Mon.May 22, 2017

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Why Learning Matters For The Creators of Learning

Adobe Captivate

As elearning creators we understand the benefits of creating elearning for the learners of an organisation, business or even the public and I’ve noticed it can be easy for us to stop learning ourselves. Lately at work I’ve been going out of my comfort zone as a developer, by exploring more of what Captivate can really do. We still use version 8 at work right now and even after 2 years of using it every day, I’ve realised I have so much to learn still.

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L&D Needs to Get In The Time Saving Business

Jane Hart

New article: L&D Needs to Get In The Time Saving Business by Mark Britz Uber and Lyft aren’t popular because they are cheaper than a taxi or cleaner or even that they are better at getting around a city.

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Is Managing Learning Enough…Or Is Broader ACCESS the End-Game?

Living in Learning

In the event your brain immediately visualized training courses or learning events residing on your LMS…we have a potential disconnect here because “Training” in any form represents only the 10% in the 70:20:10 framework, and to make that even uglier, the 10% falls into the +/-5% of our 2,000 hour work year that Bersin’s research says we get each year in the form of formal learning.

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Using Partnerships To Fuel Early Business Growth

LearnDash

Most businesses fall into one of two categories: products or services. There are also those that do both, but this is very hard to pull off unless the infrastructure is in place and you have a really good understanding of your customer needs. The problem I often see with new entrepreneurs is that they try to be everything to everyone from the get-go.

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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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Maximize Your Professional Development with Industry Memberships

eLearning Brothers

A few weeks ago eLearning Brothers released the all new Professional Development Package. There are so many amazing features to this package, including either a Plus Membership to The eLearning Guild or a Professional Plus Membership to the Association for Talent and Development (ATD), a premium subscription to the most well-known self-paced video training library on the planet, and 1-on-1 mentoring with an eLearning Brothers mentor.

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Organizational Training Plans – 5 Key Factors to Consider

WalkMe Training Station

The internet has revolutionized how, when and what kind of work we do. Performance is no longer measured by how much time is spent on a task, rather, employees, are expected to give everything they have of themselves to complete a project, regardless of how much time it takes. Employees now must be “experts” in their given field and manage themselves when it comes to choosing how a project is completed.

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3 Reasons Unconscious Bias Training Doesn’t Work

CLO Magazine

If a training program doesn’t work, most learning leaders will scrap it or at least redesign it so that it provides organizational value. But that’s not the case with unconscious bias training. It’s often done — poorly — just to cover compliance or legal bases or to ensure the right image. Or, it’s done without the necessary follow up to insure the content sticks, behaviors change, and related talent management processes adapt to create a more inclusive workforce.

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4 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Employee Engagement

eLearningMind

When you’re looking for ways to get employees more invested in their roles, it can seem like most suggestions revolve around the long game. Sure, we tout mentoring as an awesome way to increase engagement, but building relationships don’t happen overnight. Still, it is possible to start now—like, right this minute—to help build up employee engagement and create an all-in workforce without the wait.

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Why Organizations Need Chief Knowledge Curators

CLO Magazine

To ensure that his team is always in tune and aligned with a common approach to drive strategic vision, Amazon.com Inc.’s CEO Jeff Bezos created a corporate book club; he requires his team to read books curated by himself. Leaders like Bezos understand how the absence of structured knowledge sharing creates room for unproductive discussions, silos and lack of genuine commitment to the execution effort.

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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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6 Essential Tools for Creating an Awesome Online Course

TalentLMS

You think you have what it takes to create an online course, huh? It won’t be easy. Creating courses takes skills in videography, instructional design, animation, screencasting, video editing, and that’s to say nothing of the skills needed to deliver or promote a course to students. Luckily, there is one aspect of creating an online course that’s simple: Getting the equipment.

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Caveo Strategist to Share Military L&D Insights at SW Learning Summit

Caveo Learning

Ray Valenzuela, a learning strategist with Caveo Learning, will be a featured presenter at the 2017 Southwest Learning Summit. The event, hosted by the Association for Talent Development, Dallas Chapter, will be held August 24 in Plano, Texas. Valenzuela's session is titled, "Address Performance Issues, Not Symptoms: Approaching L&D the Military Way.".

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Cure Your Top L&D Challenges

OpenSesame

In a recent OpenSesame survey, 55% of respondents cited building a culture of learning as their biggest L&D issue while 45% were most challenged with meeting the needs of a diverse workforce. In this month’s ATD Watch & Learn Webcast , our very own Brittany McClain discussed why content selection is your best weapon when facing these challenges and shared tips and tricks on how to increase consumption of learning content.

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Rethink Executive Education

CLO Magazine

“The practice of management, as evidenced in a lot of big corporations and banks, is utterly dreadful. I don’t think business schools really get it, or care to get it.” – Henry Mintzberg. Executive education is one of the big-ticket items for every CLO but, as Mintzberg’s words demonstrate, it needs a major overhaul. What follows is an outline for a practical framework offering a new and different way to think about how you commission, design and deliver executive education.

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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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Cure Your Top L&D Challenges

OpenSesame

In a recent OpenSesame survey, 55% of respondents cited building a culture of learning as their biggest L&D issue while 45% were most challenged with meeting the needs of a diverse workforce. In this month’s ATD Watch & Learn Webcast , our very own Brittany McClain discussed why content selection is your best weapon when facing these challenges and shared tips and tricks on how to increase consumption of learning content.

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What Are the Essentials of vILT?

ATD Learning Technologies

Understanding the capabilities of your virtual instructor-led training platform is essential to designing engaging and effective online learning. But what engagement tools should you use? And which tools best support the instructional design and learning outcomes? I recently spoke with Dr. Nanette Miner, who facilitates ATD’s Essentials of Designing for WebEx Training Center , for answers to these and other questions.

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Going Pro: Voice Actors Enhance eLearning Voice-overs and Soundtracks by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

The audio track is as important to a polished, professional eLearning module as the navigation or visual content. Consider using professional voice talent to ensure quality audio.

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Gamification - Myths and Misunderstandings

Designing Digitally

The method of applying game design techniques and mechanics to motivate learners is called gamification. Learning designers are implementing gamification in eLearning to keep the learners engaged and excited. The gamification market is set to grow from $1.65 billion in 2015 to $11.10 billion by 2020. More and more companies are jumping into the gamification bandwagon. .

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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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Toolkit: Adobe Captivate Prime by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

Adobe set out to create a new LMS that it hoped organizations would find easy to use and yet powerful too. The company began by researching first what organizations liked and then what they didn’t like about their LMSs. If you are looking for an LMS, you really need to read this review!

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May Newsletter 2017

Global eTraining

Are You Ready for Autodesk 2018? We Are! Since this past March, Autodesk has been releasing many of its 2018 software products and updates. With each new release, Autodesk continues to provide improvements in both productivity and performance, always taking the next step forward in professional-grade software. This year you’ll see security enhancements and better integration with other technologies to help you work more efficiently.

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What Are the Essentials of vILT?

ATD Learning Technologies

Understanding the capabilities of your virtual instructor-led training platform is essential to designing engaging and effective online learning. But what engagement tools should you use? And which tools best support the instructional design and learning outcomes? I recently spoke with Dr. Nanette Miner, who facilitates ATD’s Essentials of Designing for WebEx Training Center , for answers to these and other questions.

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Captivate Quick Tip #2 – Convert to Freeform Tool

Adobe Captivate

I always thought it would be nice to have more control of the Smartshapes we make in Captivate and after a bit of exploration with the different options, I found exactly what I needed. From this tool/option, you’ll now be able to add some fine tuning and dramatically change Smartshapes. Step 1 – Create A Smartshape. Click on the Shapes menu in the top ‘ribbon’ in Adobe Captivate and select a Smartshape you’d like to create.

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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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Should Your Company Offer Unlimited PTO? The Pros And Cons

Everwise

As benefits and culture continue to grow in importance for employees, unlimited paid time off (PTO) has become an increasingly common company benefit. While it’s not yet a common offering in corporate America — only one to two percent of U.S. companies offer unlimited PTO — name brand companies like Netflix, Evernote, and Glassdoor now offer the benefit to their employees.

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HOW TO BUILD AN EFFECTIVE SAFETY CULTURE

SET Safety

Having a good safety culture in your organization is more important than ever. Companies with poor safety cultures see more incidents and injuries, poor attitudes and bad behaviour. Even if you think you’re doing things right, it never hurts to take a step back and reevaluate to make sure that everyone is on the same page. Improving your safety culture stands to improve your company as a whole, so read on to learn how to start taking a look at your current safety culture and what you can do to i

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Why it is Vital you offer Career Paths for Technical Staff

Skillsoft

To keep your IT talent, you must offer an IT career path.

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How to Achieve Training Translations Effectively

CommLab India

E-learning courses are becoming increasingly popular. In fact, they have become an irreplaceable factor for the success of an organization’s training strategy. They can easily and instantly reach a global audience, assuring that everyone gets the same quality of training. Now, the only barrier that multinational organizations find for effective corporate learning is language.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.