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Best Practices for Voice-Over

CourseArc

Studio microphone and pop shield on mic stand. If you are designing and developing eLearning, you are most likely going to need voice-over work. As psychologist Richard Mayer points out in his book, Multimedia Learning , combining narration with visuals will help to increase learning and long-term retention of content. Here are some key principles related to creating multimedia content that Mayer shares: Redundancy Principle – People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, n

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6 Benefits of Agile ELearning Development

PulseLearning

Agile is a project management methodology used predominately in the software development industry. In recent times, Agile has been adopted by eLearning production teams due to its elastic nature, which allows the development process to respond flexibly to changing client needs. Agile differs from the traditional ADDIE model, a more rigid end-to-end process where client […].

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 2 Information Overload

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload, (Knowledge Formation coming May 24th). Information Overload. Information overload occurs in learners that have finally been exposed to on-the-job training for a new competency or role, and although they are continuing to learn and improve, there is too much new information to retain. 1.

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What’s Your Character’s Goal?

Experiencing eLearning

In Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners , I mentioned some critical elements to creating a scenario for learning: Protagonist or main character. That character’s goal. The challenges that character faces. The main character’s goal is what drives the scenario. All of the action and decisions in the scenario move you closer or further from that goal.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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The Difference between Training and Development.

Gyrus

The words training and development are mostly used together in the corporate world and are seen as activities focused on improving the knowledge, performance and productivity of the employees. However, there is a distinct difference between their meanings and implications, which are often overlooked by a majority of professionals. Training programs are organized by the organization to develop employees' knowledge and skills as per their job requirements.

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eLearning: Quick Tips for Engaging the Learner

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Sally Cox    Creating engagement with your learners greatly increases their retention of the information and makes the course that much more enjoyable. I often use the word "fun" when I describe eLearning--we're not talking balloons and unicorns here. But I want the course to be easy to navigate, thought-provoking, and an all-around pleasant experience for the learner.

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How To Get Started With ‘Snackable’ Learning

Administrate

Our consumption of media has changed radically in the last decade. Within the space of a few minutes the modern media consumer has retweeted an inspiring quote, clicked through a couple of videos on YouTube, skim read an interesting article in their feedly, watched a handful of video loops on Vine Read More.

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3 Key Things to do for Creating Engaging eLearning – Part 2

Upside Learning

This is part 2 of a 3 part blog series on creating engaging eLearning. In part 1 , I talked of Purpose. In this part I’ll be discussing about Motivation. If you have spent time watching kids, you must have observed that most things fascinate them. They have a high level of curiosity that drives […].

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Microlearning Madness: 25 Great Resources

Knowledge Guru

Over the last five to ten years, corporate learning professionals have scrambled to engage their learners in an increasingly digital world. Learning trends such as mobile, gamification, game-based learning, performance support, use of learning science and interactive video are all attempts to capture learner attention and engage them on a deeper level.

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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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Scenario mistakes to avoid #2: “Eat! Eat! You need to eat!”

Making Change

“You need to eat more!” she says, heaping your plate until it rivals Mount Everest. “Eat! Eat!” We all know the stereotype. Unfortunately, we can find ourselves turning into that stereotype when we feed information to people. “You have to know this!” we say, filling the screen to bursting. “And this! And this!

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WISETAIL WORKS ANNOUNCES $5,000 GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH BOZEMAN’S ADVENTURE BIKE CLUB, “PROJECT X” AND THE GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST

Wisetail

Wisetail Works, the charitable giving arm of Bozeman indie tech firm, Wisetail, announced today a partnership with Bozeman’s new adventure bicycling club, “Project X” and the Gallatin Valley Land Trust to protect access to public trails while promoting cycling. The post WISETAIL WORKS ANNOUNCES $5,000 GRANT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH BOZEMAN’S ADVENTURE BIKE CLUB, “PROJECT X” AND THE GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST appeared first on Wisetail.

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Podcast – Chandra Clarke, from Inklyo shares her experience of Raptivity

Raptivity

Raptivity is all excited with its 10 years of presence in the eLearning industry and we believe that customers’ success is the backbone or the main reason behind Raptivity’s decade-long presence. A step further, we are happy to announce a mini-podcast with one of our customers citing their success story with Raptivity. Chandra Clarke, President, Inklyo, provider of online writing courses and other practical resources for writers, has been using Raptivity over five years.

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Setting Up a Successful Learning Project With Good Storyboarding

InSync Training

Storyboards go back to the 1930s when a Walt Disney animator began using them to organize cartoon scenes. In eLearning, a storyboard is simply a script that includes text, images and notes about how a learner is expected to interact with a learning module. When used in creative work, storyboards allow instructional designers and trainers to see the "big picture.".

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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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Older-Worker Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

What are we doing to support older-worker learning? They want to learn, too! Older adults, who are traditional retirement age, are no longer an invisible segment of the workforce. In a N.Y. Times article titled “Disproving Beliefs About the Economy and Aging,” the author, Christopher Farrell, dispels three myths commonly held about older adults: Myth No. 1: Older adults don’t work, so they weigh down the economy.

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The Future of Work and Learning 2: Chatbots

Jane Hart

In my previous post I looked at how I believe Professional Ecosystems are the future of work and learning , and how organisations (and L&D) might support them. In this post I want to look at how individuals might make use of chatbots to build smart Professional Ecosystems, and how organisations might use them to provide intelligent access to their own content and services as well as offer personalised support to individuals.

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The Learning Analytics Revolution

Lambda Solutions

How would you go about completely transforming the world of education as we know it, by (literally, and figuratively) tearing down classroom walls, encouraging educators to quit the in-class lecture-style teaching methods they're used to, and have them assist online-driven learning without causing an outrage? Show them the data that proves how well it works.

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Can’t be at the ATD ICE 2016 Conference? Join Virtually

Learning Rebels

Anticipation! ATD ICE 2016 Conference! In 4 days! I’m so excited! A couple of years I asked Mark Sheppard to write a bit about joining this conference from the back channel and I asked him to revised his thoughts for another guest post this year. So ATD ICE 2016 (Association for Talent Development International Conference and Expo) is upon us.

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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.

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8 Tips When Creating Online Courses

LearnDash

If you have never created an online course then it is important to know a few “best practices” to maximize its impact. A simple Google search will yield all kinds of advice and strategies, but these can over-complicate the process. Sure, these methods work but you don’t want to get “lost in the weeds” If you are looking for some simple techniques then consider the eight tips below (as originally shared by NexLearn ).

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Online Community Management (Workshop)

Jane Hart

Next public online workshop runs: 30 MAY – 24 JUNE. Setting up and running an online community takes time and effort. In this online workshop we look at how to support the planning, launch and running of an online community. Agenda. This 4-week online workshop covers the following topics: Planning the community. Launching the community. Encouraging engagement.

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Improving Professional Learning: 12 Strategies to Enhance Performance

Web Courseworks

In the late 1960s professional organizations began actively to address the growing disconnect between advances in knowledge and the practitioners who were no longer involved in institutional learning. While this was most pronounced in the medical field—where advances were occurring at a dizzying pace—it also occurred within organizations for teachers, lawyers, business professionals, social workers, psychologists, accountants, and even clergy.

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Top 10 Improvements in Moodle 3.1

Lambda Solutions

Big news in the Moodle world, as the release of Moodle 3.1 is almost here! Set for Monday May 23rd, this long awaited release comes equipped with significant enhancements, additions, and improvements based on requests, and pains expressed by the Moodle community. Here are 10 (of the many!) improvements you have to look forward to with the release of Moodle 3.1.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Gamification vs Game-Based eLearning: Do You know the Difference?

Gyrus

Gamification is fast emerging as an effective and exciting technique to engage with learners in the corporate training world. However, the term gamification is often mixed up with another term known as game-based learning. A lot of industry professionals use these terms interchangeably without realizing how different they are in terms of their meanings and functions.

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Transforming Sales Reps into Knowledgeable Advisors

Inkling

We’ve all become accustomed to—and even expect—having quick access to information and knowledge readily available at our fingertips and on our mobile devices. It’s no exception for sales reps who need on-demand access to product, competitor, and customer knowledge just before and while meeting with customers. Having real-time access to this type of information gives them the confidence and the knowledge they need to present themselves as trusted advisors.

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INFOGRAPHIC: High Performance Learning Ecosystems

Learnnovators

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. MINDSET. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT. COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS. ENHANCED WORKFLOW. x—–x—–x—–x—–x.

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What Is Performance All About?

Origin Learning

Efficiency and performance go hand in hand. They are two sides of the same coin. It is this direct link that prepares the base for organizations that go on to formulate relevant strategies from time to time. That being said, how does a fast, simple, and customer-focused company communicate its vision, mission, and goals to new hires? How do large companies create awareness in an engaged way that will give the new hire an easy way to tune into the performance culture of the organization?

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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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Are You Attending ATD 2016?

Gyrus

Gyrus Systems Team is all set for ATD 2016! We are eagerly looking forward to Association for Talent Development (ATD) 2016 International Conference & Exposition taking place on May 22-25 in Denver, Colorado. Our team will be present at booth #1129 to talk to you about your learning and training challenges and explain how our LMS – GyrusAim can help you overcome these.

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16 Metrics of Healthy Customer Service-Oriented Businesses: Part Two

Inkling

Last week, we published a blog that highlighted five metrics that leaders in QSR operations should reference when evaluating their business operations and employee performance. We continue with the series this week to help empower business owners and managers to more accurately assess the success of their businesses. In today’s blog, we describe six metrics that can be used to evaluate the health of a business, specifically those in the hotel and hospitality segment.

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Introducing a New Sales Opportunities System

Administrate

Today we’re really excited to announce the general availability of our Opportunities system, designed to help training companies manage their sales and ordering processes. As we’ve grown, we’ve attracted more and more large training companies with sizeable sales teams using complex workflows to sell their products and services. These customers Read More.

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