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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane….It’s a SME??

Reflection Software

SUPER-WHO? I am probably one of the least knowledgeable people out there when it comes to the Superhero Universes. Exhibit A - I have not seen Avengers: Endgame. Shocking, I know. But I’d like to think I would know a Superhero when I see one - and in the L&D community there are many 'hidden heroes' that perhaps don't get the recognition that they should.

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3 Ways to Help Learners Find Time to Take Your Course

LearnDash

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Business Results the C-Suite Wants from L&D Teams

TOPYX LMS

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6 Parts Of Custom eLearning Development You Can Outsource

eLearning Industry

Which parts of custom eLearning development can you outsource? Yes, you do have a choice. Outsource only those tasks for which you lack in-house expertise. Explore six such aspects in this article. 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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Are eLearning Evaluations or Knowledge Checks Useful?

Gutenberg Technology

If you are developing eLearning for your workforce, you may be considering adding a few evaluations or knowledge checks to ensure employees are getting the most from this experience. Many organizations find that assessing their employee learners is an important aspect of corporate training. Assessments range from simply confirming if or not learners have completed all of their required training modules to more critically measuring how much of the learning material has been retained.

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What is e-Learning?

Allen Interactions

Dr. Michael Allen - September 2019. Simply put, it’s instruction delivered or augmented electronically. Learners use their computers, tablets, or phones to access the instruction wherever they are, whenever they have time. e-Learning comes in many forms, appearing in such variations as to look entirely different from other applications. It will often use integrated media, such as video, animation, photos and narratives.

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How to Increase Conversions and Maximize Course Sales

LearnDash

Maximizing customer conversion rates for your LearnDash courses has never been so easy! I was first introduced to CartFlows last year by Adam from WPCrafter. Known perhaps foremast for his YouTube channel, Adam has an attention to detail and excellence that is increasingly more rare these days. Along with his founder Sujay Pawar (the man behind the popular Astra theme ), Adam has made CartFlows the go-to WordPress plugin for creating impressive sales pages, checkout forms, up-sells, cross-sells,

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Top Tools for Learning 2019

Jane Hart

Now published together with Top 100 Tools for Personal&Professional Learning 2019 Top 200 Tools for Workplace Learning 2019 Top 200 Tools for Higher Education 2019 PLUS analysis of how these tools are being used in different context, new graphics, and updated comments on the tools’ pages that show how people are using the tools.

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Does it make better sense to buy an LMS with the content or without content?

Gyrus

The decision to buy an LMS needs thorough research. One needs to understand the importance of Included Content in an LMS and other factors that matter.

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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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Retain Your Top Talent by Strengthening Your High-potential Programs

Infopro Learning

Get actionable insights about the challenges faced by organizations in retaining top talent and guidelines to overcome them.

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How to Conduct Employee Training Assessments

ej4 eLearning

Before you even start thinking of how to setup your employee training program, you’ll need to think about how to conduct employee training assessments. Not only will it indicate that you need a training program, but it will influence how you set it up.

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Gamification: 3 Steps to Get the Recipe Right

Allen Interactions

Ellen Burns-Johnson - September 17, 2019. There are many recipes for successful employe e engagement. Gamification is just one ingredient. Gamification isn’t just a niche term anymore. Points, badges, achievements, leaderboards and more are being used in more creative and refined ways across multiple industries, with interesting results.

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Overcoming Performance Bias in Employee Promotions

Absorb LMS

Today, workplaces are more diverse than ever. With four generations in the workforce, all with differing backgrounds and life and job experiences, human resources and corporate management need to be aware of how performance bias creeps into their workday. Biases, whether overt or implicit, can affect the hiring, work assignment, succession planning and promotion processes.

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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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Clear about the concept

Clark Quinn

I went to hear a talk the other day. It was about competency-based education (CBE) for organizations. Ostensibly. And, while I’m now affiliated with IBSTPI , it’s not like I’m a competency expert. And maybe I expect too much, but I really hope for people to be clear about the concept. Alas, that’s not what I found. So, it started out reasonably well, talking about how competencies are valuable.

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How to Deliver Value in Global Training Programs

InSync Training

Here we are in 2019. In our experience, every training professional at every organization understands the need for global training solutions. And because no training content should stand alone, these modern learning rollouts should focus on blended experiences. In our work with individual practitioners and huge corporations, we recognize that standalone virtual or face-to-face training events no longer meet the needs of our learners or support the way businesses function today.

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Want to Increase Manufacturing Productivity? Start Your Manufacturing Training Program Like This

TOPYX LMS

In the U.S., manufacturers are short 450,000 employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 1 Because of the shortage, manufacturing companies need practical tips on how to get more done with fewer workers - they need to increase productivity while keeping the skilled staff they have happy. That may sound like a tall order, but it’s possible, especially if you start when workers first enter your company.

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Creative Recruitment Strategies to Attract & Retain Top Talent

Absorb LMS

With global unemployment of advanced markets dropping to 5%, according to statistics from the International Monetary Fund , it’s no wonder businesses across industries are looking for creative recruitment strategies to attract and retain top talent. If you have a robust training program, you’re already ahead of the game. Lack of employers’ support for career development is a major concern among millennials, according to the Deloitte Millennial Survey.

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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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Emerging Technologies: Reimagining How Students Learn With eLearning

eLearning Industry

Technological innovations are revolutionizing the education sector. Here are insights into how emerging technologies are currently changing the way students learn and the potential technological transformations in the days to come. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What Makes a Remote Worker Successful? InSync Weighs In

InSync Training

Did you know? InSync has operated an entirely virtual team since 2000. Over the last 20 years, technology platforms like Skype, Dropbox, WebEx, and Outlook have enabled us to communicate, collaborate, and constructively deliver our value proposition to our clients and learners. In many ways, our organization implemented this employment model before it became commonplace.

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The Pillars of Compliance

Upside Learning

Once organizations work towards developing a culture of compliance, it is imperative that they continuously monitor the evolution of the culture. In the long run, this would prove to be more helpful if organizations encouraged a comprehensive culture of compliance instead of simply having employees who ‘know’ the rules and policies. A culture of compliance […].

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How to Motivate Employees: How Productive Is Your Team?

Absorb LMS

If your organization is facing productivity issues, it may not be a question of how to motivate employees. It could be strategic misalignment or a business case for learning and development. More than half of employees lack clarity around performance goals, according to Mercer. Before you add resources to a team, learn to identify the leaks in your productivity.

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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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Cream Of The Corporate LMS Crop: 6 Tips To Use Online Reviews To Find The Best Corporate LMS For Your Remote Workforce

eLearning Industry

In an ideal world, client testimonials are the best gauge of product quality. But in a space where people are paid to rate brands, how can you derive true value? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Own Your LMS Implementation: 5 Steps to Project Plan Success

Wisetail

We’ve onboarded more than 250 clients to our LMS, and learned that every minute you put into an implementation plan comes back in hours saved. Check out five essential steps for success our implementation manager has identified over time. The post Own Your LMS Implementation: 5 Steps to Project Plan Success appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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TRAINING TIPS: Don't Write Trick Quiz Questions!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Have you ever written a quiz only to have some of your students come back and say the quiz wasn’t fair? Or that Number 5 was a trick question?   Here is a quiz scene from the classic movie  My Cousin Vinnie , which contains a classic “trick” question. The District Attorney is trying to prove that the witness, Mona Lisa Vito, is not a qualified expert on automobiles.    D.A.

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Interactive Learning Design: Using An Interactive Learning Software to Increase Engagement In eLearning Courses

Raptivity

Involving learners is the key to engaging them and that can only be achieved by making your course interactive. Interactivity also brings in a plethora of other benefits, like: It bridges the instructor-learner gap and helps in engaging learners. It creates a meaningful interchange between the learner and the content, thus enabling active learning. It motivates learners towards critical thinking and problem-solving.

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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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Strategies for Converting eLearning from Flash to HTML

dVinci Interactive

Strategies for Converting eLearning from Flash to HTML In July of 2017, Adobe announced plans to “stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020.” At the same time, the company encouraged “content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to … open formats.”. Tweet.

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There Is No "One Size Fits All": 4 Factors That Should Influence Your Online Teaching Approach

eLearning Industry

Despite the overwhelming pressure to adopt a facilitation approach to teaching online, it may not always be the right choice. In this article, I consider 4 factors you need to consider when teaching online. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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A Learning Culture Can Be Contagious

Clarity Consultants

Often, it is difficult to convince employees to prioritize their learning. Many professionals have hectic schedules and are striving for work-life balance. Couple that with eLearning courses that aren’t engaging, overly relevant, or user- and mobile-friendly, and it shouldn’t be surprising that they aren’t focused on learning. The post A Learning Culture Can Be Contagious appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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