LearnUpon

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The quality of course content is critical to the success of Learning and Development programs. Effective content will keep learners engaged, support successful outcomes, and help your team to reach its goals. The best way to deliver that content will depend on what you want to achieve and the resources you can draw on. In general, you’ll choose from two main options: Creating content in-house or outsourcing content development to external experts.

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2016

As leaders, have you ever found yourself asking, either out loud or to yourself, “Who around this place cares as much as I do?” If you have, you’re not alone! You have the distinction of understanding “big picture” vision, goals and strategies and also the myriad actions both large and small that must be taken to turn that vision into reality. Ideally, within the ranks of your business associates are individuals who share your understanding and feel a sense of responsibility for actions and resu

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 25, 2016

A reader asked a great question about the role of scenario-based learning in higher education. I’ve seen a number of good examples of storytelling and scenarios in university courses. Authentic Assessment. My first ID job was with an online university targeting nontraditional students. They focused on “authentic assessment”; Rather than traditional academic essays and exams, we used simulated work products for assessment.

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JoomlaLMS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

ELearning is a rapidly evolving and constantly changing field that is never at a stop. A few years ago eLearning was perceived as an innovative way of studying. This very day eLearning is taken for granted, whereas the changes happening inside the eLearning field itself are accepted as innovations. Haven’t you been curious of the changes that will transform the eLearning field next year or next decade?

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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.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mindfulness is defined as: … the psychological process of bringing one's attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment, [1] [2] [3] which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training. [2] [4] [5] The term "mindfulness" is a translation of the Pali-term sati , [6] which is a significant element of some Buddhist traditions.

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Association eLearning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

A major complaint among those who prefer Instructor led training (ILT) to eLearning is that eLearning is not social. They claim the lack of social interaction, both with the instructor and other learners, limits the effectiveness of the training. Many will cite the Hawthorne effect , explaining that through observation the learners will modify or improve their performance.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Any course you create needs to have solid content. In fact, content is the critical component to the success of any course. This is especially true if you are selling your courses. But in addition to content you also need to pay close attention to the experience you provide. Slapping some videos and text together and protecting access to those materials won’t make the course too enjoyable.

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Axonify

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Axonify team joined 1,600 learning and performance professionals earlier this week at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida for Learning 2016. We had great conversations, attended a variety of insightful breakout sessions and keynotes and shared our approach to fostering a modern learning ecosystem and continuous learning experience. This conference is unlike many other L&D events in that presentation proposals are not openly solicited.

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Although the term “curation” is buzzing around quite a bit these days, content curation is nothing new. Most of us have curated content at some point in time – creating a compendium of something, and adding our thoughts, opinions, insights, etc. before passing it on. Curation happens naturally. You find something interesting, and you share it with me, along with why you like it, where you found it, and why you think I might find it interesting or useful.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The Learning Management System market is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expected to grow from USD 5.22 Billion in 2016 to USD 15.72 Billion by 2021 at a CAGR of 24.7% (as per the latest report on LMS market from Markets&Markets). With this high growth and rapid adoption, comes an element of dynamism […].

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you are selling a software, an online course, or physical product then it seems the name of the game is “innovation” By demonstrating that your company can innovate (and does so often) you are showing potential customers that their money is well spent. That they will constantly have access to the best, and that your business is at the forefront of the industry.

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Kineo

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Learning and Performance Institute have announced the 2017 Learning Awards finalist. This award recognises the highest achieving individuals and organisations within the learning and development field. With hundreds of entries from around the globe, this award programme is more competitive than ever.

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Allen Interactions

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By Kody Jackson, Instructional Writer. Have you been having a rough day? Are your stakeholders sending in last-minute changes? Your SMEs running wild, their content running over into thousands of Microsoft® Word documents? Is your supervisor breathing down your neck, asking how soon you can turn countless, static Microsoft® PowerPoint® files into dynamic, engaging e-learning?

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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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Learningtogo

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Listen to Podcast: [link]. W hen we started our little podcast last year, many folks were very generous with their time and joined me in great conversations about learning, even though at the time our audience was very, very small. Now that it is starting to grow, I’m excited to bring back our very first guest, Bruce Tulgan , founder of Rainmaker Thinking, a research and management consulting firm, and author of the new book, Bridging the Soft Skills Gap.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Let’s say that you have an online course that you are selling and that you went about it in a thorough, steady manner. You picked your niche. You researched that market. You networked with the community. You built out great course content. You started marketing very early. You had a successful launch. You have happy customers. If you end-up in this place then you need to give yourself some well-deserved credit.

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Kineo

OCTOBER 27, 2016

There’s a saying – ‘the last thing a fish is aware of is the water in which it swims.’ We’re all in danger of being unaware of our own surroundings until they change – and the same is true for learning and development.

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Administrate

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Back in 2013, we wrote a post on the four training evaluation levels you need to know about, based on the late Donald Kirkpatrick’s highly influential ‘four level’ model for training course evaluation. Vital in understanding whether your training has been delivered effectively, the four levels of evaluation (Reaction, Learning, Behaviour Read More.

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Ultimate Benefit of Learning Management Systems. The Benefits of a Learning Management System (LMS) are quite wide and can contain everything from basic functionality to cool recently implemented features. For the sake of this post, I will evaluate the barebones of the LMS and relay the immediate finding of what these systems are not only capable of but what they will eventually do for your organization.

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 27, 2016

BYTE Session Recap. As learning professionals, we have the immense responsibility of teaching a more diverse group of learners than ever before. For the first time ever, organizations have four generations in the workforce. All of them have unique skills and preferences. How do we create programs that support all of participants, especially Millennials who keenly and intuitively use technology?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In preparing to work with a client on developing their learning science understanding, I realized that I was using two representations about meaningful learner interaction that could be seen to be conflicting. On the one hand I talk about using decisions as a basis for design, and on the other I refer to activity -based learning. And I have separate diagrams for each.

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TOPYX LMS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Training is vital in the workforce today. Zig Ziglar made a great point when he said, “ What’s worse than training your workers and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.” Employees who receive training have obvious advantages over those who don’t. Not only do they have better hard skills (job-specific competencies); they also have more advanced soft skills (communication, problem solving, leadership, etc.).

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The post WHY I STILL LOVE BLOOM BUT NOT HIS VERBS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Lambda Solutions

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Lambda is at Educause this week! Since the launch of our LMS reporting and analytics solution, Zoola Analytics, we have been active members of the learning and analytics community. We are excited to learn what our peers have to say, and contribute to the existing discussion around analytics in education. Day two was very insightful, and it reinforced many of the ideas that supported the development of Zoola.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a continual bane of a consultant’s existence that there are people who want to ‘pick your brain’ It’s really asking for free consulting, and as such, it’s insulting. If you google the phrase, you’ll see how many people have indicated their problems with this! However, there are quite legitimate ways to pick my brain and I thought I’d mention a couple.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Having been in L&D for many years in virtually every role from road warrior sales trainer to multiple leadership positions, I have been an advocate of the premise that Training Drives Performance. And why not, it’s promoted in both scope and charter of the typical L&D mission? After drinking the Kool-Aid of a Performance Paradigm about ten years ago, I have become more convinced than ever that Training Does NOT Drive Performance – It Drives Potential.

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ej4 eLearning

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In training and development, content is important. But finding (or creating) quality content is only the first step in the process of building a training library. Content curation (including content vetting) is just as crucial—and worth investing in. Although many people talk about curation, few have come out and explicitly outlined what content curation is in a training context.

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Successful eLearning outcomes require clear communication between instructional designers and the learners themselves. Providing relevant and timely feedback to students as they’re in the process of learning is a critical component of ensuring that students actually remember the lessons. Or, as George Bernard Shaw once famously said: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 24, 2016

by Jennie Ruby  Scenario:  Your SME wants to put a ton of text on a slide. "It's all important!" she insists.  "Okay," you say. "But let's give the learner some control over the experience. Let's use a Learning Interaction."  The Learning Interactions in Adobe Captivate are very useful for presenting a lot of text by topic or subheading.

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