February, 2015

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Learning and Cognitive Load

B Online Learning

'In a previous post, I looked at the fundamentals of cognitive load theory. In summary, to assist learners in transferring information from their working memory to their long-term memory, we need to present the information in such a way that it reduces extraneous cognitive load (non-relevant items) and, if possible, increases germane cognitive load (items […].

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How To Fill The Void of Missing Powerpoint Clipart

eLearning Brothers

'Due to the “internet of things,” Microsoft Office decided to kill off their Clipart library in December 2014. The Clipart library has been available within the PowerPoint and MS Word programs since the mid-1990s. From what we can tell, the main reasons for this move by Microsoft is three-fold. Their existing library within the MS Office programs fails to capitalize on a huge piece of their business: Bing/Images/Image Search.

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The HR Challenge: Analyze Your Corporate Training Needs

eFront

'If there is one thing that holds true for developing eLearning training materials, it’s planning, planning and planning. You can’t go wrong with that one. Think of a training course a result of relentless hard work and dedication. In fact, it’s not uncommon to spend 40 hours to develop a course to yield only 2 hours of training time. With this perspective, we need to make sure we plan in detail, we plan with all details and we rule out unnecessary details.

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eLearning in the Workplace

TalentLMS

'Workplace learning, professional development and eLearning are phrases with increasingly blurred meanings. Information technology systems are used to develop business infrastructure and conduct operational protocols like CRM, Finance and Human Resources. The same systems are extended to include learning management systems (LMS) that enable education and employee development. eLearning has become the cornerstone of education services to the mobile and the busy employee.

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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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No, I Won’t “Tweak” Your PowerPoint Slides

Experiencing eLearning

'I got a call from a prospective client. She and I spoke briefly once when she was looking for a pool of instructional designers to call on for specific projects, but we haven’t worked together yet. In fact, I’m pretty sure she’s never worked with any instructional designers before. “Hi, Christy, it’s Lynn. I need some help finishing up an e-learning course.

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Keeping the Learning Going

B Online Learning

'Recently, I was talking to some friends of mine who work in learning and development and they were telling me that it’s coming up to that time of the year when everyone needs to retake their mandatory eLearning courses on privacy and bullying & harassment. They were saying that during the year there’s not too […].

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The Global Virtual Classroom: Share Your Stories & Tips

InSync Training

'Request for Contributions: Do you have experience facilitating in a virtual classroom with participants from around the globe? What worked? What didn''t work? What are you going do do differently? Please share your stories and tips. We''d love to include as many as possible in our next whitepaper, titled "Making The Virtual Classroom Global.". You can respond right here, or send an email to jennifer@insynctraining.com.

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eLearning: Creating a Self-Video with Adobe Video Express

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Jennie Ruby  Adobe Presenter Video Express is a new version of the video software that comes with  Adobe Presenter 10. With it you can record a video of both you and your computer screen at the same time. When you open it from the Presenter ribbon within PowerPoint, you can create a video of yourself and your PowerPoint slides. Once you have recorded your video, you can then edit the project to show either your face, the computer screen, or both.

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DIY or Outsource? 5 Benefits of Cloud Based Moodle Hosting

Lambda Solutions

'One of the major decisions organizations have to make when implementing an LMS is whether to go with DIY (do-it-yourself), or outsourced hosting. Cloud based software is an advanced form of hosting that incorporates greater support and service levels, and offloads the aforementioned duties to the managed hosting firm.

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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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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

ID Reflections

'While the title of the post specifies MOOCs, the skills and mindsets I have explored in the post are, IMHO, required by all to survive and thrive in the digital and connected world. And participating in MOOCs could well be one of the ways to inculcate and hone the skills. I have been writing about MOOCs in the context of workplace learning from different perspectives for some time now.

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Small is Big: Converting PDFs to E-Learning Modules

Origin Learning

'What does a PDF bring to mind? Pages and pages of words? Lengthy research documents? Boredom at its peak? And no escape? Well to some extent that’s true, considering the omnipresent nature of these documents that haunt you everywhere. PDFs have almost become a standard for writing company announcements, policies, terms and conditions, how to’s, newsletters, training material and what not.

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Supporting Social Learning in the Organisation

Jane Hart

'Yesterday, I participated in an #exploresocial Twitter chat. Here are some of my tweets and links I shared, in answer to the question, what is the role of L&D in social learning? My first tweet was … Mostly, just get out of the way #exploresocial — Jane Hart (C4LPT) (@C4LPT) February 25, 2015 I said […].

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So This Happened. Recovering from a Webinar Fail

InSync Training

'This is a real-life webinar disaster that happened to ME this week. Keep reading to the end to review our 4-Step Disaster Recovery Process and learn how to maintain credibility when virtual classes and webinars start to experience problems.

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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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Add-On Brings Infusionsoft to LearnDash

LearnDash

'Recently we announced that we had opened the doors for other app developers to create add-ons and integrations for LearnDash WordPress LMS. Today, the folks at Memberium have officially announced their integration with LearnDash. The biggest advantage of their integration is that you can now leverage the powerful Infusionsoft platform with your online courses.

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Sell your eLearning course? Here are three options

Challenge to Learn

'More and more people are creating eLearning and for very different purposes. Making money with them is often one. This post will tell you how to do that. Create your eLearning courses and sell them. Some of the services offer an authoring facility, for other you need to create your course in eLearning software like Easygenerator. Notice that some of them will require you to upload your courses in a specific format (Scorm or AICC).

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The Dangers of “Push” Training: A True Story

KnowledgeStar

'This post was written with Sue Fry the Chief Creative Officer at KnowledgeStar. A recent experience proved how dangerous adhering to the old “push” model can be. In consulting with one of the world’s best-known NGOs, I conducted an exhaustive series of interviews with Managers and Directors at different levels, located in countries around the […].

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Social Media: Creating a LinkedIn Summary That Gets You Noticed

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Sally Cox    There is an art to creating a strong LinkedIn profile. One of the most powerful assets in your LinkedIn profile is the Summary. Most people put minimal thought into it, but honestly, it's a golden opportunity to make yourself shine. Tips to Creating a Stronger Profile. Be clear on your objective before you begin. What do you want recruiters and prospective employers to gain from reading your summary?

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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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mLearning more than mobile elearning?

Clark Quinn

'Someone tweeted about their mobile learning credo, and mentioned the typical ‘mlearning is elearning, extended’ view. Which I rejected, as I believe mlearning is much more (and so should elearning be). And then I thought about it some more. So I’ll lay out my thinking, and see what you think. I have been touting that mLearning could and should be focused, as should P&D , on anything that helps us achieve our goals better.

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Social and Emotional Learning: Measuring the Success of E-Learning

Origin Learning

'What is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)? By definition, Social and Emotional Learning is “The process through which people gather and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.”.

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Employee-Manager Learning Alliance

The Performance Improvement Blog

'In 1994, The Learning Alliance was published. This book, by Rob Brinkerhoff and myself, made the case that HRD (human resource development) was changing dramatically and that the key to employee learning had shifted from the training department to the relationship (i.e., alliance) between managers and the learners they supervise. We wrote in the first paragraph of the Preface: A revolution is taking place in the development of human resources.

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NJEdge.net Storytelling and Gamification Workshop Resources

Kapp Notes

'Here are slides, links notes and other items of interest related to my presentation at NJEdge.net Gamification Conference. I have also included instructions, in a slide deck that show how to write on a PowerPoint Slide as you are presenting. First the slides. Also, here are step-by-step instructions for adding text right onto a PowerPoint Slide as you are presenting.

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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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Ask The Experts: Steve Drake

Association eLearning

'Jack McGrath: Hi and welcome to another in our series Ask the Experts. My name is Jack McGrath. Today I’m going to be talking to Steve Drake who’s president of SCD Group. Welcome Steve. Steve Drake: Hi, how’re you doing? It’s great to be with you. McGrath: Good. Couple of questions for you: Your blog, you talk about saving time by curating and sharing important information.

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Moving Beyond E-Learning (online workshop)

Jane Hart

'“The role of L&D is shifting: from creator of a portfolio of training elements to enabler of learning” Want to find out more about how to help your organisation move forward? Come and join the next online workshop, Moving Beyond E-Learning running 2 March – 3 April. The way we learn in the workplace is changing; […].

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Making ‘sense’

Clark Quinn

'I recently wrote about wearables , where I focused on form factor and information channels. An article I recently read talked about a guy who builds spy gear, and near the end he talked about some things that started me thinking about an extension of that for all mobile, not just wearables. The topic is sensors. In the article, he talks about how, in the future, glasses could detect whether you’ve been around bomb-making materials: “You can literally see residue on someone if you

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5 Mobile Learning Trends: How M-LearningIs Changing the Workplace

Origin Learning

'Mobile Learning Technology has opened up a whole gamut of options to extend the learning blend. No longer do employees have to rely solely on the usual means of training – be it ILT or e-learning. So much so, that even in organizations which have not yet adopted mobile learning , employees are using their smartphones to informally pull whatever information they can at the time of immediate need.

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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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Responsive Design for eLearning [Article in @learningsolmag]

Learning Visions

'"It’s a fact: we live in a multi-device world. I’m currently sitting at a desk with my laptop open, my phone next to me, and a tablet within reach on the counter. What about you? How many devices do you have going at this very moment? Chances are it’s more than one." This is our new reality. So how do we design eLearning that fits into this new world order?

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Adobe Captivate: The Cure for Blurry Zoom Destinations

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

'by Kevin Siegel        Zoom Areas are typically used to emphasize an important area of a slide background. They are especially useful if you want your learner to automatically get closer to a specific area of the screen. To insert a Zoom Area, click  Objects  on the Main Toolbar and choose  Zoom Area.   Zoom Areas consist of two parts: the area of a background that you want to highlight ( Zoom Source ) and where the zoomed area of the background w

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Your LMS Selection Checklist

LearnDash

'Selecting an LMS for yourself or organization is not an easy task. In fact, the process can be so overwhelming that there are even companies that specialize in helping you to choose an LMS that is best for you (Capterra comes to mind). There is a lot of information out there in the LMS industry. If you are not familiar with the various nuances, you could end up choosing a solution that does more harm than good for your online courses.

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