Association eLearning

APRIL 5, 2017

How often do you feel like you understand something until someone asks you to tell them more about it? When teachers and learners want to convey information quickly there’s always a temptation to rely on definitions and a sampling of big picture ideas to help the learner hit the ground running. But Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman had his own methodology for mastering new concepts.

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TOPYX LMS

APRIL 26, 2017

BONITA SPRINGS, FL – Interactyx, the developer of TOPYX® , a leading learning management system (LMS), and Traliant , an innovator in online compliance training, today announced a partnership to integrate workplace discrimination and harassment training into the TOPYX learning management platform. Under the agreement, TOPYX clients can now benefit from a tightly integrated solution that combines the award-winning TOPYX LMS with Traliant’s Preventing Discrimination and Harassment Training Suite.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 12, 2017

AMERICAN FORK, UT — April 12, 2017 — eLearning Brothers today announces that it has acquired privately-held Media 1, an award winning custom eLearning development company, out of Muskegon, Michigan. eLearning Brothers has brought on Chris Willis as part of the acquisition to enhance the eLearning content production at eLearning Brothers. “Bringing Chris in as part of the acquisition is key to the development of our newest offering that will be launched in Q2 of this year.” said Andrew Scivally,

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Swift eLearning Services

APRIL 28, 2017

Skilled Instructional Designers are similar to Master Chefs! They cook the dish of quality eLearning in all formats – custom eLearning, rapid eLearning, mobile learning or microlearning. Whichever may be the eLearning format, the core ingredients they use determine the learner’s appetite for learning.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 25, 2017

Developing the capabilities of leaders who will be taking over responsibility for successful business outcomes in the future is now at a critical milestone for our learning community. Here are just a few of the questions we must answer when developing leaders for the future: What is the implication of the current business climate for leadership at all levels?

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LearnDash

APRIL 3, 2017

Instructional design is a growing field given the amount of online courses we are seeing today. It is becoming increasingly more important that we create learning experiences that “work”, and this is becoming more difficult each passing year as courses compete for the learner’s attention. Instructional designers are tasked with finding the best way to teach new information to a target audience.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 2, 2017

You can narrow down someone’s age by whether they include spaces in their file names. If they do, they’re under 40. That is a sweeping declaration, and quite possibly true. Here’s another one… Gamers are a sub-culture dominated by young men. This declaration, however, is stone-cold wrong. In fact, 63% of American households are home to someone who plays video games regularly (hardly a sub-culture).

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Association eLearning

APRIL 19, 2017

I don’t want to sound like a traitor to my industry, but learning and development, training, learning management, whatever you want to call it, is so complicated! Seriously, everyday a new platform comes out that promises the moon and the stars. This LMS makes coffee and kisses your kids goodnight. That’s great! Just one question: how does all this technology produce results?

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Upside Learning

APRIL 27, 2017

Animations are frequently chosen when we want to make a strong, affective impact on learners to improve retention of information, for example when the objective of the eLearning deliverable is to create awareness and pride about a code of conduct an organization commits to. Animations are also useful in simplifying complex concepts, even while learning […].

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 19, 2017

Leadership: Nurture vs Nature. Natural leaders are hard to come by. At least that’s the common perception. We don’t see it that way. Leadership like other skills is affected by natural ability, but that natural ability must be nurtured and developed. Every once in great while, a musical prodigy will be born with the raw talent to re-write our understanding of sound without formal education.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 27, 2017

At the heart of this model is a self-reliant, modern employee who addresses their own learning and performance problems, organizes and manages their own professional goals, continuously learns and keeps up to date, builds their own (personally-selected) learning toolkit and maintains their own digital portfolio.

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TOPYX LMS

APRIL 7, 2017

Have you ever found yourself wondering, but been too embarrassed to ask the question, “What is an LMS?” If so, don’t believe you are lagging behind your peers in the intelligence department. So many techy acronyms are thrown around these days that it’s tough to keep up with their meanings. In the next five minutes, you are going to learn exactly, in everyday terms, what an LMS is.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 1, 2017

Here are some slides and information covered in my presentation at the Texas Distance Learning Association conference. I’ve included the slides from the presentation and slide on using PollEverywhere and writing directly in PowerPoint in slideshow mode. Storytelling: Tools of Engagement from Karl Kapp. Using Poll Everywhere to Create an Interactive Story-based Presentation from Karl Kapp.

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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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Association eLearning

APRIL 12, 2017

The first time I worked with a storyboard template it was numbered 100, 200, 300, and so on. I did what I thought was the helpful thing and renumbered the storyboards to 1, 2, 3, and so on. I now understand why that was a mistake. Granted, there’s more than one way to effectively number storyboards, but I want to share a few tips and considerations.

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CourseArc

APRIL 28, 2017

Over the past year, the feature request we’ve heard most from users was the ability to track the progress of online learners. Yes, CourseArc was built to help you create high quality online courses quickly and easily, but how do you know if your students or employees are actually learning? With our latest update, we have solved that issue—you now see exactly where is each learner is on the road to completion as well as detailed scoring information for graded activities.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 12, 2017

Everything You Wanted to Know About MOOCs And Were Too Embarrassed to Ask! MOOCs have been the talk of the learning and development industry for quite some time. But, what exactly are they? MOOCs Defined. Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, are online courses that allow participants free access and unrestricted participation to any course of their choice.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 24, 2017

This is the first of a 3-part series looking at how to support Modern Professional Learners. In Part I look at why the current L&D (training/knowledge transfer) model is no longer appropriate and why a new model (or blueprint) is necessary.

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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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Learningtogo

APRIL 30, 2017

According to the Pew Research Group, Millennials are the largest generational cohort in the workforce, but many of us are still trying to understand their needs and expectations. In this post, we look at one of the most significant requirements of this generation: personalization. There have been many attempts to define “ personalized learning.” While previous generations might accept having a few choices or personalized recommendations, to Millennials this term has a much richer meaning.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 24, 2017

The shift has arrived, and video is King! You may or may not be shocked by this but not enough of us are creating video to help the people in our organizations. We, as educators in the Adult Learning world, have a responsibility to help our organizations move forward and we are not doing enough to practice this craft. The trend seems to be that we are aware video is important and critical, and we even admit that our end-users would probably prefer video to some of other learning methods used.

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Association eLearning

APRIL 27, 2017

You know that feeling you get when something is hyped as “the ultimate solution”? If you’re like me your reaction is probably along the lines of, “That’s too good to be true. Therefore, it probably isn’t true.” Back in the day, household radio sets were going to be the big breakthrough for learning. There would be educational programs for the whole family, language learning from native speakers, etc.

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LearnDash

APRIL 21, 2017

Notice anything different? If this is your first time visiting LearnDash, then probably not. However, if you have been here before then you likely see that we have done a bit of updating! It is with great pleasure that I get to write today to unveil the new design of LearnDash.com, and not just because of the fresh new look but because with the new design comes our updated approach to the e-learning market.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 25, 2017

Yet again, for the third year running, Upside Learning is on the Training Industry’s Training Outsourcing Watch List! Every year, the Training Industry recognizes the top 20 training outsourcing companies based on their extensive research and thorough analysis of the capabilities, expertise, and experience of each company. Upside has been recognized on the specific counts […].

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Jane Hart

APRIL 18, 2017

New article in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine “In this article I take a look at how workplace learning has changed over the last 10+ years and its necessary future direction.

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JoomlaLMS

APRIL 25, 2017

A Comprehensive Guide to a Learning Management System (LMS) Purchase How to Select a Learning Management System? A Comprehensive Guide With so much buzz around online education, it is not surprising that the interest in Learning Management Systems is constantly growing. More and more people around the world recognize the value of innovations in training and education and start searching for the right Learning Management System software to satisfy the needs of modern learners.

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Living in Learning

APRIL 28, 2017

There is no shortage of new innovation we seek to implement in our L&D discipline, and Micro-Learning is one of the most recent. Depending upon how one chooses to integrate "Micro-Anything", the results can range from truly innovative solutions to merely applying more lipstick on the training pig.

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InSync Training

APRIL 4, 2017

Virtual classroom platforms now include a plethora of tools meant to encourage learner participation. We have whiteboards , breakout rooms , polls , text-based chat. Including them appropriately in our programs positively impacts our modern learners’ experiences. One modern learning challenge we face though, is the type of engagement these tools generate: is it interaction or collaboration?

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TOPYX LMS

APRIL 27, 2017

Have you been searching for a few LMS ideas creative enough to renew your employees’ interest in online learning/training? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We understand that LMS-based training can become monotonous if not switched up every now and then. LMS ideas that are engaging stir up a passion for learning, even if the learning is centered on subjects like customer service or safety procedures.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 13, 2017

It is a proud time on the floor as we celebrate Upside’s 13th Anniversary this April. As we look back on the years gone by, we cannot help but think of all those challenges and successes that brought us to where we are. And all those people who have worked with us and partnered with […].

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