eLearning Architect
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Investing time and money on the development of high quality eLearning and implementing a fancy LMS is not enough to guarantee an experience your learners are going to enjoy. This article will explore some important concepts that will help you understand the relationship between these technologies. Creating an experience I was recently listening to a podcast about user experience.
eLearning Brothers
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
“That should be easy to change, right?” . “It costs that much to make a 15-minute course?”. “After the final review, the vice president wants us to go in a different direction. So…we need to go back to the drawing board.”. You’ve probably heard the phrases above, or something similar, during your eLearning career. You may have heard them more than once.
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Learnkit
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Whether you are partnering with an elearning company for the first time, or have experience working with elearning vendors for years, there are a few questions you can ask to ensure you select the right elearning company for your needs. A good elearning content vendor should feel like a natural extension of your team. When you outsource your elearning development , the effort should be collaborative, economical and provide you with specialized expertise that will increase quality and decrease de
eLearningArt
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
When I develop eLearning courses, there are many common elements that I use over and over. By identifying patterns, I can create a reusable framework that reduces development time on future courses. Tom Kuhlmann had an interesting analogy of an eLearning course being like a sandwich with the top and bottom slices of bread being the welcome and exit screens, respectively, and then a lot of course content in-between.
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Allen Interactions
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
By Edm ond Manning , Senior Instructional Strategist. If the Internet has taught us anything over the last twenty-five years, it’s that every single event in the history of all humanity can somehow be represented by adorable cat videos. Why fight it? We present some common instructional design truths best illustrated by, you got it—those furry little monsters.
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Wisetail
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
This is a success story about how one of the best restaurants & brewhouses in the country saw employee engagement jump dramatically after paying careful attention to the graphic design, layout and branding of its learning management system. In other words: this is a real world example of how design drives engagement. The post Design Drives LMS Engagement appeared first on Wisetail.
Axonify
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Post game celebration, confetti flying. Tons of fun even though our Steelers didn’t make it. Garret Grahonya is still feeling the effects of Super Bowl fever. The L&S Toyota sales consultant beat out thousands of his peers from every district across the United States in an Axonify-inspired competition Toyota ran to increase product knowledge.
Learnkit
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
When I started my role with Learnkit , I was eager to share the good news of my new job with my parents. They’ve always been supportive of my career path and understand the importance of training and development for every type of organization. However, there was a bit of a struggle when I told them I was now an Elearning Instructional Designer. The conversation I had with my father went something like this: Me: Dad I got that job I was telling you about!
Administrate
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, what better time of the year to profess our love for our favourite way of learning! We’ve been advocates for a long time now, but we still get asked time and time again from potential customers “Why should we choose eLearning?”. Well, we’ll Read More.
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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.
Edmego Learning
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Maximizing Retention In E-Learning – Part 1. There is a big difference between just scattering seeds on the ground and hoping to grow something versus taking the time to prepare the soil, add fertilizer, compost and then add the seeds. Even after that you work very hard to make sure the area retains the amount of sunshine and rain needed to make your seed turning into a thriving productive plant.
CourseArc
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Learning Tools Interoperability, or LTI, is a standard published by the IMS Global Learning Consortium that makes it possible to integrate platforms such as Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard or Canvas with third party tools and vendors such as CourseArc. This standard makes it possible for third party tools to integrate quickly and easily, without having to create different integration solutions for each LMS.
eLearning Architect
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
I was recently invited to speak at the annual Learning Technologies conference in London. My seminar was called ‘How to Double your eLearning Return on Investment’ - and following a lively seminar with lots of questions, I wanted to share some highlights. The last time I presented at Learning Technologies was three years ago - whilst still being responsible for delivering an eLearning program within a huge, global organisation.
Axonify
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
Post game celebration, confetti flying. Tons of fun even though our Steelers didn’t make it. Garret Grahonya is still feeling the effects of Super Bowl fever. The L&S Toyota sales consultant beat out thousands of his peers from every district across the United States in an Axonify-inspired competition Toyota ran to increase product knowledge.
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.
Learnkit
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Elearning has been around for a couple decades, and it is only the past few years that organizations have really started to understand the dynamic benefits that custom elearning development can deliver to business results. Gone are the days of stale powerpoint decks being passed off as intelligent elearning. Copying and pasting templated learning materials just won’t cut it anymore.
Administrate
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
On the first Wednesday of each month, a member of the Administrate team will talk through some ideas and key concepts that can be useful to you and help your business. In this video, Administrate Software Engineer, Iain Brown, explains the software development process. Video Transcription Hi there, Read More.
Challenge to Learn
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Many new eLearning authors create eLearning with a presentation (PowerPoint) mindset. But creating a course is very different from creating a presentation. This article contains seven tips that will help you to create more engaging and effective eLearning modules. I also created an eLearning module with more background information, There is a link to that full free module at the end of the page.
Allen Interactions
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
By Ethan Edwards , Chief Instructional Strategist / @ethanedwards. One of the most powerful design ideas for creating good e-learning also seems to be the one that designers find hardest to accept and adopt. It is the “test then tell” approach at the heart of learner-centered design. Simply put, “test then tell” encourages us to begin an instructional sequence, not with content, but by presenting the learner with a challenge—some specific task or test of performance—and then provide content by w
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.
CourseArc
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
One of our favorite image editing tools for Mac is Pixelmator. It is an affordable alternative compared to the expensive image editing licenses. This enables someone who is a power user, but maybe not a full time designer, to create really beautiful images without needed to learn a complicated application. The intuitive interface is sleek and easy to use.
Axonify
FEBRUARY 5, 2016
For L&D to prove real business value, it’s more important than ever to couple employee learning more tightly to business results. What we’ve discovered—and companies including Walmart and Bloomingdale’s, have proven—is that when you focus on business objectives first and then create a corporate training program that aligns with those objectives, you can achieve the goals of the business and, ultimately, prove impact.
Inkling
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Whether your business deals with sales, in-home services, on-site technical support, or customer support by phone, your front-facing employees need access to the right tools in order to meet and exceed your customers’ expectations. Furthermore, they need to be able to provide support instantly. 53% of customers who ask a question on Twitter expect a response within one hour, regardless of when they tweeted.
Wisetail
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
At Wisetail, celebrating the power of place and adventuring often are two of our core values. We couldn’t do it without Montana’s unique landscape of rivers, mountains, highways, by-ways and amazing mix of cultural centers and wide open rural communities. The post Montana Is Great For Business #INDIETECH appeared first on Wisetail.
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Edmego Learning
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
Maximizing Retention In E-Learning – Part 1. There is a big difference between just scattering seeds on the ground and hoping to grow something versus taking the time to prepare the soil, add fertilizer, compost and then add the seeds. Even after that you work very hard to make sure the area retains the amount of sunshine and rain needed to make your seed turning into a thriving productive plant.
Allen Interactions
FEBRUARY 12, 2016
By Ellen Burns-Johnson , Instructional Designer / @EllenBJohnson. So there you are. Your e-learning project is coming along nicely: The content has been validated by SME reviewers, you've adjusted the interface based on feedback from user testing with real learners, and the client team is in the process of reviewing the alpha link.
CourseArc
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
One of our most exciting features within CourseArc is multi-branding , which allows you to set up multiple themes for the same content. This allows you to change the brand associated with courses for different audiences and also allows content to be rebranded/ white-labeled for reuse or resale.
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Here are the links to 5 posts that I shared on Twitter in February (through my account @C4LPT ). You can find the full list here. 1 – Can you train people to be social? Clark Quinn offers some advice, in Social Training? (Learnlets,9 Feb) and concludes. “It’s not about social training (though learning can be social), but instead about creating a learning organization that brings out the best outcomes from and for the employees.
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Inkling
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
On a daily basis, sales reps are responsible for managing the sales cycle, reaching out to new prospects, and landing contracts. It’s not enough to be an expert on your company’s product: your reps need to be experts on the customer’s needs and the solutions to those needs. It’s time to train your sales force to demonstrate that they’re trustworthy advisors, armed with valuable expertise to supplement their budding partnership with each prospect.
Wisetail
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
We’re always blown away by the innovative work of our clients and this week we're proud to showcase fitness industry powerhouse, barre3. The post barre3 Success Story appeared first on Wisetail.
E-Learning Provocateur
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
I’m late to the party, but finally I’ve gotten my hands onto Google Cardboard. I’ve been tinkering with it and, in the spirit of Virtual Reality Working Out Loud Week , I’ve decided to share with you what I’ve learned so far. I’ll also share my problems – and there are plenty of them – so if you can solve any for me I’d be grateful!
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