Sat.Jan 06, 2018 - Fri.Jan 12, 2018

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What’s The Real Cost of Your Elearning? (New Research)

Elucidat

Why is the ‘time to complete’ a piece of elearning such an important number? I’ve taken a dive into the data to look at how people estimate cost and time in instructional design and the impact this could be having on businesses. There are two ways of looking at the cost of elearning: 1. Market value: How much is your vendor charging you? Or, how much are you charging for your learning product?

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Using Heuristic Evaluation to Craft the Perfect Learner Journey

Origin Learning

‘Heuristic evaluation’ was pioneered by Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich in 1990. This is the definition of the term from their website – Heuristic evaluation is a usability engineering method for finding the usability problems in a user interface design so that they can be attended to as part of an iterative design process. Heuristic evaluation involves having a small set of evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (the “heuristics&

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Translation Guide for Instructional Designers and SMEs

Association eLearning

You’re working on a new project. There isn’t a lot of time left and you need answers to your questions soon. So, you type up an email and send it to the SME. Two days go by and you don’t get a reply. On the third day, you send another email asking for help. The SME emails you back saying, “I thought that list was just an FYI. I didn’t realize you needed me to do anything.

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Hone Your Modern Learning Design Superpowers with Donna Designer

InSync Training

As instructional designers , we have an important common goal: impacting individual learners’ personal learning paths. Creating effective, dynamic training programs requires an involved process, including a multi-layered approach that asks a variety of questions including: How do we ensure our training has an impact during both formal and informal moments of learning need ?

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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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Webinar: 3 ways to motivate learners

Making Change

Let’s talk about motivation in a quick webinar on Tuesday, January 16. How can we help people feel respected, capable, and part of a community when they’re using our materials? Three ingredients for motivation. Our job is to change what people do. However, we don’t want them to obey like robots — we want them to see why they should do it and happily incorporate the new behavior into their lives.

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ELEARNING PRODUCTION: Integrating GoAnimate Animations

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, CTT, COTP. Our reader Linda Tromanhauser of ADP (Automatic Data Processing, Inc.) writes:  "We often use GoAnimate videos in eLearning. One thing I discovered on my most recent project is that in Storyline, you can insert a GoAnimate and have clickable items on top of it, on the same slide. So the video plays, and then the learner can select an option.

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InSync Training's Top 10 Blogs of 2017

InSync Training

2017 was a big year for learning. Organizations focused on looking outside of the traditional learning box, looking to find ways to support learners in every moment of learning need, not just during formal instruction. There was a recognition that learning isn’t over just because the LMS indicates the learner completed a course. InSync’s top 10 blogs of 2017 largely represent this trend towards learner-centered experiences, providing tools and strategies that enable learner success and continue

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3 new year L&D resolutions: making 2018 your best year yet

Kineo

In 2018, we expect the elearning market to continue to shift and shake as new technologies emerge. This means that you Learning Designers can't stay static. You have to be diligent about staying on top of your game. So, what can you do in 2018 to keep your learning solution designs relevant and up-to-date? To help kickstart your 2018 planning we’ve laid out three New Year’s Resolutions that are perfect for any L&D professional looking to make 2018 their best, most productive and effective ye

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Team Training in Healthcare Training Programs: Vital For Patient Safety

Dashe & Thomson

You’ll find the term “patient-centered care” floating around in the mission statements of many a hospital and clinic. The patient-centered care model focuses on the patient’s health and experience during every interaction with healthcare professionals. In this model of care, the patient is considered an integral part of their own treatment team. Therefore, treatment addresses the patient’s needs, “not only from a clinical perspective, but also from an emotional, mental, spiritual, social and fin

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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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Is Your Design Really “Responsive?”

eLearning Brothers

. One of the biggest points of confusion I’ve seen evolve in recent years is how people use the word “responsive” when speaking about device-independent eLearning. How can it be that people can interpret one word so differently? Over time, “responsive” has become the preferred word used when talking about device-independent development. Developing for multiple devices impacts both the developer—in the design and development process—and the learner—through the user experience and how content dis

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Choosing the Right eLearning Storyboarding Tool

InSync Training

Virtually There Session Recap. “Build an eLearning course,” they say. “It’s what you’re great at! You can have it done by Friday.” Sound familiar? eLearning’s popularity as both stand alone instruction and part of a larger blend makes it a standard in many instructional design portfolios. Unfortunately, the “go do that thing you do” mentality reflects a general misunderstanding of the complicated nature of eLearning production.

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Short Course on Evaluation of Training and Learning in Knowledge Economy

The Performance Improvement Blog

LAD Global , in partnership with the Singapore Training and Development Association , has made my short course on evaluation of training and learning available for free online. I hope people involved in talent development will find this course to be a helpful introduction to measuring the impact of all types of learning interventions, not only formal training. .

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Academy Pro WordPress Theme for LearnDash

LearnDash

Part of the success of any online course is the layout and design. If you need a modern, clean design then look no further than Academy Pro by StudioPress. For years StudioPress has pumped out very attractive themes, and recently they added a new template to their catalogue for online courses. The theme is called Academy Pro, and as you can see in the video above it is a great looking theme.

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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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Webinar: Storyline 3 Timesavers – Shortcuts, Hotkeys and More!

eLearning Brothers

Ready to speed up your development? We recently hosted a Storyline webinar with Bill Milstid, eLearning Brothers Senior Designer/Developer, discussing how to become more proficient in the tool using shortcuts, hotkeys, and more! Bill shared a ton of great development shortcuts that he uses to save time every day. Click here to download Bill’s highly requested shortcut notes document.

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Developing Custom Learning Solutions that Meet Business Needs

dVinci Interactive

Developing Custom Learning Solutions that Meet Business Needs Supporting the largest haircare brand name in North America, Great Clips University develops custom learning solutions to meet the needs of franchise owners, hair stylists and corporate staff members. As an eLearning and Instructional Design Manager, Mandi Soderlund has found that blended learning solutions work best to enable a geographically dispersed franchise network to provide a consistent, branded, customer experience.

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Learning Styles in eLearning

B Online Learning

Learning design is all about designing the right learning for the right audience, catering for different learning styles and maximising the opportunities for […]. The post Learning Styles in eLearning appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Interactive: What Does It Really Mean?

Association eLearning

Merriam-Webster ’s online dictionary defines “interactive” as, “involving the actions or input of a user.” When you stop to think about it, that’s not very clear. So, is eLearning with nothing but a next button interactive? The learner clicks something. Is a choose your own adventure book interactive? The reader picks which page to turn to. Let’s dive into this.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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ELEARNING PRODUCTION: Integrating GoAnimate Animations

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, CTT, COTP. Our reader Linda Tromanhauser of ADP (Automatic Data Processing, Inc.) writes:  "We often use GoAnimate videos in eLearning. One thing I discovered on my most recent project is that in Storyline, you can insert a GoAnimate and have clickable items on top of it, on the same slide. So the video plays, and then the learner can select an option.

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Jazzercise Powered by Wisetail

Wisetail

Wisetail helped Jazzercise, the world's largest dance-fitness company, engage their 8,300 franchises, create a direct line to corporate, and provide information on everything from ideas for themed classes to studio pricing. The post Jazzercise Powered by Wisetail appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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MWL Newsletter No 46

Jane Hart

Happy New Year! Here are the posts, articles and news about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) selected by Jane Hart for the week 31 December 2017 – 6 January 2018.

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Using the Pivot Point for Real Learning

KnowledgeStar

When I was finishing the last chapter in my book, Minds at Work, co-authored with Stephen J. Gill, our focus was on a new model of managing and learning designed to respond to the needs of the new Knowledge Economy. We called it “managing minds” to distinguish it from the previous industrial era model of “managing […].

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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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Meet Our New Styles

eLearning Brothers

You know what they say—“new year, new styles!” Wait, that’s not the expression? Well, around here it is because we’ve added two new Styles to the eLearning Brothers Template Library and that’s just the beginning. You’re going to want to check these out! A Style is a design template family. Each Style features layouts, interactions, games—all created with the same look so they work cohesively together.

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18 Top Learning Systems Trends to Watch in 2018

Talented Learning

Welcome to our 4th annual LMS and learning systems “Trends” post! What is a trend, anyway? And how much do trends matter? As fiercely independent learning technology analysts, we think a trend isn’t just a fleeting idea that comes and goes like fashion, or a social media hashtag. Nor is it some sort of distant vision to chase until the next distraction captures our imagination.

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Video File Formats, Codecs, and Containers Explained

TechSmith Camtasia

With today’s technology, the possibilities on personal computers and mobile devices seem to be endless, allowing us to create videos that grab the attention of an audience within seconds. Videos today are not just something that we watch, they are something that we engage in and something we become a part of. It is necessary to understand the different video file formats to ensure that the video is produced in the best format and quality for its intended purpose, hosting location, and audience.

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10 Productivity Tips for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

eFront

Whether you are a business owner or an entrepreneur, productivity is key for your success. Habits, lifestyle, discipline, and technology matter. Here are some productivity tips to become more efficient: 1. Create a To-do List. List your tasks, organize them in order of priority and set deadlines. To-do lists will give you a structure, and a plan to stick to.

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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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Why You Should Attend Our Upcoming Webinars

eLearning Brothers

Here at eLearning Brothers, we have a really passionate team working on producing exemplary webinars just for you! Things you can expect from an eLearning Brothers webinar: Learn about at least one new product or a better way to use a product you already have. Really helpful Rockstars who just want to make your work easier. And sometimes…giveaways or promotions!

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In Real Life: Your 2018 L&D Strategy by JD Dillon

LearningGuild

What’s your 2018 L&D strategy? I’m not talking about your massive project list. How are you going to help people do their jobs. even better this year?

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Cost of Training Vs. Cost of Not Training

Adobe Captivate

Human resources are the drivers of organization’s business endeavors. They cause business to win new opportunities and help grow further. Eventually, they also impact negatively on business results. Smart businesses recognize this critical constituent and act to turn it in their favor. So, the important question is ‘What is that they do to achieve it?’.

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