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Chunking Information to Design eLearning

B Online Learning

This blog post covers a recent online conversation I had with an attendee at one of our eLearning Design Essentials workshops. I thought it might be useful to share our conversation with some of you. How do I convert a large training manual into a short eLearning module? One of the ways we achieve this is through ‘chunking’. Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information.

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3 Reasons to Invest in Leadership Development

Infopro Learning

Leadership: Nurture vs Nature. Natural leaders are hard to come by. At least that’s the common perception. We don’t see it that way. Leadership like other skills is affected by natural ability, but that natural ability must be nurtured and developed. Every once in great while, a musical prodigy will be born with the raw talent to re-write our understanding of sound without formal education.

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How to Engage Your Learners Using Viral Videos

OpenSesame

Why did people assume an Asian woman in the BBC news video was the nanny? . By now, most of the Internet seems to have seen the video of a BBC interview being interrupted by two small children. International Relations Professor Robert Kelly’s interview about South Korea was briefly interrupted when his two small children walked in. He managed to keep his composure until a woman rushed in and ushered the two young intruders out. . . .

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Case Study: Vistaprint Hacks a Path to eLearning Solutions by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Vistaprint applies the “hackathon” approach to developing eLearning—with astounding results!

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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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How to Get Started Writing a Branching Scenario for Learning

Experiencing eLearning

In a recent conversation, a colleague asked, “Once you and your client have agreed on a branching scenario approach, how do you get started writing it? How do you get from the broad concept of training on X topic to actually creating the scenario?” The short answer is to “begin with the end in mind.” Let me walk you through the process of analysis and preparation I do before writing a scenario.

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5 Stages of Workplace Learning (Revisited in 2017)

Jane Hart

New article in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine “In this article I take a look at how workplace learning has changed over the last 10+ years and its necessary future direction.

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WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY: The Problem with Popups

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Mary Gillen, COTP. Do you have content, such as a survey, on your website that automatically opens in a popup window? If the answer is yes, it's likely that your website will fail compliance testing. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ( WCAG 2.0)  define how to make web content as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.

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How to Make Sure Your Course Meets Its Learning Objectives

CourseArc

Scientists, economists, accountants, and mathematicians all have one thing in common: they all deal in “absolutes.” They follow rules, theories, or laws governing the objectives they espouse, and they measure the outcomes of their efforts against those objectives. Instructional designers are guided by these same types of parameters when ensuring their courses meet specific learning objectives.

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LMS Key Features Facilitate eLearning

TOPYX LMS

There’s no denying that LMS key features facilitate eLearning. If you’re unsure as to what eLearning is then you are not alone. ‘eLearning’ is a red-hot term these days. According to eLearning NC, “Understanding eLearning is simple. eLearning is learning utilizing electronic technologies to access educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom.

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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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With a New Website Comes New Goals

LearnDash

Notice anything different? If this is your first time visiting LearnDash, then probably not. However, if you have been here before then you likely see that we have done a bit of updating! It is with great pleasure that I get to write today to unveil the new design of LearnDash.com, and not just because of the fresh new look but because with the new design comes our updated approach to the e-learning market.

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Adobe Captivate: Introducing 2017

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, COTP. Adobe recently announced a upgrade to Adobe Captivate, its popular eLearning development tool.   According to Adobe's Allen Partridge, Captivate version 2017 , includes several new features including something called Fluid Boxes. "To understand Fluid Boxes, you need to first imagine the various items on the screen are each contained in a virtual rectangle," said Partridge.

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Getting Started with Games in PowerPoint

eLearning Brothers

Video games have always been and still are something that I love playing. The movement and design of objects are very captivating and keep me entertained for hours on end. That is why many developers and presenters put serious time into the graphical representation of their message. This approach is most often applied to quizzes (whether SCORM compliant or not).

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Curated Insights: Busting Workplace Learning Myths

Axonify

Welcome to fake news, L&D edition! The existence of bad information (a.k.a. lies) is far from new. It just moves faster, looks prettier and is more easily accessed today thanks to the Internet. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for people to get sucked into the misinformation vortex nowadays, especially when bad information either confirms an existing bias or just sounds too good NOT to be true. .

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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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Maximize Online Course Sales With SEO

LearnDash

FREE Training: “How To Use SEO To Maximize Your Online Course Sales”. When: Tuesday, April 18th @ 1PM EST (UTC -0400). Sign-Up: [link]. Tell me if this sounds familiar… You spend months researching a topic that your passionate about and organizing it into a comprehensive course. There isn’t really anything else out there like your course.

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What you learn not as important as how you learn!

Clark Quinn

I’m going a bit out on a limb here, with a somewhat heretical statement: what you learn is more important than how you learn ! (You could say pedagogy supersedes curricula, but that’s just being pedantic. ;) And I’m pushing the boundaries of the concept a bit, but I think it’s worth floating as an idea. It’s meta-learning, of course, learning how to learn!

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Beyond The Power Lunch: The Networking Edge You Need To Know

Dashe & Thomson

Networking is not a new concept. It used to mean the power lunch, golfing with colleagues, or drinks after work. Then came the growth of associations, conferences, and trade shows. And now networking has changed dramatically with online resources like LinkedIn and Facebook. “Networking” used to be a buzzword; today it’s almost cliché. Often the connotation can be a bit negative, associated with sales or job searching.

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Ameliorate Your eLearning Professional Development with 1-on-1 Mentoring

eLearning Brothers

We at eLearning Brothers have just recently released the all new Professional Development Package. If it had to be explained in one sentence, it is a package that contains 1-on-1 mentoring with an eLearning Brothers “mentor,” a membership to either The eLearning Guild or ATD, and a subscription to the most well-known self-paced video training library on the planet.

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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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Curated Insights: Busting Workplace Learning Myths

Axonify

Welcome to fake news, L&D edition! The existence of bad information (a.k.a. lies) is far from new. It just moves faster, looks prettier and is more easily accessed today thanks to the Internet. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for people to get sucked into the misinformation vortex nowadays, especially when bad information either confirms an existing bias or just sounds too good NOT to be true. .

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Top 10 Tools for @C4LPT 2017

Clark Quinn

Jane Hart is running her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning poll (you can vote too), and here’s my contribution for this year. These are my personal learning tools, and are ordered according to Harold Jarche’s Seek-Sense-Share models, as ways to find answers, to process them, and to share for feedback: Google Search is my go-to tool when I come across something I haven’t heard of.

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How to Conduct Productive Training Meetings At Work

InSync Training

Training and development are extremely important components of employee satisfaction and engagement. Appropriate training and development opportunities also play a factor in your staff's ability to be productive throughout the day. In fact, a recent study found that 87 percent of Millennial-aged employees list opportunity for training and career advancement as extremely important in their job search.

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This Is Your Learner’s Brain on Coffee

Learningtogo

It’s been called “ America’s number one drug problem ” and “ a miracle drug for the tired.” Onsite training programs often provide coffee as a refreshment for learners and instructors alike, and its presence in the workplace is so expected that coffee frequently appears on the list of top perks offered in desirable workplaces. But what is it, really?

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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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Upcoming Webinar - Employee Training and Its Impact on Productivity, Retention and Revenue

Raptivity

Research states that one-third of new hires quit their job after about six months and disengagement costs billions (US$343 billion annually). Well, most employees want to do a good job and feel satisfied when their efforts make a difference to their workplace. But more often than not, employees need to be trained continually to feel engaged, to keep learning, to keep performing well, and to keep growing.

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9 STEPS TO DEFINING A WORKPLACE ELEARNING STRATEGY THAT WORKS

Learnnovators

The post 9 STEPS TO DEFINING A WORKPLACE ELEARNING STRATEGY THAT WORKS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Adam Cannon Responds to #AskMeMonday on Captivate 2017

eLearning Brothers

In light of last week’s release of Adobe Captivate 2017, our #AskMeMonday was focused on that topic. We received a really good question that I’d like to address more in depth. @eLearningBros @aqcannon Adam, what’s been your favorite change made to Captivate 2017 from Captivate 9? #AskMeMonday. — Justin (@justinstallings) April 17, 2017. My response on Twitter was brief and needs a bit more explanation.

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Maintaining the Cool Factor in E-Learning—Without Blowing Your Budget

ATD Learning Technologies

The company wants you to keep costs down. You want to keep the e-learning course interesting. You really can create e-learning content on a budget—if you’re willing to be a little creative. Fortunately, there are ways to save money and still deliver effective, high-quality e-learning. Don’t cut corners on getting the content right and having effective instructional design.

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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.