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Cognitive Bias in Learning: An Overview

Dashe & Thomson

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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Shape the Future of eLearning

CommLab India

Artificial intelligence is gaining the spotlight since the past few years. Here are 5 ways artificial intelligence can pep up your eLearning courses.

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Why Students Don’t Complete Your Online Course (And 5 Ways to Fix It)?

Client Engagement Academy

You’ve decided to create an online course. You spend time, money, and effort learning how to create a successful course. Finally, after months of hard work, your course finally launches. You’re excited and it seems like your excitement is rubbing off on your students. People are starting to buy your course—not to mention a nice […].

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Designing Online Training Intro Screens: 6 Do’s And Don’ts

eLearning Industry

Intro screens can set the tone for an entire online training course. What does yours say about the online training experience that follows? In this article, I’ll explore 6 do’s and don’ts of developing online training course introductions. 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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Customized Course Catalog for an Enhanced eLearning Experience

Meridian

The grocery store is the same for everybody. No matter why you’re there, you will walk through produce laid out on tables, down aisles of frozen pizzas and toaster waffles, by a case of chilled dairy. Grocery stores cannot adapt themselves to each customer—they need to stock their shelves with what everybody needs, from big […].

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Use a Learn Sprint to Build Your L&D Program in 5 Days

Infopro Learning

How to Increase Your Speed to Market for Learning Programs and Fast Track Business Results. L&D leaders need to deliver learning programs more quickly than ever. With today’s rapid pace of business; a growing skills gap; and the transformation to a globalized, digital workplace, learning and development is mission-critical.

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6 eLearning Myths We Need To Completely Leave Behind In 2019

eLearning Industry

It’s easy to get swept up in new eLearning trends and technologies without realizing that not all training is created equal. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in the Classroom

LearnDash

AR can boost student engagement and help lessons be more memorable. For many educators, advanced educational options like those offered by full VR are still beyond their capabilities. But Augmented Reality (AR) is a much more accessible technology that educators can begin to implement more effectively in the classroom. You may not be familiar with AR technology in the classroom, but you may recognize it in other contexts such as Pokémon Go.

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Seeing 90-9-1 As a Math Equation to Solve

The Simple Shift

The famous 90-9-1 of social networks is often debated as the numbers vary some based on perspective. Regardless of the numbers, most people lurk, many people contribute and a few people create. If you’re looking to up participation in your organizations ESN, here’s my advice, don’t put much energy in the 90 at all. Instead […].

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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 You Can Apply the 70:20:10 Theory of Learning to eLearning

Lambda Solutions

Educators and Learning and Development (L&D) professionals who design eLearning courses are understandably always searching for a way to improve the efficiency of their learning experiences. This is particularly true when it comes to corporate training, where the difference between a successful employee and one who requires constant oversight can come down to training.

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Experiential Learning Online: A 'How-To' Handbook

eLearning Industry

An insight into how online learning or eLearning can support experiential learning with reference to David Kolb's experiential learning theory cycle. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Ways to Determine Which Online Course is Best

LearnDash

With so many online courses available on nearly every topic, how do you decide which one is the best for you? Let’s say you want to learn a business skill like online marketing. What is the first thing you would do? Most people they would go to Google and search for an online marketing course. This would return thousands of results. Even if you were able to narrow this list down to 10 courses, how do you decide which online course is best?

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Curriculum or pedagogy?

Clark Quinn

In a conversation today, I mentioned that previously I’ve thought that perhaps the best next ‘man in the moon’ project would be to put an entire K12 curriculum up online. And, I’ve also thought that the only way to really fix things is to train trainers of teachers to learn to facilitate learning around meaningful activity. And, of course, both are needed.

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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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How to Motivate Employees: Leadership vs. Impedership

ej4 eLearning

Ever wonder how to motivate employees so they are more engaged with their work, and better at it? Of course - what manager or leader hasn't? Unfortunately, many attempts to get the best out of our employees backfire. Instead of showing leadership , we exemplify the opposite: impedership.

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7 Reasons Why Graphic Designers Loathe eLearning Templates

eLearning Industry

An eLearning template is supposed to be the gift that keeps on giving, right? It might not, and here’s why! In this article, I’ll share the 7 top reasons why graphic designers loathe eLearning templates, along with tips to use them more effectively. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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7 Steps for Planning Your Next Video Tutorial

LearnDash

Tutorial videos can be as simple as a whiteboarding session, or as complicated as a multi-day shoot. Here’s how to be prepared. As we’ve covered before, videos are a crucial part of almost any successful online course. For many subjects, a video lesson doesn’t need to be all that complicated. All many of us need is a dry erase board, a good camera, and a lesson plan.

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Cognitive Bias in Learning: An Overview

Dashe & Thomson

What Are Cognitive Biases? Our brains receive non-stop input from all five senses every moment we are awake. In the face of this enormous amount of daily input, our brains develop subconscious coping mechanisms that we can use to quickly make daily decisions. Cognitive biases result when these coping mechanisms fail. Put simply, a cognitive bias is an error in the way we think.

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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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How Business Size Affects What Online Learning Software You Need

TOPYX LMS

Selecting the correct online learning software for your business is a complicated endeavor. In a global market that is expected to grow from 9.8 billion to 22.4 billion in the next five years¹, there are more than 700 different eLearning and learning management system vendors in business². Each vendor offers a unique suite of features, content, and pricing options.

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6 Elements That Hinder The User-Friendliness Of Your Online Training Course

eLearning Industry

Intuitive design is a big part of any online experience. Are there visual and technical errors that can hinder the effectiveness of your online training course vis-à-vis poor user experience? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Anatomy of an Evaluation Strategy

InSync Training

We spend a lot of time at InSync considering how to design, develop, and deliver great virtual and blended learning solutions. But how do we know they are, indeed, GREAT? Creating content is only half of the learning development story. The other half is developing a plan for evaluating the learning. This requires crafting tools used to gather feedback that informs whether learners actually learned, as well as to determine to what extent learners apply what they learned in the workplace.

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xAPI Camp Preview: RISC VTA

MakingBetter

On March 26, 2019, I’m gathering some of the best tools that enable, and the professionals who define, xAPI’s best practices. This will happen at the upcoming xAPI Camp (number 14!) hosted by the eLearning Guild at the Learning Solutions conference in Orlando, FL. In the run-up to the event, I aim to highlight who’s […].

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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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Designing Quality eLearning on a Shoe-String Budget

Origin Learning

Let’s assume that you represent an organization that’s looking for an eLearning solution. It could be an internal employee training.

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Convert Flash To HTML5: Constructing A Convincing Business Case

eLearning Industry

How do you create a convincing business case to convert Flash to HTML5? This article has the steps you need to follow in order to create a business case to convert Flash to HTML5. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Organizations as Communities - Part 1

ID Reflections

Today, the very definition of organizations has changed. The impact of digitization is going far beyond a few collaboration tools and platforms. Today’s organizations are no longer defined by fixed workplaces, nine-to-five working hours or even a set of homogeneous employees. Organizations have become boundary-less and often, location agnostic and virtual.

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Speed-to-Insight: Curating Curations…Also Known as Curation 2.0

Living in Learning

How much curated content never reaches the point (or the right person) to deliver knowledge, wisdom, and insights essential for critical-thinking and informed decision-making to drive productivity forward? How much productivity is diverted to non-productive activities despite being tasked to ultimately accelerate productivity?

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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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Designing a Seamless Learning Experience

Wisetail

Instructional design and educational research expert Dr. Kelly Edmonds lays out a great blended learning model to produce a seamless interaction between shifting online and offline elements. The post Designing a Seamless Learning Experience appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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How True Crime Relates To Good Assessment Design

eLearning Industry

Good assessment design, like solving a mystery, can pinpoint training areas you’ll want to focus on in future business development. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Burn your training request form

Making Change

By Cathy Moore If your organization is typical, you have a training request form. Look at it now. It probably commits 10,000 sins. For example, it might ask the client to: Identify the format and length of “the training” List the content that should be included Specify the date and location for “the training” Identify the number of people to be “trained” With this form, you’re saying, “My job is to produce whatever training you want, whether or not

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