Infopro Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Understanding Millennials. My journey towards understanding the Generation Next goes back as far as 10 years. Having taught in a university facing a swarm of young men and women, I soon realized the need to address this audience differently. They are not school kids you can feed with a spoon, nor are they the ripened professionals who have the patience to take hours of training once they are convinced it will benefit them.

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Association eLearning

DECEMBER 2, 2016

As the year ends, we look back at three eLearning trends of 2016. What was predicted? What did you think was important? The results may surprise you. eLearning Trends: Gamification. At the end of 2015, Gamification was the hot trend. We saw analysts predict the continued rise of gamification in 2016. However, our research has shown that associations are lukewarm on the idea of gamification.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Dyslexia is a big problem if you have it. Not being able to read normally is a big handicap. Dutch designer Christian Boer is a dyslexic himself, and he developed a new font; the Dyslexie font. It makes reading easier for people with dyslexia. I’m not dyslectic, so I can’t really judge how much this helps. But it is done really smart. A part of the problem is that many letters in the western alphabet are really similar.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

We want smart phones, smart cars, and smart refrigerators, but we do not want smart employees. Or, to say it more accurately, our organizations are designed to ensure that smart employees act stupidly. This is what Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson have concluded from their research on organizations. They write: For the past two decades, management theorists have been convinced that organisations succeed or fail on the basis of their specialised knowledge.

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Bridging Real and Digital. By the very definition, the elearning industry has evolved over the years with the evolution of technology. Now there is a new revolutionary way to communicate in the industry, experience API (xAPI or Tin Can API). This learning technology bridges the digital world and the real world allowing the tracking of online and offline learning experiences. xAPI collects data unlike anything before. xAPI is a new specification that track learning by the learning experience.

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Jane Hart

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This morning I awoke to find this tweet: Hi! @C4LPT @hjarche @MelMilloway @bschlenker @marciamarcia @jerrymichalski @DonaldClark @DonaldHTaylor What are ur fav videos on learning? — Mark Oehlert (@moehlert) November 29, 2016. My immediate response was to point to one of Erik Qualman’s videos on the Social Media Revolution, which although not specifically about learning show the impact that social media is having on education and learning in general.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

WordPress has proven to be useful for purposes beyond just blogging. Common use-cases include membership sites and online courses using a learning management system plugin like LearnDash. If you are creating your own course on WordPress, you may be wondering: how long will it take? Giving an exact answer to this question is near impossible without making certain assumptions.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

At the DevLearn conference, I ran a Morning Buzz on Learning Design Strategy. I’m happy to say that the participants threw in lots of ideas, and I thought they were worth capturing. I started with a set of questions to address, so I’ll go through their comments in roughly that order (though we didn’t exactly follow this structure): What is learning design strategy?

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B Online Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

“How can I write a good narration script that makes sense with what the learner can see on the screen?”. This is a question we get asked quite a lot during our training sessions. For some of us, writing meaningful narration whilst describing what the learner can actually see on the screen can be difficult and can also take some time to create. This blog post shares some tips and tricks to help write your narration scripts.

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TOPYX LMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Employee competency is beyond valuable in today’s global workforce. Apart from a capable, competent workforce, a corporation has no hope of growth or long-term success. Now, more than ever, it is crucial that companies have standards of competency and ensure that those standards be met by each and every employee. A company’s existence and legacy depends on this.

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Jane Hart

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Day 2 of my Countdown to Xmas #C2Xmas continues here. Samuel Pepys lived in London in the 17th century and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade as a young man which is considered to be one of the most important sources about the English Restoration period. THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. This site contains the full text of his diary, along with several letters sent or received by Pepys, plus thousands of pages of further information about the people, places and things in his world.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Blended learning is the ‘better’ learning. Okay, I don’t know if someone actually said that but I think that it does hold some merit. Sometimes all it takes for us to deeply learn a new topic is to be exposed to similar content across a variety of different channels and at different times. It is for this reason why many university programs implement some form of blended learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

A couple years ago we published 13 Critical Questions to Ask Your Client When Scoping a Learning Engagement. The post captured considerable attention, probably since the task of conducting a training needs assessment can be both a moving target and an ambiguous one.

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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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Lambda Solutions

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We previously published Part 1 and Part 2 of our recap of Bersin by Deloitte's report, HR Technology Disruptions for 2017: Nine Trends Reinventing the HR Software Market. Here is Part 3. #7) Convergence of Team Management and HR Tools. New software systems like Slack, Trello, and Basecamp are making it easier for teams to collaborate on work, communicate with one another, and manage projects.

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Jane Hart

DECEMBER 1, 2016

It’s 1st December so I am going to start the Countdown to Xmas #C2Xmas here. Just like an online advent calendar, I’ll offer a daily treat – in the form of a free learning resource – to take us up to Xmas Eve. Today we’ll start off with The Blood Typing Game, one my favourites! What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type?

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

If you are a writer then you have probably heard how important it is to develop your unique “voice” In fact, writers spend years trying to perfect their voice. It often becomes their “brand” Anything we put in a digital format has a “voice”, even videos. Yes, we can actually hear the voices in a video, but in this context it makes more sense to talk about the feeling people get as they watch.

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Administrate

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In the late 1960s, BBC show Tomorrow’s World predicted a future where a computer would manage all classroom teaching. With each passing decade, technology has become an increasingly valuable part of the learning world – from early computers, to the internet. However, when an iPhone has the power to process Read More. Published on December 1, 2016.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Each learning environment requires facilitators to develop certain skills to promote learner success. Classroom facilitators benefit from participant body language. They know, based on the energy in the room, whether content resonates with learners, or if it doesn’t. Adapting the presentation based on learner needs has become second nature in the classroom, and with depth of experiences comes comfort – classroom facilitators know how to stay on track and on schedule.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

At the recent DevLearn conference, I had a chance to present in xAPI Base Camp on Content Systems. This is a topic I’ve been thinking about since working on an adaptive learning system back in 1999-2000. And I think it’s now an even bigger big opportunity. In the course of responding to an interested attendee, I aggregated this list of my (non-blog) publications on the process, and I thought it might be useful to share them here (from most recent to earliest): Talking about lifecy

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Kineo

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Kineo’s work with clients was recognised in this year’s Learning Technologies award, scooping gold in two very competitive categories.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

As a Learning Management System provider, we assume that our customers are in the business of selling courses. With that assumption, we know that our platform must support the goals of the association and must have features to accommodate these needs. How do you get past simply providing eLearning materials to your members and move into increasing revenues from those materials?

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Lambda Solutions

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The idea behind online learning and eLearning, is to utilize technology to engage learners with course material in a dynamic and interactive way. Modern online courses often incorporate elements such as rich video production, audio narration, flash animation, interactive learning games, and more.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

When my kids were growing up, we started a ritual at the dinner table every night where each of us would take a turn answering the question, “What did you learn today?” Everyone had to answer, and when guests came to visit, they were encouraged to participate as well. At times the kids would roll their eyes and get cranky, but most of the time they were eager for their turn so that they could share.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

by Kevin Siegel, CTT,  COTP         Here's an interesting scenario: You create a Captivate project that contains 12 slides: 10 question slides, each worth 10 points (that's 100 points total), and two non-question slides that contain some text, images, and simple image buttons used for navigation.   Soon after you roll out your course, learners report a big problem with the way the quiz is scoring.

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ej4 eLearning

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Today, selling requires more than charisma and a handful of closing techniques. Customers are coming armed with more information, and are constantly on guard against “being sold to.” This represents a shift in the buyer/seller relationship. The winners coming out on top in this new selling landscape are the ones that cultivate enterprise accounts. What Exactly is an Enterprise Account?

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Allen Interactions

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

By Ethan Edwards , Chief Instructional Strategist/ @ethanaedwards. As the year winds down, I find myself preparing for the annual rituals that embrace traditions and mark the progress of time. So naturally, my thoughts turn to the Annual Allen Interactions Holiday Webinar.

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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When you create a course, and you’ve put the work into making it the best freakin’ course you’ve ever made, you want nothing more than to have as many people take it as possible. Not making your course ADA compliant is doing nothing more than limiting the number of viewers you’re going to get. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was put into place in 1990 and changed the way disabilities are viewed and dealt with in the workplace, in government activities, in public, with transportat

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dVinci Interactive

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Lisa Ploeg, Senior International Learning and Development Specialist, Mary Kay. Based near Dallas, Texas, Mary Kay manufactures and sells hundreds of cosmetic and personal care products through 3.5 million Independent Beauty Consultants located in more than 35 countries. Supporting the millions of consultants are more than 5,000 corporate employees located in offices around the world.

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