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Taking an evidence-informed approach to learning design

Elucidat

L&D is too often based on fads. The latest trends are quickly adopted without evaluation. The results are hit or miss. If you’re going to make a real impact, Mirjam Neelen, Head of Global Learning Design & Learning Sciences at Novartis, believes you need to start with the evidence. Hear how she takes an evidence-informed approach to learning design.

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Measuring the ROI of eLearning: A Guide for Businesses

Gyrus

Elearning solutions offer a great return on investment. Learn how to measure and maximize the ROI of your elearning solutions for your business.

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Two Tips for Writing Dialogue (With Examples!)

Experiencing eLearning

Dialogue can be tricky to write. When I teach people how to write branching scenarios, writing dialogue is one of the places people get stuck. If you’re used to writing in a more formal style, writing dialogue can feel very unfamiliar. The good news is that it’s a skill like anything else, and you can get better with practice. Two tactics you can use to improve your dialogue writing are using contractions and showing rather than telling.

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Not a cat

E-Learning Provocateur

My favourite episode of Blackadder is the one in which Baldrick burns the manuscript of Dr Samuel Johnson’s dictionary. As Edmund scrambles to re-write the tome, Baldrick contributes a definition of “dog”: Not a cat. While his definition is comically inadequate, it’s also unassailably accurate. Indeed a dog is not a cat; so if you understand what a cat is, the contrast will help you understand what a dog is.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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How to Go Live! Taking a GREAT Program and Moving it to the Virtual Classroom: Defining the Trend

InSync Training

5 Recommendations to Move Your Training Programs to the Virtual Classroom, and what Virtual Learning Experts ™ Need to Know This is part of an ongoing column by Virtual Learning Expert™ Jennifer Finan. She’s exploring trends that impact virtual classroom trainers and designers with the goal of improving learner engagement in the hybrid virtual classroom.

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Immersive Technology Showdown Part 3: Mixed Reality

Allen Interactions

In continuation of my blog series on Evaluating Immersive Technologies, today I present a look at the limitations of Mixed Reality (MR).

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What is Talent Mapping and What are the Benefits for Doing it?

Avilar

Companies are adopting talent mapping as one way to be more strategic in their talent management. What is talent mapping? How does it benefit your company? In recent years, recruitment firms started touting a “talent mapping” approach to finding high-potential candidates for future talent needs. It’s a more proactive approach than the traditional “just in time” hiring tactic designed to pull in new employees to fill immediate needs.

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Why Less is More in Learning Design

The eLearning Coach

When it comes to learning, less is more. Overloading learners with too much information interferes with the learning process.

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Is Unbiased Leadership Possible?

Speexx

Organizations constantly strive for innovation, growth, and profitability in today's fast-paced world. However, in the pursuit of these goals, many leaders tend to overlook a critical factor that has a significant impact on business success: diversity and inclusion. Bias can hinder a company's growth and productivity, limit talent retention and affect morale.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: 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? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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What are eLearning Authoring Tools and Why Organizations Need Them

CommLab India

eLearning authoring tools enable trainers, instructional designers, and organizations to create interactive and engaging content that enhances the learning experience. This blog highlights some of their major benefits and lists a few tools well.

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Driving Digital Workforce Transformation by Creating the Right Learning Experiences

Infopro Learning

The world of work is rapidly changing, and digital transformation is becoming increasingly important for organizations to stay competitive. According to Markets and Markets , the digital transformation market is expected to increase significantly at a compound annual growth rate of 19.1% and is projected to expand to $127.5 billion by 2026. One aspect of this transformation is changing the workforce to better adapt to the new environment.

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[UPDATED] Games and Gamification in Moodle™

Lambda Solutions

Gamification in Moodle is one of the most effective ways to engage and motivate learners by using game mechanics and games. Let us quickly clarify the difference between the two. Game mechanics are common gaming tactics used to ignite competition and the desire for learners to ‘win’. Games, on the other hand, are tangible games themselves, such as hangman or crosswords.

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Immersive Technology Showdown Part 4: Holography

Allen Interactions

In continuation of my blog series on Evaluating Immersive Technologies, today I present a look at the limitations of Holograms.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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5 eLearning Authoring Tools for Multilingual Online Training Modules

CommLab India

Unlock the true potential of your online training modules with these 5 eLearning authoring tools designed to create multilingual content that’s both immersive and engaging. Read on to find out more!

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Role of Training Delivery in Training Outcomes and Impact

Infopro Learning

Training and development have become more important in today’s fast-paced business world. According to a report by SkyQuest Technology Consulting Pvt. Ltd, the Global Corporate Training Market to Exceed Valuation of $493.32 Billion by 2028. The success of an organization is significantly influenced by its capacity to provide successful training.

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[UPDATED]Top 5 Moodle™  Plugins to Boost Your Online Training Productivity

Lambda Solutions

Productivity is important for online learning because it directly impacts your return on investment, or ROI. Higher productivity means you’re getting a greater outcome from the income you’re spending on learning programs. That boosts your ROI. It’s imperative that you fully understand the ROI of your training programs because ultimately your goal is to increase revenue and cut costs.

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Comply with Confidence: Compliance Training for the Pharmaceutical Industry

G-Cube

One of the industries that are heavily regulated by external authorities is the Pharma Industry. And very rightly so, because the pharma industry revolves around drug manufacturing and healthcare. This makes it highly necessary that they are regulated by the government and external authorities to ensure public health and welfare.

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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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My Top Ten Tools for Learning (2022)

Learnnovators

The last time I published my top tools was in 2016, in response to Jane Hart’s compilation effort for the “Top 100 Tools for Learning”. Every year since then, I’ve missed the participation boat under some pretext or the other. 2022 was no exception. As you might be aware, Jane has already published the list for 2022. You can access it here. But if I had voted, here’s what I would have picked.

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Spot the difference? Corporate L&D versus Office Canteen

From the Coleface

Metaphor is a great tool for understanding a complex situation. Just picture something simpler we can picture well and read across the similarities and differences. Health warnings aside, used well, metaphor generates rich insights and questions. One rich metaphor that I’ve often used to help people understand Learning & Development (L&D) strategy is to imagine that the L&D department is the office canteen.

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[UPDATED] How to Add & Upload Users to Moodle™

Lambda Solutions

Now that you have Moodle installed onto either a Mac or PC (Windows) it’s time to set up your Moodle user accounts! Before we teach you how to set up a course in Moodle, you will need to know how to set up Moodle user accounts. This capability is given to the Moodle LMS administrators, Moodle managers and in some cases Moodle users if you choose to allow learners to self-register.

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Empowering Women in Leadership

eLearning Brothers

In this webinar session, ELB Learning presented Rashim Mogha, founder of eWOW (​​empoweredWomen of the World). She is a thought leader, a best-selling author, and a popular speaker at global conferences in technology and business. Rashim has held leadership roles at companies like Skillsoft, VMware, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, and more.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Stop Using Training ROI; Start Measuring Cost-Benefit

eLearning Industry

Stakeholders want learning to demonstrate value for their financial investments. Regretfully, this is often conflated with training ROI, which is not a proven measure of value for learning or for any other cost center. Measure learning effectiveness by applying a cost-benefit analysis to build credibility. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 points on VR in medical education

KnowledgeOne

To respect the ethical principle of “never once on the patient,” simulation in various forms has been an integral part of the training of healthcare professionals in North America for several decades. Virtual reality appears to be the chosen technology of the future to ensure the acquisition of a wide range of practical and experiential learning necessary for these professionals’ initial and ongoing training.

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[UPDATED] DIY or Outsource? 5 Benefits of Cloud Based Moodle™  Hosting

Lambda Solutions

One of the major decisions organizations have to make when implementing an LMS is whether to go with DIY (do-it-yourself), or outsourced hosting. Cloud-based hosting is an advanced form of hosting that incorporates greater support and service levels, and offloads the aforementioned duties to the managed hosting firm.

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Using Design Thinking Strategies to Improve Performance

eLearning Brothers

In this webinar, Gregg Eiler, learning design manager at lululemon, joined us to talk about how to use design thinking strategies to improve performance.

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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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9 Customized Learning Solutions For Every L&D Professional 

eLearning Industry

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of most of the custom learning solutions you can apply for your L&D teams, as well as for your external customers. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Notifications

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

It’s that time on a Monday morning when you start opening the various apps you need for the week ahead … and one of them pings a notification. It’s a sound you’ve never heard before. Now you spend the next couple of minutes trying to figure out which one has the new notification, and was it worth hunting it down? Inevitably, it wasn’t, but it still needs to be done.

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[UPDATED] Using Badges in Moodle™

Lambda Solutions

The Harvard Business Review named elearning badges as one of the most innovative trends to watch in 2013, and two years later, LMS badge functionalities have only gotten better. A digital Moodle badge is essentially an online recognition of your achievements and skills. If a user has a number of certifications, for example, they can receive and display LMS badges online to recognize their achievement or competency.

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