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eLearning Glossary Part 2: More Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

Previously we dug into the alphabet soup of eLearning terms and acronyms. But you weren’t full. You asked for seconds. So, here are some of the additional terms you wanted to defined. ADDIE- The ADDIE model is a process used by instructional designers and training developers offering guidelines for creating effective training. This model is broken up into 5 phases: Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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How the Move to Annotate TED Talks Could Change Everything About Video-Based Learning

eLearningMind

From a small startup conference in 1984 to a learning powerhouse in 2016, TED leads the way when it comes to shaping opinions and sharing ideas. Basically, it’s L&D pro’s dream, making thousands of bite-sized, hyper-digestible videos available for free to help round out courses and make eLearning possible. There’s been one glaring issue with TED Talks as learning tools, however, and that’s with the problem of citation and annotation.

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How to Get the Greatest ROI from eLearning

TOPYX LMS

It’s safe to say that no intelligent individual has ever spent a significant amount of time and money on an investment that did not promise to yield a good return. Whether it’s an investment in oneself, a business, another person, or a product, a quality return is always desired. While the majority of promising investments do not live up to what is hoped of them, they are at least good ideas in the beginning.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 5 Growth, Stagnancy, or Decline

Infopro Learning

Timing is Everything Series: Intro , Anxiety , Information Overload , Knowledge Formation , Optimum Performance , Growth, Stagnancy, or Decline, (Structured vs. On-demand Learning coming June 14th). Growth, Stagnancy, or Decline. Once optimum performance is reached, learners can either grow, stagnate, or decline in their on-the-job performances. However, we can use talent development principles and learning strategies to ensure continued growth rather than stagnancy or decline: Treat Optimum Per

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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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5 Ways To Make Your Training Stickier!

Administrate

One of our core values at Administrate is transparency, so we’re starting this post with a confession: we’re actively developing our product to be so ‘sticky’ that our customers never want to leave us. What do we mean by ‘sticky’? Working in the SaaS (Software as a Service) industry, ‘stickiness’ means creating an Read More.

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Introducing JoomlaLMS Mobile App and JoomlaLMS 2.0.4

JoomlaLMS

JoomlaLMS has great news for all the clients! JoomlaLMS 2.0.4 version with Android compatible app, a new courses layout, image crop functionality and a number of bug fixes and improvements is released and available for upgrade at your Member’s Area , at the Administration area of your site and purchase at our store.

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Elearning platforms meeting PENS standard makes online training easier

Docebo

Having an LMS that meets the PENS standard is a one-click process, saving course authors time. Publishing course content to a learning management system ( LMS ) is often time consuming, causing frustration to course authors. Having an LMS that meets the Package Exchange Notification System ( PENS ) standard , coupled with an authoring tool, will save course authors time and ibuprofen.

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ATD 2016 It’s a Wrap! (PT 5): Homz Umrigar & Priyanka Chopra

Learning Rebels

Here we are – the last in the Learning Rebels Series – ATD 2016 It’s a Wrap! While at ATD 2016 I finally met up with Homz and Priyanka. We had been followers of each other for awhile and Homz in particular was chasing me down to get his Learning Rebels badge – which is well deserved! I was really wanting to catch up with them as they were the only “couple” I knew attending the conference together.

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Past Event – Using Neuroscience to Enhance your Instructional Design (July 19, 2016, San Diego)

Learningtogo

I will be in sunny southern California on July 19 th to deliver my workshop, Using Neuroscience to Enhance your Instructional Design , in partnership with the San Diego Chapter of the Association for Talent Development (ATD). Do you feel like no matter what method, model or theory you use, it just doesn’t do your design justice? If so, then you might consider creating training based on what neuroscientists know about the brain.

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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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ThinkFoodGroup: A Quest For A New LMS

Wisetail

Showing a handpicked, talented person the ropes of your business is a straightforward process, except when it isn’t. ThinkFoodGroup had a particularly big challenge when it came ot teachings its employees. The post ThinkFoodGroup: A Quest For A New LMS appeared first on Wisetail.

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How To Promote Ongoing Online Training In Your Organization

Docebo

5 Tips To Promote Ongoing Online Training In Your Organization. Employees are the lifeblood of your organization, which is why it’s crucial to provide them with the online tools and resources they need to achieve success. More importantly, they must receive ongoing online training that allows them to fine tune their skills, learn about the latest products, and brush up on work related tasks.

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Part 2: Managing Virtual Classroom Strategy Implementation Challenges

InSync Training

Recently InSync Training worked with a multinational software company to maximize the value of their existing learning content by transitioning it to the virtual and blended classroom. During this process, we discovered six specific areas that we needed to address to facilitate this transition. We believe these challenges are universal to virtual classroom and blended learning implementation.

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Six Things I learned From Our Visitors Part II

Gyrus

Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors Part II. How to overcome challenges experienced by LMS users from ATD 2016. In my previous post “ Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors ” I delved shortly into the gloomy cloud of sadness that engulfs the perception of the entire LMS industry. In particular, I highlighted six statements of Industry professionals and paraphrased what that meant to problems they experienced with their LMS providers.

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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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Learn to create infographics like a boss!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Infographics with Piktochart: Quick Start. An effective infographic has the power to inform, impress, and influence. As learning tools, infographics can support learning transfer and retention. On top of all that, they are FUN to concoct! During this class you will explore visual communication basics and design principles as well as traditional infographic categories and when to use each.

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Learning to Lead in the Time of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

Being sufficiently knowledgeable and skilled when there was relative stability in the workplace, when products and services didn’t change much, when companies did essentially the same work for their entire existence (e.g., Ford Motor did assembly-line manufacturing of internal combustion vehicles for over a century), and when entry into a mature market was very difficult and costly, is challenging enough.

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Formal vs. Informal Learning Explained

LearnDash

Most training events and elearning initiatives that I have come across would be considered “formal “learning. There is are specific needs that need to be met and the training program is created around satisfying those needs. Ironically, despite formal learning being the primary method for elearning, live-training, and virtual training events, it only accounts for roughly 10% of what we learn on a day-to-day basis.

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Four Reasons to Replace Your Outdated LMS

Gyrus

Four Reasons to Replace Your Outdated LMS. A Learning Management System (LMS) provides a strategic solution for planning, delivering, managing, and reporting on various learning/training events and activities within an organization. Organizations across industries depend on learning management systems for handling their day to day training activities, compliance training, eLearning, etc.

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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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Articulate Storyline: Does Slide Size Matter?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kal Hadi     I often get asked the question about choosing the right slide size in Articulate Storyline. The Slide size or as it's known in Storyline as "Story Size" in not one of those things that you really come across casually in Storyline. It's a bit out of the way.   When creating a new project in Storyline, you are not presented with a dialogue box to input slide size.

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Understand These 10 Principles of Good Design Before You Start Your Next eLearning Project

SHIFT eLearning

A good-looking course is not a guarantee of its instructional effectiveness. Think of all those magazines with glossy covers that you flip over expectantly only to find that the pages are filled with trash. Unfortunately, many course developers have no clue of how visual design can increase (or decrease) learnability of the material.

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Performance Consultant Lives Matter!

Living in Learning

What follows is a short story…a true story…that positions a skill set that changed my life in the L&D discipline. No instructional designers were harmed during this transition, but I must confess to scaring the crap out of number of them.

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Interview with Kay Whalen of EDI

Web Courseworks

Kay Whalen, President of Executive Director, Inc. ( EDI ), started in the association business like many others did: she just “fell into it”. Fresh out of college, Kay worked in the accounting department at EDI and today she’s an owner and the president of the company. Read more about Kay and EDI in our interview with her below. Tell us a bit about EDI’s growth as an Association Management Company (AMC).

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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.

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eLearning: Two Awesome Microphones

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jeff Harris   In March, Kevin shared his techniques for  improving sound quality by using sound absorbers. In this article, I cover two of my favorite microphones for voiceover recording: the Heil PR-40 and the Shure MV51. Each of these microphones delivers high quality sound for eLearning and podcasting applications. There are, however, important differences you should understand to determine which is right for you.

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How Emotional Learning Works Through Social Medium?

Origin Learning

Social Age Safari – now that sure rings a bell! It is the master brain Julian Stodd of Sea Salt Learning, who with his innovative methods to popularize a concept has kept the conversation on social learning alive and kicking! So, are you ready for the trending ‘safari’ that will draw many enterprises, small, medium and big, into the world of social learning?

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Performance Consultant Lives Matter!

Living in Learning

What follows is a short story…a true story…that positions a skill set that changed my life in the L&D discipline. No instructional designers were harmed during this transition, but I must confess to scaring the crap out of number of them.

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7 Tips to Make Your Compliance Online Training Courses Mobile

Allen Interactions

By Guest Blogger Christopher Pappas / @cpappas. Your employees probably aren't thrilled about your upcoming compliance online training course. But what if you could offer them the ability to access it whenever and wherever it's most convenient for them? In this article, I'll share 7 tips to help you turn your compliance online training or certification programs into mobile-friendly online training experiences.

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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.