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How To Maintain Momentum in Blogging

Experiencing eLearning

Someone asked me in last week’s eLearning Freelancer Bootcamp Q&A about how I maintain my blogging momentum. I’ve been blogging since late 2006, and I’m still publishing every week. I have published over 1100 posts (about 400 “real” posts plus 700 posts of curated links). That’s a lot of writing. Many people start blogging but struggle to get past the first handful of posts.

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All Aboard! Full Sales Ahead!

Upside Learning

Sales Training Is More Important Than Ever They say the serpent is the first sales professional. It did sell Eve the apple. I wonder if the serpent also gave Eve some basic sales training to convince Adam to take a bite. Amusing as the thought is, I believe the first salespeople must have been early […].

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How to Choose a Corporate LMS

Wisetail

See five thoughtful ways parents working at home during the pandemic can balance having kids under the age of 18 at home while also managing their workday and their stress levels. The post How to Choose a Corporate LMS appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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eBook Release: Real World Minus The Risks

eLearning Industry

Welcome to the world of Mixed Reality training! Where employees learn from mistakes in a risk-free environment and immerse themselves in real-world branching scenarios to build their self-assurance. Our new eBook tells you everything you need to know in order to launch a successful AR or VR training strategy. 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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10 FAQs About eLearning Authoring Tools

CommLab India

If you have a lot of questions about eLearning authoring tools, you’ve found the right place! We have answered 10 FAQs about authoring tools which will help you find the right match!

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Thinking Transformation

Clark Quinn

This pandemic has led to everyone scrambling to work digitally. And it’s not really a transformation (which shouldn’t be ‘digital first’), but rather just ‘move what we do online’. And that’s understandable. Over time, however, I think we want to shift our mindset. And, I think a previous exercise in thinking transformation is valuable here. I’m talking mobile.

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How Birch Learning Platform Caters for Internal and External Users

B Online Learning

Often organisation’s learning management system or LMS is ‘one size fits all’. It’s part of a larger HR system and has limited features […]. The post How Birch Learning Platform Caters for Internal and External Users appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Jane’s Personal Top 10 Tools for Learning in 2020

Jane Hart

The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to me, @C4LPT with your top 10 tools. I will reveal the Top 200 Tools for Learning […].

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Best Video Hosting Solutions for Online Courses

LearnDash

You’re creating a video series for your course. What video hosting platform should you choose? Video content is an almost-essential feature to online courses. While some course creators get by without it, most find that it’s a popular form of content, and one that enhances their credibility and increases the value of their course. However, while many course creators are capable of creating video content, they often get hung up when it comes to distributing it online.

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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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Tips to Avoid Millennials Marketing Hype

Clark Quinn

I received, in my email, a solicitation for a webinar titled 5 Tips to Engage Gen Z and Millennial eLearners in 2020 and Beyond. And, as you might imagine, it tweaked my sensibilities for the worse. My initial reaction is to provide, as a palliative, tips to avoid millennials marketing hype. The content starts off with this scintillating line: “if you’re searching for current, new ways to engage people online and keep your business thriving, look to your youngest learners.” What?

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How to Accurately Measure the Effectiveness of Remote Training

TOPYX LMS

Due to COVID-19, working from home has become the new normal for many employees. The Hartford Courant reported that a variety of major employers in Connecticut plan to keep employees working from home through 2020 during the coronavirus crisis. 1 Other companies like Facebook are extending the work-from-home policy well into 2021. 2. Since employees are working from home, they are also training from home.

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Analyzing Your Compliance Training Programs to Decrease Risk and Improve Outcomes

Dashe & Thomson

You may have heard of Siemens, Germany’s mammoth technology conglomerate with a wooly paw in everything from power plants to trains. They are described in many ways, such as the international energy giant pioneering new electric highway technology. Or the global industrial behemoth using AI to create futuristic factories operated by robots. Back in the late-aughts, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Siemens with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Ac

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Obstacles to Virtual Learning Success Solved!

InSync Training

Recently, learners have flocked to the virtual classroom to continue their professional development. Organizations have started embracing the flexibility and dynamism of this learning environment as a viable option for programs ranging from new-hire onboarding to informational webinar-style updates to complex technical trainings. We believe in the power of the virtual classroom.

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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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Top 10 authoring tool in 2020 delivering engaging digital learning content

Paradiso

Authoring tools refer to web-based e-learning and are designed for particular styles of learning, file formats, delivery platforms, production workflows and eLearning standards. Choosing the best eLearning authoring tools is one of the most important decisions any training organization can make as it uses WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) interfaces for building engaging content.

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Why Employee Engagement is at an All-Time High (and How to Keep it Up)

TOPYX LMS

High levels of employee engagement are critical to organizational success. Adequate employee engagement promotes staff retention and productivity, as well as fewer safety incidents. In the past, only an average of 33 percent of employees reported feeling engaged at work. 1 More recently, that number has been trending upward. According to Josh Bersin, industry analyst, educator, and thought leader in all aspects of HR, leadership, and HR technology, employee engagement is skyrocketing and has inc

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Your LMS criteria can make or break your buying process – here’s how to win

Docebo

Finding a learning management system (LMS) requires a lot of brainstorming and prioritizing to nail down your final system requirements. Don’t jump the gun by writing down your dream functionality and selection criteria just yet. Before you start writing your wish list, you have to ask yourself and your organization the right questions to land on the LMS that makes the most sense for your business’s goals, struggles, and desired future.

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Custom Certificates Made Quick And Easy With Lambda Learn

Lambda Solutions

Receiving a certificate of completion is often the motivation a learner needs to complete a course. By receiving a certificate of completion, the learner is not only rewarded for their hard work, but now also has a record of learning that they can take onwards to help build their career.

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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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Presentation Skills Training: Start With the Right Questions

ej4 eLearning

Many employees will eventually be in a position where they need to present information to a group of people. Whether it's a casual presentation in a small update meeting or a more formal presentation on a stage or in front of a large group of people, presentation skills training will be helpful. According to The Chapman University Survey on American Fears, public speaking is consistently ranked as one of the most common personal fears for Americans.

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LXPs are possibly the Dungeons & Dragons of the Learning World

Upside Learning

So, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) a fantasy role-playing tabletop game, that was invented in 1974 according to me and many others, is responsible for giving birth to many genres of gaming, and its features and ideas have inspired almost 40% of the games that we see. There wouldn’t be RPG (Role-Playing Games) or MMORPG’s (Massive […].

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Lumina Foods Simplifies and Digitizes

Wisetail

See five thoughtful ways parents working at home during the pandemic can balance having kids under the age of 18 at home while also managing their workday and their stress levels. The post Lumina Foods Simplifies and Digitizes appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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6 Barriers to Virtual Workplace Learning and How to Eliminate Them

Origin Learning

Introduction Enterprise-wide learning is one of the most important responsibilities of training and development professionals. This makes it critical to. The post 6 Barriers to Virtual Workplace Learning and How to Eliminate Them 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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Birch Learning Platform for Internal and External Users

B Online Learning

Often an organisations’ learning management system or LMS is ‘one size fits all’. It’s part of a HR system and has limited features and functionality. It could lead organisations to […]. The post Birch Learning Platform for Internal and External Users appeared first on B Online Learning.

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ELC 063: The Evolution To Learning Experience Design

The eLearning Coach

Do you hear a lot about learning experience design (LXD) but aren't sure what it is? In this episode, we discuss the evolution of instructional design to learning experience design. We talk about what it means to us, how we can explain it to others and how we can support people on their learning journey. […]. Do you hear a lot about learning experience design (LXD) but aren't sure what it is?

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Microlearning And Online Video Teaching: 8 Trends To Expect

eLearning Industry

Whether you are a keen lifelong learner, a mother helping her child get to grips with online learning, or a teacher with some knowledge you’d like to share, it is important to know the latest trends in microlearning and online video teaching. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Learning in the Flow of Work with a Modern LMS [Infographic]

CommLab India

Investing in a learning management system or LMS is a necessity for seamless access to training. How does the modern LMS personalize and enable flexible learning? This infographic shares the details.

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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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Save yourself lots of time by not reading self-help books?

From the Coleface

Over the years I’ve enjoyed/been guilty of reading many self-help books and the lockdown has been an opportunity to read several more. Chris Taylor distils the advice from hundreds of self-help books into 11 pieces of advice: Take one small step. Change your mental maps. Struggle is good. Scary is good. Instant judgment is bad. Remember the end of your life.

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Managing a Brilliant Jerk

TLNT: Training and L&D

Can difficult leaders change, or will they remain their ornery, over-the-top, demanding selves for the rest of their lives — and thereby continue to make everyone’s life miserable?

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CanopyLAB Acquires YoPublico And Expands In South America

eLearning Industry

Edtech company CanopyLAB acquires Peruvian publishing startup Yopublico in efforts to scale in South America after experiencing massive traction on the market. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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