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Align Employee and Corporate Goals in 2019

Absorb LMS

Ever look at your team and wonder why they’re wasting time on non-critical tasks? Though you need everyone focused on the right priorities, too often employees misunderstand corporate goals and processes. Or worse yet—they forget to follow your well-crafted compliance policies altogether. Left unaddressed, these present both financial and regulatory risks that could easily cripple your business.

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4 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in eLearning

Tim Slade

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Going Global - Myth: Leading a Global Training Project Is as Easy as 1-2-3

InSync Training

Okay. Not really. Leading a global training project takes more than being an instructional designer or a trainer or even a project manager. I've identified three critical steps to leading a successful global training project: E volving your role into a learning experience architect. M astering how to connect people and content in a way that meets the needs of the business and the learners.

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eLearning Trends 2019: From The Trenches

eLearning Industry

'From the Trenches' talks about what’s happening in the minds and pockets of L&D managers across the world, the shifting priorities and changing paradigms in corporate training. From a utilitarian shift in Instructional Design to LMS's that teach, read what’s happening in the L&D world. 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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How Long Should Videos Be for E-Learning?

LearnDash

Videos are an essential aspect of online education. But how long is too long? And how short is too short? If your video strategy for creating course videos was to tape a lecture and throw it online, it’s unlikely many of your learners are staying till the end. If they are, they’re probably pausing it mid-stream and coming back to it later. Why? Because a forty-five-minute lecture is more than what the average learner can process in one sitting.

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Easily Publish eLearning to Birch Learning Platform

B Online Learning

In the world of learning, a Learning Management System (LMS) or Learning Platform (LP) is used to distribute eLearning content and track users’ […]. The post Easily Publish eLearning to Birch Learning Platform appeared first on B Online Learning.

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5 Best Practices Of Using Interactive Game-Based Templates In eLearning

eLearning Industry

Game-based learning is an effective mechanism to build interactive and engaging learning experiences. This article talks about some best practices you should follow when using game-based templates in your eLearning modules. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Flash To HTML5, One Last Time!

Upside Learning

We’ve been there and done that. I am referring to migrating some/all of the Flash eLearning to HTML5 a few years ago. So you may ask: why again? Here’s why. When Apple decided to not support Flash on its mobile devices (including tablets), it was the beginning of the end of Flash. Most of us […].

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How Will New Technologies Change E-Learning in 2019?

LearnDash

The newest trends are increasingly powerful, and with the potential to change the industry in a big way. From machine learning to virtual reality , the past year has seen some incredible technological advances. Tools that had formerly lived only in premier R&D laboratories are beginning to trickle into the mainstream. As these technologies become more accessible, the ramifications they have on the e-learning community will become ever more intense.

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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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POINT-of-WORK: Diversity of Disruption

Living in Learning

Our field of play has shifted closer to…if not converged directly into…Point-of-Work. This shift has disruption written all over it. Rules of engagement are being disrupted by increasing velocity of business demand and continuous change. If the rules change, so too must our game plan, and adoption of a Point-of-Work Solution Discipline represents a new game plan.

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Move On To Maintenance: 6 Post-Launch eLearning Course Checklist Essentials

eLearning Industry

You’ve put a lot of time, energy, and resources into your online course design to ensure that it achieves the desired results. But there’s still a great deal to be done after you deploy the content. In this article, I’ll share 6 essential elements you need to add to your post-launch eLearning course checklist. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Locus of learning: community, AI, or org?

Clark Quinn

A recent article caused me to think. Always a great thing! It led to some reflections that I want to share. The article is about a (hypothetical) learning journey, and talks about how learning objects are part of that learning process. My issue is with the locus of the curation of those objects; should it be the organization, an AI, or the community?

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Can LMS Software Really Reduce the Cost of Retail Training?

TOPYX LMS

Three percent of the average retailer’s budget is spent on training, according to Retail Training Services. 1 “For store-level personnel, that percentage equates to $840 for a typical store manager, $560 for a full-time sales representative, and less than $200 for a typical part-timer.”.

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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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Expanding the Reach of Your Classroom with Video

ej4 eLearning

Employee turnover is a problem all companies are trying to solve. According to an article in the Huffington Post, the top five reasons employees leave a company are: They don't feel appreciated. The company isn't innovative. There is a lack of training. They don't like their coworkers. Poor work-life balance.

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3 Reasons Your L&D Tools Aren’t Fit For Today’s Workforce

Docebo

How qualified do you think your employees are for their roles? Learning and development tools aren’t keeping up with the needs of today’s digital workforce and it’s impacting how organizations function and how employees build their careers. . That’s according to a Docebo survey that polled 2,400 employees across the U.S. and U.K. to understand how confident and qualified they feel in their current roles and how on-the-job training impacts the decisions they make at work.

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Redesigning Learning Design

Clark Quinn

Of late, a lot of my work has been designing learning design. Helping orgs transition their existing design processes to ones that will actually have an impact. That is, someone’s got a learning design process, but they want to improve it. One idea, of course, is to replace it with some validated design process. Another approach, much less disruptive, is to find opportunities to fine tune the design.

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A Measure of Social Learning Success is in Training’s Decline

The Simple Shift

People are still hung up on how to measure social learning in organizations. It doesn’t seem easy, clean or even possible and that is unsettling for them. In the end though it’s still really just about measuring learning and that my friends is done through observing behavior change. It doesn’t matter if it’s social learning […].

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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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Compliance eLearning for Birch Learning Platform

B Online Learning

Sydney, Australia – Using a cutting edge responsive design to provide a turnkey learning solution, the Birch eLearning catalogue delivers a perfect experience for […]. The post Compliance eLearning for Birch Learning Platform appeared first on B Online Learning.

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How To: Get your Employees, Partners & Customers Motivated to Learn

Docebo

Motivating your learners by nurturing learning engagement. It’s a problem learning and development (L&D) sees time and time again. Learning programs don’t connect with learner needs or fail to engage learners. . Getting your learners (whether they are employees, partners or customers) motivated to learn starts by focusing on engagement and its importance to learning success.

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3 BIG questions to kickstart your L&D transformation

Axonify

A new year offers up fresh opportunities for transformation, but the big question is always: where do we start? It’s a question that’s highly relevant when it comes to reimagining the role learning and development (L&D) can play in a modern business. There’s already so much you’re responsible for…compliance training, onboarding, leadership training…the list goes … Continued.

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3 Compelling Reasons the Public Sector Should Use Learning Management Software

TOPYX LMS

Many public organizations lag behind private companies in talent development, digital skills, and budget. A study by Deloitte revealed that three-quarters of public sector organizations claim they lack the talent and knowledge the private sector has. 1.

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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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MWL Newsletter No 98

Jane Hart

Articles and news about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) for the week 6-12 January 2019. [AI breakthroughs, digital proficiency, MWL2019 now available as paperback, L&D priorities in 2019, and more].

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Looking Back: Learning Ecosystems, Sales Enablement & Dog Policies

Wisetail

We want this year-end retrospective to hold some value for learning and development professionals. You know, rather than a self-aggrandizing post about how much we’ve grown and achieved in the past year. The post Looking Back: Learning Ecosystems, Sales Enablement & Dog Policies appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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Using a Small Team to Deliver the Most Training

dVinci Interactive

Using a Small Team to Deliver the Most Training When you use a device that has memory or storage, you are likely relying on a product made by Micron Technology. Based in Boise, Idaho, Micron has more than 34,000 team members, in 17 different countries and the industry’s broadest portfolio of memory and storage products. As an IT Training Analyst, Martha Miles is part of a small team tasked with providing training to employees all over the world.

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How To Make Your eLearning Programs Better With Totara Learn Reporting

Lambda Solutions

Analytics from the learning data gathered by your Totara Learn LMS (or any other Learning Management System) can allow you to uncover powerful insights about the eLearning programs you have implemented. Creating, sharing, and understanding analytics reports in Totara can be a time-consuming process, but it doesn’t have to be. Here we will show you how Totara Learn simplifies the data reporting process without sacrificing the quality of the data or the insights you can draw from it.

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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.