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The Ultimate Guide to Game-Based Training

Lemonade

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What is a learning culture anyway?

Logicearth

At September’s Learning Live event in London, the reported No. 1 priority for senior Learning and Development and HR managers was ‘Creating a learning culture’. The terminology seemed odd, a bit like wanting to create a reading culture in a book club.

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Learner-Centered Approaches: Why They Matter and How to Implement Them

LearnUpon

When gearing up to plan a learning and development program, it’s a good time to look at how your training is delivered and see where you can adopt a more learner-centered approach in your sessions. Whether you deliver your training face-to-face or through an LMS, taking a learner-centred approach has a dramatic impact on how much of the training information your employees will retain.

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6 Key Factors For Outsourcing Custom eLearning Development On A Budget

eLearning Industry

If you are looking to outsource custom eLearning development on a stringent budget, there’s good news! There are 6 simple steps you can take—along with your vendor—to ensure the project stays within your budget and timelines. 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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How To Write Better Learning Objectives – The Easy And Simple Way

Wizcabin

Image by Robert-Owen-Wahl from Pixabay. In this post, I’ll be showing you the easy and simple ways to go about writing better learning objectives. But first, what is a learning objective? Learning objectives are a breakdown of what you wish to achieve at the end of your learning program. They are measurable performance objectives that define a single outcome.

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8 Reasons Why Refresher Training Is a Good Idea

LearnDash

Refresher training helps keep important knowledge fresh and current. Whether your a student or a teacher, one thing we all know for personal experience is that knowledge fades over time. Our brains are very efficient at dumping information we don’t need, and the best way we have of showing our brain that that information is still useful is by using it.

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Create Learning Experiences That Work

eLearning Industry

With the rapid pace of technology, human nature and its needs have changed a lot. No longer are age-old concepts and ways of teaching effective. Science and arts education has moved from a teacher-centric design to a learner-centric design. The latest development in this regard is Learning Experience Design (LXD). This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Questions that Your High-potential Leadership Programs Must Address

Infopro Learning

In this age of digital disruption, companies are willing to invest significantly in developing high-potential individuals that connect company’s culture across job levels, functions and geographical locations to achieve the business results that matter most.

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Guide Students Toward Completion: A Proven Method For Structuring Your Online Course

Client Engagement Academy

I’ve seen hundreds if not thousands of courses over the years, and I’ve noticed many of them have a common problem: Most online courses have way too much content. I believe course creators fall into this trap because they are worried about the quality or value of the content they are providing. This insecurity leads them to overload students with tons of content.

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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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Tools for LXD?

Clark Quinn

I’ve been thinking on LXD for a while now, not least because I’ve an upcoming workshop at DevLearn in Lost Wages in October. And one of the things I’ve been thinking about are the tools we use for LXD. I’ve created diagrams (such as the Education Engagement Alignment ), and quips , but here I’m thinking something else. We know that job aids are helpful; things like checklists, and decision trees, and lookup tables.

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Innovating Education: The Impact Of Gamification On eLearning

eLearning Industry

Technology has transformed multiple facets of life with innovations in different fields. Education is no stranger to this development. eLearning gamification, in this sense, is used to apply gaming ideology and concepts to digital learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Quickly Converting Flash to HTML5: The Y2K Event for Training

Infopro Learning

The With Flash ending in 2020, learning and training professionals around the globe are scrambling to convert hundreds of hours of Flash content into HTML5. The project that was continually put on the back-burner has finally become center-stage.

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How to Compare Corporate Training Videos

ej4 eLearning

Are you looking for a library of corporate training videos to complement the training you create in-house? Not all videos are created equal. And not all vendors offer the same services and support. How do you compare?

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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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Practical Ways to Blend Instructor-Led Training with Online Learning

TOPYX LMS

Blended learning, which is a mode of training that combines online learning with live, instructor-led training, can be very effective. It drives skills acquisition and knowledge retention 1 , and it decreases the cost of training. 2 Also, it can increase employee satisfaction with training, as most workers are partial to a hybrid approach to learning.

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"Spray And Pray" Or A Systematic, Holistic Approach To L&D?

eLearning Industry

If you do not have a systematic, holistic approach to mapping, developing and iterating a comprehensive learning universe for the companies that you work with, you may be accused of having a "spray and pray" approach to L&D. But, what is a systematic, holistic approach? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Run Webinars with Your Online Course

LearnDash

Webinars offer the personal touch that online courses are often lacking. When offering an online course you should consider hosting a webinar that ties into your topic. It’s a great way to increaes learner engagement for your course. In addition, holding regular webinars can put you in touch with guest speakers that are willing to help add value to your community.

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How to Design Cybersecurity Training for Employees: 4 Best Practices

Absorb LMS

An incredible 35% of data breaches are caused by human error, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. In some industries, such as health care, over half of breaches are caused by insider error. Non-technical employees are the frontline defense against many categories of security threat, including phishing, social engineering, inadvertent data exposure and physical tampering or theft.

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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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What comes next for microlearning?

Axonify

Two years ago, I wrote what I considered to be the ultimate guide on microlearning. It’s the most popular thing I’ve ever written, and it’s still available for free on the Axonify website. Why am I telling you this? Well, I just want to make sure you remember me now that famed gamification guru Karl … Continued. The post What comes next for microlearning?

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Generate a document from learners responses in Articulate Storyline

B Online Learning

Out of the box, Articulate Storyline 360 is a simple to use, flexible and powerful tool, that allows you to create awesome eLearning […]. The post Generate a document from learners responses in Articulate Storyline appeared first on B Online Learning.

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3 Tricks for Engaging Learners When Virtual Training Ends

InSync Training

Here at InSync Training, we have a mantra that guides our design and delivery practice: “Nothing stands alone.”. We no longer live in the days of siloed training – every resource, activity, and session should connect to a larger learning experience that aims to generate true skill building. Sure, this sounds great in theory. But how do we actually keep learners engaged and invested after live online training ends?

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Use Customer Service Training to Prepare for Problem Solving

Absorb LMS

Providing an outstanding customer experience is always a top goal at any company. But some customers are challenging: They’re having a tough day; they’re impatient; technology has them flustered. Whatever the cause of frustration, customer-facing personnel must remain calm and polite as they resolve the customer’s problem. Targeted customer service training can build the skills needed to do so with finesse.

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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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Report: It’s time to think about learning technology as an ecosystem

Axonify

Ten years ago, the learning technology landscape looked quite different. Your LMS was the be-all-end-all of learning technology, and you had only about 60 different vendors to choose from. Fast forward to today, and we’re looking at a much more complicated story with many more companies offering new and varied solutions to learning and development … Continued.

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See Learning Content From a New Perspective

Docebo

As learning administrators are spending an increasing amount of time compiling course content to engage their learners, more and more organizations are turning to external content providers to source at least a portion of their learning materials. In fact, more than three-quarters (77%) of companies use third-party providers for learning content, according to Brandon Hall Group research, with 70% of those companies using anywhere between one to five providers.

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World of Nobu: Organizing an LMS for Success

Wisetail

Read about Nobu’s approach to training and how to strategically take advantage of the features and functionality of the Wisetail LMS to create a clearly defined learner’s path. The post World of Nobu: Organizing an LMS for Success appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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5 Reasons Why eLearning will Benefit Your Business

Lambda Solutions

-5 MIN READ-. It’s no secret that delivering online learning through an LMS brings significant value to your learners and your organization as a whole. But what are the specific benefits and advantages of eLearning for business? Take a look at these fundamental improvements to training and learning.

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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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When it comes to choosing learning technology, start with the experience

Axonify

Organizations have more learning technology options today than they have ever had before. Learning management systems. Learning experience platforms. Artificial intelligence tools. With so much innovation in the marketplace, you would have to assume technology-enabled learning is having a big impact on employee performance and business results everywhere.

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POINT-of-WORK: A Discipline That Evolves the Scope of Training

Living in Learning

I submit to you that we (L&D) need to shift thinking within the ranks of our stakeholders (and ourselves) to enable a different conversation. I’m not suggesting we back off Training; rather, I’m suggesting we confirm what restrainers behind the performance deficiencies are going to be resolved by Training. I firmly believe L&D’s role should be to confirm what knowledge and skills are appropriate to include in a solution and what performance restrainers are present that do not.

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A Quick Analysis of LMS Market For Investors

Gyrus

Business owners and investors must undergo a complete analysis of the LMS market to understand its future scope, importance and market statistics.

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