Sat.Jun 22, 2019 - Fri.Jun 28, 2019

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How to create an online course in 5 easy steps

Wyzed

Creating content can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be! Everyone knows that creating any type of content can be daunting. And of course, even more so for those dipping their toes in for the first time. But have no fear, because it doesn’t need to be this way. We’ve put together a simple, 5 step guide to take you from idea in your head through to rolling out the best, most amazing courses you can imagine.

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Real-world application of online training: 6 reasons employees aren’t putting theory into practice

eFront

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How to Develop Microlearning Your Learners Will Love

Growth Engineering

58% of employees said they’d be more likely to do online learning if the content was broken up into multiple shorter lessons. The post How to Develop Microlearning Your Learners Will Love appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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4 Ways To Use Story Mapping In The eLearning Development Process

eLearning Industry

Do you have a keen interest in having an eLearning website? The website is processed to help the people gain knowledge in their interested subject anytime and anywhere. But you might feel that it is failing to deliver some real impact on the users. 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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Employee Training for All Generations: How to Appeal to Gen Z, Boomers and Everyone in Between

Gutenberg Technology

As you’re creating your employee course content and trying to tick all the necessary boxes, you might find yourself training staff of different generations - from veteran salespeople to summer interns. When you’re creating eLearning content for your workforce there are effective ways to seamlessly bridge the generational gaps to make the information relevant, engaging and easy to retain without skewing too far in one direction or the other.

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Connect Scenarios to Objectives Plus More Tips

Experiencing eLearning

Recently, Bryan Jones from eLearningArt invited me and 59 other eLearning people to share their single best tip for creating effective eLearning scenarios. The post is now live, and you can check it out here: 13 eLearning Scenario Tips that 60 Experts Agree On. He asked everyone this question: What’s your #1 tip for creating effective eLearning scenarios?

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How To Design eLearning To Reduce Workplace Stress?

eLearning Industry

According to a survey carried out by LinkedIn, employees who spend time at work learning are 47% less likely to be stressed, and what's the best way to learn on the job in the present age? eLearning, of course! In this article, we’ll discuss how eLearning can be designed to reduce workplace stress. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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4 Tips for Offering and Mastering Online Coaching

LearnDash

Cash-in by supplementing your online courses with one-on-one coaching. When your students choose your class for their learning opportunity, it’s because you offer something as an instructor that captures their interest. In other words, you are the biggest marketing draw of your class – the way you organize and present information, the way you help students understand and memorize, and the way you ultimately drive their success.

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Stephanie Llamas #Realities360 Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

Stephanie Llamas kicked off the Realities 360 conference by providing an overview of VR & AR industry. As a market researcher, she made the case for both VR and AR/MR. With trend data and analysis she made a case for growth and real uses. She also suggested that you need to use it correctly. (Hence my talk later this day.). The post Stephanie Llamas #Realities360 Keynote Mindmap appeared first on Learnlets.

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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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Providing Contractor Training with LMS Software: 3 Simple Tips

TOPYX LMS

Over the past 10 years, flexible contract work has increased by 56 percent.¹ More companies and industries and leveraging contractors for internal work such as change management as well as to fulfill the needs of customers, such as the auto repair shops that contract with insurance companies to serve customers. This type of contract work provides increased flexibility and a wide range of skill sets - it can also lower a company’s total payroll and benefits expenses by at least 20-50 percent annu

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Are Learning Management Systems for 21 CFR Part 11 Really Effective?

Gyrus

As the scope of real-time training through an LMS is continuously on the rise, the demand for compliance training is also increasing, especially in the life science and pharmaceutical industry.

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How to Partner With the C-Suite for L&D Success

Absorb LMS

Do you know how your L&D program maps to your organization’s strategic goals? If the answer is no, you’re not alone, but you’re likely leaving opportunities on the table. According to “ Elevating Learning & Development ” from McKinsey, 60% of companies say learning has no explicit connection to their business strategy, but—when aligned with strategy—learning is a powerful tool for creating business value.

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Graham Roberts #Realities360 Keynote Mindmap

Clark Quinn

Graham Roberts kicked off the 2nd day of the Realities 360 conference talking about the Future of Immersive Storytelling. He told about their experiences and lessons building an ongoing suite of experiences. From the first efforts through to the most recent it was insightful. The examples were vibrant inspirations. The post Graham Roberts #Realities360 Keynote Mindmap appeared first on Learnlets.

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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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Retail Training Tips That Improve Key Business Metrics

TOPYX LMS

Retail employees help generate a large portion of a business’ revenue by helping shoppers find what they need, suggesting additional purchases, and providing exceptional customer service.

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Need to Measure Social? Look Down More.

The Simple Shift

According to a recent CLO Magazine article/survey, executives added or supported social tech for 3 very big and very common reasons: increase collaboration (47%), increase engagement (42%) and create a culture of continuous learning (60%). Each is sincere but since an investment has been made, measurability is desired and rarely found. There are two problems. […].

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Millennial Leadership Development: Building the Business Case & Getting Started

Absorb LMS

Millennials now make up the largest cohort in the workplace, according to Pew Research. Many of them have ascended to leadership positions and are helping to define company direction, culture and strategic goals, but not all of them feel fully prepared. L&D professionals must build the business case for new leadership development by highlighting the needs of millennials and where their company’s current learning strategy and learning management system can be improved.

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Advice from the Virtual Trenches - Facilitating Through the Chaos

InSync Training

This post is part of an occasional series “Advice from the Virtual Trenches” where we share real lessons learned when virtual and blended learning didn’t go as planned. If you’ve ever attended a virtual learning event or webinar , you know that hiccups can and will happen. Access links may not work, audio may disconnect, video may freeze, background noise may disrupt instruction.

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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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TICE 2019 - Creativity, Culture, and Challenges Trainers Face

ej4 eLearning

At the TICE 2019 Conference in Raleigh last week, people were sharing ideas, information, and experiences everywhere you looked. Trainers were bonding over their shared struggles to find ways to engage and excite their learners. L&D professionals were sharing the ways that they had successful learning in their organization. Along with addressing the challenges of the modern trainer, an overarching theme of the conference was fostering a culture of creativity.

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7-Right Things for Intentional Design to Be Intentional Enough

Living in Learning

So…does Intentional Design threaten the ID role? Just the opposite - it expands the role into new asset development that can be re-used or re-purposed to decrease actual development time by following a Create Once – Use Many Times mindset. In some ways one could consider intentional design as replacement therapy…replacing long-form learning with short-form solution assets that can serve multiple roles both at Point-of-Work (Moments 3,4 & 5) and at Point-of-Entry (Moments 1 & 2).

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How Understanding Cognitive Load Can Improve Your Course

LearnDash

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The Balancing Act of Today's Virtual Facilitator: Trainer, Coach, and Mentor

InSync Training

Bringing balance to the blend isn’t an uncommon topic for our blog and the idea that we need to match learning objectives to the most appropriate instructional strategies and technologies is the foundation to our campaign approach to designing blended learning. But there is more to the balancing act than just design. Once the development is complete, it’s the job of the facilitator to guide learners though their journeys.

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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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Is Formal Learning Still Relevant?

Docebo

Learning and development (L&D) professionals are facing increasing forces of change, which are shaking up the traditional focus on formal learning. Central to this is a new understanding of the power of social and informal learning that is undoubtedly influencing the role L&D needs to play today. Increasing pressure from leadership on L&D to deliver tangible value is demanding new and more effective solutions, with digital transformation at the top of everyone’s agenda and occupying

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE 2019: Three Cheers for Improved Assets in Version 11.5

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe recently released a significant, and free, update to Captivate 2019, its flagship eLearning development tool. The updated version of the software is 11.5 (11.5.0.476 to be precise).   Over the coming weeks, I'll highlight the biggest improvements/enhancements. This time, it's all about the awesome new assets.   If you're a veteran Captivate developer, you'll see that the interface remains mostly unchanged.

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How Using an LMS Can Improve Your Compliance Training ROI

Lambda Solutions

- 2 MIN READ -. For any business or organization, knowing that investments made to improve the workplace are benefiting its success is important. For that reason, you should want to track return on investment (ROI) for training programs, particularly educational ones such as compliance training.

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Transforming Retail with AI

Axonify

There are few things I love in life more than coffee. My husband knows this, and so does Heather. Heather owns the café I hit up every morning on my way to work. I’ve been going there since she opened—10 years ago. At first it was out of sheer convenience. But, as other cafés popped … Continued. The post Transforming Retail with AI appeared first on Axonify.

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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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What new trends and technologies can we use to design and deliver modern training experiences?

Jane Hart

This is the question Jo Cook asked me in today’s TJ Talks. Here is my longer answer.

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ADOBE CAPTIVATE 2019 11.5: Alert Messages When Updating

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe recently updated Captivate 2019 from 11.0 to 11.5. While much of the look and feel between versions 11 and 11.5 remain unchanged, there are some feature enhancements that I'll be addressing in future posts (if you scroll down you'll see a recent post on the new Assets). Legacy versions of Captivate upgrade to version 11.5 nearly seamlessly.

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How to Choose the Best LMS for Your Organization or Business

Lambda Solutions

- 2 MIN READ -. Choosing a learning management system (LMS) for your business or organization can be exciting at the same time it's confusing and frustrating. But, a good LMS can allow you to train employees via eLearning and increase worker capabilities. Conversely, the wrong LMS can result in exorbitant fees for features or plans you'll never use.

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