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8 Challenges Students Encounter on Higher Ed Websites

Think Orion

Navigation Issues Accessibility Concerns Information Overload Mobile Responsiveness Outdated Content Communication Barriers Technical Issues Security Concerns Let’s explore each. Here are 6 best practices to create higher education website navigation that users and search engines will love.

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Top 10 tools that empower learners to develop themselves

Learning Pool

One main reason for the shift to learner-centric learning and development is the unprecedented access to information that modern learners have. And if the answer you want isn’t returned in the list of search results, you can use social media apps to ask someone else for what you need. Personal assistant: Chatbot.

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Seven more online icebreakers

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Image search Ask people to search through Google images or through a photo site like Flickr for an image that represents their expectations from the course. It's more fun to use image search than to ask people to share their own pictures because it stimulates creativity. What will they gain through the workshop?

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Mark Sheppard: Entering the Backchannel of ATD ICE 2018

Learning Rebels

Information. “It’s not information overload. ” Ten years on I’m not sure we’re much farther ahead in obtaining decent filters, but many folks are developing their own habitual and cognitive practices to manage the array of messages and media, particularly at events such as ICE.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

LMS and Learning Tracking Still Struggling While LMS solutions continue to get better, more powerful, more diverse, I continue to find myself searching for just the right solution for particular needs. For example my search for an LMS Solution for Simple Partner Compliance Training didn’t really arrive at just the right solution.

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Task, Interrupted: How to Seamlessly Integrate Training into Work

Litmos

Case in point: according to the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) , if a knowledge worker is interrupted at work, it takes 10 to 20 times the duration of the interruption to recover and get back to their previous task. According to Jonathan Spira, author of Overload! All those interruptions add up.

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The l&d professional as curator

Clive on Learning

Julie's argument for curation went as follows: We really can have too much information. Overload causes depression. Everyone suffers from occasional situational overload - searching for a needle in a haystack, but this is ambient overload - a haystack-sized pile of needles. We try to concentrate but we can't.