Fri.Aug 25, 2017

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Combating “The Homer Simpson Effect”

Learningtogo

You Have to Forget Some Old Truths to Master Essentials of Brain-Based Learning. There really is a “Homer Simpson” effect in neuroscience. The phenomenon was given this name in honor of the Fox network character, Homer Simpson. Homer once told Marge that “Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.” Who knew Homer was such a brilliant neuroscientist?

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Webinar: Make Onboarding an Incredibly Human Experience

Axonify

In our latest webinar , JD Dillon, Axonify’s Principal Learning Strategist shared how participants could increase the speed to capability and confidence of new employees by reimagining onboarding strategies. Accomplishing this requires a complete mindset shift. We need to accept that onboarding never stops. It is simply the beginning of a continuous learning experience.

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Reprise: Managing Minds, Winning Hearts

The Performance Improvement Blog

We are now in the "Knowledge Economy" which means that we must learn differently than we have in the past. As I wrote in a previous blog post titled, The Manager's Abridged History of Work and Learning : . Today, work is more about having a keen mind than it is about having a strong back or skilled hands. This has profound implications for how we manage workers and how we facilitate learning in the workplace.

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What makes for a talented performer?

Allen Interactions

Do others try to emulate them? Even try? By Christopher Allen , MA, PMI-ACP, Product Manager. These obvious questions so often go unanswered. So much depends on knowing, but how do we find out? Beyond asking the questions, what strategies and frameworks are successful in getting credible answers? And what would we do with the answers once found?

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Who Owns the “Other 95%”?

Living in Learning

The power we give up by taking an order for training only perpetuates the paradigm…the myth…in the minds of our stakeholders that training drives performance. The power we need to deploy should show up in our response to any training request with… “Sure, we can help you with that…but let us ask you a few questions first.” And then we dig for the roots and assess readiness for what may be indicated as a solution.

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Why Not Try Something New in the Classroom this Year?

D2L

It’s that time of year again. Summer is waning and the school year is fast approaching. As a teacher, this is a time filled with … Continued.

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Summer Micro-Learning Series: Don’t Miss Out On Video

Clarity Consultants

Micro-Learning is an immensely powerful learning and development tool. If you aren’t already bringing it into your professional development programs, especially paired with mobile learning, summer is the perfect time to try it out. What micro-learning comes down to, is taking a complex skill or lesson and breaking it down into smaller, more consumable pieces.

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Handling Organizational Change at Any Level

KnowledgeCity

Experts agree, no matter what our feelings on impending changes might be, the stress that inevitably comes along with any inter-office shake-up can have a negative impact on workers’ psyches. Organizational change is almost always difficult—employees often feel threatened or undermined—and rightfully so. Words like restructuring, downsizing, and pivoting can trigger major alarm bells and dizzying fears of job loss or insecurity.

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Robot Coaches: New Model for Leadership Training?

CLO Magazine

Despite growing interest in soft skills training, courses to teach them haven’t seen much innovation in how they are developed and delivered. While much of the industry has been focused on creating self-paced microlearning content, leadership courses and other soft skills are still mostly taught in classrooms via coaches or in live online environments.

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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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Why You Should Consider Hiring an LMS Administrator

Coreaxis

You’ve taken the time to evaluate your current LMS. Perhaps you’ve even chosen a new one for your organization. Your next step should be considering hiring an experienced LMS administrator to run it for you. Any good LMS will require a lot of effort and ongoing attention to maintain and e nsure it runs at it’s highest efficiency. Hiring an LMS administrator will take your investment in L&D and your LMS to the next level.

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To Thrive, you Should Learn, Adapt, Innovate and Repeat

CrossKnowledge

To survive and thrive in the future, organizations should think about transformation through the lens of: 1) Innovation and Adaptation. 2) Continuous Learning. Change is a driver of transformation no matter how you define it, and the way an organization responds to such drivers will determine its viability (perhaps its very existence). For example, IBM was a computer company that reinvented itself to become one of the most successful consulting firms today.

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How Flexible or Rigid is Your Online Course Design?

D2L

Online students place high value on the time flexibility that online learning can bring to their lives. However, online learning is not inherently flexible; it … Continued.

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TIQ Software named 2017 top 15 Startup in Canada

Trajectory IQ

TIQ Software Founder & CEO Jason Suriano TIQ Software named top 15 Startup in Canada 15 Startups including Trajectory IQ were presented with Metabridge’s prestigious award. As part of the award, each start up receives mentorship from Cisc and Google Execs at Metabridge’s Annual Tech Retreat. Story via betakit.com 15 startups getting mentorship from Cisco, Google execs at Metabridge's annual tech retreat TIQ Software named 2017 top 15 Startup in Canada was originally published in The Play

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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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Better Learner Engagement: 10 Ways to Engage Learners

Litmos

We recently held a webinar entitled, Learner Engagement: 10 Ways to Engage Learners , which gave great tips for capturing your learners' attention and increasing their retention of course material. You'll need to watch the webinar to see all 10 tips, but to get you started, here are the first four. Run from the KPIs. Ok, not really, but remember that people are human, not robots.

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#eLearning #LIVESTREAM – Fluid Boxes vs. Breakpoints 08/28/2017, 16:00 EDT

Adobe Captivate

I had an experience this week in developing a theme/template for a client that I thought could be the basis for this weeks discussion. I started off with the intention of developing a fluid box based theme/template for their upcoming Adobe Captivate work. In the end, their requirements are such that using breakpoints makes more sense. Follow the link right now to set up a reminder for yourself so you get notified when this LIVE STREAM goes live.

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Teach Online Students by Doing with VILT

ReadyTech

Online training classes are typically made up of lectures, PowerPoints, demos and knowledge checks. But they don’t often include a virtual training lab (also known as hosted labs or hosted training). lt’s these virtual training labs that are vital in replicating realistic situations that teach students the skills they would need when they are back behind their desks.

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How to do simple things that took me absolutely ages to work out

Adobe Captivate

There seems to be a healthy amount of subject matter experts here inspiring us with posts on how to do some of the more advanced things in Captivate. As a new user, I made several time consuming mistakes in my first few weeks with the product, things that may be obvious to some, but had me shouting at the screen in frustration. Here are how to do some very simple things that completely had me stumped: How on earth do I just… …resize fluid box sizes later?

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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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F2F LMS Presentations – Good, Bad,Ugly

eLearning 24-7

In the last few months, I’ve been there and that. Sitting in on face to face on-site presentations from LMS vendors. And I’m proud or sad to say, that what I am seeing is that same stuff I have seen from year’s past. . It is as if, some vendors never got the memo or if they did, they tossed it into the garbage or hit delete in their e-mail.

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Summer Micro-Learning Series: Don't Miss Out On Video

Clarity Consultants

Micro-Learning is an immensely powerful learning and development tool. If you aren’t already bringing it into your professional development programs, especially paired with mobile learning, summer is the perfect time to try it out. What micro-learning comes down to, is taking a complex skill or lesson and breaking it down into smaller, more consumable pieces.

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Replacing the green binder

Trajectory IQ

Replacing the green binder 5 Things we learned using games to train employees Three years ago, a long time partner came to us with a problem. That problem had a name . . . The Green Binder. The Green Binder represented everything wrong with their new employee onboarding and training. It hadn’t been updated in years, no one was really reading it, and those employees who had been with the company a year or more, still didn’t understand the company culture, history, values, benefits, etc.

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Closing the Skills Gap with E-Learning Solutions

Beyond Campus Innovations

Closing the Skills Gap with E-Learning Solutions. The emergence of new workplace technologies continues to threaten older and less skilled workers, while allowing for specially skilled employees to fill these new roles. Unfortunately, these special skills can be hard to find. The resulting skills gap is hurting both employees and employers as both sides seek necessary skills for growth.

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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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Replacing the green binder

Trajectory IQ

Replacing the green binder 5 Things we learned using games to train employees Three years ago, a long time partner came to us with a problem. That problem had a name . . . The Green Binder. The Green Binder represented everything wrong with their new employee onboarding and training. It hadn’t been updated in years, no one was really reading it, and those employees who had been with the company a year or more, still didn’t understand the company culture, history, values, benefits, etc.

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Grips, Lines, and Looks: Creating Captivate Magic!

Adobe Captivate

In addition to being an e-learning developer, I am a magician. No, really, I am. Yes, that kind. Mind you, you won’t find me pulling a rabbit out of a hat or anything, but I’ve been known to work a few feats of prestidigitation into some of my recent conference presentations. It’s all about matching the effect with the content of my presentation. That’s what a good corporate magician does.

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Startup of the Week

Trajectory IQ

“Companies have been producing paper-based, PowerPoint, or basic web and video-based training materials for years. However, employees are tired of the same old training and testing scenarios and are looking for something more. Enter Trajectory IQ, a web and mobile game-powered eLearning platform designed to change the way people are educated, trained, and tested in the workplace.

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We Love Rapid E-learning Development Because…

CommLab India

Today’s training challenges have disrupted traditional training methodologies. Rapid e-Learning development meets these challenges head-on.

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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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Top 10 tech startups emerging in Edmonton Alberta

Trajectory IQ

By Darren Kirby — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, [link] Don’t call Edmonton fly-over country because people are heading directly to this hotbed of sizzling startups “People love games but hate homework, especially on the job. Enter Trajectory IQ , sometimes tagged Rocketfuel Games, and its software that turns employee notifications and training materials into something fun that sneaks in some learning.

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This Week in EdTech: How Technology Enables Personalized Learning

D2L

Stay up-to-date on the latest news in learning with these trending articles.

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Trajectory IQ is a 2017 top 15 Startup in Canada

Trajectory IQ

15 Startups Getting Mentorship from Cisco, Google Execs at Metabridge’s Annual Tech Retreat. Check out the full article by clicking on the link below. 15 startups getting mentorship from Cisco, Google execs at Metabridge's annual tech retreat Jason Suriano is the Founder and CEO of Trajectory IQ and author of the book Office Arcade. Like this story?

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