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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

I’ve often wondered why businesses bring in consultants and then refuse to take their advice. So how can we, as instructional designers and eLearning developers, avoid the problems created by eLearning-in-a-vacuum? In my free time, I enjoy reading, medical lectures, belly dancing and regular visits to my massage therapist.

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Improving Learning Transfer Effectiveness with Dr. Ina Weinbauer-Heidel

Upside Learning

As a scientist, author, lecturer, consultant, and chair of the Institute of Transfer Effectiveness, she is dedicated to applying scientific discoveries to real-world problems.

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How to Create College Courses That Are More Human

Clarity Consultants

Written lectures instead of spoken ones, self-advancing slide shows, and similar kinds of content feel automated, giving the impression that it’s a bot behind the course and not an instructor. While online courses will always feel different from in-person classes, that doesn’t mean they can’t be created to seem more human.

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Reinventing Organizational Culture in Real-Time With VR Training

Allen Interactions

This demand for innovative employee training is growing rapidly, and for good reason: VR training has a retention rate of 75% , beating out lectures (5%), reading (10%), and audio-visual learning (20%) (FrontCore, 2020).

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The Quickest Ways to Create Online Training Content Right Now

KnowledgeAnywhere

The Quickest Ways to Create Training Content Now. Create Your Own Courses. Record live lectures and classes. Once you create or find the content to upload, make sure your content is SCORM-compliant. Whether you do-it-yourself or consult an expert, this is a great time to get training started. What do you need?

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A Guide to Delivering Effective Virtual Training

ReadyTech

Kassy LaBorie, an instructional designer and principal consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, offers valuable strategies to break away from static lecture-style training. Facilitate Hands-On Learning: Move away from traditional lectures and design hands-on activities for students to complete individually or in small groups.

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Free learning & development webinars for April 2022

Limestone Learning

Learners experience a journey, not a lecture, and leave energized to take what they learned into the real world. PT: Community Member Showcase Join TLDCast’s crowdcast as they feature Nicola Vegiopoulos, Learning Consultant of Digital Content at Sarorius Stedim Biotech, a leading partner of the biopharma industry. PT: W.I.S.E.

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