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Testing Of Multi-Device eLearning Projects

Upside Learning

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Let Go Through BPO for eLearning

Web Courseworks

'BPO: Managing Services & Association eLearning. Associations love their members. Members love professional development opportunities. So, associations strive to provide those opportunities to their members. Sounds like a match made in heaven! However, many associations are starting to recognize that while members are central to their functions, the deployment of professional development is not an association’s core business.

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How Do Serious Games Work in a Large Enterprise?

Knowledge Guru

'Organizations of all sizes are turning to game-based learning , serious games , and gamification to solve a range of learning and development challenges. For some, the challenge is one of engagement; learners are tired of traditional eLearning and programs are seeing diminishing returns. For others, it’s about retention ; learners do not remember what they learned after completing training, therefore wasting its value.

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Free Webinar: How to Price Education Products

Association eLearning

'Pricing for education products is all over the map. But pricing is too essential to leave to guesswork. In this session, we look at why you should eschew “downside pricing” (e.g., cost-based approaches) and embrace “upside pricing” that looks at the value you deliver to the buyers. We’ll also explore how your education products can be placed on a “value ramp” that lets you create pricing flexibility to benefit your customers, spares you the anxiety of trying to find the one “right” price, prote

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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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6 LMS Buying Tips For SMEs

Upside Learning

'The best software for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the software which is designed to help them run their operations better (more efficient or more effective), save on costs and replace manual processes. The million-dollar question for them is how much does the software cost and what is the ROI that one can expect. […].

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The One Simple Tool You Can Use to Help Select the Right Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

'Dear readers, you’ve in the past endured me ranting about the horribly-designed Requests for Proposals ( RFP ) that regularly cross my desk and the desks of my Blatant^ colleagues. (See my previous posts titled “ Why Your RFP May Not Get You the Best Learning Management System ” and “ The Worst Type of Question to Ask in Your Learning Management System Request for Proposal (RFP). “) These RFPs often ask hundreds of open-ended questions such as: “ Describe the

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What is Your Learning Promise?

Association eLearning

'Coming from the nonprofit sector, I’ve had it drilled into my head how important an organization’s mission and vision statements are. But what about it’s “learning promise”? Working in the eLearning industry got me thinking: With the growth in membership education offerings, I wonder how many of our partners have stopped to think about their association’s “learning promise”?

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Free Webinar On Keep Learning – How Can We (In Learning) Enable And Facilitate This?

Upside Learning

'At Upside we believe (very strongly) in the concept of pervasive learning and that learning is continuous. We believe in order to keep learning we must ‘Keep Learning’, a seminar I recently presented at Learning Technologies 2014, was in fact entitled, 'Keep Learning – How Can We (In Learning) Enable And Facilitate This?' It was […].

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4 Reasons to Use Gamification

LearnDash

'Gamification is growing in popularity as it has shown that it can produce measurable results if implemented properly. That said, the adoption of gamification can be a slow process depending on the organization. For those who are not as familiar with the ever changing elearning industry, the entire gamification concept is hard to comprehend. This is understandable since gamification can be something small, such as adding points into a quiz, or rather complex.

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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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Beyond the Course: The Learning Flow – a new framework for the social learning era

Jane Hart

'Learning is a process not an event. Learning is a destination not a journey. We’ve heard all this for years, and yet the facts remain the same – the way that we help people learn revolves around events in the form of (a defined package of content) aka courses, where the focus still is firmly [.].

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8 Story Types to Effect Change

Kapp Notes

'Here are eight story types by author and storyteller Stephen Denning. He indicates that these types of stories can be used by leaders to effect change. Motivate Others to Action —These types of stories are designed to ignite action and to spur implementation of new ideas or activities within an organization. These are motivational in nature and should contain a call to action.

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Organization Culture Change

The Performance Improvement Blog

'In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?” This question has no easy answer. It took decades to create the culture that currently exists in many of these organizations and any significant change is going to take time, effort and perseverance. .

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The Flipped Classroom Cheat Sheet

LearnDash

'With so much information available today on flipped classrooms, it is easy to get confused on what it actually entails. Truth is, a flipped classroom approach to learning can be rather simple or complex depending on the desired end result. Cheat sheets are often popular as they can help you get informed quickly, which is the purpose of this article.

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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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The Learning Flow and the User Experience

Jane Hart

'In my last post I described the concept of a Learning Flow as a continuous steady stream of social micro-learning activities, and explained how this new learning framework lies between the instructionally designed course and the unstructured knowledge sharing of teams, groups and communities that takes place in public activity streams and enterprise social networks. [.].

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Captivate + Raptivity = Fun, Engaging eLearning

Raptivity

'Many instructional designers are always looking for new ways to add meaningful interactions to courses without adding more time and cost to an eLearning project. Using a combination of tools is a good way to do this. Here is one […].

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Flip the office?

Clark Quinn

'In talking with my ITA colleagues yesterday, we were discussing the necessity of going into the office, or not. And it seemed that there were times it made sense, and times it didn’t. What doesn’t make sense is trying to do work in an office. If you need to think, having random conversations and interruptions happen gets in the way. Yes, you need colleagues and resources ‘to hand’, but that’s available digitally and distally.

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Adobe Captivate: Partial Question Slide Scores

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      One of the problems with a multiple choice question you've added to a Captivate quiz is the all or nothing aspect of the question. It is possible to setup some questions that allow for multiple correct answers. It would be nice if you could award partial credit should the learner select some, but not all, of the correct answers.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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The One Simple Tool You Can Use to Help Select the Right Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

'Dear readers, you’ve in the past endured me ranting about the horribly-designed Requests for Proposals ( RFP ) that regularly cross my desk and the desks of my Blatant^ colleagues. (See my previous posts titled “ Why Your RFP May Not Get You the Best Learning Management System ” and “ The Worst Type of Question to Ask in Your Learning Management System Request for Proposal (RFP). “) These RFPs often ask hundreds of open-ended questions such as: “ Describe the

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Business Systems Deployment: Driving Implementation & Adoption with EPS

Living in Learning

'I doubt there are many [any?] who want less-than-flawless-execution when users access critical business applications that have the potential to create chaos when mistakes are made. And yet, we continue to perpetuate a false sense of user readiness by relying upon Training to ensure they are capable to executing flawlessly in the post-training environment – the point of work.

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Let Go Through BPO for eLearning

Web Courseworks

'BPO: Managing Services & Association eLearning Associations love their members. Members love professional development opportunities. So, associations strive to provide those opportunities to their members. Sounds like a match made in heaven! However, many associations are starting to recognize that while members are central to their functions, the deployment of professional development is not an […].

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Adobe TechComm Launches www.AUTHORXML.com

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'Adobe recently launched www.AUTHORXML.com , a site dedicated to XML authoring enthusiasts. Adobe reps say that they expect the new site to "serve as the one-stop destination for every technical communication professional who finds structured authoring intriguing." Key highlights of this site are: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to XML Authoring : Does my Organization need XML?

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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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Interviewed

Clark Quinn

'While we were at the Training 2014 conference, I was interviewed by Bryan Austin of GameOn Learning about what my crusade is. And they have been kind enough to host it. In the video, Bryan asks me about what I’m causing trouble about, why it’s important, and what people might do. It’s all the stuff I’m fired up about, and if you’d like to hear me talk about it instead of reading it, this is an easy way.

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To ID Degree or Not ID Degree. Updated Survey Results!

Learning Visions

'It''s been awhile since I''ve updated the survey results from the ongoing survey on my blog. Stats hold steady with almost 650 respondents to date. If you work as an instructional designer, do you have a degree in instructional design? Have you ever been denied work from that lack? Are you considering getting an ID degree? (I have no idea if those who were thinking about getting an ID degree went on to get one.

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The One Simple Tool You Can Use to Help Select the Right Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

Dear readers, you’ve in the past endured me ranting about the horribly-designed Requests for Proposals ( RFP ) that regularly cross my desk and the desks of my Blatant^ colleagues. (See my previous posts titled “ Why Your RFP May Not Get You the Best Learning Management System ” and “ The Worst Type of Question to Ask in Your Learning Management System Request for Proposal (RFP). “) These RFPs often ask hundreds of open-ended questions such as: “ Describe the

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Writing & Grammar: Answers to Periods with Abbreviations Challenge

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby    A few weeks ago I issued a  challenge to standardize the abbreviations  in the following paragraph using either the general audience or the scientific audience rules: The flowerbed should be 12 feet wide and 5 ft deep. To determine how much sunlight the area receives, start at 5:30 AM and observe the area at 1-hour intervals until 8:00 p.m.

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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.