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Unlimited vacation policy: Pros, cons, and how to make it work for your company

TalentLMS

It’s so common that many companies now offer unlimited vacation policies as an employee benefit. At first glance, an unlimited vacation policy might seem like an ideal solution for keeping your teams happy. Or will it hinder productivity as employees take advantage of the policy, choosing to “ play hard and hardly work ”?

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Motivating Learners to Look Up Compliance Policies Themselves

Experiencing eLearning

Setting the course up with a scenario helps learners understand why the policies matter. Instead of being so boring that employees just want to click through a course as quickly as possible, this strategy gives learners a reason to actively seek out policy information and better understand it.

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How to Empower Instructional Designers to Make Corporate Learning Effective

Raptivity

The guess is right – instructional designers – and the creative ways they come up with for remote corporate training. Instructional Design and Why It Matters. Though it is a creative process, instructional designers, or IDs, extensively make use of technology in developing better course content. Making Learning Collaborative.

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The wisdom of instruction

Clark Quinn

In my ‘application-based instruction’ model , I talk about giving learners challenges that do require 21 C skills in natural ways. This thinking has already led me to create a question on evaluating policy tradeoffs for the mobile course I’m developing. We need to keep the societal implications involved.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out." Whether it’s Compliance, HIPAA, Policies & Procedures, or any other “dry” topic, there are still ways to make this content come to life. This doesn’t have to be true.

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Overqualified Instructional Designers?

Experiencing eLearning

It wasn’t an official policy, but the consensus was that anyone with a terminal degree would be bored working as an ID on our team. It isn’t something I’ve seen for instructional designers as individual contributors. Filed under: Careers & Work , Instructional Design.

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Contacting Policy Makers -- Will it Make a Difference?

eLearning Evangelist

Our past experience with emergency remote instruction (sometimes called virtual education) was generally not the best experience. (I One colleague suggested that the state legislative education committees might be a way to influence policy. In 1960 a computer-based instruction, called Plato began. Language is important.