Tue.Jan 08, 2019

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Going Global: The Winning Formula for Virtual Training and Blended Learning Success

InSync Training

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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

“Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” We all know this. It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. They’re our friends, but not always. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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5 Training Strategies To Help Engage and Retain Millennial Employees

KnowledgeAnywhere

Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce, making it more important than ever to understand and motivate them in the workplace. Retaining millennial talent can be an ongoing challenge for employers. Only 50% of millennials plan to stay with their current employer long-term; willing to leave for better pay, benefits, or career growth.

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5 Tips for Better Online Course Management

LearnDash

How to keep your online course management from overwhelming your life. One of the most appealing ideas about online courses for instructors is the assumption that, once the course content is created, instructors can leave their courses to run on autopilot and reap the benefits of passive income. However, as much as we might like this to be the case, there’s a laundry list of administrative duties, marketing tasks, and instructor responsibilities that can overwhelm educators if they aren

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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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A foolish inconsistency

Clark Quinn

Here, a foolish in consistency is the hobgoblin of my little mind. While there are some learnings in here (for me and others), it’s really just getting stuff off my chest. Feel free to move along. This is just a lack of consistency that I suggest is unnecessary and ill-conceived. I’ve hinted at this before, but I don’t think I’ve gone into detail.

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How to Adapt Moodle so It can be Used for Corporate Learning

Lambda Solutions

Moodle has become a popular solution for corporate training and employee development programs since it is a flexible and customizable LMS. However, you will need to properly set up Moodle to get the most out of this LMS in a corporate setting.

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eLearning Trends In 2019: How To Use Them To Enhance Your Learning Strategy

eLearning Industry

At this time of the year, you look out for trends that can enhance your training delivery. In this article, I share the eLearning Trends in 2019 you can use to enhance, measure, and maximize the impact and returns on your learning strategies. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why engagement is a critical ingredient in successful sales training?

QuoDeck

Building a performing sales team is the holy grail that all organizations chase – and it’s definitely not an easy task. But building lasting engagement is a critical ingredient that can separate a good sales training program from a bad one. Sales is the lifeblood of most organizations, and a performing sales team is worth its weight in gold. Building an effective sales training program is the holy grail that all sales trainers chase – and it’s definitely not an easy task.

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Six Predictions For Learning And Development In 2019

eLearning Industry

The Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance 's annual crystal-ball gazing exercise focuses on the continuing digital revolution This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Corporate Learning Analytics in Practice [Introduction]

Watershed

During the summer of 2018, we conducted a Learning Analytics Research Study to research how our clients are actually implementing these analytics. This research aimed to place organizations on the learning analytics triangle as a measure of maturity, and to paint a picture of what this actually looks like in 2018.* In this blog series, we’ll explore the results from our study and how real people are doing real learning analytics.

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Free eBook: Keys To Outsourcing A Results-Driven Curriculum

eLearning Industry

Every eLearning professional designing a curriculum wants it to have a clear goal tied to a well-articulated business problem, meet the needs of its target audience, and specify the most efficient set of experiences to meet the goal. They also want the tools to achieve all the above; this is what you’ll find in this volume, along with a five-step process and proposed activities that make it a must-read to deliver a results-driven curriculum.

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Need YouTube Video Ideas? Where You Need to Look for Inspiration

TechSmith Camtasia

Whether you’re making corporate training , educational videos, or videos to sell and promote a product or business, video creators all have the goal of producing relevant, engaging content for their audiences. No matter where your video audience comes from, we all want to consistently produce content that resonates with our audience. We need content that keeps them entertained, and keeps them wanting to come back for more.

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6 Considerations on how L&D should prepare for the New Skills Economy

Matrix

Talent acquisition has always been important for organisations but lately the checklist for what a talented individual should look like has radically changed. Until not long ago, experience was the most important advantage a candidate could have. Though that is still of some value, today’s HR professionals are faced with the daunting task of recruiting employees not only for what a certain position requires at the time of the interview but what it may require in the not so distant future.

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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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7 Benefits of Microlearning

eloomi

The average employee only spends 1% of their work week on learning. According to Josh Bersin, that comes out to just 24 minutes a week to learn and expand their knowledge. So how do you ensure your employees are finding the time to further their learning in such a short amount of time? In bite-sized pieces of course! That is why microlearning, learning distributed in small portions, has become more popular over the years & become a vital way to increase employee knowledge, compliance and tra

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The Health Benefits of Continued Learning

KnowledgeCity

Research findings through the past decade indicate a variety of long-term health benefits of brain stimulation through continuous learning. Life-long education not only stimulates soft skills but also serves to enhance self-fulfillment. Regardless of age or status, the process of continued learning offers numerous health benefits for those willing to pursue it.

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4 Things You Should Know Before Working With A Training Vendor

eLearning Industry

If you've thought about collaborating with a training vendor, here are 4 things you need to know to make the process go smoothly. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Communication Skills You Need to Lead

KnowledgeCity

There are various paths and ways into organizational leadership. However, despite the variables in routes and methodologies to get to the “top,” those who make it generally have specific communication skills in common that you can easily integrate into your own style to be an effective leader. These five communication skills separate leaders from the followers and can determine the impact you’re able to make in your organization. 1.

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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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Four top trends for digital learning in 2019

Omniplex

Staying one step ahead of innovation is a top priority for all of the best eLearning professionals. So, as we sit down to write our resolutions for 2019, it’s about time we looked at the innovation and trends that might influence eLearning this year.

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3 Learning Management Trends Coming in 2019

KnowledgeCity

Learning management, particularly in the corporate space, is a growth industry. And, it’s not showing signs of slowing down any time soon. In fact, a whopping 98 percent of all companies plan to use eLearning by 2020. From virtual reality to a renewed focus on competencies, check out these learning management trends for 2019. 3 Learning Management Trends to Watch in 2019. 1.

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6 Ways To Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Your Compliance Training Courses

eLearning Industry

Compliance training strategy isn’t just about the bigger picture. Sometimes, you need to focus in on the basics and assess your corporate learning on a course-by-course level. What should you be looking at? Take a look at our top 6 metrics below. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What has been and what is yet to come

Learning with e's

Photo by Guillaume Speurt on Flickr Tallinn is one of my favourite European cities. I visited it a few years ago during the early spring, when snow and ice lay around and the medieval towers and wooden walkways of the old town wall were truly magical. As I navigated the cobbled lanes of old Tallinn and discovered the rustic hostelries, hidden courtyards and colourful gabled houses of the Estonian capital, it was as if I were being transported several hundred years into the past.

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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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How to Copy Text from Flash Courses When You Don’t have the Original File

Rapid eLearning

Many of you have to convert old Flash courses to HTML5. All you have is the published course but not the original source files. It’s easy enough to extract the media (like images and video) from the published output. But adding text from the old course isn’t as easy because most Flash courses don’t allow selecting text to copy and paste.

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We now have our own YouTube channel

Skills Journey

We’ve kicked it off with this animation, which forms part of our new Curating Content for Learning course: We’ll be using this YouTube channel as our showcase and as our blog. We hope you enjoy it!

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Reminiscing over 2018 as we step into 2019

Rustici Software

I was reminiscing over the year (it’s been a big year) and I began looking at old Christmas letters for inspiration on how to best distill down a very busy year at Rustici Software. The best Christmas letters have a way of highlighting important moments in the year and providing context for how they contributed to the year-at-large. The bite-sized chunks of information available via social media often miss that context; context matters.

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Points in Gamification: 3 Ways to Go Beyond the Basics to Create Great Learning

Leo Learning

When they’re well-designed, elements of gaming can make learning compelling. In this blog, Lead Learning Designer Rich Calcutt and Learning Designer Alan Stewart examine the point of points in gamification, and offer three great tips to make your learning feel meaningful. Around 40 years ago, during the golden age of video game arcades, gamers would play knowing that winning was impossible.

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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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ServiceNow Sales Kickoff

PlatCore

PlatCore is gearing up for ServiceNow’s Sales Kickoff, Jan 22-25th at the MGM Grand in Vegas. We will be on site with great giveaways, and exciting news of our big upcoming release. We look forward to seeing you there! About us: PlatCore has built the first Learning Management System (LMS) in ServiceNow. Utilizing ServiceNow for internal training provides unparalleled ease of use, as well as cost and process efficiencies.

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What is xAPI?

LearnUpon

Over the past three years, xAPI has emerged as the hot new standard for delivering online training. xAPI is often described as the next evolution of SCORM. While the SCORM standard isn’t going anywhere soon, xAPI has redefined some of the fundamental practices of tracking learning experiences. But what is xAPI? And why do so many experts believe it will soon become the default standard for eLearning content?

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5 Steps To Optimizing Your Employee Training Tracking Process

eLearning Industry

It's great if you're already tracking your internal training, but is that enough? What could you be doing better? Here are our 5 tips to ensure you optimize the process as much as possible. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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