Client Engagement Academy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Before I dive into the six reasons you should be using digital badges for your online course, let’s take a crash course on WHAT a digital badge is. At its most fundamental level, a digital badge is the new digital education currency. On a literal level, a digital badge is the new diploma. It’s packed full of information regarding the organization that issued the badge and what the recipient had to do to earn the badge.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

This weekend, I purchased something new at a local farmers market: delicata squash. It came highly recommended as an easy winter squash to prepare, with a nice light taste. As I was getting ready to cook it, I had a couple of quick questions. At what temperature should it bake, and for how long?

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Tim Slade

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

As I’ve been working within the eLearning industry over the last 10 years or so, I’ve realized there are some questions about eLearning we should stop asking. And I’m serious! We should take them out back and bury them never to be found again! What are these “questions about eLearning” I’m talking about? Well, they’re questions that, when asked and answered, usually results in lousy learning experiences and undesirable performance outcomes.

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B Online Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

At some time through your instructional design or eLearning developer career you will find yourself writing text for the content. Whether it’s for […]. The post 7 Tips for Writing for eLearning appeared first on B Online Learning.

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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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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Flash is all but dead, and HTML5 is the new gold standard of eLearning courses. In order to convert their legacy Flash course, an organization needs to either hire an in-house team or outsource it to an eLearning vendor. If you decide to do the latter, here are 3 points to keep in mind. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

One of the challenges of branching scenarios is that you can generate so many options and paths that it quickly becomes unwieldy. A branch and bottleneck scenario structure is one strategy for keeping the complexity manageable. Branch and Bottleneck. In a branch and bottleneck structure, you branch into different options for a while, but then all paths return to a single bottleneck.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

What is micro learning, and how can you use it to your advantage? If you’re like most online educators, you probably tend to think of course creating in terms of subject matter rather than delivery method. You start with the idea of the course you want to teach, write a lesson plan, and begin organizing your material around that structure. This comes naturally to many of us, in no small part because it mimics the way we were taught subject matter in school and college.

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ej4 eLearning

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Whether you’re creating your first or fiftieth video, I think you will find these tips helpful. It’s important to know upfront if you need to include a banana. (Banana? Yes, a banana. You'll get it if you keep reading!) And whether you hire a company like ej4 or create internally, we want you to have a successful corporate video production process. We have found that the more thinking and planning you do upfront, the smoother the production process.

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Making Change

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

“Why” is a useful question when you’re getting to the root of a performance problem. But it has a more powerful cousin: “What for?” Here’s an example. Your client, Joe, wants ethics training. “People are lying when they file their performance reports,” he says. “They say they did more work than they actually completed.

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Every online learner should have the opportunity to benefit from your eLearning course, regardless of behavioral disorders or developmental difficulties. This article features 8 tips to develop eLearning courses for online learners with attention deficit disorder. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Infopro Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

eLearning has been a hot topic lately because of the benefits it has to offer – Be it eLearning courses being immensely engaging or cut down on training costs and time. For L&D departments, it is important to identify employees’ pain points for learning new things and subsequently deliver eLearning training options to them. Creating eLearning courses for employees is quite similar to shopping for clothes.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Does scenario-based learning always have to involve complex branching or simulations? No! You can use one-question mini-scenarios to make your assessments more relevant and valuable. Mini-scenarios are fast and easy to build. You don’t need any special tools; you can use any tool that can create a multiple choice question. Typical multiple choice question.

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Docebo

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Let’s get something clear – great cloud-based software doesn’t operate in a silo – and your learning platform ( LMS + Social Learning ) is no exception. Your learning technology must slot in naturally with your existing tech stack to help you to work more efficiently, keep learners engaged, and establish a robust and connected SaaS ecosystem that improves your business.

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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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ej4 eLearning

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The holidays are coming up, and that often means a lot of employees and customers taking vacation days to spend time with families, bake holiday cookies, and scramble to finish holiday shopping. With all the holidays that fall between November and January, there are a lot of days with everyone out-of-office. Throw in some snow and ice storms, and you may have days where everyone works remotely instead of trekking into the office.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When selling an online course, it is important to have relevant testimonials can make (or break) your sale. Testimonials give an overview of the course aims and allow new users to identify with others like them, which is important when they’re debating which course plan to purchase. A good testimonial can convince even the toughest sell. Why? As an online marketer, your customers can’t physically handle your product, thumb through the page of your course manuals, or seen more than ju

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A vital step in training development is including various ways of testing employee knowledge and aptitudes. Read on to learn about different ways this can be done in your online learning courses! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Being the CEO of a company that revolves around learning technology I have to watch the trends in Learning & Development. I even have to predict what will be next. I need to be ahead of the game in order to steer my company in the right direction. For this purpose, I made an analysis of the changes that I see and I wanted to share these insights.

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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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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When you’re looking for an instructional design role, it’s important to find a good “fit.” A good fit means doing work you find satisfying, in an organization or with clients that value your contributions. Generalist or specialist. Generalists do a little bit of everything. This is pretty common in instructional design and elearning roles, especially in smaller organizations.

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Tim Slade

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When you’re in the early stages of designing and developing an eLearning course, you may wonder whether or not you should spend the time drafting an eLearning storyboard. After all, when you’re strapped for time, you may wonder whether the benefits of drafting an eLearning storyboard outweighs the time required. While there are some instances when you may consider jumping straight into development, I’ve always found the process of drafting a storyboard to be beneficial.

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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

In software development, there is a concept of the “ full-stack engineer, ” someone who knows hardware, operating system, database, applications, user interface, design, and mobile applications. These magic individuals are among the most valued in business: they can architect new systems, debug the most difficult problems, and serve as big thinkers for technologists everywhere.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Attracting volunteers is not enough. Here’s how to train them to be effective. Any non-profit that has experience working with volunteers knows that one of the greatest challenges facing them on a regular basis lies in training volunteers to do useful work. This can create significant logistic challenges, as training can be costly both in terms of expense, and the time and human resources involved.

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Not sure what an SME is? A Subject Matter Expert is the one that will make sure your online course is top-notch. Read on for more details! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Nudge theory has gained a lot of attention in recent years. But what exactly is nudge theory and how can it be applied in your learning programs? Find out more in this blog.

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E-learning Uncovered

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

December 3 is Giving Tuesday, and we'd like to do our part. We are giving away 10 free registrations to our Mastering Variables in Articulate Storyline course on Udemy. If you are a 501(c)3 non-profit or NGO, just fill out the quick form below to enter! Deadline to enter is 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3. If + Read More. The post Giving Tuesday: Help Give Away 10 Free Storyline Variables Courses to Worthy Non-Profits appeared first on E-Learning Uncovered.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

“What is the purpose of school?” my mentor asked of me when I was moved up into administration. I wrote high minded paragraphs citing everyone from Socrates to Neal Postman, that he tossed in the garbage. “Rich”, he said, “You have about 10 seconds or eyes will glaze over or you’ll sound like you’re shoveling S$*t.”. No quick answer came for a day or two until on a run on an old rail trail formed into an A-Ha moment.

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Capytech

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

How to Optimise Video Content in Your E-Learning Courses. Read any guide on how to improve your e-learning courses and you will find a tip on including video. Those guides are right, of course, but there are e-learning videos and then there are e-learning videos.In other words, some videos work in e-learning modules and some don’t. How do you make sure yours don’t fall into the latter category?

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Bring method to the madness with your course outline. Have you ever found yourself with a fantastic idea for a new online course, but you don’t know where to start? No matter how brilliant your ideas are, transmitting those ideas from one person to another is incredibly difficult. You may understand what you’re trying to say, but as subject matter experts, it’s easy to become blind to ideas or concepts that are new to your learners.

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The days of learning only using a wide-format desktop screen are long gone. In fact, with the proliferation of devices with multiple screen sizes, it’s hard to know exactly which screens a course designer should use. So, what should Instructional Designers do? The answer is: Use responsive design techniques for the best results! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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