LearnDash

MAY 13, 2020

The pandemic has put online education in the spotlight and under the magnifying glass. The emergence of the novel coronavirus has initiated an abrupt shift around the globe toward online education. For many, the transition has been rocky. Many larger organizations have been scaling their educational infrastructure as rapidly as possible, while individual educators are trying to make their way through a sudden influx of new learners.

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LearnDash

MAY 6, 2020

Covid-19 is forcing universities to move their courses online quickly. Here’s why they should think past the current crisis. It’s the story of every headline these days: Covid-19 is disrupting every facet of life around the globe, and one of the sectors where this change is most profoundly felt is in the world of education. In a way, it’s strange that Covid-19 is having such a profound effect, because online education offers a pathway for many educators to continue teaching despite t

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InSync Training

MAY 28, 2020

What do platforms like Webex Training, Zoom, Adobe Connect, and Microsoft Teams have in common? They all include a variety of virtual classroom tools ! When instructional designers incorporate their use into training programs and facilitators leverage them during delivery, tools can increase learner engagement. Learners feel more connected to their fellow participants, to the instructional team, and to the training content.

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Growth Engineering

MAY 21, 2020

Learning theories are sets of principles that explain how we best absorb information over time. Here are the 10 learning theories that you have you to know! The post 10 Learning Theories You HAVE To Know! appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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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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Lambda Solutions

MAY 19, 2020

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Jane Hart

MAY 22, 2020

Here is the text of a short talk I gave to the Institute of Learning & Management‘s Virtual Conference, Online Learning: Challenges and Solutions on Friday 22 May.

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LearnDash

MAY 18, 2020

We asked members of our community to share how they’ve used our platform to create new courses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The responses have been astounding. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen a spike in new users on our platform as schools, business owners, and entrepreneurs have worked overtime to move their operations online.

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eLearning Industry

MAY 8, 2020

Are you planning to kickstart your virtual training content development? This top list is for you! Even though online learning and virtual training solutions are not new to us, COVID-19 is reviving the need to explore online training solutions and learning opportunities. If your company is ready to adapt to this new reality, you'll appreciate our selection of the best content development companies to help you create a successful virtual training program.

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Infopro Learning

MAY 15, 2020

Companies invest millions into their online learning and development programs every year and for good reason. Effective training programs can provide some pretty valuable benefits including increased employee retention, boosted morale, improved productivity and a rise in profits. In fact, organizations who invest in employee training can see as much as a 24% increase in profits (1).

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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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Lambda Solutions

MAY 14, 2020

Absolutely everything you need to know to improve your training courses using Malcolm Knowles’ adult learning theory of Andragogy (with take-home resources and in-depth guides)!

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new normal for L&D professionals as millions of people were sent home to work remotely. While many of us had been offering online courses and other alternatives to in-person training for years, suddenly nothing could be run in a traditional classroom setting; and so as a collective we’ve been forced to shift learning and development online.

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Allen Interactions

MAY 18, 2020

Based on the industry-leading ideas from Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning , this course will fundamentally change the way you perceive the design and development of digital training.

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LearnDash

MAY 26, 2020

Essays remain a powerful learning tool, if they are handled carefully. A lot has changed about education in the last hundred years or so. The rise of modern psychology gave birth to the whole field of instructional design as educators the world over searched for ways to apply our new understanding of human memory to the learning process. We now understand why cramming is ineffective , why information retention requires active processing, and why rich learning resources that include multimedia so

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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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eLearning Industry

MAY 24, 2020

If you’re not sure of how to get your stakeholders’ buy-in for rapid eLearning, here are 4 truths that’ll help you put together a winning business case for rapid eLearning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Infopro Learning

MAY 22, 2020

Leadership development programs are high in demand. In fact, developing new leaders is currently one of the top challenges for organizations all over the world. A recent LinkedIn report stated that 86% of companies rated leadership development as either an urgent or important matter and for good reason. There are many advantages your organizations could gain from investing in leader development programs.

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Upside Learning

MAY 18, 2020

It’s year 2020, and, as announced by Adobe, the timeline for Flash’s end-of-life is nearing. Major browser vendors have also announced they will stop supporting Flash Player after December 2020. End of support means users will not be able to download Flash Player plugin from the Adobe website and no updates on security patches will […].

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TOPYX LMS

MAY 14, 2020

It’s more critical than ever for companies to take the initiative to develop their employees. Fifty percent of employers have put a freeze on hiring new workers to cut costs in response to the COVID-19 crisis, per FacilityExecutive.com. 1 This statistic shows how important it is that companies make the most of the talent they already have. However, the coronavirus pandemic has created a challenge to developing employees as it has forced 88 percent of organizations to encourage or mandate that th

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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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Axonify

MAY 25, 2020

Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, many of the unsung heroes of the pandemic wear aprons and can be found unloading trucks, stocking shelves, and ringing out orders at your local grocery store. While they may not be the high-flying, villain-fighting archetypes you see on TV, organizations can learn from how agile and resilient … Continued. Copyright © 2020 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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LearnDash

MAY 7, 2020

Blended learning will play a significant role in classrooms of the future. Here’s why educators should embrace it. In the early days of online education, most people viewed it as a substitute for classroom learning. This contributed to the pushback online education has often faced. People like face-to-face learning, and the idea that it would be gone forever was, understandably, alarming.

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eLearning Industry

MAY 12, 2020

Today, learning analytics is about much more than tracking course completion rates. It’s a tool that L&D professionals can use to create and optimize learning experiences that create an impact. In a world that is driven by technology and Big Data, learning analytics has become an essential tool for all L&D professionals. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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ej4 eLearning

MAY 12, 2020

Communities across the country are attempting to re-open and sending employees back to work. Our experience is unprecedented. As business leaders, we are in uncharted territories. We’ve never been through this before. There is no handbook or best practice for returning to work after quarantine during a global pandemic crisis. We are all figuring it out as we go.

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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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Clark Quinn

MAY 13, 2020

As part of coping in this time of upheaval, I’m trying different things. Which isn’t new, but there seem to be more innovations to tap into. In addition to teaching a course on mobile learning, I’m one of the speakers at a new online event. And, what’s nice, is that they’re experimenting with conference design, not just moving straight online.

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Origin Learning

MAY 27, 2020

Introduction: How to transition to Virtual Instructor-led training Virtual Instructor-Led Training grants learners the freedom to continue learning outside of. The post Moving from ILT to vILT: A four-step guide to Successful Transition appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 6, 2020

Blended Learning Strategy. This Blended Learning post was originally written for DominKnow.com. Since the beginning of time, companies have relied on instructor-led format for training their employees. However, as time has marched on, organizations face certain problems using this delivery method, such as logistic issues, high cost of loss productivity, inability to connect learning back in the workplace, the inability to provide learning reinforcement and the list continues.

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eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

MAY 14, 2020

Brian dives deep into semantics and how selecting the right verb plays into making sure the xAPI data you generate is useful and usable across systems.

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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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eLearning Brothers

MAY 20, 2020

20% of an employee’s annual salary will be spent to find, recruit, and train their replacement. That cost is why investing in an employee retention strategy can pay off big for organizations.

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ej4 eLearning

MAY 14, 2020

How is communication skills training different today? Modern communication appears to lack eye contact, grammar, and the use of your vocal cords! Look around. Everyone is looking down at their phone and not at each other. Even at the dinner table in a restaurant. Texting looks more like modern hieroglyphics with mysterious abbreviations and cartoon faces, hands, and produce emojis.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 26, 2020

…and what’s most important to fix? I was a co-conspirator on the Serious eLearning Manifesto , and we identified 8 values that separated typical elearning from serious elearning. However, I suspect that not all are as important, nor hard to fix. And, thinking about what my unique contribution could and should be, I wondered where best to target my efforts to avoid going most wrong.

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