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Learning Paths vs. Traditional Curriculum: What's the Difference & Why Does it Matter?

eLearning Brothers

When it comes to eLearning strategy, there is a long-time debate over learning paths versus traditional curriculum. Let’s explore the differences between the two methods so that your organization can make the correct decision on your pathway forward and you can see improved results from your learning initiatives on a grand scale.

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Should We List the Learning Objectives?

Experiencing eLearning

A lot of elearning starts with a list of formal learning objectives. “By the end of this course, you will be able to…” But should we really start our elearning this way? Is that really the best way to communicate with learners about the goals of training? No, I think we can do better. The argument in favor of listing learning objectives I don’t want to directly pile on this person any further (I already ratioed him with my comment on his article), but someone recently sha

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5 Tips for Effective eLearning Design and Development

CommLab India

People can design and develop eLearning courses for years yet might not find them to be effective. To ensure you aren’t one of them, here are the 5 tips to help you ensure effective eLearning design and development. Why wait? Read. Implement. Succeed!

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Immersive Technology Showdown Part 1: Considerations & Limitations of vR

Allen Interactions

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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The Value of 3rd Party Accreditation in L&D

InSync Training

The Need for Consistency and Reliability in Learning & Development Imagine you have a ruler made of some weird alien material that is somehow tied to the quantum wave function in such a way that it changes dimensions every time you use it. One day, your desk is five feet wide, the next, six and a half. Not a great measuring device, particularly if you’re trying to fit the desk through the door.

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Why Should You Use eLearning Authoring Tools for Effective Course Development [5 Reasons Explained]

CommLab India

Costly classroom training. Ineffective, irrelevant course content. Bored audience. These are some of the many possible scenarios when it comes to corporate training. eLearning authoring tools help you handle them effectively. Read on to know how!

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Growth Mindset, AI, and More: ID Links 3/14/23

Experiencing eLearning

As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on growth mindset, an AI tool for instructional design, branching scenarios, accessibility, and a magazine issue with elearning articles by multiple prominent authors. Growth mindset Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Developing a Growth Mindset Help Students Learn?

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[UPDATED] Dealing with Cheating: A Moodle™  Plagiarism Plugin

Lambda Solutions

It’s an icky word that makes any educator or student squirm—plagiarism. Whether intentional or not plagiarism happens and if discovered can ruin careers and educational pursuits. The Josephson Institute Center for Youth anonymously surveyed over 43,000 high school students to determine the percent of youth who admit to plagiarism. In their results they found that 59% of students indicated that they cheated on a test in the past year and 34% of students reported that they cheated more than twice.

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Virtual Learning is Real Learning - The InQuire Engagement Framework™

InSync Training

Learner engagement is the the most important part of any training program. It’s the most important part because an engaged learner produces better outcomes – engaged learners learn! So, how engaged are your virtual learners and how do you know if they’re engaged?

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How to Buy Learning and Development in 2023

For long, organizations outsourced services expecting to reap the benefits of decentralization—namely, speed, agility, and cost-efficiencies. However, many pure outsourced operations risk devolving into siloed functions with opaque vendor governance and inefficient administration. Before the sourcing organization knows it, their L&D is beyond their control.

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How to Prevent Cheating in Your Online Course

LearnDash

While online learning has myriad benefits, there’s one large problem: how to prevent cheating online. Preventing cheating in online courses is challenging for a variety of reasons, including limited supervision, technological advancements, pressures to succeed, and a lack of awareness of academic integrity policies. There are several common reasons why learners may cheat in online courses.

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Process and Product

Clark Quinn

Of late, I’ve been talking a fair bit about my take on learning experience design (LXD). To me, it’s the elegant integration of learning science with engagement. Of course, I’m biased, as my two most recent books are specifically to those ends! I don’t claim it’s automatic, but I do believe that with practice, it gets easier.

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How I’m Using Performance Support In The Flow Of Work At Work

Nick Leffler

Prior to last year, my world was project-based. That means I was given the task of supporting teammates in their journey to learn a specific topic. That’s typically a new project that IT was launching and people needed training to use it right. I know, you could say that if it was easy enough to.

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[UPDATED] Top 5 Moodle™ Plugins to Enhance Productivity

Lambda Solutions

As an official Moodle partner, our Moodle LMS experts regularly review Moodle plugins and advise our clients on which plugins to select based on their learning and training requirements. We’re able to test and recertify all new standard Moodle plugins to make sure we can troubleshoot any potential errors. Here is our tried and true list of Moodle plugins to enhance productivity.

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The AI Conundrum: How HR Can Prepare for the Storm of Change

Speaker: Kate Bischoff - CEO and Founder of k8bisch LLC (formerly tHRive Law & Consulting)

It’s no secret that the indication of AI has drastically changed most industries. But with every advancement, there are new hurdles to overcome. Recent research suggests that AI may introduce prejudice and discrimination into decision-making processes, leading to unequal chances. Given that HR and recruiting often use AI, this has the potential to become a serious problem.

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[eBook] Virtual Learning is Real Learning-5 Activities for Your Programs

InSync Training

Virtual training continues to be a top priority for organizations, but the reality is the virtual experience isn’t living up to our standards for quality training.

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The Pros and Cons of Cross-Training Your Employees

eLearning Brothers

Have you ever had a crisis at work, but couldn’t fix it because that issue’s go-to person was out of the office? Have you had to deal with an understaffed department or team? Some managers cite situations like these as reasons for cross-training their employees.

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The promise of generative AI and ChatGPT for L&D

Docebo

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few months, chances are you’ve caught one or two (or seventeen) conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT. It’s a hot topic thanks to recent public releases of some deeply impressive (and for some, concerning) AI systems. In the art world, prompt-driven AI tools like Midjourney can create stunning visuals on demand.

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The 14 Common Constraints In Creating Custom Elearning Solutions

Spark Your Interest

Creating custom elearning solutions can be a complex process comprising many stages involving many internal and external experts. Below we identify and discuss 14 of the most common constraints during online training development. Armed with these, an experienced project lead and learning some trade-offs to keep your project on time, on budget, or within the scope will result in delivering a superior instructional product.

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2023 HR Technology Trends: What's New and What's Next

Speaker: Ben Eubanks - Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory

The world of HR has changed so much in recent years, and so have the technologies and tools that support HR and talent leaders. But frankly, keeping up with the ever-changing HR tech landscape can feel like another full-time job. That's why we're sharing with you this webinar session with Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer for Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

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[UPDATED]How to Take Care of Your Moodle™ LMS

Lambda Solutions

When was the last time you updated your learning management system? Many organizations skip a year or more. While that may save work on the IT side, students and teachers miss out on the continuous improvements that are being made in learning technology.

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ROI of an LMS for Customer Training (2013) - Raven360

Content Raven

Return on investment (ROI) is an idea that has fueled the human race for millennia. The agricultural revolution was based entirely on the idea of putting more work in upfront to reap a greater harvest each year than could be gotten through hunter-gather methods. Traveling the long, hot, dusty, and plague-ridden Silk Road was only worth it for the riches in the end.

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Importance of Front-Line Managers and Why They Cannot be Forgotten in Leadership Development

eLearning Brothers

According to businessdictionary.com, frontline management is defined as “the first or second managers (line managers, office managers, supervisors) directly responsible for production of goods and services, and supervision of clerical staff and shop floor employees.” Others may describe frontline managers as those who are responsible for the critical, day-to-day operations of a business.

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The Importance of Upskilling and Lifelong Learning in the Manufacturing Industry

Meridian

The Manufacturing Industry has experienced a substantial change in recent years with the advancement of technology. The ground floor is becoming increasingly digitized with new sensors, cameras, and robotics. As… The post The Importance of Upskilling and Lifelong Learning in the Manufacturing Industry appeared first on Meridian Knowledge Solutions.

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Connecting the Dots Between Your HR Systems Strategy and Strategic HR

Speaker: Stacey Harris - Chief Research Officer & Managing Partner, Sapient Insights Group

Today’s HR technology market is estimated to be valued at almost 40 billion globally. Yet, over 50% of organizations felt they were still missing critical HR data needed to make business decisions over the last year. Join Stacey Harris, Chief Research Officer for Sapient Insights Group and author of Introduction to HR Technologies: Understanding How to Use Technology to Improve Performance and Processes , as she shares groundbreaking research on how organizations can move the needle by 2025, rea

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18 Best Online Course Platforms Comparison Guide

learnWorlds

The biggest dilemma you ever have to go through as an online instructor once you decide to start creating eLearning courses is which best online course platform to choose. Currently, there are many course creation platforms that offer similar features like an LMS – a learning management system can offer – with the addition of eCommerce features to market & sell online courses as well as the storage and distribution of online content.

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[UPDADED]10 Questions To Answer Before You Use Moodle™

Lambda Solutions

What do you need to think about before implementing Moodle? A growing number of schools, universities and companies are using the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) for education and training.

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What the DOJ wants from your training program: Designing for efficacy

Learning Pool

Previously , we’ve looked at how guidance from the Department of Justice outlines the need for more personalized learning experiences that focus on learner engagement and capture strong data. With a view to designing learning for efficacy, learning strategy should include an evaluation of the elements of a learning program, whether they work in practice and contribute to an overall effective program.

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Behavioral Interviewing & How It Can Impact Employee Retention

BizLibrary

Selecting the right candidate for the job can be difficult – how will you know if they’re the right person for the job? Behavioral Interviewing is a technique that focuses on past experiences to assess how they might navigate the current conditions of the position that is currently open. The post Behavioral Interviewing & How It Can Impact Employee Retention appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Upskilling HR: Future-Proof Your HR Career

Speaker: Jeanne Achille - CEO, The Devon Group

Is your HR department running around barefoot like the shoemaker's children? If so, you're on a collision course with the ever-changing realities of the workplace, which necessitate strong HR tech skills. In this webinar, we'll look at why HR should invest in learning to ensure organizational resiliency and employee retention. Consider it self-care as we discuss how to future-proof your own career through the opportunities provided by upskilling.

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Meridian LMS, a Top Choice for Compliance Training

Meridian

ARLINGTON, VA – March 20, 2023, Meridian LMS, the award-winning learning management system provided by Meridian Knowledge Solutions has been recognized as a Top Compliance Training Solution for Corporate Training… The post Meridian LMS, a Top Choice for Compliance Training appeared first on Meridian Knowledge Solutions.

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Why a Well-Designed UI/UX is Essential for eLearning Design and Development

CommLab India

In today’s digital age, eLearning design and development are highly expected to be intuitive, user-friendly, and engaging. This blog highlights a few major benefits and lists various best practices to create a well-designed UI/UX for eLearning modules.

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[UPDATED] How To Moodle™ Webinars

Lambda Solutions

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