Tue.Jun 18, 2019

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What’s in a Name? Digital Learning

InSync Training

Would it surprise you to learn that, on Wikipedia, the following three phrases are equivalent? Online Learning --> eLearning > Educational Technology. I agree that these three terms are often used interchangeably — but not always consistently. Having so many ways of saying the same thing is understandably confusing the people not in the learning and development community.

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Online Marketing for Elearning Part III: Advertising

LearnDash

Are you ready to put some money behind your marketing? Here’s how to start. For many online educators, especially those who are starting out on a small budget, the concept of putting money behind an advertisement can feel like a big risk. They would much prefer to continue with their content marketing strategy —and for good reason. Content marketing is low cost but highly effective.

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Is LMS Software Still Relevant?

TOPYX LMS

Five years ago, LMS software was the dominant learning platform for enterprises, associations, and nonprofits. If you wanted to implement online training, you used an LMS. But technology is relentless. The market has expanded and is now crowded with learning experience platforms, learning record stores, and more. (Check out this article for more information on today’s learning platform landscape.

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Build a Positive LMS Experience for Millennial & Gen Z Employees With Design Thinking

Absorb LMS

Digital natives will soon be the majority of the workforce. Millennials currently make up the largest portion at just over one-third, according to Pew Research , and Generation Z—born between 1995 and 2015—is coming up right behind them. Your company’s learning management system must be fully equipped to match each generation’s preferred style of learning.

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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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Collaboration and The IKEA Effect

The Simple Shift

What’s the IKEA Effect? Simply, it is a form of narcissism where we tend to appreciate and overvalue the things WE create ourselves. So a reason we may love IKEA furniture is less about how inexpensive it is but more that we built it with our own two hands. Going it alone, as noted, can […].

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Moodle Customization: 5 Easy Ways Educators Can Optimize LMS for eLearning

Lambda Solutions

- 3 MIN READ -. Moodle is probably one of the best-known learning management systems (LMS) on the market, allowing educators to pioneer effective methods of delivering eLearning content. But, Moodle often can be difficult for first-time educators and first-time learners to navigate. Here, we cover five basic ways educators can customize Moodle to make it more user-friendly for them, their organizations and their learners.

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5 Types Of Organizational Culture Transformation Approaches: Which Is Right For Your Org?

eLearning Industry

In organizational culture transformation, one size does not fit all. In this insightful article, Ashley Munday details 5 different approaches to the journey of transformation. Which one is right for you depends on your leadership, your team, and the specific challenges you face. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The impact of Virtual Reality in the Industrial workplace

CHRP-INDIA

In just a year’s time, the market for Virtual Reality technology(VR) is set to reach an estimated $30 billion. And over 150 million headsets have been sold (Source DigiCapital). VR, immersive technology has largely been associated with gaming. However, this technology has moved from its nascent stages and is being used across several industries to improve workplace efficiency.

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How To Personalize Corporate Training With Videos

eLearning Industry

Today’s learners are an impatient lot, and they want training that is personalized for them. In this article, I show you the value of a personalized learning plan, and how you can leverage on video-based learning to enhance this further. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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30+ Ideas for eLearning Portfolio Samples

Experiencing eLearning

Whether you’re working independently or looking for a full-time job, you need a portfolio. What if you can’t use any samples of your existing work due to confidentiality or security requirements? Revise Existing Work. In some cases, it’s enough to remove logos and a few identifying details. In other cases, you can redo an existing activity with brand new content.

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Emerging Tech & Learning Online Conference

eLearning Industry

The eLearning Guild's Emerging Tech and Learning Online Conference looks at how emerging technologies are poised to transform an increasingly digital world. Examine how these technologies will shape the future of Learning and Development. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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EdApp Performance Team: The Road to Nice

Ed App

One of our EdApp Performance Team athletes, Chris Wallace, is one of the premier talents in Triathlon, hailing from the U.K. He shares his health vs fitness experience, on his journey towards Nice. . Chris Wallace: After having one of the best races of my life at the Ironman World Champs in Kona, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster in terms of training and health.

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Free eBook: Top Emerging Technology Trends And Their Impact On L&D

eLearning Industry

With all these new technological advancements, it makes sense that the use of smartphones plays a much stronger role in life nowadays, especially in the life of younger generations. Learners are quite literally flooded with distractions in all kinds of digital shapes and sizes. Simultaneously, they have instant access to infinite amounts of information.

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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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6 Reasons Why You Need to Start Using eLearning Video—Today!

gomo learning

If a photo is worth a thousand words, then imagine what a video is worth—especially when it comes to learning and development initiatives. In fact, a recent white paper from Aragon Research, ‘The Rise of Video Learning: A Critical Component of the Digital Enterprise’, found that eLearning video is fast becoming the preferred learning method across organizations.

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How To Measure And Analyze ROI On Your Employee Training Program

eLearning Industry

When rolling out an employee training program, it’s essential to know how to measure and analyze your return on investment. The Kirkpatrick Model is a simple, yet effective method used to see the impact of corporate learning across an organization. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Four Things to Consider Before You Build That E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

It costs money to build e-learning courses and it costs money to take e-learning courses. Considering the cost, it’s important to ensure that you get the most value out of the courses you create. One way to get value is to not create a course. Seriously. We don’t want to admit it, but many courses are pointless and a waste of time. However, if you do need to create e-learning courses, then consider the following points below: Create a Resource Hierarchy.

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Should You Build Training Internally?

eLearning Industry

You've recently determined that you need to redo your corporate training program. What questions should you ask before deciding to build your own training internally? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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The Game Agency Wins 3 International Serious Play Awards

The Game Agency

Stamford, CT June 18, 2019: The Game Agency (TGA) wins 3 International Serious Play Awards for a series of K-12 Educational games recently released across North America. TGA won 1 Gold award and 2 Silver in the categories of Cognitive Skills, K-12 Education and Social and Emotional Learning. The Gold award was in the Cognitive Skills category and went to Endeavor Healthcare , a game that gives middle school students a way to practice their investigation and deduction skills while also learning a

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The Big Share: A Q&A with CloudShare’s Sheila Aharoni on Building a Powerful Sales Team

Cloudshare

Welcome to the first installment of our new blog series, The Big Share. This regular feature will focus on interviews with leaders and influencers from across CloudShare’s extensive community, happy to discuss their experiences and provide expert advice on a range of business topics. We’ll kick it off with one of our own, VP of global sales, Sheila Aharoni.

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How to Choose the Best LMS for Your Corporate Training in 6 Easy Steps

looop

There are hundreds of LMSs available on the market, each offering different features and functionalities for workplace learning. Traditional LMSs were designed to provide courses and content, however as technology and digital has developed, so have learning platforms. Many platforms now focus on agile, on-the-go solutions rather than traditional courses and the market has transformed […].

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Lectora Online: What Makes this eLearning Authoring Tool an Attractive Investment?

CommLab India

What makes Lectora Online an attractive option for eLearning development? Get familiar with the latest features of Lectora Online.

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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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In Real Life: Modern Learning in Six Words

LearningGuild

In Real Life: Modern Learning in Six Words. jd-dillon. Tue, 06/18/2019 - 01:00.

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How can we learn to learn?

OpenSesame

Several articles on the internet claim that Learnability is one of the most desirable traits in the modern workplace. With technology morphing every imaginable industry, an employee’s ability to learn, unlearn and relearn critical skills can determine how fast she grows on the job. But when, where and how does learning occur? Neuroscientists, biologists, and psychologists have explored the topic extensively, and continue to identify parts of the brain that influence learning.

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The Best Ways to Manage Your Training Budget

Coreaxis

Why Is Managing Your Training Budget Important? According to the 2018 Training Industry Report, U.S. training payroll has increased from 2017 by nearly 13% to $47 billion. A probable cause of larger training budgets is the fact that businesses acknowledge that a highly-skilled and trained workforce is increasingly essential for employee success in the workplace.

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What we do in the shadows: A Rustici Cross Domain story

Rustici Software

How can software that you don’t see improve the way your company does business? When your company is growing, sometimes that is just what you want—software that runs in the background with little to no maintenance, that actually improves your everyday workflow. That’s exactly what Rustici tackled with Intellezy —an eLearning solution for Microsoft Office, Office 365, Adobe and more.

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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.