Web Courseworks
JANUARY 23, 2017
This managing eLearning blog’s mission is to inform managers about emerging topics and to impart advice concerning becoming a better leader and manager. As many of you know, I am a crossover corporate eLearning consultant and vendor. Over the last ten years I have concentrated on association, non-profit and healthcare related eLearning PD and performance improvement platforms.
Association eLearning
JANUARY 25, 2017
I once worked for a large company where all new employees went through a 3-day on-boarding process. We sat through videos on safety and compliance, though lectures and power point presentations. As proof we learned something, we filled out a work book for each section and signed it at the end to demonstrate that we’d completed the training. Great. I remember nothing. 3 days of soul crushing boredom; of not doing the job I was hired for; of various human resources staff being taken away from thei
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Upside Learning
JANUARY 24, 2017
It’s that time of the year again. Time to take stock of the year that was and look into the crystal ball to figure out what lies ahead. We’ve written about eLearning trends in the past as well – here’s what we wrote in 2010. Some of the predictions we made way back then are […].
LearnDash
JANUARY 24, 2017
It is a new year and this means new functionality for all of you using LearnDash! To kick things off I am pleased to announce our first add-on release of 2017. Without question this new add-on was one of the more requested feature enhancements we received all of last year – it only made sense to start off the new year by getting it into your hands!
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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.
InSync Training
JANUARY 24, 2017
The virtual classroom has a lot of advantages. We can create a learning environment which promotes interactivity and collaboration among learners. We can deliver a lesson to remote learners with minimal delivery costs. We can easily engage subject matter experts in the learning process. But even with these advantages, we still have concerns about how effective virual learning is and how to determine if learners are meeting the objectives of the lesson.
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Kapp Notes
JANUARY 24, 2017
The other day, an online colleague of mine, Peter G. Shea, introduced me to the term “disfluent” from the book Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg. The term means “harder to process at first but stickier once it was really understood.” The term resonated with me because I believe one of the reasons games are so effective for learning is because struggle is built into the process of playing a game.
LearnDash
JANUARY 25, 2017
Each year it is exciting to see the changes that emerge in the elearning and training industry. There are new technical innovations, instructional design trends, and training methodologies that emerge. Some of these are short lives while others prove to stand the test of time. It is about this time of year that I make my yearly predictions for our industry, and that list is generally related to three particular items that I believe will “happen” in the industry based on current tren
InSync Training
JANUARY 26, 2017
Last week, we looked at knowledge and content EdTech tools and apps. This week, we continue our series by diving deeper into communication and interaction tools and apps that will help you support your blended learning campaigns. Again, these are the tools and apps you use to reach your learners – via email, announcements, and any other outreach broadcast media in this toolbox compartment, along with discussion forums, chat , collaboration , and virtual classroom meeting tools and apps.
Performance Learning Productivity
JANUARY 24, 2017
This article was initially published on the Totara website on 4th January 2017. “Welcome to the first instalment of our new Disruption Debate series, where we speak to leading industry experts to discover more about disruption in the L&D industry. In this post, Totara Learning's Chief Commercial Officer Lars Hyland speaks to Charles Jennings. Charles is a co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute , as well as a leading thinker and practitioner in learning, development and performance”.
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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.
Web Courseworks
JANUARY 27, 2017
Last night, I had the opportunity to attend the 2017 Brandon Hall Awards ceremony. The Web Courseworks team won a Bronze Award for our Quality Improvement Education platform. Congratulations to the leadership team of the Brandon Hall Group for organizing a fabulous event and producing a great show for everyone in attendance. Below I have compiled photos from the evening that recap the event.
LearnDash
JANUARY 26, 2017
This is the year we double-down on social learning. For too long we have seen elearning courses that end up with “click-click-click-click” progression. No interaction, no engagement. It is time for learning program developers to strive for something more. I will concede that certain courses like compliance training don’t necessarily require more than a traditional elearning module.
InSync Training
JANUARY 27, 2017
You may have noticed that I’ve been contributing quite a bit to this series, and you may have seen my name pop up more often in the InSync Community. In the next few months, you’ll be seeing even more of me within this community, as I’ve taken on the role of Curator for the InSync Blended Learning Hub , which launches on March 6. Very exciting! In case you haven’t heard yet, the InSync Blended Learning Hub, launching March 6, 2017, provides modern learning professionals with a collaborative make
KnowledgeStar
JANUARY 25, 2017
The Future of Learning is Not Training By Stephen J. Gill and David Grebow Instead of jumping off the January 1st starting line, we decided to wait and see what other people are predicting for corporate training and learning in 2017. Here’s a partial list from our 2017 Crystal Ball Scorecard: The New Year […].
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.
The Performance Improvement Blog
JANUARY 25, 2017
(This post was co-authored with David Grebow.). Instead of jumping off the January 1 st starting line, we decided to wait and see what other people are predicting for corporate training and learning in 2017. Here’s a partial list from our 2017 Crystal Ball Scorecard: The New Year will bring a wider adoption of mLearning. All companies will be dong more microlearning.
LearnDash
JANUARY 23, 2017
Are you in the business of creating and selling courses? If so, what are you doing to keep your course offerings relevant? Over the years I have had the pleasure to see many people and organizations create successful online learning programs. They spent time researching, developing, launching, and nurturing their program to the point where it hums along without a hitch.
InSync Training
JANUARY 23, 2017
According to Bersin by Deliotte, the modern learner is overwhelmed, distracted, and impatient. Sound familiar? And, on the up side, the modern learner is untethered, accessing information on-d emand, collaborative, and empowered. These new ways that we access information, contribute content, interact, communicate, collaborate , and create new knowledge is made possible by new technologies and innovations in old ones.
Administrate
JANUARY 26, 2017
Back in September 2016 we told the story of Phil, star employee of Worksite Safety Success and holder of the keys to their training coordination and administration. We lamented the effect of having all your training eggs in one basket – when Phil left, WSS was left floundering. Today we’ve Read More. Published on January 26, 2017. The post Death & Dormancy – Is Your Training Company Falling Behind?
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.
eLearning Brothers
JANUARY 23, 2017
Our abundant cutout character library is a perfect way to put a human face on your eLearning course, with hundreds of characters from dozens of different careers and occupations. But you might not have known about our extensive library of cartoon and illustrated cutouts. Not only do they give your course some personality, but there is also an inherent playfulness to an illustrated character.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 26, 2017
New article by Helen Blunden, Activate Learning Solutions. “In the last couple of years, I have spoken to many corporate Learning and Development practitioners about how they may support and enable opportunities for their workforce to learn collaboratively with each other in and during the flow of their every day work. That is, “ social learning’ During these conversations, I noticed that there were some myths about social learning that I would like to dispel.” Read the full ar
InSync Training
JANUARY 24, 2017
BYTE SESSION RECAP. Becoming a more effective learning professional requires a number of skills, none more important than clear communication. Christine Miles, Co-Founder and Chief Architect of CI² , spent years developing a framework that helps people communicate more powerfully. On January 17, Christine generously shared how storytelling provides the foundation of her proven approach with BYTE session attendees.
Learning Rebels
JANUARY 23, 2017
Naturally, a book titled, “Originals”, would attract me. As Learning Rebels, our role within the workplace is to not only shape the learning needs of an organization, but also to flip it, blend it, slap it around and create something new, fresh and purposeful. Learning that drives people to be actively involved and training that helps people struggling right now.
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Allen Interactions
JANUARY 26, 2017
By Cartsen Bosselman, Associate Producer. They say the love of money is the root of evil. It’s a shame that we, as learning professionals, can’t use this argument when discussing the all-too-sensitive topic of budgets. Imagine the reactions of your key stakeholders when you walk into your project kick off meeting and say, “Don’t be stingy—can I have an unlimited budget on this project?”.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 23, 2017
New article by Jane Hart, Centre for Modern Workplace Learning. “… in the modern workplace, it really isn’t appropriate to use the LMS to try and track everything everyone learns in the organisation. In fact trying to do so is neither practicable nor feasible. What is far more appropriate is a new approach where an employee organises and manages his or her own learning, and where the manager measures success – not in terms of “learning activity” (whether it be attendance on training, completion
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 25, 2017
A twitter pointer led me to an HBR article arguing that We’re Thinking about Organizational Culture all Wrong. In it, the author argues that it’s fallacious to think that there’s just one organizational culture, , and that all people buy into it. I agree, and yet where the author leads us is, I think, misleading, or at least not as helpful as it could be.
Gyrus
JANUARY 27, 2017
Gyrus Systems Selected for TrainingIndustry.com's 2016 Gamification Watch List. Richmond, VA · September 29, 2016. Gyrus Systems, a leading Learning Management Systems (LMS) developer, announced today it has been selected to be included in the 2016 Gamification Companies Watch List by TrainingIndustry.com. Companies on this list are leaders and innovators in the learning technologies market and have the potential to further the adult learning and development industry through the advance
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Kineo
JANUARY 27, 2017
While everyone else is still getting into the swing of things after the Christmas slump, the L&D industry is a hive of activity preparing for their largest show in Europe – Learning Technologies.
Knowledge Guru
JANUARY 26, 2017
The Knowledge Guru Drive authoring tool allows you to create a Drive game that’s unique to your organization by customizing it with names, logos, registration fields, etc. This article focuses on the look and feel of your Drive game and explains the steps to create a unique Drive experience for your learners. Customize Your Drive Game. Let’s start with your game name and introductory text.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 26, 2017
I was in a conversation with my colleague Charles Jennings about organizational innovation, and one of the topics that arose was that of barriers to successful organizational function. In particular, we were talking about how the division of responsibility between organizational development (OD), leadership development, and learning & development is a problem.
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