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Experimenting with conference design

Clark Quinn

As part of coping in this time of upheaval, I’m trying different things. Which isn’t new, but there seem to be more innovations to tap into. In addition to teaching a course on mobile learning, I’m one of the speakers at a new online event. And, what’s nice, is that they’re experimenting with conference design, not just moving straight online.

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3 Pro Tips for Kick-Ass Remote Onboarding Training

Lambda Solutions

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What is Distance Learning? The Complete Guide (2020)

TechSmith Camtasia

In this post, you’re going to learn everything you need to know about distance learning. This guide includes tons of: Helpful definitions Answers to frequently asked questions Best practices And much more. So, if you want to learn more about how to effectively teach students from a distance in 2020, you’ll love the information in this guide. Keep reading for our complete guide to distance learning.

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How Will Covid-19 Affect the Future of Online Education?

LearnDash

The pandemic has put online education in the spotlight and under the magnifying glass. The emergence of the novel coronavirus has initiated an abrupt shift around the globe toward online education. For many, the transition has been rocky. Many larger organizations have been scaling their educational infrastructure as rapidly as possible, while individual educators are trying to make their way through a sudden influx of new learners.

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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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How Healthcare Companies Can Save On Staff Training During the Coronavirus Crisis

TOPYX LMS

The coronavirus pandemic has caused upheaval in the healthcare sector. Healthcare organizations of all kinds are implementing major changes at a rapid pace, making healthcare training more critical than ever before. Ongoing employee training, even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, promotes collaboration by upskilling staff and giving each team member access to the learning resources they need to function effectively in their job role.

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Build Online Training Courses with Materials You Already Have

LearnUpon

“How do I start building an online training course from scratch?” At LearnUpon, we hear this question non-stop from new customers who are migrating from in-person to online training. This is an understandable question. Building new content from the ground up can be an intimidating task – especially if you need to get it done fast. Our answer: you probably have most of the elements for your courses already at your fingertips – you just need to know how to join everything together.

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13 Tips for Teachers: How to Make Online Classes Fun

Growth Engineering

Educational institutions have now tasked their teachers with moving classes online. We’re here to help, with 13 top tips for making online classes fun. The post 13 Tips for Teachers: How to Make Online Classes Fun appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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What it Takes to Deliver Smart Customer Service and keep Clients Happy and Loyal

Origin Learning

In our last blog post, we explored how to Develop and Deploy Effective Product Knowledge Training, with that, customer-facing representatives. The post What it Takes to Deliver Smart Customer Service and keep Clients Happy and Loyal appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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(The Right) Learning Modalities To Deliver Digital Learning: Part 3

eLearning Industry

Research tells us that asynchronous and synchronous online learning elements serve different purposes. In this article, I’m going for a deeper dive into the use and selection of asynchronous elements, as many suggest that they should be the major part of most online courses. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Does LXP Actually Mean Anything?

TLNT: Training and L&D

HR professionals struggle to keep up to date with their field and that is triply true for HR tech professionals. There are always new features, new products, and new categories to learn about. The challenge for the HR pro is to decide which new things are significant.

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Using Change Management Models to Grow Organizational Success

Allen Interactions

Rapidly occurring changes are constantly destabilizing organizational dynamics risking trust in leadership, organizational culture, and ultimately business profitability. Popular change management models may be falling short in supporting this dynamic situation. Creating stability requires recursive change management approaches enabling skills that foster organizational resilience including but not limited to trust, compassion, and empathy.

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Teaching Online? How To Crush It!

eLearning Industry

Transitioning from an in-person to a virtual environment is riddled with potential obstacles. These best practices are effective if you are teaching an online class, leading a virtual meeting, or even presenting at a virtual event. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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7 steps to make custom content great again

Learning Pool

A custom elearning project is a bespoke solution, created from scratch for your brand and your learners. It’s the tailored suit of elearning, if you will. . But what makes the best custom content projects? We’ve identified these 7 steps to success. ‘Have a clear reason why.’. All great courses hinge on a well-defined central need and the correct learning objectives.

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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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How to Address Employee Turnover: A Strategic Solution for Employers and Higher Education Providers

Training Industry

How to Address Employee Turnover: A Strategic Solution for Employers and Higher Education Providers - Read more by Hope Williams on Training Industry.

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Why is it Important to Measure Your Corporate Training Programs with Learning Analytics?

Infopro Learning

Companies invest millions into their online learning and development programs every year and for good reason. Effective training programs can provide some pretty valuable benefits including increased employee retention, boosted morale, improved productivity and a rise in profits. In fact, organizations who invest in employee training can see as much as a 24% increase in profits (1).

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Understanding The Current State Of Learning Analytics And Big Data Across All Levels Of L&D

eLearning Industry

Today, learning analytics is about much more than tracking course completion rates. It’s a tool that L&D professionals can use to create and optimize learning experiences that create an impact. In a world that is driven by technology and Big Data, learning analytics has become an essential tool for all L&D professionals. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Andragogy Secret: How To Use Adult Learning Theory To Drive L&D Engagement Success

Lambda Solutions

Absolutely everything you need to know to improve your training courses using Malcolm Knowles’ adult learning theory of Andragogy (with take-home resources and in-depth guides)!

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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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Investing in the Best Online Learning Platform for Education

Hurix Digital

The eLearning landscape is rapidly evolving as more and more institutions and universities recognize the benefits that the online learning platform brings to learners. The industry is estimated to be worth $325 billion by 2025, and it demands educational institutions and instructors to adapt to this inevitable change. The statistics clearly suggest that this trend is not just growing in popularity but is already the primary medium for students attending school and taking part in learning, given

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Training Tips from 11 Experts (Including Me)

Experiencing eLearning

TalentLMS asked 11 folks in the learning and development world for tips for improving workplace training. Now that nearly everyone is a remote worker, these tips can help train remote employees. Many of the tips could apply to any workplace training though, not just elearning for remote workers. It’s an honor to be included in a list with folks like Connie Malamed, Tim Slade, Ashley Chiasson, Anna Sabramowicz, Allison Rossett, and others.

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9 Techniques To Humanize Virtual Learning

eLearning Industry

It is possible to make virtual education interactive and engaging if we understand the nature of the evolving learner and make the content palatable. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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3 Tips for Developing Employees Quickly, Even if They Work Remotely

TOPYX LMS

It’s more critical than ever for companies to take the initiative to develop their employees. Fifty percent of employers have put a freeze on hiring new workers to cut costs in response to the COVID-19 crisis, per FacilityExecutive.com. 1 This statistic shows how important it is that companies make the most of the talent they already have. However, the coronavirus pandemic has created a challenge to developing employees as it has forced 88 percent of organizations to encourage or mandate that th

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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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Communication Skills Training in a World of Emojis, YOLO, and Ghosting

ej4 eLearning

How is communication skills training different today? Modern communication appears to lack eye contact, grammar, and the use of your vocal cords! Look around. Everyone is looking down at their phone and not at each other. Even at the dinner table in a restaurant. Texting looks more like modern hieroglyphics with mysterious abbreviations and cartoon faces, hands, and produce emojis.

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Will we still need L&D?

Clark Quinn

In a document shared with me recently, there was this statement: “The assumption that there will always be a managed learning function” I find that interesting to contemplate. If we ever get better about developing self-learning skills in school or university (ideally the former), could we eliminate the need for organizational courses? E.g. will we still need L&D?

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Semantic interoperability: Picking the best verb for a statement

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Brian dives deep into semantics and how selecting the right verb plays into making sure the xAPI data you generate is useful and usable across systems.

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The 80 Percent – Episode 3: Still Learning At Home

Axonify

Frontline jobs have been disrupted worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of people have been sent home, furloughed while businesses figure out how to move forward and wait for restrictions to lift. They may not be at work, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped learning. How can maintaining engagement with employees while they’re home … Continued.

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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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Training’s Role Returning to Work After Quarantine

ej4 eLearning

Communities across the country are attempting to re-open and sending employees back to work. Our experience is unprecedented. As business leaders, we are in uncharted territories. We’ve never been through this before. There is no handbook or best practice for returning to work after quarantine during a global pandemic crisis. We are all figuring it out as we go.

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Moving Quickly to the Virtual Classroom? Create a Show Flow!

InSync Training

Lately, the virtual classroom has become the most popular kid in school. From team meetings to global training programs, platforms like Zoom, Webex Training Center, Adobe Connect, and Microsoft Teams, have enabled businesses to adapt to the unexpected and unfortunate current circumstances. But switching learning environments involves technical, instructional design, and delivery considerations.

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Authoring Tools for E-Learning: The Definitive Guide

Docebo

Have you ever looked at a powerpoint for more than 30 seconds and then suddenly felt your eyes glaze over? The mind starts to wander: Did I leave the stove on at home…? What should I have for lunch today? When you finally come back from your daydream, you realize that you scanned over the first three slides, but can’t remember what any of them were about.