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PowerPoint or Prezi: Which is Best for eLearning?

Association eLearning

'The question is becoming more and more common — “Should I use PowerPoint (PPT) or Prezi?” The two presentation programs share many of the same features, such as the ability to include text, images, audio, and video. But whereas PowerPoint tends to progress linearly from one slide to the next in a fixed sequence, Prezi uses “paths” to move between content by zooming out to reveal a big-picture overview, or zooming in to show details.

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eLearning Brothers Acquisition of eLearningImages.com Expands the Planet’s Largest eLearning Image Library

eLearning Brothers

'AMERICAN FORK, Utah–eLearning Brothers today announced that it has acquired privately held eLearningImages.com , an online library of eLearning images that focuses on people-images in the eLearning space. With this acquisition, the eLearning Brothers library has more than doubled the number of eLearning assets over the last 12 months. This purchase is a critical step in expanding the world’s largest eLearning library for CLOs, HR and training professionals, instructional designers, eLe

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Designing Blended Learning with Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

InSync Training

'Can any ol’ content be taught using any ol’ technology? This seems to be the perception as the use of various learning technologies becomes commonplace in training departments. But, is it really true? For example: Do you believe that a two-day project management program can be delivered as a four-hour virtual training class? Can a four-hour sales training session that is usually held face-to-face be delivered in a dozen 20-minute self-paced e-learning chunks?

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10 Reasons to Build Your ELearning Project With JoomlaLMS [Infographic]

JoomlaLMS

'10 Reasons to Build Your ELearning Project With JoomlaLMS [Infographic]. With so many LMS options available on the market, choosing the right eLearning platform can be daunting as there are so many criteria to take into consideration. We asked our customers around the globe what made them choose JoomlaLMS and compiled an infographic to share the results with you.

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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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Experience API [xAPI] & Why You Should Give a Rip

Living in Learning

'They say that even a blind squirrel will find a nut eventually, and I am living proof of that concept. So there I was at DevLearn 2014 locked in to speak at a couple of breakout sessions and facilitate a tabletop discussion at the crack of dawn on day one. I’m on a Performance Support mission of “seek and learn” and purely by accident I stumbled over a pre-conference session Tuesday afternoon before the conference ever started called the xAPI Hyperdrive.

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5 Things To Look Out For While Choosing An LMS

Origin Learning

'Choosing the right Learning Management System is an arduous task and if not done carefully, may lead to a substantial waste of time and money. But most importantly, it may fail to achieve its main purpose: of creating the right online learning environment in the organization. Look out for the following things before you make the big decision: Customizable and intuitive interface.

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The Changing Nature of Workplace Learning

ID Reflections

'Recently, I read two posts that to me reflected the changing nature of work -- from divergently different perspectives. One was from the field of architecture and the other was by Harold Jarche on workplace and learning. Given below are excerpts from both. From Googleplex''s Designer on the Future of Office Wilkinson proposed building out the entire GLG office to accommodate "activity-based working"--the theory that employees no longer need personal workstations so much as they need many differ

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Advantages of Online Certification

LearnDash

'Have you been considering going back to school to finish your education? Perhaps you already have a degree, and instead believe that your professional prospects will be expanded by an advanced degree. While that is certainly one possibility, your immediate job prospects might be better served by enrolling in a certificate program online instead. Online certificate and diploma programs offer the student concentrated classes for practical skills, delivered in a convenient and cost-effective way.

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Why individuals need to be self-managed learners – and how to build the new skills

Jane Hart

'In my previous blog post I talked about why ORGANISATIONS need self-managed learners, so in this post I want to look at why INDIVIDUALS need to be self-managed learners. The world is changing fast, and this is having an impact on the world of work. So, for instance, there is no such thing as a job for […].

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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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Everything you need to know about SCORM

Lambda Solutions

'In our webinar last week we recognized that the majority of attendees came to learn more about SCORM compliance. We assumed the majority of people were coming to understand how to create effective and engaging eLearning but our first poll question stated otherwise— nearly 70% of participants wanted to know the ins and outs of SCORM. […] The post Everything you need to know about SCORM appeared first on Lambda Solutions.

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#DevLearn 14 Reflections

Clark Quinn

'This past week I was at the always great DevLearn conference, the biggest and arguably best yet. There were some hiccups in my attendance, as several blocks of time were taken up with various commitments both work and personal, so for instance I didn’t really get a chance to peruse the expo at all. Yet I attended keynotes and sessions, as well as presenting, and hobnobbed with folks both familiar and new.

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What You Should Know About ELearning

LearnDash

'For some people, the term “elearning” immediately conjures images of the inscrutable internet, complicated learning platforms, and technology beyond the grasp for those who are well out of school. But before you decide whether or not elearning is good for you, consider these five interesting elearning facts: 1. ELearning is not as Complicated as it Sounds.

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7 Not-to-be-missed posts from October 2014

Jane Hart

'I tweeted the links to around 30 interesting articles and resources in October Here’s the full list - but if you haven’t got time to read them all, then here just 7 you should take a look at. (1) Curiosity Prepares the Brain for Better Learning, Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 2 October 2014 Before you click those links 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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Updated Series: Working in Cold Weather

ej4 eLearning

'Frostbite. The extreme likelihood of snow and icy roads in the near future. Cold weather-induced illnesses. Temperatures that pretty much make it hard to wear shorts outdoors. Cold weather’s coming, and for some of us, it’s already here. And whether you’re working outside or driving to the office, it’s important to avoid potentially hazardous threats to your well being.

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Taking note

Clark Quinn

'A colleague pointed me to this article that posited the benefits of digital note-taking. While I agree, I want to take it further. There are some non-0bvious factors in note taking. As the article points out, there are numerous benefits possible by taking notes digitally. They can be saved and reviewed, have text and/or sketches and/or images (even video too), be shared, revised, elaborated with audio both to add to notes and to read back the prose, and more.

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November 3, 2014 - How to Organize ELearning Content Effectively with JoomlaLMS

JoomlaLMS

'How to Organize ELearning Content Effectively with JoomlaLMS. With the course of time many eLearning course developers face the problem of expanding materials’ base and a necessity to organize the data. With the courses becoming more complex, content becoming more informative and the structure itself confusing the question of effective information overload management appears.

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Social and Learned Helplessness in Learning

Nick Leffler

'It’s been a few weeks since I first wrote about Learned Helplessness in Learning but it hasn’t once left my mind. Even last week had some familiar mentions of it but without the name. What I gathered from DevLearn Tweets during Neil deGrasse Tyson’s keynote was that he spoke in part that kids are born scientists, but we beat it out of them. That sounds familiar to Learned Helplessness in Learning.

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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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ELearning Critical to Lifelong Learning

LearnDash

'Learning takes place well after the classroom. In fact, some would contend that the best learning happens the years that they are no longer in traditional education. Humans by nature are lifelong learners, and the tools we use today are supplementing this desire to learn and grow. Leveraging both elearning and mobile learning, we are making learning opportunities more accessible and convenient through the programs we create.

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Adobe Captivate: Replacing PowerPoint Slides But Keeping the Audio

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel      I received an interesting email from a fellow Captivate developer who was in a bit of a pickle. The developer had imported a 60-slide PowerPoint presentation into Captivate and then added audio to each of the Filmstrip slides. Just as he was about to Publish his finished project, he was told to use a different PowerPoint presentation.

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Why Organizations Must Encourage Collaboration: Building a Case

ID Reflections

'Organizations, i.e., the business leaders and executives are not interested in learning. Nor do they care much about collaboration. Business cares only about the outcome. It is up to us--L&D professionals--to connect learning and collaboration to business goals like customer satisfaction, efficient troubleshooting, innovative design ideas, reduced production time, and such.

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The World is Fast.And Learning Must Be Faster

The Performance Improvement Blog

'Tom Friedman has a way of capturing the essence of complex economic, social, and environmental dynamics and putting that complexity in words that the rest of us can understand. He coined the phrase “the world is flat” to describe the globalization of everything. Now he has announced “the world is fast” to describe the three major challenges that we face.

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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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3 Tips for Creating Successful ELearning

LearnDash

'ELearning has come a long way since it first started appearing on our computer screens. The days of recording a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and calling it elearning are thankfully few and far between. Today, learners demand more out of their online courses, and if they aren’t up-to-par, they will go somewhere else to get the content. Knowing this, there are a few thing things you should do to help ensure that your courses are both well put together and effective. 1.

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Adobe eLearning User Group: DC, Maryland, and Virginia Meeting Next Week

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'Where: Adobe Headquarters, McLean VA. When: November 12 Cost: Free! From Flying Bullets to Instructional Animations with Diane Elkins Flying bullets were the height of fashion. in 1997. And yet still they persist in some corporate learning, both in the classroom and online. So why is this much-maligned presentation technique still popular? Come to this free event and join  Diane Elkins , Artisan E-Learning, as she presents a case study of how an American Red Cross Disaster Services course

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How to Make More Sense of Your Training Material

Origin Learning

'A Training Manual or Material is a compilation of instructions. It has an objective of developing an improved approach towards enhancing the productivity of a particular task. Training material is used for almost every other thing we use in our daily life. Not an appliance comes without a booklet that trains you in mastering its use. In fact the big daddies of the mobile world like Apple and Samsung have even introduced m-manuals in their respective stores to equip users with the latest softwa

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LearnFlex LMS: Existing Functionality

B Online Learning

'Introducing existing functionality can be a good way to help track new information requirements, remove some of the manual process that administrators normally handle or even completely automate some processes. LearnFlex has way too much functionality and flexibility to include all of them in a blog but the Online Help can be a useful place […].

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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.