Sat.Sep 05, 2015 - Fri.Sep 11, 2015

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When Misused Buzzwords Attack

Association eLearning

Interactive. Immersive. Innovative/ Creative/ Different. Effective. Fun. All of the above. These words get thrown around a lot. Frankly, it troubles me when they’re used incorrectly because it leads to misunderstandings. It’s important to realize that these can mean one thing to you and your association and something different to an eLearning vendor or instructional designer.

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The Twitter Chat Conundrum (Part Two)

Learning Rebels

You all KILLED IT! Last week our conversation centered around the twitter chat. How twitter chats, in general, may be improved and I have to say the response was great. I loved having your voices added to the conversation, including those of some of chat moderators; an unanticipated bonus! This from Doug , was my favorite – talk about taking ownership. “People are coming to hang out with me for an hour.

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The joy of UX

E-Learning Provocateur

One of the funniest tweets I have ever seen was brought to my attention by Vala Afshar … How it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time. #UX pic.twitter.com/IwcqECciFN. — Jonathan Shariat (@DesignUXUI) March 13, 2015. Seeing this little animation was one of those serendipitous moments, as I had that very day experienced something eerily similar.

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eLearning Authoring Tool Capability

B Online Learning

Since joining B Online Learning at the start of 2013 my world view of eLearning development practice and more importantly the capability of the so called rapid development technologies has changed. Prior to working with B Online Learning, I was working with consultancies that ran a local design, offshore development model. This is where the […].

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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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LearnX Main Event 2015 in Review

Kineo

On Wednesday September 9th, the Kineo team congregated at the Rydges World Square for the annual LearnX Main Event. From celebrating the success of client projects, to winning 6 coveted LearnX Awards, and sharing insights into the future of learning with local L&D professionals, it was amazing to see what the industry has achieved and what we can expect in the year to come. .

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4 more bloggers choose their top tools for learning

Jane Hart

On 27 August I posted about 15 bloggers who had chosen their Top Tools for Learning. Here are 4 more with a some of the tools they have chosen. (1) Jay Cross’s selection included Scoopit. “Scoopit – I curate five topics on Scoop.it (example). You really learn something when you share it with someone else. As master […].

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Culture Before Strategy

Clark Quinn

In an insightful article, Ken Majer (full disclosure, a boss of mine many years ago) has written about the need to have the right culture before executing strategy. And this strikes me as a valuable contribution to thinking about effective change in the transformation of L&D in the Revolution. I have argued that you can get some benefits from the Revolution without having an optimized culture, but you’re not going to tap into the full potential.

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Learning to Change Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

The culture-change bandwagon appears to be off and running at a fast pace. Companies are jumping on because they are desperate to compete, create new services, and get products to market faster. They have automated the simple and routine tasks and now they want to be more productive with a smaller workforce. My fear is that in the rush to change they will overlook the hard work of preparing and supporting employees through the transition.

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Caution: Choose Your LMS Wisely

LearnDash

If you are a glutton for punishment then taking on the task of choosing a learning management system is perfect for you! It will only take you about five minutes to realize that the learning management system industry is saturated with thousands of players, each one proclaiming why they are the best. The feature-sets are expansive and so are the pricing options.

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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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What Sharing Ideas At Work Does For Us

Nick Leffler

There are many benefits from sharing ideas at work. I thought it would be good to write this because I occasionally hear people talk about sharing creates stolen ideas and in return fighting over those stolen ideas.

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Accreditation and Compliance Craziness

Clark Quinn

A continued bane of my existence is the ongoing requirements that are put in place for a variety of things. Two in particular are related and worth noting: accreditation and compliance. The way they’re typically construed is barking mad, and we can (and need to) do better. To start with accreditation. It sounds like a good thing: to make sure that someone issuing some sort of certification has in place the proper procedures.

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Plagiarism Plugins for Moodle

Lambda Solutions

With the instant access to information that the wonderful world wide web offers us, plagiarism has been a serious byproduct. There are a number of plagiarism prevention tools used by schools and education institutes, and Moodle is now one of them. There are a few different plagiarism plugins for Moodle that are available to Moodle users. Here are the top Moodle plugins for plagiarism prevention in Moodle.

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Supporting Your ELearning Clients

LearnDash

If you are an instructional designer then you may have a variety of clients or customers. If you are selling courses, then the support you provide for your customers is perhaps different than the support you would provide if you are designing custom elearning solutions. In either situation most people start by simply using email, but this solution isn’t really scaleable.

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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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How Essential are Learning Interactions to eLearning?

Raptivity

There is probably no doubt that learner engagement is paramount, for the success of any course. In a face-to-face training, the instructor/trainer interacts directly with learners and ensures that they are tied up in the course. However it’s altogether a different ball game for self-paced eLearning and online courses, which lack human touch. I think, interactivity and interactions can play an important role there.

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How to close skill gaps in your organization ?

Origin Learning

When businesses witness good growth even amidst tough global market conditions, there are a set of challenges that come to the fore. To address issues of this magnitude, a Fortune 100 transportation company took a different approach that drove its expansion plans in the right direction! This blog will take you through the Origin engagement experience, which helped the company pursue its aggressive growth plans.

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LearnX Main Event 2015 in Review

Kineo

On Wednesday September 9th, the Kineo team congregated at the Rydges World Square for the annual LearnX Main Event. From celebrating the success of client projects, to winning 6 coveted LearnX Awards, and sharing insights into the future of learning with local L&D professionals, it was amazing to see what the industry has achieved and what we can expect in the year to come. .

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Writing & Grammar: To Be or Not to Be?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby  I received a really interesting question from a reader this week (I've made it anonymous): Question: I work for a company with multiple locations across the country. I have noticed that team members in western PA consistently omit "to be" in certain sentences. Here's an example: "Do you think Manufacturing people need included?

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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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Imitation is Flattering, Not Threatening

LearnDash

When people create a course that they intend to sell the one thing they are most concerned about is that someone will come along and steal their idea. It’s safe to say that everyone has this thought go through their head at some point. In fact, in every consulting call I have done with LearnDash customers this is a consistent sentiment. While it is understandable to feel protective over your course, you actually should look forward to people imitating you.

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Video - Virtual Classroom Tools: Application Sharing

InSync Training

Application sharing is a popular and powerful, though underutilized feature in the virtual classroom. This feature allows the facilitator to share software applications with participants, even if the participants do not have the software installed on their individual machines.

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City & Guilds Kineo and clients shortlisted for awards

Kineo

City & Guilds Kineo and clients have been shortlisted in six categories for this year's E-learning Awards.

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How I Saved £50,000 Moving from Classroom Training to eLearning

eLearning Architect

Measuring the value of eLearning is notoriously difficult. In this article, I will explain how I managed to do that by replacing classroom with online training. When I started working at a previous employer, they didn't have any eLearning. With a team of trainers travelling all corners of the globe, there was an understandable push to reduce travel costs.

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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.

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eBooks with Adobe RoboHelp: Fix the "Remove DOC Type" Error

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      I write and produce all of the print versions of my "skills & drills" workbooks in Adobe FrameMaker. When it comes to creating digital versions of my books, I take the FrameMaker content into Adobe RoboHelp and then generate both ePubs and MOBI outputs. The whole process of going from FrameMaker to RoboHelp to eBook takes just a few moments.

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The Benefits of Using a Customer-Oriented Learning Management System (LMS) Vendor

Gyrus

Someone famously asked Henry Ford if he had talked with customers for their opinions before creating an automobile for the masses. Henry Ford, wisecrack that he was, quipped “If I’d asked what people wanted, they would have said faster horses.” That attitude may have flown in the day and age where doctors were still attempting to cure maladies of all sorts by zapping the bejesus out of their patients with raw electricity, but today’s customers are better informed and much

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LearnX Main Event 2015 in Review

Kineo

On Wednesday September 9th, the Kineo team congregated at the Rydges World Square for the annual LearnX Main Event. From celebrating the success of client projects, to winning 6 coveted LearnX Awards, and sharing insights into the future of learning with local L&D professionals, it was amazing to see what the industry has achieved and what we can expect in the year to come. .

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6 ways a cloud LMS could benefit your business

Paradiso

Everything these days seems to be ‘in the cloud’, including several a number of extremely sensitive private images, to the dismay of a few celebrities. While I would wager that most people don’t truly know what it means (is it literally in a cloud?), the cloud has become the norm for SaaS companies across the world and the new home for cloud learning management systems.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.