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9 Time Management Tips for L&D Professionals

Thinkdom

Working and clarifying with vendors - Coordinating with external parties requires a lot of patience and good communication. Urgent tasks need to be done immediately, like responding to an urgent call to finalize the budget with a vendor or fixing technical issues during a training session. Online courses are another great resource.

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Did you know? Learning Systems Vol 3

eLearning 24-7

A vendor says “elearning course” ignoring that it really has a hyphen between the e and the l. I never understood why a vendor does this. Why can’t a vendor simply say video? A lot of vendors will list the publisher of the content, as if some learner says, “Holy Moly – you have IT skills?

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A.I., XR, Digital Twin – Which will drive Learning Technology?

eLearning 24-7

“It’s a terrible product.” There are already a couple of vendors, in the works with it, and at least one, Firmwater, who says they have added it to their learning system (I have been promised a demo). From a learning system standpoint, and an e-learning tool/product or even generative A.I. Those were the days.

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The Latest – Learning System RFI Template

eLearning 24-7

Let’s face it – RFI/RFP documents sent over to learning system vendors are massive tomes that confuse, challenge and even baffle some vendors. Maybe it is the product. These comments are for you, not the vendor. They can be 25 pages. 50 pages, even 100 pages or more. Maybe it is your salesperson.

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Questions to Ask Ur Prospective LMS Vendor

eLearning 24-7

Do you offer the ability to have people sign up for multiple seminars within the system? Where do the seminars, etc. Do you have a calendar whereas someone can click on the date and the seminars or webinars appear Or is it just a list of events (if you offer that)? . Does your system offer a waitlist feature? It is optional.

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History of the LMS

eLearning 24-7

CBT Prior to online learning known then as WBT, and then the latter term of e-learning (vendors today, use it to refer to content that is online), there was CBT. You could say for everyone learner or just a group of learners, you could do this for every publisher that the vendor offered. WBT (Web-Based Training). Sure folks.

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Product Review: BlueVolt

eLearning 24-7

Ability to offer ads for products or ads to specific sections for folks to visit – for each child (sub-portal) - yes – every child can be skinned to look a different way then the parent. Featured Items- this can be WBT, seminars – online or offline (ILT), resources, videos, etc. Social Learning – No.