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Success Factors For Serious Games in L&D

Dashe & Thomson

What are Serious Games? Serious games leverage the playful aspect of games to help learners easily and effectively grasp new content. For serious games to be effective they must enable the player to utilize their skills, while adapting to the new skills or information being taught throughout the game. Serious games are becoming a go-to training solution in the L&D industry because they hold the attention of the player, encourage and support engagement, and have higher levels of learner reten

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10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Digital Adoption Platform

Ontuitive

Digital transformation is booming and its benefits are being felt across many industries. In fact, companies with digital-first strategies are 64% more likely to achieve their business goals than their competitors. While this is an exciting statistic, it doesn’t mean digital transformation is easily achieved. Misplaced data, poor onboarding, and employees’ resistance to change can all hinder the process.

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Better RFPs, Please

Clark Quinn

I regularly rant about the quality of the learning designs we see. Knowledge dump and information test, I rail, is not going to lead to meaningful outcomes. Consequently, I work to promote more learning science in what we do. However, I have to acknowledge that frequently, the problem isn’t in the designer, but in the requester. Too often, there are RFPs (emblematic, they’re equivalent to the internal request for ‘a course on X’) that are asking for designers to take con

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4 Common Pitfalls to Avoid in Gamification of eLearning Courses

CommLab India

Gamification is one of the most popular strategies to make your eLearning courses engaging and effective. While it has multiple benefits, it comes with certain difficulties as well, and this blog will help you to avoid these common pitfalls.

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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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Listen to hear vs Listen to reply

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

At work or home, do you even get the feeling the other person(s) in the conversation are only giving you time to speak so they can reply? That time where you can give a meaningful contribution to the conversation is just a pause for the other person(s) for them to think about their next move? When they do reply they give no indication they’ve heard anything you’ve said and continued on their own merry way, their own line of thinking, or their own monologue.

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ELB Learning Sponsors Two Classrooms in India Through Rising Star Outreach Program

eLearning Brothers

Rising Star Outreach is a non-profit dedicated to empowering individuals and families affected by the stigma associated with leprosy.

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How To Design An Effective Hybrid Learning Program

eLearning Industry

Today, almost every organization has a hybrid workforce and needs learning programs that address this new normal. What exactly is hybrid learning, and how can we design it effectively? I will be sharing some of my thoughts in this article. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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New Coursera survey shows high demand for industry microcredentials from students and employers in tight labor market

Coursera

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus. In a competitive and fast-changing labor market, employers increasingly expect their entry-level talent to join their workforce already equipped with job-relevant skills and hands-on experience. At the same time, university-age students and their parents are thinking more critically about the ROI of traditional three and four-year degree programs: most notably, whether they will secure a job after graduation.

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How Strategic Consulting Can Help You Fine-Tune Your L&D Program

eLearning Industry

Learn how strategic consulting can help you enhance your L&D program and ways to make the most of your metrics. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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New survey shows high demand for industry microcredentials from students and employers in tight labor market

Coursera

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus. In a competitive and fast-changing labor market, employers increasingly expect their entry-level talent to join their workforce already equipped with job-relevant skills and hands-on experience. At the same time, university-age students and their parents are thinking more critically about the ROI of traditional three and four-year degree programs: most notably, whether they will secure a job after graduation. .

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7 Online Directory Search Tips For Training Needs Assessment Outsourcing

eLearning Industry

Are you ready to reduce spending and bring in a third-party provider for a training needs assessment? In this post, I share insider tips to get the most from exclusive TNA outsourcing directories. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Rustici: The Gathering – A delightful idea becomes a favorite event for customers

Rustici Software

Twenty-five sessions. Eight guest speakers. Three days. Three tracks. One hot chicken challenge. Just about two months ago, Rustici kicked off our biggest event yet: Rustici: The Gathering. Or, as we’ve come to call it, RTG because we definitely needed more acronyms around here. Spearheaded by our marketing team, we had 30 Rusticians (almost 70% of the company!

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How The 3C Project Management Framework Controls L&D Costs And Maximizes ROI

eLearning Industry

Creating an eLearning course for your onboarding process can get real messy, really quickly. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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How to Ensure Successful Conversion of ILT Material to VILT

CommLab India

Converting classroom training to virtual instructor-led training requires strategic actions. Here’s a blog that will walk you through 8 amazing tips that will help you to get the best results.

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Mix it Up: 3 Engaging Experiential Learning Options that Build Skills

Degreed

Can you become a surgeon by only reading textbooks and research? No, and thankfully not. In fact, people would be appalled to find out their so-called surgeon had never actually made an incision, removed an appendix, sutured a wound or even handled medical equipment. The skills a surgeon needs come from experiential learning, or learning by doing. While not every skill is as life-and-death as open heart surgery, the takeaway is the same: Expertise is hard to come by without practice.

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Rapid eLearning Development: The Ultimate Process Guide

Swift eLearning Services

Rapid eLearning development is the current eLearning mode that millions of users have successfully been using. In this blog, let us understand what rapid eLearning development is, its role in eLearning development and the benefits. Modern learners are shifting to a high-tech rapid eLearning development to reap the benefits of digitalization, leaving behind conventional methods […].

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Knowledge Anywhere Q3 2022 LMS Updates

KnowledgeAnywhere

We've added a lot of new and exciting features to our Learning Management System recently! Keep up with our updates in this article, as well as our ongoing Announcements and Releases section within our Support Center. Download Certificate on Learning Path Level (User Transcript) Administrators, when viewing a particular user’s transcript, can download their certificate if all courses within the Learning Path are completed.

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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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How Not to Write Effective Assessment Questions: 8 Pitfalls

CommLab India

Explore how to frame effective online assessments. This blog discusses proven tips and don’ts to ensure the scripting of effective online assessments.

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Unlearning – is it a helpful term?

Logicearth

This blog post is co-written by Eoin McDonnell, Integrated Learning Strategy Director at The Creative Engagement Group , a parent company of Logicearth. Unlearning’ as a concept has proved controversial among the Learning & Development community for many years. Futurist scholar Alvin Toffler said in his 1970 work Future Shock , that “by instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education… Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can

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IMPROVING MENTAL HEALTH & PHYSICAL WELLNESS IN A HYBRID ENVIRONMENT: A CONVERSATION WITH CHAD SEVERSON

Clint Padgett – Project Success

Episode Information. In this episode, Clint has a conversation with Chad Severson, CEO of Ergotron. During their discussion, the two talk about the importance of having a commitment to continuous improvement, why leaders should take care of their people first and their profits second, and how – even in a remote world – there are still some meetings that are better in person.

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What's your background: Our "Connecting People" Head of Learning Consulting

Logicearth

Have you ever wondered what’s behind the expertise of our skilled Logicearth learning consultants and strategist? Not anymore! In this month's Q&A series, you’ll get to meet one of us and learn more about what makes us tick. We’ll be showing you the things that we surround ourselves in while we work to develop our most imaginative and innovative content and learning solutions.

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How to Fix the 10 Biggest Mistakes in Gamification

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning)

Are you using gamification as part of your L&D strategy? SMART! According to multiple studies, gamification strategies have been proven to increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, and get stellar results, but what if your results just don’t hit the mark? According to instructional designers interviewed by The Game Agency, some errors are very common when implementing gamified learning.

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Student Information Systems: The Five Best Reasons to Invest

Academia

The education industry is known to run a certain way. But today the entire world has come together to change that. Education policies and paradigms are changing drastically around the world. But are you ready for that? . At the heart of this discussion lies an impending need for changing the current infrastructure to digital. Over the past few years, schools, colleges, and training institutes have gradually paced towards using digital technology for managing their organizations better.

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Unlearning – is it a helpful term?

Logicearth

Unlearning’ as a concept has proved controversial among the Learning & Development community for many years. Futurist scholar Alvin Toffler said in his 1970 work Future Shock , that “by instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education… Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.

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How To Create Effective Game-Like Learning (3 Examples And Video)

Elucidat

Game-like learning can be a great way to deliver content, particularly for decision-making scenarios. But can gamification really support learning? Or is it just ‘fun’ techniques that distract? Find out exactly how to create game-like learning that is motivating and engaging, with a clear purpose in elearning. Watch the webinar recording to find out why learners respond positively to engagement techniques and see examples of how to create successful game-like learning.

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What's your background: Our "Connecting People" Head of Learning Consulting

Logicearth

Have you ever wondered what’s behind the expertise of our skilled Logicearth learning consultants and strategist? Not anymore! In this month's Q&A series, you’ll get to meet one of us and learn more about what makes us tick. We’ll be showing you the things that we surround ourselves in while we work to develop our most imaginative and innovative content and learning solutions.

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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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Speexx Exchange 2022: Speaker Line-Up Announced for Hybrid HR and L&D Conference

Speexx

This year’s Speexx Exchange theme of “Embrace the Shift” will bring together HR, L&D and people professionals in Berlin and online on November 23, 2022. The post Speexx Exchange 2022: Speaker Line-Up Announced for Hybrid HR and L&D Conference appeared first on Speexx.

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How To Build A Membership Business Through Community

Thinkific

By planning and structuring your membership business model well, you can add a multiple-figure revenue stream to your business. This… The post How To Build A Membership Business Through Community appeared first on Thinkific.

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Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Communication: What are the Differences?? 

eloomi

What is synchronous communication? Synchronous communication is real-time communication between two or more team members. It is a highly interactive, live exchange of information that can happen in-person or virtually. Many organizations use synchronous communication for team meetings and decision-making purposes. The main idea behind synchronous communication is that all people communicate simultaneously, leading to quicker information exchange and resolutions.