Mon.May 08, 2017

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6 Things to Remember to Prevent Your Training from Failing

Learning Rebels

It’s a fact, some training efforts work and others fail. We’ve all been around the block a time or two and have participated and/or created our fair share of corporate training events. Some information sticks and others are forgotten about. Some events are cursed as a waste of time before participants even get out the door, knowing the time will never be recovered and it sucks.

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Survey Said…“Enough with the E-Learning Already!”

Living in Learning

We [L&D] don’t need to catch up to the disruptions in our digital technology as much as we need to catch up to that which our learners are asking.

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When it’s just so obvious no training is needed, it hurts to watch.

Jane Hart

New article in the MWL Magazine by Charles Jennings … Training is a certain and unquestioned component of every business strategy and plan, particularly when faced with the rollout of new systems and processes. Rolling out a new Finance or Business Suite, or a new CRM system?

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The Cost of Selling Online Courses Using WordPress

LearnDash

Setting up an LMS does mean making a financial investment but at a fraction of the cost of what used to be required. Every week we have the pleasure of speaking with aspiring entrepreneurs about their online courses. As expected, they often have many questions on a variety of topics. Some people want to know if certain media is supported. Others are curious as to whether they can sell courses in different ways, such as with coupons and in bundles (yes, with LearnDash you can).

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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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ONLINE TRAINER CERTIFICATION: Become a Certified Online Training Professional

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Become a COTP! Online training can be great training, but it all starts with an awesome trainer!  More and more companies are embracing live, online classes. If your company wants you to teach online, great. But teaching online isn't as easy as it sounds. For instance, how can you be sure that your class isn't boring? How can you keep your audience engaged, even when your content isn't very exciting?

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It Takes Guts: 7 Medical Image Packs

eLearning Brothers

A new batch of medical images has been added to the eLearning Brothers family of products. Introducing 7 new image packs that each feature 360º views of discrete organs and body systems, perfect for medical training and anatomy lessons. Digestive. The digestive system is responsible for breaking down food and other substances before absorbing the nutrients contained within.

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10 Ways Experiential Learning Creates Long-Term Performance Impact

CLO Magazine

The pressure is on organizations to employ a highly trained workforce, one that delivers exceptional results while using minimal resources. As a result, the importance placed on corporate learning and development is on the rise. As learning leaders work to develop new learning strategies, they are challenged to find the most effective methods to sustain training impact, while producing ROI.

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5 Creative Tips to Develop Corporate Training Videos [Infographic]

CommLab India

In today’s corporate training environment, training videos are highly effective and have changed the way we learn. Effective training videos can bring out a steady level of engagement among learners, as compared to a movie-watching experience. However, creating engaging training videos is extremely important. In this infographic, we look at creative tips to develop engaging corporate training videos.

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The Benefits of Executive Coaching

KnowledgeCity

What Can Executive Coaching Do for You? According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), there are an estimated 53,300 professional executive coaches currently practicing in the world today. The importance of executive coaching has evolved over the past decades. What once started off as a “rehumanization” process for high-level shrewd businessmen has become a key component to producing and keeping top-performing executives.

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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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Instructional Design and Visual Design: The Pillars of Great eLearning by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Poor design can sink an eLearning program—and the flaws might be in the instructional design or the visual design. Both are essential; creating successful eLearning demands that the visual design and instructional design work together.

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Are You Building Skills and Knowledge for the Future?

CLO Magazine

The rate of change is happening faster than ever before, and it’s imperative that we all focus on acquiring knowledge and building skills that will help us stay relevant in the workforce and prepare us for the future. It’s incredible to think about how much has changed in the world of work just in the past 10 years. Today, my iPhone is indispensable, but a little over a decade ago, it didn’t exist.

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Custom Quiz Results Slide Using Fluid Boxes

Adobe Captivate

With the release of Adobe Captivate 2017 edition, I’ve decided to revisit some of the earlier tutorials that I have made for you in the past, especially tutorials that were created with Adobe Captivate 8. Several years ago I made a tutorial on creating a custom quiz results slide using a simple advanced action. In this video, I will show you how to create such a slide but this time using Fluid Boxes, multi-state objects, and Adobe Captivate (2017 Release).

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Why You Need to Build a Learning Brand

CLO Magazine

GE Corporate Learning Leader Leiza Brock talks about why the multinational conglomerate’s learning and business brands are so tightly aligned and what that does for the business and for workforce development. Tags: branding , GE , learning.

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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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Corporate Training Costs: Tips That Will Make Them Next to Zero

TalentLMS

What does a vacant position cost? Around $14,000 over just three months. And that’s excluding the lost corporate training costs when the previous employee moved over to the competitor. But organizations don’t choose to hold vacant positions. It’s usually not a “strategic” choice. Rather, the necessary skills are simply unavailable. And these skills are unavailable because either there are only a few people in the market who possess them, or these skills are so new that nobody has acquired them y

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Serious Games: Why Are They Flourishing

Designing Digitally

An engaged learner is a successful learner. Research has shown that learning games are more effective educational activities than other methods. Elearning companies have capitalized on the growth of serious games and are designing products to meet the needs of various learners, from schools to corporations.

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Marc My Words: Rooting Out Waste in Training Programs—Project Level Factors by Marc Rosenberg

LearningGuild

Learning not taking hold in your organization? It may be because you have lots of training activities, but also have lots of training waste. Waste can be found in what you do—or don’t do—to enable people to learn, and then to translate that learning into valued performance. This is where your training strategy comes into play.

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Getting Started With Prototyping

ATD Learning Technologies

Prototyping allows you to enhance your everyday development process during brainstorming and planning to test a concept, gather feedback, and iterate quickly to enhance your audiences experience prior to development. Using prototyping techniques will save you time, money, and reduce development costs and costly changes after you launch. Getting Started.

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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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Moodle – The King of Affordable LMSs

CommLab India

In recent years, several companies have cut their L&D budgets. According to the 2016 Training Industry Report , published by The Training Industry , only 37% of organizations increased their training budgets. To deal with financial constraints, many organizations are looking for cost-effective software applications, to meet their learning management needs.

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How do you get a global engineering company to say it is the best eLearning they’ve ever taken – great stories!

Logicearth

This blog is about how we brought a new learning approach to a global engineering company - based on storytelling. If you want to learn more about our approach to digital learning, check out our Digital content outsourcing services.

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This Yahoo Leader’s Key to an Impactful Career? Fix What’s Broken

Everwise

Mary Bui-Pham’s career is an unexpected one, even to her. She started out earning a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. From there, Bui-Pham moved towards project and people management during the dot-com bubble, ultimately landing her current job as the VP, Operations and Chief of Staff of Publisher Products at Yahoo.

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Creating a HTML5 Pop Over in Bootstrap 3

Learning Dojo

If you want a user to click a button, link or image have some additional description or custom HTML display then Bootstrap 3 makes it pretty easy to build. Watch this video to get see how it is done. You can also take a look through my example code and modify it to your heart’s content. See the Pen Bootstrap 3 Pop Over by Jeff Batt ( @learningdojo ) on CodePen.

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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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Getting Started With Prototyping

ATD Learning Technologies

Prototyping allows you to enhance your everyday development process during brainstorming and planning to test a concept, gather feedback, and iterate quickly to enhance your audiences experience prior to development. Using prototyping techniques will save you time, money, and reduce development costs and costly changes after you launch. Getting Started.

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Latest Positive Trends In E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

How do we define brilliant? Is it the product with the most amazing capabilities? Is it how we think of ourselves when we figure out Snap Chat? Or when we come to realize that our boss is a nincompoop and we should be running the entire company? These are the latest trends. No, not your boss is an terrible human being (maybe they are). Rather, the latest positive and wonderful trends in the industry. .

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Seakeepers Executes Effective Training Worldwide

Latitude Learning

Joey Greenwell is the Global Training Manager at Seakeeper Inc , which provides gyroscopic stabilizers for boats. With different sizes available, these gyroscope units eliminate roll in boats ranging from 30 feet to over one hundred feet long. By doing this, it reduces motion of the roll by up to 95% and doesn’t allow the factors that create sea sickness to happen.

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How TOGAF Complements DevOps and Serves a Different Need

Skillsoft

How to distinguish between TOGAF and DevOps.

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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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Popular E-Learning Myths Dispelled

CommLab India

E-learning is not just a trend, it has become a part of the standard training process in many organizations. Many corporates that have replaced instructor-led training programs with e-learning have managed to save almost 50% – 70% of the training budget. In spite of that, there are some organizations that hesitate to embrace e-learning completely.

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How to Get Started with Digital Learning in Your Organization

CommLab India

Digital technologies have permanently changed the way we access knowledge and information. Are our organizations keeping pace with these changes in the way they train and build the knowledge or skills of their employees? Most have already begun to do so but there may be others who are taking baby steps. With so much information out there about digital revolution and technologies, it is confusing to know how to get started.

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Migrating Flash Content to HTML5 – Should Training Managers Care?

CommLab India

Traditionally, Adobe Flash has been preferred by e-learning developers around the globe to develop highly interactive training courses. However, the conversion of Flash-based online content to HTML5 is on the rise and that raises questions about the future of Flash and Flash-based training content. So, why should training managers care about this? Here are a few reasons why migrating Flash-based training content to HTML5 is important.