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How to Easily Create Powerful Customer Education

Spark Your Interest

Customer Education is the most underestimated competitive advantage organizations have. And while traditionally it applied to businesses selling widgets or software, customer education now also applies to governments, and non-profits, who have a product or service. The benefits of customer education are many. As are the types of programs and the components you could choose to include.

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Free L&D webinars for February 2021

Limestone Learning

“ Heart, leaves, foliage ” by Bianca Mentil is licensed by Pixabay. February may be short, but all the better to get us into spring. This little month packs a whirlwind of free webinars to keep your motivation up — that is, if you have the time to tune in. There are some gems, though, so it’s worth checking out and spending a strategic hour or two learning something new!

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6 Steps To Mapping The Learning Journey By Putting Skills Gaps And Employee Needs First

eLearning Industry

Learner journey or experience mapping is all about moving the focus of training from an Instructional Design to an experiential perspective for the learner. It maps learner experiences through various stages of progression, from building awareness of learning needs, to consuming learning and applying it on the job. To create learner journeys that work, we follow these six steps at the start of every project.

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ID and eLearning Links 1/26/2021

Experiencing eLearning

As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on creating certificates in Storyline, the benefits of sharing your work, and tools for visuals and videos. Certificates in Storyline. For a recent project, I researched ways to create a printable certificate in Storyline with an expiration date 1 year after completing the module.

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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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Learning Challenges for the Insurance Business in the New Normal

Infopro Learning

The last year had seen some extraordinary business shifts that were not expected for a very long time. While the insurance business was already undergoing a lot of significant changes before the pandemic, the novel Coronavirus added to the challenges that were underway. Many insurance organizations are still struggling with the evolution of technology and how businesses are transforming from being product-focused to customer-centric.

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4 Lenses To Bring e-Learning Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning

Allen Interactions

4 Lenses To Bring e-Learning Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning. This article was originally published by eLearning Industry. This is the first of a series of articles that I hope will apply a fresh approach to understanding CCAF e-Learning Instructional Design for interactive learning, performance-based learning, as a total package.

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Buzzwords and Branding

Clark Quinn

I was reflecting on a few things on terminology, buzzwords and branding in particular. And, as usual, learning out loud, here are my reflections. The script: So I’ve been known to take a bit of a blade to buzzwords (c.f. microlearning ). And, I reckon there’s a distinction between vocabulary and hype. Further, I get the need for branding (and have been slack on my own part).

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4 Lenses To Bring CCAF Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning

Allen Interactions

4 Lenses To Bring e-Learning Instructional Design Into Focus: Part 1 - Interactive Learning. This article was originally published by eLearning Industry. This is the first of a series of articles that I hope will apply a fresh approach to understanding CCAF e-Learning Instructional Design for interactive learning, performance-based learning, as a total package.

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Adult Education Evolved: How 2020 Shaped The Future Of Online Learning

Lambda Solutions

2020 proved to be a sink or swim year for education. The forced shift to online alternatives for traditional in-person instructor-lead training has had mixed results, but for adult learning and continuing education that digital move towards blended learning & asynchronous learning has provided an incredible opportunity. Let’s face it: life under a pandemic is hard.

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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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eLearning Trends in 2021: Perspectives To Help You Reframe And Rethink Your Training Programs

eLearning Industry

Post pandemic, L&D teams are re-evaluating the options taken in 2020 to arrive at a long-term blueprint for corporate training delivery. In this article, I list 19 eLearning trends in 2021, highlighting how to use them in the new workplace dynamics. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Help! This Subject Matter Expert Needs to Build E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

Good news! It’s easier than ever to “build” e-learning. And because of this, subject matter experts build a lot of e-learning courses. This makes sense for a lot of reasons. Subject matter experts have experience and depth of knowledge. They’re close to the subject and can keep things from becoming muddled by not involving a complicated production process or bringing on others who may confuse things.

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Designing A Tool-KIT For Remote Employee Wellness

eLearning Industry

Healthy employees are more likely to be happy and productive in their personal and work lives. This includes both physical and mental health, two things that have taken a toll on many in 2020. But the importance of employee wellness isn’t something new and will continue to be necessary. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Your guide to a virtual Valentine’s Day with your remote team

Poll Everywhere

Valentine’s Day is all about spreading love, whether it is to our significant others, our family, our friends, or even our colleagues. While we may think that showing love to our coworkers is unconventional, it is still important to let. The post Your guide to a virtual Valentine’s Day with your remote team appeared first on Poll Everywhere Blog.

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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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Old habits die hard, but good leaders can change

CLO Magazine

Odds are, you’ve tried to quit smoking or to start working out in a more disciplined way. The New Year often brings with it resolutions — code for habits you are trying to change. But by February, those resolutions are forgotten, and you are back to your old habits again. This is true for leadership habits, too. At work, habits drive how you formulate strategy, design workflows, structure your organization and engage with others day-to-day.

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4 Reasons To Opt For A Microlearning LXP When Onboarding Virtual Teams

eLearning Industry

A Learning Experience Platform (LXP) handles employees' online learning experiences and can create learning opportunities that motivate employees to engage in the company's learning culture. An LXP, such as microlearning LXP, is suitable for onboarding virtual teams and virtual learning environments built to accommodate employee promotions, collaboration, and choice within a company.

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Instructional videos: the rise of the YouTube D.A.Ds

Logicearth

I have very little memory of a life before easy-access, simple-to-use internet (I was born in the 90s). What memory I do have is fuzzy and certainly rose-tinted; I do not think the dial-up tone could sound like a lullaby to anyone who didn’t hear it in very junior years.

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Personalized Learning: An In-Demand Trend in 2021 According to Craig Weiss

CrossKnowledge

PART 2: Craig Weiss Shares His Insight on the Power of Personalized Learning. Craig Weiss is the CEO and lead analyst for the Craig Weiss Group , which provides analyst, advisory and consulting services to buyers and vendors in the e-learning industry. With over 20 years’ experience working with companies of all sizes, he has gained a unique perspective on the Learning Systems market.

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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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How Technology Is Powering Learning

Magic EdTech

The long-established distinction between education and e-learning is blurring. Digitization is making a significant contribution to the fabric of our societies. It is now a reality of our day-to-day lives. Be it shopping, socializing, gaming, entertainment, work from home, online and virtual schools, and even daily yoga classes, digitization has become a part of our existence. .

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How to activate a trophic cascade: the important role of team learning in functional transformation

CLO Magazine

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, it led to an ecological phenomenon referred to as a trophic cascade. In short, the reintroduction of a relatively small pack of wolves triggered a chain of positive changes that restored the ecological health of the entire park. Like national parks, organizational functions are also complex systems that self-generate benefits.

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How Technology Is Powering Learning

Magic EdTech

The long-established distinction between education and e-learning is blurring. Digitization is making a significant contribution to the fabric of our societies. It is now a reality of our day-to-day lives. Be it shopping, socializing, gaming, entertainment, work from home, online and virtual schools, and even daily yoga classes, digitization has become a part of our existence. .

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A Look Ahead: Online Training to Bridge Skills Gaps

Training Industry

A Look Ahead: Online Training to Bridge Skills Gaps - Read more by Hope Williams on Training Industry.

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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 I Need to See Your Face…And Not on a Screen

Clinton M. Padgett

As we come to the close of an unprecedented year, it is interesting to consider the challenges, changes, and new normal that will carry into the new year. Over the last several months, many corporations have been forced to implement a remote working environment due to the global pandemic. As a result, there have undoubtedly been a number of findings realized due to this shift – one perhaps being a growing view that physical meeting sites may not be as critical as previously thought when it com

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5 Onboarding Training Challenges and 5 Opportunities Today’s Workforce Faces

Obsidian Learning

The trend toward virtual onboarding has only increased during this period of recent global uncertainty. Virtual onboarding, though not without challenges, provides many exciting opportunities that benefit your learners as well as your organization. Starting a job in a new company or changing roles in your current company is one of the most exciting and stressful times in your career.

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Creating a knowledge-sharing culture in your organization

Learning Pool

We learn, collaborate, and share knowledge every day as we use social media, search engines and wiki sites to discover how to do stuff. So, why not apply that way of learning to the workplace and create a learning and knowledge-sharing culture in your organization? What you already have. In fact, knowledge-sharing and collaboration are probably happening in your organization already, right under your nose.

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Instructional videos: the rise of the YouTube D.A.D.s

Logicearth

I have very little memory of a life before easy-access, simple-to-use internet (I was born in the 90s). What memory I do have is fuzzy and certainly rose-tinted; I do not think the dial-up tone could sound like a lullaby to anyone who didn’t hear it in very junior years.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.