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Train Complex Skills: Take Steps to Cultivating a Learning Culture in 2020

Speexx

Agility and adaptability will be key to business success in 2020. Now more than ever, learning professionals should shift their focus from traditional vocational and compliance training towards creating a culture that helps employees learn and grow. The post Train Complex Skills: Take Steps to Cultivating a Learning Culture in 2020 appeared first on Speexx.

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Do humour and learning mix well?

KnowledgeOne

Learning requires effort, and this is a serious activity. On top of this, the figure of the teacher, who carries a certain authority, has always called for respect. That said, the quest for well-being is now present in almost every environment, and rigid hierarchical relationships are no longer appropriate. The pedagogical effectiveness of games and gamification, not only among young people, but also among adults, is well documented, and the importance of emotions in learning is no longer denied

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The trifecta of trust in a learning organization

Matrix

As social beings, humans have relied on cooperation to innovate and create wonderful things throughout their history. If we think about it, we have become the dominant species on Earth because we managed to work together for the common good. We have also managed to wage wars on each other, we are responsible for the extinction of countless species, and we have almost destroyed significant parts of our ecosystem, but this is an entirely different story.

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Typical eLearning vs. Serious eLearning: What’s the Difference?

CommLab India

What is serious eLearning and how is it different from typical eLearning? Let’s learn about each of the approaches in detail.

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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 E-Learning and Workplace Training Trends for 2020

Capytech

10 E-Learning and Workplace Training Trends for 2020. The use of e-learning has developed considerably over recent years. This development has been led by advances in technology as well as the creative skills and innovative thinking of professional e-learning developers who have the ability to put technology advances to the most productive use. This all leads to new e-learning thinking, processes, and best practices.

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Leveraging Video-based Custom eLearning for Corporate Training

Infopro Learning

If you are like most L&D professionals, you must be looking for ways to train employees quickly and consistently while cutting costs and increasing learner engagement. If this sounds like you, video-based learning solution could be the right options for you. Including videos is a growing custom eLearning option in the corporate training programs due to its ability to improve employee learning experiences while helping L&D professionals overcome some of their top skill training challeng

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Protagonists Should Be Like Your Learners

Experiencing eLearning

When you write a story for learning, you need a few essential elements: a protagonist (the main character), the protagonist’s goal , and the challenges the protagonist faces. The protagonist should be someone your learners identify with. In workplace learning, that means the character has the same or a similar job as the learners. The learners should recognize the problems the character is dealing with and ideally share the protagonist’s goal.

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How to Motivate Employees to Make Time for Training

ej4 eLearning

The #1 reason employees say they are not engaging in workplace learning is because they don't have the time. It is a common finding in many of our industry trend reports. It’s hard knowing how to motivate employees to make time for training. There have been many times when our company has met with a potential client, and they’ve wondered: “But how do we get our people to engage with this awesome new training tool (/software/process/LMS/etc.)?”.

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6 Criteria To Evaluate While Selecting A Modernization Partner

eLearning Industry

The end of Adobe Flash is almost upon us. If you are still looking for a content modernization partner, read on in order to know what should be your selection criteria. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Lesson Learned: Virtual Facilitation is DIFFERENT Than Traditional Facilitation

InSync Training

In 2020, we’ll be sharing the lessons we’ve learned about the virtual classroom over the last twenty years, and we’ll link back to our more detailed content around these topics, in case you want to learn more! When organizations started to adopt the virtual classroom in the 1990s, the focus was on the technology-driven benefits it could provide - Reduction in travel cost, less disruption to learner schedules, and the ability to share subject matter expertise in a much more immediate and relevant

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Making Your LMS Earn Its Keep

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 Making Your LMS Earn Its Keep appeared first on B Online Learning.

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Personalized Learning at Scale? Enter the Virtual Coach

Docebo

It’s no secret that the world has gone digital. Whether its concert tickets, social media, or product brochures – everything is in a digital format, and the spotlight is on how the user experiences these resources. In an era coined the “Experience Economy”, society has moved away from a material mindset and towards a greater appetite for experiences.

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The Best Ways To Improve Your Visual Design Skills

eLearning Industry

In Hindi there is an idiom, “Jo dikhta hai, wahi bikta hai…" This means only those things sell which have great visual appeal. It is the visual design that makes the first impression. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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How to bring eCommerce to your eLearning with the Lambda Store

Lambda Solutions

- 4 MIN READ -. Looking to turn your cost-centre into a profit-centre? Look no further! While L&D has been traditionally treated as a cost-centre, many corporations are turning their training centers into profit centres by productizing their expertise. Lambda Store is here, which means you can now build, market, manage, sell and optimize your eLearning business.

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4 Types of Corporate Training Technology Worth Investing In

TOPYX LMS

Do you believe that corporate training is a burden that most employees prefer not to bear? If so, think again. Today’s average employee wants more corporate training opportunities, and 74% fear that they won’t reach their full potential.¹ Your company can serve up more impactful corporate training to staff by implementing the most effective corporate training technologies available.

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5 Ways Custom eLearning Can Supercharge Your Sales Team Productivities

Gyrus

Custom eLearning can come in handy, whether you are to train an existing sales team or have been meaning to hire.

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eBook Release: Aligning L&D With The Business To Drive Performance

eLearning Industry

Don't you think it's time to shift your L&D strategy to design better learning experiences that actually bring results? Your learning strategy approach will define how your training programs affect employee performance and productivity. By reading this eBook, you can explore how successful L&D teams manage to bring results. Plus, you'll gain a better understanding of why choosing your learning solutions wisely is key to making an impact as a business.

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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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How to enable innovation and creativity in remote teams

Matrix

Even in a forward-thinking workplace where your colleagues are constantly learning and evolving , it’s easy for employees to fall into a rut. In face-to-face environments, it’s easy to bring people from different parts of the workforce together to inspire innovation through brainstorming and sound boarding. However, in the increasingly popular remote working landscape, the same kind of creative boost is harder to come by.

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3 Signs Your Employees are Yearning for More Learning (And How to Provide It)

TOPYX LMS

Eighty-six percent of employees value training and development, and seventy-four percent of workers are willing to spend time learning outside of work for the sole purpose of improving their performance on the job, according to SurveyMonkey. Despite this, many employees are not receiving the learning and training they want. A contributor to SurveyMonkey wrote, “Only 52% of employees think their employer provides the right amount of training.”.

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Signifying change

Clark Quinn

I have a persistent interest in the potential for myth and ritual for learning. In the past I sought a synthesis of what’s known as good practice (as always ;) in an area I don’t have good resources in. When I looked over 10 years ago, there wasn’t much. That’s no longer the case. There is now quite a bit available about signifying change with ritual.

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The L&D Disruption Playbook Part 4: How To Execute A Digital Learning Strategy That Works

eLearning Industry

L&D professionals are quick to see what tech is available to them but are quickly limited by what they can do with it when it comes to developing a learning strategy. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Mobile Learning Advantages (and Disadvantages) in the Mobile Era

dominKnow

In the learning and development industry, we've been hyping the concept of mobile learning since Blackberries and PalmPilots were cutting edge. Handheld eLearning was predicted to be a revolution. Now that we've arrived in the era of broadly mobile internet, that hype is no longer an ambitious dream. It's rapidly become a necessity.

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What’s Involved in Converting Legacy Flash Courses to HTML5?

Clarity Consultants

Measuring the impact of your learning and development (L&D) program isn’t an exact science. After all, it is difficult to gauge exactly how much your employees gained from their training, as you can’t assess their mental capabilities accurately before and after the fact. The post What’s Involved in Converting Legacy Flash Courses to HTML5? appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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How to Offer CPE Credits & Compliance Training Online (2020 Guide)

learnWorlds

Professionals all across the globe are constantly trying to keep up with an ever-expanding skill set required to be able to do their job effectively. Similarly, businesses and organizations are training and re-training their staff in order to remain competitive and productive. In today’s ever-changing financial and technological landscape, missing to update one’s professional knowledge is equivalent to remaining stagnant and simply waiting to be replaced.

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Webinar: Rock your HR Program in 2020

eLearning Brothers

Make 2020 the year of high productivity and low drama in your office! How? By covering the right topics in your training program, and delivering effective eLearning on those topics.

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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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The War Of The Skills Clouds #skillscloud

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

I’ve been writing about the explosion of Skills Ontologies from Workday , Degreed, EdCast, Gloat, Fuel 50, and others. Well today Cornerstone , the largest provider of Learning Management Systems, just entered the war through the acquisition of Clustree. What’s really going on? It’s pretty simple. In today’s world of work, jobs are changing so.

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5 Simple Ebook Marketing Strategies

Thinkific

Do you dream of publishing a book that will captivate your audience, generate new sales, grow your email opt-in list,… The post 5 Simple Ebook Marketing Strategies appeared first on Thinkific.

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eLearning Trends In 2020

eLearning Industry

It is the time of the year when you look for eLearning trends for the year. Read on as I share my list of eLearning Trends for 2020. I highlight how each of these trends can add value to your learning and performance improvement mandate. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.