Sat.Feb 21, 2015 - Fri.Feb 27, 2015

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Learning and Cognitive Load

B Online Learning

'In a previous post, I looked at the fundamentals of cognitive load theory. In summary, to assist learners in transferring information from their working memory to their long-term memory, we need to present the information in such a way that it reduces extraneous cognitive load (non-relevant items) and, if possible, increases germane cognitive load (items […].

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eLearning in the Workplace

TalentLMS

'Workplace learning, professional development and eLearning are phrases with increasingly blurred meanings. Information technology systems are used to develop business infrastructure and conduct operational protocols like CRM, Finance and Human Resources. The same systems are extended to include learning management systems (LMS) that enable education and employee development. eLearning has become the cornerstone of education services to the mobile and the busy employee.

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The HR Challenge: Analyze Your Corporate Training Needs

eFront

'If there is one thing that holds true for developing eLearning training materials, it’s planning, planning and planning. You can’t go wrong with that one. Think of a training course a result of relentless hard work and dedication. In fact, it’s not uncommon to spend 40 hours to develop a course to yield only 2 hours of training time. With this perspective, we need to make sure we plan in detail, we plan with all details and we rule out unnecessary details.

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How to find free images and other resources without copyright restrictions

Challenge to Learn

'Finding good illustrations and other resources is a challenge and the question always is: Am I allowed to use this resource? When you find a resource trough a search engine it may appear to be free of copyrights, but very often it isn’t. This post contains a short description on the rules of copyright and a list of websites with resources that you are allowed to use.

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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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5 Mobile Learning Trends: How M-LearningIs Changing the Workplace

Origin Learning

'Mobile Learning Technology has opened up a whole gamut of options to extend the learning blend. No longer do employees have to rely solely on the usual means of training – be it ILT or e-learning. So much so, that even in organizations which have not yet adopted mobile learning , employees are using their smartphones to informally pull whatever information they can at the time of immediate need.

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So This Happened. Recovering from a Webinar Fail

InSync Training

'This is a real-life webinar disaster that happened to ME this week. Keep reading to the end to review our 4-Step Disaster Recovery Process and learn how to maintain credibility when virtual classes and webinars start to experience problems.

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4 Myths About eLearning

ej4 eLearning

'Before you draw any conclusions about eLearning, let''s address the myths and misinformation that''s commonly propagated. The post 4 Myths About eLearning appeared first on.

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Small is Big: Converting PDFs to E-Learning Modules

Origin Learning

'What does a PDF bring to mind? Pages and pages of words? Lengthy research documents? Boredom at its peak? And no escape? Well to some extent that’s true, considering the omnipresent nature of these documents that haunt you everywhere. PDFs have almost become a standard for writing company announcements, policies, terms and conditions, how to’s, newsletters, training material and what not.

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“Is L&D out of touch with reality?”

Jane Hart

'This was a question that I had from a group of people in a recent workshop I ran on Moving Beyond E-Learning. In the workshop I showed the results of my Learning in the Workplace survey which asked how individuals preferred to learn in the workplace, and which has now been taken by over 2,000 worldwide. You […].

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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 Global Virtual Classroom: Share Your Stories & Tips

InSync Training

'Request for Contributions: Do you have experience facilitating in a virtual classroom with participants from around the globe? What worked? What didn''t work? What are you going do do differently? Please share your stories and tips. We''d love to include as many as possible in our next whitepaper, titled "Making The Virtual Classroom Global.". You can respond right here, or send an email to jennifer@insynctraining.com.

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DIY or Outsource? 5 Benefits of Cloud Based Moodle Hosting

Lambda Solutions

'One of the major decisions organizations have to make when implementing an LMS is whether to go with DIY (do-it-yourself), or outsourced hosting. Cloud based software is an advanced form of hosting that incorporates greater support and service levels, and offloads the aforementioned duties to the managed hosting firm.

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Social and Emotional Learning: Measuring the Success of E-Learning

Origin Learning

'What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)? By definition, Social and Emotional Learning is “The process through which people gather and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.”.

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Supporting Social Learning in the Organisation

Jane Hart

'Yesterday, I participated in an #exploresocial Twitter chat. Here are some of my tweets and links I shared, in answer to the question, what is the role of L&D in social learning? My first tweet was … Mostly, just get out of the way #exploresocial — Jane Hart (C4LPT) (@C4LPT) February 25, 2015 I said […].

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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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Virtually There: Best Practices for Developing Blended Content that Meets Your Learning Goals

InSync Training

'To ensure success, end-to-end project management is critical. Congratulations! You’ve created an instructional design plan that includes validated learning goals and objectives and an assessment plan, and maps the learning outcomes to the most appropriate delivery methodologies. The next step is to get this plan off of the virtual drawing board and into development.

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mLearning more than mobile elearning?

Clark Quinn

'Someone tweeted about their mobile learning credo, and mentioned the typical ‘mlearning is elearning, extended’ view. Which I rejected, as I believe mlearning is much more (and so should elearning be). And then I thought about it some more. So I’ll lay out my thinking, and see what you think. I have been touting that mLearning could and should be focused, as should P&D , on anything that helps us achieve our goals better.

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Tips for Creating Effective E-Learning Assessments

Origin Learning

'Let us begin with an analogy: If training is a medicine, assessment is a mechanism to ascertain the effectiveness of that medicine. Just how a medicine is given to achieve specific goals to heal the body or improve its immunity and strength, training to employees is imparted with the purpose of empowering them with certain specific skills or knowledge and remedy or improve their existing capabilities to strengthen the organization as a whole.

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Moving Beyond E-Learning (online workshop)

Jane Hart

'“The role of L&D is shifting: from creator of a portfolio of training elements to enabler of learning” Want to find out more about how to help your organisation move forward? Come and join the next online workshop, Moving Beyond E-Learning running 2 March – 3 April. The way we learn in the workplace is changing; […].

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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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Social Media: Creating a LinkedIn Summary That Gets You Noticed

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Sally Cox    There is an art to creating a strong LinkedIn profile. One of the most powerful assets in your LinkedIn profile is the Summary. Most people put minimal thought into it, but honestly, it's a golden opportunity to make yourself shine. Tips to Creating a Stronger Profile. Be clear on your objective before you begin. What do you want recruiters and prospective employers to gain from reading your summary?

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Training Strategy for Changing Behavior

LearnDash

'If you need to change the current behavior of an organization through education on new policies and practices, then you need to have a proven training strategy. These kind of training initiatives are always challenging. People generally don’t like change. Most would prefer to continue doing things the way they know how, so changing a procedure often comes with some contention.

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Making ‘sense’

Clark Quinn

'I recently wrote about wearables , where I focused on form factor and information channels. An article I recently read talked about a guy who builds spy gear, and near the end he talked about some things that started me thinking about an extension of that for all mobile, not just wearables. The topic is sensors. In the article, he talks about how, in the future, glasses could detect whether you’ve been around bomb-making materials: “You can literally see residue on someone if you

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

ID Reflections

'While the title of the post specifies MOOCs, the skills and mindsets I have explored in the post are, IMHO, required by all to survive and thrive in the digital and connected world. And participating in MOOCs could well be one of the ways to inculcate and hone the skills. I have been writing about MOOCs in the context of workplace learning from different perspectives for some time now.

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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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Adobe Captivate: The Cure for Blurry Zoom Destinations

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel        Zoom Areas are typically used to emphasize an important area of a slide background. They are especially useful if you want your learner to automatically get closer to a specific area of the screen. To insert a Zoom Area, click  Objects  on the Main Toolbar and choose  Zoom Area.   Zoom Areas consist of two parts: the area of a background that you want to highlight ( Zoom Source ) and where the zoomed area of the background w

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Add-On Brings Infusionsoft to LearnDash

LearnDash

'Recently we announced that we had opened the doors for other app developers to create add-ons and integrations for LearnDash WordPress LMS. Today, the folks at Memberium have officially announced their integration with LearnDash. The biggest advantage of their integration is that you can now leverage the powerful Infusionsoft platform with your online courses.

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NJEdge.net Storytelling and Gamification Workshop Resources

Kapp Notes

'Here are slides, links notes and other items of interest related to my presentation at NJEdge.net Gamification Conference. I have also included instructions, in a slide deck that show how to write on a PowerPoint Slide as you are presenting. First the slides. Also, here are step-by-step instructions for adding text right onto a PowerPoint Slide as you are presenting.

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Employee-Manager Learning Alliance

The Performance Improvement Blog

'In 1994, The Learning Alliance was published. This book, by Rob Brinkerhoff and myself, made the case that HRD (human resource development) was changing dramatically and that the key to employee learning had shifted from the training department to the relationship (i.e., alliance) between managers and the learners they supervise. We wrote in the first paragraph of the Preface: A revolution is taking place in the development of human resources.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr