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What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?

ej4 eLearning

Most trainers and teachers have heard of blended learning. Perhaps you yourself have tried to incorporate it into your training programs. Still, the term has been used so much that it frequently gets misused. Once one understands what blended learning really is, it becomes a lot easier to see its benefits, and to recognize vendors that are actually offering true value, as opposed to a buzzword.

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Is the high cost of creating elearning simulations worth it?

Saffron Interactive

So what is simulation? Simulation in elearning is a fully immersive experience in which real-life situations are replicated to interact with the learner. A good use of simulations thrusts the. The post Is the high cost of creating elearning simulations worth it? appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Will Pokémon GO Influence ELearning?

LearnDash

Unless you have been locked in a basement for the past month then you have likely been hearing about the latest craze that is Pokémon GO. It’s everywhere. For the uninitiated, Pokémon GO is a free location-based mobile game that leverages GPS and mobile phone cameras. The point of the game is to use your phone to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures.

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The Power of Reflection in an Ever-Changing World

Performance Learning Productivity

(I wrote the original piece this article is based on for Training Industry Quarterly in Winter, 2012. I feel it still speaks to a key issue for building high performance that has barely been touched by many L&D professionals). Reflective Practices In a world where speed and agility are the driving forces for most of our organisations we tend value our ability to look forward rather than to backwards.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Merging Pedagogy & Instructional Game Design

InSync Training

BYTE SESSION RECAP. Gamification and game-based training are two topics trending in learning and performance. Many organizations have yet to embrace these approaches because there’s a perception that fun doesn’t equate to real learning. In reality, though, when incorporated with traditional instructional design theory, games have huge potential for learners.

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FAQs on Selecting the Right LMS for your SMB

Upside Learning

The last week was rather hectic, but exciting nonetheless, for me, as I finally presented my first webinar on LMS. *phew* Both the sessions (on 20th July and 21st July) were super successful as we delivered to a packed audience. As much as we had promised ourselves to take up audience questions in the 1-hour […].

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How Sitka Gear Is Setting The Standard For Training In The Outdoor World

Wisetail

Premium brands deserve premium training. Sika Gear is setting the standard for product knowledge training in the outdoor industry. The post How Sitka Gear Is Setting The Standard For Training In The Outdoor World appeared first on Wisetail.

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Authoring tool review: Lectora 16 

Kineo

Lectora - a powerful off-the-shelf authoring tool that can create everything we dream up and design, both visually and functionally. The recently released version, Lectora 16, publishes out responsive content - one of the first of the off-the-shelf authoring tools to go down this very welcome road. Lectora now works on pretty much all devices and browsers, from the latest releases down to older browsers like IE6 (by using different versions of Lectora). .

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Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable?

Gyrus

Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable? Mobile Learning has been a cool shining beacon in the learning industry for quite a while now. So much so, we here at Gyrus tend to talk about it… a lot. But with new technologies, sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself, is it just being used for the sake of the media itself, or is it actually adding to my blended learning portfolio?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 14: What’s Your Purpose

Learning Rebels

. It’s day 14 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – What’s Your Purpose? Here I am in Kansas City, Missouri – facilitating a Design and Delivery Bootcamp. My aha moment came as I was discussing the importance of knowing the difference between organizational goals and learning objectives. One does not equate to the other. Both are important but both have very difference purposes.

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Our Most Popular Blogs of 2016 (So Far!)

Administrate

Doesn’t time fly? We’re already well into the latter half of 2016 and thoughts are now turning to making the most of Summer (being based in Scotland, we’re reliably informed that it is indeed a season) and the run up to Autumn and Winter. The software business moves incredibly quickly and it’s Read More Published on July 27, 2016.

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Multitasking and Time Management – Like Water and Oil

Edmego Learning

Multitasking – The Challenge. I feel almost hypocritical writing a post about multitasking because I got as far as writing out the title and was distracted by numerous other items that popped up. Typical right? As much as we try to keep a paced work flow, there are always things that pop up that can interfere. There is a difference though between last minute items that can interfere with a task at hand and self-inflicted hyper-tasking and multitasking.

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If your Microlearning isn’t adaptive you’re only halfway there

Axonify

There’s a reason so many Dilbert comics poke fun at the corporate training experience. We’ve all endured mind-numbing hours of training only to realize a week later, we can’t quite recall more than a few details (and not necessarily the important ones). Microlearning is More Than the Most Recent “Buzz Word” in Learning. Enter the concept of Microlearning.

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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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Operationalizing Learning Intelligence

Lambda Solutions

Last week, we wrote a blog about U nderstanding Learning Intelligence - what it is, the theory behind it, and how we can begin understanding it better. But, you may be asking, why do technology providers need to think about Learning Intelligence? Can't they just provide good software and let the customer do the rest?

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Authoring Tool Review: Adobe Captivate 9

Kineo

Another year, another version of Adobe Captivate. The software has come on leaps and bounds recently with Captivate 8 providing a whole new interface, HTML5 publishing and responsive projects. Initially Adobe Captivate 9 does not look too different, it has the same interface, and mostly the same menus. But let’s dig a bit deeper to see what this new version has to offer. .

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 17: Trainers Helping Trainers

Learning Rebels

It’s day 17 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Trainers Helping Trainers. I just wrapped up the Design and Delivery Bootcamp, and my biggest take-away? We need to work more on reaching out for help. This group of trainers all work for the same organization, and they are wonderful people. They had great ideas, and open minds. Not to mention they asked really good questions about content design and they genuinely wanted to learn how to do better by their organization.

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Include These in Your ELearning Portfolio

LearnDash

Instructional designers often have an opportunity to work on a variety of projects, it is part of what makes the profession so compelling. One project may include new employee courses, another for change management, and another still for leadership training. As instructional designers we have to quickly come up-to-speed with a variety of technologies, business processes, theories, and organizational cultures.

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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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7 Tips for Hosting an Online Training Boot Camp

Docebo

How to Use Online Training Boot Camps for Rapid Employee Performance Gains. Do you need to administer a healthy dose of performance support and skill development during your next corporate eLearning event? In this article, I’ll share 7 tips for hosting a comprehensive online training boot camp that produces maximum results. How To Host An Online Training Boot Camp In Your Organization.

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Social learning: everybody’s doing it?

Kineo

The term ‘social learning’ has been knocking around for a quite a while – but what do we really know about what’s going on?

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Managing Change or Leading Change: Does It Matter?

Living in Learning

Leading Change to full adoption implies that we not only manage Change to deployment, we must continue to lead Change through implementation.and beyond to the desired goal of full adoption.

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Shifting From Manual to Automatic – How Future Environment Designs Use Administrate

Administrate

Administrate customer Future Environment Designs (FED) is an authorised OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) compliance, certified Asbestos, Mold and Indoor Air Quality training company providing training to corporate customers in and around New York. Life Before Administrate Established in 1988, FED have long struggled with the manual administration of their training programme, having tried multiple pieces Read More Published on July 26, 2016.

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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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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 16: The Blank Page

Learning Rebels

It’s day 16 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – The Blank Page. Is there anything scarier than the blank page? I don’t think so. I’ve been staring at this page for the last couple of hours. Thoughts a jumble in my head. Not organized enough for video, not concrete enough to write out. Sigh. Then it occurred to me, apply the same concept that I would do if I were trying to start a presentation.

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Why Use Tech in Classrooms

LearnDash

Educational institutions are often some of the first to use new technology in a learning environment. Over the years the integration of tech into classrooms has really taken off, especially with the accessibility of mobile devices. It is not uncommon to see classroom learning management systems, blended learning approaches, flipped content delivery , and social learning opportunities all possible because of today’s tools and programs.

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Managing Change or Leading Change: Does It Matter?

Living in Learning

Leading Change to full adoption implies that we not only manage Change to deployment, we must continue to lead Change through implementation.and beyond to the desired goal of full adoption.

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Organising Modern Learning & Networking Events

Jane Hart

Next public social online workshop runs: 1 – 26 August 2016. Although there is a focus on moving classroom training online, there is still a very good reason to offer in-person face to face events for knowledge building and sharing, collaborative problem solving and relationship building. It’s just they will look very different from traditional training!

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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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30 Dance Brainstorm Challenge – Day 15: Perseverance

Learning Rebels

. It’s day 15 of our 30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Perseverance! It’s HUMP DAY people! Day 15 of our 30 Day Challenge. Today was all about perseverance. I was watching the American Ninja Warrior and was just astounded by the mental toughness of the competitors. The back stories really motivated me, the perseverance of some of them…one person had a stroke 6 months ago and is now competing in the semi-finals.

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Erase Boring e-Learning: Show What You Know

Allen Interactions

By Ethan Edwards , Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanaedwards. I love finding inspiration for better instructional design in unlikely sources. My eye stumbled across one of these sources this week in an unplanned exposure to a book title in a Facebook post. The book in question is Rabbinic Literature & the New Testament , by Biblical/Talmudic historian Jacob Neusner.

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Serious Comics

Clark Quinn

I attended ComicCon again this year, and addition to the wild costumes, crowded exhibit hall, and over-priced food, there are a series of sessions. They cover television, movies, and print in a wide variety of markets. And I like the sessions that aren’t associated with popular media (as waiting in lines is something I’m fairly averse too).

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