LearnDash

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Cramming leads to increased stress and anxiety, poorer test scores, and lower retention. How can you help your learners avoid this habit? As an online educator, you want to do your best to ensure your learners succeed in your course. However, contrary to what you might think at first, success means several things. It means that your learners finish the course, but it also means that they have a good experience taking the course.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Have you ever been sent to training that just didn’t ring true? Perhaps it presented steps as too simple (“Then just get everyone to agree and implement your plan”) or offered unworkable performance tips (“Set aside a half-hour every day to reflect on your obstacles and achievements”) or included a tipoff that the designer had no idea about the reality of your work (My postal-service husband says he laughs at the unrealistic training videos he’s assigned to watch, because “the customers always h

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Infopro Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you are looking for ways to quickly improve the performance of your new employees you may want to consider investing in a high quality comprehensive onboarding program. Helping your new employees gain proficiency quickly can have a significant impact on your organizations revenue. In fact loss of productivity due to the new hire learning curve can decrease profits by as much as 2.5% (1).

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Corporate learning delivery systems are changing. Executives and learning professionals have much to consider, but the first and foremost is how to deliver quality training in the shifting sands among onsite, completely remote, and blended learning. How do you make this shift to custom remote training delivery? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Augmented Reality (AR) is the bleeding edge technology that has redefined user experience of immersive computing. Want to know how AR boosts corporate training?

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Infopro Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Today the customer experience is one of the top factors consumers consider before making a purchase. This is one of the many reasons why improving customer service is a high priority for many modern organizations. However, providing quality customer service now requires that your sales reps know more than just facts and features. To truly provide quality service your sales team must have a deeper understanding of the products and services your business offers.

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Marketing takes many different forms in the corporate world. However, these 8 topics are crucial for marketing leadership development. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Coreaxis

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Southborough, MA — August 19, 2020 — CoreAxis Consulting is pleased to announce they have been named to the list of the Top Content Providers for Scenario-Based Learning of 2020. This distinction was awarded by eLearning Industries, a company that focuses on rating organizations that develop eLearning solutions for their clients to help businesses source reliable vendors.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Technology has changed the mode of delivery of education or skill training drastically. Especially in the current times of COVID-19 pandemic, companies are looking at the use of Learning Management Systems to aid their Training and Development (T&D) activities.

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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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ej4 eLearning

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Mindfulness is a popular practice in yoga and meditation but it also applies in the workplace, specifically with mindful communication. Think about being more present and multitasking less. Be more thoughtful about the tone you use. Develop empathy for your coworkers, customers, and suppliers.

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Axonify

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When the world went into lockdown this year, the internet became our gateway to work, school, social interaction, worship services, exercise classes and more. Our devices became a portal to the outside world. Telecom services were more in demand than ever—and customers needed support more than ever. But they couldn’t go into stores or stop … Continued.

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TOPYX LMS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Subject matter experts (SMEs) are critical for the proper development of both in-person and online employee training programs as they have the knowledge to help L&D teams shape training and ensure it is accurate, understandable, and comprehensive. Without in-house SMEs, it’s difficult for companies to specialize in a given topic and prove that they have the industry expertise needed to be considered an industry leader.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I once had a conversation with a man who scared me. It was over 20 years ago, and I remember him being quite a lovely fellow. He was simply proud of his son earning his PhD. What scared me was his conviction that in order to keep up in the imminent future, an undergraduate qualification would not be enough; one must earn a postgraduate qualification.

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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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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

What to make your courses—or even your whole site—available on a membership basis? Here’s how to offer memberships on LearnDash. So, you’ve read up on membership sites and you’ve decided that’s how you want to offer your courses. The next question is: how do you set one up for yourself? Well, the good news is that you can do it all from LearnDash. While there are still some use cases in which a membership plugin might be necessary, you can create a WordPress membership site that will handle most

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Brandon Hall Group—the leader in Empowering, Recognizing, and Certifying Excellence in HCM—recently announced that Upside Learning is certified as a Smartchoice® Preferred Solution Provider. Confirming that Upside Learning delivers Real Engagement and Real Outcomes by Going Beyond the tick-the-box mindset of the traditional approaches towards learning.

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TOPYX LMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

To say the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted workplace learning is an understatement. Referring to COVID-19, McKinsey & Company said, “.workplace learning is emerging as one of the earliest and hardest-hit business activities. Based on our observations as of early March, roughly one-half of in-person programs through June 30, 2020, have been postponed or canceled in North America…” 1.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I previously wrote in defense of cog psych. Here, I want to go broader. Not my usual topic, but… I feel the need to rail in defense of science. When I’m talking about science, I’m talking about the systematic exploration of how things work. It’s about theorizing, and testing, and refining. It’s about having rigor in that, being systematic and principled.

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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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eLearning Brothers

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Are you ready to rock? We just launched a new community and there’s only one thing that could make it rock harder—YOU! In the community, you can post discussions, connect with other users, share your eLearning projects, and get help when you’re feeling stuck.

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Wisetail

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Wisetail is proud to announce a new set of advanced tools built to support your people, process, and performance. We focused on these three areas because they’re essential to our clients and how we here at Wisetail believe we can help grow your organization — both the organization and the people who power it. The post Did You Know Wisetail has Advanced Tools?

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Jane Hart

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Social learning is not a new training trend; it’s the way we have always learned from one another. However, it is something that managers and individual will need to understand and value and recognise as an integral part of their daily work. In this workshop we will look at how to work with both managers […].

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TLNT: Training and L&D

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Some of the most visionary minds in business over the last hundred years have worked in popular media like film and television. I draw a great deal of inspiration from these leaders who have paved an unconventional path to success. The lessons one can learn from a sitcom or a Tarantino film are no less meaningful than those inside books in the business section at your local bookstore. .

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BigTinCan

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Most discussions of enterprise content management (ECM) software just list a series of tools as though “ECM” is just one thing. It’s not. An enterprise content management system actually has three parts that support different business processes and therefore require different types of software. They are: Lifecycle Management Software. To help manage and streamline the content lifecycle, from ideation to creation, to archiving files.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Face to face (F2F) training has sharply decreased owing to Covid. The longer that lockdowns drag on, the more that organisations will question if they ever will return to using F2F training. Most discussion has focused on which parts of the formal F2F learning experience can be replicated using other digital channels e.g. virtual classroom. What this misses is that there are other important aspects of a F2F training course that are beneficial to replicate too.

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Learning pods for educators and students can bring a human-centered approach to online teaching and learning. Instructional Designers, professors and technology assistants share their experiences in this real-life case study. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a challenge to capture learners’ interest and sustain engagement levels in any training format, more so with virtual instructor-led training (VILT). Here’s an infographic with 5 tips to engage participants in a VILT session.

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Poll Everywhere

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

All-company meetings or town halls are going virtual – more companies are offering flexible work from home opportunities or are opening up satellite offices to accommodate a growing workforce. Therefore, town halls are best done virtually. However, virtual town halls. The post Don’t waste any time – 5 tips for hosting an efficient virtual town hall appeared first on Poll Everywhere Blog.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While much of the virtual learning experience is similar to being in a physical classroom, much about the approach is also unique. As a result, challenges that don’t occur with in-person training arise, some of which can derail or harm the learning experience. By understanding the challenges that show up in many virtual classrooms, you can be better equipped to.

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eLearning Industry

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Social learning is key to the integration of new employees. Focusing on social learning elements during a remote onboarding process will ensure that new hires more quickly transform into fully functional employees. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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