Wed.May 03, 2017

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Videos in eLearning: A Snack Sized Solution

Association eLearning

According to the website fortunelords.com, YouTube is the 3 rd most visited website in the world. Additionally, the total number of hours of video watched on YouTube each month is 3.25 billion. You may think using videos in eLearning is just another ploy to cater to millennials, with their short attention spans, but looking at age groups with the highest numbers on YouTube suggests that Generation X and the Baby Boomers are also drawn to video (25-34 – 23%, 35-44 – 26%, 45-54 –

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25 Blogs for Someone Who Wants To Become an ELearning Professional

JoomlaLMS

You have a good position in a well-known company. You even got promoted a few times. You know your job, your industry, and all the pitfalls to avoid. You are an expert in what you are doing. Nevertheless, one day you wake up and realize that your life is a boring routine; you want more than just working in the office and performing the same tasks every day.

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Extended Enterprise and Your Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

Learning and development continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the adoption of cloud computing where not just the LMS’ hosting but the introduction of true multi-tenant environments, where every last customer is on the same version of the same system has dramatically reduced the resources that learning companies must invest in support, development, and implementation.

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Modernising training – a first step towards Modern Workplace Learning

Jane Hart

My 10-year survey of learning tools shows how many individuals are now using the Web to take charge of their own self-improvement – from addressing their performance problems to organising and managing their own professional development.

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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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Extended Enterprise and Your Learning Management System

Absorb LMS

Learning and development continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the adoption of cloud computing where not just the LMS’ hosting but the introduction of true multi-tenant environments, where every last customer is on the same version of the same system has dramatically reduced the resources that learning companies must invest in support, development, and implementation.

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Keynote Resources from #LUC2017

Kapp Notes

The Lectora 2017 Users Conference promises to be an exciting and engaging event. Here are the slides from my keynote (but no peaking until it’s over). Mission Possible: Creating Learner Engagement from Karl Kapp. As indicated in the keynote, all of the topics were not covered but, they are all covered here. What we missed on the mission is provide in the information below (and in the slides above).

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LearnDash Course Grid Has New Features!

LearnDash

The LearnDash Course Grid now displays status, allows for videos, and additional customization options. The LearnDash Course Grid add-on is a great way to enhance the listing of your courses. You can use it to tailor how you want your course library to appear to your learners by leveraging the various view requirements. Today we are happy to share that this add-on has gone through some updates and you now have additional functionality available to you for an overall improved user experience with

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New Sporting Cutout People: Basketball, Soccer, and Boxing

eLearning Brothers

We have been busy adding new cutout people to our Cutout People Library. Most recently we have added hundreds of new athletic poses that include three new props: Basketball, Soccer Ball, and Kickboxing Wraps. These will help to add some depth to your eLearning courses that utilize the athletic poses. In the basketball poses, you’ll find our characters posing with a basketball, holding it under their arms, out in front of them, and talking.

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Implementation Tips for Quest and Legend

Knowledge Guru

Need implementation tips for a Drive game? Read Here. To maximize the playing – and learning – experience of Knowledge Guru’s Quest and Legend games, you need to do two things well: Spark learners’ interest so they take action to login or register to Knowledge Guru and get started. If learners will play Quest on a mobile device, they will also need to download the mobile app.

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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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LMS Innovation: Where’s the Value?

Talented Learning

If you follow my writing — even casually — you know how excited I am about the direction of LMS innovation and its ability to help organizations create business value. Unlike those who think learning management systems (LMS) are largely irrelevant or are back office systems, I see tremendous value and potential everywhere I look. That’s because I’m focused on a much broader market opportunity for learning tech.

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Corporate Training Methods: What Works Best

Schoox

Lots of businesses invest in corporate training for their staff since they see it as a fantastic way to create a great team and improve morale. Often, they’ll take workers away from the workplace to allow them to engage in training without any distractions. There are a number of methods that training providers utilize to assist individuals attending the class to learn these important lessons.

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No Business Should Want a Learning Management System

HT2 Labs

Who in all honesty wants an Learning Management System? If you could do it all without an LMS, would you? The post No Business Should Want a Learning Management System appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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8 Tips to Develop Effective Online Product Sales Training [Infographic]

CommLab India

Most organizations take the competencies and confidence levels of their product sales employees quite seriously as they are the makers or breakers of the bottom line. To nurture these qualities, they offer sales representatives product training programs, but at times, do too much and get too little as the training programs are all over the place. Listed in the infographic are some awesome tips and suggestions you can follow to create effective product knowledge training that will help make the m

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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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Curation: Multi-cycle Support for Learning

CLO Magazine

Curation is one of the hot words in the talent field in 2017. As the quantity and diversity of content multiplies, learners and organizations are yearning for order, structure, efficiency and targeted knowledge and information options. The role of curation in that shifting landscape includes a panorama of content types. To figure out what you need, start with a simple investigation about the content in your organization.

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Safety Training Videos: 3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Ignore Them

CommLab India

Serious accidents, loss of lives, irreparable damage to both lives and property, expensive litigations, and loss of licenses are all consequences of employees viewing safety training as flippant, farcical, and unimportant. Unless your employees pay attention to safety training, your organization could face one or more of these consequences. To make safety training effective, it must tap into the soul of your employees – not only because it would resonate with them, but because this resonan

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Being Digital: What it Means and Why You Need to Change Now

Litmos

Because the corporate learning market is evolving at such a rapid pace, learning teams are looking to go beyond traditional models of eLearning and classroom training. They increasingly want to offer learners a wider range of digital learning opportunities and better learning experiences. But what are those options? Are they expensive? Are they difficult to implement and manage?

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EdCast Launches SalesU for Faster Ramping of Sales Teams

EdCast

EdCast Launches SalesU for Faster Ramping of Sales Teams The SalesU Productivity Suite Features Three Key Sales Acceleration Solutions Complementing EdCast’s Industry-leading Knowledge Cloudâ„¢ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EdCast, the award-winning knowledge management and learning platform, announces the launch of SalesUâ„¢, the most robust end-to-end sales ramp suite available to mid-to-large enterprises.

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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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6 Tips to Achieve Better Work-Life Balance

KnowledgeCity

According to a study from Earnst & Young , a whopping twenty-four percent of people said they are having a tough time creating a healthy work-life balance. Work-life balance is the amount of time spent at work and the quantity of time spent engaged in non-work activities. Work-life balance requires being balanced both mentally and physically. It’s critical for increasing productivity.

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10 Things Vendors Can Teach You About Building an Internal Learning Business

CLO Magazine

Most learning leaders use any number of vendors to carry out the design, development and delivery of their internal learning agenda. In a way, the learning department is also a vendor, just in a different context. Whether you’re a cost or profit center, much of how they operate can readily transfer to make your internal department more effective. Here are 10 readily transferable steps to take to build and grow your department that parallel those in the most successful vendors.

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6 Tips to Achieve Better Work-Life Balance

KnowledgeCity

According to a study from Earnst & Young , a whopping twenty-four percent of people said they are having a tough time creating a healthy work-life balance. Work-life balance is the amount of time spent at work and the quantity of time spent engaged in non-work activities. Work-life balance requires being balanced both mentally and physically. It’s critical for increasing productivity.

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To Improve Your Customer Service, Start With Your Employees

Everwise

The experience a customer has with your company, positive or negative, has immense power over your business. In fact, seven out of 10 consumers will spend around 13% more money with a company that provides a top-notch customer experience. But how can you most effectively improve customer satisfaction? Start by looking to your employees. The power of happy employees engaging positively with your customers is hard to ignore.

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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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Training vs. Student Loan Repayment. Where’s the Greater ROI?

CLO Magazine

You want to keep your employees happy. If you don’t, they leave, and they take their knowledge and experience to another employer, probably a competitor. So, how do you get them to stay? Some companies offer student loan repayment assistance. Many recent college grads may jump at the chance to have their student loans paid back. But what about the really great engineers who have already paid off their college loans, or didn’t have any to start with?

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3 Common Mistakes that Make E-Learning Less Effective

Training Industry

E-learning is a powerful tool. It’s been gaining popularity in organizational training and development for good reason. But along with the surge in use, I often see a few common mistakes that can be detrimental to any platform’s effectiveness. These mistakes tend to originate from leaders’ fundamental misunderstanding of the concept. They can have a negative effect not only on the training’s effectiveness but on an organization’s success as a whole.

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Elearning Solutions: Effective Educational Tools

Designing Digitally

As the world moves toward a greater integration of technology in almost every area of society, the educational system follows suit. Contemporary learners are more and more used to a technology-based world. Even from a young age, they have learned how to operate multiple devices and know how to navigate in an online world. While education, in general, is known to trend toward different philosophies that change over time, elearning solutions are here to stay.

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This Girl Can Unlocking Womens Potential for Sales Success

Training Industry

Much evidence supports the business case for gender diversity; in a nutshell, diversity generates stronger business results. The positive impact on business performance has been widely acknowledged among leaders, but some business disciplines, such as sales, are still struggling to get the numbers right. Only 39 percent of sales-related roles are filled by women.

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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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Field Notes: Challenge the Status Quo

Degreed

In an effort to continuously honor our commitment to delivering our clients the best experience possible, Degreed recently hired a new Vice President of Client Experience, David Verhaag. He will lead the post-sale teams including Client Engagement and Client Support. Prior to his employment with us, he partnered with Degreed for 8 months in an advisory capacity.

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Harnessing the Power of Video Learning: Take Your Content from Boring to Exciting

Innovative Learning Group

Are you ever faced with a need to communicate a procedure to your team but are unsure of the method to deliver it because the content is somewhat dry or is not very interesting? I recently worked with a longtime Innovative Learning Group client in the financial industry on a learning need just like this. In a nutshell, the client needed to show how a conversation should be conducted between a financial analyst and his/her customer.

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CD2 Learning Platform Updates

CD2 Learning

Over first quarter of 2017, the CD2 Learning (CD2) development team has been hard at work updating our Learning Content Management System (LCMS) platform by enhancing and extending existing features, along with building out brand new capabilities. Although many updates were released over the course of the quarter, we are taking this opportunity to highlight two substantial updates.