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Help! My E-Learning Course is Boring.

Rapid eLearning

One of the top questions about e-learning is how to make boring course content more engaging and interactive. Considering the state of many e-learning courses, it’s a good question. But I’m not sure it’s the right question. Is Course Content Boring? I’m not sure the issue is that the content itself is boring as much as the content is meaningless and irrelevant to what the person needs. .

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Survey: What will the training industry look like post-COVID?

Arlo Training & Events Software

In March, we surveyed training providers to get an understanding of how COVID affected their business and how they were adapting. Six months on we surveyed our training providers again to see what’s changed, and how they’re building out their long-term strategies for delivering training in a post-COVID world. It’s been a tumultuous year for the training industry due to the restrictions of COVID-19.

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I’m speaking at DevLearn 2020

Experiencing eLearning

DevLearn will be different this year. The Learning Guild has planned a two-week online experience, since it’s not safe for us all to fly to Las Vegas. I’m presenting a live session and facilitating an After Hours Buzz conversation. Streamlining Branching Scenario Planning and Design. My live session is #1023 at 10:00 AM PDT/1:00 PM EDT on Friday, October 30.

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How to Sell Courses with Zapier and WooCommerce

LearnDash

Automate your course sales using WooCommerce and Zapier. So, you’ve created a course on LearnDash. Next you probably want to know how to sell it, right? Your first steps will be to set up the order fulfillment system that will allow you to list courses as products, have a checkout process, and get paid. And for many of our users, the first and most obvious choice is WooCommerce.

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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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Personalized and adaptive learning

Clark Quinn

For reasons that are unclear even to me, I was thinking about personalized versus adaptive learning. They’re similar in some ways, but also different. And a way to distinguish them occurred to me. It’s kinda simplistic, but I think it may help to differentiate personalized and adaptive learning. As background, I led a project to build an intelligently adaptive learning platform.

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Important Design Elements in an Asynchronous Business Simulation

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

One of the most powerful elements about asynchronous business simulations is the ability for the learner to learn-by-doing.

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eLBX Online Recap - Becoming a Learning Business Partner

eLearning Brothers

Many L&D professionals have dreams of being taken more seriously in our organization and leading more impactful learning and performance improvement experiences. Rarely do we have the opportunity, though. We’re told it will take too long or cost too much, and to just get it done.

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Video: Adopting a coaching mindset for leadership

CLO Magazine

Traditional managers and leaders tell you what to do. But adopting a coaching mindset in leadership — asking rather than telling — opens a lot of doors for leaders and their teams, says Magdalena Mook, CEO at the International Coaching Federation. When she tried this with her team, she saw nearly automatic buy-in from everyone when she asked for their input.

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How To Build A Digital Learning Culture In Your Organization

eLearning Industry

Discover performance consulting tips aimed at building a blended learning curriculum that drives learning culture within your organization. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Designing Online Training: 9 Challenges and Solutions [SlideShare]

CommLab India

Online training design isn’t easy, there are bound to be challenges. Look up this SlideShare for some challenges in online training and their solutions.

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New report from HBR-AS: The future of work is immersive

STRIVR

With the release of its latest exclusive report , Harvard Business Review Analytic Services has broken the news on the future of work: it’s immersive. What does it mean to say the future of work is immersive? It means that, amid a rapidly changing work environment, “the tools you use for preparing your workforce can become your competitive advantage,” writes HBR-AS.

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How Retail Stores Can Improve Teamwork Through Employee Collaboration

PlayerLync

Collaboration drives teamwork. And yet, despite relying heavily on a large and diverse workforce to carry out daily operations, many retail outlets aren't giving employee collaboration the attention it deserves.

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How To Use VR Training Metrics To Measure Success

Roundtable Learning

Virtual Reality (VR) may be the right training tool for your organization, but how do you measure it’s true effectiveness? This is where metrics can help! In learning management, metrics refer to quantifiable measures used to track learners’ activity and assess the value of a training program. Collecting metrics can be challenging, but they’re critical in measuring the value of your investment in your VR training programs.

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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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Those Savings from your Travel Budget? Time to Splurge on Customer Engagement

Cloudshare

Enterprise planning and budget season is upon us, and this year, enterprises are seeing a huge question mark on what is traditionally one of the most expensive elements of their overall budget: travel. According to industry research, pre-COVID-19, 445 million business trips took place each year , creating a $251 billion industry, so it’s no surprise that travel often comes in as the second largest slice of the enterprise budget overall. .

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How to Be CyberSmart in a COVID-19 World

Avilar

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month , established in 2004 as a broad effort to help all Americans stay safer and more secure online. This year’s theme is: “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart.”. Like so many activities in 2020, COVID-19 has introduced a layer of complexity across efforts to be CyberSmart. Here’s how COVID is influencing cybersecurity – and what we can all do to help keep our companies, workforces, and families more cyber-secure this year.

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Learning Paths For Successful Leadership Development Training

eLearning Industry

There may be rare cases of natural, born leaders in the corporate world. But more typically, great leaders are trained and effective management is learned. Be sure to include these 7 learning paths in your own quest to train leaders within your company. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Three Moves for Managers to Develop Workers’ Human Skills

Degreed

“He never had any fresh ideas.”. “She gave up too easily.”. “They just didn’t show leadership potential.”. When new hires don’t work out, these are often the reasons why. Last year, a major survey of hiring professionals showed that bad hires were far more likely to lack “soft skills” than “hard skills.”. The explanation is simple. It’s much easier to screen for technical incompetence — the programmer whose code doesn’t work, the designer whose portfolio looks sloppy — than it is to spot the int

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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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On Talent Development Reporting principles

Matrix

Have you learned anything new today? The odds are that if you are reading this, you have internet access, so you must have come across at least one piece of new information, a video, or a short post by one of your friends. How much have you learned since you had your morning coffee? That’s a tough question if you are not a student before an exam and know precisely how many pages you have gone through and how much there still is to cover.

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4 Blended Learning Examples To Help You Decide If Blended 2.0 Is The Best Way To Train Your Workforce

eLearning Industry

The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined how we work, and we now see the “new normal” of remote operations. In this article, I show 4 examples of how to leverage the blended learning 2.0 approach as you plan virtual trainings for remote learners. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Sphere 1: Educating Distributors on Product Advantages

BlueVolt

“$BlueBucks really encouraged my sales team to go online and complete the courses,” said Coursey. “Some employees that typically don’t work after hours were even completing the courses at home.”. Highlights. Sphere 1 University connects manufacturers with distributors. Manufacturer Wright Tool used $BlueBucks rewards to motivate participation in its product training.

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5 Tips to Reskill Your Workforce

Litmos

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic changed the way many organizations do business, the business world was facing a reskilling crisis. Technology has been changing rapidly for years. Back in 2017, research from Deloitte found the average half-life of a learned skill was just five years. The same year, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that as many as 375 million workers would have to switch occupations or acquire new skills by 2030.

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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 Use Learning & Talent Data to Transform Employee Engagement

Bluewater Learning

The ability to translate huge data sets into a unified, meaningful view ready for taking action is an essential skill in our increasingly online & data driven world. Armed with the honesty of clean data, Learning & Talent teams work together to maximize the performance of your company’s most valuable assets –your workforce. Trustworthy data helps businesses zero-in on the strengths and weaknesses of employees, supervisors, and managers, weed out inefficient training courses, detect and m

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Successful Transition to Remote Learning: Decoding the New Normal

Harbinger Interactive Learning

The world might be grappling with multiple slowdowns today, but if there is one area that the COVID-19 crisis has fast-tracked, it is the adoption of remote work and remote learning. As organizations try and decode the new normal, there is a complete paradigm shift underway. The huge momentum towards remote work has led L&D leaders to fall back on technology to deliver remote learning.

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Growing a Learning Culture With Learning & Development

Coreaxis

Culture is a broad concept. But let’s narrow it down a little bit and talk about…learning culture. Now, think about your organization. In that context, does it ring a bell for you? If it doesn’t, don’t worry. We’ll help you. Learning and development (L&D) is our business. And it plays an important role in growing. The post Growing a Learning Culture With Learning & Development appeared first on CoreAxis.

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Nvolve Platform Update – October 2020

Nvolve

Hello and welcome to the Nvolve Platform Update for October 2020. Our team has been working hard over the past few months to improve our infrastructure and improve our user interface to better help support you on your Workforce Excellence journey. We are excited to announce that we will be launching our improved user interface the weekend of October 10th and 11th.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Gamification & Microlearning Summit 2020

Tesseract Learning

Tesseract learning and Transformance Forums bring you India’s first Gamification and Microlearning Summit. A unique platform to help you understand and leverage the combination of Microlearning and Gamification in your learning strategies to better engage Leaners & up skill and reskill them to deliver business results. In this Gamification and Microlearning Summit you will: Understand the benefits of combining Gamification and Microlearning to increase learner engagement levels.

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Pitfalls of VILT You Need to Know About

CommLab India

Worried about the pitfalls of Virtual Instructor-led Training? We have a few solutions for you to overcome the pitfalls of VILT.

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HRM Summit – Middle East

Tesseract Learning

HRM Summit 2020 is an event focused on quality, not merely quantity. People, in the business of people are set to witness 90+ painstakingly selected Speakers tell their honest, passionate and sometimes personal stories on how the turning points of their pasts changed the trajectory of the future. Add 6 practical HR Workshops on trending topics, and you’ll begin to understand what you can expect from the HRM Summit 2020. 2020 marks our Ninth year of hosting incredible HR events in the regio