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How do you build eLearning?

B Online Learning

When it comes to building eLearning, how do you do it? Do you just open up Articulate Storyline , have a look at the content that your SME has provided and then just start building it? Do you import a bunch of PowerPoint slides, add a player skin with the obligatory Next and Previous buttons, attach some word documents as resources, and then hit publish?

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5 Leadership Tips for Building a Culture of Accountability

Infopro Learning

How do you spot a culture of accountability? That’s the challenge we talked about recently with our post on How to Identify a Culture of Accountability. Once you can spot an invigorating culture of accountability, the next step is building a culture of accountability yourself. Be sure to remember from Harry S. Truman, accountability starts at the top.

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A dummie’s guide to engaging millennials

Saffron Interactive

I’ve read the word ‘Millennial’ so many times in articles, branding and advertising over the last few months, that I can just about muster up the strength to type the. The post A dummie’s guide to engaging millennials appeared first on Saffron Interactive.

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Is your organisation future ready? My pick of articles from September & October 2016

Jane Hart

Due to a number of reasons, I didn’t do a monthly round-up of my favourite blog posts and articles in October, so this one covers both September and October. Here are 5 articles that reflect my own thinking and work. 1 – There’s a movement afoot for CLOs to step away from tactics and focus on culture , Dan Pontefract, CLO Magazine, 5 September. “Learning and development departments seem to think their customers are the top executives of the company.

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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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eLearning Coffee Breaks - Episode 1

Raptivity

Wondering if you could make those workplace coffee breaks productive yet fun? Well, we have got something for you. Starting today, we are launching a short video series - eLearning Coffee Breaks featuring Raptivity product expert, Jamaica Glenn. Each video in this series will feature a quick tip to make your eLearning life easier and smarter. So what are you waiting for?

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Breaking Up with “Yeah, but…”

Learning Rebels

In the training world, it is not uncommon to hear: “Yeah, but…” and it’s time to put an end to this unhealthy relationship. It’s a relationship that is holding us back from success. It is holding us back from moving forward. It is holding us back from seeing the future. This “Yeah, but…” relationship is further separating learning and development from the people who need us the most, at a time when our help is most needed.

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Would You Subject Yourself to This?

Association eLearning

Mind-numbing boredom and hair-tearing frustration happen. They’re facts of life. But the thought of learning something new shouldn’t put people on autopilot. If the learner comes out of an educational offering wishing for that chunk of their life back something probably needs to be improved. This can be just as true of workflows and day-to-day processes as training.

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Why are Scary Movies so Much Fun?

Learningtogo

Fear is generally thought of as a negative emotion. Google it and you will find thousands of articles, books and blog posts about how to face your fear and overcome it so you can be more successful, happy or brilliant. Yet fear serves a very useful purpose in our growth as a species. Fear is one of the key behaviors that keeps us alive and has done so since the time of our genetic ancestors.

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Show not tell by giving your learners superpowers

Kineo

Scenarios (video or otherwise) are a fantastic way to immerse learners in the learning. They add realism and context, and can give learners control so that they have those all-important practice opportunities. However, anyone who's created a lot of scenarios realise that they're not enough to cover some topics. In many cases, you need to drop into instructional mode to deliver some information for the learner to make sense of what's going on.

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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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ID Essentials: Four Simple Steps to Unpack Objectives

Allen Interactions

By Ann Iverson, Senior Instructional Designer. Congratulations on starting your career with World of Wings, Inc.! Your onboarding begins now. As an airline pilot in training, you need to know and do a lot of things to achieve our goal of flight safety! We don’t have any time to waste, so let’s get started.

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Free ebook – Are Spreadsheets Enough to Manage your Training?

Administrate

We’ve talked to a lot of different training companies and internal training departments and found that many start out running their entire operation using a collection of spreadsheets and calendaring programs. While they work reasonably well for a few months, most tend to find that the cracks start to show when they Read More. Published on November 1, 2016.

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Curated Insights: The Immediate Possibilities of BIG Data

Axonify

Whenever someone talks about the “future of learning” nowadays, the same topics inevitably come up: augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data. But, while they’re discussed in future tense, several of these “trendy topics” aren’t exactly new. For example, I managed a virtual reality attraction at Walt Disney World 10 years ago.

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Measuring Culture Change

Clark Quinn

Someone recently asked how you would go about measuring culture change, and I thought it’s an interesting question. I’ll think ‘out loud’ about what might be the possibilities. A learning culture is optimal for organizational innovation and agility, and it’s likely that not all elements are already in place. So it’s plausible that you’d want to change, and if you do, you’d like to know how it’s going.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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3 WordPress Plugin Selection Tips

LearnDash

One of the major benefits to using WordPress compared to other content management systems is that you can easily expand its functionality. In fact, this is a primary reason why a WordPress learning management system (LMS) is so conducive to online learning programs. For example, it is easy to implement a forum when the time comes, enable badging & awards, activate leaderboards, chat functionality, help desks, and so on.

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Why Sales Reps Need Confidence and Competence

Knowledge Guru

Your sales team has a mix of skillsets and experience levels. Some are really great at connecting with customers, but others lack self-confidence and may underperform. Likewise, some reps are really confident and think they know what they’re doing, but don’t. With reps at so many different career stages, it’s important to find a solution that works for all of them.

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Baseball and your Learning Organization

Gyrus

Baseball and your Learning Organization. As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future.

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Adobe Captivate: Submit All

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        When a learner takes a quiz created with Adobe Captivate, failure by the learner to click the  Submit  button on each and every question is a recurring problem. Many learners don't realize that a question is considered incorrect if it's skipped. And the answer is skipped if the Submit button isn't clicked.

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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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Limited Time Enrollment Pays Off Big

LearnDash

As the trend of selling online courses continues to grow I have seen a slight shift in the way these premium courses are offered. Most people slap a price onto their course as soon as it is ready to be sold. Sure, there may be variants in how the course is priced (subscription versus one-time payment). The course may also have multiple tiers depending on what is included.

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2017 Forecast: 9 HR Trends Disrupting the Market - Part 1

Lambda Solutions

In 2015, approximately 2.4 billion was invested in HR vendors - a 60% jump from the year before, signalling a massive disruption in the industry. This sudden increase in focus on HR technologies has people wondering, where did this interest come from?

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Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process

Gyrus

Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process. It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. In order to establish an effective learning program, there must be a great consideration for the future needs of the day to day business, and the workforce themselves. One cannot simply establish a program and walk away stating that it is as perfect as it will always be and there is nothing more we can do as an organization.

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Content Marketing for your Association isn’t as Scary as you Think

Web Courseworks

As a marketer, it’s hard to ignore the content marketing buzz. How do you know if you’re executing content marketing correctly? Do you need to have a budget for content marketing? How much time should you put into it? How can you measure the ROI? There are a lot of questions to think about when you implement a new marketing tactic, however, the great thing about content marketing (especially for associations) is that it isn’t really new, nor does it require a big change from your current marketi

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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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The Key To ELearning Program Success

LearnDash

I have seen a good number of elearning programs created and implemented across a variety of industries. Everything from government, non-profit, huge conglomerates, and international organizations. While each one of these use-cases has their unique characteristics I have found that they all share one aspect that contributes to the overall success of the elearning implementation.

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Strategy Sessions

Clark Quinn

In a previous post , I talked about a couple of instances where I worked with folks to let them ‘pick my brain’ Those were about learning design in particular, but I’ve also worked with folks on strategy. In these strategy sessions, things work a little differently. So, in a typical strategy session, I prepare by looking at what they’ve done beforehand: any existing strategy documents.

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E-LEARNING DESIGN: COURSE OBJECTIVES OR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES?

Learnnovators

The post E-LEARNING DESIGN: COURSE OBJECTIVES OR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES? appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Montana Tech Conference Is “Giant Ruse To Get People To Move To Bozeman”

Wisetail

The warning mentioned the numerous perils that Bozeman presented including its prime fly fishing, many friendly dogs, and abundant mountaintop selfie opportunities. The post Montana Tech Conference Is “Giant Ruse To Get People To Move To Bozeman” appeared first on Wisetail.

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The Credential Everyone Wants: The PMP Certification

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification is one of many professional credentials that is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Currently, there are approximately 1.4 million PMI PMPs awarded by PMI, the world’s leading authority on management. The PMP® certification is accredited against the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and ISO/ANSI 17024 standards.

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Video Production Tips: Slate, Mic, and Lighting

eLearning Brothers

When shooting a live action video, you suddenly have to care about different things than you do in a screencast. You are likely to be dealing with more “takes” or attempts at your recording. You have to figure out how to get quality sound when you are mobile, and you have to figure out what your subject is going to look like. To help you organize your video catalog in your video editor of choice, filmmakers of old developed a tool called the Slate, sometimes referred to as the Clapboard.

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Content Marketing for your Association isn’t as Scary as you Think

Web Courseworks

As a marketer, it’s hard to ignore the content marketing buzz. How do you know if you’re executing content marketing correctly? Do you need to have a budget for content marketing? How much time should you put into it? How can you measure the ROI? There are a lot of questions to think about when you implement a new marketing tactic, however, the great thing about content marketing (especially for associations) is that it isn’t really new, nor does it require a big change from your current marketi

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What can you learn from a chatbot?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I have my office on the first floor of our house and therefore I use a Wifi homeplug to strengthen the WiFi signal from the groundfloor. A week ago, suddenly the signal dropped. The homeplug didn't work anymore. I looked back at my mails and discovered that I had bought it at bol.com and that there is a 10-year warranty. I was quite happy to find it but at the same time thought: oooh how to send it?