Sat.Dec 09, 2017 - Fri.Dec 15, 2017

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eLearning Trends for 2018

Association eLearning

Every year around this time, we discuss the eLearning trends for the next year. What’s hot? What’s not? What are we all going to be talking about next year? These are the eLearning trends for 2018. VR/AR. While VR and AR have been talked about in recent years, we think the excitement will grow. As costs have come down, and the technology has improved, the old problems have been going away.

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Fight The Fatigue: 8 Tips To Prevent Corporate eLearning Burnout

Infopro Learning

Is your staff growing weary of online training? In this article, I’ll share 8 tips to prevent corporate eLearning burnout and keep employees fully engaged. How to Prevent Corporate eLearning Burnout. Many employees are willing to participate in online training if they know there’s something in it for them. There comes a time when even the most motivated staff members get tired of online training courses, activities, and assessments.

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Axonify version 100 – From start-up to soar

Axonify

It’s a big day for the Axonify R&D (research and development) team, as we celebrate the release of our 100th version. Although I can’t take any credit for the first 75 versions, I can say — I’m extremely proud of the team who has created not only a world-class product, but an entire approach to employee learning and training that’s transforming organizations worldwide.

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Opinion: Gutenberg is Necessary for WordPress

LearnDash

Chances are that you have heard of the new Gutenberg editor coming to WordPress core in 2018. I welcome this necessary change. The Gutenberg discussion is a convoluted one with many different rabbit holes depending on the venue. Developers discuss it from one angle while end-users view it from a different perspective. WordPress product business (like LearnDash) have their own take on the matter as well.

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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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Deep diving into strange worlds

E-Learning Provocateur

2017 was a whirlwind for me. I started a new job in a new sector, made loads of new friends there, learned heaps, and finished said job 10 months later before starting another one back in financial services. I haven’t had much of a chance to scratch myself! As a consequence, I haven’t blogged as frequently this year as I have done in previous years.

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Podcast: Secrets of Brain-Based Consulting with Propeller Group – A Conversation with Allison Torpey and Bobby Kosh

Learningtogo

If you could see what your client was thinking, would it make you a more influential consultant? Thanks to the latest advances in the neurosciences, this is exactly what you can do, and the folks at Propeller Goup asked me to teach them how in a recent private workshop. Propeller is a management consulting firm with offices in Portland and San Francisco.

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Video Lessons

Clark Quinn

So, I’ve been creating a ‘deeper elearning’ course for one of the video course providers. And I’m not mentioning where it is (yet), since it’s still under development. But to do this, I had to do some serious learning about creating video. And there were some realizations in this, of course. One of the decisions to be made was how to include graphics.

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Six ideas in search of a problem to solve?

Kineo

​The elearning industry historically has had a habit of putting the cart before the horse. For years everyone was saying they wanted to talk about mobile – but there were no users willing or able to use mobile devices for learning. Gamification has also been talked about for a long time, without anybody even being clear what they mean by it, let alone being able to point to examples of it being used in a corporate learning context.

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Microlearning: What’s Really Important?

InSync Training

What’s Really Important? In a previous post , we provided some insight into the trending topic of microlearning. Because it's so popular and supports the way business is being done, there's lots of movement in the industry to put it into action. But, we need to make sure that it is done the "right way" for our learners. Let's look at some of the important elements of quality microlearning that can guide the development and design process.

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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 Growing Opportunity of Online Course Proctoring

LearnDash

Online courses and distance learning have opened up new business opportunities. One of those opportunities is online proctoring. Countless of organizations and educational institutions rely on e-learning to delivery course content. Of these there is a large contingency that administer exams that award continuing education certificates when passed. It stands to reason that these institutions would be interested in some component of online facilitation.

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The 10 most popular articles in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine in 2017

Jane Hart

The MWL Magazine has been online since 13 January 2017, and since that time 50 articles have been published. Here are the 10 most popular articles in terms of numbers of page views.

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

SPOILER ALERT: If you believe in Santa Claus, you might not want to read any further!!! What do Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Leprechauns, Unicorns and my “lucky” putter all have in common? They are all examples of “magical thinking.” You might think that belief in magical things would fade away in today’s modern age, reserved only for children and “primitive” tribes.

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Independent Learner in the Knowledge Economy

The Performance Improvement Blog

In the Knowledge Economy, people must take responsibility for their own learning. They need to learn how to learn independently and how to learn what they need to know when they need to know it. The world of work is changing too fast for any worker to remain a passive learner. John Hagel III and John Seely Brown, leading thinkers in technology and learning, write in an article for HBR titled Help Employees Create Knowledge – Not Just Share It : …when we recognize that the environment around us i

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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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Integrating Gaming and e-Learning Design Part 3 of 3: Getting Started

Allen Interactions

You may want to read Part 1 and Part 2 before delving into Part 3. You might also want to look at pictures of otters holding hads. Your call.

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Leveraging Your Blog to Create a Course

LearnDash

You spent a lot of time creating your blog posts, why not leverage that hard work to create your course? One of the best ways to determine if your course idea is worthwhile is to start a blog around that particular subject first. As you write on the subject you will start to see whether or not people are interested in the topic by looking at your things like your site traffic stats and most popular blog posts.

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Tips For Attracting and Hiring Millennials from a Millennial

ej4 eLearning

Millennials currently make up the largest portion of the workforce, but many companies struggle to find ways to attract them. As a Millennial who just went through the job-hunting process, I have a few tips that can help you simplify the process of attracting and hiring Millennials to your company.

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eLearning Innovation at PayPal

eLearning Brothers

How can you help learners feel connected during asynchronous experiences? How can you tailor a standard eLearning experience in a way that makes it feel personalized? How can orientation be standardized without losing its impact? Could you, in your wildest dreams, imagine your compliance eLearning courses being completed by word of mouth and recommendations alone?

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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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Another Slice of Pizza, Please

KnowledgeStar

One of the most widely read of my recent posts was The Pizza Story about the artisanal pizza made by robots in the Zume pizzeria in Palo Alto, California. The post showed that we have no idea how far automation has already reached its steely fingers into the many places in our lives. The point was […].

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Why the Holidays Can Make You Cry (And what you can do about it)

Learningtogo

I don’t know about you, but I’m always incredibly busy this time of year. Most of my clients operate on a calendar year that requires all projects to be completed and paid for by December 31. That means that just when everyone is starting to take days off to be with their families, I am crunching through long days to complete deliverables ahead of the deadline.

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Disaster Preparation and Training Have Something in Common

Association eLearning

Disaster preparation and training often suffer from the same unfortunate flaw. You’re supposed to have them in place and ready to go for when they’re needed. That means they should be planned for in advance, not at the last minute. But how many people or organizations actually do that? Stay away from windows if there’s a tornado. In case of a building fire, keep low to avoid smoke.

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An Online Training Management Solution: @Work

Wisetail

We've crafted a training solution that allows you to keep certain content in your LMS available only at work while allowing all learners full access to the system’s social and communication features. We call it @Work. The post An Online Training Management Solution: @Work appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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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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The Pizza Story

KnowledgeStar

“Unemployment among robots is holding at zero percent. Humans are not doing as well” The Pizza Story In our new book Minds at Work, we talk about the older labor-intensive economy in which we made things and needed to manage hands, and the newer mind-intensive economy in which we produce work with our minds […].

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Secrets of Brain-Based Consulting with Propeller – A Conversation with Allison Torpey and Bobby Kosh

Learningtogo

If you could see what your client was thinking, would it make you a more influential consultant? Thanks to the latest advances in the neurosciences, this is exactly what you can do, and the folks at Propeller asked me to teach them how in a recent private workshop.

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Security Awareness Tips for LMS Administrators

Web Courseworks

Keeping Your SaaS Data Secure. As the software industry continues to move away from purchased client/server applications and toward cloud-based SaaS (software as a service) solutions, LMS administrators must rethink the means that they employ to keep their system free from attack, and most importantly, keep their data secure. Historically, client/server software was usually accessible only from devices on the local network, but cloud-based SaaS hosting exposes it to anyone in the world with an i

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What happens before and after learning, pt. 2

Kineo

As an L&D professional, you’re probably familiar with the concept of evaluating your learning courses and modules to ensure that you’re providing a value to the organization. However, since research shows that the most important aspects of learning transfer happen before and after the training, and not during the training, as one would reasonably expect, that means it’s time to shift gears and focus on refining your pre and post-course methodologies.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.