B Online Learning

APRIL 19, 2017

This blog post covers a recent online conversation I had with an attendee at one of our eLearning Design Essentials workshops. I thought it might be useful to share our conversation with some of you. How do I convert a large training manual into a short eLearning module? One of the ways we achieve this is through ‘chunking’. Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 19, 2017

Leadership: Nurture vs Nature. Natural leaders are hard to come by. At least that’s the common perception. We don’t see it that way. Leadership like other skills is affected by natural ability, but that natural ability must be nurtured and developed. Every once in great while, a musical prodigy will be born with the raw talent to re-write our understanding of sound without formal education.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 21, 2017

Why did people assume an Asian woman in the BBC news video was the nanny? . By now, most of the Internet seems to have seen the video of a BBC interview being interrupted by two small children. International Relations Professor Robert Kelly’s interview about South Korea was briefly interrupted when his two small children walked in. He managed to keep his composure until a woman rushed in and ushered the two young intruders out. . . .

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 21, 2017

In a recent conversation, a colleague asked, “Once you and your client have agreed on a branching scenario approach, how do you get started writing it? How do you get from the broad concept of training on X topic to actually creating the scenario?” The short answer is to “begin with the end in mind.” Let me walk you through the process of analysis and preparation I do before writing a scenario.

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LearningGuild

APRIL 19, 2017

Vistaprint applies the “hackathon” approach to developing eLearning—with astounding results!

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Jane Hart

APRIL 18, 2017

New article in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine “In this article I take a look at how workplace learning has changed over the last 10+ years and its necessary future direction.

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LearnDash

APRIL 21, 2017

Notice anything different? If this is your first time visiting LearnDash, then probably not. However, if you have been here before then you likely see that we have done a bit of updating! It is with great pleasure that I get to write today to unveil the new design of LearnDash.com, and not just because of the fresh new look but because with the new design comes our updated approach to the e-learning market.

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Kineo

APRIL 21, 2017

It was back in the good ol’ days of the wild wild midwest, where seatbelts were optional and the stack of audiobooks in the front seat was a mile high. While the destination was the adventure I was after, it was all about the 15 hour journey for my single mother of three. There she could escape our antics with a sci-fi galactic adventure with us in the back trying to drown out the sound to the tune of Mario Brothers on our Game Boy.

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CourseArc

APRIL 19, 2017

Scientists, economists, accountants, and mathematicians all have one thing in common: they all deal in “absolutes.” They follow rules, theories, or laws governing the objectives they espouse, and they measure the outcomes of their efforts against those objectives. Instructional designers are guided by these same types of parameters when ensuring their courses meet specific learning objectives.

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TOPYX LMS

APRIL 19, 2017

There’s no denying that LMS key features facilitate eLearning. If you’re unsure as to what eLearning is then you are not alone. ‘eLearning’ is a red-hot term these days. According to eLearning NC, “Understanding eLearning is simple. eLearning is learning utilizing electronic technologies to access educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom.

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LearnDash

APRIL 17, 2017

FREE Training: “How To Use SEO To Maximize Your Online Course Sales”. When: Tuesday, April 18th @ 1PM EST (UTC -0400). Sign-Up: [link]. Tell me if this sounds familiar… You spend months researching a topic that your passionate about and organizing it into a comprehensive course. There isn’t really anything else out there like your course.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 19, 2017

Video games have always been and still are something that I love playing. The movement and design of objects are very captivating and keep me entertained for hours on end. That is why many developers and presenters put serious time into the graphical representation of their message. This approach is most often applied to quizzes (whether SCORM compliant or not).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 21, 2017

by Mary Gillen, COTP. Do you have content, such as a survey, on your website that automatically opens in a popup window? If the answer is yes, it's likely that your website will fail compliance testing. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ( WCAG 2.0)  define how to make web content as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.

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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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Axonify

APRIL 21, 2017

Welcome to fake news, L&D edition! The existence of bad information (a.k.a. lies) is far from new. It just moves faster, looks prettier and is more easily accessed today thanks to the Internet. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for people to get sucked into the misinformation vortex nowadays, especially when bad information either confirms an existing bias or just sounds too good NOT to be true. .

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 18, 2017

I’m going a bit out on a limb here, with a somewhat heretical statement: what you learn is more important than how you learn ! (You could say pedagogy supersedes curricula, but that’s just being pedantic. ;) And I’m pushing the boundaries of the concept a bit, but I think it’s worth floating as an idea. It’s meta-learning, of course, learning how to learn!

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2017

Networking is not a new concept. It used to mean the power lunch, golfing with colleagues, or drinks after work. Then came the growth of associations, conferences, and trade shows. And now networking has changed dramatically with online resources like LinkedIn and Facebook. “Networking” used to be a buzzword; today it’s almost cliché. Often the connotation can be a bit negative, associated with sales or job searching.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 20, 2017

by Kevin Siegel, COTP. Adobe recently announced a upgrade to Adobe Captivate, its popular eLearning development tool.   According to Adobe's Allen Partridge, Captivate version 2017 , includes several new features including something called Fluid Boxes. "To understand Fluid Boxes, you need to first imagine the various items on the screen are each contained in a virtual rectangle," said Partridge.

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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

APRIL 20, 2017

We at eLearning Brothers have just recently released the all new Professional Development Package. If it had to be explained in one sentence, it is a package that contains 1-on-1 mentoring with an eLearning Brothers “mentor,” a membership to either The eLearning Guild or ATD, and a subscription to the most well-known self-paced video training library on the planet.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 19, 2017

Jane Hart is running her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning poll (you can vote too), and here’s my contribution for this year. These are my personal learning tools, and are ordered according to Harold Jarche’s Seek-Sense-Share models, as ways to find answers, to process them, and to share for feedback: Google Search is my go-to tool when I come across something I haven’t heard of.

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Axonify

APRIL 21, 2017

Welcome to fake news, L&D edition! The existence of bad information (a.k.a. lies) is far from new. It just moves faster, looks prettier and is more easily accessed today thanks to the Internet. Unfortunately, it’s all too common for people to get sucked into the misinformation vortex nowadays, especially when bad information either confirms an existing bias or just sounds too good NOT to be true. .

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InSync Training

APRIL 20, 2017

Training and development are extremely important components of employee satisfaction and engagement. Appropriate training and development opportunities also play a factor in your staff's ability to be productive throughout the day. In fact, a recent study found that 87 percent of Millennial-aged employees list opportunity for training and career advancement as extremely important in their job search.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

APRIL 19, 2017

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -George Bernard Shaw . Early in my career, as a university professor, I was responsible for training and developing counselors for work in schools, colleges, and community agencies. An essential competency that we helped counselors develop was communicating empathy to a client.

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Learningtogo

APRIL 18, 2017

It’s been called “ America’s number one drug problem ” and “ a miracle drug for the tired.” Onsite training programs often provide coffee as a refreshment for learners and instructors alike, and its presence in the workplace is so expected that coffee frequently appears on the list of top perks offered in desirable workplaces. But what is it, really?

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Raptivity

APRIL 17, 2017

Research states that one-third of new hires quit their job after about six months and disengagement costs billions (US$343 billion annually). Well, most employees want to do a good job and feel satisfied when their efforts make a difference to their workplace. But more often than not, employees need to be trained continually to feel engaged, to keep learning, to keep performing well, and to keep growing.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 17, 2017

The post 9 STEPS TO DEFINING A WORKPLACE ELEARNING STRATEGY THAT WORKS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 18, 2017

In light of last week’s release of Adobe Captivate 2017, our #AskMeMonday was focused on that topic. We received a really good question that I’d like to address more in depth. @eLearningBros @aqcannon Adam, what’s been your favorite change made to Captivate 2017 from Captivate 9? #AskMeMonday. — Justin (@justinstallings) April 17, 2017. My response on Twitter was brief and needs a bit more explanation.

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ATD Learning Technologies

APRIL 18, 2017

The company wants you to keep costs down. You want to keep the e-learning course interesting. You really can create e-learning content on a budget—if you’re willing to be a little creative. Fortunately, there are ways to save money and still deliver effective, high-quality e-learning. Don’t cut corners on getting the content right and having effective instructional design.

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SHIFT eLearning

APRIL 20, 2017

Let’s talk about learning and development. First of all, did you doze off halfway through reading that sentence? If so, then you have a lot in common with most employees who also aren’t having an easy time engaging with L&D programs. So, why is that? Mostly because learners and the technology they have access to are developing way faster than the programs designed to teach them.

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