Designing Digitally

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

If you are developing eLearning content for your employees or students, there is something you need to pay more attention to and that is the importance of storyboarding. All great eLearning courses on the internet have one thing in common: they integrate effective storyboarding in the development phase of designing the course. In order for the course to be a success, you need to view the storyboard as the primary foundation of your eLearning course.

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Association eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Have you ever seen an eLearning course or demo that seemed to know what you were doing? Maybe you entered your name on the first screen and saw it displayed in the course. Perhaps you made a decision early on and a character in a scenario remembered it later. Or maybe the course recommended follow up resources based on the concepts you had trouble with.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If you are creating a course using LearnDash then it can be helpful to “look over the shoulder” and watch someone walk you through the necessary steps. The reality is that software is great but everyone will have questions at some point. Maybe it is with regards to a particular setting, or perhaps about the best way to go about configuring a course.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This is the first part of our guest blogger Susan Bassett's two-part blog post. The second post will be published Tuesday, February 27, 2018. I’ve been presenting online since 2001. I’ve always felt a certain sense of excitement when working with top-notch trainers and producers in creating active, energetic online sessions. Terrific online professionals make choices about how they present which results in transforming distracted, impatient, and overwhelmed attendees into engaged learners.

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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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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The current training model can no longer keep pace with the speed of business and the continuous nature of change. It is time to give it an overhaul. Here are 10 issues associated with current training approaches and some brief pointers about how they can be addressed.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Quizzing isn’t just about assessment. It also helps build retention and strengthen recall. Quizzes are an essential component of any online course. And by “quizzes,” I mean something distinctly different from a midterm or final exam. The purpose of exams is usually to assess learner understanding, quizzes can be viewed as more of a study aid—something to help learners practice for exams.

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Web Courseworks

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Virtual reality (VR)! Why is this such an exciting topic? It’s new and up and coming; and its made some amazing improvements within organizations already. It’s a versatile product, being exposed to social environments such as the Olympic Games, to creating simulated “life like” courses for continuing education. Dan White , CEO of Filament Games , shared insights on who VR will impact the most, what some of the challenges are in today’s technology, and where it has already made significant impro

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

This blogpost can be read in Dutch on Ennuonline. Video is an important online trend. The tool of this month is therefore a video tool: the 1 second video app. Video is already important in online marketing, and learning and training follows this trend. I can hardly imagine an online course or MOOC without video. The classic way to produce a learning video is to hire a professional filmmaker ask them to record and edit the video.

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Allen Interactions

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Ethan Edwards presented a great talk at Training's 2018 Conference and Expo in Atlanta last week. Check out this special #trgconf edition of ID on the Go!

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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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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Instructional design is becoming a booming profession as the education market continues to grow, particularly in the online space – and with more opportunity comes increased competition. No more than 10 to 15 years ago the instructional design profession was one that had demand but not as much visibility as the typical career tracks like engineering and healthcare.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

It’s no secret that technology has evolved tremendously over the past decade, and it’s not stopping anytime soon. We live in an era where people are constantly seeking a faster, better way of doing things. I admit that I seek small learning nuggets during my commute, while waiting for my coffee to cool, or when I’m on-the-go. And while I intend to indulge in longer-form video, articles and online courses, I never do get around to them.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Blended learning’s flexible, adaptable design possibilities make it an excellent option for corporate learning. Learners have the opportunity to engage with resources in all their moments of learning need , and instructional designers have the ability to address each learning objective authentically. Comprehensive programs quickly become complex. How do we expect learners to navigate the experience thoughtfully and completely?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

by Kevin Siegel, COTP, CTT+. As a publisher of popular step-by-step workbooks such as “Adobe Captivate: The Essentials,” “Articulate Storyline: The Essentials,” and more , we know first-hand how frustrating it can be when assets mentioned in our books are moved or removed by the software vendors.   Take Adobe’s eLearning assets used by Adobe Captivate.

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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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TOPYX LMS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Research indicates companies that prioritize high-impact learning can show up to three times greater profit growth over a period of about four years.¹ High-impact learning happens naturally in organizations with a continuous learning culture. According to Deloitte, a continuous learning culture “places the employee at the center of a new vision that treats learning as a continuous process, not an episodic event, and as a company-wide responsibility, not one confined to HR.”².

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

My core point here is straightforward – we have a mandate to treat workforce performance as a continuum from Point-of-Entry (onboarding and 1st learning) to Point-of-Work (sustained performance competency). Therefore, it makes sense to me that any assessment efforts undertaken should include the downstream, post-training PoW; hence, the need for a holistic Learning Performance Assessment (LPA).

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In early 1999, Sugata Mitra and some colleagues sunk a computer into the opening of a wall in New Delhi, India. In the nearby slum poor people were desperately struggling to survive. The screen was visible from the street, and the PC was available to anyone who passed by. The computer had internet access and a number of programs available, but no instructions were given for its use.

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JoomlaLMS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

You might have experienced or heard it from someone else who finds it difficult to remember what is taught in a conventional classroom environment.

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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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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Gamification is huge in eLearning, so naturally, we want to help you become a gamification rockstar. We have two webinars coming up that focus on easy ways to incorporate gamification into your next eLearning development project. Our own eLearning evangelist and rockstar, Adam Cannon, will be presenting one, and we’ll be welcoming our friends from The Game Agency back for another.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I was answering some questions about a previous post of mine on AR, and realized I have made some unnecessary limitations in my own thinking. And I may not be the only one! So I thought I’d share my thoughts on a broader view of augmented reality. Now, most people tend to think of Augmented Reality as visual augmentation of a scene. This typically done with a camera that registers what you’re seeing, and then adds information to the visual field.

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Docebo

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

How do you measure and maximize the real impact of your Learning & Development strategy? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Questions about measuring the impact of learning and development are not new. But now there is a new challenge, to optimize and maximize the impact learning has on business. In this whitepaper by Fosway Group, you can learn how to maximize the business impact of your learning and development strategy.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The CompTIA A+ Certification is the base-certification for the entire IT industry. The certification is required by various agencies within the US Government as well as many State and Local Governments.  Private business and industry have followed Government regulations and have made the A+ certification a condition of employment, continued employment, and career advancement.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

We have over 100,000 cutout character images in the eLearning Brothers Cutout People Library. With that many characters to choose from, I admit that sometimes I have trouble choosing a cutout person to use. After all, I’m the sort of person who experiences decision paralysis picking out an outfit each day—should I wear this pair of dark skinny jeans or that pair of dark skinny jeans and which of my 20 sweaters from Loft???

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Over the years, I’ve looked at a lot of learning technology. And I see a dispiriting trend. There seems to be little learning science of late. What I see are marketing driven decisions, even when there are claims to science! And I think this is a problem. First, I generally resist the ‘let me show you our product and give us your opinion’ That’s free consulting, and a very rude ask!

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

"Intentionally designed for application at the moment of need at Point-of-Work; can your team deliver solutions of this nature? Can your team accomplish discovery to accurately determine what the assets should be? Do they address all 7-Right Things?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The CompTIA A+ Certification is the base-certification for the entire IT industry. The certification is required by various agencies within the US Government as well as many State and Local Governments.  Private business and industry have followed Government regulations and have made the A+ certification a condition of employment, continued employment, and career advancement.

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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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Wisetail

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Ensure that none of your employees slip through the cracks by applying George Bradt's Three A's to create an exceptional employee onboarding experience with your LMS. The post Employee Onboarding: Using the Three A’s to create a great place to work appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

eLearning Brothers sales rockstar Mitch Weight recently joined us on a webinar to talk about and demonstrate our most exciting template product yet: Customizable Courseware! As he shared, we created this product in response to members of the eLearning Brothers community asking if we had pre-built courses on specific topics. We saw there was a need out there for courseware that could be easily customized and quickly delivered, where you get the source files to keep and customize.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Whether you’re just getting started with Captivate and need some help with creating a shiny new project, or you’ve used the previous versions of Captivate and looking for some help to update your Captivate skills, there’s good news for you! We have published 25 new video tutorials covering the basic, advanced, and new workflows in Captivate 2017. In these videos, you will learn how to create your first eLearning project, simulation, responsive project, PowerPoint-based project, video demonstrati

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