7 Considerations When Implementing a Hybrid Virtual Learning Strategy
InSync Training
AUGUST 4, 2023
Mastering Hybrid Learning This post is reprinted from the July 2023 Issue of HR.com Employee Learning & Development Excellence.
How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills
Absorb LMS
JUNE 6, 2013
Keeping and contributing regularly to a personal learning journal can be an effective way to encourage reflection and develop critical thinking skills. Third, it isn’t just that writing a journal stimulates thought — it allows us to look at ourselves, our feelings, and our actions in a different way.
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Best Practices and Strategies to Implement Experiential Learning Design
Hurix Digital
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
These methods range from internships and apprenticeships, providing hands-on work experience, to service learning that combines academic learning with community service. Each technique focuses on the practical application of knowledge, aiming to offer a comprehensive and immersive learning experience.
Hacking Digital Learning Strategies #Bookreview
Learning with e's
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Hacking Digital Learning Strategies sounds quite a daunting title for a book of practical ideas, but with the cartoon spaceman on the cover, readers will know they are in for a fun ride with plenty of happiness along the way. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.
Navigating the Learning Curve in the Pharmaceutical Field: Tips and Strategies
Infopro Learning
MARCH 31, 2023
The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated and complex field that requires professionals to continuously learn and evolve with the latest scientific advancements, regulatory changes, and market trends. The post Navigating the Learning Curve in the Pharmaceutical Field: Tips and Strategies first appeared on Infopro Learning.
Reality bites
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Subjects who are compelled to participate in these activities may not behave in the same manner as when they are not; which could, for example, complicate your informal learning strategy. Yet despite the plethora of journals and books and reports and articles, we’ve all struggled to find coverage of that one specific topic.
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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy
Absorb LMS
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Studies published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that people who sit for the majority of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of a heart attack. How dangerous is sitting for long periods? The bad news is that exercise has little impact if it does not replace time sitting.
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190 How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy
Absorb LMS
OCTOBER 25, 2012
Studies published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that people who sit for the majority of the day are 54 percent more likely to die of a heart attack. How dangerous is sitting for long periods? The bad news is that exercise has little impact if it does not replace time sitting.
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Choose the Right Modalities for Your Blended Learning Strategy
Cinecraft
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Are you trying to decide which modalities or delivery methods to use in your blended learning strategy? This article will help you choose the ones that work together seamlessly to meet your learning objectives and engage every learner. Modality Ideas For Blended Learning. Customize And Revise Your Training As Needed.
Learner Engagement: Behavioral, Cognitive, & Affective
Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Cognitive engagement can be defined as “mental effort and thinking strategies.” ” This can include using learning strategies and persisting through challenges. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies , 68 (4), 223–241. Cognitive engagement. rehearsing and rereading). doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.12.003.
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Growing v. Scaling an Organization: Using Technology to Drive Success & ROI
Xyleme
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Growth refers to increasing revenue as a result of being in business,” explains Spend Journal ’ s Patrick Whatman. “It Liz Matthews, Rogers Communications Senior Director of Learning Innovation & Business Solutions. Though often used interchangeably, "growing" and "scaling" an organization are not the same.
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Citations
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
In both cases I generally don’t go to the extent of journal article links, because I’m not expect that folks have easy access to them, and so prefer to cite more commonly available resources, like books that have ‘digested’ the research. And, realize I don’t have easy access to journals either.
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Microlearning Malarkey
Clark Quinn
JUNE 27, 2018
The article goes on to cite a bunch of facts from the Journal of Applied Psychology. It starts citing the journal for one piece of data, that’s a reasonable effect (17% improvement for chunking). The reference, however could mislead you to believe that the rest of the statistics were also from the journal! Not happening.
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Dr. Nanette Miner – Closing the Thinking Gap
Learningtogo
JUNE 23, 2017
In our podcast, speaker, author and learning strategy advisor Dr. Nanette Miner unveils her plan to help employers close the thinking gap. Radio and is often quoted in news media like the Huffington Post, Fast Company, BBC, and numerous industry and trade journals.
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Podcast: Dr. Nanette Miner – Closing the Thinking Gap
Learningtogo
JUNE 23, 2017
In our podcast, speaker, author and learning strategy advisor Dr. Nanette Miner unveils her plan to help employers close the thinking gap. Radio and is often quoted in news media like the Huffington Post, Fast Company, BBC, and numerous industry and trade journals.
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Social and Emotional Learning – Part 1: What it is and Why it Matters
ansrsource - Accelerating Better Ways to Learn!
JULY 4, 2022
Arya sits at her table and pulls out her journal. Picture this: Ten-year-old Arya enters the classroom and is greeted by her friend Claire, who is the greeter for the week. She first colors in the yellow quadrant of her ‘Mood Meter’ because she’s feeling motivated and excited. On the board is a prompt: Today, […].
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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 5 Growth, Stagnancy, or Decline
Infopro Learning
JUNE 7, 2016
Sustainable business development: inventing the future through strategy, innovation, and leadership.” Journal of Business and Public Affairs, 2(1), 1-16. About the author: Kyle Miller is an enterprise learning consultant with InfoPro Learning based out of Princeton, NJ. Cambridge University Press. Foong-ming, T.
Why Dynamism Is Key In Today's Learning Strategies
There Is No Chalk
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education has posted a story about Professor Jeremy Littau at Lehigh University, and how he has used not only social media, but a range of other modern paradigms like crowdsourcing to teach his university journalism classes. In fact, his students were.
Microlearning Madness: 25 Great Resources
Knowledge Guru
MAY 18, 2016
Micro-learning as a workplace learning strategy: Sahan Chattopadhyay, ID and Other Reflections ( Link ). Is Micro-Learning the Solution You Need? Why companies are moving to microlearning platforms for training, Simon T Bailey, The Business Journals ( Link ). Is Microlearning a Myth?
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Five training articles (and a podcast) for generating hot ideas this winter
Cloudshare
JANUARY 17, 2020
LMS as the Engine of the Learning Ecosystem – The learning ecosystem is evolving. Learners will find blended-learning strategies most effective in enabling them to learn, apply, and refine what they’ve learned. Training Industry’s Top 10 Articles of 2019 – Want to read (a lot) more?
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3 ways to build adaptive global workforce skills
CLO Magazine
APRIL 19, 2023
Digitized resilience is relevant and accessible to global workforces and has proven to be learnable with improvements benefiting from the “dosing effect,” meaning that improvement in resilience is commensurate with time spent learning. On the other hand, those with low resilience are 32 percent less likely to be open to learning.
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102 Learning Research by Annie Murphy Paul: Distributed Practice, Repetition and More
Knowledge Guru
OCTOBER 2, 2013
Re-reading material, highlighting and underlining key points were all deemed “ineffective” learning tactics by the research, showing little value beyond simply reading the text. Murphy Paul notes that “the learning strategies with the most evidence to support them aren’t well known outside the psych lab.”
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How To Keep Your Employees Engaged During Training: 8 Strategies for Success
Roundtable Learning
JUNE 10, 2021
As a full-service learning partner, we’ve uncovered the most effective strategies for keeping learners engaged during training. . This article will cover 8 strategies for keeping your learners focused during training through engaging content and learning strategies. . Learning portal. Welcome package.
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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 13, 2021
Mike Taylor
AUGUST 13, 2021
Interspersing rest with practice during training is advantageous for learning a new skill. In fact, virtually all early skill learning is evidenced during rest rather than during the actual practice. The work appears in the journal Cell Reports. Buch et al., How to get the most out of an interview with a subject matter expert.
Play and the Adult Learner: Test Your Knowledge!
KnowledgeOne
JUNE 14, 2022
While games are essential to the development of children, we now know that they also have educational benefits for adults, enabling them to develop their values and attitudes : openness to new experiences, curiosity, risk-taking and the ability to learn from failure. C) remove barriers to learning. Journal of Teaching and LearningVol.
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105 Why I’m Getting Tired of All These Stories
Learningtogo
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
If you’re going to use stories as learning strategy, make sure you are having the desired effect. After all, reading peer-reviewed scientific journals can be intimidating, and many of them are hidden behind paywalls that make our jobs even harder. Just because it’s a story about you doesn’t mean that I’m going to care about it.
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Games in Learning: Review of Grockit.com
Dashe & Thomson
JUNE 6, 2011
What’s not to love about a learning strategy that is informative and empirically proven to be effective, yet engaging and entertaining at the same time? One of the most interesting ideas I came across was detailed in a Technology article from the Wall Street Journal , reviewing a new web-based test prep company called Grockit.
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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Judy Whitcomb
CLO Magazine
MARCH 4, 2021
During my career at United Airlines, I learned early on that I had a knack for distilling complex — and at times voluminous — amounts of information, and training my colleagues. I started as a journalism major in college. Additionally, a robust strategy should contain strategies to motivate and engage employees.
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Free learning & development webinars for January 2024
Limestone Learning
JANUARY 3, 2024
Organizations need to align their L&D teams with their Gen AI strategy and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure employees are equipped to support growth and development. Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 11 a.m.–12 Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 11 a.m.–12
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79 SME-Dependent Content Is Broken - Tip #195
Vignettes Learning
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Evolving learning strategies to keep pace with the modern workforce. We need to redefine SMEs as "those who can do something and know something," with expertise no matter how big or small, but can contribute now and today. References The Library of Economics and Liberty/Al Ehrbar. Supply Shelley Osborne.
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How to Design a Distance-Friendly Blended Learning Experience
Instilled
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
During the recent webinar, ‘ Distance Learning: Strategies, Approaches and Content ’, Andrew Joly, Director of Strategic Design at our sister company LEO Learning , offered his expertise on some of the key requirements for delivering a successful distance learning program. Step 1: Align.
Training and Development Strategy
Ed App
JULY 7, 2021
Analyzing business strategies first allows pinpointing key skills and areas of interest which will help outline the learning strategy for the staff. For example, if your company’s interest lies in social media marketing, you need to make sure to incorporate relevant training into your strategies. Sources: [link].
2016 Reflections on Games and Gamification for Learning
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 20, 2016
For example, I spoke with a reporter from the Wall Street Journal in 2016 about the increased interest in using gamification for helping to select job candidates. These are the learning strategies that need to be used to launch VR successfully within an organization. In the article, Play This Game and Win a Job! Scavenger Hunt.
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Degreed LENS 2021: Insightful, Inspirational, and In-Person
Degreed
AUGUST 5, 2021
Degreed LENS 2021 , our annual flagship conference, will bring together the most innovative leaders in both business and learning to talk about how you can harness the power of upskilling and learning strategies across your organization. Dan Pontefract , Founder and CEO of the Pontefract Group, is this year’s LENS moderator.
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52 Why Reflect? The Role of Reflection in the Learning Process
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 7, 2015
The Importance of Journal Keeping Journaling is key to my reflection. So, I begin to suspect that journaling may have very little to do with writing and going back to your notes. Here are some advantages that I discovered about journaling. • Journal entries make you more aware of the learning that has taken place.
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That’s a Wrap: The Top 10 Resources of 2019 for Upskilling Your Workforce
Degreed
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Degreed, where I’m Chief Learning Officer, recently conducted this research with Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning to produce the latest report on the status of corporate learning strategies and technologies. 9 Why Companies are Failing at Reskilling, Wall Street Journal. Purchase the book here.
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Micro-Learning: The New Way of Learning for Employee Training
Designing Digitally
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Micro-learning is learning in short, bite-sized units. It is emerging as the latest learning strategy and can close a knowledge or skill gap pretty fast. Description: Here are some reasons why micro-learning is way ahead of competition from other modes of employee training. How does that happen?
The Best Learning and Development Research of 2016: Part 1
Cognology
FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Last year saw a host of learning and development studies published that provided interesting (and potentially game-changing) insight into how we learn at work. I’ve picked out three that I think have the potential to kick your 2017 learning strategies up a gear, and will be sharing their findings over the course of the next few weeks.
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Applications, Not Apps
TechSmith Camtasia
MARCH 6, 2014
Written by guest author, Ben Rimes and adapted from his blog post “ 4 Recursive Practices for Teaching and Learning ” for the Learning Lounge newsletter. Applications of effective learning strategies are where it’s at now. Apps are overrated.
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99 Be a Persuasive Storyteller in Social Media - Tip #128
Vignettes Learning
APRIL 6, 2017
Cultivating Social Presence in the Online Learning Classroom: A Literature Review with Recommendations for Practice. International Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning: Vol. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education: Vol. 3, March 2008 Julie E. Kendall and Kenneth E.
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56 Microlearning: What is it? And What Benefits does it Offer?
Learnkit
MAY 18, 2016
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that 90 percent of new skills are lost within a year of training ! Microlearning breaks new knowledge down into short chunks making learning easier to digest, understand, and apply on the job. Help learners better retain new knowledge.
Incorporating Play Into Learning Design
Vignettes Learning
AUGUST 1, 2016
Eberle, Ph.D , vice president for play studies at The Strong and editor of the American Journal of Play. American Journal of Play, Volume 2, Number 3. Learning to Play Again: A Constructivist Workshop for Adults. Beyond the Journal, Young Children on the Web, May 2003 Terhi Kouvo. Avery, 2009 Kuschner, David.
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Free learning & development webinars for April 2023
Limestone Learning
MARCH 30, 2023
Join Jason Lauritsen, Keynote Speaker and Management Trainer, and Katie Ballantyne, VP of Global Learning Strategy and Innovation at Cornerstone, for practical strategies on fostering career growth and aligning employee development goals with critical business initiatives. Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 11 a.m.–12
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Hire the heart and train the brain
Litmos
JULY 19, 2018
It is without irony that I share this fact: In a Wall Street Journal survey of over 900 executives, 92% reported soft skills, including communication, curiosity, and critical thinking are as important as technical skills. Why "core skills" matter. The post Hire the heart and train the brain appeared first on Litmos.
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