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4 Easy Steps to Building eLearning

B Online Learning

Let’s take a step back from the point of building eLearning, and ask some questions. What is the goal of the course? What […]. The post 4 Easy Steps to Building eLearning appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Business Intelligence and Why You Need It

BlueVolt

Understand your Story. Business Intelligence (BI) enables organizations to make smarter data-driven decisions by painting the picture that tells the story about the past, present and future. Technologically speaking, BI provides views of internally structured data for products, services and departments by using functions like online analytical processing (OLAP), reporting, predictive analytics, data/text mining, bench-marking and Business Performance Management (BPM).

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How to Design for Effective Learning

TechSmith Camtasia

How can you design content that will help people learn? You don’t have to be a teacher in the traditional sense to teach others. You might find yourself faced with a teaching role that you didn’t expect. Perhaps you need to give a presentation, create an educational video, or even host an online course? Whatever the case may be, you must design your educational content for learning.

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ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT: The Levels of eLearning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I'm seeing a lack of clarity when it comes to developing eLearning content and how long it takes to create the eLearning courses. To help developers more accurately determine a level of effort, I need assistance from other professionals. Can you please tell me your opinion on the different eLearning levels? It's been widely accepted that there are three levels of eLearning.

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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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Why Visual Design Is Critical In eLearning

eLearning Industry

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever…” said John Keats in the eighteenth century. In the twenty-first century, it has become much more relevant. We humans are naturally attracted to beauty in everything, be it a natural landscape, a painting, a sculpture, or even learning content! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Building a Leadership Development Program that Delivers Business Benefits

Infopro Learning

Why You Need a Leadership Development Program. Investing in leader development has quickly become a high priority for many organizations this year. As the baby boomer generation continues to retire companies need employees with the right leadership skills to steer them through the future and the changes it will bring. In 2019 77% of companies reported that they were already experiencing a leadership gap (1).

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How To Set Daily Goals to Manage Multiple Projects

Experiencing eLearning

Many instructional designers, elearning developers, and LXDs manage multiple projects simultaneously. We’re often working on several staggered projects, especially while waiting for stakeholders to review something. Especially when I’m swamped with work, I use daily goals to help me stay on top of all of my projects. This lets me know quickly if I’m slipping behind so I can adjust.

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5 Microlearning Benefits And Applications L&D Managers Cannot Ignore

eLearning Industry

Microlearning has been gaining popularity recently and for good reason. Microlearning is a strategy that addresses the needs of modern learners. L&D professionals can also use this strategy to overcome common training challenges such as time constraints and to provide training to employees who work remotely. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Need Help with LearnDash? Start Here.

LearnDash

Are you a new LearnDash user with some questions about how to set up your course? Here’s how to find the help you need. Over the years, we’ve seen LearnDash users create a range of courses, using our plugin in ways we would never have thought of doing ourselves. That users are continually coming up with new course ideas speaks to the importance of having a flexible LMS like LearnDash.

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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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Investing Smartly in Human Capital to Steer Through Transformation

Infopro Learning

At the start of the year many organizations were planning on investing heavily into their corporate training programs for improved human capital management and to increase employee productivity. However, with recent events and the outbreak of Covid19 many organizations had to go through a rapid transformation and the plans they had for employee development no longer fit their current goals.

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3 Reasons Healthcare Companies Should Upskill Staff ASAP

TOPYX LMS

For healthcare companies, 2020 has been a year unlike any other due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The frontlines are delivering heroically, but the next normal for healthcare will look nothing like the normal we leave behind,” stated McKinsey & Company. 1 Something that will help healthcare companies navigate COVID-19 now and in the future is staff upskilling via online employee training.

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Organizational Learning: Facts And Figures

eLearning Industry

87% of millennials value in-house development opportunities, and other important things to know before designing your learning plan. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Choosing the Right Feedback Strategy for Your Online Course

LearnDash

Should you tell your learners right away when they’re wrong, or do you let them work it out on their own? Delivering assessment is a key component of any online course. It’s how learners and instructors alike measure progress and identify areas that require more learning. Sometimes assessments come in the form of direct feedback, like telling a learner if they’re right or wrong.

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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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Resilience and the road to recovery: stories from the (actual) frontlines

Axonify

Nobody can predict the future, but these days the crystal ball is even foggier than usual. When the global pandemic hit, leaders had to scrap their carefully considered business plans and shift into reactive mode. With the immediate shock behind us, businesses are ready to get their plans back on track. But by now it’s … Continued. Copyright © 2020 Axonify Inc. - All rights reserved.

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15 ways a successful LMS for onboarding can ramp velocity for your organization ???

Docebo

You may not realize it, but your learning management system’s (LMS) onboarding program is pivotal for building trust and establishing a strong report with new employees. Onboarding software is pivotal in the e-learning industry because it’s the first step new hires take after getting their foot in the door. Onboarding materials help us manage, deliver, and measure an organization’s onboarding process and new hire training programs. .

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Qualified by ej4: Job Hunting Tips to Help You Get Hired Quickly

ej4 eLearning

Hunting for a job has to be everyone’s least favorite task. Maybe you just graduated and you’re looking for your first real job. Maybe you’ve been fired, laid off, or furloughed, you’re in a toxic environment, or a dead-end position. All of these situations are stressful and you just hope to find the right job and get hired quickly.

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Facilitation Tips Series, Part 2: Feedback

InSync Training

A critical element to learning is retrieval practice; the opportunity to revisit and apply new material. Such practice, coupled with meaningful feedback, can help ensure that learners understand material correctly, that they can find it - retrieve it - when needed, even after time has passed, and that they can apply it to real-world situations. Offering meaningful practice opportunities and providing good feedback can also contribute to a sense of social presence, discussed in my last post, Faci

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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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Faster, better, safer: Adapting frontline onboarding for today’s challenges

Axonify

Frontline hiring in the last several months has been feast or famine, with massive hiring surges in grocery and delivery, and hiring freezes in many other industries. Frontline roles continue to top the list of open job postings, albeit with more modest growth. Labour market analytics firm Emsi reported a 6% increase in job postings … Continued.

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A heuristic approach to motivation

Clark Quinn

I’ve been pondering more about curiosity and ‘making it meaningful’ and how we might work on motivation to make learning truly meaningful. I’v come up with a rough cut. So, here’s a proposal for a heuristic approach to motivation. As I mentioned, the desired true intrinsic motivation may be a goal too far. When possible, perhaps in a deeply specialized field, I’d go for it.

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Size of an Off-the-Shelf Content Library: Reading In Between the Lines

ej4 eLearning

Have you ever sat through a presentation for corporate training content where they talk about their library of off-the-shelf content? If so, how long did it take before the presenter gave you a statistic about how large that library was?

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Building Best Practices for Multilingual Training: How to Make Sure Your LMS Is Effective in Multiple Languages

Wisetail

As the global workforce becomes more diverse, demand for multilingual training will only grottw. Companies that take steps today to build out these training opportunities will benefit from more specialized and informed employees today – and more engaged and loyal employees tomorrow. The post Building Best Practices for Multilingual Training: How to Make Sure Your LMS Is Effective in Multiple Languages appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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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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Can you answer YES to these 5 critical retail performance questions?

Axonify

COVID-19 has disrupted every business, every industry, every workplace. But no one has had quite the same experience as retail over the past five months. Retailers have faced opposing realities. Essential operators, like grocers and hardware stores, broke record sales as consumers shifted spending towards necessities. On the other hand, speciality retailers were forced to … Continued.

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5 ways a successful LMS for onboarding can ramp velocity for your organization ???

Docebo

You may not realize it, but your learning management system’s (LMS) onboarding program is pivotal for building trust and establishing a strong report with new employees. Onboarding software is pivotal in the e-learning industry because it’s the first step new hires take after getting their foot in the door. Onboarding materials help us manage, deliver, and measure an organization’s onboarding process and new hire training programs. .

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No More Dull, Drab, Boring Content!

Upside Learning

Maintaining learning retention is challenging for a lot of organizations, especially for dull and drab compliance content. To overcome these challenges Upside Learning presents The Compliance Hood App! a light and easy practice to help businesses inject this culture of Compliance within the organization. The ‘Compliance Conundrum’ was motivation enough for us at Upside Learning […].

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Create Learner Buy-In with an LXP During the COVID-19 Pandemic

TOPYX LMS

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, companies have adopted different forms of virtual learning technology. The pandemic made virtual learning a necessity as many workforces were forced to disperse for health and safety reasons. While some organizations stuck with the learning technology they already had, others made investments in newer technology, such as a learning experience platform (LXP).

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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 ways we can all support the frontline

Axonify

We typically look at frontline training and support from an organizational perspective. We share stories and proven practices for how companies can tackle common challenges like compliance, onboarding, reskilling and technology. Axonify exists to help you give frontline employees the support and tools they need to do their best work every day. Because when they … Continued.

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Agile Learning Design for Beginners: Get Started in 3 Steps - Synapse

eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

Agile Learning design can be daunting, but these 3 core steps can help you get started AND ensure success for your new Agile processes.

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Angela Brown’s Recurring Revenue Niche Membership Site Journey and Success Story

LifterLMS

Learn about Angela Brown’s recurring revenue niche membership site journey and success story in this episode of the LMScast podcast hosted by Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. Angela is from SavvyCleaner.com , and she also has a podcast and YouTube show called Ask a House Cleaner. Angela breaks down her struggles and successes with entering the online teaching space, and how that contrasts with what she had done before with in-person training.

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