June, 2022

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How to Learn about Learning Science

Experiencing eLearning

I have written before about how research informs my work. As instructional designers, LXDs, and other L&D professionals, I think it’s important for us to learn how to design more effective learning experiences. Our work should be informed by research and evidence. But, how do you learn about learning science, especially if you don’t have a graduate degree in instructional design?

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eLearning Software Development: Template Vs. Custom Solution

eLearning Industry

When developing an eLearning product, there is always the question of whether to custom develop it, or choose the easier way with templates. The answer depends on multiple details of the project. So, what's best for you: templates or a custom solution? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Outsourcing Custom E-Learning Development To Maximize ROI

Cognigix

To maintain excellence in customer service and a competitive edge in the current business environment, organizations need to continuously train their workforce. Every industry and department should provide optimum relevant training and development for employees. This can be achieved by creating engaging training material that grabs the learner’s attention and motivates them to participate in training actively, as no one-size-fits-all solutions for organizations.

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Is Bottom-Up Type of Leadership Better Than Top-Down Leadership?

Infopro Learning

The success of an organization depends on how effective and proactive its management is. Companies need to pick and practice suitable managerial approaches. Bottom-up and top-down are the two most prominent leadership solutions. When counting the limitations, benefits, features, and other elements of bottom-up and top-down leadership, the idea is to create strategies that can help develop leadership for a better world.

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From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology

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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Critical ID/LXD Differences?

Clark Quinn

I’ve argued both that Learning Experience Design (LXD) is an improvement on Instructional Design (ID), and that LXD is the elegant integration of learning science with engagement. However, that doesn’t really unpack what are the critical ID/LXD differences. I think it’s worth looking at those important distinctions both in principle and practice.

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DEI Training and Branching Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

In the pilot of my Build Your Branching Scenario course, several participants picked DEI topics as the focus for their branching scenarios. This makes sense, as DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is both a popular topic for a lot of training right now, and a topic that often involves nuanced conversations. However, DEI topics pose some particular challenges for training, especially for branching scenarios.

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eBook Release: 5 Strategic Imperatives For High-Growth Learning Businesses

eLearning Industry

Download this eBook to discover what it takes to become a high-growth learning business and achieve success on your own terms. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What Do Businesses Think of the Creator Economy (and how you can position yourself to earn from it)

LearnDash

As a content creator, there are numerous ways to make money: through sales of goods and services, through sales of courses, and through sponsored content. Many content creators build on their passions: through blogging, course creation, and designing merchandise to go with their brand. Sponsored content is another great way to increase your revenue.

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Employee Buy-In for New Technology Adoption

CourseArc

Employee Buy-In for New Technology Adoption. Why you need it and how to do it . It doesn’t matter how large or small your organization is, digital transformation projects – whether updating old technologies or adopting new ones – have a 70% chance of failure. That’s according to a 2020 study conducted by Boston Consulting Group. What does the impact of failure look like (besides the obvious)?

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The Best Skills Analysis Tools for Upskilling

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.

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How to grow your employees and humanize your workforce

Docebo

What do people, businesses, and tomato plants all have in common? . They prefer growth to stagnation. Binge-watching and doom-scrolling are fine for a night or for a weekend (or during a 2+ year pandemic). But inevitably, talented people feel the pull of their recipe books, exercise routines, creative projects, and social groups. . It’s the same with work: Stagnation is the enemy.

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Skills Gap Analysis for the Future of Work

Learning Rebels

How do we conduct a skills gap analysis for the future of work, when we aren’t sure what the future of work is? It’s a conundrum, isn’t it? In a time when organizations are experiencing an ever-increasing need to reskill and upskill their people, the skills gap analysis is an increasingly powerful tool to build business impact. But how do we start when we aren’t sure what the future of work is going to be?

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A Culture of Lifelong Learning: Empowered Workers Lead to Empowered Communities

Wisetail

Learning & development activities and training delivery are critical for the success of new employees. A focus on the learner experience and employee enablement can turn training from a cookie-cutter onboarding process into a personalized, empowering experience. The post A Culture of Lifelong Learning: Empowered Workers Lead to Empowered Communities appeared first on Wisetail LMS & LXP.

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Out-Tech The Competition: The 3 Pillars Of Sales Enablement For eLearning

eLearning Industry

Sales is the heart of many businesses, and it’s quickly evolving. At a time when old practices around selling are falling by the wayside, buyers and training leaders can investigate new routes in sales enablement technology to make sure their sales teams are staying as competitive as possible. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

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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What’s New in LearnDash: Course Cloning, Bulk Editing, and More!

LearnDash

LearnDash is a course creation and learning management system built for educators, by educators. One of our values at LearnDash is to make course creation easier and more efficient. Our goal with every new update is to lean into our roots as educators to create features that make course creation easy for you and engaging for your learners. We thrive off of innovation that helps course creators like you build better and launch faster.

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Selective Fidelity in Immersive Learning Systems - Part 2: Entering the Fidelity Matrix

Allen Interactions

In the first blog of this series, we introduced the concept of fidelity in an immersive learning environment and compared physical fidelity and behavioral fidelity. We also dug into the dimensions of behavioral fidelity—sensory, cognitive, and psychomotor. Today, we will dive deeper into fidelity in immersive learning environments.

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2022: My First ATD Conference

Gyrus

2022 was my first Learning and Development Conference and my first conference while working with Gyrus Systems and I thoroughly had a good time.

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Take a look at Pride at Docebo

Docebo

Beyond celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community at Docebo, Pride is also about representation and education. First, let’s acknowledge the history of Pride. Prior to Pride being recognized internationally as a celebration for the LGBTQIA+ community, Pride was a riot and a protest. In the 1960s, homosexuality was illegal in many parts of the world and most of the United States, resulting in excessive police hostility and brutality towards the community, including frequent raids on many underground gay

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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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Protected: USE CASE: Furthering Community through User Contributions + Themed Contests with Tempur Sealy

Wisetail

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: USE CASE: Furthering Community through User Contributions + Themed Contests with Tempur Sealy appeared first on Wisetail LMS & LXP.

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How Can Developers Prevent The Hacking Of An eLearning App?

eLearning Industry

A developer has to ensure that an eLearning app is not hacked through an SSL certificate because the app can contain sensitive data about the users. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How do You Find the VILT Career Path That Works for You?

InSync Training

An accidental career.

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3 Practical Tips to Get Started with Converting Classroom Material to eLearning

CommLab India

Are you aware of the factors you must consider when converting classroom training material to eLearning? In this blog, we discuss three tips to make sure your classroom training material is suitable to transform into eLearning.

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What Is the Actual Cost of an Open Role in Your Company?

In today's tight labor market, hiring and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever. Every day a job remains unfilled means lost productivity and revenue. But vacancies can affect much more than your revenue. There are multiple direct and indirect costs, and it's crucial to adapt your recruiting strategies to prioritize the most costly open roles.

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Cornerstone Acquires SumTotal For $200 Million

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Today was a pretty iconic announcement: after decades of investment, Skillsoft decided to give up on the LMS market and sell SumTotal Systems to Cornerstone for $200 Million. While I don’t have any details on the deal yet, this pretty much ends the innovative phase of the Learning Management Systems market, clearly marking a. Read more» The post Cornerstone Acquires SumTotal For $200 Million appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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What Can Customer Success Do For Your Organization? (Tips & How To Get Buy-In)

Thinkific

Today’s most successful companies aren’t just focused on creating great products and services, they’re focused on customer success. In this guide, we reveal the customer strategies used by Gainsight, Moz, Intercom and other successful companies. The post What Can Customer Success Do For Your Organization? (Tips & How To Get Buy-In) appeared first on Thinkific.

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Describing vs Prescribing: Using your learner data more intelligently

Learning Pool

Anyone can go to the store and buy all the ingredients to make a delicious meal. But having ingredients isn’t the same as having a meal ready on the table to eat, nor does it mean you’ll have food ready for hundreds of people to eat every day of the week! The struggle with using learner data more intelligently can often be similar… Once we analyze and gather all the data we can, we have the tendency to think we’re data-driven enough.

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Top List Spotlight: Top Content Providers For Microlearning (2022 Update)

eLearning Industry

If you want to know more about microlearning vendors, read this list of Top Content Providers For Microlearning! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Accelerating Change in the Insurance Industry: Why You Need to Invest in Talent Strategy

This whitepaper brings together research, expert opinion and industry trend data to help senior leaders understand current challenges and future-proof their businesses. Inside you’ll find insights on: The big challenges: From automation to onboarding, we explore the big challenges facing the sector. Onboarding: You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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3 ways to migrate face-to-face training online

BrightCarbon

Traditional face-to-face training, where all your learners are in one room receiving the same training at the same time, is becoming a less and less feasible option for most organisations so many are turning to online training to provide learning experiences for their employees. In this post, we explore the why and the how! In the near future, 48% of employees are expected to work remotely at least part time – a rise of almost 20% compared to pre-COVID figures.

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The Future of L&D – Top Trends to Watch Out For in 2022

CommLab India

Are you looking for the latest tools and methods to help you get the most out of your corporate training? If that's the case, then continue reading. In this blog, we explore seven L&D trends to watch out for in 2022 and beyond.

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8 Educational Robotics Kits We'll Always Recommend

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Educational robotics is always evolving and here's how they help students.

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