Fri.Jul 08, 2016

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge!

Learning Rebels

It’s been a beautiful summer in Illinois, and I don’t know about you – but I’ve been trying to take advantage of it. In Illinois, winter can be 6 months, so when it’s sunny we try to take full advantage. However, they say being a freelancer is the only job where you left a 40-hour workweek, only to work 80 hours a week.

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Dance Like Your Life Depends on It – Because it Might

Learningtogo

One of my greatest fears is contracting Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia. As far as I know, I have no particular risk factors to warrant being any more afraid of this disease than high blood pressure or cancer, yet the thought of slowly losing my ability to do my work, to enjoy my family, in the end, the complete loss of self, is absolutely terrifying to me.

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What To Do When Your Marketing Fails

Association eLearning

You’ve put together a strong course catalog. You determined a marketing budget, and you came up with some great marketing ideas. So, why aren’t your courses selling? Where are the profits? Where’s the return on investment? What went wrong? Don’t panic. Even fancy marketing firms in big cities can sometimes get it wrong. Let’s talk about what to do when your marketing fails.

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Unleash the Impact of Body Language on Business Outcome: PART 1

Origin Learning

“…to stand up and say that we are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come.” These expressions were made by a man, at a time when the stage was getting set for his ascension as the first US Black President. Back then, social media was in a fledgling state. Innovation was at its peak. The Silicon Valley had carved a niche for itself as a hub for entrepreneurs.

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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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The 3 Major Pitfalls of Static Content

Inkling

There’s no shortage of options when it comes to enterprise technology aimed at helping employees learn, communicate, and share static content. There is email, chats, intranets, wikis, training universities, SharePoint, content repositories, file sync and shares, and other proprietary solutions… the list goes on and on. This might seem like knowledge heaven with information available everywhere you turn, but in reality, it’s overwhelming.

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Unleash the Impact of Body Language on Business Outcome: PART 1

Origin Learning

“…to stand up and say that we are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come.” These expressions were made by a man, at a time when the stage was getting set for his ascension as the first US Black President. Back then, social media was in a fledgling state. Innovation was at its peak. The Silicon Valley had carved a niche for itself as a hub for entrepreneurs.

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Workshop: New Zealand eLearnz eLab – Save 20% off signup fee now

Docebo

A special offer for our New Zealand friends – Save 20% off eLearnz eLab workshop series. Docebo is excited to offer our New Zealand customers and friends a 20% discount on tickets to this year’s eLearnz eLab event, July 26-27 in Auckland. Use the discount code “DOCEBO” at checkout to get the discount. Corporate training is rapidly changing as organizations gain a better understanding of how people learn.

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Converted in 40 Days

Axonify

The following post was written by the newest member of our management team , Andrea Curry. Andrea joins us as the Vice President of Product Management and will play an instrumental role in defining our product roadmap and future direction. Andrea comes to us with over eighteen years of experience designing, marketing, selling and delivering game-changing technology solutions.

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Digital Learning in the (Association) World

Web Courseworks

ATD, Association Technology Development, recently published 6 Strategies for Successful Digital Leadership Development. Although the focus of their blog post and the related white paper by the Center for Creative Leadership is geared towards corporations, who is to say that associations can’t relate? The mentioned actions: “change a company’s corporate culture, improve employee engagement, and increase retention” are all very much relevant in the association space.

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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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Captivate Introductions That Need No Introduction

eLearning Brothers

In May, we announced a series of 8 new Captivate course introductions. We were very proud of all of them, but for brevity’s sake, we only got around to showcasing 4 of them. Today we wanted to take a look at the other half of our inventory of animated intros, so without further adieu, we present to you… Introductions! Blocks. The Blocks intro sees a set of black obelisks rising into view as title text emerges from a clean teal background.

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A Habit-based Approach to Racial Bias

Usable Learning

We all carry around implicit bias. It’s embedded in the culture, and it’s hideously obvious that it can lead to horrible tragic results. . This is study that has really been influencing my thinking about a habit-based approach to behavior change. The results actually show reduction in people’s implicit racial bias. It’s remarkable and rare to change something so deeply ingrained.

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When to use visuals in learning content

QuoDeck

Do you really need to include visuals in your learning content, or you should avoid them? Find out by taking this ‘Picture Test’ ! Will the visual make the content easy to understand? Will the visual be more effective than an extensive description? Will the visual help you structure your content in a better way? Will the visual make your content attractive enough to grab the reader’s attention?

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Digital capabilities and curiosity

Learning with e's

On the floor of the Science Centre, Staffordshire University I haven't written or blogged as much as I usually do, because I have been doing some travelling recently. I've been speaking at a variety of conference up and down the country, and it can get quite time consuming putting in the miles and preparation. But during the conferences, I have heard some interesting ideas which I would like to share a little wider.

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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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Technology-enabled Learning to Avoid OSHA Penalties

CommLab India

OSHA penalizes organizations for violating workplace safety and health standards. Just recently, the Des Moines postal sorting facility was fined USD 25,000 as OSHA found that though safety measures were in place, employees were not trained adequately on the safety norms and procedures. You can avoid such penalties by using e-learning, a cost effective method for training your employees effectively.

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Future technologies now

Learning with e's

HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. The latest virtual reality headsets were enjoyed by many who were fascinated by how low cost headsets, combined with iPhones or Android phones could create such rich and immersive experiences.

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Articulate Storyline – The First Choice of E-learning Developers [Infographic]

CommLab India

Articulate Storyline has become a quite popular rapid authoring tool in the e-learning development world. Its built-in character packs, built-in templates, customizable Player, built-in quiz templates are few of the reasons it’s becoming every e-learning developer’s first choice. To know more about these features, check out the infographic “Articulate Storyline- The First Choice of E-learning Developers” below.

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The Great Generational Shift: How Employers and Managers Can Prepare

Everwise

While there are always different people of different generations working side by side in the workplace, today there are as many as six different generations, depending on which demographic definitions one uses. The workforce is aging on one end of the spectrum and getting younger on the other. In the middle there is a gap, with the prime age workforce shrinking as an overall percentage of the workforce.

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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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To play or not to play: that is the question

Teachlr

It is important to remember that no strategy is good or bad by itself. Whether it’s effective or not will depend on factors such as the combination of sub-strategies, timing and follow up. Last week. The post To play or not to play: that is the question appeared first on Teachlr Blog.

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Does your new E-learning character know his roles and responsibilities?

Eat Learn Repeat

It is a common practice to use characters/avatars in E-learning courses. But how do we evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy? Can these characters substitute a classroom instructor? Here are four points to consider for making sure that our E-learning characters make more sense than ever in the learning programs. 1. Ask yourself, do we really need a character?

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The Week That Was, July 4-8

CLO Magazine

These were the top five stories on CLOmedia.com for the week of July 4. Is Your Organization’s Learning Brand Effective? Learning leaders can use marketing to raise their department’s profile, but first, they must be clear on the perceptions others may hold about the learning function. Management L&D Like You Mean It : Learning leaders are missing out on opportunities to improve results by not managing their departments and programs like a business.

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Post Brexit Anxiety

Engage in Learning

Organisations up and down the country are finding themselves in a period of uncertainty. Brexit is coming, but when, how and what exactly is that going to mean?

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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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Top 3 Latest Updates to iSpring Learn LMS

iSpring Solutions

0. Shared. In this article, you will learn about the latest improvements made to iSpring LMS to help you teach even more effectively. There’s no need to download PDF documents anymore. They are opened right in the system wrapped up in a special player. Switch between the pages by clicking on the arrows on the screen or by pushing them on your keyboard.

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28 tips for a successful LMS launch

Growth Engineering

Launching a brand new LMS is no small task, but it’s incredibly rewarding. You’ll be able to craft and tweak your training programme until it’s just right, and absolutely perfect for your learners. But after all of that, there’s a real possibility that your new platform could fall at the first hurdle, failing to drum up interest upon launch and leaving all of that learning goodness undiscovered.

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The many faces of eLearning #1: Compliance training with TalentLMS

TalentLMS

What we call online learning, or eLearning, is not one single thing, but many. It’s like with cats, tigers, panthers and pumas. Sure, they’re all felines, but at the same time there are major differences in look, size, eating habits, natural habitat, and, last but not least, cuteness. Online learning can similarly be divided into several different types , based on various factors, such as whether it concerns educational or corporate use ( online schools vs corporate training ), the mode of consu

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Publishing E-learning Courses in Articulate Storyline: 4 Things to Remember

CommLab India

After designing and developing an e-learning course in Articulate Storyline, the final step is to publish the course in SCORM/AICC/Tin Can, API formats. Depending on the requirement, we can publish the course into any of these options. Here, I would like to share 4 things you need to keep in mind while publishing the course into any of these formats. 1.

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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.