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21 Ways to Improve Your Infographics

The eLearning Coach

Visual representations are a proven way to make data and abstractions concrete. They can also mislead and confuse viewers when they are poorly designed. If you take the time to analyze, reflect and plan, your infographic design skills will naturally improve.

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Jane Hart’s op 200 Tools for Learning

Challenge to Learn

Jane Hart is conducting her annual Digital Learning Tools survey. An interesting list to follow. Here is my top 10 for 2018. Easygenerator. Yes, I know it's my own tool. But we are actually constantly using it to create learning for our company. . Slack. We use Slack for all our internal communication. I have to say that, initially, I was not a big fan, but it has grown on me significantly.

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Instead of Microlearning, it Should Be Micro-doing

Mike Taylor

Move Over Microlearning: Make Room for Micro-doing. Unless you’ve been off vacationing on Mars, you’ve no doubt heard a lot of buzz about microlearning lately. While I’m not sure what has made it so hot lately, it is definitely not a new idea. One common challenge is the lack of a clear definition. Lots of people have defined microlearning in lots of different ways.

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3 Areas Where eLearning Can Help Reduce Employee Training Costs

eLearning Industry

Every business needs continual employee development. Find out how eLearning can help you train employees on the cheap. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Project Management Book of Knowledge: Top Tips for Success

WalkMe Training Station

Project management is to executed by people with unique skillsets, especially those who are practical problem solvers. Project managers need to be flexible to changing circumstances, and engage in a role that’s made easier when you’re coordinating a responsive team. If you’re considering a career in project management, you could have a great prospect on your hands.

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The Best Ways to Improve Time Management: Time Management Games?

WalkMe Training Station

Do you ever wish you had more time on your hands to complete those all-important tasks? We can all benefit from more time, and by working on your time management skills this is achievable. Too often you’ll settle into unproductive routines where time isn’t used wisely, and for the most part don’t you won’t even know it until you decide to look at your habits.

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Why You Need To Create A Mobile Training Strategy, Part 2

eLearning Industry

The second and final part of this article focuses on why you should invest on the mobile phone to develop integrated learning experiences that are capable of returning training and knowledge transfer to the central place they deserve in companies and in our societies. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Fun Leadership Training Activities You Can Try At Work

WalkMe Training Station

True leaders inspire change in people, and can guide their workforce into the promised land. Their influence extends beyond their presence, but is cemented through their actions. Too often leaders focus more on massaging their own ego than the practical ways they can improve team performance. When you execute what your company needs, you’ll embody the strength and commitment that’s vital for success.

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8 Tips To Conduct A Training Needs Analysis With Limited Resources

eLearning Industry

Are you aware of your organization’s L&D shortcomings? In this article, I’ll highlight 8 tips to conduct a thorough training needs analysis with limited resources. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Microlearning examples

Ed App

Microlearning is proving to be on of the most-effective methods of teaching and learning, especially when it comes to businesses performing corporate training or retail training. Microlearning-based mobile learning is even more effective as it liberates learners and allows them to take part in courses at their own convenience, on their own devices… anywhere.

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What Are Facilitation Techniques In Project Management?

eLearning Industry

Facilitation refers to the act of bringing together a group of people to create new knowledge. Let's explore facilitation techniques in project management. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Captivate 2017/19: Make animations and loop animations with advanced actions

Adobe Captivate

This video shows how to make loop animations and various animations with multi-state objects and advanced actions. It shows: – an easier way to animate landscapes in loop with the While loop action compared to Captivate 9, – how to make various loop animations that come in and out of the screen or remain on screen with Multi-state objects and the Effects panel, – how to make animations without using the Effects panel but with several pictures as in cartoons (e.g. bird), –

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The Costs Associated With An Open Source LMS

eLearning Industry

Buyers spend time looking for the LMS features that they want, but rarely stop to think about the aspects under the surface, like training or support. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Captivate 2019 review

Adobe Captivate

Captivate 2019 features review. Virtual reality. It’s great to see Adobe leading the charge and bring V.R. to learning. This new feature will be great for creating ‘risk free’ safety drills, orientations and much, much more allowing developers to bring an immersive experience to their learners.There are plenty of options to make to content interactive with a good selection of hotspots to choose from, such as, inserting audio, text and images and a neat Active Gaze feature that

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Compliance & Competency Training: How To Create An LMS Framework For Both (Part 1)

eLearning Industry

The right LMS & reporting solution helps executives manage the minefield of compliance. By training employees for legislated regulations, they get the added benefit of aligning individual employee performance with corporate strategy—producing a serious competitive advantage. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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A Financial Literacy Program Created with Captivate 2019

Adobe Captivate

This showcase presents a module taken from a larger Financial Literacy program created for a client. The module was originally created in PowerPoint as a backdrop for a recorded video that would delivered as a self study course via the web. All content has been “sanitized” but the general structure is similar. Specifically, each module was presented as a series of lessons with the first being an overview, the second exploring myths and the final consisting of a series of case studies.

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MWL Newsletter No 81

Jane Hart

Articles & news aboutt Modern Workplace Learning for the week 2–8 September. [Jane working with LearnTec team, Building a HR dept without HR people, Lifelong learning in unexpected places, The personality test that conned the world & more].

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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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User Group in Toronto/Ontario?

Adobe Captivate

The title says it all; I’m wondering if there is a Captivate user group in Toronto,or somewhere else in Ontario. The post User Group in Toronto/Ontario? appeared first on eLearning.

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It’s all about the skills! Meet Kristen Teixeira, Intellezy’s new (AMAZING) employee

Intellezy

I’m brand new here at Intellezy. I’ve been a stay at home/working mom with my kids for 12 years, and while I don’t regret a single moment, I could not wait to get back to an office environment and have big people conversations NOT about bodily functions or Shopkins or the disgustingness of green vegetables. Luckily, I’ve landed at a smart, forward-thinking company with stellar people, especially my brilliant, hard working boss (blatant, shameless plug).

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Issue when publishing as HTML5 only

Adobe Captivate

I am new. publishing HTML5 projects and currently experiencing the following issue. After clicking ‘publish’ for my project the system make me aware of some objects will not play in HTML5, then I decide to proceed, getting this pop up window, “Error could not copy folder to C:usersjairodesktopFueling Procedures For CAL staffassets” elearning output has been disabled , because I do not want it and I already tried deselecting ‘scalable HTML content’ as well.

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Don’t Miss Out on Using Videos for These Four Training Areas [Infographic]

CommLab India

Videos can be used for different training types – explore this infographic to know what and how.

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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!

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Beginners’ guide to setting up Google Daydream for your Captivate VR content

Adobe Captivate

Most of you would be well versed with the things I am going to discuss, with respect to the correct settings, in getting your Captivate content to play just right for the Google Daydream VR headset. In the process we will come across few settings and the two compatibility modes : daydream view and the google cardboard view; how can a learner interact with VR courses in these modes.

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Previewing my VR content shows black screen?

Adobe Captivate

This may happen when you are trying to preview the course after publishing the course by clicking on the index.html file. In this case the file is launched from the file server and may not work correctly. It is important to launch the course from the web server, so make sure you put it on web server and then try to fetch the course from there and not by clicking on index.html.

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Gaze spinner is not spinning on Android phones after launching VR content ?

Adobe Captivate

This may happen if your chrome browser does not have the following 2 flags enabled: Type Chrome://flags in the browser tab: Look for the following two flags and enable them : WebVR. Gamepad Extensions. WebVR is the supported technology for playing VR content on Android devices. The post Gaze spinner is not spinning on Android phones after launching VR content ?

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Can I zoom in / out of my VR content ?

Adobe Captivate

No. Currently this functionality is not available with content published from Captivate. The post Can I zoom in / out of my VR content ? appeared first on eLearning.

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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.