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Dealing with the Top 10 Challenges in Storyboarding — Infographic

Raptivity

Team Raptivity recently explored the topic—‘ Difficulties faced by beginners in eLearning storyboard creation ’. We collected responses from hundreds of novice instructional designers, course creators and some of our Interactive Learning Thought Leaders. Here is an infographic on the top 10 storyboarding challenges derived from our study. It also includes some suggestions to work through them.

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4 Motivation Strategies for eLearning Environments with Massive Learners

TalentLMS

Developing training for a limited number of learners with similar backgrounds is very different from developing an eLearning program for a widely dispersed audience with varying experiences, language and cultural backgrounds. How do we tie the learners together to receive the eLearning course positively? In this article, we share some motivating tips for your learners.

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Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015

Jane Hart

Following the release of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 (compiled from the votes of over 2,000 learning professionals worldwide), I have been working on this year’s Guidebook, and have now created a Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015 list, where I classify the Top 1000 tools in 30 different categories. # is the position of […].

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6 benefits of social & collaborative learning

Docebo

Learning from one another is what people have always done throughout human history, so ‘social and collaborative learning’ as a learning method is likely to be the oldest one in existence. Even if our approach to training and learning has evolved over time, we still inevitably learn from those we collaborate with. “Learning is an experience, everything else is just information” Albert Einstein.

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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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B2B eLearning Solutions Combine Affordable Services

TOPYX LMS

Paradoxically, technology is making the globe feel progressively smaller while, at the same time, propelling the business world to grow to new proportions. Would you agree that B2B product and service providers have much to do with this? B2B Solutions: Both a Blessing and a Curse. Although B2B products and services are absolutely essential to a business’s prosperity, they can seriously upset a company’s bottom line.

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Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015

Jane Hart

Following the release of the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015, I have been working on this year’s Guidebook, and have now created a Best of Breed Tools for Learning 2015 list, where I classify the tools in 30 categories. So here it is … 1 – MOOC platforms Khan Academy (33) | Coursera (44) | iTunesU (75) […].

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Demystifying Working Out Loud

ID Reflections

“When people leverage collaboration platforms to contribute and to build relationships, that appeals to their intrinsic motivators of autonomy, mastery, and relatedness. ” ~ Working Out Loud-Better for You; Better for the Firm Working out loud has been steadily gaining popularity and has become a topic of conversation on many forums including the Facebook community of the same name.

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The Importance of Implementing a Marcom Strategy for Continuing Education

Association eLearning

Marcom or marketing communications, is the branch of marketing that decides what messaging you’ll use, directed at whom, and on what channels you’ll place those messages. Marketing’s overall functions include: audience segmentation, demographic and psychographic research, and decisions on product, price, distribution, and promotion. Marcom decides what your marketing message is going to be and where your messages are going to be placed.

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The City & Guilds Group Acquires Nine Lanterns

Kineo

The City & Guilds Group has agreed the acquisition of award-winning elearning provider, Nine Lanterns. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Nine Lanterns partners with businesses to create custom-built elearning content and platform solutions.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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How to build a learning worker mindset

Jane Hart

In a previous post here, From “knowledge worker” to “learning worker”: what this means for an organisation I’ve written about the concept of a “learning worker” that Jacob Morgan believes is one of the 7 principles of the future employee. ‘Knowledge is a commodity, to be the smartest person in the room all you need is a smartphone.

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The new shape of organizations?

Clark Quinn

As I read more about how to create organizations that are resilient and adaptable, there’s an interesting emergent characteristic. What I’m seeing is a particular pattern of structure that has arisen out of totally disparate areas, yet keeps repeating. While I haven’t had a chance to think about it at scale, like how it would manifest in a large organization, it certainly bears some strengths.

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Introducing Knowledge Direct NOW

Association eLearning

Is your membership growing or declining? Did you know that the #2 reason people join associations is for education? If you are looking for a member benefit that truly drives engagement and loyalty, why not offer eLearning, NOW? Digitec is now offering our award-winning learning management solution for $599 a month , with no start up fees and no contract.

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The City & Guilds Group Acquires Nine Lanterns

Kineo

The City & Guilds Group has agreed the acquisition of award-winning elearning provider, Nine Lanterns. Based in Melbourne, Australia, Nine Lanterns partners with businesses to create custom-built elearning content and platform solutions.

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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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How to become a Personal Learning Advisor

Jane Hart

Last week I posted about the importance of supporting everyday workplace learning. This is the first in a series of three public social online workshop that introduce you to the key ways to promote continuous, everyday, learning in your organisation. The workshop runs 26 October – 20 November. The workshop will help you understand how to work […].

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Learning by experimenting

Clark Quinn

In some recent work, an organization is looking to find a way to learn fast enough to cope with the increasing changes we’re seeing. Or, better yet, learn ahead of the curve. And this led to some thoughts. As a starting point, it helps to realize that adapting to change is a form of learning. So, what are the individual equivalents we might use as an analogy?

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Adaptive Learning and the Modern Learner

Axonify

Meet Chris. He’s a young, ambitious marketing professional who loves his job and is anxious to get ahead. He’s got a lot on his plate: he works long hours, but there’s always more work and more deadlines to be managed. And his day is full of interruptions: as much as every five minutes by text messages and emails, not to mention juggling co-workers, meetings and his boss.

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Articulate Storyline: Animation Painting Anyone?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kal Hadi  The Animation Painter in Articulate Storyline 2 lets you create perfect Storyline animation effects for one object and then quickly copy those animation effects to other objects. Here's how: Create an animation effect. Select the object you want to animate. Click the  Animations  tab. Click the  star  icon for the type of animation you want to add (entrance, exit, or motion path).        Select an animation effect.  �

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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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Blog, Message, Participate – Join the Social Learning Brigade!

Origin Learning

Can individual performance and expertise be assessed and made a part of performance appraisals in a non-intrusive way? Is it possible to capture the metrics in an engaging and effective way ? Can an intranet platform work? Can learning build confidence of a workforce where technology obsolescence is the name of the game? The answer to all these questions is a resounding YES!

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You Can’t Sell Courses Without Visibility

LearnDash

Chances are you have at least thought about selling an online course at some point. Today there are an abundance of tools at your disposal that can make this a reality. But here is something that no one really mentions: you won’t sell courses if people can’t find it. Seems pretty obvious, I know, but it’s importance is often under-appreciated.

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Session Recap: Learner Engagement in the Modern Classroom

InSync Training

Graciously hosted by the Association for Talent Development (ATD) on Friday, October 16, Jennifer Hofmann presented, Learner Engagement in the Modern Classroom. The agenda for the session was, “To answer a lot of questions about the way modern learning works, and how learning professionals engage their participants.”. This post will include highlights from each question discussed.

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10 Benefits of a True Learning Culture

ej4 eLearning

Changing the “culture” of any organization is a real challenge. It’s all too easy to focus instead on day-to-day tactical issues (How do we make this meeting shorter? What’s a better email program? How can we take steps out of our workflow?) But, as they say, most things that are hard to do are, in [.]. The post 10 Benefits of a True Learning Culture appeared first on.

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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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Adobe Captivate 9 Hot Fix: Update Fixes Several Known Issues

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe recently posted a fix for Captivate 9 that, according to Adobe, addresses the following issues in Adobe Captivate 9. Conditional actions get converted to standard actions in upgraded project. Operands in advanced actions appear blank in upgraded project. Autoshape buttons fill and stroke is not retained during upgrade. Effects are not played fully in SWF, when the effect duration is less than the default effect duration.

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Choosing Your Training Venue

LearnDash

Despite all of the great benefits for using elearning, it isn’t always the best way to deliver training. There are some topics that just make more sense to delivery via live instruction. Perhaps the content is complex in nature, or the intended audience is not very large. It’s also possible that your training program is taking a blended approach.

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Session Recap: 5 Steps to Making Your Virtual Classroom Mobile and Social

InSync Training

InSync Training President Jennifer Hofmann shared her 5 Steps to Making Your Virtual Classroom Mobile and Social with a rapt BYTE series audience on October 14, 2015. Jennifer said, “Virtual in and of itself is no longer a singular solution for training problems. Our learners are coming and asking for more.”. Jennifer promised that using the approach detailed in this session will “up the ante to increase the value of our live virtual classrooms.

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5 Tips to Write a Plan for Your eLearning Course

eLearning Brothers

A successful eLearning course starts with effective planning. There more in-depth and complete your course plan is, the easier it will be for you to execute the course and identify possible snags before they come up. There are many different elements that contribute to great eLearning courses. In order to plan the best course for your students, consider the following when making your plans: 1.

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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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Great Training and Free eLearning Assets? That's Awesomeness!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  Attend our multi-day Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, or Studio 13 courses and receive a free, one-year subscription to the eLearning Brothers eLearning Templates for free. (That's a $499 value!).   Learn more.

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See You At WordCamp Ann Arbor

LearnDash

For those of you who may not know, Ann Arbor (Michigan) is where the LearnDash office calls “home” During this time of year it has a brisk-cool breeze and the trees are brightly colored as we are in the middle of the fall season. It’s a perfect time of year to get together with like-minded individuals to learn and discuss WordPress – and that’s precisely what is happening this weekend!

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Learning All the Time

The Performance Improvement Blog

Bernie Donkerbrook, EQMentor, wrote this response to my post : “ Learning all the time ” means making learning part of the culture of an organization. This means that learning (using Schein’s definition of culture below) is that employees are actually doing and behaving in the following manner, (Follows the premise of first, ‘ Knowing’ , then ‘ Agreeing’ and finally actually ‘ Doing !’).

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