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What Is a Skills Taxonomy? And Why Is Your Competency Model Obsolete?

Degreed

A skills taxonomy can help you make sense of what your people can offer as you work toward achieving business goals. A skills taxonomy is: A hierarchical system of classification that can categorize and organize skills in groups or “skill clusters.” For example, the ability to communicate effectively is a competency.

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How to Create Effective Test Questions

CourseArc

If every student answers a question correctly, does that mean your question is too easy, or is it a perfect example of an effective test question? As a general rule, a good question tests the 6-levels of intellectual understanding, as espoused in Bloom’s Taxonomy : Knowledge. How to Create Effective Tests and Quizzes.

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The RETAIN Model for Creating Effective Courses

TalentLMS

It is not uncommon to address eLearning content as games, especially when game-like elements like scores and time-based assessments are added to the program. It’s amazing how time and effort effective, teaching becomes when eLearning environments use the correct images and multimedia. eLearning is more about “showing” than “telling”.

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The RETAIN Model for Creating Effective Courses

TalentLMS

It is not uncommon to address eLearning content as games, especially when game-like elements like scores and time-based assessments are added to the program. It’s amazing how time and effort effective, teaching becomes when eLearning environments use the correct images and multimedia. eLearning is more about “showing” than “telling”.

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5 common eLearning assessment mistakes (and how to fix them)

BrightCarbon

eLearning assessment definitions Before we get jump right in, here are a few definitions of important terms you’ll see in this post: Validity = An assessment is valid if learners who know the content get high scores, but learners who don’t know the content get low scores. These scores can be high or low, as long as they’re consistent.

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A framework for discoverability

CLO Magazine

A first step and probably the most cost-effective route to relevant content is to put learning content standards into place, accompanied by sensible governance processes. Some of Filtered’s clients have found that email campaigns with vibrant, high-quality surprising content can be hugely effective at spreading the word.

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Designing effective eLearning assessments Part 1: Assess for success

BrightCarbon

In these four posts we’ll cover a lot of ground, taking you on a journey through the theory behind effective eLearning assessments and practical tips for building assessments it in three different authoring tools: Microsoft PowerPoint, Articulate Rise, and Articulate Storyline. Should you score eLearning assessments? eLearning quizzes.