March, 2021

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19 Insider Secrets About Selecting An LMS

Spark Your Interest

There are over 800 different LMS (Learning Management Systems) currently available. Why so many you ask? Because there isn’t one that meets all the needs of all (or most) course providers. LMS are so different in what they do, and how they do it, that most are only a good fit for a specific set of courses. Each one is a fit for a different niche. So, selecting an LMS is a critically important task.

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Press Play: 5 Tips for Writing Audio Scripts

SweetRush

Do you fancy yourself the Greta Gerwig or Bong Joon Ho of the eLearning world? Do you want to write blockbuster audio scripts that will make stars of your on-screen characters and have your audience reaching for popcorn and hoping for a sequel? Most importantly, do you want to be able to connect with your audience members and elicit a meaningful response from them?

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Custom eLearning Development: 3 Modern Learning Trends That Will Drive Future Success

Infopro Learning

Custom eLearning solutions have long been on the rise. Investing in online learning programs enables organizations to provide more flexible employee development programs that better suit modern learners. Many custom eLearning solutions can help your organization engage employees this year.

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How To Incorporate The Laws Of UX With Designing Learning Experiences

eLearning Industry

Designing online learning with the learner in mind allows us to consider the way they think, process information, and behave online. Check out this article for tips on how to transfer the science of design to your next learning experience! 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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Presentations on Scenario-Based Learning and More

Experiencing eLearning

I have given a number of presentations on scenario-based learning over the past five years, plus a few presentations on other topics. I have also had the pleasure of being interviewed on several podcasts and video casts. While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is the first time I have compiled a complete list like this. All of these recordings are freely available with no registration.

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Skills of the present

E-Learning Provocateur

The meaning of the phrase skills of the future is variable. Like so many other terms in our profession, its definition depends on who you ask. According to my own heuristic, a “skill of the future” is a capability for which demand will grow disproportionately over the next 5 years. (While the future extends beyond this timeframe, I typically see any crystal balling for it too fantastical to be useful.).

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Performance Support and Bad Design

Clark Quinn

Here’s a story about where performance support would’ve made a task much easier. And, as always, the text. The other day, I had a classic need for performance support. Of course, it didn’t exist. So here’s a cognitive story about when and where a job aid would help. Our Bosch dishwasher stopped near the beginning of the cycle, and displayed an icon of a water tap.

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Why you should consider Training Outsourcing in 2021

Infopro Learning

The events of 2020 significantly altered the way modern workplaces function today. Businesses in nearly every industry had to learn to adapt quickly to survive. As we begin to think about moving forward, organizations are developing new learning strategies to increase their preparedness, business agility, and training effectiveness. Training and development play a crucial role in these plans for many companies today. 72% of executives in a global survey for 2021 identified reskilling as a top pr

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A Critical Look At The Advantages Of Rapid eLearning

eLearning Industry

Rapid eLearning development is the embodiment of training employees on urgent matters with great swiftness. As a result, training and development professionals always recommend opting for rapid eLearning development as a tool to firefight tough situations. 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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Intrinsic and Instructional Feedback in Learning Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

A number of years ago, I was a judge for a competition on scenario-based learning. While there were a few terrific submissions, I thought many of the courses missed one of the great features of scenario-based learning. They started out fine: they provided some sort of realistic context and asked learners to make a decision. Then, instead of showing them the consequences of their decision, they just provided feedback as if it was any other multiple choice assessment. “Correct, that is the b

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PowerPack for LearnDash

LearnDash

FREE add-on gives you access to 50 helpful modules for your LearnDash powered courses. Today we are pleased to let you know about a brand new add-on that you can use today for your LearnDash powered site — PowerPack for LearnDash. This add-on helps you to quickly accomplish some of the most common tasks and actions for your courses. Packing power (see what I did there?

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Our Top 5 Reasons Why We Celebrate Instructional Designers

InSync Training

On March 17, InSync celebrates Instructional Designers! Have you thanked your instructional designer today? You really should. Instructional designers are the unsung heroes of the learning and development field. The job description for a designer has changed so much in the last decade. As we’ve introduced new instructional strategies, techniques, and technologies to our training toolbox, it’s been the instructional designers on the front line learning how to develop content in new platforms, how

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Does your employee engagement plan include fostering work friendships?

Axonify

Are your frontline employees feeling exhausted at work? Are you noticing reduced quality in their work output? Then they may be experiencing burnout, a legitimate medical condition related to the workplace. Last year, 58% of US workers identified themselves as experiencing burnout, up from 45% at the beginning of the pandemic. This issue is especially … Continued.

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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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Boosting Operational Efficiency with Learning Administration

Infopro Learning

Today it is becoming more and more common for organizations to adopt remote-friendly learning programs. Last year a large portion of the workforce moved into remote roles, and now just a year later, experts suggest that remote work is here to stay. As organizations create their post Covid19 plans, many business leaders plan to adopt a hybrid workplace model where employees work both in the office and from home alternately.

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How To Create Effective eLearning Storyboards

eLearning Industry

Creating a good eLearning course can be a very demanding task. To create a good eLearning course, you must design course content with a clear objective in mind. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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No, I Won’t “Tweak” Your PowerPoint Slides

Experiencing eLearning

Have you ever been asked to “just tweak the PowerPoint slides” and call it elearning? How did you respond? The original PowerPoint slides. I got a call from a prospective client. She and I spoke briefly once when she was looking for a pool of instructional designers to call on for specific projects, but we haven’t worked together yet.

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How a Mobile App Can Benefit Online Learning

LearnDash

Your courses are available via web browser on a mobile device. Is that just as good as an app? A primary concern for many course creators is that their content is not only accessible, but that it provides a good user experience as well. For most course creators, their website is their main learning platform, and most have done a good job of choosing mobile themes so that their users can access their content on the go.

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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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Curiosity keeps us alive, gaming and learning

Upside Learning

We are an attention-deficit people, so they say, before they lose interest and jump to another topic. Science tells us that we are born curiosity-rich and attention-poor. Contempt apart, familiarity does breed distraction. Way back in 1964, long before we started blaming technology for denuding our collective attention, a study showed that “infants between 2 […].

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Signaling to Weak Ties

The Simple Shift

One thing research has revealed is that weak ties (connection outside your core circle) are powerful in developing professional opportunities. Those fringe touch points with people around, maybe not in, your work can open more doors for you professionally. Social Media certainly can expand our networks, however many of us “chase the dragon” as I’d […].

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Human Capital Transformation and Mobile Enabled Learning

Infopro Learning

The world of L&D has significantly changed in the past year. The outbreak of Covid19 influenced several workplace trends. As we move forward, most organizations do not plan to return to their previous human capital management strategies. Business leaders and their human resource departments have been looking for learning solutions to solve today’s training challenges and solutions that will help them prepare for future disruption.

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Become An eLearning Champion: Linking Training To Business Results—Part 3

eLearning Industry

Most training is done in isolation without linking it to the terminal objective of achieving business results. Not doing so results in ineffective training that has little impact on business results and loss of credibility of training. Explore how you can link training to business results. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: 3 days with Articulate Storyline

B Online Learning

Remember the children’s book series Choose Your Own Adventure? The child reader is the protagonist making choices to determine the story’s plot. I used […]. The post Choose Your Own Adventure: 3 days with Articulate Storyline appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Do Niche Online Courses Sell?

LearnDash

How do you know if there is a market for your specialized online course? One of the biggest struggles first-time educators face when they launch a new course lies in finding a promising subject. They may have an idea that inspires them, but it’s less certain whether that idea will appeal to anyone else. As a result, the temptation for these course providers is to go broad.

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A bad question

Clark Quinn

On Twitter today was a question from an organization that, frankly, puzzled me. Further, I think it’s important to understand why this was a bad question. So here let me unpack several illustrative problems. First, the question asks “What kind of learning do you prefer?” My initial response is: why would you ask that? What learners prefer has little to do with what outcomes you need to achieve.

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Retail task management and your frontline performance goals

Axonify

Retail strategy may be set at HQ, but it lives or dies on the frontlines. Your ability to execute depends on getting your associates across all locations to do the right things, every time—no small feat with a workforce that’s highly dispersed and always on the go. Frontline training and task management tools both tackle … Continued. Copyright © 2021 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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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?