Tue.Oct 04, 2016

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Are we still the ten percenters?

Kineo

Few theories trip off the tongue of L&D professionals easier than the 70/20/10 principle. The theory was formulated by Morgan McCall and his colleagues at the Centre for Creative Leadership. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of its publication. Although 70/20/10 was never a prescribed model nor an exact science, it's found great success.

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The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry

Gyrus

The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. We see it all the time in this modern internet age. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Google (via a variety of enterprises) continue to break down the walls and establish new and innovative processes for consumers to integrate int

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Use H5P for Engaging LearnDash Courses

LearnDash

One of the hardest things to do in any online course is to keep learners engaged with the content. If you have too many videos, it gets boring. No videos at all and it’s even worse. Images can take you only so far. And while quizzes are a great way to ‘check-in’ with learners, they too can become tedious if they’re used too much.

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3 Questions that Keep Product Managers Up at Night

Knowledge Guru

Product managers are passionate people. They are passionate about the products they create and the problems they solve for their customers. Product managers spend thousands of hours researching, testing and developing their products before its time to commercialize. But then it’s time for the hand-off. The success (or failure) of the new product is in the hands of the sales reps, not the people who so carefully and thoughtfully created it.

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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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Multiply Learning Successes with This Number-Backed, Modern Approach

Docebo

Change as the Cornerstone of Survival: 3 Stats Supporting Modern Learning to Survive in Business. “It is not necessary to change,” engineer and management consultant Edward Deming once supposedly opined. “Survival is not mandatory.”. Whatever your opinion on change, the remark is valid — as a business, survival is probably in your interest. Competitive businesses need to change, grow and evolve in order to retain relevance and cultivate innovation.

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Picking a focus for our eLearning agency

eLearning Architect

In this article, I will explain why choosing a focus is the next logical step in developing our eLearning business. When I started freelancing, I wasn't quite sure in which direction I wanted to go. I thoroughly enjoyed building content, but was also aware of the limitations of what could be achieved on my own as a ‘freelancer’. Outsourcing parts of the project When my marketing efforts began to bear fruit, I started to take on more projects.

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7 Must Have LMS Features: #5 - Reporting & Analytics

Lambda Solutions

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, if you know which features to look for — but with over 600 options in the LMS market, shopping for a new platform is no easy task. We're going to outlinewhich LMS features allow you to enhance the effectiveness of training delivery, increase learner engagement and retention, enhance the user experience, all while saving time and money.

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Inc.: 6 Learning Platforms to Get You Ahead in Business

TOPYX LMS

TOPYX is featured in the Inc. article, 6 Learning Platforms to Get You Ahead in Business. Excerpt below: To be truly successful in business, you should never stop learning and growing. But unless your company provides training opportunities, you may be at a loss as to how to get the learning you need. Local colleges and training centers are good options, but you’re likely too busy building your career to take time out for classroom learning.

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Infographics and Your Brain: Using Science to Boost Learning

InSync Training

BYTE Session Recap. Resident InSync Training design expert, Karin Rex, knows that captivating visuals can improve learning retention and the value of your training materials. Karin’s recent BYTE session, Harnessing the Power of Infographics As Teaching Tools , highlighted these benefits. Her session, and the associated recap blog post , were so popular, we’re now sharing the science behind why graphic visuals have such power in the classroom.

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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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The Importance of Script Writing in Video Presentations

eLearning Brothers

It’s not fair, really. Books are allowed to put on paper eloquent words that paint a picture that is sometimes breathtaking. For example: It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude: on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.

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LEARNING TO LEARN – KEY TO BEING ‘ALIVE’!

Learnnovators

The post LEARNING TO LEARN – KEY TO BEING ‘ALIVE’! appeared first on Learnnovators.

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The Neuroscience of Infographics – ATD Houston

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. Your brain processes information in pictures, so why not deliver learning content in graphic form? Infographics are all the rage in social media because they convey a lot of information quickly and help the audience recognize patterns, connections and themes much more quickly than would be possible with text and/or audio. In this webinar we’ll explore the neuroscience of infographics and why they work.

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4 Must-Read Studies of 2016 to Understand the Modern Workforce

SHIFT eLearning

How well do you know the people you lead? How can you create value for your employees, so they stick around and support your business visions? Are you sure that your employees are happy and don’t sigh because they believe the grass is greener on the other side? To be an inspiring leader, you have to understand the modern workforce. You have to delve into their minds to find out what inspires them to come to work every day (or if they have to beat themselves to come to work) and what keeps them a

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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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Podcast: ATD Houston – The Neuroscience of Infographics

Learningtogo

Your brain processes information in pictures, so why not deliver learning content in graphic form? Infographics are all the rage in social media because they convey a lot of information quickly and help the audience recognize patterns, connections and themes much more quickly than would be possible with text and/or audio. In this webinar we’ll explore the neuroscience of infographics and why they work.

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The 6 most effective employee engagement strategies

eFront

When it comes to employment, it’s a buyer’s market out there. For the past few years, the relationship between employers and employees has undergone a profound shift, now resembling freelancing much more, and focusing less of the latters’ time, energy and loyalty to the companies they work for. Indeed, senior executives have to spend more time considering the strategies required not only to attract new staff, but also retain them.

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Tip of The week: Make your Canvas course interactive by adding Raptivity interactions to it

Raptivity

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Instructional Design Tip: How to Simplify Instruction

Rapid eLearning

This instructional design tip focuses on how to simplify and chunk content in complex training courses. Essentially, instructional design is about crafting a viable learning experience. Based on our desired learning outcomes, we create a way for people to learn (and hopefully apply) the content in a relevant context. Often we have to teach content that’s too complicated for new learners.

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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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Improving Employee Engagement with 9 Must Read Articles

WalkMe Training Station

What is the most important thing to remember when managing employees, especially after summertime? Employee engagement is an important key to success, and it highly important to maintain, especially after summer vacation when motivation tends to be low. We all understand how vital it is to an organization to have fully engaged employees who want to be a part of the team, and come into work every morning and provide the company with a quality performance.

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The Talent You Are Missing Might Already Be On Your Team

eLearningMind

It’s a jungle out there, and we don’t mean for employees. Today, it’s the employers that are at a disadvantage because organizations are fighting for the attention of a few multi-talented individuals. When someone has talent in their role, other companies will take notice, and you could find that your organization keeps losing crucial personnel to competitors.

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Do You Need an mLearning Solution?

Growth Engineering

If you’re working on a new training programme, you might wonder if you really need to include a mobile learning, or mLearning element. Learning technologies have come a long way in the last decade or so and keeping up with the latest developments can be a big challenge. The easiest thing to do is to convince yourself that mLearning is just the latest flash-in-the-pan or a fad that will soon pass.

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The Difference Between Learning and Knowledge, and Why You Should Care by Carol Leaman

LearningGuild

Is it time to rethink “learning”? Look at the dictionary definition of the word. There seems to be something missing: knowledge. Most learning decays over time and ends up being a waste because it’s not designed to effectively create long- term knowledge. Maybe somebody should be in charge of knowledge. Here are some thoughts on the significance of the. difference.

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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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Six Reasons Corporate Organizations Prefer E-learning to Train Their Employees

CommLab India

The world of training has undergone myriad changes since the introduction of computers and the Internet. E-learning is increasingly becoming an established mode, right from enriching students’ knowledge to trainings across corporate sectors, owing to increased technology and ease of access of the Internet. According to Global Industry Analysts , the share of eLearning is approximately $107 billion out of $200 billion of the Corporate training industry, while this was only $56.2 billion in 2012.

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When in Doubt, Blur it Out – 5 Reasons to Use Blurring at Work

TechSmith Camtasia

You want to share something, but there are things you’d rather not (or can’t let) people see. So what do you do? Wait, don’t share that yet! Sometimes there is sensitive information you don’t want to show others, yet you need them to see the rest of the document. Or, there’s something distracting you’d rather minimize, so they can focus on the important stuff.

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Accessibility from the Ground Up: Build Captions and Usable Design into All eLearning by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Many eLearning developers assume that accessibility features, like captioning, can be added if someone requests an. accommodation. But it’s not always possible to make existing content accessible; designing for barrier-free access avoids. potential problems.

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5 Features of Moodle LMS [Infographic]

CommLab India

How can you make the best use of your e-learning materials? What does it take to get the maximum ROI on your training program? Well, you need to use the right Learning Management System (LMS). An LMS is a software application that allows you host, manage, and track training programs in an effective manner. You can customize the LMS to generate course-wise and user-wise reports which help evaluate the online training program and improve its effectiveness.

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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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Make a Splash: Measure the Impact of Your eLearning Program

Skillsoft

How do you measure eLearning value? Are you looking at license consumption and cost per user, or cost savings, increased productivity and business impact?

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Off the shelf vs Custom Courses: What’s the difference?

QuoDeck

Created using Piktochart. The best way to train the modern workforce. Find out more here !

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Intrapreneurs: The Rising Leaders Driving Innovation In Your Company

Everwise

We all know entrepreneurs: those individuals who have identified a solution to a problem and have set off to start their own venture. While entrepreneurship may sound exciting, the reality is that nine out of 10 startups fail. Some of us may be able to stomach that risk, but many people are not in a position to leave their jobs and hope that their dream idea will be one of the lucky 10 percent that fall within the “startup success” category.