Wed.Sep 20, 2017

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eLearning Trivia

Association eLearning

Let’s try something a bit different today, for a change of pace. I usually write a blog post, you skim or read it, maybe share it, and we move on. How about something a bit more engaging? Something that will literally make you think. It’s time for eLearning Trivia! What does “eLearning” stand for? a)Effective learning. b)Electronic learning. c)Everywhere learning. d)Estimated learning.

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Opinion: Increased Demand for Virtual Live Training

LearnDash

E-Learning has been around for quite some time, and today it is used more than ever. But is it leaving us wanting something “more” from our training programs? Most everyone knows the benefits of teaching using e-learning. Companies use it because the cost savings are so huge and they are able to standardized their content delivery. Entrepreneurs choose online courses because they can sell them over-and-over again without requiring any additional time investment.

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Missed my Live Session on TLDC Chat? Catch the Recording!

Learningtogo

Every weekday, learning professionals from around the world gather for a livestreaming interactive video experience at www.TLDC.us. I was honored to join them as a guest and talk about the future of learning, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, neuroscience and the scientific method. If you missed the live event, you can catch my interview here.

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Tools for Instructional Investigation: Finding the Root Cause of Waste and Failure

Allen Interactions

By Christopher Allen , MA, PMI-ACP, Product Manager. “There’s no better learning technique than preparing to teach others.”. Valid? Yes. Implications? This adage does presuppose that during prepar ation the instructor is working with the right information, uncovers the implied and important steps to getting it right, and masters the concepts well enough to build learning frameworks for their students.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: 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? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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TLDChat – Featuring Margie Meacham

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. Every weekday, learning professionals from around the world gather for a livestreaming interactive video experience at www.TLDC.us. I was honored to join them as a guest and talk about the future of learning, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, neuroscience and the scientific method. And don’t forget to join us in January for the TLDC18 Conference , where I’ll be showing you how to build your own chatbot!

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Podcast: TLDChat – Featuring Margie Meacham

Learningtogo

Every weekday, learning professionals from around the world gather for a livestreaming interactive video experience at www.TLDC.us. I was honored to join them as a guest and talk about the future of learning, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, neuroscience and the scientific method. And don’t forget to join us in January for the TLDC18 Conference , where I’ll be showing you how to build your own chatbot!

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Comfortably numb

Learning with e's

Image from Flickr by Ilmicrofono Oggiono How do teachers get to the place where they are comfortable admitting they don't know everything about their subject? Some might argue that teachers should be expert at the highest level. But is this feasible for everyone and surely there is always scope to learn more? I want to ask the question: how can teachers and their students construct their knowledge together ?

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The 4 Keys to Credibility

CLO Magazine

Angie Morgan is co-author of “Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success” and co-founder of Lead Star, a leadership consulting firm. Many of us plow through the day without giving much thought to the impact we have on others. As we’re balancing our schedules, managing projects and responding to emails, it’s easy to get tunnel vision and lose awareness of how we engage with the people around us whose support we need.

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LMS: Best Bet for Delivering Online Training

ProProfs

Recently I got an opportunity to interact with a learning and development (L&D) specialist from a renowned MNC. While she informed me that her employer is on the lookout for an alternative training medium that could support its existing offering ie. conventional classroom training. As our conversation started to gain pace, I quickly pointed out that ‘elearning’ was the best option.

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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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The NBA’s New MVP

CLO Magazine

When Mike Kennedy joined the National Basketball Association in 2012 as director of learning and leadership development, the organization was stuck in an old-school learning environment under long-time commissioner David Stern. The curriculum was limited, managers decided whether their people attended courses, and there was no clear vision of what effective leadership looked like.

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Why Does Video-based Learning Work in M-learning and Microlearning?

CommLab India

Why video works in learning? Let’s dive right into its use and success in microlearning and mobile learning.

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Live from C3 - Day 2 Wrap Up

Litmos

The second full day of C3 was packed with Litmos breakout sessions that both educated and entertained. I will not touch on each and every session in this post because there were so many in our two concurrent tracks, but here are some highlights. We started out the morning with a lively talk from Learning Rebels founder, Shannon Tipton, " Simplicity in Learning for the Modern Workforce " which focused on strategies for creating a new blend of learning solutions to meet the complex needs of today'

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Roundtable Creates Learning Platform for Associations

Roundtable Learning

Associations are a wealth of knowledge and education, and the best ones know that capturing and disseminating that education to their members can not only increase and retain membership, but can also provide additional revenue that allows the association to thrive.

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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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Learning Locker Open Source v2 is Here!

HT2 Labs

[PRESS RELEASE] HT2 Labs shortlisted for a record 6 categories at the annual Learning Technologies Awards. The post Learning Locker Open Source v2 is Here! appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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Transparency

Clark Quinn

I believe that transparency is a good thing. It builds trust, as it makes it hard to hide things. And trust is important. So, in the spirit of transparency, it occurred to me to share a little bit about me and this blog. Here I lay out who I am, why I write it, and what I write about. You can find out more via the ‘about Clark Quinn’ link in the right column, but in brief, I saw the connection between computing and learning as an undergraduate, and it’s been my career ever sin

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Experimentation as Strategy

CommPartners

By Mary Byers, CAE, CSP According to Forbes contributor Mike Maddock, “In order to make a product or service everything it can be, it needs to be repeatedly soft launched with both internal stakeholders and external customers. This means literally sending the idea—be it a product or a service—into a limited part of the marketplace […].

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6 Data Security Tips For Mobile Learning In Corporate Training

PulseLearning

Mobile learning and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are two firmly established corporate training trends today. With no sign of losing favor, these trends are quickly becoming the must-haves of next-generation online learning. If your organization has already embraced mobile learning or BYOD, allowing employees to access training materials anywhere, anytime on their personal devices, it is likely that data security has become a hot topic.

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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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Growing Leaders Organically

CLO Magazine

In 1987, Rachel Berliner was pregnant with her daughter Amy and on bed rest so her husband Andy went looking for ready-made meals at their natural grocery store. When he couldn’t find anything organic and vegetarian to meet the young couple’s dietary needs, they decided to make them on their own. That was the beginning of Amy’s Kitchen Inc., a family-owned maker of organic vegetarian and vegan meals like rustic Italian vegetable soup and black bean and quinoa burritos.

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Why “in the Moment” Coaching is the Foundation of a Coaching Culture

Cylient

People’s day-to-day interactions are what give culture its feel and flavor. Are people caring or curt? Are they honest or evasive? Do they get curious when things don’t go as expected, or caught up in their own emotional reactions? It’s these “in the moment” micro choices that define our experience of culture. That’s why I believe that “in the moment” coaching is the foundation needed to build a coaching culture.

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7 Mobile Learning Myths Debunked

CommLab India

This blog busts 7 myths that surround mobile learning and helps allay the misconceptions of training managers.

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Accelerating Sales Training With Prepared Battle Plans

Training Industry

Achieving the ideal balance between abstract and concrete is a constant challenge in training. If the education is too abstract, the learner can’t relate to it. If there are too many examples, the learner can miss the forest for the trees. The need for appropriate concrete examples can be particularly important in sales training, where a common learner internal dialogue is, “Sure, it works in those other businesses, but my business is different.

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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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eLearning’s Staggering Growth Due to ROI Benefits for Business

eLearning Narrators

As eLearning narrators , we are highly aware of the not only the role we play as the conduit between the instructional design team and the learner, but of how the industry itself and its staggering growth is changing the way the world learns. Rather than learner going to teacher, the teacher (in the form of an eLearning program) now goes to the learner.

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Try a Coaching in the Moment Pilot

Cylient

Coaching in the Moment is a unique, PowerPoint-free one-day learning experience that instills practical coaching capabilities at all levels of the organization using Cylient’s simple, yet robust, Untying the Knot ® approach to coaching. “In the moment” coaching conversations are a critical success factor for addressing the emotional side of change.

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‘Game Theory’ of Game-based eLearning industry

Stratbeans

Many managers and teachers wonder how to make their trainee’s learning experience exciting. They are concerned about the delivery potential of their employees. I recently talked to a talent acquisition manager. She said, “the newbies that are selected are of great calibre but only 10 % of them are able to complete the course.” Interestingly the concerns were not about the content but the way it is presented to the trainee, which was far from being game-based.

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5 Tips To Encourage Employees To Comply With Compliance Training

Adobe Captivate

It’s important that employees comply – for the good of their own and the organization. To do so, your compliance program needs to be engaging enough to help them internalize and apply the learning. In this article, I share 5 tips that will encourage your learners to comply with compliance training. How To Encourage Employees To Comply With Compliance Training.

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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!