TOPYX LMS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The global Learning Management System (LMS) market is expected to grow from $5B in 2016 to $10B in the next five years, according to recent research by MarketsandMarkets. Rising needs in corporate learning and training will help fuel this growth, particularly within the midmarket as management discovers stand alone LMS systems like TOPYX® that can be deployed easily and cost effectively without the need for comprehensive human capital management software investments.

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As Instructional Designers, we have always exhibited critical thinking prowess without realizing how important it is in the larger scheme of things. Now, anybody would assume that this makes us natural critical thinkers, who hold the key to bridging the vast knowledge gap among people round the globe. Right? Well, that’s exactly where we need to stop and do a reality check!

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It was in 2007 that I compiled the first Top 100 Tools for Learning from the votes of learning professionals worldwide and have done so every year since then. This year to mark the 10th anniversary I have compiled the TOP 200 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2016. The full list appears in the left-hand sidebar; follow the links to find out more about each of the tools.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2016

During the past couple of months, we came across some articles, posts, and talks about design and development techniques and tips, platforms, and technologies that we felt might have potential for use in eLearning. While we explore some of them in more depth, we thought we’d go ahead and share them in case you see […].

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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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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2016

I’m always looking for examples of companies that put learning ahead of training. TorranceLearning is one of those companies. They design custom learning experiences for client organizations by starting with the intended results and related performance problems and then, and only then, do they provide employees with the tools, structures, and processes to learn what they need to know and do to be successful. .

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Kineo

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Few theories trip off the tongue of L&D professionals easier than the 70/20/10 principle. The theory was formulated by Morgan McCall and his colleagues at the Centre for Creative Leadership. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of its publication. Although 70/20/10 was never a prescribed model nor an exact science, it's found great success.

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TOPYX LMS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Research shows that nearly half of all organizations want to ‘fire’ their social learning management system (LMS). This statistic speaks volumes about the usefulness of the average eLearning system. Companies implement an LMS for a variety of reasons, but they all boil down to convenience, efficiency and cost. Organizational leaders have full plates and need as much help as they can get with training their personnel, creating a positive, unique company culture, and lowering their corporation’s b

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Administrate

OCTOBER 6, 2016

How can you improve your training operation and de-stress the people around you? One of the obvious answers is to take a look at the systems and procedure you have running within your organisation. Almost immediately, you’ll find yourself evaluating different software options (perhaps several) that promise to save time and Read More Published on October 6, 2016.

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Allen Interactions

OCTOBER 6, 2016

By Hannah Hunter, Instructional Writer. The Perfect e-Learning Course™ is a legendary creature that changes its shape with each new technological and aesthetic trend. It is all things to all people – classic, yet also fresh, modern, and applicable to all levels of learner experience and skill. I’ve even heard that, when you measure the readability of such a course, the scale doesn’t give you a grade level.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The Learning Management System market is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expected to grow from USD 5.22 Billion in 2016 to USD 15.72 Billion by 2021 at a CAGR of 24.7% (as per the latest report on LMS market from Markets&Markets). With this high growth and rapid adoption, comes an element of dynamism […].

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 4, 2016

One of the hardest things to do in any online course is to keep learners engaged with the content. If you have too many videos, it gets boring. No videos at all and it’s even worse. Images can take you only so far. And while quizzes are a great way to ‘check-in’ with learners, they too can become tedious if they’re used too much.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 3, 2016

All big organisations have a Learning Management System. It’s used to track and record the training that the employees do. In practice, it tends to be used to administer compliance training, though it can be much broader than that. And this is a good thing. Despite the scorn that LMS’s attract, we should be tracking and recording the training that our employees do – especially compliance training.

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Raptivity

OCTOBER 5, 2016

With all training, it is important to identify the desired outcome. With compliance training, the buy-in from senior management, from the trainers, and the employees is key. For some, it may be a "check the box" that it is done. This attitude can come from managers and push downward. But, what if it is true? Perhaps the compliance training is to meet an outmoded regulation.

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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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Learningtogo

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Listen to Podcast: [link]. W hen we started our little podcast last year, many folks were very generous with their time and joined me in great conversations about learning, even though at the time our audience was very, very small. Now that it is starting to grow, I’m excited to bring back our very first guest, Bruce Tulgan , founder of Rainmaker Thinking, a research and management consulting firm, and author of the new book, Bridging the Soft Skills Gap.

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Challenge to Learn

OCTOBER 5, 2016

I’m looking for your input, what are the 5 most important didactical principles to apply when creating e-Learning? The reason I’m asking is because we are doing a project to support our users (most of them do not have an e-Learning background) in creating more effective and didactical sound content. I will explain in this post. Easygenerator is an e-Learning authoring tool for people with no e-Learning background.

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Association eLearning

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Feedback is a wonderful thing, when you can understand it. When you can’t… To quote Captain Jack Sparrow, “Well that’s even more than less than unhelpful.” You get the idea. Think back to the last time you got feedback on something. Maybe it was suggested revisions for a project or the survey responses for how you did during a speaking engagement. Or maybe it was storyboard revisions for eLearning.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Being involved in the WordPress industry means that I have the opportunity to meet people of all kinds of backgrounds and ambitions. This is particularly true at WordCamps – weekend conferences dedicated to all things WordPress. The presentations and conversations at WordCamps are often quite casual, entertaining, and informative. WordCamps are held all over the world so you are usually never too far from one.

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. We see it all the time in this modern internet age. Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Google (via a variety of enterprises) continue to break down the walls and establish new and innovative processes for consumers to integrate int

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CourseArc

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A study investigating the effectiveness of two teaching approaches, illustrated text-based versus video-based, concluded the following: “Video-based e Learning is superior to illustrated text-based e Llearning when teaching certain practical skills.”. The explosive popularity of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s) has further stressed one key fact: If instructional designers want to engage learners in a way that produces a high percentage of content absorption, then video-based eLearning is the

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Learningtogo

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Fear is generally thought of as a negative emotion. Google it and you will find thousands of articles, books and blog posts about how to face your fear and overcome it so you can be more successful, happy or brilliant. Yet fear serves a very useful purpose in our growth as a species. Fear is one of the key behaviors that keeps us alive and has done so since the time of our genetic ancestors.

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Administrate

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Show of hands, how many of you have candid, honest, reviews of your training courses featured on your website? Nope, not the cherry-picked customer testimonials with glorious quotes about how your training forever changed the life of Mr Smith from London. We’re talking genuine, gritty, honest, not-always-positive reviews that add an extra layer Read More Published on October 6, 2016.

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Lambda Solutions

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Educause recently published the NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition, identifying the key trends, technologies, and challenges in adopting technology in higher education. Here, we will go over the challenges faced by higher education institutes in the digital age, and the steps they can take to solve them.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 6, 2016

If you have created an online course… And you’re selling that course… And you want to get the word out about your course… Then chances are you have considered implementing an affiliate program. In fact, a quick look at some of the more successful internet marketers would suggest that having an affiliate program is almost essential for your course to make any sales.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I was reflecting on some of the actions my colleagues and I take. These are, in particular, colleagues that have been contributing to the field for a long time, ones who know what they’re talking about and that I therefore respect. I retweeted one who called for being careful of the source in message. I’ve supported another who has been on a crusade against myths.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Product managers are passionate people. They are passionate about the products they create and the problems they solve for their customers. Product managers spend thousands of hours researching, testing and developing their products before its time to commercialize. But then it’s time for the hand-off. The success (or failure) of the new product is in the hands of the sales reps, not the people who so carefully and thoughtfully created it.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 6, 2016

by Sally Cox    Different fonts evoke different emotions, and some fonts are more readable than others. There are lots of decisions to be made when choosing fonts for your eLearning projects. Here are a few of my thoughts, to help you make better font choices. Serif vs. Sans Serif. Serifs fonts contain little "tails" on some of the letters, such as those found in Times New Roman.

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Social learning has been happening forever. People learn first, and best, from one another. Think about it: apprenticeship models have taught people trades for centuries, and oral history has imparted age-old wisdom within societies since the early days of humanity. Even though social learning is not a new concept, technology influences how the process occurs in workplace training programs.

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Lambda Solutions

OCTOBER 3, 2016

New Moodle Plug-in Helps Prevent Online Cheating. One of the benefits of online learning with Learning Management Systems is that it provides students the flexibility to learn online and take quizzes from home — but it also makes cheating much easier. Educational institutions and industry certification authorities continue to face the problem of cheating on tests.

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