May, 2016

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Best Practices for Voice-Over

CourseArc

Studio microphone and pop shield on mic stand. If you are designing and developing eLearning, you are most likely going to need voice-over work. As psychologist Richard Mayer points out in his book, Multimedia Learning , combining narration with visuals will help to increase learning and long-term retention of content. Here are some key principles related to creating multimedia content that Mayer shares: Redundancy Principle – People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, n

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6 Benefits of Agile ELearning Development

PulseLearning

Agile is a project management methodology used predominately in the software development industry. In recent times, Agile has been adopted by eLearning production teams due to its elastic nature, which allows the development process to respond flexibly to changing client needs. Agile differs from the traditional ADDIE model, a more rigid end-to-end process where client […].

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload , Knowledge Formation, (Part 4 Optimum Performance coming May 31st). Knowledge Formation. The curve of knowledge formation marks the period of time in a training program when learners are rapidly beginning to crystallize knowledge gleaned from on-the-job training and experiential learning.

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What’s Your Character’s Goal?

Experiencing eLearning

In Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners , I mentioned some critical elements to creating a scenario for learning: Protagonist or main character. That character’s goal. The challenges that character faces. The main character’s goal is what drives the scenario. All of the action and decisions in the scenario move you closer or further from that goal.

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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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The Difference between Training and Development.

Gyrus

The words training and development are mostly used together in the corporate world and are seen as activities focused on improving the knowledge, performance and productivity of the employees. However, there is a distinct difference between their meanings and implications, which are often overlooked by a majority of professionals. Training programs are organized by the organization to develop employees' knowledge and skills as per their job requirements.

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How To Get Started With ‘Snackable’ Learning

Administrate

Our consumption of media has changed radically in the last decade. Within the space of a few minutes the modern media consumer has retweeted an inspiring quote, clicked through a couple of videos on YouTube, skim read an interesting article in their feedly, watched a handful of video loops on Vine Read More.

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6 Benefits of Agile ELearning Development

PulseLearning

Agile is a project management methodology used predominately in the software development industry. In recent times, Agile has been adopted by eLearning production teams due to its elastic nature, which allows the development process to respond flexibly to changing client needs. Agile differs from the traditional ADDIE model, a more rigid end-to-end process where client […].

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 2 Information Overload

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload, (Knowledge Formation coming May 24th). Information Overload. Information overload occurs in learners that have finally been exposed to on-the-job training for a new competency or role, and although they are continuing to learn and improve, there is too much new information to retain. 1.

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ID and E-Learning Links (5/22/16)

Experiencing eLearning

Links for 5/22/16. How to Make Social Media Banners in Photoshop – GraphicStock Blog. Sizes for different platforms and quick directions on how to create banners. tags: socialmedia graphics howto. What’s in a Theme – a Template? – Captivate blog. Differences between themes and templates in Captivate. I might also use templates if multiple people are working on the same project and you need some consistent layouts or slides between them. tags: captivate e-learning.

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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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Improve your lessons: 3 ways to make them more effective

Challenge to Learn

Do you want to improve your classroom lessons or training? Here are three ways to blend them with e-Learning components. They will make your lessons and courses more effective and more fun, and any teacher, trainer or coach can do it. How to improve your lessons: Flip, repeat and automate. Flip your classroom. If you ‘ flip your classroom ‘ you reverse the lecture and homework elements of a lesson: do the lecture at home and do homework at school.

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3 Key Things to do for Creating Engaging eLearning – Part 2

Upside Learning

This is part 2 of a 3 part blog series on creating engaging eLearning. In part 1 , I talked of Purpose. In this part I’ll be discussing about Motivation. If you have spent time watching kids, you must have observed that most things fascinate them. They have a high level of curiosity that drives […].

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Microlearning Madness: 25 Great Resources

Knowledge Guru

Over the last five to ten years, corporate learning professionals have scrambled to engage their learners in an increasingly digital world. Learning trends such as mobile, gamification, game-based learning, performance support, use of learning science and interactive video are all attempts to capture learner attention and engage them on a deeper level.

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Scenario mistakes to avoid #2: “Eat! Eat! You need to eat!”

Making Change

“You need to eat more!” she says, heaping your plate until it rivals Mount Everest. “Eat! Eat!” We all know the stereotype. Unfortunately, we can find ourselves turning into that stereotype when we feed information to people. “You have to know this!” we say, filling the screen to bursting. “And this! And this!

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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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Webinar – How to Refer an LMS Client and Get Paid

TOPYX LMS

Sign up for this FREE webinar on Jun 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT. Webinar Sign-up. Everyone is welcome to attend this webinar to learn more about how you can earn a commission for referring over a company that is looking to improve their learning and development efforts with a new learning management system (LMS) or to replace an old LMS. One referral that becomes a client could be worth over $5,500!

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WISETAIL WORKS ANNOUNCES $5,000 GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH BOZEMAN’S ADVENTURE BIKE CLUB, “PROJECT X” AND THE GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST

Wisetail

Wisetail Works, the charitable giving arm of Bozeman indie tech firm, Wisetail, announced today a partnership with Bozeman’s new adventure bicycling club, “Project X” and the Gallatin Valley Land Trust to protect access to public trails while promoting cycling. The post WISETAIL WORKS ANNOUNCES $5,000 GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH BOZEMAN’S ADVENTURE BIKE CLUB, “PROJECT X” AND THE GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST appeared first on Wisetail.

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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! I’m CEO of Easygenerator and as a CEO you have to be all-round.

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6 Must-have Features in a SaaS LMS for 2016

Upside Learning

SaaS is here and now! Today, almost every software there is, is available as a ‘service’, including the LMS, which is more prevalent in its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) avatar. Justifying this is Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Software Survey that reveals significant adoption of SaaS across a wide variety of application areas as application buyers demand business […].

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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eLearning: Designing for Every Learner

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    In my fantasy world, every learner who takes one of my courses would be tech savvy; and I'd be able to try lots of cool new things to keep them interested. The truth is, we all bring our own experiences to the table, and there will be always be learners who are tech-challenged and might need a little extra guidance. As an instructional designer, I don't want to leave any students out in the cold.

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How to use VR for experiential learning?

Origin Learning

“Mere men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 20 th , 1969. We came in peace for all mankind.” Those are words etched in the annals of history that symbolize and revive a space odyssey. Now, thanks to technology, you can even hear the first expressions made by Neil Armstrong , the flag-bearer to man’s quest intospace, an element that is still under exploration.

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Organizational Learning in the Age of Ideas

The Performance Improvement Blog

Most organizations are “locked in an industrial mindset.” They think of their workers as cogs in the wheels of progress, doing what they’re told, not smart enough to figure out how best to do their jobs or improve their organizations. Managers in these organizations are needed to tell workers what to do and how to do it. That “Steam Engine” mindset, as described by Jonathan Gifford and Mark Powell in their new book, My Steam Engine Is Broken: Taking the organization from the industrial era to t

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Buying a LMS is Like Dating

Wisetail

Now and again we ask our clients if they would like to write a piece for us to share with the greater LMS world. We ask them to write about anything that’s on their mind and we see where it goes. In this case, anything turned out to be a very insightful and entertaining perspective connecting the purchase of an LMS to another of life's more stressful experiences: dating.

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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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Want to be successful at e-Learning? Don’t make the mistakes experts make!

Challenge to Learn

Making mistakes and learning from them is a good thing; learning from mistakes that others make is even better. In this post I will show you the pitfalls that e-Learning experts are falling in, so you as a e-Learning rookie do not have to make them. Here are the lessons learned. Do not go for the all-in-one solutions! I’m CEO of Easygenerator and as a CEO you have to be all-round.

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Upside Learning Listed in Training Industry Inc.’s Content Development Companies Watch List – Third time in a Row

Upside Learning

Upside Learning has made its way to Training Industry Inc.’s 2016 Content Development Companies Watch List. This is for the third consecutive year that Upside has featured in the watch list. Being recognised for the third consecutive year is no mean task that too in an industry filled with eLearning providers striving to win the […].

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Podcast – Chandra Clarke, from Inklyo shares her experience of Raptivity

Raptivity

Raptivity is all excited with its 10 years of presence in the eLearning industry and we believe that customers’ success is the backbone or the main reason behind Raptivity’s decade-long presence. A step further, we are happy to announce a mini-podcast with one of our customers citing their success story with Raptivity. Chandra Clarke, President, Inklyo, provider of online writing courses and other practical resources for writers, has been using Raptivity over five years.

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Your Brain Needs a Vacation

Learningtogo

After months of cold, windy, dreary winter, summer is finally upon us. Traditionally, this is the time to take a vacation, travel to new sites, take it easy, and break your regular routine. Neuroscience tells us that this change of pace is extremely valuable. Your brain uses these new sensations to build new neural pathways, and the break from routine stimulates higher, more creative thought while it reduces stress.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.