Fri.May 19, 2017

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LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability): One of the Features of a Good LMS

TOPYX LMS

. In the initial stages of choosing a learning management system (LMS), people often wonder what the features of a good LMS are. They may have a general idea of what their organizations will require from an LMS (for example, mobile learning features or social learning tools) but might need to be educated about what features LMSs commonly have and what the features of a good LMS are.

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Training Trends Exciting Today's Learning Leaders (Video)

dVinci Interactive

Training Trends Exciting Today's Learning Leaders (Video) Training leaders today are being bombarded with information about new strategies, approaches and technologies that can help improve employee and organization performance. Depending on the organization and the background of the leader, he or she may be excited about different trends. This video highlights what’s inspiring those responsible for training in leading organizations.

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Ten Reasons We’re Excited About MedBiquitous 2017

Web Courseworks

I’m very excited to be attending the MedBiquitous annual meeting for the second year in a row. The conference is held each year on the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine campus in Baltimore. This year’s event is June 5-6, and registration is still open. Why do we go? For at least ten reasons: 1. MedBiq is a true community of practice. Where else can you meet an MD who will hook you up to a stress detector that fires the data to a learning record store via xAPI in real time?

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Why are 44% of companies considering replacing their LMS?

Axonify

The LMS is failing to deliver for many organizations. This is the conclusion of extensive research conducted by the Brandon Hall Group, a preeminent research and analytics firm. In our recent webinar , Brandon Hall Principal Learning Strategist David Wentworth and Axonify’s Principal Learning Strategist J.D. Dillon discussed the research and what it could mean to leaders like you.

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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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Best Practices for Effective Soft Skills Training

eLearning Brothers

Boring soft skills training doesn’t just put employees to sleep. It lowers employee perception of your organization – your internal brand. That’s why the most effective soft skills training typically doesn’t just fly off someone else’s shelf. Savvy organizations take time to customize soft skills training so that it not only addresses their desired learning objectives, but does it with highly targeted, interactive courses that look and feel professional, and make good use of employee time.

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Micro-Learning Leads to Rapid Skill Acquisition - Tip #134

Vignettes Learning

Do we have a skills crisis? Some economists and academics reject the idea of a skills crisis, but survey findings say otherwise. We Have a Skills Gap Most (or 61% of) employees who responded to this Udemy survey think there is a skills gap; 54% report that they lack needed knowledge to do their current jobs. And this isn’t all in the employees’ imagination; HR and C-suite execs think so too.

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Best Practices to Create Custom E-learning Courses

CommLab India

Custom e-learning courses are superior to off the shelf courses in almost every aspect. Customization offers courses that are crafted exclusively for your organization. They not only convey your learning objectives effectively, but also maintain your brand’s tonality. Although customization costs significantly more than catalogue courses, ease of updating and maintaining the course justifies the higher costs and even provides an excellent return on investment.

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Gamification in Business

Growth Engineering

Since 2001, people have been using gamification in business in a number of ways. Some attempts at gamification have been a huge success. More often than not, gamifying business processes has shown disappointing results. How do you ensure success when you’re using gamification in business applications? With gamification, the difference between success and failure is good planning.

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Adapting to Adapt: Learning a New Framework for Responsive Design

Innovative Learning Group

An Expert’s Advice on Using Adapt for E-Learning. At Innovative Learning Group, we’ve designed and developed thousands of e-learning courses using many different authoring tools and programming languages. So when requests started coming in to create e-learning using the new-to-us Adapt authoring tool and framework, an application that allows you to quickly build responsive e-learning content, we dove right in — because we know what we’re doing!

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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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Making the Move to eLearning

Illumen Group

As a company starts to grow and expand, it requires an increasingly greater investment to bring instructors and learners together; whether they are your own employees, distributors, or clients. Consider the task of on boarding. Companies want just-in-time training, yet it makes no sense to fly in a trainer to instruct one new employee in a timely basis.

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Adapting to Adapt: Learning a New Framework for Responsive Design

Innovative Learning Group

At Innovative Learning Group, we’ve designed and developed thousands of e-learning courses using many different authoring tools and programming languages. So when requests started coming in to create e-learning using the new-to-us Adapt authoring tool and framework, an application that allows you to quickly build responsive e-learning content, we dove right in — because we know what we’re doing!

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We are proud to have been named to TrainingIndustry.com's 2017 Content Development Watch List

Actio Learning

Actio Learning has been recognized for "pushing the development of new programs to deliver impactful improvements in employee performance" and for "impressive capabilities that can improve employee learning in corporations around the world." We are grateful to TrainingIndustry.com for the recognition and to the members of our team, who, on a daily basis, demonstrate inventiveness, creativity, resourcefulness, and dedication to our clients and to achieving their goals.

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Staff assessment: How to improve work performance

GoConqr

In many companies it’s customary to conduct staff assessments on a regular basis to evaluate the skills and performance of their employees. These tests seek to draw two types of conclusions: to learn each worker’s level of knowledge, on the one hand, and to analyse in which areas the company needs carry out more training sessions, on the other. It’s an activity that can be extremely positive and enriching for business development , so we offer some advice on how to manage the evaluation properly

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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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The Week That Was, May 15-19

CLO Magazine

Can You Teach Diversity and Inclusion? The short answer is yes. But a better question might be, is the organization ready to do the pre- and post-training work needed to ensure diversity and inclusion content sticks? 6 Ways to Get Along With Millennials at Work Attracting, developing and retaining millennials may require leaders to adjust their management style, but the payoff is worth it.

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2017 APAC Perspectives

Skillsoft

What can you expect at this year’s APAC Perspectives?

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Program Management Centers of Excellence

Training Industry

I have published quite a bit on the topic of program and project management. The reasons why should be quite obvious, as this set of disciplines, when done right, yields significant positive results in terms of improved business and mission outcomes for organizations. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, an astounding 97 percent of organizations believe project management is critical to business performance and organizational success.

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Leverage Enhanced Lectora 17 Features for Rapid eLearning Development

CommLab India

As learning and training head toward mobile devices, Lectora Inspire has set her direction and transformed fast as a rapid authoring software that can create mobile-friendly courses. In the latest version of Lectora17, developing multi-device compatible courses is easier with the most sought after feature Responsive Course Design (RCD) and HTML5 output.

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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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5 Things to Consider Before Converting Classroom Content to E-learning [Infographic]

CommLab India

Converting classroom training to e-learning is not quite an easy task. It involves various considerations such as the format of the course, technology, instructional strategies, assessments, and more. Failure to meet the desired outcome results not just in loss of time and money, but also ineffective training. So, before starting with the conversion process, consider the points listed in the infographic.