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Why Training Needs Video

Learning Rebels

The shift has arrived, and video is King! You may or may not be shocked by this but not enough of us are creating video to help the people in our organizations. We, as educators in the Adult Learning world, have a responsibility to help our organizations move forward and we are not doing enough to practice this craft. The trend seems to be that we are aware video is important and critical, and we even admit that our end-users would probably prefer video to some of other learning methods used.

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A Blueprint for Supporting Modern Professional Learning: Part 1 Rationale

Jane Hart

This is the first of a 3-part series looking at how to support Modern Professional Learners. In Part I look at why the current L&D (training/knowledge transfer) model is no longer appropriate and why a new model (or blueprint) is necessary.

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Create a culture of collaboration through the power of design thinking

Kineo

As a learning designer, when you're sending that early mock-up or first draft, be honest with yourself: is what you're actually looking for sign-off rather than collaboration? Perhaps up to that point, you've already put a good chunk of work in and it might even mess your schedules up if the other person asks you to rip it up and start again. Collaboration requires an open mind and a step into the unpredictable, but the results can be content that’s higher quality and more innovative.

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Webinar: Future of eLearning – The Millennial Apocalypse and Modern Learning Solutions

eLearning Brothers

Twenty years ago, “eLearning” was introduced as the web became ubiquitous and authoring tools accessible; yet their limits resulted in a plethora of online slide shows. Today, we have access to a wide range of technologies—mobile, social, virtual, search, gaming, and reliable user generated content—along with modern instructional techniques aligned with the way today’s workers naturally learn.

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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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Create a culture of collaboration through the power of design thinking

Kineo

As a learning designer, when you're sending that early mock-up or first draft, be honest with yourself: is what you're actually looking for sign-off rather than collaboration? Perhaps up to that point, you've already put a good chunk of work in and it might even mess your schedules up if the other person asks you to rip it up and start again. Collaboration requires an open mind and a step into the unpredictable, but the results can be content that’s higher quality and more innovative.

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Making Your eLearning Stick: 8 Tips & Techniques For Learning Retention

TalentLMS

As a training manager, you already know what makes for a great eLearning experience: well-designed content, engaging and informative. However, there’s one crucial ingredient without which your content will fail: ensuring that something isn’t just learned, but also that it achieves learning retention. You might be wondering: What is learning retention?

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Articulate Storyline: Formatting Responses in Descriptive Assessments

CommLab India

Assessments in eLearning courses are used to test learners’ comprehension of the topic they’ve been trained on. Articulate Storyline offers many question types to test learners in depth; ‘Fill in the Blank’ questions (both short and descriptive type) are considered a good choice to assess learners. In these assessments, a learner types the response in the blanks/space provided, and clicks the Submit button to record the answer.

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Coach class

Learning with e's

There's a wonderful scene in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. It's where English sprinter Harold Abrahams (who believed he was the best in the UK) has been unexpectedly and soundly defeated by former Scottish international rugby player Eric Liddell in the 400 m. After the race, Abrahams is sat despondently in the deserted stands, holding his head in his hands.

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6 Factors that Determine E-learning Development Time [Infographic]

CommLab India

The time taken to develop an e-learning course has a direct impact on its cost. There are a few factors that play a key role in determining the duration of an online course development project. Would you like to know what the factors are? Well, check out our infographic below. Related Posts 4 Features Every Multimedia Authoring Tool Should Have [Infographic] Top 5 Authoring Tools for M-learning 3 Powerful Rapid Authoring Tools Released in 2016.

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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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100+ Free Stock Photos for Use in E-Learning!

Ashley Chiasson

Screencast April has been a bit of a flop, but for good reason – business has been booming! I know that’s not the best excuse when it comes to blogging, but hopefully I can redeem myself with this post. 100+ Free Stock Photos for Use in E-learning. Instructional Designers and E-Learning Developers are always looking for high-quality stock photos they can use use within their e-learning development.

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Self-Expression Has Power for Performance and Learning

CLO Magazine

New research published in an upcoming Journal of Marketing Research highlights the connection between the act of personalizing items and performance. Some related implications for learning leaders came to mind that I want to share. In a March Scientific American article , Matthew Hutson wrote about several studies; all found that customization boosts performance.

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Benefits of Creating Learning Paths in MOODLE LMS

CommLab India

The ‘Learning Paths’ methodology for employee training was developed by Jim Williams and Steve Rosenbaum. A learning path is a sequence of learning activities that drives employees to become proficient in their jobs, in the shortest possible time. A learning path is a structure with chapters and various activities inside each chapter. These activities can include intermediate quizzes, videos, presentations, assignments, and text.

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xAPI Camp Recap: Learning Solutions 2017, Orlando by Nick Washburn

LearningGuild

xAPI Camps offer a day-long immersive experience around the Experience API. Intended to help participants understand the totality of what is possible with xAPI, the camps meet the needs of beginners and experts alike. Here’s a summary of the xAPI Camp held at Learning Solutions 2017 in March!

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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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Does the U.S. Get a Good Return on its Investment in Education?

CLO Magazine

I come from a family with a long tradition of military service. One of the phrases I grew up hearing so often that it became slightly annoying was, “You have to have the right tools and talent.” Tools and talent was always said in such a way that you could really hear the emphasis on those two words more than the others, so when I was pulling the data for the Summer 2017 Talent Economy dashboard, I was most interested in data that dealt with the United States’ investment in talent, primarily thr

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Toolkit: The New Captivate 2017 Edition by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

Adobe Captivate 2017 has been released, and once again Adobe has forged ahead and not rested on its laurels. It has brought Captivate even further into modern times. No other authoring tool contains as many features as Captivate does to customize the different views. The others may be a bit simpler, but they lack some of the power. Some still don’t offer responsive design at all.

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Instructional Games and the Added Element of Fantasy

Designing Digitally

There is often some question as to the validity of fantasy in an instructional game. Do elearning activities always have to be realistic in order to promote learning? Does the element of fantasy add anything of value to the experience? The researcher Thomas W. Malone set out to study why games are fun and motivational. He ultimately came up with three components that made games motivating and enjoyable.

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Latest Negative E-Learning Trends

eLearning 24-7

Trends. They will often bare fruit. Sometimes is a way we like, other times in a way we don’t. Who can forget the trend of seeing Ned Beatty in every movie out there? He was soon replaced by Morgan Freeman. And Morgan now is being replaced by Anthony Hopkins. That is a trend, I wish to no longer see. Many people who discuss trends only look at the “plus and positive” ones, and never or rarely mention if that, the minus or negative ones.

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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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CFO, Friend or Foe?

CLO Magazine

Speaking at a Human Capital Analytics Conference in New York, the chief learning officer for a large telecom made an interesting comment about her relationship with the CFO: “Two years ago, I usually tried to avoid meeting with our CFO. I didn’t want any involvement with that part of the organization. Now, I consider the CFO a colleague, an ally and a partner as we drive value from learning and talent development.”.

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How to Write Effective Quiz Questions Every Time

Lemonade

We’ve all written bad quiz questions. Ones that were either way too confusing (double negatives anyone?) or so easy you could guess the answer without understanding the question. It happens to the best of us. But while a few bad questions may not seem like a big deal, they can have a major impact on your training; confusing your employees and skewing your results.

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How to Easily Convert Large Manuals into Engaging E-learning Courses

CommLab India

Instructor-led or classroom training has been the most common way to train employees for years. However, to make training more cost-effective and easily accessible, many organizations have started using e-learning as well. According to the Training Industry Report of 2015 1 , 28.5% of the training hours in corporate companies were delivered via online or computer-based technologies (increased by 2.6% compared to the previous year), 15% via virtual classrooms (decreased by 1%), 4.2% via social le

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How to Write Effective Quiz Questions Every Time

Lemonade

We’ve all written bad quiz questions. Ones that were either way too confusing (double negatives anyone?) or so easy you could guess the answer without understanding the question. It happens to the best of us. But while a few bad questions may not seem like a big deal, they can have a major impact on your training; confusing your employees and skewing your results.

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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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PlatCore Debuts the First Learning Management System Built On The ServiceNow Platform

PlatCore

PlatCore LLC is excited to announce the launch of our first application, a Learning Management System (LMS), now available in the ServiceNow app store. This LMS, coupled with ServiceNow tools will: Simplify compliance audits of regulatory training controls, delivering cost reductions. Assign, deliver, and track courses for your organization quickly and efficiently.

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Running Live Webinars: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities

Thought Industries

Educating learners with a webinar-only learning is a strategy many businesses currently utilize but if your organization wants to scale online learning initiatives and maximize the benefits, you need to consider expanding your content offerings and formats. Webinars can be a central piece of your overall learning strategy, but there are significant opportunities to expand learning beyond single live events.

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Responsible for E-learning Budgets? 5 Ways to Spend it Cleverly

CommLab India

Given the responsibility of eLearning budget, you start wondering how to spend the money on the right things, in order to make training a success. And with so many changes and options out there, a lot of questions pop up in your mind. What training should we start first? What learning technology should we choose? How much should we spend on different training functions, and so on?

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Running Live Webinars: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities

Thought Industries

Educating learners with a webinar-only learning is a strategy many businesses currently utilize but if your organization wants to scale online learning initiatives and maximize the benefits, you need to consider expanding your content offerings and formats. Webinars can be a central piece of your overall learning strategy, but there are significant opportunities to expand learning beyond single live events.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.