Thu.Jul 21, 2016

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Once Upon a Gamified Interstate

Association eLearning

It was a dark and lengthy car ride. I had two and a half hours of nighttime driving ahead of me and I’d had a long day. I needed to stay alert, but my usual staples (cranking up the A/C and putting on high energy music) weren’t enough. I needed something more. So I came up with a game and started playing it right then and there in my car. Goal of the Game.

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Creating eLearning Focus Groups: A Practical Guide

eFront

eLearning focus groups are collections of individuals who represent your main learner body and need to be actively involved in your course evaluation. Often, however, we select individuals who are able to comment on only a few aspects of the eLearning course: they provide invaluable feedback on the course aesthetics, but may not have much to say about the content, inevitably creating an evaluation gap.

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Webinar: How to Drive Sales Growth by Integrating Your LMS and CRM

Docebo

Integrate your LMS and CRM to drive revenue by effectively managing training for sales staff, partners and customers. Your CRM is essential for tracking and reporting on sales performance. Your LMS is essential for training your salespeople, partners and customers who deliver those sales results. Integrating your CRM with your LMS provides a critical link between the two most important tools for driving overall sales performance.

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Exploring eLearning Outsourcing? Look for Innovation

Upside Learning

‘Outside resourcing’ or Outsourcing as it’s popularly known, has been around since the 1980s. However, ‘eLearning Outsourcing’ gained prevalence in the 2000s, and has increased over time with the growth of the Internet, the extensive use of computers and later on with that of other devices in different spheres. We, at Upside Learning, have been […].

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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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Curated Insights: How will Pokemon GO influence workplace learning?

Axonify

It may only be a few weeks old, but Pokemon GO has already claimed its spot as the most talked-about app of 2016. With more than 15 million active users who play for 34 minutes per day on average , Pokemon GO has a more engaged user base than Snapchat or Facebook. Meanwhile, Forbes estimates that the app generates $1.6M in daily revenue. I have long been a proponent of gaining L&D inspiration from the consumer application of technology.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge Day 10 & 11: Building Excitement

Learning Rebels

. It’s day 10 & 11 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Building Excitement. It would seem like I have broken a rule. Two posts, one day. Well, that’s what a Learning Rebel does…adjusts the rules for a positive outcome! Positive Deviance! I found myself one day behind in the challenge. It’s my challenge and I’m one day behind???

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

Gyrus

In the ever-changing climate of business, it is vital that organizational members are able to adapt to their surroundings. At the end of the day, it is the experience of ourselves and our colleagues that make the difference between industry acceptance and being just another small fish in the industry pond. The best way to ready ourselves for this shifting environment is Continuous Learning.

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Part 5: Managing Virtual Classroom Strategy Implementation Challenges

InSync Training

Recently InSync Training worked with a multinational software company to maximize the value of their existing learning content by transitioning it to the virtual and blended classroom. During this process, we discovered seven specific areas that we needed to address to facilitate this transition. We believe these challenges are universal to virtual classroom implementation.

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Saving Lives with Online Learning

CourseArc

In 2015, UMBC Training Centers collaborated with CourseArc to help one of their partners, the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) , transition face-to-face workshops to the online environment. ICISF are the education and training leaders in crisis intervention and disaster behavioral health services. They support emergency response personnel with regional workshops on crisis management, and offer over 50 different courses on related topics.

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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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Why You’re Not Reaching Your Millennial Workforce

Inkling

Much has been written about millennials over the past few years, more than 45,000 articles and counting. While searching the depths of the internet you can find some fascinating headlines: “ The baffling reason millennials don’t eat cereal ”. “ 4 ways Jesus was like a millennial ”. “ Dunkin Donuts’ new menu ignores millennials in a major way ”. “ Why Millennials are giving their kids weird names ”.

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Stop Worrying About Stolen Content

LearnDash

Every week I have the opportunity to talk to people about exciting new online course concepts. It really is incredible the amount of industries and niches out there that can be served with an online course! During these conversations there are some individuals who express a great deal of concern over their course content. Specifically, they don’t want people to steal it.

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Curated Insights: How will Pokemon GO influence workplace learning?

Axonify

It may only be a few weeks old, but Pokemon GO has already claimed its spot as the most talked-about app of 2016. With more than 15 million active users who play for 34 minutes per day on average , Pokemon GO has a more engaged user base than Snapchat or Facebook. Meanwhile, Forbes estimates that the app generates $1.6M in daily revenue. I have long been a proponent of gaining L&D inspiration from the consumer application of technology.

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Fill in the Blank with These Captivate Templates

eLearning Brothers

In traditional training and education, the learner is often given a sheet of paper and asked to write in the correct answers for themselves. This requires them to have a sharp memory, relying only on the questions asked for contextual clues. That’s the strength of a text entry eLearning module: it requires recall with minimal prompting, making positive that the learner knows their stuff backwards and forwards.

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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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Wal-Mart Jumps Firmly Onto the Employee Education Investment Bandwagon

CLO Magazine

Wal-Mart associates can now earn their high school diploma and a career certificate at no personal cost with the help of a new partnership between the company and Cengage Learning, an educational content, technology and services company. Through the Career Online High School program, part of Wal-Mart’s already-existing Lifelong Learning Program, company associates can earn an accredited high school diploma then go on to earn a credentialed career certificate in a high-demand area.

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Restructure the employee experience for a better future

CrossKnowledge

The world is changing, and fast. Our greatest fear in this fast-paced 21st century is what to do when everything changes. And yet, paradoxically, the future is already.here. Any company wishing to survive tomorrow needs to start preparing today by adapting to the new challenges present in the marketplace. If you have read any articles analyzing the market recently, then you will probably have learnt a lot on how to prepare for a more secure future.

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Doing the Wrong Things with High Potentials

CLO Magazine

Almost every organization goes through a painstaking process to identify high potentials. But what leaders do with high potentials then is just wrong. We isolate them, give them some posh-abstracted development program, and then send them back to work. If we really want to benefit high potentials, we should recognize them for what they are: People who have the right routines to thrive in our social system.

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Behind the Scenes of a Winning eLearning Course

Trivantis

Karlis Sprogis and the team behind Fastercourse.com created a fantastic responsive game for one of our Trivantis® Community contests. This course got such great response from viewers that it won the 2016 Lectora® User Conference Community Course Template Contest! And luckily for our readers, Karlis agreed to sit down for a Q&A about the development process.

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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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When Learning Meets the Business, Success and Revenue Follow

CLO Magazine

Some people might see Kuntal McElroy’s story as being an immigrant coming to the United States with only a few dollars in her pocket, working her way through school to an executive-level position at a leading multinational networking and telecom company. And to a degree it is. But it is her business savvy, how she’s used her background in mathematics and her experiences in business and academia to strategically align learning with the business that makes her so instrumental in the story of learn

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7 tips for developing an online training culture in your organization

LearnUpon

Every building needs a solid foundation and the same is true for a successful online training program. Your employees need a structured training culture in order to develop skills, fill performance gaps, and master work-related tasks. In this article, Christopher Pappas shares seven tips that will help you to create and promote an online training culture in your organization.

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Want to Save Time? Make Coaching Your Leadership Style of Choice

Cylient

Many people feel that taking a coaching approach to leadership is a nice thing to do, if they have the time, which they rarely do. I hold that leaders don’t have the time because they’re not taking a coaching approach to their day-to-day conversations. Here are five reasons why it’s time to make “in the moment” coaching your leadership style of choice: Save Time.

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How to Track Blended Learning with xAPI [Guide]

Watershed

See how to use xAPI to track blended learning, like social interactions and workplace training, and download a guide with tips to get started.

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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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Lectora Interactions to Add to Your Tab

eLearning Brothers

If you have an eLearning course containing lots of textual info, one handy way to save space is to use a tabbed interaction. The advantage here is that you can explore more complicated topics one aspect at a time, all within the comfort of one convenient module. Having a wealth of tabbed Lectora interactions in our template library alone, we’d like to show off a few of our favorites.

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4 Mobile Learning Blogs You Will Be Interested in Checking Out!

CommLab India

According to a research by Pew Research Center , 72% adults in the United States own a Smartphone. A mobile device has become such a necessity these days that everyone desires to have one (at least). Taking advantage of this, many companies have broken the perception of the mobile device merely being a communication device and are migrating their training programs to these devices.

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Outsourcing E-learning – Risks and Rewards

CommLab India

When it comes to the decision to outsource your e-learning projects, there are both rewards and risks associated with it. This blog will highlight the main rewards and risks so that an informed decision can be taken. Rewards. Experience and skill: Outsourcing partners will have the skill and experience required to deliver a quality product. They bring innovative ideas and concepts, expertise in e-learning design, and development skills.

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Leverage the Benefits of Rapid Authoring Tools

CommLab India

Ever wished for a magic wand that could make the development of e-learning courses a breeze? Well, rapid authoring tools could be the answer considering the benefits they offer to the process of e-learning development. Compared to courses created using the old authoring tools- Flash, Dreamweaver, XML/HTML and JavaScript which are called legacy tools, rapid authoring tools have an edge here is a comparison of their features: Feature.

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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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The Importance of Player in E-learning Courses: Customizing it in Articulate Storyline

CommLab India

Let me guess… You love it when the skin of your music player or the interface of your messaging app gets updated. You find the new look refreshing and probably spend a little more time on these applications than usual because you find them completely different and exciting. What if I tell you, you are not the only one who feels this way? Yes, I like it too!

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3 Key Points for Planning and Implementing a Successful ERP Program [Infographic]

CommLab India

We know that many organizations invest in implementing ERP Software, but, why do they do so? The answer is – to make operational processes more efficient. Isn’t it? But, according to the 2015 ERP Report of Panorama Consulting Solutions, 21% of companies have defined their ERP projects as failures compared to 16% in 2014. The report also shows that 52% of the organizations faced some sort of material operational disruption at the time of go-live.

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