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

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Special Webinar on Learning Design Strategy

Clark Quinn

Learning, properly, should have an impact. It’s about systematically changing behavior, developing new skills to meet ever-changing needs. That’s why we invest in learning: training or elearning. If elearning doesn’t make an impact , who cares how accessible or affordable is seems? It’s actually undermining your goals for increasing expertise, effectiveness and productivity.

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How to Enable the Script Button Throughout an E-learning Course Articulate Storyline

CommLab India

Articulate Storyline can be used to develop eLearning courses with customized GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) based on specific requirements. But small mistakes while designing the GUI can lead to issues; so developers need to be conscious and follow the common rules of eLearning development. There are many issues with a customized GUI, but in this blog, I will talk about one issue i.e., “customized script button” and how to overcome this issue in a simple way.

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Instructional Design: The Process – Part 2

Origin Learning

In the last article , we discussed ID, ISD and the various models and frameworks associated with both. The article ended with an introduction to ADDIE framework of learning design. The five phases of ADDIE framework encompass the entire content development process, from discovery to delivery. In a typical waterfall model of design, all phases are sequential and a phase is dependent on the preceding phase and is the precursor to the following phase.

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Tools That Make Consulting Easier (And a Few More I Need)

Experiencing eLearning

I have now been working as an independent consultant for over 5 years. These are the tools I use to run my business and work with clients. I’m a one-person business, so I need tools that let me manage the business side of things efficiently. This list is constantly evolving, and I have a list of solutions I need as well. Collaboration and Communication.

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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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Constructive criticism of Coursera

E-Learning Provocateur

Well it’s taken me over 3 and a half years, but I’ve finally completed another mooc. I use the term completed loosely, because while I consumed all the content, I didn’t submit any of the assignments. In other words, I completed the course as far as my personal learning needs are concerned, while still feeding the naysayers’ MOOCs-are-a-failure-because-their-completion-rate-is-low argument.

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Authoring Tool/ Framework Selection for Responsive eLearning Development: Comparative Summary

Upside Learning

In previous posts, we discussed six responsive authoring tools/frameworks: Adapt, Evolve, gomo, Elucidat, Captivate 9, and Lectora 16. As promised, in the last post of the series, we present a comparative summary. We have put together a feature-wise comparison, grouped under design considerations that we felt could influence the choice of tool. So if you’re […].

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Unlocking potential in L&D: pressing pause on the tech

Kineo

Towards Maturity has launched its 2016-17 benchmark report, Unlocking Potential. As titles go, not particularly novel or challenging - after all isn’t learning & development all about unlocking potential?

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How to Improve Student Retention in eLearning

CourseArc

Connecting with students can be difficult even in ideal circumstances. Unlike regular classroom-based courses, digital learning poses an additional set of challenges for instructional designers and students alike. Sometimes even the most well-designed courses may not resonate with certain learners. Despite the instructional designer’s use of cutting-edge technology and well-researched content, some students may still find it hard to comprehend or retain course material — and that can cause

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Fun in Learning: Making the Mandatory Magical

Administrate

Time for your annual mandatory company training! A week long training marathon commences, to a grey room full of disgruntled faces. Tick follows tock, follows tick, follows tock… is it home time yet? Perhaps the above is a dated perspective, modern day training environments are increasingly more vibrant and interesting. However, Read More. Published on November 24, 2016.

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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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eLearning: Offline & Tracking – What Are Your Options?

Upside Learning

In a previous post I talked about the emerging need for Offline & Tracking – how mobile learning has evolved and from where this need is coming. I would now like to discuss the options you may have at your disposal in trying to make eLearning available offline with tracking. I’ll evaluate whether some of […].

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Why Online Learning Is Important In the Workplace  

TOPYX LMS

To say that online learning is important in the workplace is an understatement. It’s more accurate to exclaim that online learning, or eLearning, is indispensible in the corporate world. Company decision makers that have implemented eLearning, especially via a quality social learning management system (LMS), are reaping the rewards of a bolstered bottom line and exponential growth.

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Thoughts on story, games, and VR

Clark Quinn

As luck would have it, I found out about an event on Storytelling Across Media being run in the city, and attended a couple of the panels: half of one on interactive design and Telltale Games, one on story and games, and one on story and VR. There were interesting quotes from each about story, games, and VR that prompted reflection, and I thought I’d share my thoughts with you.

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BEYOND EFFECTIVE E-LEARNING: CHANGING HABITS, NOT JUST BEHAVIORS

Learnnovators

The post BEYOND EFFECTIVE E-LEARNING: CHANGING HABITS, NOT JUST BEHAVIORS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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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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2016 Corporate Training Trends

Lambda Solutions

The LMS market is projected to reach $11 billion in worth 2020. With this anticipated growth, corporate training investments are also steadily inclining - there is nearly $4.5 billion being invested in learning management systems for corporate training, as organizations are quick to jump on effective ways to deliver employee training.

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Workplace as Learning Lab

The Performance Improvement Blog

Every worker learns differently given the task, content, and circumstances. Yet, we continue to try to educate, train, and develop everyone in the same way. Maybe it’s time to turn our workplaces into learning labs. By experimenting with different methods of learning and evaluating the process and outcomes of these methods in the workplace, we might discover what methods are best for which workers under what circumstances.

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LearnDash Add-On Black Friday Deals

LearnDash

One of the great things about using a WordPress learning management system like LearnDash is that you can easily extend the functionality with other plugins. We offer a good number of free add-ons, and third-party providers offer some pretty impressive add-ons to bolster the functionality of your LearnDash powered courses. If you are still on the fence for any of these premium add-ons, then you may want to take advantage of their Black Friday promotions below.

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A Conversation with John Blackmon of Trivantis

Kapp Notes

The other day I had a chance to catch up with John Blackmon. John is the Chief Technology Officer for Trivantis as well as being one of the Co-Founders of the company. And before that, John was Co-Founder and Lead Engineer at BocaSoft, a company that created various software utilities for the OS/2 operating system. John began his career at Electronic Data Systems, where he designed a number of automatic identification systems using various technologies for plant floor applications.

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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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Podcast: Why Learning and Caring Go Together: Interview with Dr. Paul Zak

Learningtogo

As we contemplate Thanksgiving here in the states, I thought you might want to replay my interview with Dr. Paul Zak. Neuroscience is teaching us that our emotions are part and parcel of our conscious and unconscious lives. As we say in this interview, all learning is emotional. Paul J. Zak is a scientist, prolific author, entrepreneur, TV personality, and public speaker.

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Curated Insights: Why aren’t we talking about adaptive learning?

Axonify

Last week, the eLearning Guild’s annual DevLearn event brought the L&D community together to showcase the many ways we are using technology to improve how we support workplace performance. As expected, hot topics like xAPI, virtual reality and video dominated the conversation. When I submitted session ideas for the event a few months back, I noticed no one was talking about adaptive learning.

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Course Pricing ‘Ninja’ Trick

LearnDash

Without question one of the first things people think about when creating a course to sell is how they are going to price it. Should it be a one-time fee? Perhaps a subscription payment? Or maybe a three-month payment plan? Each possible course pricing model is valid in its own way and should be assessed according to your own offering as well as market.

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From Our Digitec Family to Yours, Happy Thanksgiving

Association eLearning

Happy Thanksgiving. We just wanted to take a moment to let you know, we are thankful for our partners, friends, and loyal blog readers this holiday season. So, from our Digitec Family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving. Want to continue the conversation? Post your questions and comments in the forum. Want to become a Digitec partner? The post From Our Digitec Family to Yours, Happy Thanksgiving appeared first on Knowledge Direct.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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A Gigantic Thanksgiving Thank You!

Learning Rebels

Thank you! It has been a busy year. A year filled with adventure and surprises. Thanksgiving is the Christmas without presents, all the gratitude none of the Christmas wrapping. Here I am, planning for a a very small Thanksgiving. I’m officially an empty nester with both kids doing their thing over in the land of sunshine…California. So here I am preparing a dinner for two and as I pop tomorrow’s dressing into the refrigerator (even small, it pays to plan ahead), I’m thi

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4 Phrases to Describe DevLearn 2016

Web Courseworks

I’ve been attending eLearning Guild conferences since the community of practice’s inception around 2008. It has been fun watching company name changes and the growth of companies serving this nascent industry. Watching the growing number of hard working practitioner s who utilize vendor software and services has been especially enjoyable. As an inhabitant of both worlds, especially the planet vendor, my reflections will focus on the exhibit floor and what it says about eLearning trends.

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Making Sense of Technology Overload

InSync Training

BYTE Session Recap. Today’s workers, and by extension, our learners, often feel burdened by technology overload. Always connected often means “never unplugged.” How, as both practitioners and people, do we untangle ourselves from the sticky tech web, and make real connections? Kittie Watson, former Chair of Tulane University’s Communication Department and Founder of Innolect, discussed this exact problem with BYTE session attendees recently.

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I don’t want “to understand” in my learning objectives

From the Coleface

Learning objectives are core tools of the trade in learning design. If you can state “By the end of this course/e-learning/other, a learner will be able to X”, you have a focus for your design and a means for reviewers to check that the learning journey will get to its intended destination. I’ve noticed in a few recent projects that clients have drafted learning objectives using the verb “understand” This is contrary to what I was taught in my own learning design 10

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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.