Docebo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

These 10 valuable tips will help you determine what authoring tool could be the best fit for your needs. Selecting an elearning authoring tool can be confusing. Because it’s usually best to try before you buy, selection can take a bit of time too. Whether you’re looking for a new solution to up the scale of your online learning production, searching for a speedier or higher quality solution than what you currently have, or embarking on creating elearning for the first time, here are 10 considera

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Association eLearning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Dear Associations, I am trying to get into a skilled labor position at company X. I have some experience but there are new rules and regulations and I just can’t keep up. I could go back to school, but it’d be a huge burden to my family. Some certifications would go a long way toward getting me to my goal of getting the job and being able to eventually become a foreman, but you only offer the courses I need occasionally, and I’m not sure if I can grow at company X without them.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Outsource this, outsource that. BPO’s, KPO’s and ITO’s dominate the market share today. eLearning outsourcing too has increased its foothold in the past few years and has been increasingly sought out by many organizations whose core function does not include training. Additionally, some large training companies that need help with content development are also seeking […].

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Learning management systems have been around for quite some time now, constantly morphing to fit the current demands and trends of today. At one time it was just a “tracking engine” (more or less) and now the market demands that the LMS has to be sleek and feature packed. The growth in online education is growing the demand for a capable LMS.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

3 Key Insights to Combat Lagging Learning Strategies. If you want to improve learning outcomes across your business, it is important to establish a comprehensive learning and development (L&D) strategy. Sounds easy, but different organizations are at different stages of L&D strategy maturity, and in all cases it can be challenging to create, improve or completely revise an approach.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

On Friday 23rd September, voting closes in the 10th Annual Survey of Learning Tool – so it’s not too late to vote! You can find out how to do so HERE – essentially it involves sharing your own Top 10 Tools for Learning – anonymously or publicly. Anyway, as we reach the final few days of voting in 2016, I thought it was time to share my personal top 10 tools – so here they are: TWITTER is still the place where I can quickly and easily keep up with what’s happening

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B Online Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For the past year I’ve been facilitating our Master eLearning Course while my colleague Ruth McElhone has been on maternity leave (she’s back now). I’ve found that facilitating in the online environment is quite different from classroom facilitation and as such has a number of unique characteristics and limitations. I’ve learnt (and continue to learn) […].

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Designing Digitally

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The face of corporate training is changing rapidly to keep up with the latest advances in technology. New ways of doing things are streamlining the training process and studies show the results are favorable. . In a world where time is money, businesses are learning that they can be most productive by using training simulations as opposed to a more traditional approach, which requires key employees to step away from their tasks in order to train and it can also affect production.

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Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

I interviewed Bottom-Line Performance President and industry thought leader, Sharon Boller to learn more about current game-based learning trends and where this learning strategy is headed in 2017. Sharon has been writing and speaking about game-based learning since at least 2008. She hits the road this fall with Karl Kapp to deliver a series of workshops on learning game design , and rumor has it a book is on the way in 2017.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve been working on a project. After I wrote the Deeper eLearning series of 6 posts with Learnnovators , we wondered what to do next. We decided to do a course together, free-to-air, and write about the process as well (a bit of Working Out Loud), with the intention was to try to do deep design on a pragmatic basis. And, just as a hint, the topic is the Future of Work, the choice of which is part of the story.

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Axonify

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

It’s a Saturday. You’ve had a heck of a week. After experiencing the luxury of sleeping in a little, you decide to get started on the day by tackling the usual things … shower, make breakfast, feed the children. When checking your phone (which you do about 100 times a day), you see a promotion come through for an item you’ve been wanting for a while.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Open Badges – What you need to know. With gamification being such a buzzworthy topic and so many successful manners in which to implement into your program, it is hard to decide what the best manner is. Ideally, the solution that offers the greatest intrinsic motivation for your learners would be the ideal provision of your learning management system.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Though it has its critics , Udemy has proven to be an extremely popular platform for anyone looking to create and sell an online course. It is probably no surprise that since they came out with their offering there have been plenty of “copy-cat” services sprouting up all over. We often get potential LearnDash customers writing to ask how they can create their own Udemy clone , but with a twist.

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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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Administrate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Something that’s vital to my role is ensuring a strong relationship exists between the Administrate Marketing and Sales teams – that sounds rather obvious, yet that bond doesn’t always exist within companies, which is baffling to say to least. A key part of any strong partnership is communication and it Read More Published on September 21, 2016.

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Kineo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Back in the day, the motivational theories of Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg were considered de rigeur. They’re founded on the idea that people have basic needs, and that job satisfaction depends on whether those needs are met (or not). It’s perception of this that influences an individual’s sense of motivation and engagement at work.

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

I attended the xAPI Camp in Chicago on Friday, September 16, 2016 to learn about use cases in the medical community for xAPI. I was particularly interested because my company, Web Courseworks, will be speaking with the American College of Chest Physicians on November 15 th at DevLearn. xAPI and the Learning Records Store is the eLearning communities answer to recording informal or formal activities for big data calculations.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

One thing that I learned very early on in my career within elearning is that everyone defines a learning management slightly differently. When you are selling a learning management system this can pose quite a challenge! For proprietary LMS options you often see one of two approaches: Tons of built-in features. Ultra-narrow market vertical. Naturally there are pros and cons to each of these approaches.

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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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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Over the past year, I’ve been working on a project. After I wrote the Deeper eLearning series of 6 posts with Learnnovators , we wondered what to do next. We decided to do a course together, free-to-air, and write about the process as well (a bit of Working Out Loud), with the intention was to try to do deep design on a pragmatic basis. And, just as a hint, the topic is the Future of Work, the choice of which is part of the story.

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InSync Training

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

2016 Online Learning Conference Recap. Greetings from Chicago! Members of the InSync Training team, including Jennifer Hofmann, have had the privilege of attending Training Magazine’s 2016 Online Learning Conference (OLC). This three-day, in-person learning event highlights some of our most favorite things about our industry: a community of practitioners who believe in collaboration and the transformative power of online learning.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The post GAMIFICATION IS ABOUT ENGAGEMENT appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Great news! That learning project you’ve nurtured through countless meetings and rolls of red tape has finally come to fruition, and you’re starting to get down to business. But wait – something’s not quite right. Why does it feel like the team is spinning out of control? Why does it seem like your manager doesn’t support you? Why isn't anyone meeting their deadlines?

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Jon Aleckson and I attended an xAPI conference on Friday, September 16 th in Chicago. Jon has already provided his perspective on the case studies and what they mean for the medical community. But I’m interested in exploring the implications of xAPI for instructional design. Design is an iterative process. We used to have to rely on pre to post data and A/B testing to determine whether a learning intervention was effective.

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InSync Training

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

BYTE session recap. As well all know, visual learning aids are wildly popular. Learners respond to, and remember, colorful images related to the content being presented. Infographics in particular have gained popularity in learning programs in the past few years. Karin Rex, a nationally known facilitator specializing in soft and technical skills, recently joined our BYTE presenter ranks with her wildly popular session, Harnessing the Power of Infographics as Teaching Tools.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Scenario-based learning, also known as problem-based learning, seeks to elevate the learner’s training outcomes from merely comprehension to analysis, synthesis, and application. Obtaining a real skill truly happens once the learner is able to use information to make decisions and correctly perform an objective. It is important that instructional designers keep their scenarios as realistic as possible.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of my peers in Australia, Arun Pradhan , is developing an app to help us learn smarter, faster and deeper. To gain insight on how we learn in the real world, he’s reaching out to L&D professionals, CEOs, entrepreneurs, actors and artists who have mastered complex skills, with the aim of uncovering our “learning secrets” Arun asks 4 specific questions and my answers are as follows… Q1.

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Administrate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In our first post on ‘Supercharging Course Sales’ we tackled how to plan and create winning content, as well as covering some basic on-page SEO techniques. Strong content, optimised well… Fantastic! Now what? Well, we could wait patiently for Google to start ranking our new content, watching the clock while potential Read More Published on September 21, 2016.

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TOPYX LMS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

eLearning is continuously evolving, and so is the content we share on our social learning blog. Below are highlights featured in our September 2016 newsletter. We appreciate your interest in TOPYX and look forward to meeting all of your LMS needs. The High Value of Learning Paths. We are all on some type of path. Some of us are moving forward, and some are moving backward.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Getting the Most out of your Social Learning Program. Undoubtedly, you have heard it before. Statements like, “how do we make our learning program work for us?” or “let’s get social with our learning plan.” But, how do you get your learning program up to speed? With so many social elements making their way into our learning programs today, learning professionals are faced with the all too real decision of how many social facets should be included in their learnings

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