Sat.May 25, 2019 - Fri.May 31, 2019

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Digital Adoption Strategies for Different Generations of Workers

WhatFix

The success of your company’s digital transformation initiative is greatly influenced by your employees’ perceptions and fears about adopting new technologies and practices. By effectively training and engaging employees, the corporate learning and development department can encourage your team to enthusiastically support your digital transformation initiatives.

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Changing Behaviors: Using Nudge Theory to Engage Your Learners

HT2 Labs

By this point, I am sure you are all well aware that HT2 Labs’ first free learning opportunity of 2019 culminated in the first ever Open Learning Experience (OLX) steered towards helping you to understand the benefits of using your learning data to create engaging and meaningful learning experiences. With that, ‘Data, Nudges & Learning: A Guide to Enhancing Engagement’; the 3-part OLX began April 29.

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Connected pedagogy: Social networks

Learning with e's

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. I wrote that: "The age of social technologies has radically transformed the way we live our lives, and that includes how we learn and teach. Connected students can become the nodes of their own production, and are creating more content than ever before as they perform their learning for global audiences.

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Top eLearning Content Providers For Microlearning 2019

eLearning Industry

It is with great enthusiasm that we announce our list of Top eLearning Content Providers For Microlearning 2019. For the first time, we have taken a deep dive into some fundamental players in the microlearning game. Find out who you absolutely, definitely need to follow. Here are our picks for 2019! 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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What’s New in the Articulate 360 Family?

CommLab India

Articulate 360 is an online subscription suite that has everything to rapidly develop eLearning. Check the features added to Storyline 360 and Rise 360.

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3 LMS Considerations for Managing Remote Employees’ Training

Absorb LMS

Nearly one-third of the U.S. workforce doesn’t “go to work.” Thirty-one percent of U.S. workers work remotely 80-100% of the time, according to Gallup. More companies than ever rely on a balance of in-office workers and remote talent as a part of everyday operations. Workforce dynamics are shifting dramatically. Chances are, your organization is tasked with managing remote employees’ training more than ever before.

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How To Use An Interactive eBook In eLearning?

eLearning Industry

eBooks used to be simple documents of text and images earlier, but today, eBooks can be interactive and dynamic. They are great tools to hold a learner’s attention and impart knowledge to them. This article will explore how to create an interactive eBook, and how to use it in your eLearning course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Social Silliness

Clark Quinn

It’s that time again. Someone pointed me to a post that touted the benefits of social learning. And I’m a fan ! However, as I perused it, I saw that was a bit of social silliness. So, let me be clear about why. It starts off mostly on the right foot, saying “playing off of the theory that people learn better when they learn collectively” I’m a proponent of that theory.

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Check Out My New Online Courses New eLearning Designers!

Tim Slade

Last year, when I published The eLearning Designer’s Handbook , I decided at the last minute (about a week before the book went live ) to build a companion online course: Getting Started with The eLearning Development Process. While the decision to build this online course was totally spontaneous, I knew it was something that I eventually wanted to do longterm: to design and offer online courses for new eLearning designers.

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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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How to Get Executive Buy-In for New LMS Technology

Absorb LMS

As a hiring manager, you know a good learning management system fulfills compliance obligations, develops skills, enforces best practices and may even be a solution to the engagement and retention dilemma. But those tangible benefits aren’t always apparent to those removed from training program development. Even if your learning and development department has its own budget, you’ll need to craft a convincing proposal that builds the business case for new technology.

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5 Common Mistakes Of Online Course Creators And How To Overcome Them

eLearning Industry

We live in the age of knowledge work and information-based economy. Skills and knowledge are just as marketable today as any physical goods – probably more so. The good thing about it is that there are hardly any people out there who don’t have some knowledge that would be valuable for others. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How (Not) To Write Marketing Posts

Clark Quinn

You’ve seen my takedowns of various posts by now, and the flurry of fluff continues. It seems like there’s some baseline social media marketing course that everyone takes. And the very first thing is a series of steps that yields annoyance and embarrassment (or should). For the sake of all of us who suffer from this, we need to stop! We need better posts for our industry.

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Why Make the Change from Training to Learning Campaigns?

InSync Training

Learning is a process. As workplaces rapidly evolve to adapt to changing market dynamics, skill building must change too. Trainers work to support technical and soft-skill improvement within the same program. How can we balance both? By using learning campaigns.

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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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8 Budget-Friendly Ways to Create a Moment of Need Online Training Repository

Dashe & Thomson

There are times when employees require immediate online training tools to complete tasks, build skills, or brush up on company policy. Waiting for the next scheduled online training session would not only diminish their productivity but also put customer satisfaction at risk. The challenge that organizations face is figuring out how to address their needs on the spot with the resources available.

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Time Crunch, Design Challenges, PowerPoint Templates To The Rescue!

eLearning Industry

PowerPoint, being the most neglected tool in the world of business has a lot more to offer. So, let's explore what this tool can help us achieve through PowerPoint Templates. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Role of an LMS in Blended Learning for Manufacturing Companies

TOPYX LMS

Nearly 3 million jobs will open up in the global manufacturing industry as current workers, including baby boomers, start retiring.¹ That turnover will leave many companies with a shortage of skilled workers and an abundance of opportunities that will take time to fill.

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How to Get the Most from Coaching

InSync Training

Coaching involv es two very important parties: The coach. The coachee. The relationship and interaction between these two individuals impacts the overall success of the process. Recently, the InSync team shared what skills make coaches effective : thoughtful questioning techniques, foundational models, and a personalized approach.

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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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4 Key Learning and Development Trends to Invest in for 2019

Absorb LMS

Digital transformation is a dominant force in nearly every industry. But from a learning and development perspective, it requires far more than upskilling employees’ competencies to keep your company competitive. Your approach to L&D has to adapt and fit workers like a glove, as individuals increasingly place value on forward-thinking employers invested in their future.

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ATD 2019 Keynote Recap: People Want to be Seen and Heard

ej4 eLearning

ATD 2019 in Washington D.C. featured two keynote speakers whose messages overlapped very nicely for the talent development audience. Seth Godin talked about how people want to be seen. Oprah explained how people want to be heard.

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3 Ways Associations Can Use Social Learning to Increase Member Engagement and Revenue

TOPYX LMS

Associations often struggle to retain members for several reasons, one of the most pressing of which is member engagement. When members become disengaged, they often cancel their memberships, decreasing association revenue.

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TEACHING ONLINE CLASSES: Interactive Polls Help End Sucky Training

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  One of the easiest ways to engage online students is by displaying quizzes and polls. When I start my classes, displaying a poll is a great way to break the ice and get my class started on the right foot.   Most virtual training platforms (GoToTraining, WebEx, Connect, etc) allow you to create polls within the tool. You can then display the poll to your virtual students on the fly.

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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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4 Training Effectiveness Metrics to Track Your L&D Fitness

Absorb LMS

You’re a great runner—but you want to run even faster. You clock time, using a smartwatch to monitor performance, so your incremental improvements are accurately measured. Although there’s no fancy watch to measure training effectiveness, there are other methods to do so. Check out these four metrics to see if you have a healthy pulse on achieving your learning and development and business goals. 1.

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Organizations: keep an eye on your high speed learners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

A participant during my master class on learning of the future shares: " I was learning a lot through the online world and would be at the cutting-edge in my field, this learning was logical part of my work as recruiter. Now I have a new job and it is not a logical part of my function. I don't have the time anymore to be active online. I see that I am no longer aware of all the new developments in my field ".

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Game of Work

The Simple Shift

I contend that beliefs form from repeated behaviors. This could be your own behavior, an observed behavior, or a behavior projected on you by another’s story (an authority tells you). I also contend that our behaviors are influenced (guided or supported) consciously or unconsciously by systems. Systems are often the context we’re in, our environment, […].

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How to Create Customer Success Stories in the eLearning Industry?

Origin Learning

Have you ever wondered why one product succeeds while a similar product by another company fails despite the pricing and. The post How to Create Customer Success Stories in the eLearning Industry? appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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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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Learning and Development Strategy: Your Life Raft in Organizational Change

Absorb LMS

As you take the leap to transform your organization, it can often feel like diving into the unknown. However, you’ll be in good company. A study by Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) found that 86% of organizations had recent experience with transformation and 54% were currently undergoing one. To prepare for your organizational overhaul, first secure the key to success: a strong learning and development strategy.

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Organizations as Communities?—?Part 2

ID Reflections

Yesterday, in a Twitter conversation with Rachel Happe regarding the need for organizations to function as communities, I wrote the following: “ Complicated solutions are yesterday’s good practices. Complex, holistic solutions are multi-faceted, emergent and constantly evolving. They can’t be pinned down by rules but have to be sensed into through open dialogues.

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SCORM Cloud vs Learning Management System comparison

Paradiso

The quality of the content determines the success of your virtual training programs. Having a well designed and developed SCORM packages will give you precision and efficiency. But in the same way, it is important to have an LMS platform with excellent service, that reproduces your SCORM’s and gives you many more features. Let’s see what are the benefits and disadvantages of SCORM Cloud vs Learning Management System.

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