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If the User Experience Annoys, Fix It.

Association eLearning

I had a bad user experience (UX) at a dollar store a while back. I’m not talking about customer service, but actual UX design. I swiped my card into the card reader to pay. A prompt told me to click “Enter,” with an arrow pointing at one of the buttons. It’s a good thing I stopped, because the button the arrow pointed to wasn’t the enter button. It was on the other end of the keypad.

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My Workflow For Development

The eLearning Coach

In the spirit of ‘Show Your Work,’ I thought I’d share the workflow I use during course development with an authoring tool (see Why You Should Show Your Work for more on this). This workflow is the process I typically use after I have an approved storyboard/script and prototype. It’s simple and straightforward and is […] Post from: The eLearning Coach My Workflow For Development.

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Best Practices for Blended Learning Design

Web Courseworks

Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Association educational leaders who are responsible for developing adult learning programs often struggle with defining what makes for a quality educational program, especially one that relies heavily on technology.

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15 Bloggers choose their Top 10 Tools for Learning

Jane Hart

Voting is continuing in the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 survey. Although most people opt to cast their votes for their Top 10 Tools, privately, using the online form, a number of people have shared their tools list in a blog post, and it is really interesting to find out (in more depth) which tools they […].

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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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Games and Gamification in Moodle

Lambda Solutions

Gamification in Moodle is one of the most effective ways to engage and motivate learners, by using game mechanics and games. Let us quickly clarify the difference between the two. Game mechanics are common gaming tactics used to ignite competition and the desire for learners to ‘win’. Games on the other hand, are the tangible games themselves, such as hangman, or crosswords.

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70:20:10 Primer

Performance Learning Productivity

I have often been asked to explain the fundamentals of 70:20:10 as a strategic framework quickly and simply. I wrote the one-page ‘primer’ below to serve that immediate purpose. Please feel free to use it for any no-commercial purposes. It is published here under the Creative Commons: Attribution – Non-Commercial – Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).

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Aligning

Clark Quinn

I’m realizing that a major theme of my work and the revolution is that what we do in organizations, and what we do as L&D practitioners, is not aligned with how we think, work, and learn. And to that extent, we’re doomed to failure. We can, and need to, do better. Let’s start with thinking. The major mismatch here is that our thinking is done rationally and in our head.

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Reminder of Why ELearning is Great

LearnDash

The presence of elearning in organizations is no longer a novelty. Today’s generation is used to elearning. They have used it in schools, for fun (mobile apps) and in the work environment. In other words, we have reached a state of normalcy with regards to elearning, learning management systems, and the like. This is by no means a negative. It simply means that elearning courses have become an expectation.

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Play to Learn by Learning to Play [Webinar Recording & Slides]

Kineo

How do you foster creativity in a corporate learning space? What about playful learning? In our recent webinar, Play to Learn by Learning to Play, we looked at some of these concepts in practice. .

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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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Using Badges in Moodle

Lambda Solutions

The Harvard Business Review named elearning badges as one of the most innovative trends to watch in 2013, and two years later, lms badge functionalities have only gotten better. A digital Moodle badge is essentially an online recognition of your achievements and skills. If a user has a number of certifications, for example, they can receive and display lms badges online to recognize their achievement or competency.

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Performance Management and Alignment of Values

The Performance Improvement Blog

A number of large companies are confronting (willingly and unwillingly) the issues around their own performance management and making some hard choices to try to improve performance by changing workplace culture. They are faced with tradeoffs between what they aspire to be as an organization and what has evolved from the intended and unintended pressures they put on their employees.

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Jane Hart’s 9th Annual ‘Top Tools for Learning’ Survey closes on Friday 19th September 2015 and will be published the following Monday. If you haven’t already voted, please take a visit here and do so if you’re reading this before the close date. If it’s too late, make sure you’ve marked up the action to contribute to next year’s survey. My list of top tools for learning in 2015 : Google Search : ‘Professor Google’ is he is known in my house.

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A Warning About Infographics

LearnDash

The internet is a wonderful thing but one has to be careful not to believe everything they read. Most people know that not all that is shared online is 100% factual. This is the case across nearly every topic, including the learning industry. In some situations debates result. For example, there seems to be a never ending argument over the validity of learning styles.

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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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APL Maritime Navigates the Challenges of Reaching Learners at Sea

dVinci Interactive

Video interview with APL Maritime’s Manager of Regulatory Compliance, Training and Incident ResponseCaptain Christian Volkle. APL Maritime operates a fleet of US flagged ocean cargo carriers that go all over the world. Each ship is operated by crew members with various skills and jobs that are essential to successfully moving massive amounts of cargo across the world’s oceans.

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Front-Line Leaders: 3 Capabilities for Improving Retention

Kineo

This is our third post on capabilities that Front-Line Leaders require in order to help their organizations achieve specific business goals. As we’ve said in our first two posts, it’s not news to say that organizations should develop the specific capabilities their people require to deliver the specific business outcomes they seek. But just what are those capabilities?

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How I Blog: #DevLearn Bloggers

Learning Visions

DevLearn , that mecca of a eLearning conference, is coming up quickly! This year, we'll be running around the MGM Grand in Las Vegas from September 30-October 2, filling our heads with eLearning goodness. I'm honored to be a part of the #DevLearn Bloggers team. Each of us has been asked to write a post about how we blog.here's my offering: I’ve always been a note taker.

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Powerful LearnDash Engagement Trigger

LearnDash

One of the reasons WordPress is so great for online learning is because of how it often enables you to tap into other useful features without much effort. In the simplest of ways this is done by leveraging another plugin. For example, you can add a forum to your WordPress learning management system by simply installing and activating bbPress. Using the LearnDash-bbPress integration, courses can have associated forums.

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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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Employees Avoiding Corporate Barriers

Nick Leffler

This is a story that is close to me because I see employees avoiding corporate barriers every day. I’ve seen what command and control leads to and it’s not good for anybody, organization or employee. When an organization gets worried about lawsuits and starts to shut computer systems down to prevent leaks and errors, people don’t always take part willingly.

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Best Practices for Blended Learning Design

Web Courseworks

A Case Study of the UW Professional Life Coaching Certificate Program. Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Association educational leaders who are responsible for developing adult learning programs often struggle with defining what makes for a quality educational program, especially one that relies heavily on technology.

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Webinar: 10 Tips for Better eLearning Design on Sept 3

Learning Visions

Join me on September 3rd, 1:00 eastern for a webinar with Training Magazine Network. Here's the description: Has your eLearning design gotten dull and same-old, same-old? Looking for some design ideas and inspiration? Cammy Bean, Kineo's VP of Learning Design, shares some ideas and examples to get your design juices flowing. In this session, you'll learn to: Liven up your eLearning designs with strategies for making your content more human Design interactions that rely less on clicking and more

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Day One for visual journalling

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I went on holiday to Sicily with my family. Very hot (35 degrees) but very nice! I would like to go again during a period when it is less hot. Today back to work and that's always a weird day trying to get into the routines. During the holidays I have used the app Day One to keep a diary. Very user-friendly, intuitive to use and attractive lay-out. A nice feature of this app is that you can receive a reminder and you can start your entries with a photo.

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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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BYTE Session Recap - Enabling Virtual Learners by Design

InSync Training

On August 12, Jennifer Hofmann, President of InSync Training, presented the BYTE session, Enabling Virtual Learners by Design , to an attentive and passionate audience. Jennifer began the session by acknowledging, “We all know, if you’ve been working in virtual classrooms at all, even eLearning and blended learning, we’ve all accepted that these tools are here to stay.

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Adobe Captivate: Adding Video to the TOC

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      I've been getting more and more requests from both students attending our  online Captivate classes and eLearning development customers  to add videos to the Captivate TOC.   Most people think it's impossible to add a video to the TOC. I'm happy to report that it's not only possible, it's simple (although the option is a bit buried).   To begin, choose  Insert > Video  to open the Insert Video dialo

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4 Key Elements for a Successful Leadership Program

ej4 eLearning

According to a Retention and Leadership Survey study done by Harris Poll (commissioned by Saba), 39 percent of companies surveyed offered leadership development programs, but only 15 percent of employees at those firms felt that the training they were receiving in any way prepared them for leadership positions. Those numbers, and a little math, tell [.].

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Social Media for eLearning Professional Development (Part 2)

eLearning Brothers

Liz Sheffield is a freelance writer with a background in training and development. She specializes in writing about everything related to the human side of business. You can contact her via LinkedIn or Twitter. As I said in my last post , earlier this summer I attended the Society of Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) annual conference where 15,000 HR professionals gathered to share best practices, learn new skills, and improve the HR profession.

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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.