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Video: 3 ways to motivate

Making Change

How can we help learners feel autonomy, competence, and relatedness? Here’s a video of the webinar I recently ran on that topic, plus a summary of what we talked about. Training design: 3 ways to motivate learners from Cathy Moore on Vimeo. It’s all about self-determination. According to self-determination theory, when people are externally motivated, they simply obey someone else’s rules (“I do it because the boss is watching”).

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Personal Progress Tracker Update

Association eLearning

Last year I wrote a post about how to make a personal progress tracker. I’ve made some changes to my own progress tracker since then and thought I’d share them. After a few months using the old way I started to get frustrated with it. My progress tracker made it look like I had a lot of lazy weeks. But I knew that I’d been doing other important things that weren’t on my progress tracker.

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Infographic on Learning Experience Design Trends in 2018

Origin Learning

Design plays a major role in the success of an eLearning program. Design has evolved from functional buttons, synchronized audio and video, and assessments. Modern eLearning is all about creating engaging and powerful learning experiences that drive the user to complete the training program with ease. Today, we bring to you an infographic designed by us and based on the engaging content created by eLearning Guru – Connie Malamed.

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Raise the Bar with VR

Web Courseworks

Date: March 27th, 2018. Register Here. In this session, Filament Games CEO Dan White will discuss the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) to facilitate interactive, inquiry-based learning. Through the lens of Filament’s VR research, development, and ongoing dialogue with leading VR manufacturers like HTC, Oculus and Google, White will demonstrate how VR can engage users in authentic learning through identity, embodiment, and immersion.

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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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6 Ways to Help Motivate Learners in Your Course

LearnDash

How you can encourage self-directed learning from your students in your your online courses. Online courses present challenges that traditional classrooms do not face. While learners in a classroom engage with their peers and instructors face-to-face, the lack of in-person contact causes many online learners to feel a sense of disconnect and isolation in their learning environment.

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Developing Decisions

Clark Quinn

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that one thing I do in getting objectives is focus on decisions. And, simple ones will get automated; we can train AI to handle these. What will make the difference between ordinary and extraordinary organizations is the ability to make decisions in this new VUCA environment (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous).

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Mapping the ROI of eLearning in Seven Strategies

Allen Interactions

1. Expand your definition of “success.” Before you create a plan, you should know what defines success for your organization. One primary question to ask is: “Were bottom-line outcomes achieved?” ‘Hmmm…’ you ponder via internal monologue, ‘What bottom-line objective?’ Good question.

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How Often Should You Update Your Course?

LearnDash

Creating and launching an e-learning course is a long but satisfying journey. However, it doesn’t end after launch. So many people make the mistake of thinking their course is a finite project. That all they need to do is put in a lot of initial work and then when it is complete they can just sit back and relax. This can be your reality, but if you sell your course then don’t expect to be in business very long.

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Podcast: Sam Rogers – Just Do the Thing

Learningtogo

Sam Rogers is the author of “Just Do the Thing: A Guide” and creates engaging learning for clients including: Google, Capital One, Deloitte, and AAA. As President of Snap Synapse, he speaks frequently at conferences sharing his passion for solving the problems that matter and inspiring audiences to action. I got together with Sam to talk about his book and his work as a learning consultant.

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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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ELEARNING PRODUCTION: iOS 11 Makes Mobile Demos a Snap (or a Tap)

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, CTT, COTP. Not so long ago we were tasked with creating an eLearning project that included a software demonstration of an iPhone mobile app. We experimented with several techniques for capturing the app including using a program that reflected the iPhone onto the computer. (To reflect our iPhone to the computer, we used a program called, wait for it, Reflector.

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Maintaining Collaboration in an Economic Downturn

The Simple Shift

In a Harvard Business Review article (one with actual data) a pretty interesting but unsurprising study was done revealing that in poor economic times employees will collaborate less. It may just be the old lizard brain and self preservation kicking in, a case of Fight AND Flight. Basically, fearing job loss – people fight to […].

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The Power of Play

InSync Training

When we talk about game-based learning and gamification , we’re always throwing in the notion of learner engagement. We’re immersing our learners through…what? Fun? Games? Play. It’s all about the power of play, and how humans naturally learn in playful states. Play takes on many shapes, sizes, and definitions. According to Jeff Everhart, Instructional Technology Trainer and English instructor, when defining play within a learning perspective we should focus on activities that contain, possess,

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MWL Newsletter No 47

Jane Hart

Here are posts, articles and news about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) selected by Jane Hart for the week 7-13 January 2018.

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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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What You Need to Know About the New 508 Compliance Rules

eLearning Brothers

508 compliance—it’s the hottest topic in eLearning! Okay, that might be a stretch, but creating accessible learning is worth talking about, especially if you are employed by—or creating eLearning for—a federal agency. On January 18, 2017, the United States Access Board published a final rule that jointly updates requirements for information and communication technology (ICT) covered by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 255 of the Communication Act.

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3 Tips for Creating an Online Course Quickly

LearnDash

When it comes to online courses sometimes time is money. The longer it takes, the more money you lose (or lose out on). The good news is that there are things you can do to you can get your course released in a timely fashion. However, I should mention that you should never sacrifice the quality of your course simply so that you can “get something out there” A thorough course that arrives later to the market is better than a poorly done one that is available early.

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5 Things to Do When the Solution Shouldn’t Have Been Training

Allen Interactions

Let’s be honest, shall we? If you’ve been in this industry more than eight weeks, you’ve probably been involved in a solution which possibly, maybe, (very, very probably) shouldn’t have been training.

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Visual design trends for 2018: top 5 takeaways for learning

Kineo

Visuals don’t just add intrigue and excitement to learning, they also serve a valuable role in terms of memory and retention of content, as well as aiding navigation. Designers use layouts, typography and font changes to emphasis key points and draw out important messages. By demonstrating the hierarchy of content, visuals can be used to create a sense of order and establish links between ideas. .

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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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4 Pain-Free Methods for Using LinkedIn for Learning

InSync Training

LinkedIn is a powerful tool in our personal learning toolkit. It not only connects us with our peers, but enables us to network with thought-leaders and contribute meaningfully to discussion subjects about which we're passionate. Guest blogger Jenny Holt provides guidance on how individuals (and even teams) can use this professional networking social platform for professional development.

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Search for the Agile Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

Modern organizations need agile learners. Given the pace of change due to technology, globalization, workforce diversity, and hyper-competition, people need to continually acquire and apply new knowledge, skills, and values at a rate unheard of in previous eras. As we explain in our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy , simple and routine jobs are being replaced by automation and robots.

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2017 in Review: Thinkzoom Learning Management System Updates

ej4 eLearning

2017 was a year of growth and innovation for ej4. To get a better look at what drove change in the past year, we sat down with ej4's Chief Technology Officer, Tom Lynch, to take a look back at the learning mangement system updates made to Thinkzoom in 2017. "The goal of all our updates is to make the content and experience more engaging to learners," says Lynch.

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Sam Rogers – Just Do the Thing

Learningtogo

Listen to Podcast: [link]. Sam Rogers is the author of “Just Do the Thing: A Guide” and creates engaging learning for clients including: Google, Capital One, Deloitte, and AAA. As President of Snap Synapse, he speaks frequently at conferences sharing his passion for solving the problems that matter and inspiring audiences to action. I got together with Sam to talk about his book and his work as a learning consultant.

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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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Expert Advice from Catherine Lombardozzi: Learning Environment Design

InSync Training

Creating the right learning environment constitutes an important step in the modern instructional design process. Without an authentic setting , training programs fail, and learners don’t gain the knowledge they need to perform their jobs effectively. What do we need to consider when incorporating learning environment design into our approach? To get started, Catherine Lombardozzi, author of Learning Environments by Design , encourages us to ask, “How do I make a comprehensive learning strategy

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ELEARNING PRODUCTION: iOS 11 Makes Mobile Demos a Snap (or a Tap)

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, CTT, COTP. Not so long ago we were tasked with creating an eLearning project that included a software demonstration of an iPhone mobile app. We experimented with several techniques for capturing the app including using a program that reflected the iPhone onto the computer. (To reflect our iPhone to the computer, we used a program called, wait for it, Reflector.

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eLearning Trends for 2018

Association eLearning

Every year around this time, we discuss the eLearning trends for the year. What’s hot? What’s not? What are we all going to be talking about? THESE ARE THE ELEARNING TRENDS FOR 2018. VR/AR. While VR and AR have been talked about in recent years, we think the excitement will grow. As costs have come down, and the technology has improved, the old problems have been going away.

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Key Tools for Franchise Growth

Wisetail

The Wisetail LMS supports franchise growth with a modern and intuitive user-interface, multi-level reporting, and advanced training tools. The post Key Tools for Franchise Growth appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.