Tue.May 28, 2019

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Social Silliness

Clark Quinn

It’s that time again. Someone pointed me to a post that touted the benefits of social learning. And I’m a fan ! However, as I perused it, I saw that was a bit of social silliness. So, let me be clear about why. It starts off mostly on the right foot, saying “playing off of the theory that people learn better when they learn collectively” I’m a proponent of that theory.

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Check Out My New Online Courses New eLearning Designers!

Tim Slade

Last year, when I published The eLearning Designer’s Handbook , I decided at the last minute (about a week before the book went live ) to build a companion online course: Getting Started with The eLearning Development Process. While the decision to build this online course was totally spontaneous, I knew it was something that I eventually wanted to do longterm: to design and offer online courses for new eLearning designers.

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Why Make the Change from Training to Learning Campaigns?

InSync Training

Learning is a process. As workplaces rapidly evolve to adapt to changing market dynamics, skill building must change too. Trainers work to support technical and soft-skill improvement within the same program. How can we balance both? By using learning campaigns.

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The Role of an LMS in Blended Learning for Manufacturing Companies

TOPYX LMS

Nearly 3 million jobs will open up in the global manufacturing industry as current workers, including baby boomers, start retiring.¹ That turnover will leave many companies with a shortage of skilled workers and an abundance of opportunities that will take time to fill.

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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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On-Premise vs Cloud LMS comparison: 7 things to consider when choosing

Paradiso

Much of the success of any training program has to do with the resources that the company or institution makes available to its users. Understanding the relevance of acquiring an LMS system that is hosted on your servers or in a private cloud is key before deciding on one of these options. To clarify this issue, we have made an On-Premise LMS vs Cloud LMS comparison.

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Make a Great First Impression with a Solid New Hire Onboarding Program

Lambda Solutions

- 3 MIN READ -. Surveys show that 20% of turnovers happen within 45 days of hiring. That's reason enough to know that your onboarding program will shape a new hire's first impression of your organization. Therefore, you need to deliver a program that immediately engages new hires and prepares them to complete their tasks to reduce turnover. Often, that means making an excellent first impression.

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POINT-of-WORK ASSESSMENT: Analytics & Impact

Living in Learning

As with any journey, even the GPS is useless without identifying the point of origin. We know where we need to go…our stakeholders have an idea of what they want from our efforts…but we need to establish a current state of performance measures to establish a “before” benchmark if we hope to provide evidence of improvement in future state outcomes in our “after” benchmarks at Levels 3 & 4.

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How To Use Interactive Video-Based Learning To Enhance Your Training’s Impact

eLearning Industry

The adoption of video-based training is on a roll. In this article, I outline how you can use its NextGen avatar, interactive video-based learning, and enhance your training’s impact. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Changing Behaviors: Using Nudge Theory to Engage Your Learners

HT2 Labs

By this point, I am sure you are all well aware that HT2 Labs’ first free learning opportunity of 2019 culminated in the first ever Open Learning Experience (OLX) steered towards helping you to understand the benefits of using your learning data to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences. With that, ‘Data, Nudges & Learning: A Guide to Enhancing Engagement’; the 3-part OLX began April 29.

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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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5 Effective Ways Micro Content Can Boost Your Mobile Learning Strategy

eLearning Industry

Perhaps your organization is using mobile learning as part of your overall learning strategy. Mobile learning is well-suited for micro content; content intended to be consumed in brief nuggets of information. Read on to learn 5 great applications for micro content in your mobile learning strategy. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Build Meaningful E-Learning Courses

Rapid eLearning

We spend hours building courses that look great and have rich interactive elements, but often we’re missing the key component to an effective course: tapping into the learner’s motivation. When you frame the e-learning content into a meaningful context, you’ll not only tap into the motivation of the learner, but there’s also a good chance you won’t be tempted to stuff the course with meaningless interactivity (that has the appearance of value).

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7 Key Elements Of A High-Impact Blended Learning Program

eLearning Industry

Blended learning is all about getting the most out of your learners in an environment that suits your training needs. From learning objectives to the appropriate resources, today we’re looking at the key elements of a successful blended learning program. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Got you covered: The eLearning news you missed in Spring, 2019

TalentLMS

News travels fast. Faster than human perception. So, instead of getting bombarded by Google Alerts with the latest online learning news, you might as well find all you need in just one place: here. Another season, another roundup. Here’s all the eLearning news that you’ve missed from the beginning of March 2019 to the end of May 2019. eLearning industry news: Gathering momentum.

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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 Must-Have Steps To Develop A Successful Employee Training Program

eLearning Industry

A successful employee training program starts with one key element - a good plan. One that outlines everything your organization needs to consider. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Power of Accessibility: Designing eLearning Content for All Learners

Gutenberg Technology

Creating an accessible eLearning course means designing content, apps and digital experiences that can be used by people of all abilities and disabilities. And yet while modern-day web designers are well-versed in the language of accessibility (think WCAG , W3C and ADA ), not every eLearning professional has had the opportunity or exposure to the resources they need to create accessible content.

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How To Measure The Effectiveness Of Mobile Training

eLearning Industry

In order to have successful mobile training, it is important to understand how to measure the performance of the learning experience and the impact it had on employees. In this article, learn how you can use Kirkpatrick's Evaluation Model to evaluate the effectiveness of your mobile training. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Make a Fun Quiz That Your Audience Will Love

ProProfs

After Buzzfeed’s success with quizzes like Pretend To Be A Celeb And We’ll Reveal Who Your Celeb Best Friend Is , Where Will You Lose Your Virginity , Get Married , And Have Your First Child? , We’ll Guess Your Secret Talent Based On Your Ice Cream Preferences , etc., many brands started including fun quizzes as a part of their marketing strategy , but not all of them were able to ace the race.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Free eBook: Upskilling Your Workforce With Foundation Skills Development

eLearning Industry

KPIs are often used to measure how well you are performing as an employee, measuring outcomes of work and overall performance. Achievements from the past are not included in the analysis. Your ability to be successful depends on your ability to adapt to your environment and your capacity for change. So your superiors can adequately determine your future performance and predict a so-called future success factor.

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3 Reasons You Should Include Mobisodes in Online Training

CommLab India

What are mobisodes? Can you use them for online training? Yes, you can! Here are 3 reasons you should use mobisodes in online training.

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ID and eLearning Links 5/28/19

Experiencing eLearning

The links and resources in this post include tips for using research in designing learning experiences, a method to teach people to read sources critically, and research from outside learning. How can we evaluate research for usefulness in learning experience design? Designing Learning Experiences in an Evidence-Informed Way – 3-Star learning experiences Mirjam Neelen and Paul Kirschner on ways to systematically approach using evidence and evaluating research for use in learning. tags : research

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Free L&D webinars for June 2019

Limestone Learning

“ Green lawn at a public park in Zakariah, June 2015 ” by David Bena is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. It’s hard to believe we were wearing our winter woollies just a while back! It looks like we’ve sent winter packing at last, and spring is cruising by. If you’re one of the many people whose schedule changes in the summer, this is a great time to start action-planning for the months ahead so you can get your work done without missing the sunshine.

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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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7 Simple Steps to Write Targeted Learning Objectives

LearnUpon

The purpose of implementing an online training strategy is to achieve the learning objectives and impart practical knowledge. Can you write targeted learning objectives that will help you determine whether your corporate learners have actually benefited from your online training course? A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Learning Objectives. Learning objectives are a remarkably simple way of proving the efficacy of your online training courses.

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Overcoming the forgetting curve in training courses

Matrix

L&D specialists constantly search for ways to create courses that are relevant, engaging and that can prove a positive ROI for the business. Teaching methods change, learning environments become increasingly immersive yet one thing stays constantly the same – people forget a lot of what they are taught. Research shows that learners will have forgotten 75% of the information a day after it was presented and most of that occurs within the first hour.

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Cruel pedagogy

Learning with e's

Image by Amboo Who? on Flickr 1. Place all chairs and tables in rows facing 'the front' 2. Talk at your students 3. Cram your slides with text (green on red is a particularly confusing colour combination) 4. Insist on there being only one right answer 5. Ensure there is no time for questions and discussion 6. Test and grade regularly 7. Fail students who don't meet the test standards 8.

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How To Choose The Right Kind Of Video For Your Employee Training

QuoDeck

Video-based learning has become an important part of corporate training delivery today. In this article, I share pointers that will help you identify what training videos would work best for your employees. Choosing The Right Kind Of Video For Your Employee Training. Using videos for training employees has been around for a while. Of late, there is an acceleration in their usage.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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What Is a Learning Management System? Four Basic LMS Functions You Need to Know.

PlatCore

If you know it or not, you have likely used a Learning Management System (LMS). It’s often the system that gives you security awareness training every Jan 1. While some companies may use email or Excel spreadsheets to record training, at the end of the year you have to prove what happened to auditors. This can create a whole host of problems and risk.

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Coming soon! Add Rustici Engine Reporting Extension to your application

Rustici Software

It takes a lot to keep an eLearning application competitive in the industry. Just take a look at the changes to the “Best of Lists” over the years. These platforms provide a glimpse into the way the expectations for a learning product are evolving. Similarly, the ways in which we help and support our customers continue to evolve to help learning platforms meet their customers’ needs.

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Creating a learning culture

Learning Pool

Creating a learning culture Why is it that some organisations evolve and others don’t? How is it that some adapt to and thrive in new environments and circumstances, whilst others stutter, flatline or (at worse) go under? Perhaps one of the things that separate the ‘thrivers’ from the ‘barely survivors’ is the element of learning. Read more. The post Creating a learning culture appeared first on Learning Pool | e-learning content and learning management systems.

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