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Why You Need to Invest More on Product Knowledge Training

Infopro Learning

I’ve got too much money and not enough places to spend it! Chances are, if you are reading this article, these words have never come out of your mouth. With demand for training outreaching supply by a widening margin, this puts tremendous pressure on L&D teams to invest in the right solution. An entire book could be written on whether this money should be spent on leadership , customer support , onboarding , etc., so we have decided to only focus on one item in this article: sales training.

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How to respond to “Make one course for everyone”

Making Change

“I’ve got a great idea!” says the new employee at Acme Tea Company. “Some people like iced tea. Other people like hot tea. Let’s make everyone happy by selling room-temperature tea!” The L&D equivalent sounds like this: “Everyone needs to be aware of this, so put a course on the LMS and assign it to all employees.” “Make a course about the new product features for the repair people, help desk, and sales staff.” “Everyone shou

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4 Reasons Why Mobile Learning is the Future

TOPYX LMS

Company decision makers and eLearning experts are finding that mobile learning is the future of L&D/corporate training. The question is “why?” Read on to find answers. 4 Reasons Why Mobile Learning is the Future of L&D/Corporate Training. For multiple reasons, mobile learning is the future of L&D/corporate training. This is because mobile learning….

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Make Sense of Modern Learning with Course Maps

InSync Training

Training Magazine Network Recap. Blended learning , a once sufficient term, no longer describes the responsibility of our training programs. No live formal learning event will stand alone ever again. And tacking on additional “homework” after the lesson ends doesn’t count as blended learning. Our modern learners and organizations expect more. How do we bring together all of the lessons, activities, and resources included in our modern learning instructional designs ?

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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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How Does CourseArc Make Your LMS Even Better?

CourseArc

With CourseArc, you can make the learning count and keep your students coming back for more online courses with engaging, interactive, and accessible content. If you’d like to see how CourseArc can help you extend the content creation abilities of Moodle, join our webinar with eThink Education where we’ll show users of the Moodle LMS what CourseArc can do.

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Facilitating Memory Retention in Digital Learning

B Online Learning

Instructional designers are interested in the question “How do people learn?”. This is not an easy question to answer because there are so […]. The post Facilitating Memory Retention in Digital Learning appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Here is All You Need to Start an Online Course Business

LearnDash

If you have been paying attention in the past few years then you probably have noticed a lot of hype around creating & selling online courses – and with good reason. Online courses represent a truly amazing opportunity for nearly anyone. You don’t need any special training to create an course in your area of expertise (although some coaching never hurts ) and the barriers to entry are nearly non-existent.

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Easy reading is hard writing: the cost and value of digital learning

Kineo

How do you know how to budget and plan for digital learning? For some time the industry has priced elearning by the hour – a course of 20 hours will cost more than one that’s just 20 minutes. But is that too blunt an instrument? If you are commissioning, does it give you a meaningful way of articulating what you need, in order to understand what it will cost?

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4 Reasons Why Mobile Learning is the Future

TOPYX LMS

Company decision makers and eLearning experts are finding that mobile learning is the future of L&D/corporate training. The question is “why?” Read on to find answers. 4 Reasons Why Mobile Learning is the Future of L&D/Corporate Training. For multiple reasons, mobile learning is the future of L&D/corporate training. This is because mobile learning….

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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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LMS Implementation: A Concrete and Tactical Guide

ej4 eLearning

Most sales professionals feel that their job is done after the close. Me, I like to keep up with our new LMS clients, right on through implementation and early use. In talking with many of those clients, I’ve learned that the LMS implementation process itself can be a bottleneck, leading to unnecessary delays. Here’s what’s shocking about that: LMS implementation is really pretty easy and quick—if it’s built anything like our Thinkzoom platform.

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Tool For Creating Micro-Content Videos

LearnDash

Earlier this year I predicted that micro-learning would be on the rise as learners become picky over the content they consume. The good news is that you can get in on this trend by making some simple changes to your online courses. There are a variety of strategies (many of which I have already outlined ) that you can implement today. One area that you will definitely need to address in your course is the length of your videos.

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Closing the Skills Gap by Improving Corporate Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Missing from the conversation about gaps in the labor market is an analysis of how supply, retention, and productivity of workers is affected by their workplace experience. U.S. Politicians and economists talk about jobs, jobs, and jobs. They say they want to close the skills gap , better prepare young people for employment, and retrain workers for new, high tech careers.

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Ask the audience: the power of peer reviews and curation for L&D

Kineo

Who knows more about which bits of learning content have worked best – the person in charge of designing it, or the person who has just used it to learn something? Isn’t it time to ask the audience?

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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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Get the most out of your daily work (30 day learning challenge)

Jane Hart

Most of what you learn at work takes place as you do your job; it’s just that most people are not aware of the learning that comes from daily work experiences.

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9 WAYS TO SUPPORT LEARNERS THROUGH THEIR MOBILE DEVICES

Learnnovators

The post 9 WAYS TO SUPPORT LEARNERS THROUGH THEIR MOBILE DEVICES appeared first on Learnnovators.

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How To Sell Individual Lessons in LearnDash

LearnDash

Many people choose to sell their LearnDash courses as it is a great way to generate income. Everything from one time sales, subscriptions, to feature-packed shopping carts can be used for selling your LearnDash courses. But there is one particular configuration that isn’t built into LearnDash that we are sometimes asked about: is it possible to sell individual lessons of a course?

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What is Totara Evergreen?

Kineo

Totara Learning is now greener than ever - and no, I’m not talking about their logo. First mentioned almost a year ago, the ‘Evergreen’ version of Totara Learn is finally here and with it comes regular, monthly updates of the latest features and functionality.

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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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8 Questions to Ask Before Selecting Your New LMS

Lambda Solutions

You've decided to purchase a new Learning Management System. But where do you even begin? In this article, I'll share 8 questions that you should ask before choosing your next Learning Management System.

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MACRA and MIPS Part II: How Your Medical Education Can Benefit

Web Courseworks

MACRA and MIPS Part II: Reporting. Now that the final rule for the Quality Payment Program has been passed under MACRA, the new Medicare payment program have begun to go into effect. MACRA and the Quality Payment Program have become one of the main discussion topics among physicians and healthcare professionals. How do you qualify for MACRA and the Quality Payment Program?

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Facilitating Memory Retention in Digital Learning

B Online Learning

Instructional designers are interested in the question “How do people learn?”. This is not an easy question to answer because there are so many factors involved in the learning process—motivation, environment, ability and so on. In this post I would like to take the question one step further to ask “How do people retain what they have learnt?”. In particular, I will look at some ways for Learning Designers to encourage memory retention.

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Build a Global Workforce with Multi Language LMS

Paradiso

Owing to the rapid developments and increased competition in today’s corporate world, more and more companies are choosing to blur geographical boundaries and go global. Considering this it comes as no surprise that workforces are also becoming increasingly diverse and multicultural. So naturally companies are jumping at the opportunity to have a multi lingual workforce as this not only vastly increases their reach but also helps the company grow to be more in tune with the business cultures of

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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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Managing the Complexity of Branching Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

On reddit, someone asked how to manage the complexity of branching scenarios and keep them from growing out of control. One of the issues with branching scenarios is that you can get exponential growth. If each choice has 3 options, you end up with 9 slides after just 2 choices, and 27 after 3 choices. This is 40 pages total with only 3 decisions per path.

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5 User Experience Research Techniques To Borrow For Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

The practice of user experience (UX) design overlaps nicely with learning experience (LX) design. Both fields are interested in the perceptions, mental models, motivations, needs and behaviors of people. Whereas the focus of UX design is on how customers respond to and interact with a product or service, LX design in the workplace is concerned […].

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EdCast Named Top 20 Online Learning Library

EdCast

EdCast Named Top 20 Online Learning Library Training Industry has announced its Top 20 Online Learning Library Companies List, as part of its mission to continually monitor the training marketplace for the best providers of training services and technologies. EdCast is honored to make the list. EdCast’s award-winning Knowledge Cloud uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and […].

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Opinion: The LMS Isn’t Dead … Yet

CLO Magazine

Mike Rustici, founder and CEO, Watershed. There’s a lot of talk about the fate of the LMS these days. Some argue it’s going the way of the dinosaur. Others contend that demand is booming and the future of the LMS is bright. For example, read the battling viewpoints expressed on this site between Carol Leaman of Axonify and Joe Majors of Saba. Leaman believes the LMS is close to extinction due to the rapid growth of tools and resources that deliver learning outside the LMS.

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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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Winter is here

Learning with e's

Image from Pexels We are heading into the perfect storm. Students numbers are growing, and there aren't enough teachers. For the second year in the UK, secondary (high) school numbers have grown, and it's expected that over the next 8 years there will be a 19% rise in these numbers , with over 600,000 additional students. The sudden increase in births from 2002 onwards is largely responsible for this trend, and this was an expected rise.

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6 Top Tips To Start A Successful e-Learning Career

Adobe Captivate

Have you ever wondered how successful eLearning professionals got to such a rewarding point in their career? The simple truth is that everyone starts somewhere. It all begins with aspirations, a limited or non-existent client base, and a game plan. It might be a bit daunting at first, but creating a pathway to success means taking one step a time. Here are 6 top tips to start a winning e-Learning career that leads to personal and professional fulfillment.

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Brain as Prediction Machine

Usable Learning

So I’m really interested right now in how the brain operates as a prediction machine. Basically, one of our core brain functions seems to be guessing what is going to happen next. I think this has some really fascinating implications for behavior change. Humans are (in many ways) bad at risk prediction. More people seem to be afraid of flying than driving, despite data that shows the riskiest part of any flight is the drive to the airport.