Tue.Jun 15, 2021

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7 Learner Engagement Strategies for Your Online Course

Lambda Solutions

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Visual Design for Scenarios in Twine

Experiencing eLearning

While I often use Twine for simple text-based prototypes of branching scenarios, it’s also possible to create a more polished look and feel. With some work on the visual design, you can use Twine to create branching scenarios for end users without migrating the content to another tool for final development. In this post, I’ll build on the basics for formatting that I explained in my previous post on the Harlowe Story Format for Twine.

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Simplify Vendor Management with a Training Services Provider

Infopro Learning

Last year Covid-19 disrupted the workforce and accelerated changes we did not expect to see for several years. Organizations digitally transformed to keep up with the restrictions that were put in place. L&D leaders quickly adjusted Pre-pandemic learning strategies to meet the needs of remote teams. Employees in every industry had to learn new skills to keep up with these changes.

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Exploring Exploration

Clark Quinn

Learning, I suggest, is action and reflection. (And instruction should be designed action and guided reflection.) What that action typically ends up being is some sort of exploration (aka experimentation). Thus, in my mind, exploration is a critical concept for learning. That makes it worth exploring exploration. In learning, we must experiment (e.g. act) and observe and reflect on the outcomes.

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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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5 Things Your Remote Training Strategy is Missing

TOPYX LMS

It’s no secret that remote training has been highly utilized throughout the coronavirus pandemic. As increasing numbers of employees were forced to work from home due to social distancing guidelines, companies invested more and more money into eLearning technologies that enabled remote training.

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How To Make A Business Case For Continuous Learning

eLearning Industry

Change is a constant force. Continuous learning enables employees and employers to capitalize on change and be ready to face upcoming challenges and remain competitive. In this article, I explain how to build a business case for continuous learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Prominent soft skills for the future of learning and work

CLO Magazine

High school and college graduates are not prepared to enter the workforce. Why? Because they have not been taught or been able to develop soft skills — the intangible but impactful abilities that allow an individual to execute effectively in today’s collaborative and distributed workplace. Soft skills have always been significant — but now they are urgent.

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5-Phase New Employee Onboarding Checklist Template

eLearning Industry

A job is more than just a place of employment – it’s a livelihood. For your new employees joining your team, you want their onboarding experience to be awesome. . This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Free Icons for Health and Medical Industry Training

Rapid eLearning

I love free icons and illustrations that can be used in e-learning. Here are some good ones for the health and medical industries courtesy of Health Icons. What’s cool is that the icons are open source and free to use in commercial projects without any attribution requirement. Why are the icons free? “ Health Icons is a volunteer effort to create a ‘global good’ for health projects all over the world.

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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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Providing Just-In-Time Learning To Support eLearning

eLearning Industry

The recent transfer of a large number of courses to online environments can result in many learners lacking the support they are accustomed to in a face-to-face setting. In a classroom, the instructor can quickly answer questions and provide guidance and alternative teaching methods based on learner needs. With online learning, these types of supports are often missing.

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Whats Going On At SkillSoft?

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Skillsoft, one of the largest training companies in the world, is like a cat with nine lives. And this week it went public , for the second or third time. What? Let me try to explain. In the early days of e-learning (circa 2000), SkillSoft was the first online learning company focused on softskills. Hence. Read more» The post Whats Going On At SkillSoft?

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American Management Association Certified Professional in Management™ prep course now available from OpenSesame

OpenSesame

OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announces the addition of American Management Association’s Certified Professional in Management prep course to its on-demand library. Managers can now qualify to earn the AMA Certified Professional in Management credential – the new standard for management excellence – after completing 16 online courses from OpenSesame’s online training catalog. .

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Introducing the Site Builder’s New Widgets: Calendar, Animated Counters, Typing Effect, and more!

learnWorlds

LearnWorlds school owners, like you, have at their disposal the most advanced and most user-friendly Site Builder in the eLearning industry (yes, it’s a fact, and yes, we like to brag about it!). When you’re in the business of building a great online school, the last thing you want is to have a website that doesn’t communicate how buzzing your content is.

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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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Post-ATD Trip to Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks

Mobile Coach

YOU'RE INVITED. ATD ICE is in Salt Lake City, UT this year and seeing as our headquarters are in Utah, I am thrilled that so many L&D professionals will be descending on our beautiful state. . Utah is home to the country’s most beautiful national parks and we would love to show a couple of them to you during your ATD trip! We are organizing a 2-day trip after the conference concludes to Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park. .

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Tips to Convert PowerPoint Presentations into an eLearning Course Using Articulate Storyline 360

Swift eLearning Services

Prior to the emergence of current eLearning rapid authoring tools, eLearning training modules used to be made in Adobe Flash. Much before that – for considerably a longer time – PPT was widely used for training programs. There was a time when presentations and training programs on PPT was a well-known scenario. As new rapid… The post Tips to Convert PowerPoint Presentations into an eLearning Course Using Articulate Storyline 360 first appeared on Top eLearning Development Solut

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Delivering Quality Consistently – Hurix Collaborates with Quality Matters to Improve Online Education

Hurix Digital

Students and educators both want courses and programs that will enhance their knowledge and improve their skills. But, how to ensure that the programs meet the required quality? Is there a way of knowing or assessing whether a course or a program is of high quality? The answer is Yes. There is a way to ensure the quality of online learning – Quality Matters!

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Transforming Instructor-Led Training to E-Learning – An Overview

Capytech

Transforming Instructor-Led Training to E-Learning – An Overview. Instructor-led training, or ILT, is the traditional method of delivering training. E-learning provides an alternative that delivers substantial benefits, including in relation to costs and the quality of training you deliver to your team. Making the transition from ILT to e-learning can be a daunting prospect.

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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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How To Voiceover A Video And Minimize Your eLearning Production Costs

eLearning Industry

Creating attention-holding L&D content isn’t easy. Even if your content is stellar, you have to find the voice that does it justice. The voice that makes your content come to life, appropriately fits your situation—oh, and doesn’t cost a fortune. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Making Supply Meet Demand in a More Diverse World

OpenSesame

In the year 2000, global management consulting company McKinsey and Company , released a report that noted a trend in which diverse companies were outperforming their non-diverse counterparts on profitability. Embracing diversity of thought and partnering with diverse organizations provides more innovation and business performance. . Diversity, equity and inclusion(DEI) is a growing priority in most organizations.

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‘Test and learn’: A powerful approach to measure the impact of soft skills development

CLO Magazine

Determining the impact of learning programs continues to be a real challenge for many organizations. Surprisingly few have a systematic approach to measuring the impact of their L&D initiatives, particularly when it comes to actions designed to improve capabilities or interpersonal skills, such as leadership or soft skills. However, understanding the impact of these initiatives on participants, beyond the immediate perceived satisfaction, is a key factor in justifying the investments made.

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On-Demand Grocery Delivery Company Fancy Choose EduMe to Onboard Personnel

Edume

We are very pleased to announce Fancy , one of Europe’s leading on-demand grocery delivery companies, are the latest to join our fast growing client list. Iona Ryder, Head of Internal Tech, said of the partnership: “We are super excited to streamline all of our training into EduMe and ensure all our staff are trained to the highest standard in every new - and existing - market.

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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.

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Drive Better Learning Outcomes Using xAPI Data

eLearning Brothers

Our latest authoring tool release, Lectora Desktop 21 boasts a LOT of improvements and enhancements.

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The rise of the new well-being era

CLO Magazine

Throughout the past year corporate life has changed dramatically. Tens of millions work from home. Children interrupting remote meetings has become the norm, as well as seeing our colleagues with unlikely virtual backgrounds such as tropical beaches or outer space landscapes. We are all trying to figure out how to adapt to this new reality. Early results from the Harvard Business Review found a positive impact of remote work.

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Learning Pool Agrees to a Strategic Investment From Marlin Equity Partners

Learning Pool

Marlin Equity Partners to Support Continued Investment Programme, Creating 100 New Jobs. Learning Pool, a strategic leader in the U.K. & U.S. learning technology markets, has today agreed to a new investment from Marlin Equity Partners (“Marlin”), a global investment firm with over $7.6 billion of capital under management, to support the company’s continued growth.

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Why Do Educational Institutions Need Online Proctoring?

Hurix Digital

What is online proctoring? The education industry is witnessing a tremendous transformation with the emerging technologies that have enabled online learning. Furthermore, the pandemic has given a major boost to online education, forcing schools and higher educational institutions to conduct classes online. And even once the pandemic is behind us, online education as a supplement to classroom learning is likely to be the new normal.

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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.