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Google Apps Integration in Moodle

Lambda Solutions

This is a new integration between Moodle and Google, allowing you to benefit from the two platforms working seamlessly together. You will need to centralize the authentication process. You can choose whether you want to login using Google Apps credentials, Moodle credentials, or an existing identity provider (if your institution has a centralized directory).

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Why an Open Source LMS Isn’t Always the Best Option

Association eLearning

You’re shopping for an LMS and behold FREE OPEN SOURCE LMS pops up. “Free!” you say excitedly. Yes, indeed. Free and open source. Well hold the phone because if it sounds too good to be true, it’s because open source isn’t all it claims to be. Yes, it sounds like a good idea, but if you own a business or run an association, you might want to think twice about open source.

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Corporate MOOCs Reveal How Badging Can Boost Your Brand

Web Courseworks

This week, Managing eLearning features a guest post from Lauren Gray, a Marketing Intern at Web Courseworks. MOOCs are Maturing . A Massive Open Online Course, otherwise known as a MOOC, provides users with unlimited participation and access via the web by including interactive user forums to support community interactions between the users and the instructors.

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Why Every Healthcare Organization Should Implement an LMS

TOPYX LMS

Most people are unaware of the impact learning management systems (LMSs) have on healthcare organizations. In his article E-learning in the Healthcare Industry , Nikos Andriotis tells us, “ For several years, healthcare has been the most popular industry for corporate eLearning in the US, followed by software and marketing companies.” The fact that the healthcare industry is beating software companies in the use of eLearning systems is quite telling – LMSs are not only greatly beneficial to heal

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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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VR – The Next Leap in Learning

Origin Learning

Compel to learn? That’s history. Check out the new medium to learn – Virtual Reality. It is the next leap in learning. VR is exciting and so immersive that one is compelled to find out more. The edge of paper ceases to exist, encouraging animators in the most exhilarating ways to hone their craft. The “full immersion” into a drawing has to be experienced to know what it feels like.

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Version 2.1 Brings Exciting New Features!

LearnDash

Today is an exciting day for a couple of reasons. First, it is the beginning of Q4 of 2015. This has notoriously been an exciting time for LearnDash customers as many of our projects are coming to completion and soon into your hands. More information on this is included at the end of this post. Secondly (and perhaps more relevant to you right now), today marks an important baseline release of LearnDash version 2.1.

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Meet Your Employees’ Social Learning Needs with an LMS

TOPYX LMS

Human beings are social creatures. Whether introverted or extroverted in personality, people have a strong need for social interactions and meaningful relationships. In addition to being social, we are also highly adaptable and have an impressive ability to quickly adopt new behaviors. Part of what allows us to absorb new information is our capacity to learn from others and from the observations recorded in our collective history.

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Video - Virtual Classroom Tools: Breakout Rooms

InSync Training

Breakout rooms allow groups of two or more participants to meet and collaborate during a larger live online session. Breakout rooms can be used to create interaction and collaboration by making your content more learner-centered. Include this feature in your virtual classroom instructional designs, and participants will not only meet and collaborate with other participants, but they’ll also be more engaged.

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Integrating mobile devices into the training room (social online workshop)

Jane Hart

This is the second in a series of Modern Workplace Learning workshops. Next public social online workshop runs: 28 September – 23 October Most people have a smartphone and/or tablet, and one of the biggest bugbears is that when they go on a training course they are asked to turn them off to ensure there […].

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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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Corporate MOOCs Reveal How Badging Can Boost Your Brand

Web Courseworks

This week, Managing eLearning features a guest post from Lauren Gray, a Marketing Intern at Web Courseworks. MOOCs are Maturing . A Massive Open Online Course, otherwise known as a MOOC, provides users with unlimited participation and access via the web by including interactive user forums to support community interactions between the users and the instructors.

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ALIGN!

Clark Quinn

I’m recognizing that there’s an opportunity to provide more support for implementing the Revolution. So I’ve been thinking through what sort of process might be a way to go about making progress. Given that the core focus in on aligning with how we think, work, and learn (elements we’re largely missing), I thought I’d see whether that could provide a framework.

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Modern Learning Culture Resource Bundle

InSync Training

Today’s workforce is more global, mobile, and social than ever before. This presents unique challenges to training professionals, most notably: how do we best support these learners?

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From intuition to knowing for sure: a case of applying learning analytics at course level

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Blogpost is written in collaboration with Francois Walgering from MOOCfactory and Sibrenne Wagenaar from Ennuonline. More and more trainers and facilitators use online platforms for online interaction to facilitate learning. This is akin to face-to-face facilitation but also has its own dynamics. For example, how do you know if an online article is read?

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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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Talent Development & Diversity are Priceless at MasterCard

dVinci Interactive

Video interview with MasterCard’s Senior Director, Global Talent Management & Organizational Effectiveness, Shantelle Williams. Everyone knows MasterCard as a leading credit card brand but today the company is a leading technology company enabling commerce all over the globe. As MasterCard evolves, it has aligned a talent, diversity and inclusion strategy with its corporate strategy.

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Agile?

Clark Quinn

Last Friday’s #GuildChat was on Agile Development. The topic is interesting to me, because like with Design Thinking , it seems like well-known practices with a new branding. So as I did then, I’ll lay out what I see and hope others will enlighten me. As context, during grad school I was in a research group focused on user-centered system design , which included design, processes, and more.

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Video - Virtual Classroom Tools: Chat

InSync Training

Chat is probably the most familiar tool in the virtual classroom. Virtual classroom facilitators often use the chat feature during virtual learning sessions but often don't maximize its usefulness. Chat is one of the of the easiest ways to encourage interaction in the virtual classroom. Chat is a great tool and it can be used for so much more than Q&A!

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Building Trust in Sales: The Doctor is in… and Listening

ej4 eLearning

Really, the title says it all. People buy from people they trust. And building trust means being willing to listen as much as anything else. Why are we writing about something so obvious? Consider: The vast majority of sales and marketing literature discusses problem solving; most modern companies call their products and services solutions. [.]. The post Building Trust in Sales: The Doctor is in… and Listening appeared first on.

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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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Adobe RoboHelp 2015: Embedding Multimedia from Camtasia Studio

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Willam van Weelden      Integration between RoboHelp and Adobe Captivate has always worked well.  Kevin taught you this integration some time ago.  Using multimedia from other applications such as Camtasia used to be much harder. A recent patch for RoboHelp 2015 makes using media from Camtasia and other applications easy.

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The Golden Age of Customer Feedback

Gyrus

Engaging customers from the beginning to the end of the product development cycle is critical for the acceptance of products, both with current and future clients. Not engaging customers results in a “failure-to-launch” scenario, which benefits nobody. It’s September, 2015 however and customer-focused companies are fortunate because many feedback tools exist that can be leveraged to relay product design, functionality, and other ideas to clients and to provide a method for feed

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5 Ways to Drive Business Leaders to Buy eLearning

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. Have you ever been in the position of needing to “sell” business leaders on the value of eLearning? Here are five tips to drive home how eLearning supports your organization.

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LEARNNOVATORS WINS GOLD AT BRANDON HALL EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2015

Learnnovators

Chennai (India). Learnnovators, a leading provider of innovative learning solutions, has won Gold in the 2015 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards in the ‘Best Use of Performance Support’ category. This award is in recognition of a unique and innovative solution titled MPSS that Learnnovators designed and developed for their client MTAB. MPSS (or Mobile Performance Support Solution) is a mobile app-based performance support solution made up of byte-sized video tutorials and PDF-based Quick Reference G

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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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6 Things You Can Do to Build Your E-Learning Skills

Rapid eLearning

When I look back at my early work, I’m surprised I’ve lasted this long. A lot of the courses I built years ago just weren’t very good. But that’s okay. I may not have built good courses to start, but I did do some things in the early years to build my elearning skills that helped me grow and learn to build better courses over time.

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A message to Auntie

Learning with e's

Now and then, just to fall in step with other the tabloid press, BBC News resorts to sensationalist headlines. I'm not sure why they do it, because they already have a huge global audience and they don't need to hype themselves. But one of The BBC's most recent headlines is a little misleading. Yesterday, 'Auntie' (the affectionate nickname we Brits give the BBC) ran this headline: Computers 'do not improve' pupil results says OECD.

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9 Ways to Use Video in Your Online Training Courses

SHIFT eLearning

With the rapid rise of smartphone and tablet penetration across the globe, high-resolution screens and improvements in broadbands speeds and connectivity, o nline video consumption continues to grow. According to Cisco's 2014 Report , M obile video accounts for 55 percent of all data traffic. The same trend is visible in eLearning. For instance, Video was ranked 3rd on the list of top formats for mLearning ( ASTD 2012 ).

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A Personal Video Studio is at your Fingertips with Adobe Presenter Video Express

Adobe Captivate

Today Adobe released Adobe Presenter 11 and Adobe Presenter Video Express 11. Presenter Video Express is included with purchases of Adobe Presenter 11, but now you can subscribe to Presenter Video Express alone if you just want the video tool. In this post, I’ll tell you about both tools, describe what’s new, and share my […].

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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.