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8 Lessons Learned for Converting In-Person Training to Virtual Training

The Learning Dispatch

Before the pandemic response and reset to ‘work-from-home’ by organizations of all sizes and models, learning designers and HR professionals often struggled with how to take an existing, effective classroom training program and offer to learners online – or whether it made sense to do so at all. Would an online course be as effective?

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How to Use Free Course Content to Drive More Business

LearnDash

Ready to use free course content to strengthen your business and increase sales? Offer a sample lesson. Maybe a prospective student isn’t sure they’ll be self-motivated or engaged enough to stick to the lessons. With a tool like LearnDash, you can easily create free sample lessons. Here are a few ways to get started.

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The Case For Social Learning: Lessons From Successful Online Businesses

eLearning Industry

In this article, we’ll talk about what social learning theory can teach us about engaging our audience online and lessons from online businesses successfully leveraging social with their online offerings. Learners today expect courses to include social and interactive components.

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What’s “Busy Work,” and What’s Essential Learning Practice?

LearnDash

Learning is hard, and learners need homework to learn the skills necessary to master the course. While some teaching methods are better than others, it’s also unrealistic to expect every moment of learning to be perfectly exciting and engaging. What is “busy work” anyway? It’s time to step back and look for a better way.

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Drips, Bots, and Blogs: A Non-Traditional Approach to Learning Reinforcement

Speaker: Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Rebels LLC

For learning professionals, this means delivering learning support and reinforcement programs that are produced in manageable bites, giving people a chance to reflect and apply lessons without large disruptions to the workflow. In this session, we will learn about three different types of drip delivery platforms.

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Learning technology lessons from the front lines

CLO Magazine

In-person learning programs that had been scheduled for a year or more were cancelled. To help bridge the gap created by COVID, we accelerated the rollout of our global learning experience platform, Cura. 1 priority identified was a learning experience platform. Be clear about the business imperative. Getting started.

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Freelancing Challenges, Lessons Learned, and the Future

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Like all two-year-olds, we’ve experienced some growing pains, have come a long way, and still have a lot left to learn. In this week’s post, I’m going to get real with you about the freelancing challenges I’ve faced over the past two years as a business owner, some lessons I’ve learned, and why I’m excited now more than ever about the future.

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Partnering Well on a Rapid Timeline

Speaker: Becci Zweirs, Learning Projects Leader, Inno-Versity, Miriam Taylor, Chief Learning Strategist, Inno-Versity, and Pam Whetstone, Training Development Manager, Williams-Sonoma

Learn how they co-created a luxury brand look that employed a simple game approach to a technical AS400 system. Our speakers will share valuable lessons learned, including how to partner well with a vendor and support a large roll-out. Demonstrate Return on Learning (ROL) to key executives with specific metrics.

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Use Chaos to Build a Stronger Organization

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

While facing one of the greatest workforce challenges in our generation due to the recent COVID-19 crisis, the hero of the hour has been our learning and communication platforms. As we look to tomorrow, it is time to ask ourselves what lessons have we learned and how do we create flexible organizations that can survive what the future holds.