Fri.May 12, 2017

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TOPYX LMS is a Member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium

TOPYX LMS

Did you know that being a member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium distinguishes a learning management system (LMS)? If an LMS is affiliated with the IMS Global Learning Consortium, it is a quality eLearning system that was designed with the highest standards of performance in mind. This explains why consumers should seek a social LMS that is affiliated with IMS Global.

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Get Actionable Learning + Performance Data into Managers’ Hands with Axonify Team Metrics + Compare

Axonify

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” You’d think this quote was from a modern business strategist, but it’s actually Sherlock Holmes (aka Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story A Scandal in Bohemia. Nevertheless, this statement applies directly to today’s business world. Technology is helping organizations get smarter about how they collect data, use it to ask better questions and make more informed decisions.

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Mother Knows Best: 3 eLearning Lessons Your Mother Taught You

eLearning Brothers

May is a magical time of year for many of us, when our minds turn to the women who raised us. On Mother’s Day, we honor the sacrifices of our mothers, as well as the nurturing and discipline they exercised to help us grow into decent people. Not surprisingly, our mothers’ sage advice can easily be applied to eLearning situations. Here’s a sampling of motherly wisdom that you can use in your next eLearning project. “Keep making that face and it’ll stay that way.̶

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Get Actionable Learning + Performance Data into Managers’ Hands with Axonify Team Metrics + Compare

Axonify

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” You’d think this quote was from a modern business strategist, but it’s actually Sherlock Holmes (aka Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story A Scandal in Bohemia. Nevertheless, this statement applies directly to today’s business world. Technology is helping organizations get smarter about how they collect data, use it to ask better questions and make more informed decisions.

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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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E-Learning Today: High-Tech and High Touch

CLO Magazine

The corporate world made e-learning popular in the 2000s, but the concept has been around since the early and mid-20th century thanks to inventions like the teaching machine created by psychologist Sidney L. Pressey and refined by behaviorist and psychologist B.F. Skinner. For Skinner, the in-person classroom experience was flawed; students learn at different rates, and they need reinforcement, which can be hard to provide on an individual basis.

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Adobe Captivate: Customizing Smart Shapes and Captions for Simulations

CommLab India

Adobe Captivate has made the task of creating software simulations quite easy. However, many of us still look to customize its elements. The good news is, Adobe Captivate makes customizations easy. In this blog, we will see how to customize elements such as smart shapes , highlight boxes, and captions that are generated in online simulations developed in Captivate.

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Using SaaS Technology to Reduce Online Learning Costs and Increase ROI

Thought Industries

When companies start to evaluate new technologies to implement, depending on the complexity, many will ask the question , “Should we build or buy the technology we need to succeed?” During the proof-of-concept phase, it might make sense to build technology to save money. But, as a business grows and scales, homegrown technologies can quickly become unmanageable and expensive to maintain.

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How to Get Training to the Hands of Your Field Reps Within Minutes

Litmos

There are not many careers that are as hectic as that of the field rep. With their busy schedules, driving to make a sale and a list of leads as long as their arm, delivering training can be a tricky area to manage. Ask field reps to attend a week-long training session away from their client lists and mobile phones and they will think you have lost your mind.

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Add an Audio Clip to a Quiz Question

Adobe Captivate

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I will show you how you can add an audio clip to a quiz question, without it interfering with slide narration or other audio clips on the slide.

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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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Why Continued Employee Training is Important

KnowledgeCity

The HE@Work group, part of Middlesex University’s Institute for Work Based Learning, conducted a four-year research project on workers in the UK. The results they found were startling, as almost three quarters of workers surveyed said they felt they weren’t achieving their full potential at work. As a leader in your organization, the job of helping employees improve and perform is your responsibility.

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Using Fluid boxes: Knowledge Facts – 1

Adobe Captivate

In this article, I will be discussing some facts you need to know for getting started on working with fluid boxes. This will basically involve giving an overview on what are fluid boxes, how to use them, insertion and selection of fluid boxes. So, let us get started! What is a Fluid box? As part of Adobe Captivate 2017 release, Fluid boxes are the containers which layout your content intelligently as per the defined settings.

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Hands-On #4: Download your Micro-Learning Flashcards Demo Source Files

Vignettes Learning

In the context of Micro-Learning, instant learning happens. Remember your parents or grade school teacher flashing cards and instantly asking you the right answer? I love this a lot in route learning - 10 x 5 (card one), then the back of the card shows the correct answer 50. Flashcards work well in Micro-Learning in the memorization of basic key ideas.

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Using Fluid boxes: Knowledge Facts – 2

Adobe Captivate

Please make sure you have read the article – “ Using Fluid boxes: Knowledge Facts – 1 “, to understand this article better. In this article, I will be discussing some facts you need to know for creating a fluid box layout. This will basically involve giving an overview on what approach needs to be followed for creating a layout with fluid boxes, how to use it and how to insert and handle objects within the layout.

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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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Hands-On #3: Download Your Copy of the Micro-Learning Chatbot (Emulation)

Vignettes Learning

The worlds of Learning Machines and Deep Learning are now vocabularies borrowed from the cognitive sciences and now applied in technology. IBM touts its Watson to be a learning machine capable of deep learning and more capabilities. Amazon's Alexa promises the same Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations. Iphone has SIRI as an advance learning machine.

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Using Fluid boxes: Knowledge Facts – 3

Adobe Captivate

Please make sure you have read the articles- “ Using Fluid boxes: Knowledge Facts – 1 ” and “ Using Fluid boxes: Knowledge Facts – 2 “, to understand this article better. In this article, I will be discussing about Fluid box properties. While working with fluid boxes, it is very important to understand and utilize fluid box properties like Wrap, Flow, Alignment, Stretch to Fit and Padding, to create a truly responsive content.

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Hands-On #1: Technique on Combining Factual Content with Stories

Vignettes Learning

How do you make sure that when using stories in your lesson, you still drill down to the details of the content? One of the most challenging tasks in Story-Based Learning Design is combining facts within the story. This WOW series explains an actual demo on a technical production content and how characters have a conversation. Video by Ray to explain the demo Click here to view the video Demo is Downtime Click to view the demo Key ideas to remember: Use an event with characters having conversati

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Enable Wrap Points for Fluid Boxes

Adobe Captivate

In this Adobe Captivate QuickTip, I will show you how you can have independent wrap points for each of your child level fluid boxes.

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The Credential Everyone Wants: The PMP Certification

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification is one of many professional credentials that is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Currently, there are approximately 1.4 million PMI PMPs awarded by PMI, the world’s leading authority on management. The PMP® certification is accredited against the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and ISO/ANSI 17024 standards.

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Hands-On #2: Download Your Copy of the Story Development Template

Vignettes Learning

When I saw the videos from the University of Western Florida, I thought the way they do "Mistory" is fascinating. The videos educate while entertaining the viewers and learners. Please see the website with several videos. This hands-on guide is a template that you can use to study and prepare story structures for your videos. For this exercise I took the Lions in the Water: the Impact of the Environment on the Gulf video.

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The Week That Was, May 8-12

CLO Magazine

learning news A Commitment to Move: Accenture’s Rahul Varma hasn’t been afraid to start over and lean into the new, which has paved the way for significant innovation. 10 Ways Experiential Learning Creates Long-Term Performance Impact Experiential learning nurtures personal ownership over decisions. The learning translates more easily back to daily choices made on the job, increasing performance through behavioral change.

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A Partner’s Perspective on Perspectives

Skillsoft

As a Channel Partner, what did Perspectives 2017 mean for me?

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Benefits of Virtual Reality in eLearning and Development

CommLab India

What do you think of or imagine when you hear the words Virtual Reality (VR), and do you have any idea what is the use of this technology? Often, when people think, they are transported to an imaginary world. In the learning environment, it helps learners adapt well to real-life situations, through virtual surroundings, offering a riveting learning experience.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Top 5 Benefits of Moodle Learning Management System [Infographic]

CommLab India

Today, the use of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) has become quite prominent. A research by Capterra, highlights that Moodle tops the list of the 20 most popular Learning Management Systems in the world. What makes it so popular? Well, listed in the infographic are a few benefits of Moodle that make it the most popular LMS. What do you think of Moodle now?

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