Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Part 2 discussed five outdated Learning and Development (L&D) practices and why they don’t work. This final installment is going to visit the other side of the coin. Here are five updated practices that will help improve your Learning and Development for everyone, not just millennials. Updated Practice 1: Treat Learning as a Process. People remember things they encounter often, even if it’s only for a few seconds or minutes at a time.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

When I create scenarios for learning, I keep these four elements in mind: characters, context, challenge, and consequences. Characters. The main character of your scenario who drives the action should generally be someone similar to your learners. Even if the main character isn’t named and the scenario is in second person (What do you do next?

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The Learning Dispatch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

What Goes into Developing Elearning? Nobody wants to waste time or resources developing interactive training for the masses, only to have it be less than stellar…or worse, ineffective. In addition to costs reflects poorly on your program, either by association, or because the full benefits of your programs aren’t realized for lack of knowledge or proper implementation.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Incorporating gaming methodology into formal learning events is a great way to help learners grasp complex concepts. It can be used in nearly every context including the educational sector, corporate setting, and non-profit industry. What might not be as well known is that the use of games for teaching initiatives is more than just throwing up leaderboards and ways for distributing points.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Upside Learning together with two of its clients won two medals in the 2016 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Learning Awards. Silver in the Best Results of a Learning Program Category We partnered with the Imperial College of London to create two eLearning modules – Neurotransmitters and Neurodegenerative Diseases – for a Pharmacology course within […].

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TOPYX LMS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Featured among an elite roster of CEOs heading up some of Florida’s fastest growing businesses, CEO of Interactyx, Alfred Novas, reveals the inspiration behind his company’s award-winning learning management system , TOPYX. As shared during the interview with GrowFL, TOPYX was one of the first LMS providers to recognize the importance of peer-to-peer social learning in an online environment. “With TOPYX, my insight was to develop a learning management system with the learner at the center

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Mobile learning use is quickly on the rise and with good reason: we use mobile devices more than traditional laptops. This essentially means that the elearning market needs to adapt and begin catering to the mobile learning experience. Some may even contend that elearning should be developed with a “mobile learning first” approach. It makes some sense.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Last week saw the announcement of Snapchat Spectacles – from the makers of Snap mobile app, which has rebranded itself with this launch. An introduction (marketing) video of Snapchat Spectacles. In short, it allows you to record 10-second videos and send them to your phone. Here’s a video explaining more about how it works. There […].

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Inkling

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Inkling releases major platform enhancements to support mobile devices in retail and restaurant environments. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 27, 2016 — Inkling today announced that McDonald’s has deployed its mobile platform to standardize and streamline restaurant operations across the US and Canada. By eliminating printed paper, PDF and Word files, Inkling enables the real-time delivery of standard operating procedures to over 14,500 locations.

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Lambda Solutions

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The Brandon Hall Group issued a study on the Learning Technology landscape of 2016. The report revealed that technology is becoming the top learning and development priority this year, with 48% of survey respondents naming it as #1 on their list. What’s more remarkable, is looking at new emerging learning technologies has taken precedence over learning strategy this year.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Today we have released a major LearnDash core update designed specifically with two things in mind. Our first priority was to improve the reporting performance and data storage. This is the last major step needed prior to the anticipated ProPanel v2.0 release. Secondly, we wanted to give all of you maximum flexibility for how you present course material (which we think you will really like).

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In our earlier blog post this week, ‘Training Companies: The 5 Hurdles to Success‘, we discussed the key challenges that stop a Training Company from realizing its true potential. In this post, I will address each challenge by presenting a solution that leverages one or more key features / functionalities of a Learning Management System. […].

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Allen Interactions

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

By Carly Yuenger, Senior Instructional Designer. For the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve been the primary trainer to my dog, but for some reason, my mind has kept this task separate from my daylighting work as an instructional designer. Most days, I’d venture to say that I’m a better instructional designer than dog trainer, so the reason may be simple ego-protection.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The LMS landscape enhances training effectiveness for organizations in various markets, if you know which features to look for — but with over 600 options in the LMS market, shopping for a new platform is no easy task. We're going to outlinewhich LMS features allow you to enhance the effectiveness of training delivery, increase learner engagement and retention, enhance the user experience, all while saving time and money.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

How You Can Deliver Highly Effective Courses Through Bite-Sized eLearning. From hectic work schedules to lack of motivation , there are plenty of obstacles that modern learners must overcome in order to build skills and absorb new information. Fortunately, they have technology on their side, and they know how to use it. But how can eLearning professionals provide them with the bite-sized bits of eLearning they need to achieve their goals, especially when working on a tight eLearning budget?

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Training Companies have a unique way of functioning as compared to the corporate. And rightly so, as they cater to a distinctive client base that is a mix of retail and corporate; run multiple training programs; sell training materials online; and perform a host of other activities as a part of their day-to-day functioning. All […].

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JoomlaLMS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Today we are delighted to welcome to the JoomlaLMS blog an eLearning expert, author of E-Learning Provocateur blog and a former ELearning magazine editorial board member - Ryan Tracey. The funny thing is that when we discussed an interview topic with Ryan, he chose “Advanced technologies needed to foster online learning within the organization” because he had an opposite opinion on the topic.

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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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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

These are my live-blogged notes from the opening keynote at this week’s ATD Core 4 happening this week in New Orleans. Forgive any typos or incoherencies. Why Learning is the New Work Melissa Daimler, Head of Learning & Development, Twitter @mdaimler [link] Work IS a learning lab and the daily experiences are the curriculum. To create a great learning lab at work, we need to focus on 3 things: Design more iteratively Lead more holistically Learn more intentionally 1.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

xAPI – What it can mean for your learning Program. In the Learning and Development industry a very buzzworthy topic is xAPI (xAPI is also known as Tin Can API or the Experience API in case you have heard or read additional posts elsewhere, it will herein be referred to solely as xAPI within this blog post). The concept is everywhere… you are reading blogs left and right explaining what it is and its characteristics.

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Kineo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Brandon Hall Group has recognized Kineo’s work with United States Beef Corporation (US Beef) in the category of best blended learning. Kineo is thrilled to take home gold in this category of the HCM Excellence Awards. The Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards are highly sought after and are one of the most prestigious awards in the industry. The awards require demonstrated and measurable benefits to the business as a whole, a unique distinction highlighting that winning solutions are transforming

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Administrate

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Time for a recap! So far in our ‘Supercharge Course Sales’ series we’ve discussed visibility – how to create great content and optimise it well, promotion – through Pay-Per-Click advertising and retargeting and finally tracking – to ensure you have transparency on the performance of your website and online advertising.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

I was asked by a colleague to answer some questions for a project on how to learn. I naturally decided to answer in a blog post ;). Q1. In your working life, how have you learnt effectively from experience, please provide an example if possible? (e.g. how have you used intentional practice, learnt from failure, learnt from ambitious projects and/or used reflection).

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

These are my live-blogged notes from a concurrent session at his week’s ATD Core 4 happening this week in New Orleans. Forgive any typos or incoherencies. Building a Smarter Learning Ecosystem JD Dillon, Principal Learning Strategist, Axonify @jd_dillon Intermingling networks…. The components that make up your org’s ecosystem is different than another org’s ecosystem.

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Kineo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We’ve all heard it before – people leave a manager, not a job. Why are your leaders and managers pivotal to building a happy, engaged workforce? And, knowing that they play such an important role here, how can we make sure they (or we) do it well?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition. Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. However, with that in mind; some things are sacred, and I will not be announcing any sort of partisanship or opinion as to who won the recent debate within the context of this post.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Someone opined on yesterday’s post that it’s hard to find time for reflection, and I agree it’s hard. You need to find ways to make it systematic, as it’s hard to make persistent change. So I responded with three personal suggestions, and thought I’d share them here, and also think about what the organizational response could be.

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TOPYX LMS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It’s never been more important than it is at this moment for companies to have learning strategies in place. Without a learning strategy, a company is set up for failure. Most corporate leaders have some understanding of this, which is why they invest precious funds into L&D programs. Companies today are investing more money in learning and development than ever before.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Learn all about the latest trends in eLearning and Docebo’s industry-leading solutions. Got no plans on October 3rd? Well, we’ve got you covered. Docebo will be hosting a half-day exclusive event for clients and customers at the Hyatt in Chicago. The spotlight of the session will be discussing formal and informal learning and user adoption in LMS projects.

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