Tue.Aug 14, 2018

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Story and Success: An Unexpected Connection

InSync Training

Virtually There Recap. Did you know that you have stories constantly running through your subconscious mind? It’s true! Without realizing it, you frame every interaction through narrative, creating underlying bias. Good, bad, or indifferent, your bias influences how you navigate the world. This fundamental brain biology impacts professional relationships, too.

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Don't Invest in an Online Learning System Without These 3 LMS Features

TOPYX LMS

Poor employee performance, high costs of corporate training and low employee engagement with training are all reasons that drive company leaders to invest in an online learning system, or LMS.¹ However, investing in just any eLearning system as opposed to a learning management system with specific features can set companies up for a failed LMS implementation.

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How to Boost Revenues With Improved LMS-based Sales Training

Docebo

Ensure your sales team has the knowledge and learning resources they need to succeed. Revenue is the key to success for companies across the globe, and the sales team is on the front line every day competing for business against your rivals. Making sure your sales team is coming to the table prepared and knowledgeable isn’t just a nice to have, it’s a need to have.

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First Impressions: Creating Responsive Content in Adobe Captivate 2017

Adobe Captivate

If you design or develop eLearning content, you’ve likely run into issues displaying content on multiple devices, such as desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. For example, a really nice graphic may display well on a laptop, but look too small or be cut off on a smartphone. Authoring packages that generate “responsive” content have solved the issue of displaying on different devices by allowing the content to rearrange itself based on the type of device.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Transitioning from Teaching to Instructional Design

Experiencing eLearning

Last week I gave a webinar through UCI on transitioning from teaching to instructional design. I shared my story of moving from teaching to instructional design as well as tips for finding a job. While this presentation was primarily aimed at teachers, much of the content also applies to others looking to change careers. The recording is now available on YouTube.

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Telling stories

Clark Quinn

I’ve talked about examples before, and have long suggested that examples for learning should be in the form of stories. Today I thought a little deeper about how those stories can be told. And I thought of a particular entailment about video. But let me go through the whole story. So, first, an example needs to do several things. Foremost, examples show how a concept is used in context to guide performance and achieve a solution.

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L&D in the Digital Age Through Innovative Technologies

Lambda Solutions

With the explosive growth in disruptive technologies, “digital” has been embraced as the way of life. As technology continues to permeate our workplaces, new ways need to be explored when delivering effective training for global workforces.

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Health And Safety In The Workplace: Why You Should Create Compliance Training For Employees

eLearning Industry

Health and Safety compliance is one of the biggest challenges in business. It affects all organisations and applies to every employee. Health and Safety is both an employee welfare issue and a legal requirement, and it has implications for a business’s performance and productivity. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How Predictive Analytics Can Help Companies Hire Faster, Better, Stronger

CLO Magazine

In a recent survey of more than 1,000 business leaders, CEOs and other C-suite executives, they said “attracting and retaining talent” is their top concern. However, while acknowledging that talent is a critical success factor, few companies claim to be good at building — or keeping — a strong workforce. Why is this? There may be a dozen plausible explanations for talent shortages, but one of the most important is the consistent failure of companies to take full advantage of the information th

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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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4 Essential Elements Of A Corporate Compliance Training Program

eLearning Industry

The benefits of solid compliance training are huge for an organisation. But how do you get started? Take a look at these 4 essential elements to include in your training program. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Get Crisp, Clear Screen Video

TechSmith Camtasia

There are lots of great reasons to use screen video. Maybe you want to record a simple video showing a coworker how to submit time off on the new system or even a more elaborate corporate training video. Or maybe you want to respond to a client’s question by showing them the numbers you see on screen with some webcam video to add personality. Regardless of the reason, you don’t want to end up with blurry or distorted screen video.

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Creating Powerful Employee Training With Social Learning - Featuring Microlearning Videos

eLearning Industry

The last few years have seen a significant increase in the use of social learning for employee training. In this article, I share the benefits of social learning and show you how you can use microlearning videos as an effective social learning tool. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Develop a MOOC Platform in 2019

Belitsoft

Quick thought: back in 2011, Coursera, Udacity and edX didn’t exist. In 2017, Coursera alone can brag about 30 million learners, 2,700+ active courses, 237 specializations, and 161 partners. Udacity yearly revenue is at 70 million dollars. edX is a non-profit platform but it is also doing quite well. All these platforms seem like a decent option for college education replacement.

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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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Using Kolb's Learning Styles To Create Engaging Custom eLearning Courses

eLearning Industry

Kolb’s learning styles help in understanding what works well when we are designing courses. An intricate model, Kolb’s learning cycle is often used to explain the learning process. I will share my thoughts on how Kolb’s model can be used to create better eLearning courses. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Best Alternate Uses for an LMS – Uses Beyond Compliance Training and Attendance

AbaraLMS

2016 – 2017 was a period when industry members, learning officers, and anybody who considered themselves to be eLearning experts, or more specifically Learning Management System (LMS) experts, found themselves on either one of two sides—LMS affirmative and LMS negative. People on the negative side argued about the relevance of an LMS in the [ ] The post Best Alternate Uses for an LMS – Uses Beyond Compliance Training and Attendance appeared first on Abara LMS.

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The Answer to the Community’s Number 1 E-Learning Question

Rapid eLearning

The question I see asked almost every day revolves around locking navigation until a user has completed a task. In the most common case, the first slide is a course menu. The user clicks a button, goes to a module, completes it, and comes back. At that point, the module is marked complete and the user goes to another module and repeats the process until all of the modules are complete.

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What Your Training Team Should Know About iSpring Tool: Highlights and Challenges

CommLab India

iSpring Suite is a tool that can easily meet your needs to convert PowerPoint presentations to e-learning courses. It would help if you know the pros and cons of the tool before making the decision to invest in the tool.

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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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5 Steps to Implement a Learning Management System

Coreaxis

1. Choose the best learning management system. You must determine the learning management system (LMS) that will best suit the needs of your organization. There are a myriad of LMS systems: some allow content development, some allow content curation, others are solely tech platforms. Does it come with learning record storage (LRS)? In addition to the technological specifications, you must also carefully consider the vendor.

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Ger’s Learning Notes #24 Learning from failure and mistakes

anewspring

Ger’s Learning Notes: #24 Learning from failure and mistakes. By Ger Driesen. Which mistake that you ever made felt like a catastrophic failure at the time but, upon reflection, was a huge learning opportunity? This edition of the learning notes covers learning from failure and mistakes. Posted on August 14, 2018. PS -Did you know that you can sign up to receive the learning notes ?

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Learning in the Workflow

Litmos

The environment for commerce is changing. Change is happening faster, and this impacts both expectations and ability. Customers expect that staff can provide answers ‘on demand’, and employees expect support in the moment. We’re moving learning to the workflow, and this has some important implications. Major factors include moving from learning beforehand to supporting in the moment, or a blend, making those performance moments also learning ones.

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Learning from mistakes: the London Fishbowl event write-up

anewspring

TRENDS. Learning from mistakes: the London Fishbowl event write-up. by Ger Driesen. 13 August 2018. W hich mistake that you’ve ever made has felt like a catastrophic failure at the time but, upon reflection, was a huge learning opportunity? How has that updated your thinking since? That was the great question that panellist Jo Cook came up with to start the Fishbowl session in London.

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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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What is Open Access?

Gutenberg Technology

Open access (OA) is essentially a system that enables anyone with the ability to connect to the Internet to access publications and research documents totally free or at minimal cost. However, this is a simplification on several levels.

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How to Keep Your Staff Motivated at Work

WalkMe Training Station

As a team leader, your job is to keep your troops motivated, with a strategy that underpins the importance of employee motivation. This is a difficult task considering the competitive nature of everyday work. By creating a team that’s inspired to work in the best interests of the company , workers can competently meet company objectives. Their job satisfaction will increase as a result, where they feel a sense of empowerment through their capabilities, and an elevated sense of self-worth.

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What L&D professionals need to know about motivational psychology in the workplace

Matrix

Anyone who has ever wanted to lose weight, get in better shape, eat healthier or adopt a better lifestyle knows firsthand just how important motivation is. Because it takes more, a whole lot more than merely wanting something. Reaching that goal is often so daunting that many just quit. Yet there are numerous objectives in each of our lives and fulfilling them is not always optional – for most of us having a job that pays enough so that we can pay rent, bills and buy food is compulsory for survi

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Swift Elearning Services Wishes Happy 72nd Independence Day

Swift eLearning Services

Great spiritual souls at the Borders… True Nation feeling in the Hearts… Giving Ray of hope to Indian Citizens… Swift eLearning Services wishes you a Happy 72nd Independence Day.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.