Mon.Oct 08, 2018

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3 Signs Your LMS Software Investment Is Paying Off (Or Not)

TOPYX LMS

A good LMS centralizes, simplifies and streamlines training. It gives your company a competitive advantage , engages employees, and much more.¹ To ensure your LMS is delivering these benefits, it’s a good idea to step back and take an objective look at how well the software is performing and if your investment is really paying off.

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Knock-Knock! Is Anybody in There? – Why Your Brain is Still Essentially a Black Box

Learningtogo

Perhaps one of the most unique characteristics of our species is our insatiable obsession with ourselves. Going back to the earliest examples of human cave art, we see evidence of our collective narcissism.

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Powering Performance with Training

dVinci Interactive

Powering Performance with Training Direct Energy is one of North America’s largest retail providers of electricity, natural gas, and home and business energy-related services with over 4 million customers. The Direct Energy/Success Academy provides training to technicians and other employees throughout the company’s franchise network. As Vice President of Training, Lance Sinclair needs to offer programs that are aligned with company goals and have a positive impact for the franchise and the indi

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How To Support Learning From The Daily Work

Jane Hart

Although most L&D departments focus on training people to do their jobs, research tells us that most of what employees learn at work happens as they do their jobs. In fact, when team members work together closely, share reflections and resources on a regular basis, they continuously learn from each other.

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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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Get your eLearning activities available without internet connection thanks to an Offline training platform

Paradiso

Many of the educational and training processes that are provided today look for the user’s comfort in the learning activities. Generating a suitable space for the realization of an educational or training process is essential for the success of it. On this occasion, we will talk about offline training platform and its benefits in the e-learning industry.

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Set up you real live interaction sessions with Paradiso LMS Virtual Classroom integration

Paradiso

The best way to deliver your course, teach lessons, lectures, develop training activities or any other type of virtual content is using the virtual classroom integration. This feature will not only help you improve communication with your users, but it also has many advantages in its daily implementation and training processes in general. Paradiso LMS Virtual Classroom integration is so smooth that your users won’t even know where Paradiso LMS ends and the Virtual Classroom tool starts.

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Don't Do This! The Definitive Guide To Making Your Employees Hate Their Training

eLearning Industry

Creating and deploying an online employee training program is easier than ever. Creating an employee training program that employees will love? Not so much. In this article, we go through several common ways instructors get it wrong. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Harnessing the Power of Reflective Learning in Online Training: 5 Benefits

CommLab India

Incorporating reflective learning in your online training programs can make them more effective. This blog gives you an insight into the benefits of reflective learning.

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Fast Track Your Captivate Skills

eLearning Industry

Learn to Fast Track Your Captivate Skills during this event with Tricia Crawford from TLC Media Design. She is a Certified Adobe Captivate Expert with over 27 years of experience in the Training & Education Industry. Join this webinar and learn how to implement time-saving tactics, increase student engagement, and to quickly create Captivate courses!

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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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Microsoft 2019 – What to expect

OpenSesame

For devotees of Microsoft Office, it is almost time for the unveiling of new versions of Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and the rest of the important office apps used by many companies like yours. How this year will be different from the rest. For past product releases in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016, we saw that depending on your level of enthusiasm for the new features, buyers either rushed out to upgrade or decided to wait another three years to see what comes next.

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4 Ways To Use Training Imagery And Terminology To Deliver Epic Meaning

eLearning Industry

There are many ways to instil Epic Meaning into the minds of your learners, and one of the most effective is to get the training imagery and terminology used throughout the learning experience, just right. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Top 7 Was You Can Utilize Your Remaining 2018 Training Budget

Coreaxis

As we race into the fourth quarter, many of us are assessing how much of our 2018 training budget remains and what we need to accomplish before the end of the year. According to a 2017 Training Industry report, large companies averaged $17 million in training budget with mid-sized companies coming at $1.5 million and small companies at just over $375,000.

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Free eBook: Just One Thing – Microlearning, A Practitioner's Guide

eLearning Industry

If you are unfamiliar with the ways of microlearning, but still confident that this is the direction you should follow for your eLearning courses, then this edition is bound to serve you well as a practitioner’s guide. It describes the process and methods, discloses risks and challenges, and offers tips to bring you success. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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5 Learning Horror Stories To Give You Shivers!

Growth Engineering

L&D innovations such as Learning Management Systems have revolutionised the way we absorb information. By utilizing gamification, social learning and Epic Meaning, they guarantee an engaging experience. However, ghoulishly unengaging methods are still being practised. The post 5 Learning Horror Stories To Give You Shivers! appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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The Value of Consistent Training

Training Industry

The post The Value of Consistent Training appeared first on Training Industry.

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Introducing Ed Performance Team: Chris Wallace, Ironman

Ed App

Triathlete Chris Wallace represents the epitome of high performance. At Ed App, we’re extremely proud to have him as our first Ed Performance Team Ambassador – someone who represents our ‘Driven to high performance in business’ ethos. Next week, Chris will face one of the most gruelling challenges any athlete can endure, the Iron Man World championships in Kona, Hawaii and we’ll be supporting him.

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Building xAPI-Enabled Ecosystems Requires Strategic Choices

LearningGuild

Building xAPI-Enabled Ecosystems Requires Strategic Choices. megan-torrance. Mon, 10/08/2018 - 01:00.

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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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3 Ways eLearning can Promote a Global Community

CHRP-INDIA

The rise in familiarity with eLearning and its related programs are making it easier to find ways of communicating realistically and connecting with people from all across the globe. Irrespective of the language barriers, the eLearning global community is steadily catching hold of things to overcome some of the most relevant obstacles to be tackled on an immediate basis.

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What makes a great eLearning module?

Adobe Captivate

Ensuring Your Captivate eLearning Courses are Successful? When we decide to create an eLearning module for students or adult learners we need to ensure that the content is engaging and will keep the learner’s attention. So what makes eLearning fail? Captivate is a wonderful eLearning creation tool, but, you need to use it to its full extent to make it attractive to the student.

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Increasing Productivity Results In Business Growth: Research Reveals Secret To Making More Money

WalkMe Training Station

We live in a hyper-connected digital world that moves at lightning speed. So why don’t we get more done? In large organizations, things move slowly. Meetings drag on. Emails pile up. Delays are common. Everyone seems impossibly busy. But employee output is still much less than it should be. This fact is a cause of frustration not just for business leaders, but for employees too.

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Creating Courses for Adult Learners

Adobe Captivate

Designing for Adult Learners. While college students are happy to work through a syllabus and achieve their grade at the end of the semester, the same is not true for adult learners in the workforce or following an online path of education. To engage the adult learner there is a phrase that we use “What’s In It For Me? (WIIFM)”. Adult learners need to see results fast, therefore, we need to create our modules and courses differently for them.

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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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How to Compare LMS Platforms – Identify the Good from the Best!

AbaraLMS

As a first time buyer or a replacement-LMS seeker, it is important to ask this one question—how to compare LMS platforms? Furthermore, how to differentiate good LMS platforms from the best? The reason behind this is very simple. As first time buyers, knowing which features are really going to help train your workforce is [ ] The post How to Compare LMS Platforms – Identify the Good from the Best!

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Who Should You Include In Your Planning For Your eLearning Course?

Adobe Captivate

Who Should You Include In Your Planning For Your eLearning Course? Having worked with many companies over the years I have come across a high number of instructional designers and company managers that dictate what needs to be included in the learning materials for online teaching. Many of these company managers have no formal training in teaching learners and hence have not compiled a complete picture of what needs to be learned by the student or learner.

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Virtual Reality and How it is Impacting the Workplace

Designing Digitally

The virtual reality (VR) market is expected to be worth $30 billion by 2020. And, if we are to believe investment banker Piper Jaffray, then 500 million VR headsets will be sold by 2025! Now those are figures that organizations cannot ignore, especially when huge brands like Google, Facebook, and so on are big on VR. VR is not only found in games and movies.

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L&D Roads Bad? It’s Time to Repair Our Infrastructure!

Innovative Learning Group

I’m frustrated! As a Michigander, I hear a lot about the state’s infrastructure and the extensive work needed to improve it. There are crumbling roads, deficient bridges, and congestion plaguing our streets and highways. But what’s really frustrating me are the problems I see with the state of the learning and development (L&D) infrastructure. How are so many organizations ignoring the obstacles that impede how we travel to our L&D destinations?

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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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Mix It Up: Why Modern Employee Training Content Still Includes Reading

BizLibrary

Video has taken over modern employee training, but it's important not to ignore the fundamentals; reading is still crucial for development. The post Mix It Up: Why Modern Employee Training Content Still Includes Reading appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Case Study: How Photobox Group Empowers Their Managers Through Continuous Learning

Degreed

A while back, The Photobox Group — Europe’s leading online photo printing company — experienced some pretty tremendous growth, and everything was looking picture perfect. Well, almost everything. During this transformation, the company was acquiring new customers left and right, but inside their doors, a different story was developing. Skill gaps were widening and it was becoming more and more challenging to acquire and retain the necessary talent to continue on this skyrocketing trajectory.

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How to Compare LMS Platforms?

AbaraLMS

As a first time buyer or a replacement-LMS seeker, it is important to ask this one question—how to compare LMS platforms? Furthermore, how to differentiate good LMS platforms from the best? The reason behind this is very simple. As first time buyers, knowing which features are really going to help train your workforce is [ ] The post How to Compare LMS Platforms?