Mon.Jun 26, 2017

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE: Hide & Show the Playbar at Will

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, COTP. I recently received an email from a fellow Captivate developer. She was hoping there was an elegant way to hide the playbar on specific slides. Certainly you can use the Skin Editor to remove the playbar completely from a project. Alternatively, if you don't want the playbar to be available during a quiz, there are Quiz Preferences for that.

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Consider a Career in Instructional Design

LearnDash

Here at LearnDash we often talk about creating dynamic, engaging courses. Because when it is all said and done, if you are creating an online course then you want people to enjoy it. If they enjoy it (even to some small degree) then chances are they will retain the information and your course objectives will be met. That is where instructional design comes into the picture.

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Why Microlearning is the Hottest L&D Trend in 2017

OpenSesame

Have you ever been told to complete a six-hour elearning course on compliance? Or taken time out of your already busy schedule to attend a week-long intensive training course? Or perhaps you’ve been given a textbook full of information that was overwhelming to digest? Training can easily become time-consuming and draining for learners, so much so that learning can be lost as soon as 24 hours afterwards.

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Taking a NAP

Learning with e's

It has been a pleasure and privilege to lead one of the most influential global organisations in digital education. It’s now time to step down, as my 3 year term has been completed. Since 2014 I have served as chair of the steering committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals, an elected body that works autonomously alongside the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN).

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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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What we gain by going remote first

CrossKnowledge

It’s clear that working remotely is becoming more and more the norm. Mobile devices, centralized data, and all kinds of apps and software are helping us stay connected no matter where we are. In the past, we had to go to a specific place in order to access the tools and information needed to do our work. But the ability to access information from anywhere is making the traditional 9-to-5 routine unnecessary.

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How to Access Courses After Purchasing Online

OpenSesame

Did you find an OpenSesame course and purchase it online for yourself? If you purchased a course online with OpenSesame, you can start viewing your course immediately afterward. You can also return to the website to watch the course at a later date or pause halfway through to resume later. Let’s walk through how easy it is to access your course again after you have purchased it.

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Do CLOs Need a Mobile First Strategy?

CLO Magazine

Employees are on the move. Whether working from home or offsite at the local Starbucks, a growing segment of workers are rarely parked in the office cubicle all day. Forty-three percent of Americans spend time working remotely, according to a survey of 15,000 employees conducted by Gallup earlier this year. As more people change the way they work it begs a question: If work is done on the go, shouldn’t learning be too?

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Why Microlearning is the Hottest L&D Trend in 2017

OpenSesame

Have you ever been told to complete a six-hour elearning course on compliance? Or taken time out of your already busy schedule to attend a week-long intensive training course? Or perhaps you’ve been given a textbook full of information that was overwhelming to digest? Training can easily become time-consuming and draining for learners, so much so that learning can be lost as soon as 24 hours afterward.

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4 Steps to Effective Employee Training Programs

WalkMe Training Station

A strong employee training program is an important pillar of success for any organization. Your business is constantly evolving, and your employees are moving right along with it. Providing thorough, dynamic and continuous training helps align these two movements to become a successful operation. When it comes to best practices for effective training, there are many potential answers, and what works for one group of people may not always be absorbed as well by another.

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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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Implementing Cyberattack Prevention: Is Your Workforce Ready?

Coreaxis

It seems not a week goes by that we don’t hear of some sort of cyberattack or data breach for an unlucky (or unprepared) organization. Regardless of the size or industry of the business, hackers on a mission to steal information is a real and present danger to all of us. As it seems the frequency and sophistication of said attacks continues to grow, failing to prepare your organization for such an attack is simply not an option.

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Why You Should Care About Office Ergonomics

KnowledgeCity

By now you’ve most likely heard the phrase “Sitting is the new smoking.” Thanks to the sedentary work environments of many white-collar professions, employees lack significant amounts of mobility during the day. The reality of this fact is that many adults spend around 50 percent of their days sitting at work , a startling statistic that can lead to increased life-threatening diseases.

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Blended Learning: Leverage Multiple Learning Environments

CommLab India

The best learning takes place when a blend of two or more environments are used to conduct training. Here’s why and how you can do it.

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Why You Should Care About Office Ergonomics

KnowledgeCity

By now you’ve most likely heard the phrase “Sitting is the new smoking.” Thanks to the sedentary work environments of many white-collar professions, employees lack significant amounts of mobility during the day. The reality of this fact is that many adults spend around 50 percent of their days sitting at work , a startling statistic that can lead to increased life-threatening diseases.

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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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Turning up the heat: summer TalentLMS update released

TalentLMS

Sometimes you log into your TalentLMS portal and you can immediately tell that there has been a new update — there is some big redesign or some major hot new features that you can’t miss. Our latest update, which just recently landed on the TalentLMS cloud, is not one of those releases. See, while our top secret R&D team is burning the midnight oil working on major new functionality that is poised to land sometime later this year, for this release we chose to focus on workflow im

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Select the Right E-learning Partner – Create Highly Engaging Courses

CommLab India

The blog highlights some factors to look out for in an e-learning vendor who can create highly engaging courses.

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We’re Hiring! Quality Assurance Engineer (Belgrade)

LearnUpon

LearnUpon is a cloud based software company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with offices in Sydney, New York and Belgrade. LearnUpon is designed for organizations looking to distribute their courses and track their training quickly and easily at scale. At LearnUpon we put our customer’s experience at the heart of everything we do, we always strive for the best solution (not the easy one), and we commit to producing work that we can be proud of.

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Increase Member Engagement with an Online Learning Challenge

WBT Systems

Participating in an online learning challenge is a great way to kick-start a new habit, acquire a new skill, or accomplish a long-desired goal. For example: More than 250 novels have been published by authors who started writing them during the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 30-day challenge. A 7-day green smoothie challenge helped the founders of Simple Green Smoothies build an online community of more than 200,000 people.

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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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Toolkit: Thinkzoom—Authoring that Leverages Video, Social by Joe Ganci

LearningGuild

Thinkzoom is a web-based authoring tool that lets you build courses around your documents, videos, and video screen captures. The tool supports social learning and collaboration.

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Why You Should Care About Office Ergonomics

KnowledgeCity

By now you’ve most likely heard the phrase “Sitting is the new smoking.” Thanks to the sedentary work environments of many white-collar professions, employees lack significant amounts of mobility during the day. The reality of this fact is that many adults spend around 50 percent of their days sitting at work , a startling statistic that can lead to increased life-threatening diseases.

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Book Review: Virtual Training Tools and Templates by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Virtual training coach Cindy Huggett shares her secrets to creating engaging virtual classroom training and honing your skills as a facilitator or producer.

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Top 3 Ways e-Learning Adds Value to Educational Institutions

ScholarLMS

While traditional learning in a brick and mortar educational institution is still the main way that students go to school, the popularity of a virtual classroom experience is steadily booming for both teaching and studying. Here are four key ways that an e-learning capability can augment the educational experience for students. Students Can Learn Anywhere.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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White Label e-Learning Platform

KMI Learning

What is a White Label e-Learning Platform? Have you ever stayed at a Marriott or Hilton hotel and wondered how they could provide such great service and make soap, shampoo, conditioner and lotion, too? Well, obviously they don’t. These are White Label products. A White Label product is a product that is made by one company and sold with another company’s brand, logo and identity.

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No Content Player App Required

Adobe Captivate

Things I like about Adobe Captivate #1 – my end users never have to see this: Okay now it’s your turn. Come up with a reason you like Captivate and enter it here.

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Ancient Vs Modern LMSs : A Comparison

CommLab India

This blog shares tips on using the latest technology to train your team.

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5 Key Ways to Improve Your Online Franchise Training

GoConqr

One of the common fears of franchising a business is whether you will be able to convey to the different franchisees the values and characteristics that have made your brand a success. John Schnatter, CEO of Papa John’s believes that the key to the success of his company has been that they have tried to “operate with small business mentality” since they see the business “as one store, repeated 4,800 times.”.

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The Credential Everyone Wants: The PMP Certification

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification is one of many professional credentials that is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Currently, there are approximately 1.4 million PMI PMPs awarded by PMI, the world’s leading authority on management. The PMP® certification is accredited against the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and ISO/ANSI 17024 standards.

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A Handy Checklist to Migrate From Flash to HTML5

CommLab India

This blog offers a handy checklist to help you when planning for a Flash to HTML5 migration.

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5 Key Ways to Improve Your Franchise Training

GoConqr

One of the common fears of franchising a business is whether you will be able to convey to the different franchisees the values and characteristics that have made your brand a success. John Schnatter, CEO of Papa John’s believes that the key to the success of his company has been that they have tried to “operate with small business mentality” since they see the business “as one store, repeated 4,800 times.”.

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3 Ways Learning Will Transform Your Nonprofit

Litmos

Nonprofits face challenges that can hamper reaching their social goals, from obtaining and maintaining financial resources to keeping donors and volunteers engaged. One issue that is often overlooked is measuring performance. By being able to assess how well your nonprofit is performing at reaching its goals, you can pinpoint the areas your team needs to improve on, and then learn to do better in the future.