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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload , Knowledge Formation, (Part 4 Optimum Performance coming May 31st). Knowledge Formation. The curve of knowledge formation marks the period of time in a training program when learners are rapidly beginning to crystallize knowledge gleaned from on-the-job training and experiential learning.

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Bustin’ 5 Talent Development myths for breakfast

eFront

You’d think that the modern world, and even more so, the modern enterprise, has eradicated myth. That myths went the way of the Dodo, along with the Olympian Gods, King Arthur, Thor and Loki. You’d be surprised. Myths today are still as prevalent as ever — they just progressed from being about water nymphs or the Yeti to covering all aspects of modern life, from dietary advice and financing to eLearning.

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Why We Integrate Our Instructional Design and Product Design Teams

eLearningMind

In most cases (and especially for in-house instructional design situations) the instructional design and product design and development teams operate side-by-side. Each is stored neatly in its box, and any collaboration happens in an “over the wall” type of interaction. At eLearning Mind, we’ve rethought the way that our ID and multimedia design departments work together, and we realized that these teams are interdependent and collaborating over a wall isn’t the most effective way to get the mos

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ID and E-Learning Links (5/22/16)

Experiencing eLearning

Links for 5/22/16. How to Make Social Media Banners in Photoshop – GraphicStock Blog. Sizes for different platforms and quick directions on how to create banners. tags: socialmedia graphics howto. What’s in a Theme – a Template? – Captivate blog. Differences between themes and templates in Captivate. I might also use templates if multiple people are working on the same project and you need some consistent layouts or slides between them. tags: captivate e-learning.

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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 Must-have Features in a SaaS LMS for 2016

Upside Learning

SaaS is here and now! Today, almost every software there is, is available as a ‘service’, including the LMS, which is more prevalent in its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) avatar. Justifying this is Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Software Survey that reveals significant adoption of SaaS across a wide variety of application areas as application buyers demand business […].

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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! I’m CEO of Easygenerator and as a CEO you have to be all-round.

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Webinar – How to Refer an LMS Client and Get Paid

TOPYX LMS

Sign up for this FREE webinar on Jun 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT. Webinar Sign-up. Everyone is welcome to attend this webinar to learn more about how you can earn a commission for referring over a company that is looking to improve their learning and development efforts with a new learning management system (LMS) or to replace an old LMS. One referral that becomes a client could be worth over $5,500!

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Upside Learning Listed in Training Industry Inc.’s Content Development Companies Watch List – Third time in a Row

Upside Learning

Upside Learning has made its way to Training Industry Inc.’s 2016 Content Development Companies Watch List. This is for the third consecutive year that Upside has featured in the watch list. Being recognised for the third consecutive year is no mean task that too in an industry filled with eLearning providers striving to win the […].

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Buying a LMS is Like Dating

Wisetail

Now and again we ask our clients if they would like to write a piece for us to share with the greater LMS world. We ask them to write about anything that’s on their mind and we see where it goes. In this case, anything turned out to be a very insightful and entertaining perspective connecting the purchase of an LMS to another of life's more stressful experiences: dating.

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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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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! I’m CEO of Easygenerator and as a CEO you have to be all-round.

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eLearning: Designing for Every Learner

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    In my fantasy world, every learner who takes one of my courses would be tech savvy; and I'd be able to try lots of cool new things to keep them interested. The truth is, we all bring our own experiences to the table, and there will be always be learners who are tech-challenged and might need a little extra guidance. As an instructional designer, I don't want to leave any students out in the cold.

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LMS Selection Guide for SMBs (eBook)

Upside Learning

Are you a small- or medium-sized business looking at investing in a Learning Management System to manage your learning/training activities? If your answer is positive, you know just too well how buying one, with your limited budget and resources, is a big deal. To be able to leverage the LMS to the fullest and justify […].

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Organizational Learning in the Age of Ideas

The Performance Improvement Blog

Most organizations are “locked in an industrial mindset.” They think of their workers as cogs in the wheels of progress, doing what they’re told, not smart enough to figure out how best to do their jobs or improve their organizations. Managers in these organizations are needed to tell workers what to do and how to do it. That “Steam Engine” mindset, as described by Jonathan Gifford and Mark Powell in their new book, My Steam Engine Is Broken: Taking the organization from the industrial era to t

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Your Brain Needs a Vacation

Learningtogo

After months of cold, windy, dreary winter, summer is finally upon us. Traditionally, this is the time to take a vacation, travel to new sites, take it easy, and break your regular routine. Neuroscience tells us that this change of pace is extremely valuable. Your brain uses these new sensations to build new neural pathways, and the break from routine stimulates higher, more creative thought while it reduces stress.

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Training Trends Provide Opportunities for Learning Leaders

dVinci Interactive

Video interview with the President of Training Industry, Inc. We recently attended the Training Industry Conference and Expo (TICE) in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the conference, we conducted a number of interviews with learning and development leaders from major organizations to share over the coming weeks on the JPL Learning Solutions video blog. Training Industry, Inc. produces the conference so attendees can share ideas and explore innovative solutions that drive performance results.

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TOPYX Topics – Social Learning Newsletter – May 2016

TOPYX LMS

Refer an LMS Client and Get Paid – Webinar. Everyone is welcome to learn more about how you can earn a commission for referring over a company or nonprofit entity that is looking to improve their learning and development efforts who signs an annual subscription to the award winning TOPYX® social learning management system. Sign up for this FREE webinar on Jun 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT.

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Part 1: Managing Virtual Classroom Strategy Implementation Challenges

InSync Training

Recently InSync Training worked with a multinational software company to maximize the value of their existing learning content by transitioning it to the virtual and blended classroom. During this process, we discovered six specific areas that we needed to address in order to facilitate this transition. We believe these challenges are universal to virtual classroom implementation.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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Elearning vs Classroom Training – Let’s Understand Their Pros and Cons

Gyrus

Elearning is the new and inexpensive alternative to classroom training, which is becoming more popular and preferred method among organizations. However, the debate on the effectiveness of eLearning compared to classroom training is often a subject of interest among learning and training professionals. Some prefer the real-time interaction with an instructor while others like the flexibility brought by eLearning.

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7 After Conference Ideas: Don’t Lose the Momentum!

Learning Rebels

You’ve just returned from the end all, be all, of conferences. You plunked down cash with the hope of learning something new and meeting fabulous people. The glow of the conference is fading as quickly as the sun on the Rockies. Now you don’t want to let all the inspiration and renewed passion sit in the bottom of your abused tote bag. Right? Of course not!

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Three Rules for Supplying Memorable Content to Employees

Inkling

A knowledgeable and well-trained labor workforce is a productive workforce—an easy enough concept in theory. Yet, many businesses still house their internal content on papers within binders. Operational procedures and other critical knowledge presented to frontline teams are often static and dense, out of date, or simply impossible to find. Avoid these pitfalls by following these three simple rules to help you make more memorable content. 1.

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Griff Unplugged | Episode 3 (video)

Wisetail

Welcome to the third episode of Griff Unplugged. Matt Griffith is our CTO and we created this segment to give everyone direct access into the heart and soul of product development at Wisetail (aka Griff himself). The post Griff Unplugged | Episode 3 (video) appeared first on Wisetail.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: 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? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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ATD 2016 – Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors

Gyrus

Six Things I Learned. As a brand new and fresh face, I am anxious to learn all the ins and outs of the Learning Management Systems industry. So, it may come as no surprise while attending my first trade show with Gyrus Systems, I set out to accomplish just that. While nestled deep into booth 1129 I began my quest for knowledge by performing an informal poll with our visitors.

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Everybody’s Got Something To Teach…!!!

Learnnovators

“ Veritas Vos Liberabit! – The truth shall set you free!”. I clearly remember the first time I heard these words. My brother had just joined University and was saying the words written on the University emblem. I was in my 9th grade at the time and remember listening to him go on about his new college experiences and hanging on to each word. To me, it sounded like a magic spell.

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4 Themes from #ATD2016

Axonify

#ATD2016 is the biggest learning and performance event of the year. With more than 10,000 L&D pros from across the globe in attendance in Denver, Colorado and an expo the size of 2 football fields, it certainly felt like it! Our Axonify team was on the move throughout the conference. Carol Leaman and I presented 4 ideas for restoring relevance to L&D.

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5 Simple Tips For Creating Unforgettable Training Content

ej4 eLearning

A training program can only be considered effective if employees apply the new behaviors or skills they’ve learned in the workplace. Studies have found that up to 90% of new skills are lost within a year and so, by that benchmark, a lot of corporate training is ineffective. Highly successful programs do exist though. One of the main ingredients that separates truly effective training from what amounts to corporate busy work is a strategy for getting employees to remember and use their training t

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.