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MAY 17, 2016

The mainstream use of Augmented Learning (AL) is not far from becoming an immediate reality. Your smartphone’s available accessory list now includes a visor or a pair of specialized spectacles that when connected to an Augmented Learning application, will let you roam a virtual environment. Look around you.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

With more people telecommuting these days, it only makes sense that teachers and scholars would do the same through student-directed learning. This reiterates a growing trend for learning online and the concept of student-directed learning is changing the traditional classroom environment. Children of Technology.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Building online learning communities is one way for corporate trainers and HR managers to motivate learners to accomplish much more than what traditional learning environments can achieve. So, what is an online learning community, and why exactly should organizations give serious consideration to creating them?

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JUNE 8, 2017

There’s no doubt about it: Contextualizing can dramatically boost teaching and learning outcomes! While lately, there has been an increased appreciation of the use of contextualized learning activities in adult education, the fact is that the concept itself is not novel. Understanding contextualized learning.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Even education is being revolutionized through personalized learning! Personalized learning has been trending quite lately in learning circles. It is also slowly but surely making its way into basic education and corporate learning. Personalized learning has been trending quite lately in learning circles.

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eFront

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The debate to compare the differences and similarities between online and traditional learning environment is as old as 1999. But how do traditional and online learning formats actually differ , and what can you expect from a transition to eLearning? In fact, online learning environments are more rigorous.

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eFront

MAY 11, 2017

Corporate trainers believe that the merger of two traditionally separate aspects of training, learning and hands-on experience, is the best way to provide skills which learners can immediately use. Experiential training is all about learning by doing and understanding. What Is Experiential Training? I see and I remember.

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eFront

APRIL 25, 2017

Due to its “dry and drab” nature, training managers often find that imparting or even motivating employees to attend technical learning is a huge challenge. Those elements are what will help them better engage with the technical learning being presented , and will ultimately enable them to become better at what they do.

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eFront

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Googling and readinghas become the natural extension of my everyday learning. I’ve got atheory [1] that traditional learning is not so efficient because it is out of real-worldcontext. We enforce people to learn something that does not inspire them;something that has not grown naturally inside them.

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eFront

JULY 21, 2015

Similarly, research in game studies has generally focused upon approaches based upon playing leisure games, and therefore do not take enough account of factors including the context, learning theory and practice and the attributes of the learner and learner group.” (de Think about the immersion level of the learning context.

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eFront

APRIL 26, 2013

Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. For those interested in using Facebook with students the following links may be of use: [Resource: Facebook as an “interactive learning resource”? ].

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eFront

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In the previous post in this mini-series we investigated the various LMS deployment options (cloud, hosted, self-hosted) as well as the necessary tools, services and software you’ll need to setup your own e-learning solution. In it’s bare essence, an e-learning course consists of a number of texts. A modern browser.

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eFront

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So you decided to deploy an e-learning solution for your enterprise or organization. Or maybe build an e-learning school of your own. As long-time e-learning experts we welcome you to this exciting endeavor. And we hope you consider using our industry leading e-learning solutions, TalentLMS and eFront. ZenDesk).

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eFront

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

E-learning, and if you follow this blog you probably already know that, has many advantages over traditional classroom based learning. Of course the first and foremost advantage of e-learning is freeing students from being tied to a particular place and time ? 1) Calendaring / Bulletin Board. 2) Webcasts.

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eFront

OCTOBER 17, 2010

eFront News from the e-learning frontier 10/17/2010 Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning As an e-Learning consultant I always was fun of open source software. In this post I am not going to talk about open source learning management systems such as eFront [1] but rather dedicated open source "authoring tools".

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eFront

MARCH 9, 2011

The most e-Learning developers focuses on instructional design, curriculum design, project management, etc. However, how do we support our learners before, during, and after an e-Learning course, program, and (or) certificate? By focusing on the support services during the e-Learning course you will enhance learning.

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eFront

AUGUST 12, 2015

When we design courses, we inadvertently borrow many learning strategies from the K-12 classroom setting. Whether or not you are confident about including these learning strategies, go through this article. We will jog your memory and demonstrate how these scenarios play out and improve in the eLearning environment.

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eFront

AUGUST 12, 2015

When we design courses, we inadvertently borrow many learning strategies from the K-12 classroom setting. Whether or not you are confident about including these learning strategies, go through this article. We will jog your memory and demonstrate how these scenarios play out and improve in the eLearning environment.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". Using Facebook for e-Learning could inspire many of our students to learn.

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eFront

JULY 20, 2017

Research conducted by the American Psychological Association has long endorsed the belief that learning approaches should be adapted to individual learners in early educational settings. However, for a long time, corporate trainers never fully understood the power of the adaptive learning approach. So, what is adaptive learning?

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eFront

AUGUST 25, 2016

What UX designers lack is the knowledge of how people learn : human cognition. Remember that the goal is to simplify the process of learning and leave the learner delighted and asking for more. Have you ever wondered about the natural way we read content in an online environment? Why bother with UX design in eLearning?

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. => Here at CU Online, we believe in the power of online learning. Dunlap Learning 2.0 for Associations by Jeff Cobb (Update 11/30/2010: suggested by Christopher Pappas ) “In Learning 2.0

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eFront

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Training and Development teams give employees (and thus, the company) a competitive edge through learning and skill-building. In today’s very dynamic and competitive work environments, it is the organization that embraces change that gets to be on top. You nurture a learning environment.

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eFront

MARCH 17, 2015

This includes investing in an e-learning solution. Why would a startup need to invest in e-learning? An e-learning system will help you train your new employees, regardless of if you have 5 new hires or if you’ve hit the VC jackpot and are getting 50 new hires. For all the reasons big companies do, and a few more besides.

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eFront

MARCH 31, 2016

When given the optimum environment, these capabilities can be developed to perfection and sometimes even excellence. Organizations are now spending top dollar in learning and training programs for continuing professional development. Create Learning Goals. Align Learning and Development with KPIs. Assess Achievement.

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eFront

MARCH 14, 2017

Gamification is a merger of technology and psychology that makes learning fun and engaging. However, one cannot successfully apply gamification examples in business eLearning environments without first understanding the intent and purpose behind it. Success through more than fun and games. fellow workers or the entire organization).

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eFront

OCTOBER 18, 2016

” Instead, really effective eLearning course design embraces the opportunities that an online environment can offer and creates content that’s fully interactive. The benefits of an interactive learning experience are many. The more engaging and inspiring the content, the better people learn. Click To Tweet.

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eFront

JANUARY 17, 2014

Their roles are often invaluable and it can be hard to find a convenient time to take them out of their work environment for training purposes. Refresher courses can be taken at any time by learners, and learning can be easily monitored. E-learning can complement or even replace in-person training in many cases.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The ultimate goal of learning and professional development is to instill the habit of being a “life-long learner” or continuous learning. Life-long learning implies to the cyclic update, reflection, social interchange and again update of knowledge. The adult learner is wired to learn independently, by default. Not at all!

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eFront

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Think of all the trainings left untouched or uncompleted in your learning management system. How will their learning affect the KPIs? Omitting the individual learning needs of your employees during the planning phase will cost you in the long-run. Will they prefer asynchronous learning materials? But it’s true.

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eFront

AUGUST 22, 2013

In today’s elearning environment the type of learning that takes place is generally divided into one of two categories: synchronous and asynchronous. What is synchronous learning? What is asynchronous learning? Asynchronous learning on the other hand can be carried out even when the student or teacher is offline.

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eFront

JANUARY 24, 2017

Informal learning is impromptu. In this article, we’ll share 7 tips to use informal learning into your training strategy. How To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate Training Strategy. How To Incorporate Informal Learning Into Your Corporate Training Strategy. Create A Goal-Centered Game Plan.

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eFront

JANUARY 26, 2015

Specifically, are they any good for e-learning? And we’re not just talking about self-made how-to videos (though it has its fair share of that), but also complete professional learning courses of high production value, which make money through advertising. Sure, they aren’t designed specifically for that.

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eFront

AUGUST 30, 2016

Let’s see the common mistakes that micromanagers make, and what they should do instead to make sure that their learning and talent development team performs at its best. If bad time keeping follows a pattern with increasing frequency, then ask your learning and talent development team member to be open with you.

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eFront

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As educational technology and strategies progress, learners become more advanced and proactive in learning. eLearning is increasingly becoming the normative way to learn and manage knowledge. A core benefit of online training is that it is not an isolated learning process. eLearning is a social learning phenomenon.

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eFront

MARCH 16, 2016

Why, despite being a state-of-art eLearning course, its learners do not meet the learning achievement expectations? In this article, we share a recent research on learning habits of millennials and a proposed teaching strategy for them. Research-based methods: Millennials prefer a broad spectrum of learning strategies.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It’s the over-stressful environment that leads to anxiety and reduced knowledge retention. That kind of situation is not conducive to a creative work environment. Create A Calming Work Environment. Creating a calming and soothing workplace environment is the first step towards minimizing harmful stress levels.

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