Mon.Jan 09, 2017

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Scope Creep: It’s Not Just the Project Manager’s Problem

eLearning Brothers

It doesn’t matter whether you are a beginning instructional designer or a seasoned veteran, you have most likely already experienced “scope creep.” Like most of us IDs, you have probably even been guilty of allowing a little bit (or a lot) of scope creep to enter into a project. Christopher Butler says the following about scope creep: “It is the kind of thing that accumulates so slowly and subtly that you don’t realize it’s happening until it’s too late, like when you’ve

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The Learning Experience Architect: Reimagining Your Role

InSync Training

How are you handling all of the changes in the new Learning and Development landscape? If you’re like me, you’re realizing that having a narrow professional focus isn’t an option anymore. Instead, you’re broadening your approach in order to stay current. You are curating content, participating in learning communities, and learning to build content using new edtech.

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Reminder: Dust Off Your ELearning

LearnDash

It is a new year and the perfect time to think ahead about exciting projects to come, and if you are involved in the elearning industry then this often means new courses for the new year. But before you start on those endeavors don’t forget about the courses you created last year. Now is the perfect time to revisit those courses to make sure they are still “fresh” Online course content can have a short shelf-life.

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Secure Video Hosting Options for Your LMS Courses

JoomlaLMS

Videos are an integral part of e-Learning businesses. The quality of content and the level of interactivity determine how engaged students are in your course. Most Learning Management Systems, including JoomlaLMS, support embedding videos in their online courses.

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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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New CourseArc Features: Bookmarking and Templated Courses!

CourseArc

We’re thrilled to release our latest updates to CourseArc! Thanks to our users’ feedback , we’ve rolled out several enhancements that we think you’ll love. Bookmarking. Managing expectations is a huge factor in student success, and that includes letting them know how far they’ve come in your course and how long they still have left to go.

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Any e-learning professional

CommLab India

Isn’t it amazing how far eLearning has come since the early 1990s? The way e-learning has transformed the distribution of information is truly remarkable. From A-Z, the e-learning industry has a language all its own. The jargon can come in many shapes and forms. In this article, I am listing the various terms involved in a successful e-learning. Here is my A-Z of e-learning.

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JANE BOZARTH – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

The post JANE BOZARTH – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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E-Learning conferences in Australia in 2017

E-Learning Provocateur

Sydney is evidently the place to be for e-learning pro’s who are keen to develop their knowledge and skills this year. Even EduTECH, the darling of Brisbane’s educational technology scene, is travelling south for the winter. Having said that, there are opportunities elsewhere, and more will emerge as time marches on. The following list of conferences is an organic one, so keep an eye on it as the year progresses.

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From Learning to Marketing, One Leader’s Worthwhile Switch

CLO Magazine

Successful marketers need to fully understand their customers. For Andrea Grodnitzky, the new chief marketing officer at Richardson Sales Training, her customers are learning leaders at some of the world’s top sales organizations. Grodnitzky spent the prior year as Richardson’s chief learning officer. She’s been with the sales performance improvement company for almost 14 years, working with founder Linda Richardson to develop core programs and eventually lead the design and facilitation teams.

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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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Creating A Customized Menu Slide with Highlighted Buttons in Articulate Storyline

CommLab India

Designing a user-friendly Menu for an e-learning course is very important as it helps learners navigate easily through the course and find the information they want quickly. Though Articulate Storyline offers a default menu, you may wish to have custom-made menu for your e-learning course. In this post, we will see how to customize a menu in Articulate Storyline.

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How to Respond to the Rise of the Agile Workforce

CLO Magazine

As the rise of the agile workforce continues, terms like temp, consultant or freelancer will continue to blur along with it. Businesses will be challenged to further integrate this employee group into their talent management strategy. After all, almost half of companies are committed to building an agile workforce model, according to a December 2016 report from staffing firm Randstad.

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4 Essential, Hidden Features of Lectora Inspire [Infographic]

CommLab India

Lectora Inspire is one of the most powerful, preferred authoring tools for e-learning course development. Lectora enables developers create interactive elements. You can develop your e-learning rapidly using this tool, without complex programming knowledge. It can also incorporate HTML5 support for mobile devices, allowing “multi-device” learners to access content.

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The Importance of Developing a Learning Culture in Enterprise Organizations

Content Raven

As organizations continue to adopt a digitalized blended learning approach, it is more important than ever to invest and establish a culture of learning in order to be successful. Values, goals and more importantly, employees define a strong corporate culture.

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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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There and Back Again: A Journey of Learning

CLO Magazine

Roz Tsai’s fascination with learning is rooted in her history. She grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong’s Communist movement. “My kids grew up in the U.S. They have access to libraries everywhere, and when I was growing up, most libraries were closed for examinations and censorship,” she said, recalling the distance she had to walk to reach a neighborhood bookstore, only to find empty shelves.

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Packaging Your Content for Monetization

Thought Industries

Across the customer bases of our clients, we have seen a high correlation between learning and buying. When somebody wants to polish skills, reach new levels of professional advancement or complete a new credential, he or she also is more inclined to attain the materials required to achieve that goal. That tendency makes for excellent opportunities to upsell and cross-sell.

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Spice Up Induction Trainings with Gamified Assessments

CommLab India

Nobody likes to start their first day at work with assessments. The nervousness, tension, hesitation and anxiety associated with a new job are bad enough – to top it all, an induction course with a long assessment that must be attempted can prove to be a bit too much for new hires. But add a game or a game element to the induction training’s ‘assessment’ section, and you could have your new hires smiling even at the end of the course.

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Marc My Words: Why Many Corporate Universities Fail, and Some Don't by Marc Rosenberg

LearningGuild

Corporate universities (CUs) have been a mainstay of many businesses—and government agencies—for almost 40 years. They all began with great promise and support across all sectors of the organization. Yet many fail. If your organization has. a corporate university (or something similar), these are the seven wrong turns to look out for.

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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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5 Tips no Developing E-learning Courses on a Tight Budget

CommLab India

E-learning courses are looked upon as a costly option, that require huge resources and finances. Budget constraints is an important factor that puts off institutions and organizations looking for alternate training options. People usually have a misconception that we cannot create effective e-learning courses with a tight budget. That is not true. It is a fact that simple and effective e-learning courses can be using a few tricks and following a few tips can be developed even under shoe-string b

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Case Study: Blended eLearning for Editors Provides Focused Skills Practice and Engaged Learning by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

A blended eLearning seminar created by News University and ACES offers professional editors advanced training, focused. practice, and participation in an online learning community. This solution offers a blueprint for skills-based professional. development in a variety of professions.

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Closing the Gap:The Ultimate Goal of Elearning Training

Designing Digitally

As technology advances by leaps and bounds, a gap has formed in the educational system. Today’s learners need preparation to thrive in a technology-driven economy. Unfortunately, outdated modes of education hinder that process, widening the divide between where we are and where we need to go. Elearning training has been established as a viable means of bridging the gap and has made great strides, but it isn’t perfected just yet.

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What the World Learned in 2016

Degreed

We know there’s more than one pathway to expertise. We also know that amazing things happen when we use our expertise to solve big problems. 2016 was an incredible year for world discoveries, learning, expertise, humanity, technology, and education. And one thing is for sure- we’re learning like never before. As we set our sights on 2017 we’re taking a good, hard look at what we learned in 2016.

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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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If this, then that: decision modeling with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere

How to use decision modeling in PowerPoint with Poll Everywhere from Poll Everywhere on Vimeo. A decision method is a formal (axiomatic) system that contains at least one action axiom. An action is of the form “IF is true, THEN do” Wikipedia What is decision modeling? Decision modeling is a powerful method of instruction that. continue reading » The post If this, then that: decision modeling with Poll Everywhere appeared first on Poll Everywhere's Blog.

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The Salesperson and The SME

Mindflash

In the divided world of sales and product expertise, the salesperson typically chats with a customer about a product or service with canned catchphrases and relatable industry jargon while the Subject Matter Expert (SME) cavorts with the C-suite and product engineers. One is on the front lines communicating the information, while the other is in the office creating and disseminating information.

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If this, then that: decision modeling with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere

How to use decision modeling in PowerPoint with Poll Everywhere from Poll Everywhere on Vimeo. A decision method is a formal (axiomatic) system that contains at least one action axiom. An action is of the form “IF is true, THEN do” Wikipedia What is decision modeling? Decision modeling is a powerful method of instruction that. continue reading » The post If this, then that: decision modeling with Poll Everywhere appeared first on Poll Everywhere's Blog.

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Vibration Fatigue Laboratory Stresses The Importance Of OEM Training For Sales & Design

Latitude Learning

Vibration testing is an essential part of the manufacturing process for virtually any product that must sustain repetitive vibration from internal or external sources, including mechanical components for air, sea, and land vehicles. It assures quality control and product reliability during the design process, evaluates a product's overall performance in "real world" conditions, and may also be used to test a product to the point of destruction to accurately measure its tolerance in the field.

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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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The LMS Meets 2017: Top 15 Learning Tech Predictions

Talented Learning

Hands down, our learning technology “predictions” list is our favorite post to develop each year. These aren’t Nostradamus-style prophecies. Rather, they are educated guesses about learning technology trends, based on our continuous market research, our consulting interactions with countless LMS buyers and sellers and more than 20 years of experience we’ve accumulated in the learning industry.

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5 simple tricks to engage the learner

QuoDeck

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Wrapping Up 2016

TalentLMS

Wishes for a merry, funny, happy, crazy new year to everyone! For the second year in a row, we are sharing an update of how things are progressing around here. As a company, we try to be as transparent as possible. And we really have little to hide as we often celebrate the good and the bad experiences we encounter. So, here is the gist of 2016: during the last 12 months we experienced steady growth in all metrics including customers, revenue, and people.

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