Sat.May 04, 2019 - Fri.May 10, 2019

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Facilitate is the new train

Clark Quinn

Ok, so I’m being provocative with the title, since I’m not advocating the overthrow of training. The main idea is that a new area for L&D is facilitation. However, this concept also updates training. It’s part of what I was arguing when I suggested that the new term for L&D should be P&D, Performance & Development. So let’s start with that.

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5 Things You Probably Don’t Know about Rapid eLearning Development

CommLab India

Rapid eLearning development has a lot of misconceptions surrounding it. Check this blog to discover what you don’t know about rapid eLearning development.

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Should You Write an Ebook for Your Online Course?

LearnDash

If you’ve never considered writing an ebook, here’s how to decide if it’s the right marketing strategy for your online course. You’ve been working on your marketing strategy for a while, you’ve got your course up and your blog rolling, but you’re still looking for a good way to draw in leads for your online course. It’s a tough position to be in, but I have a suggestion for you: write an ebook.

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7 Essentials Of A Successful Mobile Learning Strategy

eLearning Industry

Broadly defined, mobile learning can happen anywhere, anytime, on any mobile device. To deploy mobile learning successfully, you’ll need to make that broad definition very specific to your organization and users. Here are 7 essentials to create a successful mobile learning strategy. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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4 Types of Customer Service Training Methods

Infopro Learning

Why is Customer Service Training So Important? Customer service can greatly impact the success and perceptions of your organization. Great customer service can help you attain new business and maintain relationships with loyal customers. Every employee that interacts with customers helps to shape these impressions. This is why customer service training is important.

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6 Simple Ways to Market Your Online Course

LearnDash

Tapping into existing communities can help you market your online course. You have created an awesome course. The topic is clearly defined, the materials are engaging, and the course structure is perfectly organized to promote learning. All you need now are students who are ready to learn, but that is easier said than done.How can you market your online course to attract those students?

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The 3 Biggest Challenges Of Training Content Localization

eLearning Industry

For Learning & Development professionals, achieving engagement is key! But, how do we know that the target audience in another culture (new language) will be similarly engaged? What are the challenges that must be overcome? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Welcome Aboard: Benefits of Using Video for Employee Onboarding

ej4 eLearning

With the labor shortage and skills gap, it is already difficult to hire or promote qualified candidates. You don’t want to blow it with poor onboarding. According to an article from SHRM , new employees who went through a structured onboarding program were 58 percent more likely to be with the organization after three years.

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CourseArc Announces Partnership with Griffin-Hammis Associates

CourseArc

Griffin-Hammis Associates (GHA), a nationally recognized leader in Customized Employment training and technical assistance, announces the upcoming release of its newly revised Certified Business and Technical Assistance Consultant (CBTAC) course. CBTAC is a proprietary training and consultative system developed by GHA to address the needs of state Vocational Rehabilitation and other disability agencies as they increase their use of self-employment and microenterprise to meet the needs of their

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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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3 Tricks for Facilitating Blended Learning

InSync Training

Has your organization jumped on the blended learning bandwagon, yet? This formal- and informal-learning combination approach to training moves beyond “hot trend” – it offers the opportunity to support learners after structured events end. We focus quite a bit on the instructional design required for this more comprehensive learning model. It makes sense.

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Convert Flash To HTML5: 4 Tried And Tested Conversion Strategies

eLearning Industry

Want to convert Flash to HTML5? Do you have the source files for all courses? Is the amount of rework needed the same for all courses? Read this article to know the 4 strategies you can leverage to convert Flash to HTML5, based on your need. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Build Your Learning Technology Fan Club With These User Adoption Tips

Absorb LMS

It’s an exciting day when your learning technology gets installed. Whether you’re replacing an existing learning management system or starting fresh, your success will depend on how you demonstrate its benefits to your staff. Here’s how to get your workforce to log on and learn. Provide context & make it simple. First, you need to show employees that your new LMS is accessible and can serve their needs.

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Corporate LMS Systems: When to Replace Outdated Software

TOPYX LMS

Corporate learning management systems provide a number of benefits to an organization: centralizing and standardizing company training, controlling L&D costs, and streamlining and improving the effectiveness of employee learning and development.

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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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ATD International Conference Planning Guide Checklist

Axonify

There are lots of great reasons to attend the ATD International Conference 2019—the learning and development conference that digs deep into the latest trends, best practices, and new solutions for designing, delivering, implementing, and measuring learning programs. If you’re attending this year, this conference planning guide will help you get the most out of your … Continued.

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Hub or spoke?

Clark Quinn

How are learning design teams are distributed (or not) in an organization? I’ve seen both totally separate teams in organizations (spoke), and t otally central ones (hub), and of course gradations in between. While size of the organization is one driver, there are tradeoffs in efficiencies and effectiveness. And, I think tech can help. How? So, to start, this has been an ongoing debate.

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It’s time to Go Beyond!

Upside Learning

The workplace is changing and how! The corporate landscape is becoming more and more competitive, technology is evolving at breakneck speed, automation is everywhere and there are learning disruptions like never before. The work or the workers too are not the same anymore. With so many changes happening so rapidly, L&D has a lot on […].

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How to Solve 3 of Your Technology Company’s Key Challenges with an LMS

TOPYX LMS

Technology companies are uniquely positioned in a high growth, high stress industry. That creates incredible potential for growth and success, but only if company leaders can overcome the challenges that often come up.

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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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How to Measure the Effectiveness of your LMS for Government Business Goals

Gyrus

In the world of rapidly changing information and training requirements, don’t you think it is important for your organization to be prepared for the challenges of the future? The business world is moving at a fast pace, requiring government organizations like you to step up and respond with effective strategies that outrun the competition. To keep up it becomes critical to focus on workforce readiness that involves training employees with a vision to meet current as well as future business goals

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The difference between UI and UX

Julian Davis

Recently the image below came up on my LinkedIn feed and thought it was a simple way of explaining the difference between UI and UX and worthy of sharing! Credit. The post The difference between UI and UX first appeared on Digital Learning Solutions.

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Check Out My New eLearning Portfolio

Tim Slade

When I decided a few months ago to redesign TimSlade.com and become a full-time freelance eLearning designer , I knew that I would need to invest a significant amount of time updating and designing a new eLearning portfolio. This is not to say that I didn’t have an eLearning portfolio previously; it was just severely outdated and didn’t showcase my best work.

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Revisiting SXSW: Training Design Ideas From Surprising Sources

Dashe & Thomson

As innovation in technology continues to skyrocket, organizations and their people experience change at an unprecedented pace, leaving everyone a bit weary just trying to keep up. As learning and development professionals, we feel constant pressure in this fast-paced tech environment to design training that is efficient, meaningful, and engaging. For those reasons, many instructional designers have expanded their skill set to include user experience design , design-thinking , and visual design s

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Instructor Led Training vs. Self-Paced Learning. Which one works better for your company?

Paradiso

The ways of approaching educational processes directly influence the way knowledge are both understood and retained. Depending on the area, the type of skill, the kind of training required, the complexity of the topics to develop or the type and number of users it is possible to adopt different methods of approaching the contents. In this blog, we will see between Instructor Led Training vs.

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What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?

ej4 eLearning

Most trainers and teachers have heard of blended learning. Perhaps you yourself have tried to incorporate it into your training programs. Still, the term has been used so much that it frequently gets misused. Once one understands what blended learning really is, it becomes a lot easier to see its benefits, and to recognize vendors that are actually offering true value, as opposed to a buzzword.

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Celebrating Great Teachers Everywhere

Learningtogo

This month is a great opportunity to remember the teachers in your life and celebrate their passion, their patience and their commitment to your personal journey.

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POINT-of-WORK ASSESSMENT:  Systems & Technology

Living in Learning

My advice…step away from bright, shiny Productivity Acceleration Technology until you’ve established a benchmark of current state technology, where it’s headed, what new technology is planned, when it’s going to happen, and who’s going to be responsible to utilize it successfully. This may be over simplified, but these elements of knowledge will inform a decision regarding Productivity Acceleration Technology that will be as brilliantly planned and executed 18-months down the road as it was 30-d

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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.