Sat.Jan 23, 2021 - Fri.Jan 29, 2021

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How to Easily Create Powerful Customer Education

Spark Your Interest

Customer Education is the most underestimated competitive advantage organizations have. And while traditionally it applied to businesses selling widgets or software, customer education now also applies to governments, and non-profits, who have a product or service. The benefits of customer education are many. As are the types of programs and the components you could choose to include.

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Questions to Ask Vendors Before Choosing an LMS Platform

TOPYX LMS

A survey shows that 48 percent of companies that use a learning management system (LMS) want to find a new or different learning technology. 1 Inability to scale, sub-par customer service, poor collaborative learning tools, high cost of maintenance, inadequate analytics -- these are just a few reasons why companies are dissatisfied with LMS platforms.

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A Look Ahead: Online Training to Bridge Skills Gaps

Training Industry

A Look Ahead: Online Training to Bridge Skills Gaps - Read more by Hope Williams on Training Industry.

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Free L&D webinars for February 2021

Limestone Learning

“ Heart, leaves, foliage ” by Bianca Mentil is licensed by Pixabay. February may be short, but all the better to get us into spring. This little month packs a whirlwind of free webinars to keep your motivation up — that is, if you have the time to tune in. There are some gems, though, so it’s worth checking out and spending a strategic hour or two learning something new!

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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What is an LMS authoring tool?

Paradiso Solutions

Introduction. While e-learning authoring tools are a must – in every L&D toolbox – new technologies are changing the way we produce and deliver digital learning. Developing training content used to be a challenging task, but with the rise of fast-moving, written tools, it is easier than ever to create course materials. With the advent of new e-learning tools such as e-learning authoring tools, fantastic interactions can now be created in minutes that would have once required prog

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ID and eLearning Links 1/26/2021

Experiencing eLearning

As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on creating certificates in Storyline, the benefits of sharing your work, and tools for visuals and videos. Certificates in Storyline. For a recent project, I researched ways to create a printable certificate in Storyline with an expiration date 1 year after completing the module.

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Learning Challenges for the Insurance Business in the New Normal

Infopro Learning

The last year had seen some extraordinary business shifts that were not expected for a very long time. While the insurance business was already undergoing a lot of significant changes before the pandemic, the novel Coronavirus added to the challenges that were underway. Many insurance organizations are still struggling with the evolution of technology and how businesses are transforming from being product-focused to customer-centric.

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Will Learners Pay for Your Online Course?

LearnDash

There’s a lot of free content online, but it can’t replace instructor-led learning. Recently someone left a comment on the blog asking a very provocative question. Our commenter wanted to know whether a certain type of course content was still relevant, given the number of tutorials learners could find for free on the same subject on YouTube. Although this comment was related to a specific type of course, the question applies to almost all online learning.

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6 Steps To Mapping The Learning Journey By Putting Skills Gaps And Employee Needs First

eLearning Industry

Learner journey or experience mapping is all about moving the focus of training from an Instructional Design to an experiential perspective for the learner. It maps learner experiences through various stages of progression, from building awareness of learning needs, to consuming learning and applying it on the job. To create learner journeys that work, we follow these six steps at the start of every project.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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How to be a More Effective Interviewer

ej4 eLearning

Hiring the right person for an open position is critical to the success of your team. Hiring the wrong person can crush employee morale and productivity. This puts a lot of pressure on the interviewing process. Whether you are the hiring manager or someone on the decision team, you need to be prepared. How can you be a more effective interviewer? Follow these tips to improve your interview skills so you can find the next star on your team.

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How HR Transformational Practices are Enhancing Employee Performance

Infopro Learning

Organizations have had to adjust to all the changes this year rapidly has brought about. Whether you have changed your business model, expanded your workforce globally, or switched from in the office to fully remote teams, there was likely a lot of time and effort put into place to make the shift. As the dust settles and companies are planning for the coming new year, many successful businesses are looking for ways to improve employee performance.

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NRF recap: Consistent frontline performance is key to your 2021 retail strategy

Axonify

2020 turned retail upside down. Stores became fulfillment centers, and associates became safety champions and rule enforcers. The ways we shop changed, with a host of new options like buy online, pickup in store (BOPIS) and same-day ship from store. Policies and procedures changed on a dime in response to public health requirements and market … Continued.

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MWL 2021: New roles and responsibilities

Jane Hart

In MWL 2021 Back to Basics we looked at the 3 key strands of work: (1) Promoting continuous self-learning, (2) Supporting continuous learning from the work, and (3) Modern Training. But this will not be the sole responsibility of the L&D function. Learning in the modern workplace is everyone’s responsibility – with overlapping roles – as […].

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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4 Lenses To Bring e-Learning Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning

Allen Interactions

4 Lenses To Bring e-Learning Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning. This article was originally published by eLearning Industry. This is the first of a series of articles that I hope will apply a fresh approach to understanding CCAF e-Learning Instructional Design for interactive learning, performance-based learning, as a total package.

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Throw it in Zoom and See if it Sticks! (Part 2)

InSync Training

In my previous post , I discussed the importance of strong design for virtual delivery, and how to achieve it. This post addresses the challenges you’ll encounter when proposing these design approaches to your stakeholders.

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Buzzwords and Branding

Clark Quinn

I was reflecting on a few things on terminology, buzzwords and branding in particular. And, as usual, learning out loud, here are my reflections. The script: So I’ve been known to take a bit of a blade to buzzwords (c.f. microlearning ). And, I reckon there’s a distinction between vocabulary and hype. Further, I get the need for branding (and have been slack on my own part).

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How to Empower Instructional Designers to Make Corporate Learning Effective

Raptivity

It is indeed amazing how swiftly businesses could transition to 100% remote learning last year – something that was in the pipeline for the longest time and yet never really prioritized. Every organization, big and small, has now adopted online mechanisms to continue with their employee engagement programs. This was crucial. Corporate training need to be consistently delivered as skills preparedness is critical when employees are needed to keep pace with shifting skill needs.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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How businesses can future-proof learning

Gyrus

For businesses, LMS has become an aid that saves them not just money, but time as well. Here are the top benefits of future-proofing your workforce through upskilling and reskilling.

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Build on the 4 Pillars of Onboarding – 4. Self

eLearning Brothers

Today’s employees are looking for growth and development opportunities in every position they take. You can improve your new hire retention by showing from the very beginning—during onboarding—that your organization supports its employees’ growth.

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L&D Programs to Strengthen Leadership Across Your Organization

Dashe & Thomson

As talent development responsibilities extend beyond the Human Resources department, management and leadership teams express their needs for more support in developing their skills as well as their staff’s skills. Organizations that provide the proper training and resources and effectively partner with their L&D teams see increased performance and engagement and decreased turnover.

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Where have I been all these *years*?

Nick Leffler

Yes, I have been completely absent from this blog for many years. Somewhere in early 2016 I think I just had a few too many things going on and it led to this website and my blog falling off. No more!

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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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4 Lenses To Bring CCAF Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning

Allen Interactions

4 Lenses To Bring e-Learning Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning. This article was originally published by eLearning Industry. This is the first of a series of articles that I hope will apply a fresh approach to understanding CCAF e-Learning Instructional Design for interactive learning, performance-based learning, as a total package.

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Adult Education Evolved: How 2020 Shaped The Future Of Online Learning

Lambda Solutions

2020 proved to be a sink or swim year for education. The forced shift to online alternatives for traditional in-person instructor-lead training has had mixed results, but for adult learning and continuing education that digital move towards blended learning & asynchronous learning has provided an incredible opportunity. Let’s face it: life under a pandemic is hard.

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Do’s And Don’ts For Successful eLearning Projects

eLearning Industry

eLearning project leaders need to develop processes that leverage best practices from both the Instructional Design and software development fields. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Categorizing the L&D Industry Using Ontologies with Adam Weisblatt

dominKnow

In this episode of Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee (#IDIODC) Adam Weisblatt joined us to talk about how we can begin to understand and create ontologies to help drive more in-depth analytics and reporting as part of our role in Learning and Development.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: 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? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Boost Learners Efficiency With Blended Learning

Paradiso Solutions

Introduction to Blended learning. Blended learning is a term that is increasingly used to describe how e-learning combines traditional teaching methods and independent learning into a hybrid teaching method. Blended learning is increasingly being used as a term for an e-learning approach that combines traditional classrooms and independent learning methods, creating a new “hybrid” teaching methodology.

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Membership Marketing Funnels: 8 Keys to Automate Membership Sales

AccessAlly

As a membership site owner, you know that you need a constant stream of new members to replace those that decide to move on. That’s where having strong membership marketing funnels come in. Your membership marketing funnel provides touchpoints throughout the customer journey and helps increase engagement with leads and customers to maximize conversions.

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eLearning Trends in 2021: Perspectives To Help You Reframe And Rethink Your Training Programs

eLearning Industry

Post pandemic, L&D teams are re-evaluating the options taken in 2020 to arrive at a long-term blueprint for corporate training delivery. In this article, I list 19 eLearning trends in 2021, highlighting how to use them in the new workplace dynamics. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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