Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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Microlearning vs long form training in compliance

Kineo

Compliance training. No one particularly loves it - not even the legal department - but there’s virtually no way to avoid it. In most industries, if an organization or its employees aren’t in compliance, some pretty nasty consequences can arise should a law be violated or regulation ignored. And let’s be honest, compliance content isn’t by nature the most entertaining information to learn.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Sexual Harassment Has No Place In the Knowledge Economy

The Performance Improvement Blog

The explosion in sexual harassment charges against company executives is a symptom of the dramatic change that is going on in the workplace. This is about much more than a few courageous women standing up to a few misogynist men. We are witnessing a sea change in the way employees relate to their leaders and to each other. The command-and-control, hierarchical, do-as-I-say work environment of the 20 th Century industrial economy is giving way to the communication and collaboration workplace of

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Podcast: Dr. Greg Gage – Backyard Brains – Neuroscience for Everyone!

Learningtogo

Dr. Greg Gage is a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, co-founder of Backyard Brains , and TED Fellow. He spent many years as an electrical engineer designing retail systems before returning to grad school to pursue his passion for neuroscience. We talked about his exciting project to create a community of amateur neuroscientists, his plan to teach a generation of kids to think like a scientist and the complexity of the brain in this fun and fascinating conversation.

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Why the right content is key for propelling your business forward

Axonify

During last week’s webinar , David Wentworth, Principal Learning Analyst at Brandon Hall Group (BHG) and Craig Wahl, Vice President of Client Experience at Axonify talked about the role content plays in corporate learning and how crucial it is for driving business outcomes. But, first, they opened the session up with a live poll and asked the audience: “Which best describes the stage of maturity for your organization’s learning content?”.

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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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Dr. Greg Gage – Backyard Brains – Neuroscience for Everyone!

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. Dr. Greg Gage is a neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, co-founder of Backyard Brains , and TED Fellow. He spent many years as an electrical engineer designing retail systems before returning to grad school to pursue his passion for neuroscience. We talked about his exciting. project to create a community of amateur neuroscientists, his plan to teach a generation of kids to think like a scientist and the complexity of the brain in this fun and fascinating conversation

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Decoding Demand for Digital Skills

CLO Magazine

As technology companies have come to dominate the economy, demand has boomed for employees with digital skills like coders, software engineers and developers. In just the past four years, the number of coding boot camps has tripled to serve the demand according to a report in The New York Times. There will be nearly 23,000 graduates in 2017, 10 times the number who graduated in 2013.

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6 Strategies You Can Use To Design Effective eLearning For Your Millennial Workforce

Adobe Captivate

With increasing millennial workforce, organizations need to re-evaluate their existing learning strategies. In this article, I will explain 6 strategies that you can use to effectively engage and motivate your millennial workforce. Why Do You Need A Different Learning Strategy For Your Millennial Workforce? Of late, there has been a lot of discussion on the need for corporates to re-evaluate their existing learning strategies so that they can meaningfully engage millennial workforce.

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All change

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

In April, 2007, I joined Bournemouth University as Learning Technologist. This was the start of my journey in learning technology and working in an academic environment. Not really knowing or understanding what the role was I jumped in at the deep end and started learning all about pedagogy, learning technology, VLEs, assessments, assessment and marking criteria, copyright, academic personalities, missed meetings, impossible deadlines, broken links, unnecessary emails, internal politics, etc. an

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Highlights from the Litmos London Learning Roadshow

Litmos

Yesterday was a great day for Litmos in London! We were beyond thrilled to host more than 100 attendees at the gorgeous Four Seasons hotel. It was the ideal location to support this fantastic mix of customers and prospects, who showed up ready to learn, listen, question, and share as we embarked on a one-day agenda of training, customer panels, product unveiling, and a top-notch keynote sure to warm the hearts of Englanders.

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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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How To Capture Informal Learning Data to Tell The Complete Learning Story

Riptide Software

Before we begin our dive into informal learning, it’s important to baseline that learning is happening everywhere. We’ll explore exactly what this means in a minute, but learning does not simply happen within an LMS or Sharepoint portal.

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Launch of awareness eLearning program by SHE Teams Hyderabad City Police

Swift eLearning Services

To increase the horizon of training activities carried out by SHE Teams, an e-learning course/ online training has been initiated jointly by Swift elearning Services and Hyderabad City Police – SHE Teams with the sole purpose to raise public awareness on women safety among the citizens especially women.

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Success as a Solo Learning & Development Leader

Caveo Learning

This is part of our ongoing series, Interviews with Learning Leaders. Patti Guenther is the learning and development leader at MaxYield Cooperative, a farmers’ cooperative grain elevator in north-central Iowa. She works with fellow leaders and team members to assess and identify training needs and develop learning strategies and solutions. She is passionate about helping people improve and innovate with an eye focused on creating relevant solutions and effective results.

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Keeping Students Engaged with your Virtual Training Software

ReadyTech

Virtual training software allows you to run courses anywhere—at anytime. But it still comes with challenges. Here are tips to improve your virtual classroom by keeping students engaged and focused. 1. Take your online course as if you were the student. Prior to “going live” with your online course, perform a dry run from the students’ perspective and flag any content issues, inaccurate visuals or lectures that are way too long.

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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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5 Tips for Doing a Reduction in Force (RIF) the Right Way

Avilar

Low unemployment rates and a scramble to close the skills gap are top-of-mind trends among HR professionals and business leaders. Against such a backdrop, thoughts of reductions in force (RIF) and layoffs are largely ignored. True…in September, there was a brief threat of a federal government shutdown. But that was quickly resolved before it ever took shape.

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Mobile Learning - a Necessity for Today's Learner

Accord LMS

According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans own smartphones and 51% own tablets. With that many people accessing the internet via smartphones, Learning Management Systems (LMS) must offer a complete learning experience for mobile devices.

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8 Elements of Effective feedback at Workplace

Stratbeans

Want to strike an impressive conversation with Employees? Hey folks! If you are among those people who try to simplify things for their colleagues then welcome, this is a must-read for you. Striking a healthy communication is a sign of great work culture in an organization. But wait? Are all organizations able to attain this environment, if not, then what is that which is making them lack in achieving this?

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Mobile Learning - a Necessity for Today's Learner

Accord LMS

According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans own smartphones and 51% own tablets. With that many people accessing the internet via smartphones, Learning Management Systems (LMS) must offer a complete learning experience for mobile devices.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Mobile Learning with Adobe Captivate – Why and How

CommLab India

This blog highlights the features of Adobe Captivate that are helpful in developing mobile learning that works on multiple devices.

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This Week in EdTech: Blended Learning Trends

D2L

Stay up-to-date on the latest news in learning with these trending articles.

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Can this blog be revived?

Janet Clarey

I started this blog in February of 2007. It has basically been inactive for the past few years because my work-related writing is (and is required to be) published on Bersin, Deloitte Consulting websites and on Twitter. I’ve thought about what I wanted to do with this blog for some time and decided that rather than delete it, I’m changing its focus.

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This Week in Corporate Learning: Transforming Compliance Training

D2L

Stay up-to-date on the latest news in learning with these trending articles.

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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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Want to Develop Courses for iPads? Here are 4 Tools to Consider

CommLab India

Know about the features of 4 widely-used tools for developing online courses for the iPad.

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Want to learn Python? Try Skillsoft’s CodeX Python lab

Skillsoft

Want to learn Python for free? Read on to learn how.

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Get Paid to Validate a Course Before It’s Built

LearnDash

Creating an online course is no small task. Before you spend months of your life getting everything put together, why not validate the idea first? It isn’t uncommon for an online course to take a very long time to complete. Back when I was doing regular consulting I would be working with clients for close to a year to roll out a learning program.

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Happy Halloween! Why do we love to scare ourselves?

Learningtogo

Fear is generally thought of as a negative emotion. Google it and you will find thousands of articles, books and blog posts about how to face your fear and overcome it so you can be more successful, happy or brilliant. Yet fear serves a very useful purpose in our growth as a species. Fear is one of the key behaviors that keeps us alive and has done so since the time of our genetic ancestors.

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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.

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Increase employee productivity with LMS for Transportation

Paradiso

Training plays an important Role: Transportation Industry is one of the integral part of the world. Transportation Logistics is one of the main industries that requires their training process to be streamlined and systematic. Employees deals with various machines and equipments which means they need to be properly trained about all the aspects and entities of transportation.

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E-Learning for Various Learning Needs in the Manufacturing Industry [Infographic]

CommLab India

Check this infographic to know how each section of manufacturing training can be tackled through e-learning.