Infopro Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Consider the Following Scenarios: Scenario 1: Austin is a project manager who is tasked with choosing a team for an upcoming project. This project has tight deadlines and will require members of the team to work late hours. Austin first chooses two team leads, Mike and Jeff and asks them for their suggestions on the other team members. When they come up with the list, Austin sees that they have left out women from the teams.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 1, 2017

Rather than delivering eLearning content as a lecture, you can explain it through conversations. While more resource-intensive multimedia may be desired, you have a range of options with this technique. It’s possible to use conversations even with a low budget. In the past, I’ve created conversation-driven eLearning with video, animation, and photos.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Mobile learning is driving the growth of the elearning industry. It makes sense when you think about it. We are constantly connected via our smartphones. It means we can take learning “on the go” No longer are we confined to a laptop for online training. The U.S. mobile learning market is expected to reach around $2.1 billion in just two years.

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Association eLearning

MARCH 1, 2017

Let’s say you’re an association. You want to start delivering online courses for certification and credentialing for your members. You’ve heard this increases memberships and brings in non-dues revenue. Now, how do you get started? You know you need to convert your ILT to an online format. You know you need an LMS. But “FIDDLESTICKS” (Yes, I said fiddlesticks, this is a professional blog people) you exclaim as you ask yourself “What do I need in an LMS?”.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Now that social learning is a hot topic, many organizations are beginning to consider how they can implement or operationalize it.

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dVinci Interactive

MARCH 2, 2017

Training Volunteers to Mentor Small Business Executives Susan Fort, Director of Learning, SCORE. SCORE provides business mentoring, to entrepreneurs, small business owners, and those interested in starting a small business. Experienced business people serve as the volunteer mentors. With over 10 thousand volunteers nationwide, onboarding and training is essential.

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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Corporations are moving to ‘sustainable e-Learning development’ They are looking for new, more agile ways of creating e-Learning to meet the on-demand requirements from the business side. User-generated content is a possible solution. But how can you ensure that these subject matter experts will create decent content? Sustainable e-Learning development.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 3, 2017

Creating a Learning Game with “Play to Learn” So excited to be able to say that PLAY TO LEAN, the book Sharon Boller and I have been crafting, writing and assembling is finally available. The book is based on a workshop we’ve been conducting for years and combines our findings, best practices, aha moments and game design thinking insights.

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Allen Interactions

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

By Edm ond Manning , Senior Instructional Strategist. We promise no instructional value to the following 30 second video. This will not make you a better instructional designer. This will not improve your elearning.

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LearnDash

MARCH 1, 2017

Creating an online course is a great way to supplement your income or possibly replace it altogether. However, I have seen that there are people who start creating a course only to stop before it is even finished. The reasons people give for not going through with their online course business are varied. Some claim not to have enough time, others don’t believe they have enough budget, and then there are those who stop because they don’t see why anything would purchase their course i

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CourseArc

MARCH 1, 2017

Designing online courses is a multifaceted endeavor — and all those different facets are often the job of the same person: you. Each stage of the process, from analysis and design to development, testing, implementation, and evaluation, requires a different mindset, skills, and expertise. While you may feel confident in some of those areas, chances are you may need help in others — or you may be overlooking some tasks entirely.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Have you ever been afraid to let learners go on a break, or end one virtual lesson in a multi-part series, for fear they won’t come back? You’re not alone. At one time or another all face-to-face and virtual facilitators have thought, “What if they don’t come back?”. My answer to that is, “What if they do?”. What are you going to do to encourage learner engagement and keep participants interested during the live events?

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Axonify

MARCH 3, 2017

This past week Carol lead a webinar hosted by Training Industry on “How to Measure the Impact of Learning” and, once again, she hit it right out of the park. Carol has a unique method of taking a complicated process and distilling it down in a way that makes you feel like you’ve needed glasses all your life, and she’s given you a pair with just the right prescription.

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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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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The learning management industry has been around for quite some time and has proven that as times and technology changes that it can adapt accordingly. But where is the LMS industry headed this year and in the years to come? It is impossible for anybody to say with 100% certainty the future of learning management, but speculation can be made nonetheless.

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Allen Interactions

MARCH 2, 2017

By Michael Allen , Chairman & CEO, Allen Interactions. Instructional design determines the effectiveness of training. In all of my presentations, demonstrations, books, and webinars, I contrast what can be achieved through great design with what is so often not achieved because basic design principles were not applied.

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InSync Training

MARCH 1, 2017

Now more than ever we live in perpetual learning environments. In every waking moment, we are taking in and processing information – learning perpetually. Learning Experience Architects need to embrace this perpetual learning cycle, and consider it when designing blended learning campaigns. It’s easy to influence formal learning that takes place in traditional classroom settings, in virtual classrooms , and via required eLearning.

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Raptivity

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

For quite some time now, we have been focusing on how to make corporate training better. In a recent blog post , we spoke about making compliance training fun. Continuing on the same lines, today we are going to explore how to make compliance, and rather, all internal training more interesting for employees. We would explore the first-hand experience of a customer (Name Confidential) on how she made training more interesting for her organization’s employees.

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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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LearnDash

MARCH 2, 2017

You have likely heard of WooCommerce, and with good reason. It is one of the most popular shopping carts available today. Simply install on your WordPress site, configure a payment gateway, and you are ready to begin selling products – both physical and digital. It’s also a great way to sell your LearnDash courses! First, you get the benefit of a top-class shopping cart so that your learners have an enjoyable check-out experience.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 3, 2017

In the classic-rock-laden animated comedy Megamind, the title character (an ineffectual super-villain voiced by Will Ferrel) makes an astute observation about what it takes to differentiate yourself from the herd: Megamind: You’re a villain alright, just not a super-one. Titan: What’s the difference? Megamind: PRESENTATION! [Cue explosions and “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses].

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Jane Hart

MARCH 1, 2017

Here’s this week’s Twitter poll. Here’s this week’s poll for another article I’m writing. Who knows best what YOU need to learn to do your job? — Jane Hart (@C4LPT) March 1, 2017.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

One of the keys to the L&D revolution is recognizing the full performance ecosystem and the ways technology can support performance and development. I’ve tried to represent and share my thinking via diagrams (including here , here , and here ). Prompted by a recent conversation, it was time to revisit the representation. Here, I’m layering on several different ways to think about the goals, elements, etc.

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Web Courseworks

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Web Courseworks will be exhibiting and presenting a demo at this year’s Tagoras Learning Technology Design (LTD) virtual conference. LTD is a conference designed to help anyone in the business of learning to create lifelong education initiatives through learner engagement and effective use of learning technology. The conference will be held from March 1st– March 3rd.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 3, 2017

by Kevin Siegel, COTP , CTT. It's easy to add a Table of Contents (TOC) to a Captivate project. Simply choose Project > Table of Contents to open the Skin Editor. Click Show TOC (put a check in the box) and the TOC appears on the preview (its contents are totally editable. a check mark next to the slide means the slide will appear on the TOC).

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InSync Training

MARCH 2, 2017

As a Learning Experience Designer, I am always promoting the theory and research behind the work that I do, and stressing that “it’s not about the technology." We create learning solutions that meet the needs of our learners through mindful approaches, not through technology. At the same time, I’m a geek. I love my tech, and I love how technology enables me to think differently about the learning experiences that I create for my clients.

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Living in Learning

MARCH 3, 2017

If we do not accomplish discovery at the Point-of-Work, we can only guess at performance outcomes or task-level work requirements, who actually does the work, required resources, tools, systems and/or moment of need support needed to pull it off in a sustainable manner. THAT’S a discovery gap. And it’s urgent we close it sooner than later.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Published weekly on a Sunday, the MWL Newsletter provides news and articles about Modern Workplace Learning (MWL) selected by – and with commentary from – Jane Hart. Sign up to receive this newsletter by email. MWL Newsletter No 2 is now available.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In this post, you’ll learn how to break your PowerPoint charts apart to quickly generate stylish new looks for your data visualizations. This is an advanced PowerPoint technique, but the strategy behind it is simple. You use PowerPoint to graph your data for you (faster and more accurately than you could if you were to build it out yourself), and then you simply break out the pieces to creatively re-arrange them any way you like.

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InSync Training

MARCH 3, 2017

As learning and training professionals, our job is to continually think about the learning needs of others. It can be tough to make time for our own learning, yet we know that our own professional growth depends on it, and we crave it. How many times have you scanned through a learning blog and thought “I’d like to learn more about that.” And then what happens?

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