Wed.Sep 30, 2020

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5 Factors to Consider in eLearning Outsourcing

Tesseract Learning

We know that today’s learners are looking for mobile, self-paced, and personalized content which can only be delivered through eLearning. You might be at a stage where you are thinking of either developing new eLearning courses or thinking of converting your instructor-led training into eLearning. You might be looking to outsource your eLearning and identifying the right partner.

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How To Design eLearning That Delivers Results With Tim Slade

TechSmith Camtasia

Designing an eLearning course can seem like an intimidating task. Where should you begin? How do you plan your project? Perhaps more importantly, what can you do to make sure that you design an eLearning course that delivers real results? Tim Slade is a speaker, award-winning freelance eLearning designer and the author of the book, ‘ The eLearning Designer’s Handbook.

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Frontline employee support: Where we are now and where we need to be

Axonify

I’m convinced that “adapt” will be 2020’s Word of the Year. This year has proven that life as we know it can turn on a dime, and agility is the must-have skill to survive. Nobody is living this lesson quite as vividly as frontline employees. Almost overnight they were deemed essential—which meant they were required … Continued. Copyright © 2020 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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Facilitation Tips Series, Part 3: Why are You Using Icebreakers?

InSync Training

While researching evidence-based practices for the virtual classroom , I was looking for specific examples of activities that supported proven approaches like retrieval practice and feedback. What I found mostly were hundreds -- literally hundreds -- of sites and blog posts and articles promising ideas for “engagement and interaction” that were usually nothing more than lists of “icebreakers”, often just the same ones repeated from site to site and post to post.

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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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Learning science again

Clark Quinn

In an earlier post, I made a defense of cognitive psychology (really, to me, cognitive science, a bigger umbrella). And, previously, the case for learning science. And I’m coming at learning science again, with a personal interest. Learning science is an interdisciplinary field, including cognitive science, educational psychology, and more. Having emerged relatively late, it’s now finding a solid footing with a unified approach to looking at how we learn, and how to facilitate it.

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How to unlock engagement and retention with stellar e-learning content

Docebo

Your LMS content strategy is the core foundation of your training programs. Top-tier pieces of content and learning objects are what drive engagement, knowledge retention, and positive user experiences so that your audiences never stop learning. . If Spotify, Netflix, or YouTube didn’t refresh their arsenal with updated and fresh content, we probably wouldn’t continue to frequent their sites (let’s not even think about how we would supplement quarantine then). .

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7 Online Safety Training Outsourcing Secrets Every Company Should Know

eLearning Industry

The key to outsourcing success is knowing about all the risks and potential pitfalls before you even begin vendor vetting. This article features 7 safety training outsourcing secrets every organization should know. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to unlock engagement and retention with stellar e-learning content

Docebo

Your LMS content strategy is the core foundation of your training programs. Top-tier pieces of content and learning objects are what drive engagement, knowledge retention, and positive user experiences so that your audiences never stop learning. . If Spotify, Netflix, or YouTube didn’t refresh their arsenal with updated and fresh content, we probably wouldn’t continue to frequent their sites (let’s not even think about how we would supplement quarantine then). .

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AR Trends: What’s in Store for Different Industries?

CommLab India

If you’ve played Pokémon Go or used IKEA’s app, then you’ve had a brief stint with Augmented Reality. But, there’s a lot that AR has transformed in various industries, including corporate training. Find out more here!

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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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10 Questions You Should Answer Before Starting An Online School

eLearning Industry

We often find ourselves caught up in a lot of questions if we're to start an online school. How to proceed? What things to consider? Who to take advice from? You often wonder, wouldn't it be best if someone would have done the research for me? Well, look no more. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Myths About Rapid eLearning Implementation Busted [SlideShare]

CommLab India

Rapid eLearning can be a lifesaver, especially when you’re short of time, budget, and need to rollout important training. But there are myths associated with rapid eLearning implementation. This slideshare busts 5 such myths!

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The 4 Most Important Components Needed To Design An Online Onboarding System

eLearning Industry

The pandemic has created the largest global remote workforce in history and it has helped highlight some major opportunities for growth. For many companies, redesigning their onboarding system to be completely online will support the change/growth needed for them to adapt to the "new normal.". This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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BIM: What Now and Why?

Global eTraining

Have you ever taken a moment to think about the much-loved, oft-used phrase ‘Like a kid in a candy store’? The expression invokes thoughts of a wide-eyed child, completely over-joyed—and overwhelmed—by the shear amount of tasty, sugar-coated options before them (a situation I would still love to be in, despite my age). This feeling of being both excited, while also overloaded with potential options probably sounds a little bit like you being faced with BIM, doesn’t it?

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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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9 Ways to Use Mistake-Driven Learning in Your E-Learning Courses

Capytech

9 Ways to Use Mistake-Driven Learning in Your E-Learning Courses. Making a mistake is a powerful learning experience. Mistakes can bring clarity to a topic, and they can correct wrong assumptions and misplaced understandings. They can also help plug knowledge gaps. Therefore, you can improve results and the overall quality of your e-learning courses by creating opportunities for mistake-driven learning experiences.

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Why Giving Instant Feedback is Important for Effective Learning

Edume

It’s no secret that feedback is an important component of effective learning. Feedback improves learner confidence, motivation to learn and ultimately, a learner’s attainment. It’s also what your people want - 65% of employees say they want more feedback. Feedback comes in many shapes and forms. You can deliver feedback episodically, in isolated instances or on an ongoing basis.

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6 ways executive education will never be the same

CLO Magazine

It’s broadly accepted that COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation efforts for most organizations by approximately two to three years. From client-facing activities to administrative functions, a range of platforms and tools have quickly been assembled to help workers collaborate, communicate, innovate and actively maintain their levels of performance at every turn.

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Performance Consulting with Nigel Harrison

looop

Towards the end of 2019, David James spoke with Nigel Harrison , published author and renowned expert in Performance Consulting, on The Learning & Development Podcast. Their conversation defines Performance Consulting, explores the practice, and its applications in organisations – often in the face of stakeholders who may already have an idea of what they expect in a solution.

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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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Why Spark by EdCast is the Spotify of Learning

EdCast

One of my favorite apps is Spotify — it’s amazing how it has evolved since its launch in October of 2008. In 2015, when we were brainstorming about reinventing digital knowledge and learning, we took a lot of inspiration from both Netflix and Spotify. Our core idea was to make learning simple and easy to consume, just as Netflix/Spotify have done with video and music content respectively.

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Four Communication Principles for a Vibrant Virtual Learning Experience

Thought Industries

At some point in March 2020, after the lockdowns started (and we realized this was the new normal), I scrapped the rational and predictable product plan I had made just months earlier. We only had days to decide how to deliver our corporate and public communication workshops in a virtual format. Traditionally, people had attended in-person, at our headquarters, or on their company’s campus.

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The 100 Best Trivia Questions with Answers

ProProfs

Table of Contents. Introduction. 1.Sports trivia questions. 2.Technology trivia questions. 3.Science trivia questions. 4.Health trivia questions. 5.Geography trivia questions. 6.Literature trivia questions. 7.Politics trivia questions. 8.Education trivia questions. 9.Food trivia questions. 10.General trivia questions. Conclusion. Pros or amateurs, Trivia quizzes are fun for everyone, and they are perfect for many occasions. .

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How to Connect from Six Feet Away—or More

Cylient

With physical connection now pretty much off the table for most people, we have the opportunity to step back and really ask ourselves: Why do our connections matter to us, and how will we create meaningful ones in our socially distanced world? Connection is essential for human beings. It’s not a nice to have; we need to feel connected to each other in order fully function.

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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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How the Right Tech Partner Helps Accomplish CME Learning Objectives

EthosCE

Whether your CME program is new and developing, mature and established, or growing rapidly, the technology that you use to deliver your continuing medical education is one of your most critical partners for success. Having a tech partner that understands the objectives for your learners and courses makes your work easier and can contribute to better outcomes in CME learning objectives and your CME program overall.

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Remote Training Strategies that Work

Lemonade

Training that works well in-person doesn’t always translate to remote employees. Traditional learning management systems are too static. And while instructor-led training is valuable, it’s too passive to be the only training method used by organizations. So what remote training strategies do work? In short, training that’s engaging, chunked, and available on-demand.

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What is the 70:20:10 Model? Less Than 100 Words

Roundtable Learning

What is the 70:20:10 Model? The 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development is a commonly used formula within the training profession. The model suggests that 70% of the average person’s knowledge is obtained by doing on-the-job experiences, 20% from social sources such as interactions with others, and 10% from formal training and events. Origins of the model date back to the 1980s when researchers McCall, Lombardo, and Morrison were interested in explaining the key developmental experiences of

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Performance Consulting with Nigel Harrison

looop

Towards the end of 2019, David James spoke with Nigel Harrison , published author and renowned expert in Performance Consulting, on The Learning & Development Podcast. Their conversation defines Performance Consulting, explores the practice, and its applications in organisations – often in the face of stakeholders who may already have an idea of what they expect in a solution.

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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.

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6 Tips to Make Corporate Training a Success with Your Employees

Schoox

Many employees dread corporate training. Whether it’s a day-long breakout session, or training/e-learning that they must complete on their own time, poor quality corporate training can be time-consuming, boring, and valueless. Great corporate training should not be a task your workers dread. Learning is exciting, boosts engagement, and can significantly develop employees’ skills.

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Mini Glossary of the Social Dimension of Learning

KnowledgeOne

On any learning path, part of the journey is done alone. However, the presence of others will be an unavoidable factor, whether it is to guide or motivate us. In addition, we are constantly learning informally in our multiple social contacts. Here is a mini glossary of concepts related to the social dimension of learning. What is collaborative learning?

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The Future Of Learning And Development: Goodbye Classrooms, Hello eLearning

eLearning Industry

The future of eLearning is bright. But even in our technology-driven world, barriers still exist between the online world and the average internet user. Will Learning and Development ever be exclusively digital? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.