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10 Missed Questions to Ask eLearning Stakeholders

Illumen Group

10 Missed Questions to Ask eLearning Stakeholders. As we begin each new eLearning project, there is information we’d like to request from our stakeholders. We want this information so we can create a project with results that meet and exceed the project needs. So, asking the right questions is essential. Of course, there are core questions asked relating to any established performance requirements, needs analysis data, audience, and job-related information and procedures, to name a few.

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Design Thinking in L&D Brings Innovation and Empathy

LearningGuild

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Using Your E-book to Create an Online Course

LearnDash

If you have created an e-book then you are well on your way to an online course (and more profit)! Do you have an e-book? Is it doing well? Most people feel satisfied if they have an e-book that is selling well and leave it at that, ultimately missing out on an opportunity to grow their business even more. The next logical step involves converting your e-book into an online course.

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Using The Scrum Process To Manage eLearning Projects

eLearning Industry

While there are multiple Instructional Design methodologies for Instructional Designers to choose from, eLearning Project Management is left to the project manager. Here's how Scrum can provide you with the tools to lead a successful project. 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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Get The Most Of Your Online Course: An Actionable Plan to Increase Your Credibility and Visibility

Client Engagement Academy

If we analyze the entire e-Learning market, two critical factors determine the success of an online course business: credibility and visibility. It is easy to see why. While visibility lends you the attraction and interest of interested learners, credibility earns you the ‘trust’ factor, which is critical in the customer’s decision-making process. This article will delve deeper into how you can achieve both – but before that, there is something important you should know.

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How to Write an Irresistible Course Description

LearnDash

Be direct, specific, exciting, and put your students first. You’ve spent hours building an online course which you hope will instruct learners and help them take the next step forward in their career, learn a new hobby, or expand their horizons. All that’s left is the course description: your first (and maybe last) opportunity to inspire learners to sign up.

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Employee Performance: How L&D Teams Can Boost Employee Performance Through eLearning Course Design

eLearning Industry

Most companies see the investment in an eLearning course as a way of improving employee performance. For them to achieve this desired performance, L&D teams have to design engaging, precise and easy-to-apply eLearning courses. Here are a few tips that can help you in designing a performance-based eLearning course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Manufacturing Training: How to Set Up a Successful Onboarding Training Program

TOPYX LMS

The primary reason most manufacturers invest in onboarding is to reduce time to productivity for new hires. However, the benefits of an onboarding program for manufacturing employees go beyond promoting productivity. Not only does an onboarding training program help new hires contribute to a company more quickly, it also reduces future turnover and optimizes engagement.¹ To help optimize your manufacturing training programs - especially onboarding programs - to get the business results you need,

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Top 10 Reasons You Need to Revamp Your Employee Training Program

ej4 eLearning

When things change and evolve in your company, you'll notice the little details telling you that your training program is in need of updates as well. Revamp as a verb means "give new and improved form, structure, or appearance to." So, it doesn't necessarily mean a total gut rehab.

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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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Engaging Learning and the Serious eLearning Manifesto

Clark Quinn

Way back in ’05, my book on games for learning was published. At its core was an alignment between what made an effective education practice and what makes engaging experiences. There were nine elements that characterized why learning should be ‘hard fun’ More recently, we released the Serious eLearning Manifesto. Here we had eight values that differentiated between ordinary elearning and serious elearning.

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Succession Planning Best Practices: Use LMS Reporting Tools

Absorb LMS

Bench players in sports are often stars in the making waiting for an opportunity to shine. Organizations can apply this same concept and use succession planning best practices to prepare employees to assume future leadership positions. It can be a struggle for organizations to manage the gaps when key talent leaves—especially in a tight labor market.

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How Can We Advocate for Learners in the Virtual Classroom?

InSync Training

The virtual classroom offers a flexible, dynamic learning environment for modern learning blends. We often think about questions such as: When can we most appropriately incorporate virtual classrooms into our instructional designs ? How do we best leverage virtual classroom tools like chat , breakout rooms , and synchronized web browsing ? What techniques can facilitators use to engage learners when we can’t see them face-to-face?

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Microlearning: What, Why, How, Where, and When?

Lambda Solutions

- 4 MIN READ -. What is microlearning? Microlearning delivers information in small, bite-size portions. One instance of microlearning content = one learning concept, idea, or objective. Often called ‘chunks’ or ‘nuggets’, this content is intended to meet clearly defined learning outcomes, so is not simply divided-up parts of traditional training. Instead, microlearning nuggets are specifically designed by educators to be quickly consumed, and work either in combination with other nuggets or as s

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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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Dimensions of difficulty

Clark Quinn

As one of the things I talk about, I was exploring the dimensions of difficulty for performance that guide the solutions we should offer. What determines when we should use performance support , automate approaches, we need formal training, or a blend, or…? It’s important to have criteria so that we can make a sensible determination. So, I started trying to map it out.

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Bridging the gap between the ‘intent’ and ‘mechanics’ of compliance programs

Upside Learning

An effective learning intervention brings three considerations under the spotlight: the learner, the content, and the learning environment. And in the case of compliance training in particular, two vital aspects of the learning environment come into picture: the intent or the ‘what’ behind the program (what the training stands for) and the mechanics involved in […].

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Check Out A Sneak Peek of The eLearning Designer’s Academy

Tim Slade

A few weeks ago, I shared with you that I was starting work on the development of The eLearning Designer’s Academy. Well, over the last several months, I have been busy developing the content for my three initial courses: Getting Started with The eLearning Development Process Getting Started with Articulate Storyline Building Advanced Interactions with Articulate Storyline.

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6 Effective eLearning Techniques for Large Enterprises

TOPYX LMS

Creating functional, valuable eLearning courses can be a challenge, particularly in a large enterprise. Maintaining learner engagement and motivation, appealing to a large audience that spans different departments and functions, and successfully transferring knowledge that can be applied on the job are all necessary to a positive eLearning experience, but can be difficult to achieve.

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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 Next Big Thing in Learning Management Systems

Gyrus

E-learning has considerably changed the way we learn and access knowledge online. With its ever-growing demand, reports assume that the e-learning global market would reach $331 billion by 2025. While on one hand, it is an amazing fact to know, on the other hand, it is an indication that a new era is dawning for online training and learning platforms.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Wisetail

The creation and maintenance of an inclusive workplace is crucial for your company’s success and longevity. We look into why inclusion is so beneficial and ways you can build an inclusive culture. The post Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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Zoola Analytics: Managing course progress with Course Report Scheduler

Lambda Solutions

- 2 MIN READ -. More and more we are seeing course facilitators use reporting as a way to manage course progress. Say you have a course group of 30 learners and three are lagging behind. You’d like to connect with them to see what’s happening and show them a report of the activities that should be completed by this point in the course. Or, perhaps you want to send weekly progress reports to all learners in your course, so they can monitor their own progress.

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5 Brain-Based Approaches to Increase Retention

Learningtogo

Thursday, August 8, 2019 2:00pm EDT The moment they complete a course, each learner faces a crucial point of divergence. They will follow one of two tracks – learning or forgetting. The success or failure of your learning design depends on what happens in the minutes, days, and weeks after the learning experience is completed. […].

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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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3 Advanced Facilitation Tips for Next Level Virtual Learning

InSync Training

Virtually There Session Recap. Virtual classrooms make up just one piece of the modern digital learning experience. Facilitators have the tall order of creating learner engagement in this complex, technical, and sometimes distant-feeling learning environment. Karen Vieth, Lead Facilitator for InSync Training, has nearly two decades of experience overcoming these challenges and helping others build their skills as virtual instructors.

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE 2019 (11.5): Branching View Broken?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe recently updated Captivate 2019 from version 11 to 11.5. While most of the interface remains unchanged between 11 and 11.5, there are several enhancements that I've been writing about here (such as the improved assets ). I have noticed one bug so far in Captivate 2019 (11.5): It appears that the Branching View is broken (you can access the Branching View via Window > Branching View).

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[Zoola Analytics] Report Focus: Quiz Results Summary

Lambda Solutions

- 1 MIN READ -. Managing your online courses is a lot easier when you can see your students’ progress all in one place, which is why we built the Quiz Results Summary report. The quiz module is one of the most popular ways of assessing learner’s progress in both Moodle and Totara. While you can dive into individual quiz results in the LMS, Zoola Analytics allows you to review results across courses.

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Using Chatbots to Engage, Support, and Inform Your Learning Audience – Training Magazine Webinar

Learningtogo

You can’t be available to provide coaching and feedback 24/7, but an intelligent chatbot can! All over the world, people are using artificial intelligence to manage their bank accounts, book travel, and find great products, so why not use this same technology to help people learn new skills and advance their careers? You might have […].

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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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Build your LMS implementation Plan following this checklist

Paradiso

The success of your eLearning programs not only comes from the part of the strategies you use with your users to accept and understand the training from a Learning Management System, but also from the way that you organize and plan the LMS implementation. To be clear about the route and avoid mistakes and waste money, you should think and build an LMS Implementation plan.

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How to Get More Students to Finish Your Online Course

Sell Courses Online

The post How to Get More Students to Finish Your Online Course appeared first on Sell Courses Online. Online learning is a rapidly growing industry and it has presented a huge opportunity to those who want to create online courses and monetize their knowledge. While more and more knowledgepreneurs are launching new courses every year, a worrying trend has set in where a majority of the students never finish an online course.

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Microlearning: What, Why, How, Where, and When?

Lambda Solutions

- 4 MIN READ -. What is microlearning? Microlearning delivers information in small, bite-size portions. One instance of microlearning content = one learning concept, idea, or objective. Often called ‘chunks’ or ‘nuggets’, this content is intended to meet clearly defined learning outcomes, so is not simply divided-up parts of traditional training. Instead, microlearning nuggets are specifically designed by educators to be quickly consumed, and work either in combination with other nuggets or as s