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Insider top tips on protecting your training material

Saffron Interactive

I wanted to mark the start of season 2 of the hit TV show Mr. Robot with this blog post. The show is a gripping drama following a young programmer. The post Insider top tips on protecting your training material appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Too Much Tech! 5 Reasons One System is Better than Many

Administrate

We understand that teaching transcends technology and while software assists in the management of your training, the success of your business or training department ultimately rests upon the quality of training you deliver. That said, the selection of the technology that sits behind your training operation is pivotal in determining how successful you Read More Published on August 4, 2016.

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Can Learning Management Systems Foster Experiential Knowledge in the Workplace?

TOPYX LMS

In your personal opinion, what type of value does experiential learning hold? Before you answer, there are two things you must have understanding of: what this type of learning is and what it can accomplish. First, experiential learning is a process that facilitates the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills through real-life experience. Second, this type of learning has the power to transform employees’ attitudes about training, increase knowledge retention, and create a learning culture

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The Accidental ID: A Midsummer's Night Sale

Learning Visions

Has your copy just gotten too dog-eared? Did you lend it out to that new ID on your team? Do you want to buy copies for your entire team? (Hey, I've heard people are doing that!) Now on sale (through August 15), The Accidental Instructional Designer and loads of other great books from ATD Press. Use code MIDSUMMER16 to get 20% off books and TD at Work issues !

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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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Can Learning Management Systems Foster Experiential Knowledge in the Workplace?

TOPYX LMS

In your personal opinion, what type of value does experiential learning hold? Before you answer, there are two things you must have understanding of: what this type of learning is and what it can accomplish. First, experiential learning is a process that facilitates the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills through real-life experience. Second, this type of learning has the power to transform employees’ attitudes about training, increase knowledge retention, and create a learning culture

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How to Deliver on the Promise of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

Inkling

Did you miss our recent webinar, Delivering on the Promise of BYOD , hosted by Ahmed Datoo? No sweat! Read on for a recap below, then watch a recording of the webinar to learn how you can create compelling content for your employees and truly deliver on the promise of BYOD. —— It’s easy to see why BYOD (bring your own device) in recent years has taken corporations by storm.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 22: Wrap it in Peanut Butter!

Learning Rebels

It’s day 22 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Wrap it in Peanut Butter! Today it was time to give the furbabies their heart worm pills (preventative meds, so don’t be concerned!). No one likes taking medicine, dogs included. So I discovered if I smash them up and serve them in peanut butter , it disappears. The Julie Andrews song from Mary Poppins – A Spoonful of Sugar , is right on point.

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Leading Change as “Ordinary Work”

Living in Learning

To be effective with addressing the continuous nature of Change is to ”routinize” it by building into the organizational culture as “Ordinary Work”. That means adopting cultural mindshare that adopts a discipline and protocols of Change Leadership that are agile, resilient, and most importantly – repeatable.

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What can instructional designers learn from a murder?

Kineo

In 1992, on an otherwise average day in Baltimore County, 17 year old Adnan Sayed murdered his ex-girlfriend and fellow student Hae Min Lee then calmly returned to school for track practice. Or did he? That’s the question the Serial podcast has listeners obsessing over. .

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: 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? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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VILT: Training’s Overlooked Stepchild

LearnDash

Imagine for a moment that you have been asked to lead a team to create a training program for a medium-size organization. This organization has around 25,000 employees and roughly 12,000 of them have to go through the training program. The training is designed to shift a fundamental way that the business fulfills their work-orders, so it is rather complex in nature.

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Performance Improvement Strategy: Webinar Digest

Web Courseworks

This webinar was a team effort by Tagoras and Dr. Andy Hicken from Web Courseworks. In this Performance Improvement webinar, Andy kicks off the session by giving a list of key terms in the field of Performance Improvement. HPI – Human Performance Improvement. PI CME – Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education. MOC Part IV – Maintenance of Certification Part IV.

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Bank on It: Using Question Banks in Storyline 2

eLearning Brothers

Quizzes… we all use them. They are an integral part of any good eLearning course. Yet one of the oft-neglected types of quizzes is one that draws from a bank of questions. What is a question bank? A question bank is a group of questions from which a certain number of questions are drawn in order to populate the quiz. For instance, there could be 20 questions in a question bank, but the quiz would only use 5 of them.

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Stock Photography Must Die #INDIETECH

Wisetail

The post Stock Photography Must Die #INDIETECH appeared first on Wisetail.

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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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Choosing Your Lectora Scenarios Wisely

eLearning Brothers

Every day we’re faced with choices. Do I wear the blue tie or the brown one? What breakfast cereal should I eat? And sometimes even more difficult and important ones than that. Do I file this as a health code violation? Was this a case of sexual harassment that should be reported? Choices can be tough at times, and while we all wish they were along the lines of the former scenario, they can often be the latter.

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6 Key Benefits of Moodle LMS [Infographic]

CommLab India

With organizations’ training dollars at risk, it becomes really important to select the right Learning Management System (LMS) that meets the training needs. As numerous options are available in the market, it becomes very difficult for organizations to select the appropriate LMS. With 68 million users all over the world, Moodle is known to be the world’s best and widely used LMS because of its easy to use options, adaptability, and rich features.

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Struggling to Train New Hires Effectively? Try Micro Learning

SHIFT eLearning

One of the biggest challenges that any operation deals with is new hire training. Your company likely has a specific way it wants things to be done, and there are often a lot of processes in place too. If you’re dealing with people who’ve been in your organization for a long time, it can be easy to forget how many functions of your business you don’t think about on a daily basis.

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Videos in E-learning – The 7 Benefits

CommLab India

Videos in eLearning inject freshness in the learning. According to a report by Ambient Insight, 83% of organizations will use videos in their digital learning by the end of 2016. And, a plethora of studies have revealed that a learner can only remember 10% of what is read, 20% of what is visual, 30% of what is heard, and 50% of what is visual and heard.

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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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Meet Instructional Designer Brandon Winston [Audio Interview]

The Learning Dispatch

Instructional designer Brandon Winston joined the Microassist curriculum development team in May 2016. In roughly three minutes, Brandon gives insight on what an instructional designer does and why he’s so passionate about the process of developing custom training. Interview transcript. VIVIAN CULLIPHER: Hi, I’m Vivian Cullipher with Microassist.

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Coaching vs. Consulting: Find the Perfect Balance to Get Buy-in and Results

CLO Magazine

Chief learning officers should consult as well as coach stakeholders while partnering with business units to develop learning strategies. But to improve their influence and results they’ll need to clarify the difference between coaching and consulting, and find the right balance for each initiative they lead. Both coaching and consulting begin with a well-defined problem, challenge or opportunity that is causing pain for the other party.

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Authoring Tools and Lectora Online Q&A

Trivantis

Recently, Lectora® Online was listed in the “ 5 Top E-learning Content Authoring Tools for Corporate Trainers ” by Software Advice. We sat down with the review’s author, Brian Westfall, Senior Market Research Associate, for a Q&A on authoring tools, cloud software, responsive design in mobile training, and more. Q: How does Responsive Course Design™ in Lectora Online fit into today’s mobile world?

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Accelerate Female Leadership Development

CLO Magazine

Zsuzsanna Tungli will never forget one of her earliest experiences of gender inequality in the workplace. She was studying in Italy for her MBA, interviewing a female executive for a research project. “I was about to say, ‘Thank you and goodbye.’ This woman, who had never seen me before, suddenly talked about her problems as a woman leader; I was sitting there for another full hour.”.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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Integrating FoxyCart with eFrontPro

eFront

Integrations, like vitamins, are good for you. Sure, you might not care for most of them, but when you do have a need for a specific one, you’ll be thanking the software gods that it’s available. And, given how many integrations eFrontPro supports and the pace at which we’re adding new ones, it will most likely be available. Just last week, for example, we launched eFrontPro 4.5 with another major native integration, for the popular shopping cart platform FoxyCart.

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Empowering Learners With On Demand Online Training

PulseLearning

Here is how an on demand online training model can empower learners by placing them at the center of the educational experience. How On Demand Online Training Empowers Learners We have become accustomed to having information at our fingertips, accessing it in the moment with the ease of a Google search. This result of technological […]. The post Empowering Learners With On Demand Online Training appeared first on PulseLearning.

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Why all companies should consider long-boarding their employees

Matrix

You only have one chance to make a good first impression. Whether you’re meeting your future in-laws for the first time, or it’s your first day at a new company, people will make an opinion of you based on this first encounter. Likewise, you will form an opinion about them — the new family as a whole, or the new company. I think it’s a “love it or hate it” kind of thing; you either continue to develop the relationship, or simply think of how to part ways after that.

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4 Factors for Successful Offboarding

Training Industry

A recent study from LinkedIn shows that millennials will have four jobs in their first decade in the workforce. At the same time, 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age each day. Between job hopping among younger workers and retirement for veteran employees, most companies are battling a skill shortage. When employees leave the company their knowledge, process expertise and insider information leave with them.

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Project Team Engagement in the Context of Human/AI Hybrid Teams

The leadership style that the leaders adopt during engagement is critical in gaining team member support for building a positive thinking team. The challenge is in deciding whether to adopt an engagement focused leadership style that emphasizes human behavior characteristics such as personalities, or to a task-oriented leadership style that focuses on the work needed to be performed and the tools to be used.

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NGOs Encouraged to Join the “Social Learning Revolution” at LINGOs’ Global Learning Forum

HT2 Labs

CLO Alan Betts to lead workshop on the Social Learning Revolution at the LINGOs Global Learning Forum in September. The post NGOs Encouraged to Join the “Social Learning Revolution” at LINGOs’ Global Learning Forum appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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Induction training: 7 Ways to Speed Up Onboarding

Growth Engineering

Induction training didn’t always seem as important as it does now. Once upon a time, people got a job and kept it for as long as they could; the absolute nirvana of employment being the hallowed job-for-life. The world of employment has taken some dramatic turns in the last few of decades and now, the tides have turned in favour of a more varied resume.

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How to Create Customize Result Page in Adobe Captivate – Part 1

CommLab India

E-learning courses have the option to test learners on the knowledge gained through the final quiz, and the Result page displays their scores. The normally accepted par score is 80%. But if learners do not get the desired score, they can retake the course and try again. In this blog, I am going to share how to communicate their results to learners by customizing the Result page in Adobe Captivate.