Infopro Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Involving the Learner. Webinars pose a challenge to the basic adult learning principle of involving the learner in experience-based activities that have immediate relevance to work. “Soft” skills or professional development skills webinars are harder to design than technical training webinars as designers must creatively turn instructor-led classroom activities into activities that grab the participants through cyberspace.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Back in 2010—right as I was beginning my career transition into instructional design—games emerged as the educational topic du jour. They commanded the attention of millions by way of social media apps like FarmVille , and touch-screen tablets made it possible for designers to reach audiences ranging much younger and older than ever before. James Paul Gee’s (2007), What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy , had caught the eyes of experts in psychology, linguistics, communica

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Association eLearning

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

You must turn off your emotions for the next hour. This training is a feeling-free zone. You do not have a report due at the end of the day. You do not have to get groceries on the way home. You are to studiously apply yourself and completely forget the outside world. Your training has spoken. Couldn’t we put emotion back into training? Why is there so much training for robots out there?

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I often write about how much time is involved with creating a good online course. Well, the same is true for live training events. Multiple day workshops take an immense amount of preparation. Not only do you have content to worry about but now you also have to factor in the various logistics that are necessary for in-person training. Things like the physical space where the training will take place, equipment (projectors and hookups), the amount of sessions necessary to deliver training to ever

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Allen Interactions

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

By Linda Rening, PhD, Senior Instructional Designer. It doesn’t matter what assessment I do, because a common theme always emerges. On the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory, I scored very highly in “N” (Intuition), which means that I see the big picture first and then the details. (That may seem like a good thing until I’m so busy walking through the forest that I don’t see the tree right in front of me.).

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Web Courseworks

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Back in the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan famously argued that “the medium is the message.” According to McLuhan, we focus too much of our efforts trying to dissect the content presented in a medium without considering the effect that the medium itself will have on that content. Content and mediums have a symbiotic relationship, and one shouldn’t be examined without consideration of the other.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

One common stumbling block for people creating courses is how to actually start the course. They have a good idea for the lesson sequence, the quizzes, assignments, and interaction points, but figuring out how to first present a learner to the content can be a daunting tasks. You don’t want to just throw them into the content without some form of introduction.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It is time to move away from just movement…to learning activities that matter. We have all been there, done that…a well-intentioned trainer has you up playing musical chairs for apparently no other reason than to create movement. They mean well, really – but it can be frustrating to participate in activities that have no connection to the learning at hand.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

When you’re implementing a new training initiative, one of the first questions your sponsor will ask is, "How will you measure the success of your program?". For many, this may incite a rapid heartbeat, flushed skin, and sweaty palms. After all, measuring any training is difficult, and figuring out what will be appropriate measurement for a new program is complex.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

My new article in the MWL Magazine is here: Beyond Training – The importance of workwide learning “There is a lot of talk about lifelong learning – but most of it focuses on lifelong education – that is continuously taking courses throughout your life … but lifelong education is only …

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

If you are creating an online course then chances are you are interested in selling it – and with good reason. Creating an online course business doesn’t require a lot of up-front capital. You can get the wheels in motion during your off hours, and once it’s launched and generating profit you can focus on scaling. Granted, this is a “perfect world” scenario.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

I have to admit I’ve been a bit surprised to see that movements towards improving elearning and learning strategy haven’t had more impact. On the learning design side, e.g. the Serious eLearning Manifesto and our Future of Work project, it still seems there’s a focus on content presentation. And similarly with learning strategy, so despite the Revolution , it doesn’t appear that there’s any big move in L&D to take a bigger perspective.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When we introduce a new topic, we often start with a webinar. The ubiquitous technology and common virtual classroom delivery format seems to be an easy way to engage, and teach, a large audience in a short time. We know the webinar format has its challenges. Generally, potential learners enroll with the best intentions of attending, but understand that a recording will be available if there is a scheduling conflict.

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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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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

They say that a clean home is a happy home, and an organized mind is a happy mind. This is as true about your home and your mind as it is with your eLearning video project. The larger the project, the more likely you are to lose track of the pieces. This makes it all the more important to keep your assets in order by making a process that is consistent and easy to follow.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Gamification is all the rage, but the jury is out whether it really works or not. I’m writing an article for the MWL magazine so please let me know what YOU think of it by taking my short Twitter poll. Many thanks. I am writing an article on gamification.

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TOPYX LMS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

A social learning management system (LMS) is a wonderful thing that comes with a host of benefits and sometimes a few problems. These problems are no big deal if administrators know how to address them. Of all the issues that accompany an LMS, the biggest one is probably a difficulty managing (adding and maintaining) users. For a mid-sized or large company with hundreds or thousands of employees, it is crucial that managing users is a streamlined, simple task.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I was thinking about today’s post , wherein I was talking about a couple of packages that might help organizations move forward. I was reflecting back on some previous posts about engagement models, and was reminded of a more recent one. And I realized this has played out in a couple of ways. And these approaches did provide away to develop the organization’s abilities to develop better learning.

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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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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The art in design is that of keeping learners accountable in authentic assessment that ensures students' success in the virtual classroom. We know learners attain more when given the ability to learn in authentic ways, but we believe that assessment is a key piece in the art of keeping learners accountable. Last week in my blog we talked about keeping it about the people, interacting, providing opportunities to collaborate and how to hold learners accountable.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

New article in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine: Company training/e-learning is the least valued way of learning at work: what does this mean for L&D? In today’s article I look at the results of my 5-year Learning in the Workplace survey and consider what this means for L&D departments.

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Kineo

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

It would seem that not a day goes by where an email guiding me towards an insightful new blog or an enlightening new article doesn’t hit my inbox. It would seem that ‘social’ is now definitely the new black; apostolising the virtues of one social tool or system or other is the latest fad.

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eLearning Brothers

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Leadership is a much sought-after quality in the business world and one that any ambitious career person should hope to obtain. Though certain personalities are naturally suited to coaching employees, the traits necessary for a good leader can be learned and honed through training and careful practice. Having good coaching skills and encouraging others to foster leadership traits within themselves creates a culture of self-motivated and persuasive minds, allowing for creativity and hard work on

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

by Kevin Siegel, COTP. Articulate recently released Storyline 360, part of the Articulate 360 suite of products available through a subscription on Articulate's website. If you've spent any time using Storyline 2, you'll find that Storyline 360 is just about identical. And while it's true that little has changed between Storyline 2 and 360, there are some subtle improvements in the new version.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Here are the articles and news I shared last week in my tweets and retweets. Big thanks to @markwschaefer for including me in his new book, Known. Here’s the link to find out more https://t.co/51wluelZCR pic.twitter.

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Axonify

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The business impact of learning is still seen by many as a mythological entity, like the sasquatch, or the unicorn. L&D professionals continue to complain about not getting a “seat at the table,” and spend considerable time and effort fighting for relevance. This isn’t because executives have some natural dislike for learning. Rather, they’ve never been shown the true impact L&D can have on the business.

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Kineo

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of seeing traditional talking heads videos, where the responses are over-practiced and polished. We set our marketing team a different challenge – to capture the spirit of Kineo as it really is. No script, no retakes, no glossy filters. How do we really roll?

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Living in Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Enable learning and support within the workflow. Keep things moving; breaking the chain of concentration to launch a fire safety course in the LMS while my hair is on fire makes no sense. Give me 90-seconds of Stop Drop & Roll and then let’s get on with it.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Here are the articles and news I shared last week in my tweets and retweets. Big thanks to @markwschaefer for including me in his new book, Known. Here’s the link to find out more https://t.co/51wluelZCR pic.twitter.

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Axonify

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The business impact of learning is still seenby many as a mythological entity, like the sasquatch, or the unicorn. L&D professionals continue to complain about not getting a “seat at the table,” and spend considerable time and effort fighting for relevance. This isn’t because executives have some natural dislike for learning. Rather, they’ve never been shown the true impact L&D can have on the business.

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