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5 Essential Components of Interactive Instructional Feedback

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The instructional value of any interactive learning experience lies in the feedback provided. This post lists the five components that go into crafting the best instructional feedback. EVALUATION OF LEARNER’S RESPONSE: Any graded quiz allows you to immediately inform the learners on the correctness or incorrectness of their response. Evidence links the immediateness of feedback to better learning outcomes.

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The 3 Types of eLearning Storyboards & When to Use Them

Tim Slade

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What is Learner Autonomy?

LearnUpon

We all want to learn more, upskill and develop our knowledge. But obstacles like daily work commitments and formal learning structures can get in the way. That’s where learner autonomy can be leveraged to support learners in self-directing their need for knowledge. It can be incorporated into your corporate learning strategy to motivate and engage your workforce.

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4 Employee Needs To Incorporate In Your eLearning Design

eLearning Industry

Learning practitioners often focus solely on getting leadership support for learning. While necessary, what's often left out is what employees want and need. Stop taking for granted employees will unquestionably accept whatever their leaders expect. This is a recipe for a learning failure. 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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Instructional Design Certificate or Masters Degree

Experiencing eLearning

A reader sent me this question: I’m very seriously considering a career change into ID. (I’ve spent 20 years in various business assignments with the last 8 in IT.) I’m involved in teaching extra-curricular activities to kids and adults in my community. I very fulfilled when I’m teaching and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to follow this as a career path.

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Integrating Motivation with Instructional Design

B Online Learning

As an Instructional Designer, motivating learners is an important consideration because in reality learners are not always motivated to learn. They are busy, […]. The post Integrating Motivation with Instructional Design appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Steal this Sales Copy Formula to Sell More Courses!

LearnDash

You have created an online course and are ready to share it with the world – but can you convince people to buy? Your course is complete, your website is up, and now there’s only one thing left to do—reel in customers for your amazing course. But that’s easier said than done… how do you share your value proposition and develop a sales page that motivates people to invest into your course?

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Labels for what we do

Clark Quinn

Of late there’s been a resurrection of a long term problem. While it’s true for our field as a whole, it’s also true for the specific job of those who design formal learning. I opined about the problem of labels for what we do half a year ago, but it has raised its head again. And this time, some things have been said that I don’t fully agree with.

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10 Ways You Can Foster Better Compliance in the Workplace

ej4 eLearning

Here at ej4, we talk a lot about compliance in the workplace, and it's not always the most fun topic to talk about. Keeping your company compliant means ensuring employees have the right training on a variety of important compliance training topics, including things like safety, harassment policies, HIPAA/privacy, and so on. Compliance, and compliance training, are usually mandated by federal, state, or local laws and regulations.

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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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The Unsurpriseable Organization

The Simple Shift

12 years ago… “What? People aren’t responding to our ads!? Quick! We need to engage with them on social media!” 8 years ago… “What? People are using their phones to find info and do research? Quick! We need to have a mobile strategy!” 4 years ago… “What? A job isn’t enough any more!? Quick! We have to make […].

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How to promote daily self-learning in the workplace

Jane Hart

There is, rightly, a lot of talk nowadays about “lifelong learning” and “continuous learning” but more often than not, articles focus on “lifelong education” or “continuous training”. In other words, they emphasise the need for continuous formal learning, and, in organisational terms, this implies providing more and more training or access to online course libraries. […].

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The ARG experience

Clark Quinn

In preparing a couple of presentation for the Realities 360 conference coming up late this month, I got thinking about ARGs again. ARGs (alternate reality games) were going to be the thing, but some colleagues suggest that the costs were problematic. I still think that ARGs could be powerful learning experiences. And, of course, I understand that the overhead would make them useful only in particular situations.

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Virtual Classroom Facilitators: Enabling Engagement & Learning

InSync Training

In the mid-1990s, virtual classrooms (then known as ‘synchronous’ classrooms) were new. (Don’t believe me? Read some history here !) So new, most people had never heard of them. But the people who HAD heard of virtual training were very excited. Soon, they proclaimed, none of us would ever have to go to a brick and mortar classroom again! All the ingredients were present to disrupt the Training & Development industry: trainers, participants, and PowerPoint slides!

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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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TECHSMITH CAMTASIA: Cursor Smoothing: A Cure For the Over-Caffeinated

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Any eLearning developer knows that coffee by the gallon helps get the job done. Of course, too much coffee can lead to the jitters and, by extension, a jittery mouse while recording a video demonstration.   Such was the case for me during a recent project. I was recording a series of clicks in a client's software using Camtasia Recorder. After importing the video in the Camtasia Editor and adding the video to the Timeline, I was dismayed to see that my mouse was all over the screen. no

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10 Qualities and Skills of a Great Instructional Design Company

Spark Your Interest

Why Hire an Instructional Design Company? There are many reasons you to consider hiring a company that specializes in developing instructional products. For example, you need a new training or e-learning course but. You, and/or your organization, are new to e-learning and you aren’t sure where to start. You have a small team and can’t afford to add a permanent employee.

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Small LMS Tweaks That Make a Big Difference to User Engagement and UX

TOPYX LMS

Regardless of how much money and effort a company invests in an LMS, there is no guarantee the platform will be well received by employees. Over 50 percent of L&D professionals in a Brandon Hall study¹ claimed that poor UX was one of the most significant roadblocks to satisfaction with learning technology. That means user experience is negatively affecting both businesses and learner engagement.

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It’s official! AI is a game-changer for workplace learning.

Axonify

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a game-changer! At least that was the decision we landed on during our latest Axonify webinar. Donald Taylor, Chairman of The Learning and Performance Institute, joined me for a rousing discussion this week on the potential of AI in workplace learning. Rather than deliver a typical presentation, we challenged attendees on … Continued.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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6 Simple Tips for Stellar Virtual Classroom Facilitation

InSync Training

Whether presenting an informational webinar or facilitating a multi-part virtual learning series that’s part of a larger blend, teaching live online requires pizzazz and purpose. As more corporate L&D programs move online, a tried-and-true facilitation process can set you up for success (in fact, we offer a comprehensive train-the-trainer program to help practitioners create a comprehensive toolkit).

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Learning Culture: A Product of Convergence?

Living in Learning

Yes, I tend to take a hard line on “performance” in the flow of work versus “learning” in the flow or work, but isn’t performance the ultimate outcome we seek? Learning is not the end game…it’s a by-product of enabling performance.while learning at the Point-of-Work and during moments of need. If I’m mistaken on this bent of mine, why is there a “70” in 70:20:10?

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Our Path to Go Beyond – Examples of our work

Upside Learning

If you’ve been following us lately, chances are you would have already heard ‘Go Beyond’ and #LnDGoBeyond a few times from our side. If you haven’t, you may look at my previous posts on why it’s now imperative for L&D to Go Beyond, what it means to Go Beyond , and how do we at […].

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DESIGN CENTRAL: Is It Time for a Design Refresh?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Late last year Microsoft announced a design update to their MS Office product line suite, but you may have only recently noticed an update to your icons.    It doesn’t seem like that long ago that they were updated, but did you know that was five years ago already?    Image: [link].   By the looks of things, Microsoft is in a design-y mood and is focusing on updating the look of lots of their product line. Erin Woo, Microsoft’s current Product Designer, also a

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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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The 4 Most Sought-After LMS Features to Improve ROI

TOPYX LMS

There are many different ways a learning management system delivers ROI to a company. For example, an eLearning system might lower administrative costs for training program management, improve HR expenses by decreasing time to productivity for employees, and reduce IT hardware and support costs for an organization.

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20 Key Takeaways from ATD 2019

Docebo

ATD 2019 , the world’s largest, most comprehensive event for talent development and learning professionals, is in the books and what an insightful four days it was in Washington D.C. From Oprah presenting her key life mantras, to in-depth conversations on the future of learning, ATD had no shortage of actionable takeaways. In fact, we’ve compiled our list of the top 20 highlights from this year’s sessions and keynotes.

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Insight Curation: Are We Accelerating or Protecting Productivity?

Living in Learning

By now content curation is a well-known activity that is credited for saving time in the search, retrieval and distribution of bulk knowledge/information. The quality of those well-intended distributions, often via email attachments, or postings to knowledge bases, or communities of practice forums, or corporate shared drives, or SharePoint…or…or…or…are somewhat scattered.

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Outdoor Voices on Growth, Culture, and the Employee Experience

Wisetail

Outdoor Voices doesn’t just tell people to go out and be active every day — the company lives that ethos. We talked with OV’s Retail Training & Development Manager to learn more about the OV employee experience and how the company maintains a tight culture as it grows. The post Outdoor Voices on Growth, Culture, and the Employee Experience appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.