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The Pros and Cons of Six Different Competency Models

Avilar

Can’t decide which competency model to use? Making decisions is not always easy. An inordinate amount of time deciding between equally attractive options can drain you of your time and energy, which is why we often follow certain best practices to speed up the process. In fact, we do it so often, we may not even realize we’re following these patterns.

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POINT-of-WORK:  Productivity Waning?  Accelerate It with Technology

Living in Learning

“At what point do we reach diminishing returns in workforce productivity by complicating existing workloads with more work to learn new systems?”.

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4 Success Factors for Multi-Method Delivery

InSync Training

Organizational boundaries keep growing and becoming more fluid, and as our learner base disperses around the globe, training programs have to adapt appropriately. That’s no small feat in the face of multi-cultural classrooms , emerging technologies, and stakeholder expectations of learning success. Multi-method delivery , or the simultaneous support and instruction of non-co-located learners, provides a popular and effective solution in the modern workplace.

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5 Guidelines For Developing Good Online Assessments

eLearning Industry

If we want to develop good assessments, we have to do the hard, and often offline work, of. well. developing good assessments! This article, by Mary Burns of the Education Development Center, lays out 5 guidelines for developing good assessments. 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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First Impressions: Creating Responsive Content in Adobe Captivate 2017

Adobe Captivate

If you design or develop eLearning content, you’ve likely run into issues displaying content on multiple devices, such as desktop computers, tablets and smartphones. For example, a really nice graphic may display well on a laptop, but look too small or be cut off on a smartphone. Authoring packages that generate “responsive” content have solved the issue of displaying on different devices by allowing the content to rearrange itself based on the type of device.

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L&D’s Last Mile Problem

The Simple Shift

Amazon is moving so fast on getting you stuff in hours not days and it feels like this will happen in the next 2-3 years. What’s the impact? Goodbye 7/11. This is the world we live in. Convenience is king and the need to run to the quickmart for the one off item is on […].

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8 Game Design Lessons For Learning Designers

eLearning Industry

Games hook users right from the start, and keep them playing for hours on end. What lessons can we, as learning designers, borrow from games to improve engagement in our courses? Read on to find out. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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6 Ways to Improve User Interface Design for E-Learning

LearnDash

The design of your course has a profound effect on how your learners learn from it. How much time have you spent thinking about the design of your course? Not just the content, but the layout and the way in engages users. When you do think about it, how do you make your decisions? Are you thinking about your learners and their interaction with your course, or are you focused on the appearance?

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Story and Success: An Unexpected Connection

InSync Training

Virtually There Recap. Did you know that you have stories constantly running through your subconscious mind? It’s true! Without realizing it, you frame every interaction through narrative, creating underlying bias. Good, bad, or indifferent, your bias influences how you navigate the world. This fundamental brain biology impacts professional relationships, too.

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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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Don't Invest in an Online Learning System Without These 3 LMS Features

TOPYX LMS

Poor employee performance, high costs of corporate training and low employee engagement with training are all reasons that drive company leaders to invest in an online learning system, or LMS.¹ However, investing in just any eLearning system as opposed to a learning management system with specific features can set companies up for a failed LMS implementation.

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On the List Again!

Learningtogo

When Sam Rogers announced his intention to compile a list of the most popular podcasts for L&D in 2017, I thought I’d have to mount a write-in campaign. Luckily, Sam was aware of us and our program was on the ballot. I felt even luckier to make the list, thanks to our fascinating guests and listeners like you!

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Is Your Online Course Platform Limiting Your Potential?

LearnDash

If you choose a hosted course platform then you are limiting future growth. There is a common scenario in the online course space that I see nearly every day. You get a good idea for an online course so you jump to a hosted (closed source) course builder. In a few days you get the course up. You may even start getting learners going through the content!

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Practical Nonverbal Communication Tips

ej4 eLearning

Candy Cane Neck. That is the name I have given to a future medical condition of our youth. This is not the S-curve version of scoliosis I grew up hearing about in the 70’s and 80’s. This is a new version that will be caused by spending too many hours looking down at a tablet or phone. Scoliosis normally is caused by a growth spurt before puberty but I fear Candy Cane Neck will be striking adults too.

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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 Important Is It for an LMS to Support BYOD?

TOPYX LMS

BYOD, or bring your own device, is a growing global trend that refers to employees bringing personal devices to their place of employment to complete work activities or functions. Smartphones are most commonly used, but some employees bring their own laptops or tablets to the workplace as well.

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Digital Education Trends: The Rise of Mobile, Gamified, and Personalized Approaches

Client Engagement Academy

Innovation in educational technology and the shift to a digital world has necessitated huge changes from instructors, coaches, business owners, and entrepreneurs alike—they’ve had to make drastic alterations to not only the way they instruct, but to their entire business models, and at a much faster rate than predicted. Investment in Educational Technologies Continues to […].

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE: Make Software Simulations Scorable

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, CTT, COTP. The Assessment recording mode in Adobe Captivate creates a step-by-step software simulation that is intended to function as a test. It is part of the three-part formal software lesson: Demo, then Training (practice), then Assessment (test). The Assessment requires the learner to click through the steps without any hints, and it is set up to report each correct click as a point.

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Do you Need an Degree in eLearning to Be an eLearning Designer?

Tim Slade

Have you ever wondered whether or not you need a degree in eLearning or instructional design to be an eLearning designer or instructional designer? Well, it’s actually a very common question folks within our industry ask themselves, especially when they’re early in their career. The truth is because most of us fell into eLearning or instructional design by accident, most of us don’t hold a degree in eLearning or instructional design.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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Let’s Get Small: Professional Microlearning for Associations

Web Courseworks

Download Now. Mircolearning White Paper. Fill in the form below to download. First Name * Last Name * Company Email. CAPTCHA. Close. Answer questions from “where did microlearning start?” to “how can I implement microlearning into my existing technologies at my association?” Find out how microlearning is being used in associations today and where you can expect to see it in the future.

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10 Stats That Prove Mobile Learning Lives up to The Hype

Docebo

Are you curious to know what the future of mobile learning looks like? Come and see for yourself! It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the momentum of mobile technologies hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. After all, more people than ever before – 2 billion, in fact – are constantly head-down, tapping away on their touch-screens, messaging friends on Facebook, sharing selfies on Instagram, or working on big projects over Slack.

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Six PowerPoint Add-Ins to Help Educators Create Sleek Slideshows

Raptivity

As an educator, don’t you strive to create slideshows that can excite, engage, and educate your students in one go? But how many times has it happened that you built a presentation and thought that it needed to be improved? Creating bewitching presentations is an art. You either need to be a creative geek to craft one or possess the right tools to do so.

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Three ways to take the headache out of in-house content curation

Kineo

The amount of information at our fingertips is one of the great things about the technological age we live in – but the sheer volume of it can be overwhelming.

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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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4 Ways Your LMS Can Help You Close Sales

LearnDash

The capabilities your LMS offers directly impact your course sales. You may not think of your LMS as a sales tool. But, as the delivery platform for your product, it’s an inherent part of the value you offer your learners. After all, a good course isn’t just about what you teach, but how you deliver it. If you hear of a great new trend in online education, you will want to try it out and incorporate it into your course while it’s popular.

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How to Boost Revenues With Improved LMS-based Sales Training

Docebo

Ensure your sales team has the knowledge and learning resources they need to succeed. Revenue is the key to success for companies across the globe, and the sales team is on the front line every day competing for business against your rivals. Making sure your sales team is coming to the table prepared and knowledgeable isn’t just a nice to have, it’s a need to have.

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User-experienced stories

Clark Quinn

Yesterday I wrote about examples as stories. And I received a comment that prompted some reflection. The comment suggested that scenarios were stories too. And I agree! They’re not examples, but they are stories. With a twist. So, as I’ve said many times, simulations are just a manipulable model of the world. And a motivated, self-capable learner can learn from them.

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE: Make Software Simulations Scorable

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, CTT, COTP. The Assessment recording mode in Adobe Captivate creates a step-by-step software simulation that is intended to function as a test. It is part of the three-part formal software lesson: Demo, then Training (practice), then Assessment (test). The Assessment requires the learner to click through the steps without any hints, and it is set up to report each correct click as a point.

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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