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Three Ways to Save Time & Money in E-learning

Rapid eLearning

Online training is hot right now. And between video chat services like Zoom and course authoring tools like Articulate 360 , there’s a lot of content creation. Since creating the e-learning content is easy, there’s often an increased demand to create yet more online training. And with that demand is the need to manage resources, which for most training organizations is limited.

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Custom eLearning Solutions for a Post Covid19 Workforce

Infopro Learning

The world of L&D was turned upside-down last year, with deep impact in every industry. The tried and trusted training delivery methods that were popular were no longer reliable. The rate of digital transformation accelerated. The business’s adopted new digital practices to adapt to the changes brought on by the pandemic. Last year, organizations focused on quickly converting their instructor-led training courses into online learning programs to continue training.

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Learning Analytics: Evaluating the Business Influence of Learning Programs

Docebo

One of the biggest challenges in learning and development (L&D) today is demonstrating the impact of your programs. Which means, one of the questions that gets asked the most is, “What’s the best way to measure the success of my online courses and training?”. People have been talking about learning measurement for decades. Ever since Kirkpatrick came up with his 4-level model ?

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Experiential Learning Is Changing the Way Businesses Develop Their Teams

Clarity Consultants

When people think of learning, they often focus on knowledge acquisition. Furthering a person’s understanding of a topic by exposing them to more about it on an intellectual level is the foundation of many classic training approaches, and with good reason, as it can be quite effective. The issue is, knowledge isn’t always the issue. Figuring out how to apply.

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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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Leveling Up: How To Reach The Next Learning Maturity Stage To Fuel Business Growth

eLearning Industry

Moving to the next level of the learning maturity continuum is an investment in the long-term success of your organization. Learn how to level up and enrich your eLearning program through an agile innovation culture. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Adapting Resumes from Teaching to Instructional Design

Experiencing eLearning

Over the years, a number of teachers interested in transitioning to instructional design careers have reached out to me. Specifically, they often have questions about how to adapt their resumes. Teachers already have many relevant skills for instructional design, but they don’t always know how to convey that to employers. When adapting resumes for instructional design jobs, it’s important to focus on experiences like curriculum creation and collaboration rather than teaching.

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Time for Re-Skilling Retail Workforce – Post-Pandemic Challenges

Swift eLearning Services

Such a situation was neither imagined nor experienced earlier! In fact, markets have seen fluctuations – time and again – for different reasons, but none is closer to this sort at the level of crippling the market and affecting the morale of the resources – causing a disturbance at every level possible. To put it… The post Time for Re-Skilling Retail Workforce – Post-Pandemic Challenges first appeared on Top eLearning Development Solutions Companies India, Swift Elearning

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7 Creative Ways To Highlight The Hidden Gems In Your Online Training Library

eLearning Industry

Do employees know about all the valuable online training tools in your repository? In this article, I explore 7 creative ways to highlight the hidden gems in your online training library. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Workforce Transformation Tips for Increased Business Agility

Infopro Learning

Business resilience and the ability to adapt to change have become top goals for modern organizations today, which is why we have seen a surge in transformation initiatives. Employee reskilling has become a pivotal part of the workplace transformation process. Quality L&D programs engage employees and help them learn the new skills they need to be successful in the changing workplace.

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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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The case for model answers (and a rubric)

Clark Quinn

As I’ve been developing online workshops, I’ve been thinking more about the type of assessment I want. Previously, I made the case for gated submissions. Now I find another type of interaction I’d like to have. So here’s the case for model answers (and a rubric). As context, many moons ago we developed a course on speaking to the media. This was based upon the excellent work of the principals of Media Skills, and was a case study in my Engaging Learning book.

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Is it a “Skills Gap” or an Opportunity for Better Training?

Dashe & Thomson

We have frequently discussed the issue of skills gaps in today’s business world. Before COVID-19 even hit, skills gaps were already a huge constraint and hurdle for organizations to succeed with ever-changing technology adoptions and enhancements. We continually hear that the skills gap problem has not gone away, and unfortunately, the pandemic made it even clearer as businesses went remote or were forced to shut down.

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Tips to Build Relationships at Work

ej4 eLearning

Prior to the global pandemic, building relationships at work was fairly easy. You were surrounded by teammates with the same goals. Being in-person allowed for quick on-the-spot collaboration and impromptu conversation, so you could build both a professional and personal network.

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Workforce Transformation: Build Resilience by Reducing Risk

Infopro Learning

As we move forward, businesses are beginning to think about their post Covid19 plans. They are starting to refocus their attention from survival towards building strategies that reduce risk and build resilience. Last year many employees moved into remote roles. Organizations began rapidly adopting new technology and implementing digital transformation initiatives.

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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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BOGEYMEN OF INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Learnnovators

I’ve been an Instructional Designer for many years now. I’ll admit we are an imperfect profession. After all, design lives in the space where there is no formulaic answer. And Instructional Designers work with the unknown and the unfamiliar on a daily basis. I think I, and every ID I’ve known, has had that bogeyman image of the kind of ID they didn’t want to be when they grew up!

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4 lessons learned from retailers’ pandemic playbooks

Axonify

The last year-and-a-half in retail has certainly had its challenges, especially for those who support a frontline workforce. Retailers have struggled to make the right decisions with incomplete information, and tried to keep chaos at bay while pivoting on a dime. But, as the old saying goes, ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ In spite … Continued.

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How to be an elearning expert

Clark Quinn

I was asked (and have been a time or two before): “What’s the one most important thing you’d like to tell to be successful Ed Tech industry leader?” Of course there wasn’t just one ;). Still, looking at colleagues who I think fit that characterization, I find some commonalities that are worth sharing. So here’s one take on how to be an elearning expert.

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How to Make Employees Excited for Training

Gyrus

Learn how you can make your employees excited for e-learning and training through engaging and interesting programs brought to you by Gyrus

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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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Build a Technology Transformation Program that Values Your Employees

Dashe & Thomson

Since March of 2020, we’ve seen incredible changes to the business landscape. Operations, employee collaboration, and business processes have all changed as a result of offices closing and businesses choosing to keep their employees remote. As we hit the mid-way point of 2021, businesses are settling into what is considered the “new-normal,” and a significant part of this new business landscape revolves around novel technology.

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3 ways you can make sure your frontline gets your important communications

Axonify

The best relationships are rooted in strong communication—including the one between you and your frontline. Company updates. Job aids. FAQs. Keeping these lines of internal communication open (and mastering how you communicate) is key to unlocking better performance from them at work. What makes communicating with the frontline different? Frontline employees are the face of … Continued.

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Developing Mutually Beneficial Learning Relationships

dVinci Interactive

Developing Mutually Beneficial Learning Relationships By building learning relationships and alliances, IBM has increased its impact on its partners and customers. In this Powered by Learning podcast episode, Sonia Malik, the Learning Alliances Manager and Strategist at IBM, explains how learning relationships can benefit the company and a targeted learner community.

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5 Reasons to Invest in Certifying Your Team as Virtual Training Professionals

InSync Training

Since March of 2020, learning and development teams have been rushing to move their face-to-face content to virtual platforms like Zoom, Webex, MS Teams, and Adobe Connect. At first, this wholesale conversion to virtual was a stop gap measure. The focus was getting the content online temporarily - just for the few months while we were working at home.

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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 Forgotten Home Child – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler

Another fun book finished and another great book I do recommend everyone reads. The book is The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham (also on Amazon) and is about Home Children that were sent from England to Canada from sometime in the 1800s all the way past WWII.

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‘The turnaround king’ on why frontline employee engagement is a business imperative

Axonify

If you had checked in on Jim Donald in 2006, odds are good you’d have found him in the air. And the odds are even better that, while cruising at 31,000 ft above sea level, you’d have found him hand-writing a note to one of his frontline employees. Then the CEO of Starbucks, Donald spent … Continued. Copyright © 2021 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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Tips To Use Virtual Training For User Education & Immersive Site Tours

eLearning Industry

While virtual reality safety and equipment training have been around the longest, more and more organizations are seeing the benefits of virtual reality for new uses, like the site tours and user education. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Time to Take an Another Look at the 70:20:10 Model!

CommLab India

Blended learning can help apply the 55:25:20 model for different learning needs with eLearning courses, microlearning modules, virtual instructor-led training, and more. Read on to know more about the flexible implementation of blended learning for corporate training.

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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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"TechSmith Camtasia 2021: The Essentials" Workbook Now Shipping

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Learn to Use TechSmith Camtasia 2021 Skills in Just One Day! " TechSmith Camtasia 2021: The Essentials " is a hands-on, step-by-step workbook that will introduce you to the essential TechSmith Camtasia skills you need to quickly get up and running with this fantastic eLearning development tool. Using Camtasia, you can create software video demonstrations and soft skills eLearning videos.

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The Forgotten Home Child – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler

Another fun book finished and another great book I do recommend everyone reads. The book is The Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve Graham and is about Home Children that were sent from England to Canada from sometime in the 1800s all the way past WWII. This particular book follows the journey of Winny from the.

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Post-Training: How To Make The Most Of Your LMS Reports

eLearning Industry

Your LMS reports contain useful insights about your training programs. Training metrics are an invaluable resource for aligning your training with your business objectives. Learn which metrics to track and how to leverage the data to boost your training effectiveness. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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