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Selling Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

I got a call from a prospective client looking to hire an instructional designer. “Tell me about what you’re looking for,” I said. “Well, I have a classroom training program I’d like to convert to online. It’s a course on pregnancy discrimination. Our company has added a ton of specifics about this to our employee handbook, so it’s important everyone’s aware of the new policy.

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How to Promote Training Courses to Employees

ej4 eLearning

Maybe your internal team has spent months getting certified, creating materials for leader-led courses, buying new software or licenses, booking venues, and scheduling the events. Or maybe you have a decision-making committee that has been evaluating external vendors, participating in trials, watching demos, testing technology, comparing videos, and finally choosing a partner.

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Which Learning Theories are Right for Your Organization?

LearnUpon

Creating a comprehensive learning and development program in your organization is crucial. It helps to maintain your employees’ motivation, supports their continued improvement, and retains them as valuable contributors to your business. But, how does your organization discover the best way to educate your employees? . There are lots of learning theories out there, but they are not a one size fits all thing.

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Building A Juicier And Engaging Learning Experience

eLearning Industry

Have a good course, but no takers? Time to ramp it up to an impactful learning experience. One-size-fits-all courses and learning packs are increasingly becoming outdated. Let us discover how to juice up a course to an experience which learners will crave for. 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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Employee Training: When and When Not to Use AR/VR

Infopro Learning

The use of AR/VR technologies is on the rise and they are making an impact on the world of corporate training. Augmented and virtual reality technologies can be used for more than entertainment purposes. There has recently been a steady increase of their use in corporate training. According to an article by CNBC, several fortune 500 companies reported that they have been integrating these new technologies into their training programs and they are getting positive results.

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When Will AI Stop Being “Artificial?”

Learningtogo

The Singularity is a term you’ll find in science and in science fiction. It was coined by mathematician John von Neumann to define a theoretical moment when the artificial intelligence of computers surpasses the capacity of the human brain. The term is borrowed from physics and quantum mechanics, where the term gravitational singularity is used in the study of black holes.

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10 Content Curation Strategies For Corporate Training

eLearning Industry

Content curation enables L&D teams to offer highly relevant content to support their primary training. In this article, I show you 10 content curation strategies for eLearning that you can use to enhance the impact of your corporate trainings. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Using Interviews to Build Your Online Course Business

LearnDash

Interviewing experts in your online course subject is a great way to gain a following, and sell more products. Are you looking for a way to market your online course business but don’t want to write article after article? If you enjoy talking to people then interviews might be for you! Simply by talking to experts in your field you will slowly gain a following and eventually the platform to sell your own content.

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Top 10 Learning Tools for 2019

Clark Quinn

It’s time again for Jane Hart’s Top Learning Tools Survey , so it’s time for my personal list (and for you to submit yours). Here goes! WordPress: my first learning tool is this blog. Here’s where I lay out my ideas. The learning comes from just me thinking through things to keep populating the post, and the exercise of actually putting the thoughts down.

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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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Exploring the I and E Phases of ADDIE

InSync Training

After you’ve done your due diligence in the Analysis Phase , plotted your targeted training approach in the Design Phase, and transformed your plan of attack into reality in the Development Phase, it’s time to Implement (the I in ADDIE) and Evaluate (the E in ADDIE). Unfortunately, these two phases often go the same way the last few of lines of the “30 Days Hath September” poem – they are forgotten.

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How To Create Great Training Content

eLearning Industry

Theory and tips that will help you create useful and engaging training content. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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8 Ways to Use Bonuses to Increase Your Course Sales

LearnDash

Bonuses can help you sell your course and grow revenue for your business. After you create your online course, the next step is to think about how you will sell it. You can choose from a variety of selling models , including selling for a one-off price or offering a subscription model to your students. The right method for you depends on your business plan.

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What You Don't Know About LMS Software Could Hurt Your Bottom Line

TOPYX LMS

LMS software doesn’t just train your workforce, it can also reduce the cost of hiring and improve worker engagement and employee retention. If you’re not using an LMS, or if you aren’t aware of how your current learning management system can improve key business metrics, your bottom line may suffer.

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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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5 Ways Facilitators Can Stimulate Intellectual Engagement in the Virtual Classroom

InSync Training

This is the second installment in a three-part series that explores actionable approaches facilitators can use to improve learner engagement through purposeful facilitation. Can the virtual classroom actually achieve the same learning results as a face-to-face approach? Or is it a ‘second best’ solution? I believe that, if our approach is authentic and well-designed, facilitators can ensure that virtual learning is REAL learning.

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Business Results The C-Suite Wants From L&D Teams

eLearning Industry

Learning and Development managers are under an enormous amount of pressure today. Training employees to meet current and future needs is critical to a company’s long-term success; however, C-level executives don’t always see the direct business value that L&D drives. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Check if Your LMS is Secure and Safe to Use?

Gyrus

Do you know How to Check if Your LMS is Secure and Safe to Use? Keeping some essential LMS security features in mind.

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How an LMS Can Help Your Company Meet Its Business Goals This Year

TOPYX LMS

Businesses that set measurable goals achieve more than those that don’t, according to a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine. 1 “Goals help you stay focused and they can prevent your business from becoming stagnant,” stated The Balance. 2 “Your business goals keep you moving forward and set the stage for ongoing success.” What business goals did your company set for this year?

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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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8 New Steps That You Need to Showcase Your Learning Platform

Docebo

This free report shows you how to calculate the ROI of your learning programs by building a framework that evolves with your learning activities. As L&D pros, we’ve all asked ourselves the question – “How do we make a positive impact on our business?”. The ROI Institute has outlined an 8-step framework for calculating the return on learning, but these steps have been around for years and, in that time, there have been significant changes in our industry.

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An Introduction to Learning Record Store and its Role in eLearning

Origin Learning

In tandem with the terms xAPI and LXP, another term that finds a lot of visibility in eLearning-related news is. The post An Introduction to Learning Record Store and its Role in eLearning appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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Allen Interactions Named A Top 20 Gamification Company List by Training Industry - Again

Allen Interactions

Raleigh, NC – July 2019 – Training Industry today announced that Allen Interactions has been named to the 2019 Top Training Companies™ List for the gamification sector of the learning and development market. Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares the Training Industry Top 20 and Training Industry Watch List reports on critical sectors of the training marketplace to better inform professionals about the best and most innovative pr

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The eCommerce and LMS Solution for Nonprofits

Lambda Solutions

- 4 MIN READ -. Nonprofit organizations are used to leveraging every ounce of value from their investments, especially when it comes to the latest technology innovations. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are a great way to solve training issues and provide a cost-effective platform for eCommerce, staff communication, content organization, and more.

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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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We Think – Therefore We Learn. Why Psychology is Still Relevant in the Age of Neuroscience

Learningtogo

Nearly everything we thought we knew about the human brain changed when we started putting live subjects into functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines (MRIs) about 15 years ago. You might think that with the invention of the fMRI and other brain imaging technologies psychology has gone the way of phrenology and other pseudo-science, but this is not the case.

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6 Custom eLearning Design Tips For Higher Learner Engagement

eLearning Industry

How do you increase learner engagement and knowledge retention? Here are 6 simple, yet effective tips to keep your learners immersed in your learning content while increasing the effectiveness of your learning initiative. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to use a defibrillator

Logicearth

If someone in your office were to succumb to cardiac arrest, would you be confident enough to use a defibrillator, would you know where to find one? Logicearth has created a free guide for you to share with your colleagues that takes the fear out of using a defibrillator.

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5 Factors to Consider When Selling Courses Online

Lambda Solutions

- 5 MIN READ -. Any organization that wants to sell online training courses is faced with a number of decisions, some of which can be lengthy and difficult. Whether it’s choosing to create your own eLearning content versus purchasing an off-the-shelf program, or selecting the right digital marketing strategy for your business, making the right call can have a significant pay-off further down the line.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.