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Custom HTML5 timeline for Articulate Storyline 360

Swift eLearning Services

Articulate Storyline, is one of the popular e-Learning authoring tools. Storyline is known for its ease in the workflow for developing an E-learning course. It is suitable for both beginners as well as experts due to its familiar interface. The look is very similar to Microsoft PowerPoint.

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How to Launch Elearning Content Using xAPI

HT2 Labs

Already using xAPI for more than just reporting? Then you may be wondering how it can be used to launch elearning content. The post How to Launch Elearning Content Using xAPI appeared first on HT2 Labs.

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Missing: New Hires. Is Your Onboarding to Blame?

Infopro Learning

When your newest Human Capital investments go missing by way of early resignation, is your onboarding program, or lack thereof, to blame? The Importance of Onboarding. According to the Harvard Business Review, companies reportedly lose as many as 17% of their new employees in just three months after hire. These companies stand to lose a lot, both in time and money, due to new hires prematurely ending their contracts.

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Black Friday Deals for LearnDash Add-Ons

LearnDash

Been holding off on that LearnDash add-on? Well now is your chance to get it at an insanely discounted price! Straight to the point: if you don’t have the add-ons below then now is your chance to pick them up at a discount. Note that some of these discounts official start on Friday, November 24th. Front-End Course Creation. Enables front-end creation of LearnDash courses. 20% off with coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2017 … I Want This!

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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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Black Friday & Cyber Monday discounts on MWL Workshops

Jane Hart

From 9 a.m. GMT Friday 24 November through 9 a.m. GMT Tuesday 28 November, 23% discount on the following 2 online workshops. Follow the links to find out more and sign up at the special prices.

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Missing: New Hires. Is Your Onboarding to Blame?

Infopro Learning

When your newest Human Capital investments go missing by way of early resignation, is your onboarding program, or lack thereof, to blame? The Importance of Onboarding. According to the Harvard Business Review, companies reportedly lose as many as 17% of their new employees in just three months after hire. These companies stand to lose a lot, both in time and money, due to new hires prematurely ending their contracts.

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Modern Learners: Built to Observe

InSync Training

Did you know that more than 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? Yes, YouTube has significantly changed the way we access and process learning. For many of us, instead of reading through an instruction manual, we search YouTube for a video that will guide us through “how to.” We can watch these over and over again, pausing where we need to look closer or to better understand what the subject matter expert is trying to get across.

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From Our Family To Yours: Happy Thanksgiving

Association eLearning

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving. The post From Our Family To Yours: Happy Thanksgiving appeared first on Knowledge Direct.

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My Professional Learner’s Toolkit

Clark Quinn

My colleague, Harold Jarche, recently posted about his professional learning toolkit, reflecting our colleague Jane Hart’s post about a Modern Learner’s Toolkit. It’s a different cut through the top 10 tools. So I thought I’d share mine, and my reflections. Favorite browser and search engine : I use Safari and Google, by default.

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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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Create Learning Experiences

Infopro Learning

Guide to Learning Experience Design (LXD) + 7 LXD Best Practices. Corporate training has a bad rep, and sadly not without reason. How many cluttered overloaded PowerPoint presentations have we asked our learners to sit through? How many hour long monotone webinars can they endure before the entire thought of corporate training makes them groan? We believe Experience Design in learning is an obvious truth that is going unaddressed – a problem that no one is discussing in learning environmen

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Security Awareness Tips for LMS Administrators

Web Courseworks

Keeping Your SaaS Data Secure. As the software industry continues to move away from purchased client/server applications and toward cloud-based SaaS (software as a service) solutions, LMS administrators must rethink the means that they employ to keep their system free from attack, and most importantly, keep their data secure. Historically, client/server software was usually accessible only from devices on the local network, but cloud-based SaaS hosting exposes it to anyone in the world with an i

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Why xAPI? or Why Should I Care About xAPI?

eLearning Brothers

Our DevLearn 2017 eLearning Rockstars stage covered all of the top trends and techniques in eLearning development today, including xAPI. We were so excited to welcome Michael Hruska, President and CEO of Problem Solutions to the stage. During his session, Hruska explored the business value behind learning ecosystems. He covered how the Experience API enables new technologies for a next-generation learning and performance architecture that you can build and evolve to unlock business value and com

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Solutions for Tight Cycles of Assessment

Clark Quinn

In general, in a learning experience stretching out over days (as spaced learning would suggest), learners want to regularly get feedback about how they’re doing. As a consequence, you want regular cycles of assessment. However, there’s a conflict. In workplace performance we produce complex outputs (RFPs, product specs, sales proposals, strategies, etc).

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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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When Software Met Soft Skills

Administrate

We write often on this blog about the importance of having the right systems in place to scale your training, and manage your operation. However, despite there being 100 technology solutions for almost anything you can imagine, we still know that there’s no replacement for soft skills. Some may argue Read More. Published on November 23, 2017. The post When Software Met Soft Skills appeared first on Administrate.

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Upcoming Webinar - The Steps You Must Take to Ensure Your Learners are Truly Engaged

Raptivity

Interactivity is the most essential ingredient of an engaging eLearning course. Sans interactivity, eLearning courses lose their gleam and learners just end up hitting Next-Next-Next passively. The only way to ensure that learners are.well, learning.is to involve the learner at almost every step. Present them with a problem they must solve, one that would be similar to that which they encounter on the job.

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Put the Pedal to the Metal With Your Storyline Development: Part 2

eLearning Brothers

Are you ready for some more great tips for speeding up development in Storyline? Then you’re in the right place! Let’s pick up where we left off. We have our player, theme, scenes and assessments built. What’s next? It’s time to build out our master slides. After reviewing your storyboard, earmark any slides that are reused multiple times. Slides like these I like to create a Master Slide for.

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LMS CRM eCommerce – A powerful system that increases the sales of your online courses

Paradiso

Planning to sell online courses as a business? Yes? Good move! You’re tapping into an outstanding business opportunity. The market for selling online courses is getting bigger by the day. Is general public your target market or want to train your channels partners, group of companies, vendors, customers etc., about your product or services? Let get down to the nuts and bolts of how you can use the LMS CRM eCommerce mix to create, market, sell your courses and to squeeze a better ROI out of the p

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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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21 of the Best Online Course Platforms (and Counting)

Sell Courses Online

The post 21 of the Best Online Course Platforms (and Counting) appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Online courses are a rapidly expanding industry and will continue to grow as more and more students turn to online learning. This is terrific news for anyone who wants to share their knowledge with others and make a profit. In addition, the technology has made it really easy for you to host & sell online courses and so, the barrier to teaching online has come down significantly.

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MWL Newsletter No 40

Jane Hart

News and articles about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) selected by Jane Hart for the week 12-18 November 2017.

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Become an eLearning Rockstar: Less Time, Less Money, Less Headache

eLearning Brothers

As an eLearning developer or instructional designer, you want your projects to be done faster and look better, all while you have less time and budget at your disposal. Using templates is a very attractive option, but you don’t want your course to look like something “off the shelf.”. At our DevLearn 2017 eLearning Rockstars stage, eLearning Brothers Director of Sales Jake Kuresa shared how to use a template as a starting point and quickly transform it into something that is unique and intellige

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How to Start an Informal Learning Library with Screencasts

TechSmith Camtasia

Imagine being told exactly how to learn or study something, at what place, and at what time. That rarely happens because everyone learns in their own unique way. As we mature, we tend to customize our lives to better fit our objectives. So why wouldn’t we do the same for something as important as learning? Informal Learning helps us do just that. Online libraries that store informal learning content can prove to be very useful for both the learner and the teacher.

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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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Allows users a Single Sign On into Paradiso LMS with Onelogin

Paradiso

LMS SSO with Onelogin. To make the Paradiso LMS administrator’s life easier and our product more efficient for everyone using it, our latest version of Paradiso LMS supports SSO with Onelogin. The way it works is, the user provides a set of credentials to an Identity Provider (IdP) once and then lets the Service Provider (SP – which is us) to request the identity each time that user needs to be authenticated.

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Workplace Knowledge: Understanding

LightSpeed VT

Workplace Knowledge: Understanding 5 things that can happen when you don't understand something at work - By Eddie Martin So at some point (maybe daily) we find ourselves confused about how to do something at work. This can typically be resolved by asking coworkers or management. But not everyone will do that for fear [ ] The post Workplace Knowledge: Understanding appeared first on LightSpeed VT.

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Webinar Recap: Using Captivate to Personalize Your Customizable Courseware

eLearning Brothers

Off the shelf courses can save you loads of time filling a soft skills training gap but fall short if they don’t support your brand or targeted learning objectives. Enter our Professional Soft Skills Customizable Courseware Library! Last week our Captivate Evangelist, Adam Cannon, presented a webinar in which he demonstrated rebranding a scenario from our Customizable Courseware library in Captivate to meet your specific learning goals in a fraction of the time and cost of a fully custom learnin

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3 Reasons to Start Using Video in your Business

TechSmith Camtasia

One of the main selling points for inWhatLanguage is our office culture. We have a mannequin named Milton as our mascot, a basketball hoop out back, a popcorn maker in the kitchen, and we wear bright green pants. Not your typical boring translation agency, right? But the struggle is communicating our fun company culture to potential clients and partners.

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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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A Checklist for Evaluating Time Flexibility in Online Courses

D2L

This is the fourth and final post in a series related to various important, but often overlooked, factors in online course design. Previous posts considered … Continued.

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Delivering SCORM Learning on Mobile: Key Things You Should Know

ProProfs

The growth of mobile devices has successfully changed varied aspects of our lives, from how we function and communicate to the way we acquire knowledge. It would be more appropriate to say that the rise of smart devices (tablets, smartphones etc) has been responsible for revolutionizing the mobile learning space. And, there is ample evidence that proves mobile platforms are proficient to support all type of elearning experiences, offering a wide range of advantages.

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A Simple Model for Converting ILT to Engaging eLearning

eLearning Brothers

If you’re an e-learning designer, chances are you’re often asked to take existing instructor-led (classroom) training and put it online. Chances are also good that no one’s ever told you how to do that. If you’re still struggling to find a simple way to make this shift, I’ve compiled a model that represents the most efficient way I have been able to complete this task over the years.

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