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Digital Adoption Strategies for Different Generations of Workers

WhatFix

The success of your company’s digital transformation initiative is greatly influenced by your employees’ perceptions and fears about adopting new technologies and practices. By effectively training and engaging employees, the corporate learning and development department can encourage your team to enthusiastically support your digital transformation initiatives.

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Changing Behaviors: Using Nudge Theory to Engage Your Learners

HT2 Labs

By this point, I am sure you are all well aware that HT2 Labs’ first free learning opportunity of 2019 culminated in the first ever Open Learning Experience (OLX) steered towards helping you to understand the benefits of using your learning data to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences. With that, ‘Data, Nudges & Learning: A Guide to Enhancing Engagement’; the 3-part OLX began April 29.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences.

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Top eLearning Content Providers For Microlearning 2019

eLearning Industry

It is with great enthusiasm that we announce our list of Top eLearning Content Providers For Microlearning 2019. For the first time, we have taken a deep dive into some fundamental players in the microlearning game. Find out who you absolutely, definitely need to follow. Here are our picks for 2019! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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What’s New in the Articulate 360 Family?

CommLab India

Articulate 360 is an online subscription suite that has everything to rapidly develop eLearning. Check the features added to Storyline 360 and Rise 360.

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TEACHING ONLINE CLASSES: Interactive Polls Help End Sucky Training

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  One of the easiest ways to engage online students is by displaying quizzes and polls. When I start my classes, displaying a poll is a great way to break the ice and get my class started on the right foot.   Most virtual training platforms (GoToTraining, WebEx, Connect, etc) allow you to create polls within the tool. You can then display the poll to your virtual students on the fly.

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How To Use An Interactive eBook In eLearning?

eLearning Industry

eBooks used to be simple documents of text and images earlier, but today, eBooks can be interactive and dynamic. They are great tools to hold a learner’s attention and impart knowledge to them. This article will explore how to create an interactive eBook, and how to use it in your eLearning course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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3 LMS Considerations for Managing Remote Employees’ Training

Absorb LMS

Nearly one-third of the U.S. workforce doesn’t “go to work.” Thirty-one percent of U.S. workers work remotely 80-100% of the time, according to Gallup. More companies than ever rely on a balance of in-office workers and remote talent as a part of everyday operations. Workforce dynamics are shifting dramatically. Chances are, your organization is tasked with managing remote employees’ training more than ever before.

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Social Silliness

Clark Quinn

It’s that time again. Someone pointed me to a post that touted the benefits of social learning. And I’m a fan ! However, as I perused it, I saw that was a bit of social silliness. So, let me be clear about why. It starts off mostly on the right foot, saying “playing off of the theory that people learn better when they learn collectively” I’m a proponent of that theory.

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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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Check Out My New Online Courses New eLearning Designers!

Tim Slade

Last year, when I published The eLearning Designer’s Handbook , I decided at the last minute (about a week before the book went live ) to build a companion online course: Getting Started with The eLearning Development Process. While the decision to build this online course was totally spontaneous, I knew it was something that I eventually wanted to do longterm: to design and offer online courses for new eLearning designers.

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5 Common Mistakes Of Online Course Creators And How To Overcome Them

eLearning Industry

We live in the age of knowledge work and information-based economy. Skills and knowledge are just as marketable today as any physical goods – probably more so. The good thing about it is that there are hardly any people out there who don’t have some knowledge that would be valuable for others. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Get Executive Buy-In for New LMS Technology

Absorb LMS

As a hiring manager, you know a good learning management system fulfills compliance obligations, develops skills, enforces best practices and may even be a solution to the engagement and retention dilemma. But those tangible benefits aren’t always apparent to those removed from training program development. Even if your learning and development department has its own budget, you’ll need to craft a convincing proposal that builds the business case for new technology.

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How (Not) To Write Marketing Posts

Clark Quinn

You’ve seen my takedowns of various posts by now, and the flurry of fluff continues. It seems like there’s some baseline social media marketing course that everyone takes. And the very first thing is a series of steps that yields annoyance and embarrassment (or should). For the sake of all of us who suffer from this, we need to stop! We need better posts for our industry.

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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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Why Make the Change from Training to Learning Campaigns?

InSync Training

Learning is a process. As workplaces rapidly evolve to adapt to changing market dynamics, skill building must change too. Trainers work to support technical and soft-skill improvement within the same program. How can we balance both? By using learning campaigns.

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Time Crunch, Design Challenges, PowerPoint Templates To The Rescue!

eLearning Industry

PowerPoint, being the most neglected tool in the world of business has a lot more to offer. So, let's explore what this tool can help us achieve through PowerPoint Templates. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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8 Budget-Friendly Ways to Create a Moment of Need Online Training Repository

Dashe & Thomson

There are times when employees require immediate online training tools to complete tasks, build skills, or brush up on company policy. Waiting for the next scheduled online training session would not only diminish their productivity but also put customer satisfaction at risk. The challenge that organizations face is figuring out how to address their needs on the spot with the resources available.

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The Role of an LMS in Blended Learning for Manufacturing Companies

TOPYX LMS

Nearly 3 million jobs will open up in the global manufacturing industry as current workers, including baby boomers, start retiring.¹ That turnover will leave many companies with a shortage of skilled workers and an abundance of opportunities that will take time to fill.

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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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How to Get the Most from Coaching

InSync Training

Coaching involv es two very important parties: The coach. The coachee. The relationship and interaction between these two individuals impacts the overall success of the process. Recently, the InSync team shared what skills make coaches effective : thoughtful questioning techniques, foundational models, and a personalized approach.

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4 Key Learning and Development Trends to Invest in for 2019

Absorb LMS

Digital transformation is a dominant force in nearly every industry. But from a learning and development perspective, it requires far more than upskilling employees’ competencies to keep your company competitive. Your approach to L&D has to adapt and fit workers like a glove, as individuals increasingly place value on forward-thinking employers invested in their future.

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ATD 2019 Keynote Recap: People Want to be Seen and Heard

ej4 eLearning

ATD 2019 in Washington D.C. featured two keynote speakers whose messages overlapped very nicely for the talent development audience. Seth Godin talked about how people want to be seen. Oprah explained how people want to be heard.

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3 Ways Associations Can Use Social Learning to Increase Member Engagement and Revenue

TOPYX LMS

Associations often struggle to retain members for several reasons, one of the most pressing of which is member engagement. When members become disengaged, they often cancel their memberships, decreasing association revenue.

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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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Game of Work

The Simple Shift

I contend that beliefs form from repeated behaviors. This could be your own behavior, an observed behavior, or a behavior projected on you by another’s story (an authority tells you). I also contend that our behaviors are influenced (guided or supported) consciously or unconsciously by systems. Systems are often the context we’re in, our environment, […].

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4 Training Effectiveness Metrics to Track Your L&D Fitness

Absorb LMS

You’re a great runner—but you want to run even faster. You clock time, using a smartwatch to monitor performance, so your incremental improvements are accurately measured. Although there’s no fancy watch to measure training effectiveness, there are other methods to do so. Check out these four metrics to see if you have a healthy pulse on achieving your learning and development and business goals. 1.

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How to Create Customer Success Stories in the eLearning Industry?

Origin Learning

Have you ever wondered why one product succeeds while a similar product by another company fails despite the pricing and. The post How to Create Customer Success Stories in the eLearning Industry? appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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Organizations as Communities?—?Part 2

ID Reflections

Yesterday, in a Twitter conversation with Rachel Happe regarding the need for organizations to function as communities, I wrote the following: “ Complicated solutions are yesterday’s good practices. Complex, holistic solutions are multi-faceted, emergent and constantly evolving. They can’t be pinned down by rules but have to be sensed into through open dialogues.

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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.