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8 Questions to Ask Before Developing Your Online Course

LearnDash

How to define your objectives before creating an online learning program. Starting an online learning program is an exciting and challenging endeavor. However, most courses take a lot of time to prepare, and you should know what you’re getting into before you start. Here are a few questions to help you think through your course idea so that you can start off on the right foot. 1.

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The Importance of Gamification in an Anxious Workplace

Upside Learning

While the virus appears set for a fearsome return in many parts of the world, the mental health crisis in the workplace continues to be an equally challenging reality leaders are struggling to manage. As they strive to help businesses upskill and reskill to cope with the new unknowns, the L&D team must remain mindful […]. Gamification

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Virtual Facilitation Observations and Tips

InSync Training

In the world of virtual classrooms, there are many reasons why a session may be ineffective and tiring for both participants and facilitators. Whether the technological tools are used too sparingly or interaction between participants is not encouraged enough, a session can feel stagnant and end up not being successful. I’m sharing some of my observations I’ve made in the online classroom along with suggestions to help ensure that your sessions are engaging, fun, and learners are energized with n

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How To Incorporate The Laws Of UX With Designing Learning Experiences

eLearning Industry

Designing online learning with the learner in mind allows us to consider the way they think, process information, and behave online. Check out this article for tips on how to transfer the science of design to your next learning experience! 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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Productive SME Engagement for eLearning Development

Infopro Learning

Common SME Catchphrases and How eLearning Designers Can Respond. As learning designers, our success hinges on the rapport we build with a client’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). It is just as important as the content inputs they provide! But what can you do when a conversation takes an unexpected turn? Here are a few common challenges we hear in conversations with SMEs, and what we can say to keep the discussion focused and productive. 1.

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Performance Support and Bad Design

Clark Quinn

Here’s a story about where performance support would’ve made a task much easier. And, as always, the text. The other day, I had a classic need for performance support. Of course, it didn’t exist. So here’s a cognitive story about when and where a job aid would help. Our Bosch dishwasher stopped near the beginning of the cycle, and displayed an icon of a water tap.

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Remote Working In The Future: 6 Key Areas To Focus On

eLearning Industry

Remote workforce development is a hot topic thanks to the pandemic. However, there are 6 focus areas that you should consider, even after we venture into the New Normal. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Why you should consider Training Outsourcing in 2021

Infopro Learning

The events of 2020 significantly altered the way modern workplaces function today. Businesses in nearly every industry had to learn to adapt quickly to survive. As we begin to think about moving forward, organizations are developing new learning strategies to increase their preparedness, business agility, and training effectiveness. Training and development play a crucial role in these plans for many companies today. 72% of executives in a global survey for 2021 identified reskilling as a top pr

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Do Niche Online Courses Sell?

LearnDash

How do you know if there is a market for your specialized online course? One of the biggest struggles first-time educators face when they launch a new course lies in finding a promising subject. They may have an idea that inspires them, but it’s less certain whether that idea will appeal to anyone else. As a result, the temptation for these course providers is to go broad.

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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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Does your employee engagement plan include fostering work friendships?

Axonify

Are your frontline employees feeling exhausted at work? Are you noticing reduced quality in their work output? Then they may be experiencing burnout, a legitimate medical condition related to the workplace. Last year, 58% of US workers identified themselves as experiencing burnout, up from 45% at the beginning of the pandemic. This issue is especially … Continued.

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The 5 Learning And Development Trends That Improve Delivery

eLearning Industry

How can your organization boost its L&D delivery to engage employees? Discover which Learning and Development trends are worth implementing in 2021. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Boosting Operational Efficiency with Learning Administration

Infopro Learning

Today it is becoming more and more common for organizations to adopt remote-friendly learning programs. Last year a large portion of the workforce moved into remote roles, and now just a year later, experts suggest that remote work is here to stay. As organizations create their post Covid19 plans, many business leaders plan to adopt a hybrid workplace model where employees work both in the office and from home alternately.

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Gamification: A Great Way to Increase Employee Engagement Company-Wide

Dashe & Thomson

One of the more prominent employee engagement strategies that has emerged in recent years is the gamification of learning. Simply put, gamification aims to use game-like structures to achieve training and learning outcomes via fun, challenging learning formats. Gamification follows in the footsteps of increasing video game popularity, which is an industry that now grosses north of $150B yearly worldwide.

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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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Retail task management and your frontline performance goals

Axonify

Retail strategy may be set at HQ, but it lives or dies on the frontlines. Your ability to execute depends on getting your associates across all locations to do the right things, every time—no small feat with a workforce that’s highly dispersed and always on the go. Frontline training and task management tools both tackle … Continued. Copyright © 2021 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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Alternative Interpretations Of The MVP Concept

eLearning Industry

Is faster development better? The catch of the “minimum” product and other issues are in this article. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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10 Practical New Hire Training Tips

ej4 eLearning

We’ve all seen the industry statistics of the number of employees who leave a company because of poor new hire training. With the labor shortage, it’s even more important to properly train the new employee to improve the odds of retaining them. These new hire training tips are focused on the training required for the specific job, not the HR side of onboarding, explaining healthcare, 401K, etc.

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How Diversity and Inclusion Training Can Increase Employee Engagement

Dashe & Thomson

As mentioned on our Diversity and Inclusion Training webpage, inclusive workplaces allow employees to feel valued for their contributions and have the same opportunities for advancement as their co-workers. Organizations can use diversity and inclusion training as a tool to create a culture of inclusion by raising awareness of unconscious bias and setting expectations for a respectful workplace.

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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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3 Advanced Gamification Strategies To Use In 2021

Tesseract Learning

The pandemic has forced organizations to turn digital in their training implementations. This has opened up a plethora of options to create a good learning experience. Many are turning to virtual training in place of classroom training. However, many are taking this period as an opportunity to go completely digital and reduce dependence on trainers, at least for the ones who are at the first three levels of Bloom’s learning paradigm, namely, remembering (awareness), understanding, and applying c

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How to create responsive SVGs and smart icons in PowerPoint

BrightCarbon

SVGs are the common format for icons and illustrations in PowerPoint. They’re terrific, until you try to change the fill or line colour of multi-colour graphics, which is when they go wrong. However, with a bit of clever coding, you can create Smart Icons and Illustrations where you can select what parts of an SVG will change fill colour, which parts will change line colour, and which parts don’t change at all, giving you a terrific degree of creative freedom and allowing your icons and illustra

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6 Innovative Badges To Include In Your HR Online Training Course

eLearning Industry

Badges are a simple way to motivate corporate learners and reward their accomplishments. What kind of bragging rights can you include in your HR online training to entice employees? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Challenges to Virtual Training (And How You Can Overcome Them)

Clarity Consultants

Virtual training brings a lot to the table. It makes learning possible regardless of location. Plus, when you use asynchronous or on-demand approaches, the day of day is irrelevant, too. This can be a boon for companies that have to adapt their training to navigate the complexities of the pandemic or that simply want increased versatility. However, virtual training does.

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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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Integrating a Specialized eLearning Course and LMS

dVinci Interactive

Integrating a Specialized eLearning Course and LMS Organizations frequently need to train and certify external target audiences in a specific subject matter area. They need to deliver a custom eLearning experience, an on-line assessment and a certificate of completion, usually for compliance purposes. In many cases, these organizations and their targeted learners do not have a common learning platform established to deliver and track eLearning.

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The Last Runaway – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler

This book took me to the 1850s in Ohio but the journey didn’t begin there. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier begins in England with a long journey by ship across the ocean and then by land to the destination of a small town in Ohio. I don’t envy the people of those times who.

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Top 5 Screen Recorder Tools for eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Using a screen recording tool is one of the easiest ways to make simple eLearning videos and how-to content. Subject matter experts, L&D teams, and instructional design departments of one can quickly produce training content using a screen recording software. The best screen recording tools don’t require any technical expertise and some don’t even need to be downloaded onto your computer.

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Understanding Hybrid Learning And How To Use It

eLearning Industry

Learn about blended and hybrid learning models and discover best practices for developing a corporate training strategy with hybrid learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Where the Corporate LMS Market is Heading (2022 and up)

eLearning 24-7

Do you ever sit there and think to yourself, okay, I have to write this, I’m not sure where to start, where to begin, but I know in my heart, this is where it is going. You say to yourself, I have mixed feelings about this, but the trend lines, the data is all pointing this way – the systems, the business environment is all aiming this way.

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The Last Runaway – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler

This book took me to the 1850s in Ohio but the journey didn’t begin there. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier (also available on Amazon) begins in England with a long journey by ship across the ocean and then by land to the destination of a small town in Ohio.

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Press Play: 5 Tips for Writing Audio Scripts

SweetRush

Do you fancy yourself the Greta Gerwig or Bong Joon Ho of the eLearning world? Do you want to write blockbuster audio scripts that will make stars of your on-screen characters and have your audience reaching for popcorn and hoping for a sequel? Most importantly, do you want to be able to connect with your audience members and elicit a meaningful response from them?

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