Thu.Jun 30, 2016

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Placeholder Images: Do They Help or Hurt in an eLearning Storyboard?

Association eLearning

Not so long ago, in a nearby place, someone spent a lot of time leaving notes about the photos in an eLearning storyboard. It turned out that they were just placeholders. The final course was going to use a different set of stock photos. At about the same time, in an equally close place, another frustrated reviewer tried to visualize a course based on only three columns of written descriptions: audio, onscreen visuals, and interactivity.

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Save time and organize your learning content with a central learning object repository

Docebo

You can now keep all your learning objects in one easy place with a central repository. With the latest update to the Docebo LMS, we’re simplifying the way you can organize and store learning objects with a new central learning object repository that allows you to store all your learning objects in one easily searchable library. With this new tool, all of your course content is streamlined and accessible in just a few clicks.

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5 Emerging Trends in Education Technology

Lambda Solutions

As innovators in the education space, we keep an eye on emerging trends, terms, and technology in the industry. Here are some of the top education technology trends that have been on our radar recently! 1. Virtual Reality. While basic forms of virtual realities have been around since the early 90’s, a more sophisticated model is expected to formulate and take off in the next year or so.

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Accessibility – What you can Achieve with Popular Rapid Authoring Tools

Upside Learning

Most companies nowadays emphasise that the design of their eLearning must factor in accessibility. They realise that a critical part of building a diverse workforce and more inclusive culture is ensuring that everyone has access to the same calibre of training. Specifically, all learners should be able to take up eLearning without hassles or losing […].

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Client Story: Chopt & Wisetail LMS Observation Checklists

Wisetail

Chopt Creative Salad Company looked to the Wisetail LMS to help them close the loop on blended learning by incorporating Observation Checklists into their training. The post Client Story: Chopt & Wisetail LMS Observation Checklists appeared first on Wisetail.

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We are the Curators of the Learning Revolution!

B Online Learning

Recently I delivered a webinar about Learning and Performance Ecosystems. This is still a relatively new ‘buzzword’ in the L&D field. My understanding of a learning ecosystem is that the ultimate goal is about driving performance and embedding learning not only into the workplace but into the actual workflow. It’s about embracing all types of […].

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The Path to Becoming a Learning Organisation

Administrate

Employee learning and development is ingrained within our company DNA at Administrate. But why are we such big champions of training? We passionately believe that training and development directly correlates with our business success. Administrate employees love to learn and we’ve adopted various initiatives to help improve organisational knowledge share – ensuring that nobody learns in isolation.

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Gameful Design

Allen Interactions

By Edm ond Manning , Senior Instructional Strategist. I want you to read every line of this blog post, so here’s what I’m going to do. I will give you 50 points, and you can use those points to buy an avatar and accessories. No, wait—.

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Moving forward

Clark Quinn

So, I was chided that my last post was not helpful in moving people forward, as I was essentially being derogatory to those who weren’t applying the new understandings. And I’ve previously provided lots of ways to think anew about L&D, such as posts on the topics (both carrot and stick), pointed to readings that are relevant and can help, created a group to discuss the issues, and even written a book trying to point out the ways to move forward, so I’m not apologetic abou

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Getting Started with iSpring QuizMaKer

eLearning Brothers

One of the best things about PowerPoint is its ability to handle a variety of third party add-ins. A lot of these add-ins can totally change your view of PowerPoint and its capabilities. One such is iSpring—an add-in allowing for scoring, interactive branching, and quizzing scenarios. PowerPoint alone is a great tool for presenting information quickly and efficiently.

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Why Reading on Mobile is Different (And What You Can Do About It)

SHIFT eLearning

About 80 percent of all Internet users have a smartphone. About 1.2 billion people access the Internet from their mobile devices. Within the next two years , the smartphone will most likely be the only computer you own. In fact, for many people in developing countries, the smartphone is their first computer and the only Internet-enabled device they own.

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Let’s Get Medical!

eLearning Brothers

The medical profession is perhaps one of the oldest still in existence. Of all occupations, it has probably advanced the most, from the dark days of bloodletting and humorism, to an era of penicillin, vaccines, and MRI body imaging. As long as humans keep getting sick and injured (being human), there is going to be a need for medical professionals in some form or another.

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4 Tips to Improve Your Sales Teams Productivity [Infographic]

CommLab India

It is well known that revenue of any organization weighs on the shoulders of the sales department. Despite of effective sales skills training or product training, there might always be rooms for improvement. Here are 4 tips you can use to improve your sales teams productivity such as shortening the on boarding time, ensuring marketing collateral is utilized well and much more.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Encouraging Workplace Reading for Employee Development

Everwise

We read every day at work. We read emails, reports, presentations, files and more, day in and day out. But when it comes to actually sitting down and reading a book cover to cover, most people would say that they do that kind of reading at home. Reading is, after all, a personal leisure activity, and not a work activity. Or is it? An increasing number of companies are implementing workplace reading programs and book clubs.

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Surviving Cold Weather With the Swedish Defense

Trivantis

The 2016 Lectora® User Conference brought together Lectora users from around the world—including Sweden! We were thrilled to welcome Fredrik Christiansson from Lexicon Interactive and Major Tony Gustafsson from the Swedish Armed Forces for a fantastic breakout session at LUC 2016. Major Tony Gustafsson shared how they used Lectora to train the Swedish Armed Forces Unit on Cold Weather Operations, which is extremely important to learn—one mistake in the cold environment can be fatal.

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Riding the social wave: what we can learn from cognitive theory

Kineo

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eLearning Helps Businesses to Cut Turnover

DigitalChalk eLearning

The high rate of employee turnover can be worrying to any employer. Career advancement, recruiting, interviewing, training of new employees and also time taken by new employees to adapt, cannot be handled by an ill-equipped HR department. There is a need for employees to learn and develop in today’s new-age corporate. The valuable and most ambitious employees need to improve continuously to maximize performance.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Gorillas and the Decisions We Make

CLO Magazine

People love to ask questions on the internet. It’s a powerful and often quick resource when you need an answer to any number of life’s burning questions: What does it mean when you see a cardinal? What should I do with my hands? When’s the best time to watch the sunrise? (It depends). Where’s my tax refund? (That’s a good one). There’s myriad answers to these and many others questions, from expert voices and from those that are, shall we say, not so expert-like.

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Why our customers love customer success

LearnUpon

Customer success is a relatively new trend in the software industry. It’s also quite new at LearnUpon. Carrie Weitzel, our amazing customer success manager, joined a little over one year ago. In that year, Carrie has built a growing team that’s at the heart of customer experience at LearnUpon. Although everyone in the company contributes to customer success, Carrie’s team guides us at every step along the way.

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People Analytics Market Growth: Ten Things You Need to Know

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

I’ve been studying the use of analytics in HR and L&D for almost 20 years, and it has been a fun but frustrating space. While many have believed in data as a critical part of HR and L&D, most of the conferences I attended were filled with analysts, statisticians, and passionate professionals who struggled for. Read more» The post People Analytics Market Growth: Ten Things You Need to Know appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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What's the 70 20 10 Rule for Learning & Development? [Survey]

Watershed

See how the 70 20 10 rule for learning and development helps L&D leaders focus on blended learning and how to improve workplace training.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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People Analytics Market Growth: Ten Things You Need to Know

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

I’ve been studying the use of analytics in HR and L&D for almost 20 years, and it has been a fun but frustrating space. While many have believed in data as a critical part of HR and L&D, most of the conferences I attended were filled with analysts, statisticians, and passionate professionals who struggled for. Read more» The post People Analytics Market Growth: Ten Things You Need to Know appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Game-based Learning, Microlearning and Mobile Learning: 3 Musketeers of E-learning

CommLab India

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” - Winston Churchill. Games and game-based learning, Microlearning, and mobile learning are emerging trends and effective learning strategies. Game-based learning drives learner engagement, Microlearning improves retention, and Mobile learning increases ease of access and adoption.

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4 Tips to Ensure E-learning Projects are Cost-effective

CommLab India

Did you think cost-effectiveness would reduce your e-learning course quality? Of course not! You can wind up your e-learning courses with a limited budget. Since the resources that go into the making of e-learning courses are valuable and time-consuming, you can’t afford to be extravagant. Time, efforts and dollars – everything needs to be managed well to get a cost-effective e-learning course.

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The Fantastic Four – Factors That Help Keep your E-learning Outsourcing Costs Under Control

CommLab India

You wanted to reduce your e-learning development cost, that’s why you thought of outsourcing. Now how so you ensure you actually reduce costs? E-learning companies that use the agile e-learning development process, develop short courses, offer translation services, and work with rapid authoring tools can keep online learning development costs under control.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.