Matrix

APRIL 11, 2019

The meaning of ‘community’ has changed drastically with the spread of the internet and the rise of all the social networks. No longer confined by geography, people who share the same interests can connect, share and grow as a community online. Sometimes they organize meet-ups so they get to see and talk to each other in person but often the members never get real face to face time; yet they manage to get along and develop really meaningful, long-lasting relationships.

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Accessplanit

APRIL 11, 2019

The acquisition and proper use of internal and external resources to deliver a project on time and on budget is one of a training provider’s biggest concerns.

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LearnDash

APRIL 9, 2019

Gathering information about your learners can help you create and market a better course. You have a great course idea. The subject is one you love, you’re excited about the content, and you’ve been blissfully outlining lessons for a week and are still going strong. There’s just one question you’ve forgotten to ask, and if you don’t think about it now, it may come back to haunt you: Who is your course for?

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ej4 eLearning

APRIL 11, 2019

Look around. Especially in a restaurant or airport. People are eating and traveling together but they are not really together. Everyone is staring at their phone. Perpetually scrolling through Facebook and Instagram, playing Candy Crush or Words With Friends and not being present with their people. Have you ever texted a family member in another room in your house?

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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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eLearning Industry

APRIL 12, 2019

eLearning is the fastest growing method that learners consume training content today. As a result, more and more organizations are committing significant resources to write eLearning courses for internal and external learners. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 8, 2019

Micro-learning is so hot right now. But I’m not going to deliberate over its definition. If you’re into that, check out Shannon Tipton’s Microlearning: The Misunderstood Buzzword and 7 Deadly Myths of Microlearning. Nor am I going to try to convince you to jump on board, or abandon ship. Instead, I’m going to consider firstly how micro-learning might be used in a corporate training context; and secondly, pivot towards something slightly different.

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Jane Hart

APRIL 8, 2019

n the workplace individuals learn in many different ways for, through and at work – in what might be termed the 4 D’s of Learning: DIDACTICS – ie being taught (aka education or training) DISCOVERY – ie finding out for oneself (aka informal learning) DISCOURSE – ie interacting with others (aka social learning) DOING – […].

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 7, 2019

Your corporate learners want to know that they are progressing towards a target and meeting their learning goals. Are you giving them an appropriate eLearning grading scale to achieve that aim? Do your admins have a sound evaluation strategy that allows them to measure corporate learner performance? In this article, I’ll share 5 tips to create an effective eLearning grading scale.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

As part of a push for Learning Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University recently released their learning design tools. I’ve been aware of CMU’s Open Learning Initiative for a suite of reasons, and their tools for separate reasons. And I think both are good. I don’t completely align with their approach, but that’s ok, and I regularly cite their lead as a person who’s provided sage advice about doing good learning design.

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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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TOPYX LMS

APRIL 8, 2019

Customer service training benefits just about every type of company in any industry. Healthcare companies, in particular, can experience business benefits that lead to a better bottom line as a result of providing staff, from schedulers and finance professionals to doctors and nurses, with customer service training.

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InSync Training

APRIL 11, 2019

Virtually There Session Recap. “Did the training work?”. If your stakeholders asked you this question, would you have an answer supported by proof, or would you feel anxious about demonstrating the value of your work ? We know that data can clarify the worth our learning events provide to participants and on the business’ bottom line. But the process of collecting, analyzing, and using data feels involved, complex, and perhaps sometimes more than it’s worth.

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 7, 2019

Pre-boarding is the missing link between successfully hiring and actually onboarding valuable talent. However, many organizations waste this valuable time between the offer to the employee and their subsequent onboarding, which can lead to employees changing their mind about the organization. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Axonify

APRIL 10, 2019

“My kid just quit her new job!” This was a direct quote uttered by one of my colleagues while reading a text from her daughter, who had recently landed a job working for a popular retail chain. My first thought was, “Maybe this is just a flaky kid?” Nope. It turns out she’s actually the … Continued. The post This part-time frontline retail employee quit after only four weeks and onboarding was to blame appeared first on Axonify.

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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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The Simple Shift

APRIL 9, 2019

There are really only two reasons we still have annual reviews, well maybe three. First it’s legacy. Your grandmother had annual reviews. It’s just what is done, usually in Q4 when revenue is better understood and the calendar year is coming to an end so it ties in with compensation – a nice little bundle. […].

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Origin Learning

APRIL 8, 2019

One of the key enablers of a successful learning program is its effectiveness. This is where data analytics plays a. The post The Value of Data Analytics in Modern Workplace Learning appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 7, 2019

Theories of motivation are physiological theories that explain a person’s reasons for engaging in a particular behavior. By leveraging these established principles, eLearning designers can create highly engaging online courses that leverage both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Paradiso

APRIL 8, 2019

Choosing the best LMS is less like going shopping and more like events planning and management. There is no LMS shop that you can browse, and nor is there a one-size-fits-all solution. The best LMS platforms are like the best companies – very different from one another. The process of choosing the best LMS for your organization starts way before you have even started looking into potential LMSs.

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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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Lambda Solutions

APRIL 9, 2019

Metrics has been a buzzword in education circles for some time, and for good reason. The learning metrics that educators track can have a huge impact on how effective their learning experiences are, and thus hold an immense amount of power. The same is no less true of metrics in eLearning, and in this article, we'll go over some beneficial metrics that you should look into measuring in your eLearning experiences.

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Docebo

APRIL 11, 2019

Is your LMS still fit for your needs? In just the past few years, learning technology has evolved from a simple Learning Management System (LMS), designed to house and manage learning content, to today’s modern and high-tech, cloud-based LMS optimized to deliver strong learning outcomes. But as technologies beyond Learning and Development (L&D) evolve, there is growing demand for smarter enterprise learning solutions that match the look, feel and effectiveness of those technologies which beg

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 10, 2019

No efficient action can take place without methodical forethought. In order to successfully carry out any undertaking, a blueprint or plan is of utmost importance. The same is true for eLearning courses. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 11, 2019

After adding a video asset to the Timeline in Camtasia, it's likely you'll want to freeze a specific part of the video to allow for other Timeline objects to appear (such as annotations or images).   In the image below, I've added a video to Track 1 on my Timeline.     When previewing, I noticed that the video ended too soon.

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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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Lambda Solutions

APRIL 10, 2019

As the digital age has revolutionized the big data and eLearning industries, it's become easier than ever for educators in the eLearning space to track the various metrics of their students. However, the metrics commonly tracked by educators can often be non-factors in the actual success of their eLearning programs and students, while the useful ones go untracked.

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dVinci Interactive

APRIL 9, 2019

Preventing Sexual Violence through Training The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR) works to end sexual violence and advocates for the rights and needs of all sexual assault victims. PCAR partners with a network of rape crisis programs to bring help, hope, and healing around issues of sexual violence. Beyond Pennsylvania, PCAR operates the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), which identifies, develops and disseminates resources regarding all aspects of sexual violence preven

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 11, 2019

Your team is only as strong as the talent that supports it. One established and versatile way to add talent to your team is to bring people on temporarily. If you’re opting to go that route, here are some considerations to evaluate a staff augmentation company. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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CommLab India

APRIL 6, 2019

Adaptive learning is capable of redefining corporate training by enhancing the learning experience. Check FAQs on adaptive learning in this infographic.

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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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Watershed

APRIL 10, 2019

The highest complexity of learning analytics is predictive and prescriptive analytics. This means using data to either predict what might happen, or to prescribe learning activities. And, out of the 5,713 reports we reviewed as part of our Learning Analytics Research Study , we only found one Watershed client with a handful of spider chart reports that we classed as “Predictive and Prescriptive.

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Kadenze

APRIL 8, 2019

Photo by Henrik Dønnestad / Unsplash. In this second of four vodcasts, Brad Haseman, Executive Vice President of Kadenze, Inc. sits down with Sarah Reid, Kadenze, Inc.’s Director of Business Development, to discuss the distinctive effects arts-led learning is having on online learning design. Here he introduces the fictional-reality effect and the reflection effect.

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eLearning Industry

APRIL 6, 2019

In order to create the perfect eLearning course, there are 4 elements every Instructional Designer or eLearning professional needs to master. In this article, we’ll discuss those 4 elements. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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