Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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8 Types of Motivation for Online Learning

LearnDash

Understanding why learners take your course can help you keep them engaged. If you’ve recently created a course and are trying to get new learners to sign up, or if you’ve found yourself struggling to engage learners after they’ve enrolled, then you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about two key questions: Why do learners take my course?

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Losing our collective minds?

Clark Quinn

So, after that mess on Twitter, I next see on LinkedIn a recognized personage who proceeds to claim that learning styles are legit. And, the basis for this claim is fundamentally wrong. So I’m beginning to fear that we’re losing our collective minds! Let me be clear about the claim, the problem, and a healthy approach. The claim started like this: I know there is a huge camp of folks who say no one has learning styles and they provide all types of links of others who concur.

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Make Learners Care about Compliance Training

Experiencing eLearning

What if you could create compliance training that learners actually wanted to complete, that they cared about? Imagine creating courses that did more than check a box, that actually increased the odds that employees would follow the policy. To create compliance training that learners care about, they need to know both why and when the policies matter.

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The definitive checklist for selecting the right partner training LMS

Docebo

An An LMS for partner training is essential if you’re one of the 80% of businesses that use channel partners as a revenue source. Like the majority of these businesses, you’ve probably faced some of the same common challenges that stall revenue growth (yikes). We’re not talking simple onboarding here for an extended enterprise – this is where the pulse of partnerships is maintained by providing ongoing and timely training to the businesses that help you stay successful.

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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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The three levels of learning experience

Learning Pool

Do we really know what we mean when we talk about a learning experience? Learning Pool research suggests we do – but it is not just one thing. The increasing use of the word ‘experience’ in learning circles has been much attacked. . There’s no doubt that the X-word is taking over. We talk of learning experiences where we might once have just said ‘course’.

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Training Fundamentals in the Age of Experience

Wisetail

If you want people to engage with an LMS, it helps to give them a reason to log on. Holidays are a low-hanging fruit, just ripe for driving engagement. The post Training Fundamentals in the Age of Experience appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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It’s Time to Rethink Online CME Courses and How We Deliver Them

EthosCE

You already know that continuing education and professional development opportunities are vital to remaining a competitive attractor of talent. It’s not just the presence of continuing education, however— quality matters even more. Of all the things you must do as an administrator, how do you find the time to implement any CME at all, much less direct an innovative and engaging program that can attract and keep top talent?

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 10, 2020

Mike Taylor

“You have: Training, Schooling, Benchmarks, Industry peers, Entrenched experience, Data, data, data They have: great ideas, not-so-great ideas. You’re the expert…not the order taker. Listen, consult & lead.” —Jen Hartman. Our family is super excited to have officially started the count down until we head off to Lake Kegonsa for some much-needed downtime next week.

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Do You Need a Content Authoring Tool for LearnDash?

LearnDash

What does it meant to be a Content Authoring Tool, and does that describe LearnDash? Every now and then, someone comes to us with a question about our software that uses a term we haven’t heard applied to us before. The Internet, as we all know, is full of acronyms and abbreviations, and there isn’t always an example of what terms belong where. The most recent example was when someone asked us if we were a “Content Authoring Tool.”.

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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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The Real Cost of Not Training Your Employees

ej4 eLearning

Most organizations see their corporate training as a cost center, rather than a profit center. That makes sense if you look at a company’s typical offerings—their goods and services—but profit can also be made if a particular investment saves the organization money in the long run.

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Make Online Classrooms Fun with Game-Based Learning

Raptivity

Game-based learning has witnessed tremendous growth and adoption in the past few years and continues to be recognized as one of the most important elements of the modern learning approach. A famous quote rightly says, “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning”. Endless life lessons have been derived from games that we all have played from childhood until date.

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ITA Jay Cross Award 2020

Clark Quinn

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Evaluating a Virtual Instructional Program

InSync Training

Summary: As it turns out, evaluating a virtual training program is just like evaluating any other instructional program. The challenges lie in what you measure and how you interpret the results. The good news is that current modern virtual classroom platforms give you a variety of tools you can use to assess the effectiveness of your instructional delivery and its effect on learners.

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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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How an LXP Can Align Your Company With the Top eLearning Trends of 2020

TOPYX LMS

2020 has been a year of change for the eLearning industry. The primary driver of change within the industry has been the COVID-19 pandemic. It has made online learning more essential than ever for corporations and has forced eLearning companies to develop better technology that effectively meets the needs of dispersed workforces. By aligning themselves with the top eLearning trends of 2020 , companies can ensure that they have cutting-edge online employee training technologies and practices and

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One Systems Change to Change Them All

The Simple Shift

It was unquestioned compliance systems that led to the birth of the LMS. And rather than challenge this system, companies took the easy road and bought in and bought technology to address it (sound familiar?). From there, with lots of features & functions and space, they looked to move ALL types of training and even non-training […].

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After Action Review, From Struggle to Swagger

Allen Interactions

Today’s pandemic, covid-19 environment with uncertainty and instability abound, creating, collecting, and sharing organizational knowledge can be a struggle. Organizational learning requires continuous reflection and a willingness to be flexible and agile. Learning organizations have powerful cultures resilient to internal and external chaotic environments.

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Collective mind losing redux

Clark Quinn

I reported about a conversation on LinkedIn badly defending learning styles. And, the subsequent post came out. Sad to say, it doesn’t do anything better, and instead is yet another bad example of reasoning. It’s a ‘collective mind losing’ redux! So it starts out saying that those of us who decry learning styles maintain that they don’t exist. That’s not exactly what I said, at any rate.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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3 eLearning Courses Retail Employees Transitioning Back to the Workplace Need Now

TOPYX LMS

COVID-19 is not just a health crisis, but also an economic crisis. According to the New York Times in late June 2020, more than 44 million people have applied for state jobless benefits since mid-March. 1 Because many retail companies and stores were deemed non-essential at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, a significant number of retail employees lost their jobs.

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The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2020 is presented to Andrew Jacobs

Jane Hart

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage. They share their […].

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My dream: facilitating a whole week online

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Well some of you may have different dreams, but one of my dreams was to facilitate a whole week online. I was interested to see how to make the program balanced and interesting, combine fun with work. Thanks to corona my dream came true :). I facilitated the yearly exchange from an alliance active in 13 countries. From Guatemala to Indonesia. For a whole week.

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Organizational Learning, Change Management, and the Future of Work

Allen Interactions

As leaders how do we successfully lead through and to the future of work?

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What Is a Performance Learning Management System (PLMS)?

If you're reading this you're probably ready for better organizational learning and performance. A Performance LMS allows you to continually assess and improve learners based on their specific company and role-based capabilities. In the whitepaper, we’ll also answer questions such as: What exactly is a PLMS? I have just started exploring capability building or am not yet ready.

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Getting Started With Microlearning In Your Organization

dominKnow

Microlearning is one tool of many that every learning and development team should have at its disposal to help us. When used well, microlearning really can mean small content can have big effects for your organization. But micro learning isn't a one-size fits all solution. There are many uses where it can provide an ideal fit to a problem, but there are also contexts where microlearning isn't a good solution fit.

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More Social Leadership v. More Social Systems

The Simple Shift

A leader changing her/his behavior to a model of for more openness & transparency is just an invitation to others, a suggestion, it only creates an option for people to follow: “Do or don’t either way, life goes on.” However, changing the systems (management, recognition, KM, decision-making, etc) that people operate within creates a new requirement […].

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Quickly Implement eLearning From What You Have: ADDIE Model In Practice

eLearning Industry

If you know how to use PPT, then you can quickly build an eLearning course using its powerful integrated functions. But this article aims to share much more than this. Read further. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Before the Change: Raising The BAR

Allen Interactions

Change leadership begins now as leaders see change is on the horizon.

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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.