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How to Create a Successful Community of Practice

CrossKnowledge

<div class=”page-chapo”>Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise.</div> The theory around communities of practice was developed by Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave in the early 1990s.

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When Training Is NOT The Answer

Tim Slade

Whether you’re an instructional designer, an eLearning designer, or just an everyday learning professional, a crucial part of your job is understanding when training is not the answer. It’s easy to get bogged down with the endless number of training requests that get thrown your way from your stakeholders and subject matter experts. The truth is, it doesn’t take a lot for a stakeholder to see the slightest drop in performance and conclude that “training will fix this issue!

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The Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning

The Learning Dispatch

Inclusion and diversity are imperatives in today’s workplace. For those who create training or administer training programs, that means considering and meeting the needs of learners with disabilities. This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. .

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Is There A Secret Formula To Transform ILT To An eLearning Curriculum?

eLearning Industry

Wondering if there’s a secret formula to transform your Instructor-Led Training program into an eLearning curriculum? This article gives you an insight into what you need to do for successful transformation to online training. 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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Developing eLearning? 7 Things to Check in Your Storyboard before You Start

CommLab India

A storyboard is a blueprint, that helps you pre-visualize your e-learning course by organizing the content, multimedia elements, and assessments in the required format and sequence. The post Developing eLearning? 7 Things to Check in Your Storyboard before You Start appeared first on Custom E-learning and Online Training Blogs - CommLab India.

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How To Find The Right Learning Management System For Employee Training?

Gyrus

How To Find The Right Learning Management System For Employee Training. Employee training has always been one of the most important concerns of businesses around the world. But, traditional training methods consume much time and costs in the process. This is why modern-day entrepreneurs are getting inclined towards ‘LMS or learning management system’ that is known to create a virtual learning environment for the perfect delivery of online training courses.

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Here's How I Develop eLearning After Designing With Adobe XD

eLearning Industry

Have you ever wondered about the design process of other eLearning designers/developers? In the following videos, I develop a form in Storyline 360 that I originally designed in Adobe XD. Check out my unedited process going from design to development. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Heart of Organizational Social: Middle Management

The Simple Shift

The two things you’ll often hear given as a advice about where to start your expansion of organizational social is 1. Get the leaders (c-suite) on board and/or 2. focus on the workers and the work itself (grassroots). There is certainly truth that each of these groups being engaged is important but it can be […].

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E-Learning Automation using LearnDash and Zapier

LearnDash

Automate certain tasks to facilitate engagement with your online learners. Not too long ago I wrote about a new tool that makes it possible for you to create elaborate automation sequences based on actions taken within your course or on your WordPress LMS. The tool is called Uncanny Automator and it’s essentially the “Zapier for WordPress” Which begs the question: is it possible to just use Zapier for e-learning purposes?

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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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Application-based Instruction

Clark Quinn

A number of years ago, I wrote about activity-based learning. And I firmly stand behind the model there. It’s not a major campaign, but quietly permeates the things that I do. However, I realize that there’re two misnomers in the label, and it’s time to rectify that. It’s about instruction, and it’s about application. I need to make those distinctions clear.

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Rapid eLearning Design And Development: A Watered Down Version Of ADDIE?

eLearning Industry

This article clarifies some of the myths surrounding rapid eLearning Design and Development. You can also find out what rapid eLearning can offer to organizations. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Make Them Say “Wow” with a Smart Chatbot

Learningtogo

You might have already considered using artificial intelligence to bring the “wow factor” to your next project, but it can sound like a complicated and expensive endeavor—especially for your first time.

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8 Ways to Flip the Classroom for Your Online Course

LearnDash

Wondering how to use the flipped classroom effectively for your blended classroom? The traditional classroom structure has teachers delivering lectures during class time, and learners working on problem sets at home. However, online classes offer instructors a way to reverse that scenario by delivering class lecture content over the Internet, and using class time to work more directly with learners.

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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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Assessing Virtual Classroom Facilitation

InSync Training

Since virtual classroom skillsets are not as off-the-shelf as face-to-face training skills, we often wonder just how well we are doing at this virtual facilitation gig. Often, our only feedback comes from “smile sheets,” the surveys at the end of class to see what people thought of the program. But how do these really help guide our professional development when only five out of 30 learners actually filled it out?

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Should You Care About AI And ML In Your Corporate L&D Initiatives?

eLearning Industry

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is where the world is moving. As AI and ML enter the enterprise space, should L&D bodies start caring about integrating them into different training activities? Is it really needed? Let’s find out. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Experimentation specifics

Clark Quinn

I’m obviously a fan of innovation, and experimentation is a big component of innovation. However, I fear I haven’t really talked about the specifics. The details matter, because there are smart, and silly, ways to experiment. I thought I’d take a stab at laying out the specifics of experimentation. First, you have to know what question you’re trying to answer.

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Create a Flexible and Engaging Learning Environment with Customized Learning

Lambda Solutions

Customized learning is a learner-centric approach. Learners make their own decisions regarding the content they want to consume, how learning is planned, and what the goals are. Some systems incorporate self-assessment and let learners decide what they want to achieve by interacting with the system. In most corporate settings, customized learning is supported by the use of analytics.

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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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What Does Social Learning Look Like? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Docebo

Uncover the value of social learning in the workplace in this infographic. Where do employees go for critical information when they’re trying to complete a task? They don’t take formal courses – they search around and ask a colleague or an expert. This is how most learning actually happens at work and there’s a simple reason why – it’s more effective than formal training.

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How to Find an Effective LMS for the Manufacturing Industry

TOPYX LMS

Factories and other manufacturing companies need learning and development programs to promote quick onboarding, skill-building, best practices, and safety and compliance training. Online learning delivered with a learning management system (LMS) is one of the best training options for the manufacturing industry because it offers convenient access, onboards new hires, and educates staff and customers.

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Buying an LMS: The Complete Feature Checklist to Make the Right Choice

ej4 eLearning

“Which LMS should I use?” is a question we hear a lot at industry gatherings. Whether you are buying an LMS for the first time or merely looking to replace your old clunker of an LMS, you know the importance of doing your homework and finding the right one for your organization.

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Seven Tips to Create Engaging Game-Based Learning

Origin Learning

Who does not like a good game? It activates the mind and when it is a physical activity it helps the body to remain fit as well. In this blog post, we will be exploring how games can be used in eLearning programs to enrich the content and help learners understand concepts better. Why Add Games? Before we look at how games can be integrated within the eLearning content, let us understand why we need to add them.

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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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Why Businesses are Choosing Cloud-based LMS Over Self-hosted Solutions

Lambda Solutions

The cloud is used by 90 percent of all businesses in one way or another. Half of businesses either exclusively rely on cloud-based solutions or have adopted a cloud-first approach for their IT needs. If you are looking into deploying an LMS for your corporate training needs, here is what you need to know about cloud-based solutions and self-hosting.

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How to Choose the Best LMS for Healthcare Training

TOPYX LMS

An LMS helps healthcare facilities improve patient care by keeping staff updated on medical best practices and equipping them with vital skills. Today, approximately 60 percent of hospitals use a learning management system. 1.

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INSIGHT CURATION:   Knowledge, Wisdom & Lemonade

Living in Learning

Our challenge is to optimize "Speed-to-Insight"…which is measured by the sum total of time invested that spans from searching through many information sources…to saving, curating, and forwarding "curated bulk information"…to enable critical-thinking that informs decisions through access to concise SIGNALS to individuals, groups, teams or the entire enterprise as "Actionable Performance Insights".

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How Big Is The eLearning Market And The Role Of Mobile Apps?

eLearning Industry

This brief timeline depicts the evolution of eLearning market and some of the benefits of mobile apps in online learning. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Modern Workplace Learning 2019

Jane Hart

Modern Workplace Learning 2019 is now available in web and PDF formats.

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Increase your training engagement with WordPress Learning Management System

Paradiso

The excellent match made by WordPress Learning Management System creates a perfect tool for online training. This represents an advantage for companies that have training needs and want to start an eLearning program from their website. The multiple functionalities of the WordPress Learning Management System can help your company to grow and increase its income easily and secure.

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EdCast Announces $34 Million in Funding Along with New Customer, Partner and User Milestones

EdCast

EdCast Announces $34 Million in Funding Along with New Customer, Partner and User Milestones EdCast’s Knowledge Cloud surpassed two million paid users across numerous Global 2000 enterprises, garnering investment from Softbank, REV Venture Partners, London Fund, Crescent Enterprises and others MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, December 6, 2018 — EdCast, known as the operating system for the […].

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