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What We Learned In Lockdown

Litmos

A year ago, when everyone stopped and we were all getting used to staying home all the time, I wrote a piece based on my experience as a remote freelance writer , hoping to help others make the adjustment to working from home. Turns out, even with years of experience working from home, I had no idea how tough the last year was going to be. A lot hasn’t changed in a year.

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Should You Offer Certification on Your Membership Site?

LearnDash

4 Reasons why you should start a certification program for your membership site. Does your membership site need a certification program? Depending on the courses you’re offering, it might. For years, membership organizations of all stripes have offered lessons, workshops, and live events as ways to build their community and delight their members. Certification programs, whether online or in person, can therefore create a great opportunity for organizations and members alike.

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The Best Authoring Tools for Custom Content Development

Allencomm

With the correct authoring tool, custom content development for corporate training doesn't have to be a difficult process. The post The Best Authoring Tools for Custom Content Development appeared first on AllenComm.

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Custom eLearning Development: 3 Modern Learning Trends That Will Drive Future Success

Infopro Learning

Custom eLearning solutions have long been on the rise. Investing in online learning programs enables organizations to provide more flexible employee development programs that better suit modern learners. Many custom eLearning solutions can help your organization engage employees this year.

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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 To Create Effective eLearning Storyboards

eLearning Industry

Creating a good eLearning course can be a very demanding task. To create a good eLearning course, you must design course content with a clear objective in mind. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Intrinsic and Instructional Feedback in Learning Scenarios

Experiencing eLearning

A number of years ago, I was a judge for a competition on scenario-based learning. While there were a few terrific submissions, I thought many of the courses missed one of the great features of scenario-based learning. They started out fine: they provided some sort of realistic context and asked learners to make a decision. Then, instead of showing them the consequences of their decision, they just provided feedback as if it was any other multiple choice assessment. “Correct, that is the b

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What are the Business Benefits of Outsourcing Training?

Infopro Learning

The business world and the way we work has changed exponentially. These changes have many business leaders thinking about the future. They are looking for ways to improve their ability to adapt to change. They are also looking for ways to meet the growing employee development needs on the horizon. One of the best ways modern businesses can more easily achieve these goals is by training outsourcing.

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7 False Assumptions That Most eLearning Professionals Make When Developing Personal Learning Paths

eLearning Industry

Personalized paths are too time-consuming and resource-driven to incorporate into your eLearning course, right? In this article, I share 7 false assumptions that most eLearning professionals make when developing personal learning paths. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Easygenerator as L&D’s Favorite Rapid Authoring Tool

CommLab India

If you had your ear to the ground, you must’ve heard about the Easygenerator authoring tool. So, what’s new about this authoring tool? And why is it becoming so popular? This blog answers all your questions about Easygenerator.

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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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Certificate Builder Has Arrived!

LearnDash

The easiest, most flexible course certificate creation tool available on the market! We know that when you selected LearnDash for your online courses, you did so in order to have access the best of e-learning innovation. Which is why today I am excited to tell you about the latest functionality that you now have at your fingertips! Today I am pleased to announce the release of the LearnDash certificate builder.

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Creating Quality Leadership Development Training for New Leaders

Infopro Learning

Today’s disruptive environment has caused many organizations to adopt new technology and practices to adapt to change. Business leaders have also been investing in leadership development programs. These two business decisions may not seem related at first, but leadership development can significantly impact the success of organizational changes.

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Solutions To Common Custom Training Development Mistakes

eLearning Industry

Developing your own customized training offers many benefits, but it comes with its share of risks. Identify these common mistakes and learn how to avoid them. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Signaling to Weak Ties

The Simple Shift

One thing research has revealed is that weak ties (connection outside your core circle) are powerful in developing professional opportunities. Those fringe touch points with people around, maybe not in, your work can open more doors for you professionally. Social Media certainly can expand our networks, however many of us “chase the dragon” as I’d […].

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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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Does Your Online Course Need a Forum?

LearnDash

Course forums can give learners a reason to come back and stay engaged, but they’re also a lot of work. Should you start one? We’ve talked in the past about the importance of community in creating a thriving course. Community can help your learners feel connected to the course material, keep them accountable to their goals, and give them a reason to continue subscribing to your membership site.

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5 Effective Training Delivery Methods for Remote Teams

Infopro Learning

The remote workforce has been slowly growing for the past several years. However, the recent pandemic and the various safety restrictions that have been in place on and off over the last year have changed this. Before the pandemic, about 5% of the workforce was working remotely. A year later, this number is expected to settle between 20-30% (1). A new model of the hybrid workplace is on the horizon.

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How to design training technology to meet the unique needs of the frontline

Axonify

Frontline employees—the people who work in customer-facing roles, or in the production of or direction of a product—don’t have the luxury of sitting down for hours of training. So we need to be super honest about how we can actually fit training into their job realities. Our learning programs need to fit them, rather than … Continued. Copyright © 2021 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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eLearning Trends in Healthcare Training

TOPYX LMS

To say it is vital that healthcare workers receive training during this time is an understatement. Healthcare workers have been on the frontlines, providing care services, creating new medical treatments and products, working tirelessly with insurance companies, and much more. And all the while, the industry itself is changing at a prolific rate. Providers are using telehealth instead of seeing patients in person.

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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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It’s never too late for training on code of conduct and ethics in the workplace

Dashe & Thomson

Individuals and organizations abide by behavioral standards known as ethics, or commonly referred to as a code of conduct policy. Studies have proven that companies who build a solid integrity program have the opportunity to outperform their competition. Employee conduct is often disregarded or swept under the rug because it is an uncomfortable subject within many organizations, but a recent shift toward workplace responsibility has created a strong need for learning programs that educate employ

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A bad question

Clark Quinn

On Twitter today was a question from an organization that, frankly, puzzled me. Further, I think it’s important to understand why this was a bad question. So here let me unpack several illustrative problems. First, the question asks “What kind of learning do you prefer?” My initial response is: why would you ask that? What learners prefer has little to do with what outcomes you need to achieve.

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10 Ladder Safety Tips for Work and Home

ej4 eLearning

The US ranks third in population but according to the World Health Organization, the US leads the world in ladder deaths. Each year, there are more than 164,000 emergency room-treated injuries and 300 deaths in the U.S. that are caused by falls from ladders. In honor of ladder safety awareness month, we offer a few ladder safety tips for work and home.

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Principles and Applications of Microlearning Solutions to Meet Training Needs

Origin Learning

Introduction Microlearning is a strategy and a format in which learning solutions can be deployed or delivered to train employees, The post Principles and Applications of Microlearning Solutions to Meet Training Needs appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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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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Storytelling Series: An Instructional Strategy for Hundreds of Years

Dashe & Thomson

Using stories to deliver compliance training, ethics training, and code of conduct training is not new. In fact, people have been doing it for hundreds of years. The previous blog in this series talked about how using storytelling in your design produces instruction that is sticky. That’s because the story framework itself is a memory device. It creates a construct that makes it easy for leaners to recall or remember what they learned.

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How I write

Clark Quinn

I’d cued up a topic for a post, and then a conversation with a friend and colleague moved it to the front of the queue. We were talking about our process, and he pointed me to an article that nicely catalyzed my thinking. So here’s a brief post about how I write my books (written, of course). The article my friend pointed me to was titled: “The Simple Way To Outline A Nonfiction Book”, and it’s nicely resonant, and a bit deeper, than my own approach.

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8 Staff Training Ideas to Spice Up Your Learning

ej4 eLearning

Are you a manager looking for staff training ideas for a specific team member? Or are you a training or HR leader looking to expand on your employee training and development program? Hopefully, these stories from our clients will help you spice up your staff training.

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Get CenarioVR on Your Oculus Quest Now

eLearning Brothers

The all-in-one virtual reality system, Oculus Quest, has increased in popularity worldwide over the last two years. The isolation caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic boosted sales of the Facebook-owned headsets, and the release of the Oculus Quest 2 brought higher quality visuals and better performance, while at the same time lowering the base price for the gear.

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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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5 Steps to Evaluate Employee Learning Performance

Gyrus

An efficient performance management system concentrates on aligning the workforce, improving employee development and performance, building competencies within the work environment, and eventually driving better business results. Read the article to know the 5 steps organizations can follow to evaluate their Employee Learning Performance.

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Mine the craft of gamification for business impact

Upside Learning

Can a game help when traditional learning does not work, and the stakes run deep? Dr Stephen Enders, Director – Subsurface Frontiers at Colorado School of Mines, thinks it can. He talks of a time when he was working for one of the world’s largest mining companies. They were facing a serious challenge of increasing […].

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The Last Train To Key West – Fun Book Review

Nick Leffler

Last week I finished up reading The Last Train To Key West (also on Amazon), my fun book in my alternating fun book, business book reading. It took me a while to write this review because I really wanted to get something else published between a book review.

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