s when a Walt Disney animator began using them to organize cartoon scenes. In eLearning, a storyboard is simply a script that includes text, images and notes about how a learner is expected to interact with a learning module. When used in creative work, storyboards allow instructional designers and trainers to see the "big picture.".

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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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Older-Worker Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

What are we doing to support older-worker learning? They want to learn, too! Older adults, who are traditional retirement age, are no longer an invisible segment of the workforce. In a N.Y. Times article titled “Disproving Beliefs About the Economy and Aging,” the author, Christopher Farrell, dispels three myths commonly held about older adults: Myth No. 1: Older adults don’t work, so they weigh down the economy.

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The Future of Work and Learning 2: Chatbots

Jane Hart

In my previous post I looked at how I believe Professional Ecosystems are the future of work and learning , and how organisations (and L&D) might support them. In this post I want to look at how individuals might make use of chatbots to build smart Professional Ecosystems, and how organisations might use them to provide intelligent access to their own content and services as well as offer personalised support to individuals.

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8 Tips When Creating Online Courses

LearnDash

If you have never created an online course then it is important to know a few “best practices” to maximize its impact. A simple Google search will yield all kinds of advice and strategies, but these can over-complicate the process. Sure, these methods work but you don’t want to get “lost in the weeds” If you are looking for some simple techniques then consider the eight tips below (as originally shared by NexLearn ).

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The Learning Analytics Revolution

Lambda Solutions

How would you go about completely transforming the world of education as we know it, by (literally, and figuratively) tearing down classroom walls, encouraging educators to quit the in-class lecture-style teaching methods they're used to, and have them assist online-driven learning without causing an outrage? Show them the data that proves how well it works.

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The DNA of Online Learning

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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Can’t be at the ATD ICE 2016 Conference? Join Virtually

Learning Rebels

Anticipation! ATD ICE 2016 Conference! In 4 days! I’m so excited! A couple of years I asked Mark Sheppard to write a bit about joining this conference from the back channel and I asked him to revised his thoughts for another guest post this year. So ATD ICE 2016 (Association for Talent Development International Conference and Expo) is upon us.

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Online Community Management (Workshop)

Jane Hart

Next public online workshop runs: 30 MAY – 24 JUNE. Setting up and running an online community takes time and effort. In this online workshop we look at how to support the planning, launch and running of an online community. Agenda. This 4-week online workshop covers the following topics: Planning the community. Launching the community. Encouraging engagement.

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Improving Professional Learning: 12 Strategies to Enhance Performance

Web Courseworks

In the late 1960s professional organizations began actively to address the growing disconnect between advances in knowledge and the practitioners who were no longer involved in institutional learning. While this was most pronounced in the medical field—where advances were occurring at a dizzying pace—it also occurred within organizations for teachers, lawyers, business professionals, social workers, psychologists, accountants, and even clergy.

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Top 10 Improvements in Moodle 3.1

Lambda Solutions

Big news in the Moodle world, as the release of Moodle 3.1 is almost here! Set for Monday May 23rd, this long awaited release comes equipped with significant enhancements, additions, and improvements based on requests, and pains expressed by the Moodle community. Here are 10 (of the many!) improvements you have to look forward to with the release of Moodle 3.1.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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Gamification vs Game-Based eLearning: Do You know the Difference?

Gyrus

Gamification is fast emerging as an effective and exciting technique to engage with learners in the corporate training world. However, the term gamification is often mixed up with another term known as game-based learning. A lot of industry professionals use these terms interchangeably without realizing how different they are in terms of their meanings and functions.

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Transforming Sales Reps into Knowledgeable Advisors

Inkling

We’ve all become accustomed to—and even expect—having quick access to information and knowledge readily available at our fingertips and on our mobile devices. It’s no exception for sales reps who need on-demand access to product, competitor, and customer knowledge just before and while meeting with customers. Having real-time access to this type of information gives them the confidence and the knowledge they need to present themselves as trusted advisors.

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INFOGRAPHIC: High Performance Learning Ecosystems

Learnnovators

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. MINDSET. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT. COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS. ENHANCED WORKFLOW. x—–x—–x—–x—–x.

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What Is Performance All About?

Origin Learning

Efficiency and performance go hand in hand. They are two sides of the same coin. It is this direct link that prepares the base for organizations that go on to formulate relevant strategies from time to time. That being said, how does a fast, simple, and customer-focused company communicate its vision, mission, and goals to new hires? How do large companies create awareness in an engaged way that will give the new hire an easy way to tune into the performance culture of the organization?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr