Wed.Aug 09, 2017

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How to Have Success with Off-the-Shelf Content

Association eLearning

You already know that off-the-shelf content can save your organization time and money. These courses are built for a wide audience and are applicable in almost any setting. Almost. Occasionally, you’ll choose a course on safety and you’ll end up with something that doesn’t seem to apply to your learners. Or, perhaps a video learning course while great on the surface, simply doesn’t mesh with your organization’s culture.

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When Selecting an LMS – Small Company vs. Big Corporation?

Gyrus

When Selecting an LMS – Small Company vs Big Corporation? ‘Think Big!’ Many of us are familiar with the saying… Big car, big house, big salary, just BIG. So it doesn’t come as a surprise when it’s time to choose a company/vendor to satisfy our needs, bigger is better. In this day and age many decisions are based on popularity.

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Simulations versus games

Clark Quinn

At the recent Realities 360 conference, I saw some confusion about the difference between a simulation and a game. And while I made some important distinctions in my book on the topic, I realize that it’s possible that it’s time to revisit them. So here I’m talking about some conceptual discriminations that I think are important. Simulations.

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Have You Seen What LearnDash Has Been Up To?

LearnDash

It has been a busy few months building out LearnDash, but the fun isn’t over yet! Over the past few months we have been releasing some pretty exciting enhancements to LearnDash. What I enjoy most about these efforts is that our customers help to drive the direction of our learning management system. We try to say it often but at the risk of sounding like a broken record: thank you so much for your involvement and trust in LearnDash LMS!

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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 Collection of Resources to Design an Amazing ELearning Course

JoomlaLMS

I think you will agree that keeping costs down when developing online courses is a key to eLearning business stability and lasting ROI. Over the years of the JoomlaLMS company existence we have assisted many clients – small eLearning business owners and startup founders, who couldn’t afford hiring experienced instructional designers and content creators and looked for any possible means to cut the eLearning project costs.

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A conversation with GamEffective

Kapp Notes

The other day I had a chance to have a conversation with Roni Floman of GamEffective. GamEffective was established in 2012 and works to change the way companies motive employees and the way managers align their teams with company goals. GamEffective uses real time performance tracking and goal setting to create employee engagement and improved employee performance.

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Balancing act

Learning with e's

Image from National Photo Library on Flickr As my colleagues at Plymouth Institute of Education make their way back to work, and I sit gazing, relaxed (and retired) from the sidelines, I have mixed emotions. I am happy that I no longer need to worry about timetables, module delivery sheets, digital learning environment content updates, online marking, exam boards, deadlines and more deadlines, but I'm also a little worried about how my colleagues will cope with ever increasing workloads, and the

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Expect The Unexpected: 8 Ways Leadership Online Training Prepares Managers For Everyday Challenges

TalentLMS

Team leaders, supervisors, and department heads troubleshoot problems on a daily basis. As such, they need to have a broad range of skills and knowledge in their arsenal. In this article, we’ll share 8 tips to prepare your managers for every eventuality through leadership online training. How Leadership Online Training Prepares Managers For Everyday Challenges.

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Are Your Courses Too Long to Digest? Try Microlearning

CommLab India

Check out this blog to know why you should use bite-sized online learning modules to deliver good training to your millennial workforce.

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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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The Power of Listening

Everwise

David Kennington’s career in information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) has spanned two continents and the age of the Internet. He’s helped Fortune 500 companies like J.P. Morgan and Prudential manage internal change as the Internet has revolutionized the way we work. In the process, Kennington learned how to build consensus at a large scale, establish connections between disconnected factions of a business, and critically review processes to find the missing pieces.

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Which Delivery Medium Will Ensure Your Training Gets Results

Training Industry

Navigating the world of training delivery can be confusing in today’s environment. Do you bring everybody in for a class? Build some e-learning? Deliver the information via a mobile app? The reality is there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Your best solution depends on who your learners are, when they will need the information most and what resources you have available.

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7 Stunning Secrets to Strike Balance between Priorities and Budget in eLearning

CommLab India

This blog explains how to strike a balance your priorities versus budget in online learning.

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3 Reasons Your Leadership Development Program May Be Failing

Training Industry

It’s likely we have all seen this scenario before: Your organization runs a leadership development program, anything from a half-day workshop to a full week of lectures, breakouts and role-playing. Then, a week, a month or six months down the road, you realize the content, strategy and execution are out of sight and probably out of mind. I believe we arrive at that point because, too often, we think the leadership development program itself is enough.

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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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Understanding the Draw of Game for Corporate Training

Designing Digitally

The generation that is currently coming of age and joining the workforce has never known life without technology. They grew up with cell phones, quickly followed by smartphones. They are tech-savvy and always ready for the next big “thing.

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Why Sales Training Fails Ignoring Mindset

Training Industry

Sales training is usually essential to salesperson success. Ineffective training makes a bad situation – salesperson turnover – even worse. Yet, many companies obtain little or no ROI from sales training. Why? An essential problem is a lack of mindset training. To appreciate the importance of sales training, consider that CSO Insights reports an average annual sales team turnover rate of about 25 percent, and the National Automobile Dealers Association reported turnover of over 65 percent among

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Stop Starting Over: How to recycle your training content

BigTinCan

About 10,000 Baby Boomers retire from the workforce every day. As tenured employees head out the door, all of those years of valuable experience and training follow suit. You need to get your new workforce up to speed, but you haven’t updated your training materials since they were first created. It’s time to freshen up. Don’t get hasty and kick your current content to the curb, it may just need a little sprucing up.

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Using an LMS for Gamified Onboarding

Training Industry

E-learning is growing rapidly but is ineffective without a good learning management system (LMS). An LMS streamlines the process of e-learning so that learners are able to gain the maximum value from their courses. This is particularly true during the onboarding of new employees. Making a good first impression is in the best interest of the organization itself, as new hires will most likely form their opinions of the company based on their first experiences there.

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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 Quadrants of Design Intersect in Top Learning Games by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Great learning game design can be found at the intersection of four areas of design expertise. Learn what they are and why. each matters.

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5 Tips to Achieve Business Goals with the Right Instructional Design Company

CommLab India

Use these steps to identify the best instructional design company to align your business and training goals.

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CEO Fraud on the Rise, Insurance Coverage Falling

Roundtable Learning

What the CEO says, goes. But what if your CEO is an imposter?

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Learn, Retain, Reinforce – Learning Mantras Made Easy with Videos

CommLab India

Learn how videos can be the solution for learning, retention and the reinforcement of training.

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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 Onboarding Attracts the Best Millennial Talent

PDG

How do you attract, onboard, and retain the best, most talented millennials? It all starts with your Employment Brand , how the outside world perceives you as a corporate employer. For the job-searching talented millennial, this even includes your ethical stance and your sense of social responsibility. As a company, you will have focused heavily on your corporate brand and its offer of value to potential customers – your employment brand is your offer of value to potential new employees.

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Top 10 Screen Recording Software for Windows: 2017 Update

eLearning Brothers

Last year we posted what was, at the time, the top ten screen recording software for Windows. We decided to re-evaluate this list and take into consideration the different software updates that have been made recently. We also found that many people had suggestions for other programs to be considered for the list so we took a look at those. Before we begin, let’s revisit the rules of our evaluations.

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What’s Trending in Talent Management?

KnowledgeCity

Managing talent is the single most important job of HR and organizational leaders. Just three years ago, 93 percent of CEOs knew they needed to change how their companies were attracting and retaining talent but, only 61 percent of those CEOs had actually done anything about it. Is your company in need of change but you don’t know where to start? Trends to watch.

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7 Impressive Features of iSpring for Rapid E-learning Development [Infographic]

CommLab India

Here is an infographic that shares 7 impressive features of iSpring that make it the ideal tool for rapid e-learning development.

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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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What’s Trending in Talent Management?

KnowledgeCity

Managing talent is the single most important job of HR and organizational leaders. Just three years ago, 93 percent of CEOs knew they needed to change how their companies were attracting and retaining talent but, only 61 percent of those CEOs had actually done anything about it. Is your company in need of change but you don’t know where to start? Trends to watch.

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What’s Trending in Talent Management?

KnowledgeCity

Managing talent is the single most important job of HR and organizational leaders. Just three years ago, 93 percent of CEOs knew they needed to change how their companies were attracting and retaining talent but, only 61 percent of those CEOs had actually done anything about it. Is your company in need of change but you don’t know where to start? Trends to watch.

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