June, 2019

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3 Tips for Designing Blended Learning

Tim Slade

Any time I start work on a new learning project, someone always asks me how I think the learning content should be delivered. Should it be an eLearning course or instructor-led training? Should it be a how-to video or job aid? And while these questions are important to answer, my response is always the same: Why does it have to be one or the other? Why don’t we try designing blended learning?

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Steal this Sales Copy Formula to Sell More Courses!

LearnDash

You have created an online course and are ready to share it with the world – but can you convince people to buy? Your course is complete, your website is up, and now there’s only one thing left to do—reel in customers for your amazing course. But that’s easier said than done… how do you share your value proposition and develop a sales page that motivates people to invest into your course?

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4 Ways To Use Story Mapping In The eLearning Development Process

eLearning Industry

Do you have a keen interest in having an eLearning website? The website is processed to help the people gain knowledge in their interested subject anytime and anywhere. But you might feel that it is failing to deliver some real impact on the users. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Instructional Design Certificate or Masters Degree

Experiencing eLearning

A reader sent me this question: I’m very seriously considering a career change into ID. (I’ve spent 20 years in various business assignments with the last 8 in IT.) I’m involved in teaching extra-curricular activities to kids and adults in my community. I very fulfilled when I’m teaching and I’ve come to the conclusion that I want to follow this as a career path.

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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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Integrating Motivation with Instructional Design

B Online Learning

As an Instructional Designer, motivating learners is an important consideration because in reality learners are not always motivated to learn. They are busy, […]. The post Integrating Motivation with Instructional Design appeared first on B Online Learning.

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3 Ways to Bolster a Culture of Learning at Work

Absorb LMS

Mercer’s 2019 Global Talent Trends study found that 73% of executives predict significant industry disruption in the next three years. Your company can be caught in the wake of that disruption or be the leader that affects change. A strong culture of learning at work is an essential competitive advantage in this quest, providing individuals with opportunities to elevate their skill sets, challenge assumptions about the way things are done, and collaborate with peers to push operations forw

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4 Tips for Offering and Mastering Online Coaching

LearnDash

Cash-in by supplementing your online courses with one-on-one coaching. When your students choose your class for their learning opportunity, it’s because you offer something as an instructor that captures their interest. In other words, you are the biggest marketing draw of your class – the way you organize and present information, the way you help students understand and memorize, and the way you ultimately drive their success.

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4 Employee Needs To Incorporate In Your eLearning Design

eLearning Industry

Learning practitioners often focus solely on getting leadership support for learning. While necessary, what's often left out is what employees want and need. Stop taking for granted employees will unquestionably accept whatever their leaders expect. This is a recipe for a learning failure. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Labels for what we do

Clark Quinn

Of late there’s been a resurrection of a long term problem. While it’s true for our field as a whole, it’s also true for the specific job of those who design formal learning. I opined about the problem of labels for what we do half a year ago, but it has raised its head again. And this time, some things have been said that I don’t fully agree with.

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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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10 Ways You Can Foster Better Compliance in the Workplace

ej4 eLearning

Here at ej4, we talk a lot about compliance in the workplace, and it's not always the most fun topic to talk about. Keeping your company compliant means ensuring employees have the right training on a variety of important compliance training topics, including things like safety, harassment policies, HIPAA/privacy, and so on. Compliance, and compliance training, are usually mandated by federal, state, or local laws and regulations.

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4 Ways Retail Companies Can Use Social Learning to Improve Onboarding

TOPYX LMS

Retail companies face multiple challenges when it comes to onboarding and retaining new hires. Every year, retail companies experience staff churn at a rate of 5 percent per month,¹ struggle to replace lost employees, and create a positive atmosphere that helps new hires be effective and build careers at the company. There are many contributors to new hire success in the retail sector, one of the most important of which is ineffective onboarding.² Using social learning techniques, companies can

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10 reasons why you don’t need “learning technologies” to enable learning at work

Jane Hart

Here are 10 reasons why you don’t need dedicated learning technologies to enable and support learning at work.

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Online Marketing for Elearning Part III: Advertising

LearnDash

Are you ready to put some money behind your marketing? Here’s how to start. For many online educators, especially those who are starting out on a small budget, the concept of putting money behind an advertisement can feel like a big risk. They would much prefer to continue with their content marketing strategy —and for good reason. Content marketing is low cost but highly effective.

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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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The Importance Of A Project Debrief For L&D Project Managers

eLearning Industry

At its most basic level, the purpose of the debrief is for stakeholders to put the project into perspective. A Project Manager's perspective is the most complete one because their viewpoint is the most comprehensive of all. Your stakeholder's observations, however, are based on their individual experiences. They need a little push in the right direction.

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Stephanie Llamas #Realities360 Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

Stephanie Llamas kicked off the Realities 360 conference by providing an overview of VR & AR industry. As a market researcher, she made the case for both VR and AR/MR. With trend data and analysis she made a case for growth and real uses. She also suggested that you need to use it correctly. (Hence my talk later this day.). The post Stephanie Llamas #Realities360 Keynote Mindmap appeared first on Learnlets.

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Tips: What to look for in a Top Extended Enterprise LMS

Paradiso

A top extended enterprise LMS is the one that solves the necessity to have a training platform that can be used in the different ways of shared use LMS, among which you can find the implementation in branches of a company, franchises or to give access to users or customers of online courses, among others. If your LMS is destined to be used by different departments, branches, channel partners or vendors then an extended enterprise LMS may be of interest.

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Providing Contractor Training with LMS Software: 3 Simple Tips

TOPYX LMS

Over the past 10 years, flexible contract work has increased by 56 percent.¹ More companies and industries and leveraging contractors for internal work such as change management as well as to fulfill the needs of customers, such as the auto repair shops that contract with insurance companies to serve customers. This type of contract work provides increased flexibility and a wide range of skill sets - it can also lower a company’s total payroll and benefits expenses by at least 20-50 percent annu

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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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Learning Technology Evolves: Integrated Platforms Are Arriving

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

The enormous market for training and learning tools is very fragmented. Today there are more than 200 LMS vendors, more than 30 LXP vendors, and thousands of vendors who build collaboration tools, mobile learning tools, content development tools, and analytics tools. (Roughly 12% of the $240 Billion corporate training market is spent on tools.). While.

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Online Marketing for Elearning Part II: Distribution

LearnDash

How to use email and social media to grow your online course audience. Now that you’ve created content, how can you help make sure it draws in more learners for your online course? As we covered earlier in our discussion of content marketing, if you’ve done the necessary SEO work, your posts should draw in some organic traffic on their own.

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WordPress Development: The Preferred Choice For Businesses Today

eLearning Industry

WordPress, the open source CMS, is constantly astounding businesses with its ever-evolving technology, tools, and resources. WordPress development is considered one of the easiest processes to customize a website in today's era. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The 3 Types of eLearning Storyboards & When to Use Them

Tim Slade

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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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Optimising your presentations for people with colour blindness

BrightCarbon

Colour has always been powerful; from warning us which berries to avoid, to establishing iconic global brands. Many of us consider it a key tool when designing presentations – but what effect does this reliance on colour have on people with colour blindness? Colourblind Awareness say that people with colour blindness have “been forgotten in the race for progress in a digital world.

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Retail Training Tips That Improve Key Business Metrics

TOPYX LMS

Retail employees help generate a large portion of a business’ revenue by helping shoppers find what they need, suggesting additional purchases, and providing exceptional customer service.

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13 eLearning Scenario Tips that 60 Experts Agree On

eLearningArt

Scenarios are one the most effective types of eLearning. Why? Because they’re about people DOING something … Not just an information dump where learners magically “ABSORB” the content (picture me doing air quotes). I started building scenarios almost 20 years ago and I can tell you this … It’s really easy to make mistakes when you’re building scenarios.

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How Understanding Cognitive Load Can Improve Your Course

LearnDash

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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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8 Responsive Design Techniques To Optimize Mobile Learning

eLearning Industry

Designing for any and every possible device can be somewhat intimidating. Here are 8 tips to help you navigate the process for developing a responsive web application, tool, or course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How Can K-12 Schools Improve Learning Outcomes with Technology?

Kitaboo

Technology is making inroads in every aspect of our lives and education is no exception. The tech-savvy millennial generation has literally grown up with technology and traditional classroom settings can no longer satisfy their curiosity for knowledge and information. Neither can they be satisfied with the filtering down of knowledge from the teacher and the taught – they want answers and they want the education process to be more engaging, real-time, and immersive.

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Nudge-Learning: The Theory and The Relevance

Harbinger Interactive Learning

Sometimes what you need is a nudge to learn. Setting the context. As a CLO or an L&D stakeholder, do any of the following modern-day workplace issues bother you? Creating & maintaining a diverse & inclusive culture. Making learning available in the flow of work. Catering to the situational salesforce’s learning needs. Instilling the brand culture in times of gig economy.

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