July, 2019

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Why Is Personalized Learning Key to Language Learning?

Learnlight

At school and university, knowledge is valued in itself, and learners’ success is measured purely in terms of test scores. But in corporate language training , the gold standard of mastery is not a final exam, but the learner’s use of the target language in real work and life situations. Here, success means something different for each learner. This makes it extra important for the content and activities in corporate language courses to be personalized learning which is tailored to the individua

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Bridging the Learning-Doing Gap With eLearning: 5 Unmissable Strategies

CommLab India

Here are five amazing strategies to bridge the learning-doing gap with eLearning. After all, business success relies on employees performing at their best!

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Design Thinking in L&D Brings Innovation and Empathy

LearningGuild

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5 Tips for Determining if Your Online Course Has a Market

LearnDash

Before you build it, you have to first determine if it is worth it. There are many reasons why you may decide to create an online course. Maybe when you were trying to learn something, you found few resources with a systematic approach to transferring the knowledge you needed. Perhaps you are just passionate about what you do and want to pass on your wisdom.

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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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6 Reasons Your eLearning Courses Fail (and How to Fix Them)

CommLab India

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Learning Myths

Convergence Training

You’re probably familiar with the concept of an urban myth. And perhaps you’re familiar with the Mythbusters TV show , which often takes a look at urban myths and other things people believe might be true and puts them to the credibility test. (Before you go on, feel free to check out this fun list of the “ Top Ten Urban Legends ” if you’re so inclined.).

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Why Mistake-Driven Learning Is Important

Capytech

Why Mistake-Driven Learning Is Important. There are a lot of metrics that measure the effectiveness of e-learning courses. Ensuring learners get good results on quizzes and other tools for assessing competence are high up on the list. In other words, the drive is usually to make sure that learners answer questions correctly when asked. While it may sound counter-intuitive, there is a place for facilitating learners making mistakes.

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Applying Cognitive Learning Theory to your Corporate Learning Strategy

LearnUpon

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How to Create Great eLearning Scenarios

ThinkingKap Solutions

You’ve heard of eLearning scenarios. And maybe you’ve even tried creating some. But did they have the impact you were hoping for? Creating great eLearning scenarios is more than meets the eye. Some people think it’s just good storytelling. While yes, that’s part of it, it’s much more than just stories. Other people think eLearning scenarios are too complex and confusing to create.

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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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How to Write an Irresistible Course Description

LearnDash

Be direct, specific, exciting, and put your students first. You’ve spent hours building an online course which you hope will instruct learners and help them take the next step forward in their career, learn a new hobby, or expand their horizons. All that’s left is the course description: your first (and maybe last) opportunity to inspire learners to sign up.

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Top eLearning Content Providers For Blended Learning 2019

eLearning Industry

We are delighted to be able to announce a new list. A brand new list of Top eLearning Content Providers for Blended Learning 2019. Through a variety of means of researching the market, we compiled a list of some high-end players who can no longer be ignored when it comes to blended learning. From the strategies they profess to the content they produce, the candidates on the following list contribute immensely to the eLearning field in professionalizing the industry.

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5 podcasts every e-learning professional should listen to

E-Learning Provocateur

…or should that be “to which every e-learning professional should listen”? Never mind, I can end a sentence with a preposition if I want to. Arcane grammar jokes aside, I’m a late bloomer to podcasts. While everyone else was apparently obsessed with them, they never really appealed to me until I starting taking long trips on the bus.

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Using the AIDA Model to get “buy in’

B Online Learning

We meet a lot of eLearning developers when we’re on the road delivering Articulate training. One of the common concerns a lot of […]. The post Using the AIDA Model to get “buy in’ appeared first on B Online Learning.

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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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Building a culture of continuous learning: what it means

Jane Hart

We hear a lot about continuous learning. But what does it really mean? It doesn’t mean continuously taking courses – although studying can be part of an individual’s personal and professional continuous learning strategy. It doesn’t mean continuously training people – although training may well be part of of an organisation’s continuous L&D strategy.

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Manufacturing Training: How to Set Up a Successful Onboarding Training Program

TOPYX LMS

The primary reason most manufacturers invest in onboarding is to reduce time to productivity for new hires. However, the benefits of an onboarding program for manufacturing employees go beyond promoting productivity. Not only does an onboarding training program help new hires contribute to a company more quickly, it also reduces future turnover and optimizes engagement.¹ To help optimize your manufacturing training programs - especially onboarding programs - to get the business results you need,

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Using Your E-book to Create an Online Course

LearnDash

If you have created an e-book then you are well on your way to an online course (and more profit)! Do you have an e-book? Is it doing well? Most people feel satisfied if they have an e-book that is selling well and leave it at that, ultimately missing out on an opportunity to grow their business even more. The next logical step involves converting your e-book into an online course.

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5 Reasons Why We Need To Move Beyond Traditional eLearning

eLearning Industry

Not all eLearning is equal, and no matter how you look at it, the old-school, traditional approaches just don't work. Here are the top 5 reasons why we all need to strive to create more than dull "tick-box exercises." This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Top 10 Reasons You Need to Revamp Your Employee Training Program

ej4 eLearning

When things change and evolve in your company, you'll notice the little details telling you that your training program is in need of updates as well. Revamp as a verb means "give new and improved form, structure, or appearance to." So, it doesn't necessarily mean a total gut rehab.

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Managing Change in the Workplace Through Your LMS

Absorb LMS

Any conversation about managing change in the workplace should include learning. That’s because nearly 70% of change initiatives in the workplace fail to achieve the desired outcome, according to the Center for Creative Leadership. If your organization is struggling to adapt, you might need to consider either tapping or making more effective use of training tools.

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Theory or Research?

Clark Quinn

There’s a lot of call for evidence-based methods (as mentioned yesterday ): L&D, learning design, and more. And this is a good thing. But…do you want to be basing your steps on a particular empirical study, or the framework within which that study emerged? Let me make the case for one approach. My answer to theory or research is theory.

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How LMS Training Increases Volunteer Productivity for Associations

TOPYX LMS

Volunteers are critical to the success of an association. Associations that fully utilize volunteers can operate at nearly half the average budget of those that don’t.¹ To make better use of your own volunteers, use an association LMS to deliver online volunteer training, that increases productivity.

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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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How to Get More Students to Finish Your Online Course

Sell Courses Online

The post How to Get More Students to Finish Your Online Course appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Online learning is a rapidly growing industry and it has presented a huge opportunity to those who want to create online courses and monetize their knowledge. While more and more knowledgepreneurs are launching new courses every year, a worrying trend has set in where a majority of the students never finish an online course.

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Creating Multiple-Choice Questions: The Dos and Don’ts

eLearning Industry

Multiple-choice questions are one of the greatest ways to test the knowledge of a learner in a given field. But, is it easy to make these kinds of questions? Most importantly, what should we be aware of when creating multiple-choice questions? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Importance of eBooks in a Flipped Classroom

Kitaboo

Flipping the classroom has become a hot topic in educational circles in recent times. The idea is that students first learn course content online, usually at home, and the time in the classroom is devoted to what used to be traditionally homework, with the teacher’s assistance. Many articles have been written on how the idea of a Flipped Classroom has gained currency with the advent of eBooks and digital learning content.

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How the Workforce Learns 2019: The ROI on Learning Experience

Degreed

When it comes to how we learn at work, we’ve got work to do. That’s why we’ve joined forces with Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning to study the anthropology behind how the workforce learns. Our latest research shows that the businesses making a positive learning experience a priority have healthier, more productive cultures, and more engaged, better performing, more adaptable workforces.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.