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Interactyx and Traliant Announce Partnership To Deliver Online Sexual Harassment Training via TOPYX LMS

TOPYX LMS

BONITA SPRINGS, FL – Interactyx, the developer of TOPYX® , a leading learning management system (LMS), and Traliant , an innovator in online compliance training, today announced a partnership to integrate workplace discrimination and harassment training into the TOPYX learning management platform. Under the agreement, TOPYX clients can now benefit from a tightly integrated solution that combines the award-winning TOPYX LMS with Traliant’s Preventing Discrimination and Harassment Training Suite.

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Custom eLearning: 4 Fundamental Ingredients to Set Your eLearning Content Development on Fire

Swift eLearning Services

Skilled Instructional Designers are similar to Master Chefs! They cook the dish of quality eLearning in all formats – custom eLearning, rapid eLearning, mobile learning or microlearning. Whichever may be the eLearning format, the core ingredients they use determine the learner’s appetite for learning.

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Why Training Needs Video

Learning Rebels

The shift has arrived, and video is King! You may or may not be shocked by this but not enough of us are creating video to help the people in our organizations. We, as educators in the Adult Learning world, have a responsibility to help our organizations move forward and we are not doing enough to practice this craft. The trend seems to be that we are aware video is important and critical, and we even admit that our end-users would probably prefer video to some of other learning methods used.

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A Blueprint for supporting Modern Professional Learning: Part 2 Overview

Jane Hart

At the heart of this model is a self-reliant, modern employee who addresses their own learning and performance problems, organizes and manages their own professional goals, continuously learns and keeps up to date, builds their own (personally-selected) learning toolkit and maintains their own digital portfolio.

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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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Animations in Custom eLearning Projects

Upside Learning

Animations are frequently chosen when we want to make a strong, affective impact on learners to improve retention of information, for example when the objective of the eLearning deliverable is to create awareness and pride about a code of conduct an organization commits to. Animations are also useful in simplifying complex concepts, even while learning […].

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Student Performance Analytics: Our Most-Requested New Feature!

CourseArc

Over the past year, the feature request we’ve heard most from users was the ability to track the progress of online learners. Yes, CourseArc was built to help you create high quality online courses quickly and easily, but how do you know if your students or employees are actually learning? With our latest update, we have solved that issue—you now see exactly where is each learner is on the road to completion as well as detailed scoring information for graded activities.

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A Blueprint for Supporting Modern Professional Learning: Part 1 Rationale

Jane Hart

This is the first of a 3-part series looking at how to support Modern Professional Learners. In Part I look at why the current L&D (training/knowledge transfer) model is no longer appropriate and why a new model (or blueprint) is necessary.

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Upside Learning Among the Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List In 2017

Upside Learning

Yet again, for the third year running, Upside Learning is on the Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List! Every year, the Training Industry recognizes the top 20 training outsourcing companies based on their extensive research and thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise, and experience of each company. Upside has been recognized on the specific counts […].

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How to Select a Learning Management System? A Comprehensive Guide

JoomlaLMS

A Comprehensive Guide to a Learning Management System (LMS) Purchase How to Select a Learning Management System? A Comprehensive Guide With so much buzz around online education, it is not surprising that the interest in Learning Management Systems is constantly growing. More and more people around the world recognize the value of innovations in training and education and start searching for the right Learning Management System software to satisfy the needs of modern learners.

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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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Self-Directed Learning or Self-Directed Performance?

Living in Learning

There is no shortage of new innovation we seek to implement in our L&D discipline, and Micro-Learning is one of the most recent. Depending upon how one chooses to integrate "Micro-Anything", the results can range from truly innovative solutions to merely applying more lipstick on the training pig.

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Break Free and Defeat Unemployment by Utilizing Online Training Courses

InSync Training

Perpetual learning embraces the idea that every moment presents an opportunity to create new knowledge or build on existing skills. How do you embrace this approach when faced with a limited budget, and a changing job market? Guest blogger Jenny Holt explores how training courses provide a potential solution. In the traditional model of education and training, students learn from professors by physically attending classes at specified times.

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Adobe Captivate 2017 authoring tool review – It’s all about Fluid Boxes!

Kineo

Having used Adobe Captivate since version 2, it’s been interesting seeing the way the tool has developed over the years. Traditionally when people talked about Captivate it was known as ‘the tool to use for systems training’ but now it’s being pushed much more towards a tool to create responsive courses with the latest release welcoming us to ‘the world of smart elearning’.

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Storyboarding in PowerPoint with Visual Studio

eLearning Brothers

PowerPoint is known and primarily used for presentations both big and small (like middle school small) because of how easy it is to learn the basics and create awesome content fast. The simplicity, and sometimes surprising depth, of PowerPoint makes it an amazing platform. When developers create websites or when Instructional Designers develop online content, the first two steps are almost always: Brainstorm and then Storyboard.

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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.

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Modernising Training & E-Learning (Online Workshop)

Jane Hart

Next public workshop runs: 8 May – 2 June 2017 There will always be a need for organisational training, but this just needs more relevant and appealing for appealing for today’s workforce.

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Introducing CourseArc’s New Block Edit Feature!

CourseArc

At CourseArc, we build tools that make online course creation as simple and easy as possible, even for users who have no prior experience in programming or design. This means that ease of use is our top priority — and today we’re proud to announce a new feature that makes our course design even simpler! Our latest update improves the user interface for our interactive blocks, both functionally and aesthetically.

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ARTICULATE STORYLINE 360 VERSUS 3: Clear up the Version Confusion

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Articulate recently released Storyline 360, an update to its awesome eLearning devleopment tool. Even more recently, Articulate released Storyline 3. And then came version confusion when eLearning developers pondred the choice between subscribing to Storyline 360 or purchasing Storyline 3 outright. Developers wanted to know the difference between the two versions.   In a nutshell, Storyline 360 and 3 are almost identical.

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The Ethics of Instructional Design

Allen Interactions

By Edm ond Manning , Senior Instructional Strategist. With so many fascinating topics in our world of learning design (mobile learning! MOOCs! Gamification!) we forget to discuss the sticky, ambiguous issues at the core of our world, topics that don’t have easy answers or a body of research for us to invoke.

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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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How to Engage Learners Before, During and After Training

Knowledge Guru

How many times are you distracted or interrupted during a normal work day? What about your learners? How often are they pulled away from their planned activities? Let’s face it: distraction often feels like the norm for many of us. Your learners are likely no different: they have a long list of things to get done each day… and the training you want them to take may not be a top priority.

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Human Learning is Not About to Change Forever

Clark Quinn

In my inbox was an announcement about a new white paper with the intriguing title Human Learning is About to Change Forever. So naturally I gave up my personal details to download a copy. There are nine claims in the paper, from the obvious to the ridiculous. So I thought I’d have some fun. First, let’s get clear. Our learning runs on our brain, our wetware.

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE 2017: Responsive Design Has Never Been So Fluid

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, CTT, COTP. When it comes to eLearning that will look awesome on just about every kind of device (including desktop computers, smart phones, and tablets), Adobe Captivate jumped to the front of the eLearning development tool class when Responsive capabilities were introduced in Captivate version 8 and continued in Captivate 9.   Using Captivate's Responsive features (available only if you chose File > New Project > Responsive Project), you can design each of your

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Developing Millennials: Why Skimping on Soft Skills Training is Risky

eLearning Brothers

Complaints about Millennials in the workplace remind me of that adage attributed to Charles Dudley Warner, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”. Likewise, many senior managers are quick to share their gripes about their younger co-workers. But too few stop and ask, “so what are we doing about it?”. I personally empathize with Millennial workers.

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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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Complex Content in the Search Engine Age

InSync Training

Training Magazine Network Session Recap. Our learners have the world at their fingertips. If they face a new challenge or want to know some obscure fact, they have the power to get the answer immediately and move on to the next thing. This instant access partially defines a modern learning experience. But what does this mean for our content and how it relates to our learners?

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Create a culture of collaboration through the power of design thinking

Kineo

As a learning designer, when you're sending that early mock-up or first draft, be honest with yourself: is what you're actually looking for sign-off rather than collaboration? Perhaps up to that point, you've already put a good chunk of work in and it might even mess your schedules up if the other person asks you to rip it up and start again. Collaboration requires an open mind and a step into the unpredictable, but the results can be content that’s higher quality and more innovative.

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Tools for Building Social Online Course Communities

LearnDash

Creating an online course is more than just delivering content. If you are smart, you will build a community ! As you grow your customer-base it often makes sense to allow learners to interact with one another. This isn’t applicable to all course content but surprisingly it does apply to a variety of niches. In general we people prefer social opportunities which is probably why social networking platforms are so popular.

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Webinar: Future of eLearning – The Millennial Apocalypse and Modern Learning Solutions

eLearning Brothers

Twenty years ago, “eLearning” was introduced as the web became ubiquitous and authoring tools accessible; yet their limits resulted in a plethora of online slide shows. Today, we have access to a wide range of technologies—mobile, social, virtual, search, gaming, and reliable user generated content—along with modern instructional techniques aligned with the way today’s workers naturally learn.

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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.