Sat.Sep 17, 2016 - Fri.Sep 23, 2016

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Increase Course Performance with the Right Authoring Tool – Here’s How to Sort Out Your Options

Docebo

These 10 valuable tips will help you determine what authoring tool could be the best fit for your needs. Selecting an elearning authoring tool can be confusing. Because it’s usually best to try before you buy, selection can take a bit of time too. Whether you’re looking for a new solution to up the scale of your online learning production, searching for a speedier or higher quality solution than what you currently have, or embarking on creating elearning for the first time, here are 10 considera

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Bridge the Skills-Gap with Competency Based Learning

Association eLearning

Dear Associations, I am trying to get into a skilled labor position at company X. I have some experience but there are new rules and regulations and I just can’t keep up. I could go back to school, but it’d be a huge burden to my family. Some certifications would go a long way toward getting me to my goal of getting the job and being able to eventually become a foreman, but you only offer the courses I need occasionally, and I’m not sure if I can grow at company X without them.

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eLearning Outsourcing 101 (eBook)

Upside Learning

Outsource this, outsource that. BPO’s, KPO’s and ITO’s dominate the market share today. eLearning outsourcing too has increased its foothold in the past few years and has been increasingly sought out by many organizations whose core function does not include training. Additionally, some large training companies that need help with content development are also seeking […].

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Jane’s Top 10 Tools for Learning 2016

Jane Hart

On Friday 23rd September, voting closes in the 10th Annual Survey of Learning Tool – so it’s not too late to vote! You can find out how to do so HERE – essentially it involves sharing your own Top 10 Tools for Learning – anonymously or publicly. Anyway, as we reach the final few days of voting in 2016, I thought it was time to share my personal top 10 tools – so here they are: TWITTER is still the place where I can quickly and easily keep up with what’s happening

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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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Take Your Lagging Learning Strategy to the Next Level with these 3 Essential Insights

Docebo

3 Key Insights to Combat Lagging Learning Strategies. If you want to improve learning outcomes across your business, it is important to establish a comprehensive learning and development (L&D) strategy. Sounds easy, but different organizations are at different stages of L&D strategy maturity, and in all cases it can be challenging to create, improve or completely revise an approach.

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Facilitating Online Courses

B Online Learning

For the past year I’ve been facilitating our Master eLearning Course while my colleague Ruth McElhone has been on maternity leave (she’s back now). I’ve found that facilitating in the online environment is quite different from classroom facilitation and as such has a number of unique characteristics and limitations. I’ve learnt (and continue to learn) […].

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Our secret world of learning

E-Learning Provocateur

One of my peers in Australia, Arun Pradhan , is developing an app to help us learn smarter, faster and deeper. To gain insight on how we learn in the real world, he’s reaching out to L&D professionals, CEOs, entrepreneurs, actors and artists who have mastered complex skills, with the aim of uncovering our “learning secrets” Arun asks 4 specific questions and my answers are as follows… Q1.

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Where is game-based learning headed? An Interview With Sharon Boller

Knowledge Guru

I interviewed Bottom-Line Performance President and industry thought leader, Sharon Boller to learn more about current game-based learning trends and where this learning strategy is headed in 2017. Sharon has been writing and speaking about game-based learning since at least 2008. She hits the road this fall with Karl Kapp to deliver a series of workshops on learning game design , and rumor has it a book is on the way in 2017.

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Deeper Design: Working out Loud and the Future of Work

Clark Quinn

Over the past year, I’ve been working on a project. After I wrote the Deeper eLearning series of 6 posts with Learnnovators , we wondered what to do next. We decided to do a course together, free-to-air, and write about the process as well (a bit of Working Out Loud), with the intention was to try to do deep design on a pragmatic basis. And, just as a hint, the topic is the Future of Work, the choice of which is part of the story.

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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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What Happens When Your Employees Don’t Know?

Axonify

It’s a Saturday. You’ve had a heck of a week. After experiencing the luxury of sleeping in a little, you decide to get started on the day by tackling the usual things … shower, make breakfast, feed the children. When checking your phone (which you do about 100 times a day), you see a promotion come through for an item you’ve been wanting for a while.

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Open Badges – What you need to know

Gyrus

Open Badges – What you need to know. With gamification being such a buzzworthy topic and so many successful manners in which to implement into your program, it is hard to decide what the best manner is. Ideally, the solution that offers the greatest intrinsic motivation for your learners would be the ideal provision of your learning management system.

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Why We’ll Always Record a Demo for You

Administrate

Something that’s vital to my role is ensuring a strong relationship exists between the Administrate Marketing and Sales teams – that sounds rather obvious, yet that bond doesn’t always exist within companies, which is baffling to say to least. A key part of any strong partnership is communication and it Read More Published on September 21, 2016.

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Rules of engagement: why we’re still working on making people happy at work

Kineo

Back in the day, the motivational theories of Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg were considered de rigeur. They’re founded on the idea that people have basic needs, and that job satisfaction depends on whether those needs are met (or not). It’s perception of this that influences an individual’s sense of motivation and engagement at work.

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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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xAPI Medical Case Studies

Web Courseworks

I attended the xAPI Camp in Chicago on Friday, September 16, 2016 to learn about use cases in the medical community for xAPI. I was particularly interested because my company, Web Courseworks, will be speaking with the American College of Chest Physicians on November 15 th at DevLearn. xAPI and the Learning Records Store is the eLearning communities answer to recording informal or formal activities for big data calculations.

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Deeper Design: Working out Loud and the Future of Work

Clark Quinn

Over the past year, I’ve been working on a project. After I wrote the Deeper eLearning series of 6 posts with Learnnovators , we wondered what to do next. We decided to do a course together, free-to-air, and write about the process as well (a bit of Working Out Loud), with the intention was to try to do deep design on a pragmatic basis. And, just as a hint, the topic is the Future of Work, the choice of which is part of the story.

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The Internet of Things and Launching Learning Ideas

InSync Training

2016 Online Learning Conference Recap. Greetings from Chicago! Members of the InSync Training team, including Jennifer Hofmann, have had the privilege of attending Training Magazine’s 2016 Online Learning Conference (OLC). This three-day, in-person learning event highlights some of our most favorite things about our industry: a community of practitioners who believe in collaboration and the transformative power of online learning.

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LMS Industry Snapshot

LearnDash

Learning management systems have been around for quite some time now, constantly morphing to fit the current demands and trends of today. At one time it was just a “tracking engine” (more or less) and now the market demands that the LMS has to be sleek and feature packed. The growth in online education is growing the demand for a capable LMS.

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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.

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GAMIFICATION IS ABOUT ENGAGEMENT

Learnnovators

The post GAMIFICATION IS ABOUT ENGAGEMENT appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Who Is Derailing Your Learning Project? (And How Can You Stop Them?)

Dashe & Thomson

Great news! That learning project you’ve nurtured through countless meetings and rolls of red tape has finally come to fruition, and you’re starting to get down to business. But wait – something’s not quite right. Why does it feel like the team is spinning out of control? Why does it seem like your manager doesn’t support you? Why isn't anyone meeting their deadlines?

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Infographics as Learning tools

InSync Training

BYTE session recap. As well all know, visual learning aids are wildly popular. Learners respond to, and remember, colorful images related to the content being presented. Infographics in particular have gained popularity in learning programs in the past few years. Karin Rex, a nationally known facilitator specializing in soft and technical skills, recently joined our BYTE presenter ranks with her wildly popular session, Harnessing the Power of Infographics as Teaching Tools.

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What is the Future of Udemy?

LearnDash

Though it has its critics , Udemy has proven to be an extremely popular platform for anyone looking to create and sell an online course. It is probably no surprise that since they came out with their offering there have been plenty of “copy-cat” services sprouting up all over. We often get potential LearnDash customers writing to ask how they can create their own Udemy clone , but with a twist.

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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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Scenario-Based Learning in a Virtual Classroom

CourseArc

Scenario-based learning, also known as problem-based learning, seeks to elevate the learner’s training outcomes from merely comprehension to analysis, synthesis, and application. Obtaining a real skill truly happens once the learner is able to use information to make decisions and correctly perform an objective. It is important that instructional designers keep their scenarios as realistic as possible.

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Supercharge Course Sales with Digital Marketing – Part 2: PPC, Retargeting & Tracking

Administrate

In our first post on ‘Supercharging Course Sales’ we tackled how to plan and create winning content, as well as covering some basic on-page SEO techniques. Strong content, optimised well… Fantastic! Now what? Well, we could wait patiently for Google to start ranking our new content, watching the clock while potential Read More Published on September 21, 2016.

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TOPYX Topics – Social Learning Newsletter – September 2016

TOPYX LMS

eLearning is continuously evolving, and so is the content we share on our social learning blog. Below are highlights featured in our September 2016 newsletter. We appreciate your interest in TOPYX and look forward to meeting all of your LMS needs. The High Value of Learning Paths. We are all on some type of path. Some of us are moving forward, and some are moving backward.

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When to Hire an LMS Developer

LearnDash

One thing that I learned very early on in my career within elearning is that everyone defines a learning management slightly differently. When you are selling a learning management system this can pose quite a challenge! For proprietary LMS options you often see one of two approaches: Tons of built-in features. Ultra-narrow market vertical. Naturally there are pros and cons to each of these approaches.

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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