Tue.Oct 17, 2017

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3 Things You Should Automate in Your Courses

LearnDash

Automation is all the rage today as it has proven to be an effective strategy when used correctly. But what exactly should be automated in your online courses? It is a question I come across nearly daily. People want to know what parts of a LearnDash courses can be automatized. The answer isn’t so simple. There are in fact a lot of areas that can be automated, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it they should be.

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The Pizza Story

KnowledgeStar

The Pizza Story In our new book Minds at Work, we talk about the older labor-intensive economy in which we made things and needed to manage hands, and the newer mind-intensive economy in which we produce work with our minds and need to manage minds. Automation creates a future in which there ar […].

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What are the design constraints for a learning solution?

Kineo

As with pretty much every project, learning solutions can often have some serious design constraints you’ll need to work with. After all, very few organizations have unlimited resources and budgets, or employees with time to do their jobs and the flexibility to spend hours exploring an immersive and intensive elearning experience. That said, constraints on the design process should be looked at as challenges to overcome, rather than obstacles that stand in the way of progress.

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What are the most popular tools for …?

Jane Hart

This is a growing list of links to pages where you can find the most popular tools in different categories in 2017.

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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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Calling all eLearning experts: Free passes now available for Adobe Learning Summit (ALS) 2017

Adobe Captivate

Do you want to know about the latest innovations and what’s new with Captivate and the e-learning industry? Attend the Adobe eLearning Summit 2017 in Las Vegas. Here’s what makes you eligible for a free pass. Share your e-learning or Captivate-based learning, best practices, or an instructional video in the Community Portal. Here are a couple of blogs as references for the format and style of content: Adobe Captivate 2017.

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Analytics or Die!

LightSpeed VT

Whether you’re content marketing, boosting a social media post, or using an automated sales funnel to drive traffic and conversions, you must track, measure, and monitor EVERYTHING. Why? 90% of my clients don’t know a thing about their analytics. That’s because they are out in the world doing what they do best: speaking, training [ ] The post Analytics or Die!

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5 Reasons Why Microlearning Would Work for Your Employees

D2L

US businesses spend more than $70 billion annually on employee learning and development, with the average employee receiving close to 60 hours of training per … Continued.

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How To Measure The ROI Of Online Training?

Adobe Captivate

Today, most organizations use eLearning as a significant part of their training delivery. As traditional eLearning moves towards mobile learning or mLearning and provides learners the flexibility to learn on the device of their choice (notably tablets and smartphones), the eLearning adoption is gaining further momentum. eLearning and mobile learning provide several benefits to organizations.

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Are shorter attention spans hampering your best efforts In L&D?

looop

“According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer” The Daily Telegraph, 2015. We know this, right? We’ve read the headlines and our Facebook feeds remind us constantly that our smartphones are eroding the attention of our children, our colleagues and, well, everybody!

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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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Adobe Captivate Draft – Open Storyboards in Captivate 2017

Adobe Captivate

I created a video tutorial on Adobe Captivate Draft last week that was well received, however, one of my viewers on my YouTube channel wanted to know the process of getting Captivate Draft files into Captivate 2017. In today’s video, I show everyone exactly how to do that. Click on the following link from your iPad to install Captivate Draft. Adobe Captivate Draft.

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Here’s What Needs to be in Your E-Learning Portfolio

Rapid eLearning

I get questions all the time about work portfolios. One of the most frequent questions is “what types of courses need to be in the portfolio?” Why Have a E-Learning Portfolio? The portfolio is your proof of skills. It shows that you have more than a resume list of skills or just education. It documents some of your projects and also shows your specific skills.

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Interviewing the founder of H5P, Svein-Tore Griff With

eFront

When we traveled to Norway for the H5P Conference , we had the chance to get closer to the whole community and decided it was high time we asked the Founder of H5P, Svein-Tore Griff With, all about H5P. We were particularly keen to get to know the technology and the team behind H5P as well as finding out how they came about putting this revolutionary idea into practice and to make sure that you can use it to its full potential.

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New thoughts on design thinking

Litmos

In the early 80’s, I read an article calling for a cognitive engineering: designing systems that matched how our brains work. I was designing educational computer games at the time, and was struggling to find good guidance to choose between interface (and learning) alternatives. I realized that this was a field that really meshed with my passions for learning design, and I applied to study there.

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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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Let your learners fail

LearnUpon

If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Failure is an important part of training, after all, we learn from our mistakes. So, it’s important to keep that in mind when creating your eLearning courses. Put learners through their paces so they’re engaged and work hard to achieve the badges or certificates up for grabs! Start with what you want to achieve; “My learners need to get a score of at least 60% to pass.

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5 Reasons Why Using Consultants are Good for your L&D Budget

Clarity Consultants

It might seem counterintuitive that hiring a consultant would help you save money, but when it comes to your L&D budget – hiring a consultant is a great option. Without a strong learning and development plan, your employees will fail to keep pace with the fast-moving market, or they may even jump ship to find a company who is willing to invest in their long-term success.

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Designing Learning at the Speed of Business

CLO Magazine

Sheila Jagannathan, head of open learning campus at the World Bank Group, shares how her learning organization has made the shift from a purely face-to-face learning approach to a more participatory, blended digital learning environment. . Tags: digital learning , technology , World Bank.

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Horsing Around with ERP Implementation Training? 3 Reasons to Go Online

CommLab India

This blog post shares three reasons to rely on online ERP implementation training rather than traditional training.

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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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How to Motivate Certification Candidates

WBT Systems

Have you ever heard people talk about studying for and obtaining their Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation? You can tell by the intensity of their conversation that getting the CAE credential is a transformative experience. However, the path to the CAE credential involves a great deal of sacrifice—and many give up along the way. The candidates for your association’s certification programs face the same challenges as CAE candidates: Finding time and money to earn the required contin

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5 Reasons Why Using Consultants are Good for your L&D Budget

Clarity Consultants

It might seem counterintuitive that hiring a consultant would help you save money, but when it comes to your L&D budget – hiring a consultant is a great option. Without a strong learning and development plan, your employees will fail to keep pace with the fast-moving market, or they may even jump ship to find a company who is willing to invest in their long-term success.

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What the VARK? Why Learning Styles Are Important

Global eTraining

The definition of learning is to gain knowledge and being able to internalize the knowledge so that it is retained for a long time. Long-term research into the science of learning has determined that there are four preferences that learners tend to gravitate towards. And when a learning process is adapted to the learner’s preference, they are more likely to keep the new information that they have learned for longer—ultimately maximizing the ROI that a company has invested into acquiring and dist

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Disruptive change and the growing need for e-learning innovation

ENROLO

Today’s corporate leaders recognise that the pace of technological change is creating a major skills problem for their organizations. In a recent study, Deloitte found that 90% of CEOs believe their company is facing disruptive change driven by digital technologies, and 70 percent say their organization does not have the skills to adapt (Deloitte 2017: 30).

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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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A video creation checklist

Clear Lessons

Want to create great videos for learning & development? Barbara Thompson takes you through the essentials to remember, and the pitfalls to avoid, before you shout ‘lights, camera, action’! When I was younger I remember seeing films where families sit down together full of anticipation to view home made videos. It looked like quite a fun experience, typically anchored around a social occasion, such as Christmas, yet appeared to me to be a technically complex setup too.

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What’s the Best Way to Copy and Paste in Storyline?

Yukon Learning

Quite often in class, and in actual development, you’ve made something super awesome on the slide, and you need more of it. This could be buttons, shapes, markers, text boxes–you name it! And shortcuts are a great way to cut down development time. Make it once, make sure it works and looks the way you expect it to, then DUPLICATE it! One of our trainers even has the catch phrase, “ Make it great, then duplicate!

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xAPI for Interactive eBooks by Sarah Gilbert

LearningGuild

Interactive eBooks have long been around, but we only recently gained the ability to track usage with xAPI and. cmi5. It’s simple. to add this to your analysis tools.

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Articulate Storyline 360 – A Comprehensive Review

CommLab India

Check this blog to know how Articulate Storyline 360 can be used to develop effective e-learning courses.

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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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How to go about e-learning assessments

Matrix

E-learning has already won its place as the best suited learning & development tool in today’s organizations. It is flexible, cost-effective and most appealing to the new generations now becoming the majority in the modern workplace. However, in spite of all these great attributes, the challenge still remains the same as with classroom training – assessing the results and being able to present them in a form that makes them easy to follow both for HR specialists and managers.

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Understanding the Future of Work with Alec Bashinsky

Everwise

While no one can predict the future, we can certainly do our part to understand where we’re heading and why. And understanding the evolution of work feels like a particularly relevant, modern day challenge. Technological advancement, the gig economy, and an increasingly overworked population are all contributing to a future that can feel murky. Understanding the future of work is something Alec Bashinsky has dedicated much of his 30+ year career to.

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Game-based Learning vs. E-learning: A Comparison

CommLab India

This blog will compare game-based learning and non-game based online learning in terms of benefits, cost, development efforts, and impact on learner engagement.

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