June, 2022

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How to Learn about Learning Science

Experiencing eLearning

I have written before about how research informs my work. As instructional designers, LXDs, and other L&D professionals, I think it’s important for us to learn how to design more effective learning experiences. Our work should be informed by research and evidence. But, how do you learn about learning science, especially if you don’t have a graduate degree in instructional design?

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eLearning Software Development: Template Vs. Custom Solution

eLearning Industry

When developing an eLearning product, there is always the question of whether to custom develop it, or choose the easier way with templates. The answer depends on multiple details of the project. So, what's best for you: templates or a custom solution? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Outsourcing Custom E-Learning Development To Maximize ROI

Cognigix

To maintain excellence in customer service and a competitive edge in the current business environment, organizations need to continuously train their workforce. Every industry and department should provide optimum relevant training and development for employees. This can be achieved by creating engaging training material that grabs the learner’s attention and motivates them to participate in training actively, as no one-size-fits-all solutions for organizations.

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Is Bottom-Up Type of Leadership Better Than Top-Down Leadership?

Infopro Learning

The success of an organization depends on how effective and proactive its management is. Companies need to pick and practice suitable managerial approaches. Bottom-up and top-down are the two most prominent leadership solutions. When counting the limitations, benefits, features, and other elements of bottom-up and top-down leadership, the idea is to create strategies that can help develop leadership for a better world.

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How to Fix the 10 Biggest Mistakes in Gamification

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning)

Are you using gamification as part of your L&D strategy? SMART! According to multiple studies, gamification strategies have been proven to increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, and get stellar results, but what if your results just don’t hit the mark? According to instructional designers interviewed by The Game Agency, some errors are very common when implementing gamified learning.

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With Hybrid Work, When & Where Does Learning Happen?

InSync Training

L et me ask you a question. Can you define mobile learning ? Is “mobile learning” a learning technology, a design technique, or something else completely? Not as easy a question it seems it should be, is it? I'll get back to the answer later on. The last decade has introduced myriad new technologies and methodologies to our toolkits. But this evolution in learning has been messy.

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DEI Training and Branching Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

In the pilot of my Build Your Branching Scenario course, several participants picked DEI topics as the focus for their branching scenarios. This makes sense, as DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is both a popular topic for a lot of training right now, and a topic that often involves nuanced conversations. However, DEI topics pose some particular challenges for training, especially for branching scenarios.

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How Can Developers Prevent The Hacking Of An eLearning App?

eLearning Industry

A developer has to ensure that an eLearning app is not hacked through an SSL certificate because the app can contain sensitive data about the users. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Skills Gap Analysis for the Future of Work

Learning Rebels

How do we conduct a skills gap analysis for the future of work, when we aren’t sure what the future of work is? It’s a conundrum, isn’t it? In a time when organizations are experiencing an ever-increasing need to reskill and upskill their people, the skills gap analysis is an increasingly powerful tool to build business impact. But how do we start when we aren’t sure what the future of work is going to be?

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Selective Fidelity in Immersive Learning Systems - Part 2: Entering the Fidelity Matrix

Allen Interactions

In the first blog of this series, we introduced the concept of fidelity in an immersive learning environment and compared physical fidelity and behavioral fidelity. We also dug into the dimensions of behavioral fidelity—sensory, cognitive, and psychomotor. Today, we will dive deeper into fidelity in immersive learning environments.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Employee Buy-In for New Technology Adoption

CourseArc

Employee Buy-In for New Technology Adoption. Why you need it and how to do it . It doesn’t matter how large or small your organization is, digital transformation projects – whether updating old technologies or adopting new ones – have a 70% chance of failure. That’s according to a 2020 study conducted by Boston Consulting Group. What does the impact of failure look like (besides the obvious)?

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Critical ID/LXD Differences?

Clark Quinn

I’ve argued both that Learning Experience Design (LXD) is an improvement on Instructional Design (ID), and that LXD is the elegant integration of learning science with engagement. However, that doesn’t really unpack what are the critical ID/LXD differences. I think it’s worth looking at those important distinctions both in principle and practice.

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What’s New in LearnDash: Course Cloning, Bulk Editing, and More!

LearnDash

LearnDash is a course creation and learning management system built for educators, by educators. One of our values at LearnDash is to make course creation easier and more efficient. Our goal with every new update is to lean into our roots as educators to create features that make course creation easy for you and engaging for your learners. We thrive off of innovation that helps course creators like you build better and launch faster.

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Top List Spotlight: Top Content Providers For Microlearning (2022 Update)

eLearning Industry

If you want to know more about microlearning vendors, read this list of Top Content Providers For Microlearning! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Things Your eLearning Strategy Needs (Beyond a Bigger Course Library)

What makes a great eLearning strategy? There’s no simple blueprint guaranteed to work; but there are recurring themes. The reality of L&D programs is that training needs to be repeatable, scalable, and uphold learning standards. Simultaneously, programs are often more engaging when personalized to the learner. Striking a balance between these demands can be a challenge.

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Take a look at Pride at Docebo

Docebo

Beyond celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community at Docebo, Pride is also about representation and education. First, let’s acknowledge the history of Pride. Prior to Pride being recognized internationally as a celebration for the LGBTQIA+ community, Pride was a riot and a protest. In the 1960s, homosexuality was illegal in many parts of the world and most of the United States, resulting in excessive police hostility and brutality towards the community, including frequent raids on many underground gay

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2022: My First ATD Conference

Gyrus

2022 was my first Learning and Development Conference and my first conference while working with Gyrus Systems and I thoroughly had a good time.

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Automotive Industry Moving Towards Electric Vehicles (EV). Be Workforce Ready using Corporate LMS Systems

G-Cube

The automobile industry is going through a revolution and the manufacturer’s focus has shifted toward Electric Vehicles (EV). This is one of the very first steps, towards saving our environment for the next generations. Thus, the automobile companies must be ready to deal with customers’ queries regarding EVs. They are required to build a knowledgeable … Automotive Industry Moving Towards Electric Vehicles (EV).

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Shameless self-promotion

Clark Quinn

We interrupt your usual blog fodder with this commercial announcement. Our programming will resume after this break: Ok, well, there actually is some shame. I don’t usually do this, but I don’t think it’s unjustified (and I’m excited). My next book is now out ! In fact, it’s in my mitts. Obviously, it can be in yours, too.

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How to Buy Learning and Development in 2023

For long, organizations outsourced services expecting to reap the benefits of decentralization—namely, speed, agility, and cost-efficiencies. However, many pure outsourced operations risk devolving into siloed functions with opaque vendor governance and inefficient administration. Before the sourcing organization knows it, their L&D is beyond their control.

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What Do Businesses Think of the Creator Economy (and how you can position yourself to earn from it)

LearnDash

As a content creator, there are numerous ways to make money: through sales of goods and services, through sales of courses, and through sponsored content. Many content creators build on their passions: through blogging, course creation, and designing merchandise to go with their brand. Sponsored content is another great way to increase your revenue.

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Out-Tech The Competition: The 3 Pillars Of Sales Enablement For eLearning

eLearning Industry

Sales is the heart of many businesses, and it’s quickly evolving. At a time when old practices around selling are falling by the wayside, buyers and training leaders can investigate new routes in sales enablement technology to make sure their sales teams are staying as competitive as possible. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to grow your employees and humanize your workforce

Docebo

What do people, businesses, and tomato plants all have in common? . They prefer growth to stagnation. Binge-watching and doom-scrolling are fine for a night or for a weekend (or during a 2+ year pandemic). But inevitably, talented people feel the pull of their recipe books, exercise routines, creative projects, and social groups. . It’s the same with work: Stagnation is the enemy.

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Your Six-Week Self-Directed Peter Drucker-Related Summer 2022 Semester

Corporate Learning Network

The beginning of your six-week self-study course is here on topics like self-management, effectiveness, decision-making, innovation, leadership and developing a global worldview. Discover how these to.

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The AI Conundrum: How HR Can Prepare for the Storm of Change

Speaker: Kate Bischoff - CEO and Founder of k8bisch LLC (formerly tHRive Law & Consulting)

It’s no secret that the indication of AI has drastically changed most industries. But with every advancement, there are new hurdles to overcome. Recent research suggests that AI may introduce prejudice and discrimination into decision-making processes, leading to unequal chances. Given that HR and recruiting often use AI, this has the potential to become a serious problem.

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How eLearning is Shaping the Banking & Financial Services Industry in Digital Transformation

G-Cube

Customization of learning solutions, which suits the unique learning requirement of the banking and financial industry can make learning much easier and more relevant to employees. The new-age fintech market is witnessing rapid digital transformation with the speedy introduction of the newest technology; a standard gap analyzed is an immediate need for upskilling.

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8 Educational Robotics Kits We'll Always Recommend

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Educational robotics is always evolving and here's how they help students.

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Is your Content Management Strategy Spiraling Out of Control?

Xyleme

Maria McGinn. Area Vice President, Xyleme. In order to keep up with expanding and evolving content deliverables and delivery channels, you have to modernize the tech stack that supports your content strategy. Technologies and platforms are emerging and evolving at record speed, yet many enterprise organizations continue to rely on traditional content libraries and management processes.

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eBook Release: 5 Strategic Imperatives For High-Growth Learning Businesses

eLearning Industry

Download this eBook to discover what it takes to become a high-growth learning business and achieve success on your own terms. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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LIVE DEMO: Using PowerPoint to Create Compelling Presentations for Virtual Training

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks

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[INFOGRAPHIC] 10 Advantages of Virtual Reality for Learning

KnowledgeOne

Increasingly powerful, ergonomic and accessible, virtual reality (VR) is making its way into the world of learning. This modality, which invites the user into an immersive and interactive universe, can be adapted to reproduce the conditions of very diverse professional environments that are difficult to access or far away. Learners can thus practice complex tasks in complete safety until they are fully mastered.

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How is elearning health getting better through augmented reality?

Creativ Technologies

Over time, medical practitioners are facing many challenges in the workplace. It’s because they have to upgrade themselves with the dynamic compliance laws. But elearning health ensures that such professionals are taught through an efficient and effective method. Elearning health is needed where surgical students pursue surgical education through remotely located specialists and perform better surgeries in the future.

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Gamified Learning Solutions that will Supercharge Your Sales Teams

G-Cube

Game-Based Learning and gamified learning solutions have seen a surge in popularity in the sales training space. Many companies are beginning to recognize the power that game-based learning can provide, and how gamification provides a fantastic solution to the struggle to make sales environments highly competitive without making them toxic workplaces.

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