Sat.Jun 24, 2017 - Fri.Jun 30, 2017

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3 Strategies to Fuel Your Leadership Pipeline (Video)

Infopro Learning

Developing Talent. Taking business to the next level relies strongly on talent. “…While financial results, market share, brand and legacy products all have a half-shelf-life, talent is the only competency that endures.” -Ram Charan, noted author and advisor to companies around the world). Built around common passages that all leaders go through, from individual contributor to running entire businesses, “The Leadership Pipeline” (now in its second edition) is Charan’s primer that intr

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The Learning Development Feedback Funnel

Association eLearning

Disclaimer: This post is not about the “feedback funnel” that’s used in sales or customer relationship management. If you’re looking for that I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. But you’re welcome to stay and see what I consider to be learning development’s “feedback funnel.”. Here’s a little secret. There are few things as frustrating to a learning and development (L&D) team as hearing, “We’ve got a global change” when a project is in final review.

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Hot or not: how heatmaps can transform the way you optimise your online learning

Kineo

We’ve recently talked about not needing to guess what learning your learners want, but there’s also no need to guess what they do once on your learning platform either. Enter heatmaps.

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Mobility – Hype or Hot Stuff?

Upside Learning

As it often does with technology, Hollywood sagaciously called it in the Matrix–phones can have the capacity to transport us between realms of existence. They are the vital nodes by which we attach ourselves to the lifeline of the internet. You know this. Phones, tablets, laptops […].

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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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The e-learning revolution is finally there

Challenge to Learn

We are talking about fundamental changes in corporate e-Learning already for years. But I did not see a real fundamental change for a long time, but now it is finally happening. The world of e-Learning is changing rapidly and fundamentally. An e-Learning revolution? I see a fundamental change with our customers in how (and by whom) e-Learning is created.

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High Impact Training Starring Improv and Humor

dVinci Interactive

High Impact Training Starring Improv and Humor Second City Works applies its award-winning improvisation, comedy and audience-driven techniques to deliver performance-improving learning experiences to organizations. Kelly Leonard has been part of Second City for more than three decades. In recent years, he has focused on academic research, social science and education involving the fundamentals of improvisation.

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Storyline 360 Vs. Storyline 3: What Do You Need To Know?

Upside Learning

After the release of Articulate 360, they also came up with a new version (or you may call it the most anticipated version) of their popular product Storyline – Storyline 3. Storyline 360 is a part of Articulate 360. While most of us considered it to be another software update, it is much more than […].

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7 Cost Considerations When Buying an LMS

Lambda Solutions

If you’re purchasing a learning management system (LMS), you’ve probably established a budget. But knowing how much you can spend on a new LMS is only half of the equation. You also need to make sure you’re paying for the right features. There are over 300 LMS applications available, and each one has its own configuration of offerings. Let’s look at the considerations you should keep in mind when purchasing an LMS so that you only pay for the things you need.

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The 4 Cs to Designing Meaningful Scenarios, Part 1: Choices

eLearning Brothers

At its core, a common scenario isn’t that difficult to craft: tell a story, ask the learner what they want to do about it, and let them know how they did. To craft a meaningful scenario, however, there are four areas—four ‘Cs’ to be specific—that you need to strategically design. Choices. Consequences. Connections. Corrections. Are you maximizing all of them?

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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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Learning Campaigns: An Introduction and Exploration

InSync Training

Blended learning provides a thoughtful solution to outdated, formal training. With blended learning , we can support learners when and where they need information – even when they’re between live learning events. In spite of its popularity though, blended learning isn’t descriptive enough to help us move towards more purposeful instructional design.

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE: Hide & Show the Playbar at Will

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, COTP. I recently received an email from a fellow Captivate developer. She was hoping there was an elegant way to hide the playbar on specific slides. Certainly you can use the Skin Editor to remove the playbar completely from a project. Alternatively, if you don't want the playbar to be available during a quiz, there are Quiz Preferences for that.

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Consider a Career in Instructional Design

LearnDash

Here at LearnDash we often talk about creating dynamic, engaging courses. Because when it is all said and done, if you are creating an online course then you want people to enjoy it. If they enjoy it (even to some small degree) then chances are they will retain the information and your course objectives will be met. That is where instructional design comes into the picture.

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A ‘Responsive’ Articulate Storyline Solution

eLearning Brothers

The age old Storyline dilemma: Build for desktop or build for mobile. In this post I will show you how to build for both and combine them into one seamless ‘responsive’ course. You’ve been tasked with developing a responsive project using Articulate Storyline. You know that Articulate Storyline 3/360 is not responsive (the player is responsive, but course content remains fixed).

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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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FocusOn Learning 2017: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Presentations Educational

Web Courseworks

It’s a rainy, cool day in Madison, and I find myself wishing I were back in sunny San Diego. I was there last week for the eLearning Guild’s FocusOn Learning 2017 conference. This was my first time attending the conference, but I still got that familiar feeling of excitement from being around colleagues in my field. In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer?

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LIVE, ONLINE TRAINING: Stop Wasting Your Potential

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby, COTP. We’ve all been to webinars: you sign up or register, then you log in to the webinar site a little before the scheduled time. Then you sit there. The screen displays a generic background, and the text says something like “The webinar will begin at 12:30.” And you sit. Your watch says 12:28. You see nothing new. You hear nothing new.

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9 Steps to Perfect Course Content

LearnDash

Creating a course sounds easy at first, until you sit down to create it. It doesn’t take long to realize that a course takes a lot of persistence, patience, and time. If creating a course were easy then everyone would do it. The ones that see their course through to the end have something that the others don’t have. It’s not a specific skill or even expensive resource.

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Put a Cork in It! 3 Cork Board Templates for Captivate

eLearning Brothers

Whether it’s in the hallway of a university, hanging in a local coffee shop, or just on the wall of your family’s kitchen, cork boards are a tried-and-true method of displaying information in a conspicuous and accessible place. They’re public enough that everyone who needs to see it can, yet intimate enough so that those who aren’t implicitly affected by their announcements by being in the building aren’t.

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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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Is Your Onboarding Process Ready for the Class of 2017?

ej4 eLearning

It’s summer, which means companies are about to receive (and onboard) an influx of bright, eager, new college grads. I love the energy and enthusiasm those recent grads bring to the table, but consider this for a moment: What does it take to manage these bright, young people? I’m not asking this to find out who has an onboarding process in place. (You all do, of course!

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FocusOn Learning reflections

Clark Quinn

If you follow this blog (and you should :), it was pretty obvious that I was at the FocusOn Learning conference in San Diego last week (previous 2 posts were mindmaps of the keynotes). And it was fun as always. Here are my reflections on what happened a bit more, as an exercise in meta-learning. There were three themes to the conference: mobile, games, and video.

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It’s Not Too Late To Start Your Course

LearnDash

Every January there is a renewed excitement about the coming year. It is when we make resolutions and commitments to accomplishing certain tasks. Just the same, every year around July we wonder where the time went! It is hard to believe but we are halfway through the year. If you are like me then you probably have a list of things that you planned on doing but have yet to get done.

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Protecting your organizations from cyberattacks starts with employee awareness

Axonify

Wow. These past few weeks have been, um, interesting to put it mildly. Back in May, WannaCry infected organizations in more than 150 countries , and just this week Petya hit and essentially brought the Ukraine to its knees. It’s been a wild ride, and one worth looking at in a bit more detail. What are WannaCry and Petya? The short answer is they are a form of “ransomware”, a type of malware that takes control of your computer, encrypts all the data so you don’t have acc

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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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eLearning Instructional Design is Not Dead

InSync Training

Those who suggest that eLearning and instructional design are dead or dying must have a different view of eLearning than the millions of people who leverage it daily. Instructional design and eLearning are here to stay, evidenced by the sheer numbers of online learning opportunities available to the individual with a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. What is eLearning?

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An objective request

Clark Quinn

So, I’d like to ask a favor of you. I would like to improve my thinking about elearning design, and where this starts are objectives. Or outcomes. Now, they can be easy, or challenging. I’d like to see some of the latter. When the goal is fairly obvious, it’s simple to address. They need to be better at doing X? Well then, practice lots of X!

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Popular Email Options for LearnDash Courses

LearnDash

Part of creating a successful online course is communication with your learners. By incorporating various touch-points through a learner’s online course journey you are letting them know that they are not alone and that you care about their success. This also goes a long way in creating a sense of community – and in the lonely world of online learning this is always a welcomed change.

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FocusOn Learning 2017: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Presentations Educational

Web Courseworks

It’s a rainy, cool day in Madison, and I find myself wishing I were back in sunny San Diego. I was there last week for the eLearning Guild’s FocusOn Learning 2017 conference. This was my first time attending the conference, but I still got that familiar feeling of excitement from being around colleagues in my field. In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer?

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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.