Mon.Jul 11, 2016

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Interactyx Named a 2016 Florida Company to Watch Finalist

TOPYX LMS

Interactyx, the developer of TOPYX® learning management system (LMS), is headquartered in Bonita Springs, FL and has been named a finalist for the 2016 Florida Companies to Watch™ by GrowFL. GrowFL was created in 2009 by the Florida legislature as an economic development program to assist second-stage growth companies prosper in the state of Florida.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge: In Sickness and in Health!

Learning Rebels

Here we are. Day 1 of the 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge. . And, I’m sick. Can you believe it? Sick. Part of my brain said, can we start this challenge tomorrow? You know, when water isn’t a scary thought? Well, you can see which side of my brain won the battle today. But there is a lesson to be learned here. It’s funny how we find the time and energy to do the things we feel are important or that we consider fun, therefore here I am.

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Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Write Learning Objectives

CourseArc

One of the basic principles underlying the development of any learning content is to pre-determine the intent of that content. In eLearning, framing learning objectives before building the detailed course content is a vital step. Doing so provides course developers the opportunity to frame relevant and highly targeted content around specific learning outcomes they wish to accomplish through the course.

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JoomlaLMS Mobile is on the Apple Store Now!

JoomlaLMS

Dear clients, we would like to let you know that starting today JoomlaLMS Mobile App for iOS is available for download on Apple Store. To remind you, an Android compatible version was released a few weeks ago, but the release of the iOS compatible version was delayed due to a long review process.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Webinar: Interactivity and Engagement using Hotspots in Camtasia

eLearning Brothers

Video is a super powerful tool, and TechSmith’s Camtasia has the abilities to make videos interactive by using hotspots. I hosted a joint webinar last week with Jason Valade from TechSmith where we went over the basics for hotspots and interaction. In this webinar, we went through the steps to create a hotspot, the options you have once the hotspot is created, and gave examples of some of their uses.

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LMS Vendor Eyes Only: 10 Tips to Boost Sales

Talented Learning

With almost 700 LMS vendors in the world, competition for every sales opportunity is fierce. I know because I spent 13 years selling learning management solutions. For the last 2.5 years, I have leveraged that software sales experience as an independent LMS selection consultant. In this capacity, I’ve helped dozens of buyers purchase the right LMS for their organization.

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Evaluation Questions for your LMS: Learner, Course and Program

TalentLMS

So you have a bunch of eLearning programs already in circulation. The marketing team keeps updating you with positive course registration numbers. So far, learners are happy, trainers seem satisfied and line managers are content with the performances of newly trained staff. All signs show that your LMS is truly producing successful learners and desirable knowledge.

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The Most Valuable Certifications for Professionals

OpenSesame

With millions of Americans heading to college every year, some professionals are finding it harder and harder to stand out in their industry with the influx of new talent. Certifications offer a tangible recognition of skills and experience that many companies use to weigh title and pay. Some certifications can even be partially completed through elearning providers like OpenSesame!

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Gen X: The Bridge Between Boomers and Millennials

CLO Magazine

Millennials and Baby Boomers are the darlings – or the villains – of the press these days. Many business publications and social media outlets would have us believe that every company has its own version of a soap opera starring managers who are 55-plus and their teams of professionals between 25 and 35. The finger pointing when it comes to communications issues and general workplace frustration has gotten out of hand.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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Blended Learning: Maximize Training Effectiveness [Video]

CommLab India

In today’s competitive world, organizations look for innovative ways to improve their economical advantages. To ensure employees have the skills and knowledge to meet their organizational goals, an organization must train them. For this, many organizations are successfully implementing Instructor Led Training (ILT) solutions. But are you getting the expected results?

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3 Ways to Navigate the Politics of Change

CLO Magazine

As learning leaders, we’re frequently at the center of major change in the organization. We create implementation strategies and learning plans to help people develop the necessary job-based skills needed to execute the changes. Then we watch the best strategies and plans get derailed by emotions, politics and burnout — all of which seem out of our control.

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The Most Valuable Certifications for Professionals

OpenSesame

With millions of Americans heading to college every year, some professionals are finding it harder and harder to stand out in their industry with the influx of new talent. Certifications offer a tangible recognition of skills and experience that many companies use to weigh title and pay. Some certifications can even be partially completed through elearning providers like OpenSesame!

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How Can Social Learning Spice Up Your Existing Learning Strategy?

EI Design

In this article, I will touch upon what social learning is and the reasons why you should adopt it. I will also outline how exactly you can use it to enhance your existing learning strategy and the business gains that will accrue as a result. How To Use Social Learning To Enhance Your Existing Learning Strategy. Collaborative learning has always had a positive impact on learners.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Marc My Words: Seven Approaches to Curation by Marc Rosenberg

LearningGuild

Last month, Marc looked at the importance of content curation and the consequences of ignoring it. This month, he outlines. seven approaches to actually getting curation done—from culling to crowdsourcing, to algorithms and analytics, to. syndication (and more)—and the factors to consider in selecting or combining the methods.

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International Elearning Development and Training Programs: Best Practices

Designing Digitally

International Elearning Development: Culture, Bias, Customs, Religions, and Relationships . Delivering training to executives, managers and teams in an organization that spans the globe presents significant challenges. When building international elearning programs or serious games, there are factors that affect the organization’s ability to deliver unconscious bias training, such as culture, bias, customs, religions and relationships.

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Emotional Intelligence Boosts Sales Training Success

Training Industry

Georgia was a 30-something sales success. She had one of the highest revenue territories at her company – always exceeding her quota. She was also the office darling. Georgia hobnobbed with corporate executives visiting from the home office and her inside sales staff would do anything for her. She mentored others on the sales team and always secured key meetings with prospects and clients.

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Categories 101

DigitalChalk eLearning

Need a way to organize your courses? You can use categories to easily put them into designated sections for easy searching if you have a large number of courses for students to scroll through. How do I create a category? You will want to begin to by going to the ‘Manage Courses’ tab. Select ‘Categories’ from the left side menu. Click the ‘Add’ button.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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Analysis of the LMS space

eLearning 24-7

If you are new to the e-learning industry and/or LMS space for that matter, you may be unaware that the LMS market including all the sub-sets of said market is highly fragmented. As a result, it creates a perception that in just a few years, the vendors will hit saturation and then a drop will occur. The other perceived notion is that in its current state, there are a huge chunk of vendors making peanuts, while others are generating huge amounts of revenue. .

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70:20:10 Model & The Internet [Worksheet]

Watershed

Endless online resources offer many blended learning opportunities. But how do the 70:20:10 model and internet impact employee learning?

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Elearning Trends 2016: Companies replacing LMS due to poor user experience and insufficient integrations

Docebo

New Brandon Hall Group study shows companies want an LMS that improves user experience and one with more enterprise integrations. In a new study, the research and analyst firm Brandon Hall Group found nearly half of the companies surveyed in 2016 are considering replacing their learning management system (LMS). Organizations are searching for an LMS to improve user experience (UX) and an LMS with more enterprise integrations.

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Social Learning In The Workplace

LearnDash

For many businesses the idea of implementing a full-blown elearning & training program seems daunting. And in some ways they are right to think this. An effective learning program takes commitment, both financially and with regards to time. Heck, a single elearning course can take hundreds of hours to create ! If an organization doesn’t have the financial means (or the time) to create a learning program then what alternatives do they have?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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How Sales Process Training Can Be Made Effective With eLearningc

CommLab India

To be in a state of blissful ignorance is no longer bliss. A sales rep accountable for his sales targets can’t stay aloof from the entire sales process. He needs to be completely aware of the whole gamut of sales. Scenario-based learning to improve decision-making skills. Learning through scenarios is an authentic way of learning as they place your sales reps in real life situations and test their course of action.

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My favorite employee training tweets this week

WalkMe Training Station

By now, we all know that Twitter is about much more than breaking news and celebrity feuds. Twitter offers an abundance of information about many professional topics. From personal insights to infographics and even e-books – your twitter feed has it all, in 140 characters or less. Nonetheless, Twitter can be a bit messy, and finding relevant info can be a bit tricky.

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Creating an Interesting E-learning GUI Design in Articulate Storyline – Part 2

CommLab India

Please change the title in my previous blog blot to “Creating an Interesting E-learning GUI Design in Articulate Storyline – Part 1″ (I’m writing a blog in Parts) . Articulate Storyline, a popular rapid e-learning authoring tool, includes a great feature to customize the Player/GUI as required. Once customized, we can reuse the same interface in multiple e-learning courses.

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Infographic: 3 Big Myths About Workplace Learning

Degreed

To help L&D teams better engage employees, Degreed recently surveyed 512 people to understand how today’s workforce really builds their skills and fuels their careers. The findings, which are summarized in a new report titled, “ How the Workforce Learns in 2016, ” might make you rethink three common myths about workplace learning. The infographic below showcases these 3 myths and the truths behind them.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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5 Step Process to Develop E-learning Videos Using PowerPoint

CommLab India

Videos are fast emerging as one of the highly effective online media to train employees. But developing them takes a lot of time and effort. You may require multimedia developers and software tools to create them. What if I say videos can be developed very easily using just PowerPoint? Finding it hard to believe? But it’s true. In this blog post, I’ll share 4 simple steps that’ll help you develop engaging, cost-effective videos without any animation experts or software.

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How to Get Rid of Training Challenges Faced by Sales Managers [Infographic]

CommLab India

Today, training has become vital for an organization’s success. With the increasing demand for training, and global expansion, the role of the training manager is changing. Modern sales training managers cannot focus only on imparting quality training; they must also ensure that the training is engaging, effective, and timely. All these aspects have to be achieved with reduced costs.

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