May, 2018

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How long should microlearning be?

Axonify

7 minutes or less (at least that’s what I heard at a conference). Or it could be under 10 minutes (because that’s what an industry report said). Or maybe it’s 4 minutes and 20 seconds (because that’s the average duration of a YouTube video nowadays). “How long should it be?” is the most popular question in the microlearning conversation, by far. People struggle with the term “micro” and want to specify a time requirement.

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4 Tips And Examples Of Great Web-Style eLearning

eLearning Industry

The ever-growing focus on digital, along with declining attention spans, means that today’s learner is looking for an interactive and intuitive experience. Using web-style design is a great way to keep your content up to date with the 21st century. These tips and examples will help you get started. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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3 cool ideas to steal for your training scenarios

Making Change

Looking for inspiration for your training scenarios ? Here are some ideas from the world of fiction that you could try. 1. Offer multiple levels of backstory. Branching scenarios often represent decisions that take place in a complex world. For example, let’s say your scenario describes a manager, Sarah, who has to decide what to do about a long-term employee whose performance is suddenly slipping.

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The foundations of innovation in L&D

E-Learning Provocateur

There are two sides of the innovation coin in corporate learning & development: technology and pedagogy. The former is rather obvious and is often conflated with the term innovation. Futuristic hardware and magical software that educates everyone at the press of a button are tempting “solutions” Some folks call this mindset Shiny New Toy Syndrome, and by golly, it’s a pandemic.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Making Employee Onboarding an Immersive Experience with Mixed Reality

Origin Learning

Mixed Reality is a phrase used to describe technologies like Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Science fiction foresaw the use of an alternate reality and immersive technologies well before humankind actually developed such advanced technologies. The 80s saw the release of a movie titled ‘Tron’. A software engineer gets pulled into the world of a powerful mainframe computer and interacts with different programs within the system and seeks to escape the digital world in which he is trapped.

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Future of digital learning: chatbots and artificial intelligence

Logicearth

This blog is about two big technology trends - chatbots and artificial intelligence and how they could be used for workplace learning. Some organisations are starting to use intelligent chatbots to help them automate all kinds of tasks, including supporting learning and development. This blog will give you a few practical examples to help you make sense of this new area.

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Lesson 1. Quickstart: eLearning Design And Content Roadmap

eLearning Industry

Find out how to increase your skills, create eLearning content easier, and avoid some of the roadblocks ahead. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Two examples of interactive job aids

Making Change

I talk a lot about using Twine for branching scenarios , but it’s also useful for creating interactive job aids. Here are two examples. Diagnostic tool: Is this a gnome or what? Want to help people diagnose a problem or identify the best person to contact? Be inspired by this fun example created by Krishan Coupland in Twine: A Primer on the Capture and Identification of the Little Folk of Myth and Legend.

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The neuroscience of attention and why instructional designers should know about it

Matrix

You know all those classic arguments couples have that begin with “I told you but you never listen!”? In truth, the listening part is not the issue, the remembering (or absence of) is the real problem. Paying attention is no easy thing and grabbing and holding someone’s attention is even trickier. A fairly recent study calculated that the average attention span of a person has dropped from twelve to eight seconds, rendering us below the focusing capabilities of goldfish.

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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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The Importance of Informal Learning at the Workplace

Origin Learning

Earlier blog posts have stressed on how workplace learning has evolved over the years and L&D managers are re-inventing the wheel to meet the demands of the ‘millennial audience’. In this blog post, we examine ‘informal learning’ and see how it can play a major role in modern workplace learning. Understanding Informal Learning? Let’s take a simple example, you are learning to drive a car.

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Iteration and Why It’s Important

Digitec Interactive

You just rolled out a new training solution last week. It was a big project and it came out great. But the stakeholder just emailed you to ask about doing an update to add some upcoming changes. In today’s fast-paced work world, it’s true that nothing lasts forever. Whether you’re fighting to stay on top of software updates or employee retention woes, things must change.

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How Important Is Data In Learning?

SmartUp

It is a word every “innovation-driven” executive is afraid to drop – DATA. In our metric-obsessed culture today, data drives decisions, influences strategies, and commands what we see on social media. Is data the be all and end all? When it comes to promoting learning within our organizations, is data a boon or a bane? . By Deborah Tan .

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How To Create An Online Course – 10 Practical Lessons

eLearning Industry

Want to create professional eLearning courses in a snap? Join us for an expert webinar series and go through the whole process from A to Z. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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How to make brain-friendly learning that sticks (Expert interview)

Elucidat

What does it take to make brain-friendly learning? We interviewed Learning Psychologist, Stella Collins, to find out. Stella offers six key ways you can work with the brain to help make learning stick, all wrapped up in the useful (and brain friendly) acronym: LEARNS. Learning design: meet brain science. Learning Psychologist Stella Collins knows a thing or two about making brain-friendly learning.

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The Top eLearning Conferences to Attend

LearnUpon

An eLearning conference is a great event for every eLearning professional to visit. It gives you networking opportunities, you can squeeze the latest insights from industry leaders into a busy few days and give your professional development an extra boost. You also discover new solutions that help better your job and your business’s training. With hundreds of eLearning conferences out there, spotting the difference between the good and the great is tricky.

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The Case for Small Data in Learning

CLO Magazine

In corporate learning, learning analytics make use of big data to understand learning and learner behavior. Some of the major goals of learning analytics are to help determine the effectiveness of a particular learning intervention, gain insights on how learning supports on-the-job performance, and decide which programs or learning initiatives to implement at an organizational level.

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15 Instructional Design Software To Create Incredible eLearning Content

WhatFix

“33% of the employees say that corporate employee training content is uninspiring.” Uninspiring corporate employee training leads to disengaged employees at work. Disengaged employees ultimately account for unproductive work. The smart way to make learning engaging, fun, and inspiring is to create interactive employee training content that can be easily consumed and.

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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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Designing For How People Really Learn, At The Point-Of-Work

looop

“We exist in a culture in which fact-based knowledge dominates traditional instruction. People who are good at “knowledge games” like Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy are considered smart. But life requires us to do , more than it requires us to know , in order to function. It makes more sense to teach students how to perform useful tasks. There is only one effective way to teach someone how to do anything, and that is to let them do it.

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The Challenges Of Globalization In The Workplace

eLearning Industry

Folk say ‘it’s a small world’ and it seems to be getting smaller. Better, faster, cheaper forms of technology bring us all closer together, both in terms of how long it takes to travel and how quickly we can get in touch or access information. For the L&D professional, that may mean that your patch is actually getting larger and larger. And more diverse.

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Speaking for me

Learning with e's

Image from Learning Technologies Conference One of the delights of working in academia is that you get to travel. For some it is a chore, and for others it is a necessary part of the role of being an academic. For me, although the travel itself can be boring, seeing other parts of the world, making new friends and experiencing fascinating new cultures is quite wonderful.

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UX Design and Your Learning Management System: Five Considerations for Providing an Exceptional User Experience

CommPartners

When an organization begins the process of evaluating LMS options, they typically will start by developing a list of features that should be included. Confirming this list, helps to identify ideal candidates. While the feature set is critical to narrow an organization’s search process, often what is overlooked, at least initially, is the User Experience […].

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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5 More Great Books for Your Learning & Development Bookshelf

Mike Taylor

In case you missed it, Connie Malamed and JD Dillon both recently recommended 5 good books for Learning & Development pros. You should definitely slide over to their sites and check these out. Five New L&D Books To Check Out by Connie Malamed ( @elearningcoach ). 5 Must Reads for Modern Learning Pros by JD Dillon ( @JD_Dillon ). While I haven’t read a couple of the newest ones, I’ve read most of them and I’ll second those recommendations.

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Five Ways of Reaching Your Learning Audience Where They Are

Thought Industries

A major component of bringing a new online learning product to market—once you understand your audience and have iterated on your online learning product line —is getting the word out. While there are many tactics that should be part of your plan , such as email, web advertising, sales strategy, and more, it’s important to map a strategy for reaching those that are not yet in your orbit.

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Stealing From Product Design

The eLearning Coach

Like all designers these days, learning experience designers are under pressure. We must find the most effective ways to meet the needs of a target audience, to improve workplace performance and to measure outcomes in terms of business metrics. That's a tall order. So, if you are seeking innovation, inspiration and guidance, you may find […].

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7 Ways To Create Fresh, Interactive Content

eLearning Industry

In this article, we'll discuss interactive content and how to create it in order to achieve more success and make your audience spend more time on your website. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.