August, 2021

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Are You Ready for the Learning and Development Boom?

eLearning Industry

As L&D gains prominence in the wake of the pandemic, we take a look at 5 opportunities to mature your L&D function. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. Learning And Development Corporate Learning Corporate Learning And Development eLearning Professionals Employee Training

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Elaboration Strategies That Benefit Learning

The eLearning Coach

These elaboration strategies provide ways to connect new learning to prior knowledge in order to make learning meaningful.

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My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2021

Experiencing eLearning

It has been several years since I last added my top 10 tools for learning as part of Jane Hart’s annual survey. Some of these are my personal learning tools; others are what I use to create learning for others. You can vote for your top 10 tools for learning until August 26. These tools aren’t ranked, but they are categorized based on whether I use them to create learning for others or as a tool for my own personal development.

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3 Key Aspects to Deliver Effective Product Knowledge Training

Infopro Learning

In today’s world, several organizations are running neck-and-neck with a similar product range. It is crucial for businesses to have enough knowledge and expertise to make customer interaction more effective and wholesome. Every organization wants to have happy clients. This may happen when you have great products and a marketing team with the required product knowledge to satisfy customers.

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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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KEVIN THORN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

KEVIN THORN - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT KEVIN THORN: Kevin Thorn is an award-winning e-learning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC. , a boutique custom design and development studio specializing in online learning experiences. After retiring from the U.S. Army, Kevin pursued a career in Information Technology and Training & Development for the next 15 years.

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Final Quiz Passing Score: Is The 80% Written In Stone?

eLearning Industry

Most of us set 80% as the passing score in eLearning courses. What is the rationale of this figure? Is it something that learning specialists have arbitrarily chosen or does this magic number have any mooring in learning theory? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Time pilot

E-Learning Provocateur

There was an aspect I omitted from my previous post, Space invaders , in which I covered the spacing effect as a means of maximising long-term retention. Zsolt Olah picked it: interleaving and – ironically! – I judged it a bridge too far to include in the same post and so decided to split it out across a second one. You’ll see why… Interleaving.

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Tools for Building Branching Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

When would you use Twine instead of Storyline or other tools for building branching scenarios? An attendee at one of my recent presentations asked me why I’d bother creating something in Twine rather than just storyboarding directly in Storyline, especially if I was using character images. Whether I would use Twine, Storyline, Rise, or something else depends on the project and the goals.

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Top Custom eLearning Trends 2021 that you Must Know

Infopro Learning

How are organizations around the world grappling with the ever-changing business dynamics? How are they gearing up for the year 2021 and beyond in employee upskilling and reskilling? With the global pandemic taking a grip across the globe in 2020, most organizations had to rethink their business strategies to train and equip their globally dispersed workforce adequately.

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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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Caveat Malarkey

Clark Quinn

After continuing to take down marketing blather, it’s time for a plea. Caveat Malarkey! And, as always, the prose. If you’ve been paying attention, you will have seen that a number of my blog posts take down a variety of articles that are rife with malarkey. A lot of them come from connections or pointers on LinkedIn. (If you want to live in infamy, feel free to point me to your posts. ;) It’s time to address what I’m seeing, from two points of view.

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How Gamification Helps Learners Achieve Flow

LearnDash

Flow exists in the “just right” space between boredom and anxiety. In 1975, a Hungarian-American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, identified a cognitive state of high focus and productivity which he named “flow.” The concept of flow, also described as a state of “effortless attention” was nothing new, but Csikszentmihalyi’s research kicked off a surge of interest in the idea.

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How L&D Teams Can Leverage Learning Consulting To Meet The Enhanced Expectations From The Business

eLearning Industry

L&D teams may not have all the skills or experience to efficiently address the rapidly changing demands of today's workplace. In this article, I outline how learning and performance consulting partners can support L&D teams to successfully meet the new mandate. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Fresh Perspectives on Learning and Development

Dashe & Thomson

Learning and development has evolved drastically in the past couple of years and continues to change and adapt as organizational needs shift. Recently, L&D has solidified itself as an essential part of organizational success across industries and disciplines. Nonetheless, many businesses are still looking for more justification to buy into the financial and organizational benefits of employee development.

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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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Instructional Design Research, Tools, & More: ID Links 8/10/21

Experiencing eLearning

As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on instructional design research and principles, productivity, video, animation, visual design, an elearning example, and my article on scenario-based learning for TD Magazine. Instructional design research and principles.

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How Can Organizations Be Future Aligned with Managed Learning?

Infopro Learning

More and more, businesses are turning to managed learning services as a solution for scaling-up learning and development activities and efficiently manage training budgets. As a result, market analysts anticipate steady growth of managed learning services in the years to come, across different industries and regions of the world As a L&D strategy, adoption of managed learning services continues to grow exponentially in several industries in particular. including BFSI, IT & telecom, retai

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What Is E-learning, And How To Create The Best Types Of E-learning?

Spark Your Interest

What is e-learning? Well, there are many types of e-learning that organizations can use to educate or train people. Understanding what is e-learning and the best types of e-learning to use, is critical when creating new training programs. A physical institution no longer confines restrictions to learning. It took a pandemic for many governmental and educational institutes to understand this.

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LMS Comparison: LearnDash vs. Teachable

LearnDash

Teachable is one of the most popular online course platforms available. But that doesn’t make it right for your course. For those new to the world of online education, navigating the various Learning Management Systems (LMSs) on the market can be exhausting. However, making the right choice is crucial for the success of any new online education project.

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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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8 Tips On eLearning Content Localization For Your Online Training Program

eLearning Industry

These eight important points on eLearning content localization will help your training program reach a wider audience, irrespective of cultures and backgrounds, create and sustain favorable results for your business, and uphold your organization’s status. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Corporate Online Learning Trends You Still Need to Implement in 2021

TOPYX LMS

The corporate online learning industry is constantly changing and growing. All types of organizations, such as multinationals, nonprofits, businesses, and healthcare systems, utilize online learning to train their workforces. Online employee training is incredibly valuable - the global online learning market will have a projected worth of $325 billion by 2025. 1.

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Reflections on 10 Years of Consulting

Experiencing eLearning

As of this month, it’s been 10 years since I left my last full-time job and started my own business. In August 2011, I wrapped up my last project at Cisco and formed my LLC. Prior to this, the longest I ever held a job was about 3 years. However, even after 10 years of consulting, it still feels like the right fit. I still enjoy what I do, and I hope to continue for many more years.

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Moving from Onboarding to “Warm Welcomes”

Learning Rebels

I’ve been doing some research, and the gap regarding the importance of new hire onboarding and how the actual experience is handled is interesting. The Onboarding Gap. Workplace success starts with the employee’s first experience with the business, meaning how the onboarding process is handled. For new employees, the onboarding experience is not just about learning to work within the organization’s parameters.

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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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Workplace Culture: Leading and Coaching to Develop Sense of Belonging

Dashe & Thomson

Hiring a diverse and inclusive team has proven to be an extremely successful approach for organizations. However, creating an environment where employees thrive and are empowered takes a lot of effort and determination. Creating a sense of belonging is critical and you cannot make employees feel like they’re part of the team if you’re not showing appreciation for their lives, backgrounds, and ideas.

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Capterra Lists LearnDash among “Emerging Favorites”

LearnDash

We recently made a shortlist for top-reviewed training software, so we figure it’s time to round up our best reviews. Capterra, the popular review website for software programs, recently included LearnDash on its shortlist of “emerging favorites.”. We’re obviously highly gratified that so many of our users have taken the time to leave us reviews. Reviewers don’t get a lot back from the time and effort they take to leave a write-up—maybe some good feelings if they liked our product, or maybe some

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Beauty Isn’t Everything: 5 Aesthetics You Should Eliminate From Your eLearning Course Design To Increase Its Value

eLearning Industry

Humans are visual creatures. Though substance matters, you need to please the eye in order to grab their attention. This article features 5 aesthetics you should eliminate from your eLearning course design to increase its value. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Buckle up for blended learning

CLO Magazine

Blended learning works, and not just as a pandemic-era means of getting by.

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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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Top Learning Systems: 40 Vendors to Know in 2021

Talented Learning

Welcome Back to Our “Top Learning Systems” Awards! Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know just how much the world has changed over the past two years. The learning technology marketplace has changed just as dramatically. One thing remains the same, though. The extended enterprise learning systems market continues to be on fire.

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57 Ways To Market Your Online Course & Increase Sales in 2021

Thinkific

Ready to start promoting your online course? We've got you covered. Here are 55 ways to market your online course and boost your sales. The post 57 Ways To Market Your Online Course & Increase Sales in 2021 appeared first on Thinkific.

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DEIB & Skills: What We’ve Learned So Far

Degreed

Editor’s note: This post was written and contributed by RedThread Research. Earlier this year, we started our inquiry into a fundamental question: What skills contribute to DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging), specifically fostering diversity, creating equity, enabling people to feel included, and building a culture of belonging in the workplace?

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