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4 Key LMS Analytics Every Trainer Needs to Know

Matrix

One of the benefits of using an LMS for online training is that it reduces trainers’ workload, especially when tracking learner progress and training outcomes. A learning management system (LMS) provides rich analytics and reports that help trainers better understand what’s happening with learners and how they’re progressing through courses.

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Online Learning Platforms Can Level Up Math Skills. Here’s How

MagicBox

Did you know that the fear of math is so prevalent that they’ve even coined a term for it? Arithmophobia or the fear of numbers can vary in severity from mild tension to a strong fear. Research conducted by the Center for Neuroscience in Education at the University of Cambridge revealed that extreme math anxiety [.] Read More.

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Transforming the “New Normal” for L&D

Learning Rebels

Normal is not something to aspire to – it’s something to get away from ~ Jody Foster. So why all this talk about a “new normal”? Is it because the old normal fits us as uncomfortably now as a pair of pre-pandemic jeans? Run a search on the pandemic and a new normal – it is a phrase that has been on the lips of practically everyone. Because of this, I claim that “New Normal” fatigue is as alive as Zoom fatigue.

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Top Content Providers For Soft Skills Training (2021)

eLearning Industry

The importance of soft skills is undeniable if you want to build strong and resilient teams in your organization. Why? Well, not every employee excels at communicating effectively, using active listening, and taking initiative. Hence, in this list, we've gathered the top content providers to help you develop your workforce by cultivating leaders and pioneers.

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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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Presentations on Scenario-Based Learning and More

Experiencing eLearning

I have given a number of presentations on scenario-based learning over the past five years, plus a few presentations on other topics. I have also had the pleasure of being interviewed on several podcasts and video casts. While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is the first time I have compiled a complete list like this. All of these recordings are freely available with no registration.

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How to Work with Subject Matter Experts to Improve Your Course

LearnDash

Collaborating with an expert can bring new insights and increase the value of your program. No matter how well you know a subject, there will always be areas where another expert can offer new insight or knowledge. Or it may be that you prefer running the business side of your online course, but would like to leave the course creating side to someone else.

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Become An eLearning Champion: Linking Training To Business Results—Part 3

eLearning Industry

Most training is done in isolation without linking it to the terminal objective of achieving business results. Not doing so results in ineffective training that has little impact on business results and loss of credibility of training. Explore how you can link training to business results. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Curiosity keeps us alive, gaming and learning

Upside Learning

We are an attention-deficit people, so they say, before they lose interest and jump to another topic. Science tells us that we are born curiosity-rich and attention-poor. Contempt apart, familiarity does breed distraction. Way back in 1964, long before we started blaming technology for denuding our collective attention, a study showed that “infants between 2 […].

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How to Use Employee Training to Increase Software Adoption Rates

Infopro Learning

It is obvious today that the way the modern workplace functions have changed and many of these changes are here to stay. In the past year businesses have had to make drastic shifts in the ways that they interact with both employees and customers. Business leaders are having to adopt new software to keep up with these changes. In fact, digital transformation is a high priority for many businesses this year. 77% of CLO’s in a recent survey shared that digital transformation is their number o

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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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LearnDash Performance, Supercharged!

LearnDash

Significant performance upgrades bring your LearnDash powered courses a best-in-class user experience. I am thrilled to announce the next step in the progression of LearnDash in the form of Version 3.4! While releasing cool new functionality is always fun, the focus on this release is more “under the hood” and will arguably have the most direct impact on your learning programs!

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eBook Release: The Needs Analysis Playbook—How To Make L&D A Trusted Partner In Your Organization

eLearning Industry

You need buy-in to achieve success and enhance your business infrastructure. This needs analysis guide highlights the importance of gathering stakeholder and learner audience feedback, as well as red flags to look for throughout the process. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Practical Tools to Enhance Training Reinforcement

ej4 eLearning

After one hour, learners retain less than half of the information presented. After one day, people only retain thirty percent of the training. If you don’t employ some type of training reinforcement, a percentage of your training dollars will be lost as your learners forget. It is important to explore what other elements are needed to retain and apply training information—and how those elements can be worked into existing programs.

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5 Tips for a Smooth Transition to Managed Learning Services

Infopro Learning

Today’s disruptive marketplace and Covid19 have significantly impacted the way today’s business leaders look at L&D. Employee development has quickly become a top priority for modern organizations. There is now a huge demand for employee reskilling and a growing need for training programs that can be delivered and updated quickly. It is also common for organizations to have fluctuating learning needs.

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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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4 Ways Micro Certification Can Build Your Course Offerings

LearnDash

What is micro certification, and how can it help your certification program? Micro certification is just what it sounds like: mini certification courses that allow learners to break their certification process into smaller, more digestible steps, or else gain certification in specialized areas that are most relevant to their needs. It’s a popular and growing segment within many industries, and one that provides a lot of opportunity to certification providers.

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Should you adopt a BYOD policy on the frontline?

Axonify

84% of frontline employees would like to access training and communication on their personal devices. With this many employees requesting a simple change they believe will help them do their jobs better, implementing a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy for your workforce should be a no-brainer. But we know it isn’t always that simple. Concerns about intellectual … Continued.

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How To Use Proven Virtual Learning Activities To Boost Your Training

Spark Your Interest

Virtual learning sessions using a platform like Zoom, WebEx, or Adobe Connect, have become commonplace. They are often the first step organizations take to provide online learning. And it is easy to set-up a virtual classroom to start your online training. But how many Zoom sessions have we all been in that are deathly boring ? We’ve all been there.

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Book hiccups

Clark Quinn

As much as writing books is something I do (and I’m immodestly proud of the outcomes), they don’t always come out the way I expect. And that turns out to be true for almost every one! So here, for the record and hopefully as both mea culpas and lessons learned, are my book hiccups. And you really don’t have to read this, unless you want some things to check for.

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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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The Life of a Salesperson: Sales Skills for Success

ej4 eLearning

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics more than 14-million Americans are employed in sales, yet to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, we can’t get no respect in pop culture. Nearly every movie about salespeople rely on outlandish, comical, or sometimes brutal stereotypes. Remember “Coffee is for closers”?

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Mind the Gap: Strategies to Avoid a Generation Gap in your Learning

eLearning Brothers

Today’s instructional designers are challenged to create learning content for not only a globally dispersed audience, but also one that’s generationally rich. In 2021 there are five distinct generations in the workforce—all with distinct learning styles. Is your content reaching them all?

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The L&D Relevance of Certifying Medical Professionals

dVinci Interactive

The L&D Relevance of Certifying Medical Professionals In this Powered by Learning podcast, Dr. Keith Mann, Vice President, Continuing Certification at The American Board of Pediatrics, shares what’s involved in certifying medical professionals and what L&D professionals can learn from it. You'll find out how providing maintenance of certification activities to pediatricians delivers meaningful and sustainable change in healthcare.

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Improving Membership Training Engagement With Blended Learning

Lambda Solutions

Organizations around the world continue to postpone and cancel in-person meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Training organizations , such as associations and schools that offer instructor-led-training (ILT) have emerged as one of the earliest and hardest-hit. Organizations can’t afford to put capability building on hold and push the pause button on critical learning, even as they move rapidly to put employee safety first.

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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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Beyond the 80/20 Principle – Business Book Review

Nick Leffler

The latest book I recently finished up is Beyond The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch (also available on Amazon). My first impression by the book was a bit of confusion and having to try to find how it flowed. Even when I picked up the sample and started reading I wasn’t sure about the book.

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5 Industries Where LMS Are In Demand

Gyrus

Learn how you can use an LMS to your advantage in the best manner possible. LMS is in demand in these 5 industries and can help you grow your business and scale it in the best manner possible to help you and your employees make the most of e-learning by LMS provided by Gyrus.

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How to Plan and Conduct a Learning Strategy Proof-of-Concept

eLearning Brothers

For: Chief Learning Officers, Learning and Development Managers, Learning Strategy Engineers, Training Program Managers, and Instructional Designers Downloads: Click here to download the eBook and printable worksheets.

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Challenges Associations Face with Adult Learning

Lambda Solutions

2020 proved to be a sink or swim year for many associations and membership training. The forced shift to online alternatives from traditional, in-person, instructor-led training (ILT) has had mixed results. The digital move towards blended & asynchronous learning has provided an incredible opportunity for adult learning and professional development education.

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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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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

This was shared on LinkedIn recently, and I wanted to save and record it. A very simple philosophy of trust and communication can give both of us the time to work and the opportunity to question, query, and support each other in achieving what we need to in the time we have. If there’s a possibility of not meeting those goals, through an early alert we can address it as soon as possible and give us the time to investigate the problem and work out a solution to enable a repsonse.

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Visual Design Principles in eLearning When You're Not a Graphic Designer with Rachel Dillon

dominKnow

Rachel Dillon joined Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC to talk about basic graphic design elements for instructional designers needing to create their own designs for their instructional solutions.

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eLearning Has Improved In The Last 7 Years.

eLearning Industry

A student in 2014 and a student in 2021 would probably have the same fundamental online learning experience. Yet online learning has changed dramatically in the last 7 years. In my 50th article, I look back at online learning and enumerate 5 drivers that have led to its improvement. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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