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Is Articulate Storyline 360 a cost-effective tool for eLearning content development?

Swift eLearning Services

Articulate Storyline 360 is a powerful eLearning tool. Using this tool we can create interactive, engaging, gamified and customized eLearning courses compatible with mobile devices supporting touch screen gesture. So, why Articulate Storyline 360 is a cost effective tool? To develop an effective eLearning course, the ingredients required are Content, Avatar, Images, Audio and Video.

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If I Could Only Attend One Live Event Per Year…

Adobe Captivate

When I participate in events like the 2018 Adobe eLearning Conference , we call them speaking engagements, and that’s certainly part of it. I like to think about this as really an instructor-led classroom session. My YouTube tutorials are often five to ten minutes of instruction, but what I do at the Adobe Live Events is a full hour of demonstration (I don’t use PowerPoint).

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7 Tips To Stay Ahead Of eLearning Trends And Adapt To Changes

Infopro Learning

Are you up to date with the latest eLearning technologies and methodologies? In this article, I’ll share 7 tips to adapt to changes and stay ahead of eLearning trends. How To Stay Ahead OF eLearning Trends And Adapt To Changes. Part of the eLearning job description is identifying top eLearning trends and then using them to our advantage. We have to read up on all the latest software, strategies, gadgets, and theories to create the most powerful eLearning content for our modern learners.

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The Gamification of Corporate Training

Association eLearning

Although gamification and game-based learning have been around for a few years, only recently are training departments beginning to take these learning and engagement methods seriously. However, convincing the CEO that gamification works is a tougher challenge. The perception that playing games isn’t really training still lingers in the minds of the c-suite.

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From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology

Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles.

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Avoid This Pitfall in Conversational Writing for eLearning

Experiencing eLearning

We often talk about conversational writing for elearning. A conversational tone flows better in voice over and leads to better learning outcomes. However, I occasionally see examples of elearning where the narrator pretends to be in a literal conversation with the learners. Do you know what kinds of questions generate deeper responses from clients? That’s right, open-ended questions.

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7 Tips To Stay Ahead Of eLearning Trends And Adapt To Changes

Infopro Learning

Are you up to date with the latest eLearning technologies and methodologies? In this article, I’ll share 7 tips to adapt to changes and stay ahead of eLearning trends. How To Stay Ahead OF eLearning Trends And Adapt To Changes. Part of the eLearning job description is identifying top eLearning trends and then using them to our advantage. We have to read up on all the latest software, strategies, gadgets, and theories to create the most powerful eLearning content for our modern learners.

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How Digital Badges are Driving a Positive Transformation in Corporate Learning  

Origin Learning

Statista shows some incredible numbers in terms of the money being spent in the United States on training and learning. In 2012, roughly US$55.8 billion was spent on training. This value shot to US$93.6 billion in 2017. Despite the economic recession and slow-down and turbulent global markets; there is consistent investment in training staff and helping them work better.

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Do you have the right data to make adaptive learning work?

Axonify

We’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again here: If your approach to microlearning isn’t adaptive , you’re only halfway there. These two strategies go hand-in-hand and place one important, common element at the very center: the employee. Adaptive learning is a key component of an overall microlearning strategy because it’s the part that captures and analyzes learning data continuously to truly personalize content to the individual—and this is absolutely crucial for providing impactful training

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LearnDash Highly Ranked in the LMS Industry

LearnDash

Yes! WordPress can be a viable learning management system, and LearnDash is helping to lead the way. Let’s travel back in time to 2012. March 2012 to be exact. This was the time that I considered the idea of WordPress as a learning management system after attending a client meeting where we were discussing open source LMS options. After that meeting I turned to my colleague and told them how I thought WordPress would be a really cool LMS if done correctly.

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The Best Skills Analysis Tools for Upskilling

Faster than ever, the world is shifting and shaping how people work, exposing and creating deep skill divides across industries and around the world. As a result, business and HR leaders are scrambling to “upskill” employees. If you’re scrambling to upskill your employees but don’t know where to start, make skills analysis a routine part of your decision-making process.

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Organizational Learning in the Gig Economy

The Simple Shift

According to a 2016 article in Quartz that 94% of net job growth in the past decade was in the alternative work category,’ with over 60% being due to the rise of independent contractors, freelancers and contract company workers. If this shift continues to trend up, more organizations will need to alter their long-held beliefs […].

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What Hurts? Addressing Two Common L&D Pain Points

InSync Training

Virtually There Session Recap. The last ten years brought us a digital revolution. New technologies and applications changed the way we live our lives. More interestingly, perhaps, is the impact this decade has had on how we behave. As consumers, we are radically different than previous generations. We want effective solutions to our problems immediately, and thanks to platforms like Amazon, that’s not an unreasonable request.

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How to Buy eLearning Content for Your LMS (And Not Regret It Later)

ej4 eLearning

Buying eLearning content is easy, but shopping for content can be a nightmare. There are so many options and factors you need to consider to ensure you’re getting the right content for your organization. Then there’s a fear of buyer’s remorse.

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Using Ontraport with LearnDash

LearnDash

Combining a powerful CRM with WordPress and LearnDash allows you to create an engaging learning platform. Ontraport has long been a staple CRM for small and medium businesses all over the world. Its feature-set allows business owners the ability to create automation funnels, develop proactive email campaigns, collect payments, create sales pages, and so much more.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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Consciously Considering Consciousness

Clark Quinn

Consciousness is an interesting artifact of our cognitive architecture. And no, (despite being a native Californian ;) I’m not talking about social or environmental or higher consciousness. Here I’m talking about our conscious thinking, the insight we have (or not) into our own internal thinking. And it’s interesting and relevant.

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3 Ways eLearning Benefits Multinational Corporations

TOPYX LMS

From the end of the 1960s to 2006, the number of multinational corporations grew from 7,000 to at least 80,000.¹ For this type of steadily growing corporation, training is key to success. Multinational corporations have geographically widespread workforces often comprised of huge numbers of individuals of varying cultures. This can make designing, delivering, tracking, and reporting on training a challenge.

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Exclusive Preview! Engaging Modern Learners: When to Push and When to Pull [eBook]

InSync Training

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the modern classroom. What makes it different? How is it the same? There’s also been discussion about the fact that the way people learn in this modern classroom has not actually changed at all. Learners still need relevant, timely, and well-designed content. The foundational concepts behind adult learning principles still apply.

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6 Ways to Encourage Informal Learning in the Workplace

LearnDash

How to help build informal learning habits in your office. For almost any business, the key to staying ahead in a competitive marketplace rests in the hands of its employees. Finding and retaining talented team members can be a challenge, and doing so often means providing ways for those employees to develop and grow. While many organizations turn to various formal learning courses, they should also consider the benefits of informal learning.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Engagement Lacking? Try Enabling the “DO” at Point-of-Work

Living in Learning

A Training Needs Assessment is NOT going to deliver the mail; however, a Learning Performance Assessment targeting role-specific/task-centric challenges at PoW will reveal sources of frustration otherwise overlooked…defaulting to explanations of failure based on the inability of training to equip the performer to perform…the quality of training…the poor training experience…yada…yada.

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6 Tips for Creating the Best SCORM Compliant LMS Content

TOPYX LMS

SCORM, or Sharable Content Object Reference Model, defines a standard for developing e-learning content to be used on any SCORM compliant LMS platform.

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You can use Twitter to get new ideas to do your work in a better way

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Would you like to show off at work with great ideas? This week I did some intakes for a course about learning technologies which is starting next Monday and I realized that actually very few people are using Twitter. Yes, they do have a Twitter account and may have a look at their timeline some times, but it is not helping them to do their work in a more innovative way.

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Big Brained: Smart Ways to Look at eLearning Development

eLearning Brothers

Stuck in an eLearning development rut? Sometimes you just need a fresh perspective! We’re excited to bring you two guest presenters who use their unique backgrounds and skills to help people get better eLearning content—Carmen Simon and Ivan Bigney. Carmen Simon is a cognitive scientist who has spent the past decade researching what makes content memorable.

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What Is the Actual Cost of an Open Role in Your Company?

In today's tight labor market, hiring and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever. Every day a job remains unfilled means lost productivity and revenue. But vacancies can affect much more than your revenue. There are multiple direct and indirect costs, and it's crucial to adapt your recruiting strategies to prioritize the most costly open roles.

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Digitization of “Human Infrastructure”…or…Enterprise Systems/Apps: Which Should Take Priority?

Living in Learning

There are plenty of positive discussions in the networking groups I follow regarding the shift to the cloud for digital integration across Enterprise Systems, Business Apps, and APIs. This is all good news, but I must ask this question - “What about the digitization supporting the “human infrastructure” tasked to perform effectively using this digitized business infrastructure at the Point-of-work?

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Mobile Learning Solutions: What’s In It For Corporate Training?

TOPYX LMS

Mobile learning solutions may seem like the latest trend in corporate development activities, but creating accessible content from mobile devices is not a fad. The market for mobile learning is expected to grow¹ from $37.6 billion by 2020. Driven by demographic changes including a shift in learner profiles toward a younger, tech-savvy group, as well as the increasing preference for mobile technology applications in everyday situations, mobile learning solutions offer corporate training a host of

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Possible versus practical

Clark Quinn

Last week, I gave a presentation to the local chapter of ATD. And I was surprised that their request was for mobile learning. Now that is something I can speak to, but given that my book on the topic came out seven years ago now, it seemed like a dated topic. And I was wrong. And the difference is between what’s possible and what’s practical.

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Webinar Recap: Get Ready for the Big Game (ification) with Storyline and The Game Agency

eLearning Brothers

In the past couple months, it seems that practically the entire world has had one game or another on their mind—and all over social media! Whether it was the championship football game, the recent winter games in Korea, the upcoming college basketball tournaments, or the myriad of other games that go on throughout the year. You can’t escape games, so we decided that it was a great time to show off some of the new games that eLearning Brothers offers subscribers through our partnership with

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Accelerating Change in the Insurance Industry: Why You Need to Invest in Talent Strategy

This whitepaper brings together research, expert opinion and industry trend data to help senior leaders understand current challenges and future-proof their businesses. Inside you’ll find insights on: The big challenges: From automation to onboarding, we explore the big challenges facing the sector. Onboarding: You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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TEACHING ONLINE: True eLearning Integration via Adobe Connect

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel, CTT+, COTP. When I teach my live, online Certified Online Training Professional course , one of the core concepts I encourage is blended learning (combining online digital media with traditional classroom teaching concepts). Specifically, there's great value in integrating eLearning (asynchronous training) with live (synchronous) training by providing access to eLearning content from within the virtual training space.   Published eLearning content can typically be prov

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It’s called ThruWork… because everything flows through the work.

The Simple Shift

Yes, I’m consulting. No, I’m not leaving the Guild. Before you get too cynical of the notion of another consultant, know that I’ve been there all along but just not all that formal. And rest assured my fellow consultant brethren I’m likely not your competition unless we’re in the same niche; focus, market and location. […].

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GroundTruth Leverages Docebo to train extended enterprise with ease

Docebo

Read on to find out how a 3 member L&D team delivers training to 5400 employees and sellers. As Docebo’s multimedia content person, I am lucky to be able to spend a lot of time chatting with our customers. This means I get indepth insight into the lives and jobs of the people who use our software. My role gives me the wonderful ability to get beyond the tech-support, implementation and hear directly about their customer success and sales processes.

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