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7 Ways To Use LMS Metrics To Create More Targeted eLearning Resources

TalentLMS

Cookies and bots are the tools of the trade for online marketers. But is there any way for you to use these analytics to improve your online training strategy? In this article, we’ll share seven tips to transform LMS metrics into a targeted plan of eLearning action. How To Use LMS Metrics For Targeted Online Training Resources. Virtually every move we make in the virtual world is somehow monitored.

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7 Ways to Develop A Culture Of Continuous Learning In The Remote Workforce

Litmos

The remote workforce is growing. . Numbers from Gallup show that 43 percent of employees work remotely at least some of the time, and according to Globalworkplaceanalytics.com , the number of employees who work remotely has grown by 140 percent since 2005, nearly 10 times the rate of the rest of the workforce. That number does not include freelance and contract workers, who are sometimes treated as team members and often don’t work in the office.

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7 practical problems with VR for eLearning

LearnUpon

Virtual reality (VR) is an incredible experience. I recommend you to try it whenever you get the chance. From the moment you place on a headset it exhilarates and amazes. You can travel to any location, see anything and interact with virtual scenarios. But is virtual reality (VR) training a practical way to train your employees or customers ? In this post, we run through some practical stumbling blocks that prevent VR training from being feasible for most.

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8 Tips To Find The Right eLearning Content Provider

eLearning Industry

Are you ready to outsource your course copywriting? Are you looking for the ideal graphic designer for your eLearning activities? In this article, I’ll share 8 tips to find the perfect eLearning content provider for outsourcing your next eLearning course. 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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The Learning Experience: Delivering the Business Results that Matter Most

Infopro Learning

How an Inside-Out, Outside-In Approach to Talent Development will Help L&D Get a Seat at the Table. Business has never been more volatile than it is right now. We’re experiencing a mass exodus from the largest generation ever, who is being replaced by the vastly different, purpose-driven Millenials and Gen Z. Access to technology has us always on, delivering more than ever, with colleagues across the world.

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Marketing Math: How Much Should You Pay for a Learner?

LearnDash

What can your sales metrics tell you about how you should spend your marketing budget? As we’ve discussed before, one of the major draws of starting an online course business is your ability to do so with limited funds. Startup costs are low, contributing to a low barrier-to-entry for new businesses. But, many of those businesses that succeed in making a successful launch are hesitant to then begin putting money into any kind of marketing budget.

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3 Steps To Build eLearning For Specialized Mobile Devices

eLearning Industry

The benefits of converting legacy Flash courses to HTML5 are indisputable: not only are HTML5 courses compatible with mobile technology, but they also offer better security and performance, are easier to update, and can integrate with other services (such as Vimeo and social media). This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The Learning Experience: Delivering the Business Results that Matter Most

Infopro Learning

How an Inside-Out, Outside-In Approach to Talent Development will Help L&D Get a Seat at the Table. Business has never been more volatile than it is right now. We’re experiencing a mass exodus from the largest generation ever, who is being replaced by the vastly different, purpose-driven Millenials and Gen Z. Access to technology has us always on, delivering more than ever, with colleagues across the world.

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Learning and Development Trends Exciting Today's Training Leaders

dVinci Interactive

Learning and Development Trends Exciting Today's Training Leaders Learning and development leaders are always navigating the latest trends in training strategies, approaches and technologies. Depending on the background of the leader and the mission of their organization, he or she may be evaluating different methods to improve performance and results.

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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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What Can the E-Learning Industry Learn from Omnichannel?

LearnDash

Omnichannel e-learning is the next logical step from blended learning. Are you ready? Many businesses have heard of omnichannel as a marketing strategy for a while. At first, the idea was simple: if a company is going to market in several places (on TV, on the radio, in a magazine, etc.), it should spread a unified message in all these places. However, the onset of the Internet—and especially e-commerce—has given omnichannel marketing a new urgency.

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The future of enterprise learning technologies

Jane Hart

The problem is all the while we think “learning = education or training or courses”, it follows that “learning technologies = tools to design, deliver and manage education, training or courses”.

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Lead the Change with Social Learning: Tips from Jane Bozarth

InSync Training

Think about the last time you needed to learn something new. Were you sitting at your desk in your office? Standing in your kitchen trying to make dinner? Driving down the road when a new warning light popped up on your dashboard? Like many people, when this happens to me, I ask a trusted source for their wisdom. Sometimes that’s my mom, other times it’s a colleague who seems to know the ins-and-outs of every nuanced process for my company.

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Why companies must focus on making onboarding an ‘experience’

Upside Learning

First impressions are seminal! This is why making the process of onboarding a unique experience for new recruits is a crucial task for any company. Onboarding is integrating a new employee into the company and its culture, as well as getting him or her up to speed about the company’s values, policies, history, hierarchy and […].

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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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Do You Need an App for Your Online Courses?

LearnDash

Sometimes we want something but it doesn’t necessarily mean that we need it. Over the years I have seen a pretty typical lifecycle for those who are successful with creating their own online course programs. It usually goes something like: Begin marketing the course before it’s built. Use an LMS like LearnDash to build out the course. Offer the course to their email list.

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3 Ways to Deliver Soft Skills Training with a Learning Management System

TOPYX LMS

Fifty-eight percent of hiring managers surveyed in a LinkedIn study reported that their employees’ lack of soft skills, including communication, organization, teamwork, critical thinking, and social skills, limited business productivity.¹ And soft skills affect more than just productivity.

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Get into Character for Better Blended Learning

InSync Training

Have you ever watched The Magic School Bus? What about Bill Nye the Science Guy or Schoolhouse Rock ? These entertaining childrens television programs have an important common approach to education: they explain complex subject matter in easy-to-understand ways by using likeable characters in fun narratives.

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Your Guide To LMS Integrations

Docebo

Your guide to all the necessary learning management system (LMS) integrations. Evolving a corporate learning strategy requires careful consideration, research and internal discussions. Modern learning platforms are designed to ensure corporate learning strategies are able to best work within the schedules and constraints faced by an organization’s work environment.

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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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Social Cognition

Clark Quinn

In the two preceding posts, I discussed situated and distributed cognition. In this closing post of the series, I want to talk about social cognition. They’re related, and yet each needs explicit consideration. If we don’t know how we think, work, and learn, we can’t optimally support both performance in the moment and continual innovation over time.

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How to Nurture High-Potential Employees and Improve Performance

TOPYX LMS

Watching high-potential employees consistently struggle with poor performance is not just discouraging to management -- it’s also bad for business. Since top performers help save companies money, boost worker retention and increase employee engagement, company leaders should make it their mission to develop these individuals’ strengths as quickly as possible.¹.

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"TechSmith Camtasia 2018: The Essentials" Step-by-Step Workbook Now Shipping

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

A self-paced, hands-on workbook that teaches the core TechSmith Camtasia 2018 skills! Using TechSmith Camtasia, you can quickly create software demonstrations, software simulations, and soft skills eLearning. You can Share your finished project so it can be accessed by learners using desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices. Your content can be hosted on a web server, Learning Management System, YouTube, Vimeo, TechSmith’s Screencast.com, and more.

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Wisetail Named FeaturedCustomers Top Performer

Wisetail

Wisetail has been named a Top Performer in the Corporate LMS Software category for the Summer 2018 Customer Success Report published by FeaturedCustomers. The post Wisetail Named FeaturedCustomers Top Performer appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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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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Distributed Cognition

Clark Quinn

In my last post , I talked about situated cognition. A second, and related, cognitive revelation is that thinking is distributed between our heads and the world. That is, the model that it all occurs between the ears doesn’t recognize that we incorporate external representations are part of our processing. Hutchins, in his Cognition in the Wild, documented a variety of ways that our thinking is an artefact of our tools and our models.

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Why Picking a Full Service LMS Provider is Important: 5 Things CLOs Need to Know

Lambda Solutions

Are your learners’ heads in the clouds? If not, maybe they should be. Feature-rich learning management systems (LMS) and cloud-based hosting solutions to deliver eLearning improve the education experience with advanced technologies by enabling organizations to deliver training anywhere, to anyone who needs it, when they need it. It also enables companies to scale their capabilities while making it easy to keep up with the rapidly evolving technology landscape.

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"TechSmith Camtasia 2018: The Essentials" Step-by-Step Workbook Now Shipping

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

A self-paced, hands-on workbook that teaches the core TechSmith Camtasia 2018 skills! Using TechSmith Camtasia, you can quickly create software demonstrations, software simulations, and soft skills eLearning. You can Share your finished project so it can be accessed by learners using desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices. Your content can be hosted on a web server, Learning Management System, YouTube, Vimeo, TechSmith’s Screencast.com, and more.

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A Moving Story

Patti Shank

Gateway to the historic part of Monument, Colorado [link] For the past few years, I have struggled with some major difficulties. We all have them. I've come to realize that pretty much everyone is struggling with something difficult. Sometimes really difficult things. Sometimes many difficult things. I've had very bad migraines the past 15+ years. (Found a large piece of what reduces them to manageable just recently so if you're struggling with daily migraines and no meds seem to help, feel free

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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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Don’t Lose Your Grip

The Simple Shift

So I finally ordered a case for my newer iPhone X. It’s been far too long and well there is significant risk of me dropping and smashing such an investment. After a little research I went for a minimalist case that is more about grip than insulation. My logic is if I don’t drop it in […].

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Founder Feature – Tutu School

Wisetail

Genevieve Custer Weeks, founder of Tutu School, tells Wisetail her biggest challenges in growing a franchise and how she can better support her expanding community of owners. The post Founder Feature – Tutu School appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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"TechSmith Camtasia 2018: The Essentials" Step-by-Step Workbook Now Shipping

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

A self-paced, hands-on workbook that teaches the core TechSmith Camtasia 2018 skills! Using TechSmith Camtasia, you can quickly create software demonstrations, software simulations, and soft skills eLearning. You can Share your finished project so it can be accessed by learners using desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices. Your content can be hosted on a web server, Learning Management System, YouTube, Vimeo, TechSmith’s Screencast.com, and more.

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