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Accessible Virtual Training: 11 Quick Tips To Accommodate Learners

InSync Training

Making accessible virtual training is more than just adding closed captioning and increasing the font size. With the explosion of virtual classroom instruction comes increased concern about ensuring our work is accessible to all who want to learn. People often come at accessibility conversations with exasperation and belief that it’s just more work.

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5 Effective Talent Management Practices

Infopro Learning

Today’s organizations function strategically. Activities like talent management in organizations flow from their business vision, mission, goals, and values. Talent management practices include several exercises and procedures. They include developing clear job descriptions, building an apt selection process, providing effective onboarding, and continuous coaching and mentoring services.

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The Great Resignation: What It Is and What Your Organization Can Do

Dashe & Thomson

It’s pretty simple to understand. Millions of people across the nation have been quitting their jobs. This phenomenon, as some have called it, describes a record number of people leaving their job during and after the breakout of the pandemic. Companies everywhere are fighting to navigate the rippled effects and reevaluate their job search and talent strategies.

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Making Online Content As Engaging As Your Students' Social Media Feed

eLearning Industry

There are some basic strategies to consider before you start designing your next online course, that can make your students read your content with the same interest with which they browse their social media feed. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Story Research, UX, Resumes: ID Links 1/20/22

Experiencing eLearning

As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links periodically here on my blog. This post includes links on research on how stories improve learning, UX, transforming teacher resumes, adaptive learning, AI voices, and animation. Research summary: How stories improve learning. Ask the Cognitive Scientist | American Federation of Teachers.

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Why So Many Cynical Employees in 2022?

Infopro Learning

Workplace cultures have been deeply impacted by pervasive uncertainty, isolation, perceptions of inequity and leaders who seem oblivious to employee doubts and concerns. Leaders can’t afford to ignore the powerful forces that are impacting the attitudes and emotions of their employees in 2022. “I made the mistake of asking my team to tell me how they were really feeling about our company and work environment,” a sales manager recently said to me.

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Top Employee Retention Mistakes To Avoid To Achieve Business Success

eLearning Industry

High employee turnover can wreak havoc on your profit margin. Our eBook shows you how to launch a winning employee retention plan today. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Designing the Digital Classroom for Effective Adult Learning

InSync Training

Effective adult learning goes beyond how adults learn and puts theory into practice in the digital classroom. The shift to the digital classroom promises greater flexibility, the opportunity for more frequent interaction, and works to reduce travel costs. But the approach of simply transferring what used to work for in-person training doesn't create a digital experience that leads to effective adult learning or performance improvements - it simply doesn't fit the virtual space.

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How to Use an LMS to Connect a Global Organization

Wisetail

Cancer Support Community (CSC) is a global nonprofit organization with a network of over 175 locations with 50 affiliates and healthcare partners dedicated to helping patients and family members going through cancer treatment. The post How to Use an LMS to Connect a Global Organization appeared first on Wisetail LMS & LXP.

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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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Why Are Employees So Cynical in 2022?

Infopro Learning

Workplace cultures have been deeply impacted by pervasive uncertainty, isolation, perceptions of inequity and leaders who seem oblivious to employee doubts and concerns. Leaders can’t afford to ignore the powerful forces that are impacting the attitudes and emotions of their employees in 2022. “I made the mistake of asking my team to tell me how they were really feeling about our company and work environment,” a sales manager recently said to me.

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10 Relevant Steps For Creating Your Online Learning Platform

eLearning Industry

Creating an eLearning platform requires a special approach in each individual case since the requirements and scope of work can vary greatly. However, first, it is necessary to understand the fundamental basis. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What makes a good book?

Clark Quinn

I was in contact with a person about a potential book, and she followed up with an interesting question: what’s the vision I have for publishing ? She was looking for what I thought was a good book. Of course, I hadn’t really articulated it! I responded, but thought I should share my thinking with you as well. In particular, to get your thoughts!

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eLearning Brothers Expands With International Acquisition of Origin Learning

eLearning Brothers

Acquiring the India-based learning design and technology company increases eLearning Brothers headcount over three-fold. American Fork, Utah — January 24, 2022 — eLearning Brothers today announced their second acquisition of 2022—Origin Learning, based out of Chennai, India. Over the past two years, eLearning Brothers has completed five acquisitions and integrated hundreds of employees—all during a global pandemic.

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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 Can Managed Learning Services Help Resolve Training Challenges?

Infopro Learning

Every organization prioritizes effective training for its workforce today, whether big or small, old or new. Companies invest in training to ensure that their employees can cope with changing times. However, several training challenges arise along the way. Managed learning services can help organizations to resolve today’s training challenges effectively.

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10 Ways You Can Ensure Employee Well-Being At The Workplace

Gyrus

The work environment must be conducive to employee well-being. Studies have shown a correlation between an employee’s well-being, productivity, and organizational effectiveness.

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So You Want to Be a Chief Learning Officer: Here’s What It Takes

CourseArc

So You Want to Be a Chief Learning Officer: Here’s What It Takes. Learning officers go by many names in organizations large and small: chief learning officer, chief knowledge officer, training director, head of learning and development, chief education officer, and the list goes on. Whatever the title may be, there’s a clear demand for organizations to think more strategically about how they use and deploy their human capital assets.

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Onboarding best practices for frontline success 

Axonify

If you search online for “onboarding best practices,” you’ll find a lot of information that’s applicable to the corporate world but not a lot that’s applicable to frontline workers in grocery, retail, foodservice and similar industries. But proper employee onboarding is just as important for these essential workers—it may even be more important, as turnover … Continued.

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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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Performance Indicators to Measure the Impact of Microlearning

Infopro Learning

Microlearning is a unique workforce training approach that can help drive learner engagement and knowledge retention. Microlearning has become one of the most effective training strategies for most businesses today. As per a recent report, 94% of L&D pros said that they prefer using microlearning modules to train employees at their organizations [1].

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Why Has LMS Been Considered The Best Employee Skill Management System?

Gyrus

LMS is one of the best skill management systems for employee. Its robust mechanisms can level up the training programs. Many companies have started using this tool. Read the blog to get the latest insights.

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Modern workplace learning needs new wine in new bottle

Upside Learning

The Bible (Matthew 9:17) cautions against pouring new wine into old wineskins as it can ruin both the wine and the wineskin. What if learning were wine? Would that make digitalization and modernization of learning so much old wine in a new bottle? Or new wine in old bottle? When it comes to learning today, […]. The post Modern workplace learning needs new wine in new bottle first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog.

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POINT-of-WORK:  Using an Alignment Discovery Cascade for Pre-Design Reconnaissance

Living in Learning

The key is consistency of Discovery from the top of the organizational hierarchy to the bottom. Comparing results of a cascade down through the hierarchy provides source data that can facilitate an Alignment Conversation from dependable, validated reconnaissance. Nobody dies if we neglect to negotiate a discovery cascade, but how many precious hours and resources do we spend to build an ineffective one-size-fits-all solution?

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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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Everything you need to know about the Skillslive acquisition

Docebo

In case you missed it, Docebo announced the acquisition of its value-added reseller (VAR) partner, Skillslive. (You can read the full press release here.) . If there’s one thing my years in PR and Comms have taught me, it’s when there’s an M&A announcement, the FAQs aren’t far behind. So I sat down with Martino Bagini, Docebo’s Chief Corporate Development Officer , to get the answers to (what I anticipate will be) your most pressing questions. .

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Know The Top 5 Benefits Of Competency Management Software

Gyrus

Competency management system offers undeniable benefits to the high pace organizations that want to be ahead of their competitors. It is a top tool to equip the workforce. Read the blog to know more.

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CenarioVR: The Essentials (Book and Training)

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

My newest book, “CenarioVR: The Essentials,” is off to the beta team. It should be street-ready in just a few short weeks. CenarioVR ( [link] ) is a cloud application that allows you to create awesome, highly interactive virtual reality eLearning. It’s the easiest and most full-featured VR application I’ve seen. You can see a sample VR project created in CenarioVR here: [link].

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Online Coaching Is So Hot It’s Now Disrupting Leadership Development

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Online coaching has become a white-hot market and it’s totally disrupting leadership development. Vendors like BetterUp , Torch , CoachHub , Bravely , SoundingBoard , Pluma (owned by Skillsoft), and Ezra have now become some of the fastest-growing vendors in the training (and HR Tech) market. BetterUp, the market leader, is now valued at over.

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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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Will The Metaverse Benefit The eLearning Industry?

eLearning Industry

The metaverse is the new catchphrase in the tech world. It will empower the eLearning sector. With the incorporation of VR and AR technologies into eLearning apps, we can move one step closer to the design of the metaverse. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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27 Best Online Learning Platforms (updated 2022)

learnWorlds

Some of the best online learning platforms include Coursera, Skillshare, Udemy, Codecademy, Edx, Pluralsight, Future Learn, and Moodle. Apart from online learning platforms, we also have online course platforms like LearnWorlds, Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, and Podia. Those, are leading a fast-growing elearning industry, especially after Covid-19. An unbreakable piece of evidence is the increasing number of people becoming interested in online learning for both learning and teaching purposes–ei

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What Are the Top Benefits of Strategic Leadership Development?

Clarity Consultants

In today’s business landscape, strategic leadership development is a critical part of an organization’s success. By offering the right training opportunities, you have the ability to boost the capabilities of key members of your workforce. Additionally, it can create competitive advantages, improving your company’s overall position, easing recruitment woes, and boosting retention.