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Upskilling Employees: Advantages and Methods To Teach Staff More

eFront

Upskilling is the process of teaching current employees new skills. Upskilling is the process of teaching current employees new skills. You may also consider offering credentialing programs, meaning training that results in a professional certificate. Click To Tweet. But it doesn’t have to cause a tremendous financial setback.

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An Elearning Design Reading List

Usable Learning

Anyway, I typically keep a list of resources when I teach the ATD (ASTD) Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate, and I keep thinking that I should put the list somewhere. So here it is: Blogs et al: Cathy Moore — her blog and The Elearning Blueprint. Presentations.

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Book Giveaway and Other News

Usable Learning

I’m also teaching a few public workshops in the next few months. I’m teaching at session of the Advanced Instructional Design for Elearning Certificate at the ATD ICE Conference on May 20-21 in Denver.

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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part II)

Web Courseworks

Part III will explore how to use the Quality Matters rubric to be a Google map for design considerations. Material from this post came from the following sources: First I conducted an interview with Bill Winfield, an instructor with the UW eLearning Certificate Program, who teaches a four-week online course.

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Converting Live Workshops to an Online Course (Part I)

Web Courseworks

Ways for online instructors and designers to build community: Use a Wiki or Google application and assign groups to work on a project together. Bill Winfield teaches an online course on online course design. Bill recommends providing resources and giving very specific instructions!

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Escape from Compliance Training Jail - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

Like the healthcare industry, there are many industries that require annual refresher or certification testing that has little to do with learning. In those cases, the goal is not so much to teach new skills; instead it is to certify existing knowledge. It is a lack of respect to waste their time teaching them what they already know.

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19 Essential Features Of A Learning Management System (LMS)

Academy of Mine

Certificates Of Completion An important part of professional development is earning certifications. LMSs can help you create certificates and automatically deliver them to learners. That said, every training program is unique; using an LMS you can customize certificates to meet your organization’s needs.