Thu.Nov 16, 2017

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3 ways to implement xAPI in your elearning courses

Kineo

For many L&D professionals, keeping up with the technology curve is half the fun. Since 2011, we’ve been hearing about Tin Can, now know as the Experience API , or xAPI. No longer just a shiny new object that everyone just scratches their head about, we’re starting to see actual use cases and implementations that show this technology is on the rise.

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Tracking Instructional Design to Efficiently Develop Training

dVinci Interactive

Tracking Instructional Design to Efficiently Develop Training More than 2,000 associates in services and operations support Edward Jones financial services branches nationwide. As a leader developing custom training and performance solutions for these associates, Susan Prichard has evaluated and implemented methods to make the instructional design process more predictable and efficient.

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Your Bayesian Brain – Are you wired for statistics?

Learningtogo

The Expectation Effect is a concept in psychology that suggests we get the results in life that we have come to expect. Sadly, many of us – myself once included – have developed a belief that we are “no good” at math. If you are one of those people, it may come as a surprise that this self-belief is almost certainly false, because you are hard-wired for math and you are making highly complex probabilistic calculations all the time.

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Gyrus Systems Selected for TrainingIndustry.com’s 2017 Gamification Watch List

Gyrus

Richmond, VA · November 16, 2017. Gyrus Systems , a leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) vendor, announced today it has been selected as a 2017 Gamification Watch List company by Training Industry.com. “This year’s 2017 Top 20 Gamification Companies are leading the way in developing and implementing innovative gaming techniques to engage and improve the corporate learning experience,” said Ken Taylor, president of Training Industry, Inc. “We have seen an increas

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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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Big Data 101: Predictive Analytics in Talent Management

InSync Training

Virtually There session recap. Big data has become a big deal for the modern workforce. Publications like The Atlantic , Harvard Business Review , and The New York Times have covered the topic, and institutions like Gartner have researched its application for organizations. So what does it mean for those of us in Human Resources and Training? Guest speaker Claire F.

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#AECT17 Conference Contributions

Clark Quinn

So, at the recent AECT 2017 conference, I participated in three ways that are worth noting. I had the honor of participating in two sessions based upon writings I’d contributed, and one based upon my own cogitations. I thought I’d share the thinking. For my own presentation, I shared my efforts to move ‘rapid elearning’ forward.

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Happy Thanksgiving – It’s Good for the Brain!

Learningtogo

The U.S. is one of several countries that celebrates the end of the harvest with a day of giving thanks – that we’re prepared to survive another winter. With the word “survival” in the opening line, you’ve probably guessed that I’m about to find a way to link eating turkey with survival, because that’s usually where I end up when I talk about our marvelous survival machines – our brains.

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Rockin’ Responsive Design Strategies

eLearning Brothers

Are you ready to rock your responsive design? John Blackmon, Trivantis CTO joined us at our DevLearn 2017 eLearning Rockstars Stage this October and shared his responsive design knowledge. Blackmon taught attendees how to take pre-existing content and allow it to be effectively used across multiple devices, as well as the best ways to create new content in a responsive format.

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Change and inertia

Learning with e's

Concept by Steve Wheeler I have studied change management in large organisations for over 25 years. Indeed, the very first peer reviewed journal article I published, was entitled 'Managing technological change in nurse education'. It appeared in a British Computer Society journal in 1992. Recently, I was discussing change with teams of academic staff at a large university in the Southern Hemisphere, and as a result of the conversations I developed the model of change which is illustrated here.

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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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Learning Experience Platform – WRONG

eLearning 24-7

I’ll get right to the point. I totally dislike the term, “learning experience platform” It really makes no sense, because anything and everything we do, can turn into a learning experience. Secondly, it does a major disservice to any platform that is called by that name. Allow me to elaborate. I put together a tiny list (three) on learning experiences that I “learned” in just the last week: One of my dogs, Voodoo has “learned” that if he digs a deep

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4 GAMIFICATION PITFALLS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

Learnnovators

The post 4 GAMIFICATION PITFALLS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Watch Out For Those Seductive Details

The eLearning Coach

A seductive detail is highly interesting to the audience members, but not directly relevant to the instructional goal. How does this impact learning?

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Everyone’s Talking About It, But Just What is ‘Personalised Learning’?

HT2 Labs

What is 'personalised learning'? What does it mean to you? Take part in our new research survey. The post Everyone’s Talking About It, But Just What is ‘Personalised Learning’? appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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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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Gen Z Has Arrived! Are You Ready with the Right E-learning Solution?

CommLab India

Training managers are made aware of the factors to pay attention while designing e-learning solutions for Gen Z employees.

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How Emotional Intelligence Training Improves Business Performance

Mindflash

Emotional Intelligence, also known as emotional quotient (EQ) has been a recurring theme in Corporate America and in varied professional environments for years. It’s been linked to performance and success in areas including customer retention, increased sales, leadership management, and so many other facets. A study conducted by Talent Smart , tested emotional intelligence alongside 33 other important workplace skills, and found that emotional intelligence is the strongest predictor of performan

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Instructional Design Tips to Create eLearning to Train Corporate Millennial Workforce

Adobe Captivate

“Modern Instructional Design can address the millennial learning needs and help you create an effective eLearning.” In this blog, we will discuss the modern digital learning needs along with the corresponding instructional design tips to create learner-centered corporate eLearning. But What is the Need? Retaining talents is one of the biggest challenges in the corporate world.

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Tech Company Grovo Hires First CLO

CLO Magazine

Summer Salomonsen will lead the technology vendor in its learning and development strategy. Grovo, an education technology company that was founded in 2010 and focuses on microlearning applications through its technology, professional services and content library, hired its first chief learning officer, Summer Salomonsen. She is a former principal consultant at Intrepid Learning, Inc. and was the winner of Brandon Hall’s 2017 Gold Emerging Star Award.

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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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LMS Features You Don’t Need

eLearning Company

Learning management systems (LMS) have become powerful tools for educational institutions as well as many other organization who face a difficult task to continuously train and develop their employees. These days, there are over 600 different LMS systems available on the market, each often being quite unique and possessing a different feature set to meet … Continue reading "LMS Features You Don’t Need".

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Everything You Need to Know About Extended Enterprise Training

eFront

The business world has never been so competitive. Companies and organizations are in a constant struggle to be more successful while still lowering costs. So, with such fierce competition, the people you choose to cooperate with are crucial. Sure, hiring the best talent and offering them excellent training can help you stay at the top of your industry -but why stop with them?

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How to effectively use branched learning scenarios

Roundtable Learning

Branching scenarios are one of the best ways to convert your process-heavy training, whether instructor-led or click and read, to an interactive and impactful experience for learners.

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Why xAPI Data, Information, And Insights Are Not The Same

Riptide Software

Data and analytics have been a hot topic. Not just in the Learning & Development industry, but other industries as well.

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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.

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Here’s How LMS Audit Logs Help Impart Training Better

CommLab India

Check this blog to know how the information stored in the logs of your LMS helps impart training better.

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What AI has in store for the future of corporate training

Matrix

One of the most intriguing recent headlines was about a very beautiful robot named Sophia who became an official citizen of Saudi Arabia. I am using ‘who’ instead of ‘that’ because her humanoid nature is really astounding. While her lovely features are a well-deserved tribute to Audrey Hepburn, her incredible wit is the merit of David Hanson, founder of Hanson Robotics – a company that declares it wants to create “genius machines that are smarter than humans and can learn creativity, empathy and

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Why a Robot Tax Won’t Work

D2L

Bill Gates thinks robots should pay taxes. He’s wrong. In a February interview with Quartz, the Microsoft founder said if robots are taking people’s jobs, they should … Continued.

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What to Do with Cranky Course Feedback

SmartBuilder

It’s that course again. You slaved over that course for months. You did a thorough task analysis, you consulted with SMEs, you chased down stakeholders. You action mapped, you prototyped, you iterated like no one has iterated before! And though it seems like you finally launched your masterpiece just last week, a year has already passed, and the course up for revision.

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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.