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12 Tips to Get the Most from Subject Matter Experts When Developing E-Learning Courses

Capytech

12 Tips to Get the Most from Subject Matter Experts When Developing E-Learning Courses. Does the creation of an e-learning course you are planning require the involvement of a subject matter expert? Subject matter experts, or SMEs, and their contribution to your course can determine its success. It’s important, therefore, you get the interaction right from the start.

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Why Discovery Should Come Before Analysis

The eLearning Coach

The spirit of discovery is often lost in the mindset of conducting an analysis. This is why I think the research and discovery process needs greater emphasis in learning experience design.

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We Think – Therefore We Learn. Why Psychology is Still Relevant in the Age of Neuroscience

Learningtogo

Nearly everything we thought we knew about the human brain changed when we started putting live subjects into functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines (MRIs) about 15 years ago. You might think that with the invention of the fMRI and other brain imaging technologies psychology has gone the way of phrenology and other pseudo-science, but this […].

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Tick Tock, Blended Learning on the Clock

InSync Training

The design and implementation of blended learning includes many moving parts. We consider the LMS that will host all the content, and the virtual classroom platform on which we will deliver live online components. We consider our learners, and the skills they need to build, and the wisdom they already possess. We also consider where learning will happen – whether in a classroom, on a mobile device , at a learner’s desk, or on-the-job.

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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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How to Balance Push and Pull Learning With Mobile

Growth Engineering

From learning on-the-go to the rise of microlearning: the mobile revolution has changed the way we learn forever! The post How to Balance Push and Pull Learning With Mobile appeared first on Growth Engineering.

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How To Make Your Learning Platform Feel Like A Consumer Product

eLearning Industry

Today’s employees consume entertainment content on portable, modern, engaging and intuitive platforms. Why should learning be any different? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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4 Big Advantages of Integrating Knowledge Management With eLearning

gomo learning

This guest blog post looks at the 4 main advantages of integrating knowledge management with eLearning and how this can help L&D teams and organizations train their people. eLearning is an incredibly important field that relies on ever-evolving tools to provide compelling, impactful learning experiences to users. It’s no surprise that the market for digital workplace training is expected to grow considerably over the next half-decade, with analysts anticipating that it will hit a value of $3

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What’s Your Story? Narratives in Blended Learning

InSync Training

If you were unfamiliar with L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz and read a description of the elements of the story, you’d likely see a list something like the following: a haunted castle with flying monkeys, a poppy field. a tornado in Kansas, a village populated by wee folk. a forest of talking foul-tempered trees. a cornfield with a sentient scarecrow. and a yellow brick road (YBR for short).

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Improve Employee Social Awareness Through Workplace Empathy

ej4 eLearning

People appreciate when you show care and concern. Empathy is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” It’s a skill that can be and should be trained in the workplace. It’s critical for a leader to be effective, for employees to successfully work together, and for everyone to be more socially aware. If you think about it, more empathy in the world would be good for everyone.

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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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Balancing The Pros And Cons Of Staff Augmentation

eLearning Industry

As in life, work, and all other things, you want to enhance the pros and be aware of, and mitigate the cons. This certainly holds true for bringing temporary talent to your team. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Is There a Learning Performance Ecosystem Blind Spot?

Living in Learning

Performance support is anything that enables and/or accelerates speed-to-sustainable-performance, or speed-to-impact, or speed-to-productivity, or speed-to-competence, or speed-to-actionable-insight, or speed-to-any-damn-thing-that-drives-measurable-business-value.

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How LMS Training Helps Companies Align Their Sales and Marketing Teams

TOPYX LMS

Sales and marketing misalignment costs businesses $1 trillion per year globally.¹ That’s not surprising, considering many marketing and sales teams have different ideas about what they should achieve. Marketing typically focuses on leads and MQLs, while sales cares more about opportunities and closing deals. Often the qualifications for each goal or lead stage aren’t clearly defined and agreed on by both teams, so while sales and marketing work toward the same overarching goal (growing company r

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Violating Expectations

Clark Quinn

As some of you may know, last week I had a surgical procedure. I don’t want to share details, but while it was non-trivial, it went fine. (I’ve talked earlier about the situation beforehand.) What did not go fine was the recovery. I’m good now, but there were a harrowing few days. And It think the reason is of interest, and there’s a lesson.

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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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7 Tips For Creating The Perfect eLearning Design

eLearning Industry

eLearning design more than anything else determines User Experience. Experienced eLearning experts therefore put in great effort in designing the graphics, navigation and similar aspects of eLearning course in order to achieve expected results from their learners. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Courseware: Custom Built or Off-The-Shelf?

ICS Learning

If your organization has recently obtained a learning management system (LMS), or about to, there is no doubt you are thinking a lot about how you are going to obtain all your courses. One crucial decision is deciding between custom built or purchasing off-the-shelf courseware. Reviewing the pros and cons of each will help you decide which option is the best fit for your business.

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Why Businesses Should Use Data Analytics for Their Budget Planning

Lambda Solutions

For most businesses, having an accurate budget is synonymous with success. Despite the need for a solid budget, many companies struggle to create actionable spending plans that they can rely on. This article will cover how and why you should start utilizing the power of data analytics software for budget planning.

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Artificial Intelligence in Digital Learning [INFOGRAPHIC]

Docebo

Find out how AI will amplify your digital learning efforts. In the last few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed from sci-fi fantasy to business reality – and its use is only growing in the enterprise realm. In fact, almost 40% of enterprises have implemented artificial intelligence in some form in the past year – that’s up 270% from four years ago.

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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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Paradiso LMS one of the top Learning Management System on the List of Online Learning Platforms

Paradiso

If you are thinking about training your employees or students using virtual education, you must consider this list of online learning platforms. Before making a decision and choosing a Learning Management System or LMS platform you must know the details of eLearning and what it can bring in terms of ROI (Return of Investment) to your company. An LMS platform can become the best ally for companies or educational institutions with the intention of attracting users of current generations.

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Key Insights from the frontlines of the 2019 Learning Solutions Conference.

Axonify

I attend a lot of learning and development (L&D) events. A LOT. For example, during the first three months of this year, I presented as part of ten industry conferences – both in-person and online. Attending these events is an awesome opportunity to share ideas and experiences with the L&D community. But the true value … Continued.

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Listen to Smart People, But… Defying Conventional Wisdom with Outdoor Voices and Chef David Chang

Wisetail

A serendipitous thing happened during this year’s South by Southwest. Two of our clients — Ty Haney, CEO and founder of Outdoor Voices (OV), and Chef David Chang, who opened the Momofuku restaurants — got together and recorded a show for the chef’s podcast, The Dave Chang Show. The post Listen to Smart People, But… Defying Conventional Wisdom with Outdoor Voices and Chef David Chang appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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How Data Analytics Can Streamline Your Training Course Design Process

Lambda Solutions

There can be a number of reasons for creating or updating the employee training courses in your business, and doing it right can mean a more successful and productive environment. Designing a training course the wrong way means a waste of both time and resources — yours and those of your employees.

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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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Tool of the month: interactive video

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

This time the tool of the month is not one but no fewer than five tools. I co-organized a meetup about interactive video in the Netherlands. My own experience with interactive video had been adding questions to videos with the help of Zaption (which no longer exists) and Edpuzzle. I also experimented with Vialogues to facilitate a conversation around a video source.

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eLBX Online Day 28 – How to Develop Accessible eLearning

eLearning Brothers

eLearning developer Dan Frazee joined us today to share some step-by-step methods essential to developing accessible courses. In the webinar, he demonstrated where to find the accessibility settings in each of the top three authoring tools—Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, and Lectora. Dan showed how to: set tab order, create alt tags, add closed captions, and more!

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Creating A Great And Engaging Course Using Gamification Strategy

Tesseract Learning

In this article, we will look into some gamification strategies, which helped organizations to engage their audience better and reap better results on their training investments.

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Learner Assessment in Online Courses: Best Practices Course Design

learnWorlds

Selecting assessment activities is a powerful way to achieve learning outcomes and to assure course completion. It determines the degree to which each of our goals has been reached-hence the degree to which your course is successful and valuable. How should someone design assessments in online learning? Good course design that aligns competencies with outcomes is critical.

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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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How the Workforce Learns in 2019: User-Generated Content

Degreed

Traditional L&D isn’t obsolete, but it is incomplete. According to a soon-to-be-released survey of nearly 800 workers, managers, and leaders we’ve just done with Harvard Business Publishing (stay tuned…), people give their employers’ learning and development opportunities an overall Net Promoter Score of -25. So we’re here to fill in the gaps by honing in on the data and insights that impact how people — and companies — learn, so you can make smarter decisions in your most valuable ass

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How The 8 Effects of Arts Education Are Changing Online Pedagogy, Part 1

Kadenze

Photo by Steve Huntington / Unsplash. It is completely admirable to watch the way MOOCs are evolving. In the first wave the pressing challenge was to get content online (welcome to the recorded lecture) and to automate assessment (welcome to the world of quiz)! By 2014, the education reporter Justin Pope was noting that “for all the hype, MOOCs are really just content – the latest iteration of the textbook”.

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7 Gamification Techniques For Corporate Training That Work

eLearning Industry

While gamification has been in use for corporate training for several years, there is still a lingering doubt on its impact. In this article, I share 7 gamification techniques for corporate training that work! This post was first published on eLearning Industry.