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25 Tools to Create Training Videos That Engage Learners

TalentLMS

Video drives learning. But in the age of TikTok and Instagram, where the average user consumes around 60 videos on a daily basis , the pressure to create training videos that are relevant and keep learners’ engagement is high. How would you even go about it, without the proper education or expertise? Don’t worry.

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Delivering a Successful LMS Project with James Tryon

LearnDash

If you’re a learning developer, understanding your client’s goals is key to delivering a successful project. We spend a lot of time on our blog writing to online educators, but a sizable portion of our userbase is comprised of developers who use WordPress to deliver projects for clients who don’t have the time, the technical skills, or the time to learn the technical skills to set up a website for themselves.

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Managed Training Services: Optimizing Your L&D Programs

Infopro Learning

The pandemic reshaped the way we work, learn and interact every day. Organizations quickly adopted new practices last year to keep up with the rapidly changing business environment. These changes have created a growing and widespread demand for high-quality employee development programs to reskill the current workforce. It is undeniable that many of the learning programs and training methods that were effective a little over a year ago are not producing business results today.

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Learning That Lasts: How to Choose The Best Curriculum Development Approach To Maximize Longevity

eLearning Industry

The last few years have seen eLearning make an incredible impact on corporate training, and it’s a clear response to the growing demand for corporate training to be as versatile, flexible, and cost effective as possible. But with so many different approaches to eLearning, how do you know which one is best? And, once you choose the best option, how do you maximize longevity and achieve lasting outcomes for your learners?

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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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How Long Should We Let Learners Go Down the Wrong Path?

Experiencing eLearning

In a branching scenario, how long should we let learners go down the wrong path? What’s the balance between realism and efficiency? In a comment to my post on Managing the Complexity in Branching Scenarios , Nicole Legault made a interesting point. “Why make a learner go so far down a wrong path? I think it’s best to correct and try to get them back on the right (or best) path.” To some extent, I agree with Nicole.

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Streamline L&D Logistics with an Outsource Learning Administration Provider

Infopro Learning

Over the last year and a half, much has changed in the world of professional learning and development. As a result, many businesses have implemented new transformational initiatives to help their businesses thrive in the disruptive marketplace. Job roles have changed. New software and technology have been adopted across various industries to meet changing customer needs better.

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Key Visual Design Mistakes ?o Avoid While Creating ?n eLearning Course

eLearning Industry

Learn about key graphic designing mistakes that can make the visuals of your eLearning course poor and uninteresting. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Design Engaging eLearning Content

TOPYX LMS

Organizations cannot thrive without training their employees. According to Indeed.com, employee training promotes knowledge, skills, and compliance. These motivators cause companies to spend millions of dollars each year on L&D programs.

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Is the “coronasomnia” epidemic affecting your customer experience? 

Axonify

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 20% of adults had trouble sleeping last summer. Just ten months later, thanks to the pandemic, that number has climbed to 60%. In fact, so many people are suffering from chronic sleep issues that the CDC has declared it a public health epidemic. And it has a … Continued. Copyright © 2021 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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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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Empowering Leaders with Custom eLearning Solutions

Infopro Learning

Covid-19 has reshaped both the way we work and the way we learn today. The remote workforce has grown rapidly in the last year and is not expected to change anytime soon. As restrictions begin to lift and new normal emerges, many enterprise organizations are planning on adopting hybrid workplace models. Hybrid workplace environments allow employees to alternate working from home and in the office throughout the week.

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Learning Minimalist: 6 Ways To Cut The Clutter And Get Back To Basics In Online Training

eLearning Industry

Minimalist décor is pretty easy to achieve in interior design. But can this ‘Marie Kondo’ approach be applied in online training? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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7 Tips for Managing Negativity

ej4 eLearning

Negativity is toxic. It might start with one person or one incident, but it can spread like lightning. As the phrase goes, “misery loves company.” Everybody gets caught up in some type of workplace negativity from time to time. That’s just part of the challenges and emotions that come with being human. Managers may need support and tips for managing negativity so that it doesn’t impact productivity and morale.

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ACCESSIBLE COLORS FOR ELEARNING: Strategies for Selecting Appropriate Color Palettes

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I was teaching a virtual Camtasia class recently and, while selecting colors for a canvas annotation, we had a robust discussion about colors. Specifically, which colors work for learners who are color blind? According to Dr. David Nichols, University of Connecticut, approximately "one in 20 people are colorblind in some way." When someone is colorblind, "one or more of the types of cone cells in the eyes — the cells we use to detect color — does not work normally," sai

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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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Content Organization and Auditing: Keys to Organizational Efficiency

Dashe & Thomson

Since the beginning of 2020, many companies have moved quickly to implement agile, effective learning and development programs. With these programs came a sudden shift to new processes, priorities, and content. While these programs are essential to staying effective in 2021, they have also left many learning and development departments disorganized, content-logged, and inefficient.

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Representation Matters

Clark Quinn

There is a deep sense of where and how representation matters. Then there are less critical, but still important ways in which presentation counts. It includes talking about stereotypes, and calling out inappropriate labeling. Concepts matter, clarity matters, transparency matters. So here are two situations that are worth critiquing. The first one that struck me this morning was an announcement.

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How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed at Work: Understand Stress and Burnout

ej4 eLearning

These days feeling overwhelmed at work also means feeling overwhelmed at home. Many of us are still working remotely and feeling higher levels of stress and burnout. We are emotionally and mentally exhausted from the quarantine and pandemic. Now we are bracing for a new wave as the Coronavirus variant spreads.

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Quickly Upskill Workers With Off-the-Shelf Training Courses

eLearning Brothers

What is “off-the-shelf” training? Whether you’re a small business with a small (or even non-existent) training department or an organization of any size that wants to quickly and easily supplement your training library with additional assets, off-the-shelf training may fit your needs.

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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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ISPRING SUITE 10: Now with Text to Speech

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

iSpring continues to improve its eLearning development suite of tools. The latest improvement is Text to Speech and it works really well. To use the Text to Speech feature, first, add the voiceover script to the slide notes. (You'll be able to use this script along with the Text to Speech feature. No retyping, no extra work.). Select the iSpring Suite 10 tab on the PowerPoint ribbon and click Manage Narration.

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How to Sell Online Training Like a Pro: 3 Ways to Optimize the Organization and Management of Your Customers and Companies

Lambda Solutions

When you are shopping around for the perfect eLearning platform with eCommerce features for your business, effortless management of customers or companies that you want to sell to is one criteria that is sure to be at the top of your list.

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InSync Founder/President Jennifer Hofmann Presents at Learning Guild Conference

InSync Training

Jennifer Hofmann, Founder and President of InSync Training, will present a session on “ Scenario-based Learning in the Virtual Classroom ” at the Virtual Training Online Conference presented by The Learning Guild on August 4-5, 2021.

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Taking a Health System’s Workforce to the Next Level

dVinci Interactive

Taking a Health System’s Workforce to the Next Level Providence is a large, West Coast, health system with more than 120,000 employees that need training. In this Powered by Learning podcast, Darci Hall, chief learning officer, and Johnny Hamilton, senior design and innovation consultant, talk to us about innovative ways to upskill current employees to stay relevant in current positions while building competencies for future opportunities.

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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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What is Learning?

Upside Learning

Learning is like breathing and we have been learning all our lives, mostly unconsciously though and sometimes consciously. L&D professionals attempt to influence that conscious learning bit in alignment with our roles and desired business outcomes. However, quite often they seem to lose focus on ‘learning’ while attempting to speed up things or while focusing […].

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Emotional Agility – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler

There have been some good business books I’ve read and some bad. There aren’t too many in the middle which I can’t say were excellent and I also can’t say they’re bad. The most recent business-related book I’ve read, Emotional Agility by Susan David (also on Amazon) is right in the middle.

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Observation checklist: A must-have LMS feature in 2021

Gyrus

Observation Checklists records the evaluation of trainees bringing convergence between learning inputs and their application in the real environment.

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How to Move from Event-based Training to Learning Journeys with Ann Rollins

dominKnow

Ann Rollins joined Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC to discuss her experiences moving from event-based training to learning journeys.

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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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Announcing $32M in Growth Funding from Insight Partners to Help Educators Create and Sell Online Courses in a Post-Pandemic World

learnWorlds

While the COVID-19 pandemic changed, almost overnight, the way we work, communicate, consume, socialize and learn, in reality it may have catalyzed and accelerated trends that were already underway. E-commerce, remote working, remote learning, escaping 9-to-5 and the rise of the creator economy were already major themes. Especially in the field of e-learning, COVID-19 forced individuals, entrepreneurs and companies to accelerate their digital transformation and proved irrevocably that the future

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AccessAlly 3.7 Release Notes

AccessAlly

Released July 2021 New Features & Improvements: New! Quaderno integration for tax. This is a biggie if you’re in the EU, with the new VAT changes coming into play.

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Looking to Train Your Workforce? What’s Working Well – and What’s Not

Clarity Consultants

When you need to train your workforce, finding an effective approach is often a priority. Understanding what does and doesn’t work in the current landscape is a must. That way, you can create a learning strategy that serves you and your employees well. The post Looking to Train Your Workforce? What’s Working Well – and What’s Not appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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