Wed.Jan 17, 2018

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Personal Progress Tracker Update

Association eLearning

Last year I wrote a post about how to make a personal progress tracker. I’ve made some changes to my own progress tracker since then and thought I’d share them. After a few months using the old way I started to get frustrated with it. My progress tracker made it look like I had a lot of lazy weeks. But I knew that I’d been doing other important things that weren’t on my progress tracker.

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Infographic on Learning Experience Design Trends in 2018

Origin Learning

Design plays a major role in the success of an eLearning program. Design has evolved from functional buttons, synchronized audio and video, and assessments. Modern eLearning is all about creating engaging and powerful learning experiences that drive the user to complete the training program with ease. Today, we bring to you an infographic designed by us and based on the engaging content created by eLearning Guru – Connie Malamed.

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Raise the Bar with VR

Web Courseworks

Date: March 27th, 2018. Register Here. In this session, Filament Games CEO Dan White will discuss the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) to facilitate interactive, inquiry-based learning. Through the lens of Filament’s VR research, development, and ongoing dialogue with leading VR manufacturers like HTC, Oculus and Google, White will demonstrate how VR can engage users in authentic learning through identity, embodiment, and immersion.

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Developing Decisions

Clark Quinn

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that one thing I do in getting objectives is focus on decisions. And, simple ones will get automated; we can train AI to handle these. What will make the difference between ordinary and extraordinary organizations is the ability to make decisions in this new VUCA environment (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous).

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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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5 Things to Do When the Solution Shouldn’t Have Been Training

Allen Interactions

Let’s be honest, shall we? If you’ve been in this industry more than eight weeks, you’ve probably been involved in a solution which possibly, maybe, (very, very probably) shouldn’t have been training.

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Search for the Agile Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

Modern organizations need agile learners. Given the pace of change due to technology, globalization, workforce diversity, and hyper-competition, people need to continually acquire and apply new knowledge, skills, and values at a rate unheard of in previous eras. As we explain in our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , simple and routine jobs are being replaced by automation and robots.

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Key Tools for Franchise Growth

Wisetail

The Wisetail LMS supports franchise growth with a modern and intuitive user-interface, multi-level reporting, and advanced training tools. The post Key Tools for Franchise Growth appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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Webinar: 10 Adobe Illustrator Tips From Our Graphic Designers

eLearning Brothers

On a recent webinar, Nic Brown, our Director of Product & Design, walked us through ten of his best tips for Adobe Illustrator. He showed attendees the step-by-step process for each of these functions: Select Shapes with Same Fill. Replacing Global Colors. Outline View. Offset Path. Shape Builder. Clipping Masks. Opacity Mask. Transform Effect. Layering Multiple Strokes and Fills (using the appearance panel).

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5 tactics to convert employees who resist continuous learning

Litmos

In an economy filled with rapidly changing technology, continuous learning is vital for both organizations and their employees. It has to be — according to Deloitte’s 2017 Global Human Capital Trends report , the half life of a skill is five years. Employees have to keep on top of their learning to stay relevant, and employers’ traditional centralized methods of training (corporate universities, for example), just cannot keep up.

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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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Examining Skills Gap Perceptions

CLO Magazine

Employers have long complained of the skills gap, and the “2017 Skills Gap Report” suggests employees recognize it too. The report, released by online learning marketplace Udemy , found that nearly 80 percent of full-time U.S. employees agree there is a skills gap and more than one-third (35 percent) feel personally affected by it. But perception of the skills gap varies among industry, rank, generation and even gender.

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Handling Complaints: Is the Customer Always Right?

KnowledgeCity

We’ve all heard that phrase “the customer is always right”. No matter the situation, more and more companies are placing emphasis on customer service and how to better handle customer complaints. Why? According to “Understanding Customers” by Ruby Newell-Legner, it takes 12 positive customer experiences to make up for one negative experience.

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The GDPR is coming — are you ready?

OpenSesame

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was approved by the European Union (EU) Parliament and will be effective 25 May 2018, at which time those organizations in non-compliance will face heavy fines. What is the GDPR and why is it important? GDPR is designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy, and reshape the way organizations approach data privacy.

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3 R’s of Online Healthcare Training and Authoring Tools that Help

CommLab India

Training managers can understand the important criteria that online healthcare training programs need to follow and the authoring tools that aid.

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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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eLearning Content in Nonlinear Formats Aids Personalization by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Offering eLearning content in nonlinear formats can drive engagement and harness the transformative power of eLearning. personalization.

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Millennial Onboarding Beyond the Classroom with Mobile Learning

CommLab India

This blog helps training managers gain an insight into the ways in which mobile learning helps with millennial onboarding.

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Pivot: Shifting the Focus to Our Internal Customers by Joanne Astorga

LearningGuild

All too often, companies forget about pleasing their internal customers, aka their employees. Savvy L&D leaders must pivot, shifting the focus to them.

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Whitepaper: Supporting CPD in the workplace

Enterprise Study

The changing face of learning and development, the competitiveness of the job market, and the need for organisations to attract and retain talent, mean that supporting employee Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is being seen by savvy employers as an integral part of their professional development strategy. This paper will discuss what is deemed to be good CPD, what an individual may include in their CPD portfolio and why and how employers and the HR Department should support the process.

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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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How to Turn Conference Videos into Effective eLearning

Roundtable Learning

How do you share your keynote with those who couldn’t make it? Do you simply share a clip of the video on social media, or is there a better way to market, and even profit, from your association’s best practices?

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4 Killer Examples Of Using Mobile Apps In Corporate Training

Adobe Captivate

With the widespread adoption of mLearning or mobile learning, the usage of mobile apps for learning is on an increase and for good reasons. In this article, I share 4 examples of how you can use mobile apps in corporate training. What Are Mobile Apps In Corporate Training Or Apps For Learning? Did you know that the number of mobile apps downloaded in 2017 was over 197 billion across the world?

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Reinforcement Hits The Mark In Safety Training

CommLab India

This blog explores ways in which you can reinforce safety training in your organization.

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Top 10 Benefits to Partnering and Outsourcing Learning & Development in 2018

Abreon

As the New Year stretches before us and you review your organization’s goals and budgets for 2018, you will most likely be evaluating your learning and development (L&D) programs, including training. Training is as critical as ever to the success of an organization—especially to stay competitive in a fierce market. When your employees’ workdays revolve around processes, operational tasks, emails, meetings, and reports—there is little time for more high-value work, strategic planning, a

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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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How to lead the way with learning analytics (Free Guide)

Elucidat

Imagine being so confident in your understanding of your audience that you can design elearning you know will work. This is the edge that Chief Learning Officers and Heads of L&D have been looking for, and it doesn’t have to be a pipe dream! There’s a wealth of learning analytics data out there, but having confidence in drawing actionable insights is where many people become stuck.

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The GDPR is coming -- are you ready?

OpenSesame

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was approved by the European Union (EU) Parliament and will be effective 25 May 2018, at which time those organizations in non-compliance will face heavy fines. What is the GDPR and why is it important? GDPR is designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy, and reshape the way organizations approach data privacy.

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Busting Top 3 Sales Force Online Training Myths, Part I

Melon Learning

Busting Myth #1: There is no way to measure the impact on the bottom line from sales force training activities. Any sales training professional you ask will tell you straight away that one of the most common questions they get from their stakeholders is “What ROI can we expect from a sales training program?” Regardless of whether the training is delivered face-to-face or online, proving that it has a positive impact on the bottom line is a constant demand on sales managers and traine

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Generate Random Quotes and Messages

Adobe Captivate

I hope this blog is useful to anyone who wants to incorporate a random motivational quote or ‘tip of the day’ message into their projects. I attached a sample.cptx file as well. randomQuotes. Step 1: Write the Quotations in an Array. The hardest part about creating any random quote generator is finding, copying and pasting the actual quotes.

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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.