Sat.Jul 09, 2022 - Fri.Jul 15, 2022

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Training Challenges in the Workplace

Dashe & Thomson

Training modules are not a one-size-fits-all and should be created based on your organizations brand and culture. Having a well-structured and executed training module will help your organization grow and compete with others in your industry. Many organizations struggle to find training solutions that are both effective and engaging while staying in a reasonable budget, which can deter some organizations from making necessary changes to their current training modules.

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Why Accessibility-First Will Always Be Our Focus

CourseArc

Why Accessibility-First Will Always Be Our Focus. CourseArc’s founding story centers on creating better lifelong learning opportunities for all and removing barriers so everyone can learn. We saw firsthand the limitations that many products on the market had—especially when it came to accessibility—and worked to build a course authoring tool that would address that.

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Reinventing Organizational Culture in Real-Time With VR Training

Allen Interactions

This demand for innovative employee training is growing rapidly, and for good reason: VR training has a retention rate of 75% , beating out lectures (5%), reading (10%), and audio-visual learning (20%) (FrontCore, 2020). Although most associate VR employee training with highly technical tasks and industries, virtual reality and innovation create tremendous opportunities to provide immersive and interdisciplinary experiences for both technical and soft skills.

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How BRAIN-SCIENCE and a Psychologically Safe Environment Transforms Virtual Learning

InSync Training

The term “brain-science” is used to introduce new and improved approaches to instructional design and delivery. Experienced facilitators strive to create a psychologically safe environment where learners feel free to ask questions without judgment or ridicule from their peers.

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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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Announcing LearnDash Cloud, a Hosted WordPress Solution for Course Creators

LearnDash

Since 2013, course creators have relied on LearnDash to create dynamic online courses and grow their businesses. We’re now the premier learning management system for WordPress, but we’ve also heard from many customers who would like to use LearnDash but don’t already have a site on WordPress. For many creators and small business owners, the prospect of securing hosting, purchasing a domain, and installing WordPress can be daunting.

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Centralized Learning for Your Convenience

Wisetail

Learning & development activities and training delivery are critical for the success of new employees. A focus on the learner experience and employee enablement can turn training from a cookie-cutter onboarding process into a personalized, empowering experience. The post Centralized Learning for Your Convenience appeared first on Wisetail LMS & LXP.

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5 Tips for Fostering Inclusivity on Your Team

Dashe & Thomson

Creating an inclusive environment is something that all leaders need to consider while establishing workplace culture. But what exactly is inclusivity? It can mean different things to different people, but in all reality, inclusivity is when people with different backgrounds and identities are welcomed into a group setting (such as an organization, team, or even a meeting).

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Why It’s Important to Think About Your Course Name

LearnDash

What you call your course matters. After all, not only does your course name indicate the subject matter but like any good book, titles entice the user to learn more. As you know, online audiences have short attention spans and often make snap decisions based on a quick first impression. Most folks only stay on a web page for about 15 seconds, so if the name of your course doesn’t grab their attention, they may click elsewhere for content that seems more worth their time.

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Four Trends Impacting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Allen Interactions

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have been part of the leadership landscape for some time. The nomenclature has shifted over decades and even centuries. That people are, in some ways, socialized to see differences and make judgments about what makes something or someone different. The workplace benefits from a shared language, a way to garner shared meaning and understanding about what particular words mean.

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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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With Hybrid Learning, the 5 Moments of Need® are More Important than Ever

InSync Training

Thanks Conrad and Bob! Read to the end for some personal advice on how to apply this approach from Bob Mosher.

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Mission & Vision: Cornerstones of Strong Company Culture

Dashe & Thomson

On March 30, 1971, a small coffee business was launched by three friends at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. Little more than a spark in a highly competitive industry, that same small coffee shop, Starbucks, is now a multinational super chain that grosses just over $5.7 billion in annual revenue. A few years later, in 1976, Los Altos, CA fostered the birth of a small computer business—run out of a garage—that has since become the first stock to reach $3 trillion in market cap under the

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How Does LMS Create A Significant Difference In Training And Development Programs?

Gyrus

Workforce is an integral part of a successful company. The key to a skilled and efficient team is adaptability to new ideas and innovation. Know how a LMS can help achieve this goal.

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10 Ways To Improve Your Hippocampus Function

Growth Engineering

The hippocampus function is the part of the brain that stores memories. We’ll look at how it works and how you can supercharge its function!

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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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Centralized Learning for Your Convenience

Wisetail

Learning & development activities and training delivery are critical for the success of new employees. A focus on the learner experience and employee enablement can turn training from a cookie-cutter onboarding process into a personalized, empowering experience. The post Centralized Learning for Your Convenience appeared first on Wisetail LMS & LXP.

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Diversity & Inclusion In The Workplace

Dashe & Thomson

In today’s business landscape, organizations are making a great effort to have Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) present in their work environment. There are many distinctive characteristics that go into the four types of diversity which make it necessary for the presence of inclusion. Although diversity and inclusion are two different things, they do go hand-in-hand; without inclusion there would not be little to no accepted diversity in the workplace.

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Underskilled workforce? Use LMS to upgrade their knowledge

Gyrus

Every organization wants to hire and retain a skilled workforce. It is also crucial for companies to upgrade the knowledge of the underskilled employees. Know the role of LMS in achieving this vision.

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Overcoming the Obstacles of Change to Designing Consumer-Friendly Learning

eLearning Brothers

In the previous post, we covered 6 of the 7 consumer realities– detailing how consumers want to learn. Here, we’ll examine the 7th consumer reality as well as some common obstacles faced when changing the structures of learning in the professional world.

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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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Story Machines

Learning with e's

An old friend and acquaintance of mine from my years in academia recently published a new book. The book is Story Machines, by Mike Sharples. It's one that fascinates me because it combines two of the key interests in my life - technology and story telling. I have been involved in educational technology since 1979, and still teach and speak about my research in the area even today.

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Immersive Employee Onboarding: How Mentors Can Benefit

eLearning Industry

According to common stereotypes, the onboarding process for new hires consists of awkward small talk, signing paperwork, and completing a computer-based training program. While this may be true for some organizations, others are beginning to experiment with immersive onboarding methods. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Rise of Multi-Channel Learning and How LMS Plays an Important Role In It

Gyrus

In today’s age, teams are spread across multiple locations. Conducting multi-channel learning with GyrusAim LMS can maximize the effectiveness of your training.

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Top 4 Instructional Design Techniques and How They Can Help Improve eLearning Effectiveness

CommLab India

Effective instructional design approaches are essential for the success of eLearning. The top 4 instructional design techniques are examined in this blog post to help you improve learner engagement in a variety of training scenarios.

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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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The 10 Best eLearning Authoring Tools for 2022

learnWorlds

An eLearning authoring tool is an important component in creating e-learning content and a must-have tool for instructional designers, L&D professionals, and training businesses. While many learning management systems nowadays come with built-in content authoring tools, they sometimes lack the advanced features of specialized eLearning software.

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Understand Your Talent And The Different Needs Of Your Sales Team

eLearning Industry

The past two and a half years have really challenged a lot of people, both as professionals and as humans. One of the greatest pandemics of all time. Catastrophic failures in the supply chain. The great resignation. The list goes on and on. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Significance of eLearning in the Workplace

Gyrus

Discover the significance of e-learning in the workplace and how your employees and your organization can benefit from investing in the best e-learning software provided by Gyrus

eLearning 130
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Top 3 Challenges to eLearning Implementation and How to Overcome Them

CommLab India

Adopting eLearning after a lengthy period of conventional classroom training may leave you with a slew of questions. Read this article to learn about the numerous obstacles you may experience while implementing eLearning and how to overcome them.

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Accelerating Change in the Insurance Industry: Why You Need to Invest in Talent Strategy

This whitepaper brings together research, expert opinion and industry trend data to help senior leaders understand current challenges and future-proof their businesses. Inside you’ll find insights on: The big challenges: From automation to onboarding, we explore the big challenges facing the sector. Onboarding: You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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Association Learning Subscriptions Increase Your Audience and Revenue

WBT Systems

Membership is stagnant or declining for many associations. Only 38% of associations participating in MGI’s 2022 membership benchmarking survey increased their membership in 2021.

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What Is Mobile Learning (mLearning)?

eLearning Industry

The post-2019 era is evolving as an era of rapid changes to business landscapes. mLearning is imperative for rapid upskilling/reskilling at speed. In this article, I show you the value of mLearning and how to apply it in the corporate environment. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Benefits of Integrating Your LMS With Your HR System

Gyrus

A lot of companies have begun to realize the benefits of using a Learning Management System (LMS). Let’s see how integrating the LMS within the HRIS can benefit the organization.

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