November, 2018

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Essential Elements ?f Interactive Learning

eLearning Industry

Educators and trainers across the globe are dealing with constantly dropping learner attention spans. This article focuses on interactivity as one of the best approaches to address this challenge and lists down some of the most essential elements of interactive learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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TMI! Cognitive Overload and Learning

Learningtogo

If you want to get a sense of the vast amount of data exploding every second, visit Internet Live Stats and watch the numbers for Internet users, websites, emails and many other statistics updated in real time. But watch out.

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What Does VR Have to Do With Online Education?

LearnDash

Does virtual reality have applications for online education, or is it just another gimmick? Virtual reality isn’t so much a new buzz word in the world of online education as a long-held science fiction dream that is rapidly coming to life. There is something unquestionably exciting about the prospect of an immersive, interactive environment that you can experience without leaving the comfort of your living room.

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The Lonely Training Needs Assessment

Learning Rebels

What is it about a training needs assessment that makes learning professionals panic? (Jump to the bottom of this post to enter to win this month’s book giveaway). I’ve written many times, on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and on this website about the importance of asking the right questions at the right time. Not every nail needs a hammer, not every problem requires a training intervention.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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The System Always Wins

The Simple Shift

Just beyond the org chart of authority and decision-making is what keeps it all in place; the systems of communication, trust, information flow and rewards.

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5 Ideas To Getting Online Learners’ Attention

eLearning Industry

Getting learners' attention and holding onto it is a problem that most course creators and educators face. So what can they do to bring learners in and keep them engaged? This article lists down 5 ideas that could work. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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3 Statistics that Prove the Business Value of Online Learning

TOPYX LMS

Is online learning really valuable to companies? That’s a question most organizational leaders need an answer to before they decide to purchase and implement a learning management system or other online learning tools. The fact is that online learning has incredible business value. It can provide a competitive advantage and reduce training costs. The following statistics prove that online learning is well worth investing in.

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How To Improve Communication in E-Learning

LearnDash

Effective communication in online learning can improve student outcomes and satisfaction. Of all the challenges facing online education, lack of personal contact with instructors probably tops the list. Learner completion rates are often low, and isolation and lack of support are frequently-cited culprits for their lack of engagement. Instructors therefore have plenty of motivation to find ways to reduce isolation and improve support.

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4 Tips On Making Your Microlearning Strategy A Success

Tesseract Learning

With Millennials increasing in the corporate environs we need to keep our microlearning engaging. Here are four tips on how you can create a successful microlearning strategy.

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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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L&D is Primed to Drive Enterprise Social, So Why Aren’t They?

The Simple Shift

L&D, if they want it, is rightly positioned to lead organizational social. At it’s very core social is about community, collaboration and sharing. Those last 2 are vehicles for knowledge, strategy and tactics to be transmitted and are how new ideas flourish and old problems are solved. L&D’s function is helping a business achieve optimal […].

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20+ Easy Ways Take Your Screen Shots from Boring to Brilliant

Mike Taylor

At some point or another, we’ve all used screenshots. They’re great for showing others what you see on your screen. Most people who take screenshots give them little, if any, thought. But if you’re an elearning or presentation designer, a little thought about how you use your screenshots can go a long way. Put Your Screenshots into a Realistic Context.

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6 Reasons Why eLearning Programs May Fail, Plus Tips To Avoid Failure

eLearning Industry

Despite the fact that in comparative development corporate eLearning has grown by a stunning 900% since 2000, multiple training programs are still offered in an old-fashioned way of delivering eLearning courses. This lack of evolution is often obvious because of 6 common mistakes. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Put Your Learners in Charge of Software Training with Microlearning

CommLab India

Delivering software training through microlearning has a number of benefits and is far more effective than formal, traditional forms of learning. In this post, learn of the four benefits that microlearning can bring to software training.

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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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4 examples of using xAPI for more effective learning

Elucidat

xAPI is a game changer. It can help you to identify where learning interventions might be needed, measure the impact of blended learning experiences and identify how they could be improved. In this blog we take a closer look at what xAPI is and share some real-world examples of xAPI in action. What is xAPI? The Experience API, commonly referred to as xAPI or Tin-Can enables the recording, tracking, personalizing and improving of learning activity, both on and offline. xAPI has been revolutionizi

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Using 4 Mat Model for Creating Engaging Digital Learning Experience

Tesseract Learning

The 4Mat model of instruction design is an offshoot of the Kolb's learning styles. How exactly it can be used to create better digital learning experiences is the focus of this article.

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What is the Definition of Gamification?

Growth Engineering

Gamification is one of those tricky words that lots of people use, but everyone has their own definition. So, what is gamification? Here's our definition! The post What is the Definition of Gamification? appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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In-App User Assistance: What It Is And How To Nail It

WhatFix

When it comes to enterprise applications nowadays, product adoption is a challenge that is constantly overlooked by businesses that buy them. They may get the application to solve a particular problem in their organization, but they often miss the fact that if the adoption of the application is not driven. The post In-App User Assistance: What It Is And How To Nail It appeared first on Whatfix Academy.

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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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Creating Content That Resonates With Your Audience

eLearning Industry

In your quest to become the ultimate expert in your niche, operating online courses and building quality content is all about being there for your audience and their needs. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why is an eLearning Course Much More than a PowerPoint Presentation?

CommLab India

An e-learning course is not about adding audio to a PowerPoint presentation and publishing it online using an authoring tool. Find out what makes e-learning much more powerful than a PowerPoint presentation.

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New Research Shows “Heavy Learners” More Confident, Successful, and Happy at Work

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

I’ve been studying HR and L&D for almost 20 years now, and I constantly get the question “how do you compute the ROI of learning?” I get tired of answering this question, so I often turn the question back and say “what do you think would happen if nobody in your company ever learned anything?” Read more» The post New Research Shows “Heavy Learners” More Confident, Successful, and Happy at Work appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Striking a Nerve: The Benefits and Neurobiology of Story-Based Learning

Tesseract Learning

Stories have power. They delight, enchant, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They imprint a picture on our minds. In this article I will be talking about benefits of story-based learning.

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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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Learning System Award Winners 2019

eLearning 24-7

If you were in the nineties here in the states, and had a postal address, you likely received the Publisher’s Clearinghouse sweepstakes. I know I did. And every time I got it, I dreamed that a scratch card here for more choices, scratch card there – “What even more drawings?”, I knew this would be the year. I mean it said no purchase necessary, but come on, deep down you have to buy one crummy magazine, because wink wink, that’s your ticket in.

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8 Tips When Using E-Learning for Onboarding

Capytech

8 Tips When Using E-Learning for Onboarding. Onboarding incorporates all the steps and actions your company takes to get a new hire up and running. In other words, it’s essential whatever your business and whatever type of job you recruited the new employee for. All too often, however, onboarding processes don’t meet the same standards that companies set themselves in other areas.

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Here's How I Design eLearning With Adobe XD

eLearning Industry

Have you ever wondered about the design process of other eLearning designers/developers? In the following videos, I design a form to be used in eLearning to collect a user's name and email. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Do Your eLearning Courses Follow Adult Learning Principles? A Checklist

CommLab India

While introducing e-learning in your workplace, it is necessary to base them on a good understanding of adult learning principles. This will help you create powerful and truly learner-centric e-learning courses.

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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