Thu.Aug 17, 2017

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eLearning in the Age of Automation

Web Courseworks

In 2011, I took a human-computer interaction course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One day, the class collectively decided to discuss automatizing the workforce. I greatly enjoyed musing over the restructuring of society and what it means to be a member of a “work force” who no longer has to work. How could capitalism survive in such an environment?

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The Big Benefits of Microlearning

InSync Training

Training Magazine Network session recap. The next big thing in learning, might be the smallest! Microlearning has the power to change the way we design and facilitate our training programs. But before we can move forward with leveraging this revolutionary approach, we have to first understand it at a fundamental level. Jennifer Hofmann, graciously sponsored by Airclass, shared her proven model, Connecting the Dots: Incorporating Microlearning Techniques into Virtual Classroom Experiences , with

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Gaining Accreditation for Your Online Course

LearnDash

You offer an online course and award certificates but they don’t really carry any weight until your program is accredited. Certificates are great in online courses – and let me clear the air on one thing: you don’t need industry accreditation in order to offer them. People will still be happy to earn them and even print them off. But what if you do want the certificate to mean something more?

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Human Capital Analytics — Now

eLearning Brothers

Human capital powers activity in commercial business and in government. It is estimated that the cost of human capital can be nearly 70% of annual operating expenses. In spite of the importance of this capital (the people and the cost to support them), real financial analysis of the impact of variable outcomes is seldom conducted. The performance of an organization varies with the performance of its human capital.

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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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Past Event: Join me in San Diego with ATD! (Sept 21-22, 2017)

Learningtogo

I’m so excited to be coming back to the ATD San Diego chapter.­­­­­ After a successful Brain-Based Learning workshop last year, I’m back to share my passion for learning with my friends and colleagues in the San Diego/Orange County chapters. Brain Science of Decision-Making for Consultants. As learning professionals, we’re also playing the role of consultant for our internal or external clients.

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Past Event: Join me in San Diego with ATD! (Sept 21-22, 2017)

Learningtogo

I’m so excited to be coming back to the ATD San Diego chapter. ­­­­­ After a successful Brain-Based Learning workshop last year, I’m back to share my passion for learning with my friends and colleagues in the San Diego/Orange County chapters. Brain Science of Decision-Making for Consultants. As learning professionals, we’re also playing the role of consultant for our internal or external clients.

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Soft is the New Strong

CLO Magazine

When Philipp Schramm was offered the job of chief financial officer for Webasto Roof Systems in Detroit in 2014, he expected the U.S. office of the global automotive supplier to operate as smoothly as its German headquarters. What he found was a disorganized and often hostile work environment where people made excuses for why work wasn’t getting done.

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Training Post-millennials: 6 Tips on Generation Z Workforce Training

eFront

In just under two years, your whole training plan may be obsolete. Generation Z is almost here, and as the first generation to really grow up with social media, texting, YouTube, and more Justin Bieber than Michael Jackson, most of us have no idea how to train them. Gen-Z? Those are the millennials we’ve been hearing so much about for years, right? Not quite, Generation Z is also known as the post-millennials (born mid-1990s to mid-2000s), and they’re coming in hot on the heels of the Millennial

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The Future of Learning Careers

CLO Magazine

Elliott Masie is the chairman and CLO of The Masie Center’s Learning Consortium and CEO of The Masie Center, an international think tank focused on learning and workplace productivity. There’s a shift happening in the learning field that is easy to notice. I see significantly fewer full-time learning and development employees delivering programs to their own staff.

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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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Thriving as an Instructional Designer in a Multi-Device World

SHIFT eLearning

Summary: The essential responsibility of every Instructional Designer is to improve the quality and effectiveness of instruction. That has not changed in our increasingly multi-device world. The basics, from audience analysis to writing to the objectives, are still there. For the “modern” Instructional Designer, however, they just look different.

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Learning on the Fly

CLO Magazine

Imagine if companies could customize their training so that it met the exact needs of every learner, giving them only the lessons they need and making sure they learned those skills before moving on. This is the premise of adaptive learning and it is going to change the way learning leaders think about training and the content they provide to their people.

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LMS Selection Roulette: Who Can You Trust?

Talented Learning

It happens at least once a week. I bump into LinkedIn posts from learning professionals who are overwhelmed by LMS challenges. Often, these posts have 287 or more responses from LMS vendors, each claiming they offer the best solution, given the overwhelming evidence provided in the original 2-sentence help request. Many LMS owners are frustrated with the limitations of their current learning infrastructure.

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So-Called ‘Healthy’ Conflict Leads to Innovation

CLO Magazine

To reach our full potential, we need a little more conflict in our lives, provided it comes with productive dialogue. “I don’t believe as a society we have truly learned how to have difficult conversations,” said Doug Upchurch, chief learning architect at Insights. “And it’s in part because of that, that we see so much divisiveness in our world.”. Employees must be able to have those conversations and be an example, not just for organizations, but for wider society, he said.

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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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Plan Your Online Training Courses In A Single Day

LearnUpon

Forming ideas for your online training can be time-consuming, overwhelming and let’s face it, a little tedious. But it doesn’t have to be! An idea generation day or ideation day, a part of ADDIE , is a practice we suggest every eLearning professional try to organize and optimize their planning. What is an ideation day? An ideation day is an incredibly basic concept.

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Designing a Learning Budget You Can Defend

CLO Magazine

Learning organizations are under constant pressure to prove their value to the enterprise. And learning leaders must design budgets that deliver performance gains while being defensible and justifiable from a business standpoint. This requires careful planning, a considered approach and a transparent process that illustrates exactly where and how they intend to spend company funds.

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HRDQ Webinar: The Evolution of Work

Coreaxis

I recently had the opportunity to join HRDQ for a webinar all about the evolution of work! We explore some of the key factors that are influencing work, technology to diversity and beyond. Work has changed. Today we’re working in a global, mobile marketplace, using technology that didn’t exist just a few years ago. While these changes have given us great tools and resources to connect with individuals and organizations around the world, it has also made our work more challenging.

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Avoiding the Curse of the Consultant

CLO Magazine

Consulting has become an attractive occupation and internal consultants have proliferated just about everywhere. Much of HR is now performed by HR consultants. Performance consultants are now permeating learning and development. There is a compelling reason for this growth: Internal consultants can play an influential role. External consulting continues to grow, too.

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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.

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How To Design and Adopt a Blended Learning Program

Riptide Software

Learning is continuously transforming, and the concept of “lifelong learning” has been around for awhile now. It is becoming an outdated idea to only think of training as something you ship your employees away to (which costs valuable time, and money).

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Growing a Model for Leadership

CLO Magazine

Building a leadership pipeline is important, and a clear leadership model can link strategic areas of the business. For a fast-growing company like Mindtree with clients across the globe, development of that model and the leaders to go along with it was central to growth from inception. Mindtree, an IT consulting firm founded in 1999 in Bangalore, India, by a group of 10 IT professionals, now employs more than 16,000 workers who provide e-commerce, cloud computing and digital transformation serv

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Rapid E-learning: The Fun, Easy, and Profitable Way to Online Training

CommLab India

Training managers learn all about the fun, easy, and profitable way to online training by going for rapid eLearning development.

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Training Simulations Benefits and Best Practices

Designing Digitally

When training simulation and businesses combine, there is great potential for companies to excel. Combining game elements with simulation and interactive learning creates a solution that has a plethora of benefits.

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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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The science of teamwork and true leadership

Matrix

Teamwork and collaboration are qualities that inevitably show up in any job description when companies publish ads for hiring new people. Businesses spend a lot of money on team-building exercises, training programs, games and gimmicks to try and make the members of different teams know each other better, like each other more and ultimately work better together.

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HRDQ Webinar: The Evolution of Work

Coreaxis

I recently had the opportunity to join HRDQ for a webinar all about the evolution of work! We explore some of the key factors that are influencing work, technology to diversity and beyond. Work has changed. Today we’re working in a global, mobile marketplace, using technology that didn’t exist just a few years ago. While these changes have given us great tools and resources to connect with individuals and organizations around the world, it has also made our work more challenging.

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Simple Ideas for Communicating Powerful Messages

Growth Engineering

This week, I share some of my top communication tips, to help your powerful messages go viral within your organisation! How we communicate with our employees really matters. It can mean the difference between people simply hearing our message or actually embracing and connecting with it. So, whether you’re sharing the business mission statement, policy changes or some awesome company news – the important question is: How do we successfully share information so that it makes an impact

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Mentoring in Action

Everwise

In today’s world of changing careers, it’s important not only to connect, but also to support and develop each other as leaders of the next generation. We do this by trading knowledge through teaching and learning from others. To further understand how our mentors connect with their protégés, the Everwise community shared how they approach mentoring and exchanging knowledge.

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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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Microlearning: Win-Win for Employees and Organizations

CommLab India

Learn how microlearning can be the winning idea in training because of its inherent advantages to employees and organizations.

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Part 1 of Modern Instructional Design

Powerhouse Hub

It's important to create learning material in an efficient and calculated way.

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Video Screencasts to Make Software and Process Training Exciting

CommLab India

Learn how screencasts can improve your software and process trainings.