Sat.Jul 04, 2020 - Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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8 Types of Motivation for Online Learning

LearnDash

Understanding why learners take your course can help you keep them engaged. If you’ve recently created a course and are trying to get new learners to sign up, or if you’ve found yourself struggling to engage learners after they’ve enrolled, then you’ve probably spent a lot of time thinking about two key questions: Why do learners take my course?

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Losing our collective minds?

Clark Quinn

So, after that mess on Twitter, I next see on LinkedIn a recognized personage who proceeds to claim that learning styles are legit. And, the basis for this claim is fundamentally wrong. So I’m beginning to fear that we’re losing our collective minds! Let me be clear about the claim, the problem, and a healthy approach. The claim started like this: I know there is a huge camp of folks who say no one has learning styles and they provide all types of links of others who concur.

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Make Learners Care about Compliance Training

Experiencing eLearning

What if you could create compliance training that learners actually wanted to complete, that they cared about? Imagine creating courses that did more than check a box, that actually increased the odds that employees would follow the policy. To create compliance training that learners care about, they need to know both why and when the policies matter.

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The definitive checklist for selecting the right partner training LMS

Docebo

An An LMS for partner training is essential if you’re one of the 80% of businesses that use channel partners as a revenue source. Like the majority of these businesses, you’ve probably faced some of the same common challenges that stall revenue growth (yikes). We’re not talking simple onboarding here for an extended enterprise – this is where the pulse of partnerships is maintained by providing ongoing and timely training to the businesses that help you stay successful.

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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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The three levels of learning experience

Learning Pool

Do we really know what we mean when we talk about a learning experience? Learning Pool research suggests we do – but it is not just one thing. The increasing use of the word ‘experience’ in learning circles has been much attacked. . There’s no doubt that the X-word is taking over. We talk of learning experiences where we might once have just said ‘course’.

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Training Fundamentals in the Age of Experience

Wisetail

If you want people to engage with an LMS, it helps to give them a reason to log on. Holidays are a low-hanging fruit, just ripe for driving engagement. The post Training Fundamentals in the Age of Experience appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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It’s Time to Rethink Online CME Courses and How We Deliver Them

EthosCE

You already know that continuing education and professional development opportunities are vital to remaining a competitive attractor of talent. It’s not just the presence of continuing education, however— quality matters even more. Of all the things you must do as an administrator, how do you find the time to implement any CME at all, much less direct an innovative and engaging program that can attract and keep top talent?

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 10, 2020

Mike Taylor

“You have: Training, Schooling, Benchmarks, Industry peers, Entrenched experience, Data, data, data They have: great ideas, not-so-great ideas. You’re the expert…not the order taker. Listen, consult & lead.” —Jen Hartman. Our family is super excited to have officially started the count down until we head off to Lake Kegonsa for some much-needed downtime next week.

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All You Need to Know About Switching from Traditional to Online Learning

Hurix Digital

The emergence of the digital era has brought about a paradigm shift in the way modern education and training systems operate. Traditional formats of face-to-face, uni-dimensional learning are no longer effective tools for training. Instead, an ecosystem of simple, efficient, and contextualized learning processes has been created. With the primary aim to enhance flexibility, reduce costs and thus, develop a customized, convenient and self-paced learning environment.

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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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Do You Need a Content Authoring Tool for LearnDash?

LearnDash

What does it meant to be a Content Authoring Tool, and does that describe LearnDash? Every now and then, someone comes to us with a question about our software that uses a term we haven’t heard applied to us before. The Internet, as we all know, is full of acronyms and abbreviations, and there isn’t always an example of what terms belong where. The most recent example was when someone asked us if we were a “Content Authoring Tool.”.

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The Real Cost of Not Training Your Employees

ej4 eLearning

Most organizations see their corporate training as a cost center, rather than a profit center. That makes sense if you look at a company’s typical offerings—their goods and services—but profit can also be made if a particular investment saves the organization money in the long run.

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Make Online Classrooms Fun with Game-Based Learning

Raptivity

Game-based learning has witnessed tremendous growth and adoption in the past few years and continues to be recognized as one of the most important elements of the modern learning approach. A famous quote rightly says, “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning”. Endless life lessons have been derived from games that we all have played from childhood until date.

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ITA Jay Cross Award 2020

Clark Quinn

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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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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Evaluating a Virtual Instructional Program

InSync Training

Summary: As it turns out, evaluating a virtual training program is just like evaluating any other instructional program. The challenges lie in what you measure and how you interpret the results. The good news is that current modern virtual classroom platforms give you a variety of tools you can use to assess the effectiveness of your instructional delivery and its effect on learners.

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How an LXP Can Align Your Company With the Top eLearning Trends of 2020

TOPYX LMS

2020 has been a year of change for the eLearning industry. The primary driver of change within the industry has been the COVID-19 pandemic. It has made online learning more essential than ever for corporations and has forced eLearning companies to develop better technology that effectively meets the needs of dispersed workforces. By aligning themselves with the top eLearning trends of 2020 , companies can ensure that they have cutting-edge online employee training technologies and practices and

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One Systems Change to Change Them All

The Simple Shift

It was unquestioned compliance systems that led to the birth of the LMS. And rather than challenge this system, companies took the easy road and bought in and bought technology to address it (sound familiar?). From there, with lots of features & functions and space, they looked to move ALL types of training and even non-training […].

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After Action Review, From Struggle to Swagger

Allen Interactions

Today’s pandemic, covid-19 environment with uncertainty and instability abound, creating, collecting, and sharing organizational knowledge can be a struggle. Organizational learning requires continuous reflection and a willingness to be flexible and agile. Learning organizations have powerful cultures resilient to internal and external chaotic environments.

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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 definitive checklist for selecting the right partner training LMS

Docebo

An LMS for partner training is essential if you’re one of the 80% of businesses that use channel partners as a revenue source. Like the majority of these businesses, you’ve probably faced some of the same common challenges that stall revenue growth (yikes). We’re not talking simple onboarding here for an extended enterprise – this is where the pulse of partnerships is maintained by providing ongoing and timely training to the businesses that help you stay successful.

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3 eLearning Courses Retail Employees Transitioning Back to the Workplace Need Now

TOPYX LMS

COVID-19 is not just a health crisis, but also an economic crisis. According to the New York Times in late June 2020, more than 44 million people have applied for state jobless benefits since mid-March. 1 Because many retail companies and stores were deemed non-essential at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, a significant number of retail employees lost their jobs.

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Collective mind losing redux

Clark Quinn

I reported about a conversation on LinkedIn badly defending learning styles. And, the subsequent post came out. Sad to say, it doesn’t do anything better, and instead is yet another bad example of reasoning. It’s a ‘collective mind losing’ redux! So it starts out saying that those of us who decry learning styles maintain that they don’t exist. That’s not exactly what I said, at any rate.

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The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2020 is presented to Andrew Jacobs

Jane Hart

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage. They share their […].

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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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Q&A: We Are Marcus

CourseArc

Q&A: We Are Marcus. We Are Marcus Works to Address Inequities in Education through Mentorship . Christopher C. King, Founder of We Are Marcus. COVID-19 has shed light on a number of issues within our country – with the obvious being major healthcare disparities among different socioeconomic and demographic groups. It has also shed light on major disparities in education.

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My dream: facilitating a whole week online

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Well some of you may have different dreams, but one of my dreams was to facilitate a whole week online. I was interested to see how to make the program balanced and interesting, combine fun with work. Thanks to corona my dream came true :). I facilitated the yearly exchange from an alliance active in 13 countries. From Guatemala to Indonesia. For a whole week.

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Organizational Learning, Change Management, and the Future of Work

Allen Interactions

As leaders how do we successfully lead through and to the future of work?

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Getting Started With Microlearning In Your Organization

dominKnow

Microlearning is one tool of many that every learning and development team should have at its disposal to help us. When used well, microlearning really can mean small content can have big effects for your organization. But micro learning isn't a one-size fits all solution. There are many uses where it can provide an ideal fit to a problem, but there are also contexts where microlearning isn't a good solution fit.

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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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Q&A: We Are Marcus

CourseArc

Q&A: We Are Marcus. We Are Marcus Works to Address Inequities in Education through Mentorship . Christopher C. King, Founder of We Are Marcus. COVID-19 has shed light on a number of issues within our country – with the obvious being major healthcare disparities among different socioeconomic and demographic groups. It has also shed light on major disparities in education.

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More Social Leadership v. More Social Systems

The Simple Shift

A leader changing her/his behavior to a model of for more openness & transparency is just an invitation to others, a suggestion, it only creates an option for people to follow: “Do or don’t either way, life goes on.” However, changing the systems (management, recognition, KM, decision-making, etc) that people operate within creates a new requirement […].

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Before the Change: Raising The BAR

Allen Interactions

Change leadership begins now as leaders see change is on the horizon.

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