January, 2019

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You Have the Power, Don’t Give it Away

Learning Rebels

What is power? Looking at the standard definition we see this: “ the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events “ However, the word, “power” often triggers negative emotions of a person or process leveraging against us. Negative power words surround us. This said I find “power” an interesting concept when it comes to working within organizations.

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What is Adult Learning Theory and Why Is It Important?

ej4 eLearning

We often take for granted that people know how to learn. After all, we all had to learn while in school, right? But that can be a dangerous attitude to take when it comes to corporate training initiatives. School curricula are built on theories about how children and teenagers learn (and how much time they can dedicate to learning). Have you ever considered whether adults learn in the same way?

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4 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in eLearning

Tim Slade

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eLearning Trends 2019: From The Trenches

eLearning Industry

'From the Trenches' talks about what’s happening in the minds and pockets of L&D managers across the world, the shifting priorities and changing paradigms in corporate training. From a utilitarian shift in Instructional Design to LMS's that teach, read what’s happening in the L&D world. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

“Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” We all know this. It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. They’re our friends, but not always. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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Improve Customer Service Training with a Learning Management Software

TOPYX LMS

Companies are increasing their focus on the customer experience, and for good reason: happy customers are loyal customers. Thirty-five Customer Experience Statistics to Know for 2019¹ stated, “Customers no longer base their loyalty on price or product. Instead, they stay loyal with companies due to the experience they receive. If you cannot keep up with their increasing demands, your customers will leave you.”.

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How Can Workplace Wellness Be Improved?

ej4 eLearning

Start With Healthy Balance. There’s a lot of research showing that healthier employees are a benefit to organizations. They are more productive, less likely to miss work or be involved in accidents, less likely to file workers’ comp claims, and more likely to stay with the company. Beyond productivity, we look at our employees as human beings, not just numbers or drones.

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How Long Should Videos Be for E-Learning?

LearnDash

Videos are an essential aspect of online education. But how long is too long? And how short is too short? If your video strategy for creating course videos was to tape a lecture and throw it online, it’s unlikely many of your learners are staying till the end. If they are, they’re probably pausing it mid-stream and coming back to it later. Why? Because a forty-five-minute lecture is more than what the average learner can process in one sitting.

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8 Ways To Enhance The Learning Process In Online Education

eLearning Industry

Learning efficiency is typically determined by the money, time and resources that are crucial for obtaining desired results. This means the learning process becomes better if fewer expenses and less time is involved. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Kajabi Review: The Best All-In-One Online Course Platform

Sell Courses Online

The post Kajabi Review: The Best All-In-One Online Course Platform appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Kajabi is one of the most popular online course platforms in the market today and you probably would have heard of it. It is pretty different from a typical online course platform. The post Kajabi Review: The Best All-In-One Online Course Platform appeared first on Sell Courses Online.

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Thinking Outside the Course: Free Tools for Making E-learning Better

Mike Taylor

It is *CRAZY* cold around here today but that won´t stop us from exploring a mountain of great free tools that can make your elearning better. Later today, I´ll be part of the eLearning Guild Spotlight event, ¨ Get the Best Free Tools to Make Great eLearning ¨. My session, ¨ Tools for Thinking Outside the Course ¨ (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern) will highlight some great options for making your eLearning better.

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3 Trends That Will Impact the 2019 Online Learning Platform Market

TOPYX LMS

The growth of the 2019 eLearning market will be incredible. It’s estimated that the market will grow at a 5 percent compound annual growth rate between now and 2024, at which point it will likely exceed $200 billion, according to Training Magazine. 1 Forbes predicted that the market will climb to $325 billion by 2025. 2 This unparalleled growth is due to the convenient learning solutions eLearning offers corporations.

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World Economic Forum: the top 10 skills needed for the future of work

Coorpacademy

The second issue of the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs” report predicts the loss of 75 million jobs by 2025. But it also predicts the creation of 133 million jobs thanks to the digital revolution. A positive balance of 58 million jobs; pretty optimistic, right? Yes, at the condition of learning and training on tomorrow’s skills in the meantime.

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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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5 Tips for Better Online Course Management

LearnDash

How to keep your online course management from overwhelming your life. One of the most appealing ideas about online courses for instructors is the assumption that, once the course content is created, instructors can leave their courses to run on autopilot and reap the benefits of passive income. However, as much as we might like this to be the case, there’s a laundry list of administrative duties, marketing tasks, and instructor responsibilities that can overwhelm educators if they aren

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Custom eLearning Development: 4 Tips To Deliver Compelling And Engaging Content

eLearning Industry

“Compelling and engaging”… if I had a cent for every time I’ve heard these two words in the Learning and Development industry, I’d be a wealthy man…. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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9 Elearning Authoring Tools: Comparison and Review

Elucidat

New technologies are changing the way learning is delivered. In this article, Steve Penfold reviews nine leading elearning authoring tools. He compares each one based on ease of use, quality of content produced, speed of authoring and scalability. Which is the best authoring tool for you? I think you already know the answer to that…it depends!

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Starting a Customer Education Program: What You Should Know

Talented Learning

EDITOR’S NOTE: Occasionally, we invite learning community experts to share their advice with our readers. Today we feature a post by Adam Avramescu , Head of Customer Education & Training at Checkr and Co-Founder of the CELab blog/podcast. He also authored the new book, Customer Education: Why Smart Companies Profit by Making Customers Smarter.

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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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7 Microlearning Benefits for Organizations [Infographic]

CommLab India

How is Microlearning beneficial for organizations? Here’s an infographic that shows 7 benefits that make it valuable in the business context.

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Is Online Education Better than Traditional Education?

Kitaboo

Educational institutes have been practicing the traditional teaching method since ages. Most of us are familiar with the traditional model where one teacher is teaching fifty students at a time. No-one knows if those fifty students are able to understand what is being explained or if they are even paying attention to the lecture. This style of teaching is not considered very effective today.

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Six Google Slides image editing hacks for amazing presentations

BrightCarbon

As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, right? This is definitely something we live by here at BrightCarbon as we always aim to use less text and more visuals to make our presentations powerful and engaging. So, if you’re looking for new ways to enhance your presentations, why not start with the pictures? Both PowerPoint and Google Slides offer some great image editing tools that are so easy to use you don’t need to be an expert to make your presentation look striking, but w

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How To Outsource eLearning Curriculum, Part 1

eLearning Industry

Curriculum design is the term used to describe all of the work focused on the organization and creation of instructional elements in a thoughtful and deliberate way to achieve a specific outcome. In this three-part article series, we’ll share all the steps, activities, and tools you can use to design a successful eLearning curriculum solution. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Want To Make More Money? Join The Hybrid-Jobs Revolution.

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

We all know how automation, AI, and digital tools have changed our jobs. We spend more than a quarter of our time on e-mail , we have to juggle dozens of passwords, and we spend more than four hours a day on our phones. But how has all this technology impacted our jobs and. Read more» The post Want To Make More Money? Join The Hybrid-Jobs Revolution. appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Creating Great Custom eLearning Courses Using Varied Interactivities

Tesseract Learning

In this article, we will discuss where we use a variety of interactivities to keep the learner engaged and hooked to the content.

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6 critical eLearning pitfalls all Learning and Development (L&D) Leaders should avoid

QuoDeck

eLearning is like the proverbial Prometheus’ Fire. It will deliver great good for your employees, improve engagement and increase knowledge assimilation. As an L&D leader, you should avoid the following mistakes to help maximize its effectiveness. Digitizing traditional offline or using existing traditional content: Traditional content such as long videos, lengthy documents and classroom training techniques are not symbiotic with eLearning.

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5 Benefits of Using Custom eLearning Solutions in Your Corporate Training

Obsidian Learning

Custom eLearning is a significant part of any corporate training program. Corporate training, as a whole, serves to boost employees’ critical skills, develop new skills, guide their careers, increase engagement, and build a solid corporate culture. We continue to learn every day, in our lives as well as in our jobs. Thus, having a strong corporate training program is paramount.

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Navigating Recruitment Agencies: A TA Leader Strategy Guide

Navigating the realm of recruitment agencies isn’t always easy. As talent acquisition has evolved, so have the challenges in managing agency relationships and spend. If you've ever felt in the dark about rogue hires, elusive budget spends, or questioned which agencies truly deliver, this guide is your beacon. Dive into our exploration of the most common agency-related challenges and strategies tailored for 2024's hiring landscape.