Sat.Nov 22, 2014 - Fri.Nov 28, 2014

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Apply This Storytelling Technique to Create More Engaging eLearning

SHIFT eLearning

'Most likely you have seen the movie Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you haven’t, chances are you know what it is about. Whether you love or hate 80’s science fiction, if you develop eLearning courses this movie has something for you. The secret is in how the story is built.

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Voice Over Script Pitfalls

Experiencing eLearning

'Instructional designers sometimes run into pitfalls when writing voice over scripts. Jill Goldman of Goldivox is a voice over professional who graciously agreed to share with me the issues she sometimes sees in scripts. I’ll share her perspective in block quotes below, along with my own tips. This is part 3 of my series on writing voice over scripts.

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5 Reasons Facilitators Keep Virtual Training Class Size Small

InSync Training

'I recently posted a blog concerning the optimal class size for virtual training. I wanted to share more than my personal opinion, so I asked members of our Facebook Virtual Classroom Community of Practice what they thought.

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Device-Agnostic Content – The Instructional Design Challenge

Origin Learning

'Okay, so device-agnostic content is the talk of the town. It has to be. With umpteen devices of all kinds releasing every other day, it is almost impossible (and very, very arduous if possible) to tailor website layout to each specific device. As a result, web designers and programmers have found a smarter way out: forget the device. Yes, device agnosticism is all about focusing on the content and designing it in a way that instead of being tied to any particular device, it serves to perform we

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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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Reprise: Do You Have a Learning Culture? (Part One)

The Performance Improvement Blog

'The answer to this question is important because of the impact culture has on an organization. I like this quote attributed to Peter Drucker , “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. You can have the most elegant strategic plan, but if your organization’s beliefs and assumptions, values and guiding principles, workplace symbols and artifacts, and company lore are not consistent with that plan, not much will happen.

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4 ELearning Trends You Should Know

LearnDash

'The elearning landscape is constantly evolving. Sometimes it is driven by the devices we use, other times we just figure out better ways to create and present courses. As the end of 2014 quickly approaches, there are some current trends in elearning that you should be aware of. Before jumping into some of these trends though, it’s important to remember that just because something is a trend at the moment, it doesn’t mean that it will continue into the foreseeable future.

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When I Develop Device-Agnostic Content, Should I Develop for The Lowest Form Factor?

Origin Learning

'What is device-agnostic content? To put it simply, content that is device independent is device agnostic. Initially when devices (PCs, laptops and even mobiles were more or less similar in their form factor (read: specifications), the approach to designing was by putting the content layout at the center- i.e. how the content would look on the screen decided what content would go on each screen, the sequence of pages and other such website details.

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Reprise: Do You Have a Learning Culture? (Part Two)

The Performance Improvement Blog

'In "Part One" of this post, I presented some situations in which espoused values (not necessarily values in use) play a role and examples of instinctive reactions that indicate either the presence or absence of a learning culture. . Here are four more situations: . The espoused value says, “We value creativity and innovation.”. An employee had an idea for a new mobile app that seemed very promising and early feedback from customers was that it was something they would want.

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The Top 10 Benefits of Online Training Part 2

Lambda Solutions

'Yesterday we introduced the first five benefits of online training and today we will provide the final five! If you missed part one on the top 10 benefits of online training you can check them out here. 6. Online Training Makes Knowledge Transfer Easier With baby boomers retiring at ever quickening rates, change management managers are […] The post The Top 10 Benefits of Online Training Part 2 appeared first on Lambda Solutions.

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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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Analysis Elements to Introduce Gamification to an Organization

Kapp Notes

'The other day I was asked this question about gamification analysis. I’m an ISD working primarily with military clients and I would like to know how you perform your analysis on a company that would like gamification. What process do you use to perform your analysis? This is a good question as people often wonder what is the best way to determine if the use of gamification is appropriate for a particular type of content or a particular audience of learners.

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How Mobile Apps Can Act as Social Learning Tools

Origin Learning

'Social learning and mobile learning have a lot in common. After all, what do we use mobiles mostly for? Communication, right? Instant messaging, e-mails, texts, social media interactions- all of these have become an inseparable part of our lives ever since the smartphone revolution has taken place. A lot of social learning is already happening on the mobile platform.

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Why I am Grateful for ELearning

LearnDash

'There are many things to be grateful for in life, most obvious being the people that are closest to us – our family and friends. This will remain true for this Thanksgiving holiday, but I’ll venture to throw one more item into the mix: elearning. At a personal level I am grateful for elearning, and what I am most grateful for is the elearning industry as a whole.

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The Top 10 Benefits of Online Training Part 1

Lambda Solutions

'As organizations begin to fully recover from the recession and move back to paths of growth—corporate training expenditure in the U.S. is booming. According to corporate HR expert Josh Bersin, U.S. spending on corporate training grew by 15% from 2012-2013. This growth equated to $70 billion spent on corporate training in the US and $130 […] The post The Top 10 Benefits of Online Training Part 1 appeared first on Lambda Solutions.

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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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Transformative Experiences

Clark Quinn

'I’ve had the pleasure last week of keynoting Charles Sturt University’s annual Education conference. They’re in the process of rethinking what their learning experience should be, and I talked about the changes we’re trying to make at the Wadhwani Foundation. I was reminded of previous conversations about learning experience design and the transformative experience.

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LearnFlex LMS: How to Automate Learn Track Renewals

B Online Learning

'Many of our clients have compliance programs that are required to be taken after set renewal cycles, managing these manually can be a bit tricky depending on the amount of courses or users that are involved. Using the automated renewal functionality within LearnFlex Learn Tracks can help save a lot of the manual overhead for administrators, […].

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Generation Mobile

Nick Leffler

'I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while. First it sat in my idea pad for several months and now I’ve been writing random thoughts down for at least a month. I’m finally doing something about it and writing about generation mobile! What’s more important than millennials, generation x, y, z, lmnop? A generation of people who work mobile, travel mobile, and in general live mobile.

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A Recipe for Explaining eLearning During Thanksgiving

eLearning Brothers

'eLearning Brothers: We’ve been in this industry since the 90’s (some of us before that), and we know it’s sometimes hard to explain your job to your family. Take the opportunity this holiday to use this recipe for explaining eLearning during thanksgiving. We’ve provided a useful script below. As with our products, feel free to modify as needed to suit your individual instructional needs.

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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.

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Learned Vs. Learners - Revised

ID Reflections

'The classic quotation summarizes in a sentence what takes scholars and academicians reams of paper to theorize and prove. And this is the trigger for today’s post. The difference between the terms “ learners ” and “ learned ” and what it implies when applied to the experts in our organizations is crucial in today’s environment of constant change. I have recently been reading Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement.

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Futureproof your career (infographic)

Jane Hart

'Infographic, thanks to Colin of of Ayers (Australia).

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Protect Yourself from Piracy this Holiday Season

TechSmith Camtasia

'Thinking of treating your loved ones to that awesome program they can’t stop talking about but can never seem to justify buying? The one with the big price tag but even bigger value? It’s the perfect gift for your tech wizard nephew or your aunt who just loves graphic design. And what’s more, you just found it on a deep discount from a reseller. It’s the perfect gift!

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Top 5 eLearning Game Templates for Adobe Captivate

eLearning Brothers

'Since we began offering eLearning Game Templates for Adobe Captivate, our international audience from 99 countries (from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe) have been downloading them en masse, saving development time and adding awesome design to their eLearning projects. So, I bet you are dying to see what the cool kids are downloading in the eLearning Template Library.

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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13 Best eLearning Quotes

TalentLMS

'Quotes are inspirational messages that catalyze change in behavior. They are both effective and affective in nature. Talent LMS brings the top eLearning quotes that should inspire you to launch your next eLearning project! 1. Make it part of themselves “Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers.

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Video for assessment

Learning with e's

'I have always believed that assessment should be primarily for the benefit of the student, not the teacher. I concede that teachers need to know how their students are progressing, and this is very much a part of the assessment process. However, assessment of learning is not as important as assessment for learning. When it comes to supporting a student''s progress, showing them what they can do to improve, or perform better is the key.

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Adobe Learning Summit 2014 session recordings now available!

Adobe Captivate

'Last month we had a great show at Adobe Learning Summit 2014 in Bellagio, Las Vegas where Adobe community experts, industry luminaries, experienced learning professionals, and Captivate engineering team got together and talked about the latest and upcoming eLearning technologies. Missed attending it? We recorded some of the sessions for you.

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3 Hidden Tools of the eLearning Template Library

eLearning Brothers

'One of the major reasons people subscribe to our eLearning Template Library is to save time. Here are three features you might not know about that will do just that. All three of these are found in your Product Subscription Dashboard, under the “Templates Library” section. Downloads. When you click on the “Downloads” link, you will see a history of every file you have downloaded from the Template Library.

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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

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Instructional Designers: How to Pick Your SME's Brain in an Interview

SHIFT eLearning

'INTRODUCTION: You may be an eLearning professional, but the subject matter expert or the SME actually flags off your course by providing the all-important content for you and your team to sculpt on. The SME may be a software programmer or a marketing analyst in your company, a professor, doctor, or a best-selling author who has penned books of encyclopedic proportions on the course matter.

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Web vs Apps: The Battle Rages On

eFront

'In 2005 things seemed clear. The Web was the undisputed king, and with the advent of AJAX and modern CSS, future software was going to be written for the browser. A year earlier, Joel Spolsky, who had helped create Visual Basic and was a project manager for Excel, had written an article saying that Microsoft had lost the API war, and that the Web makes the operating system irrelevant.

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Doodle.com: Hassle-Free Scheduling

E-learning Uncovered

'You send an email to a group of project stakeholders proposing a meeting on Tuesday at 10:00. You receive two of the three responses. So far, everyone can attend. Then you receive the final response and find that Tuesdays don’t work for Jack. He suggests meeting on Wednesday at 3:00, but Carmen replies that she’s only available until 1:30. You’re not available on Wednesday afternoon at all, so you suggest Thursday.

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