August, 2015

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If the User Experience Annoys, Fix It.

Association eLearning

I had a bad user experience (UX) at a dollar store a while back. I’m not talking about customer service, but actual UX design. I swiped my card into the card reader to pay. A prompt told me to click “Enter,” with an arrow pointing at one of the buttons. It’s a good thing I stopped, because the button the arrow pointed to wasn’t the enter button. It was on the other end of the keypad.

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Can Captivate 9 Save Adobe?

LearnDash

If you haven’t heard yet, Adobe made some news in the elearning industry yesterday. Specifically, they released their learning management system and Adobe Captivate 9. I discussed the new Adobe learning management system previously in this article. I’m interested to see how that one plays out and what the general perception will be from those who use it.

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My Workflow For Development

The eLearning Coach

In the spirit of ‘Show Your Work,’ I thought I’d share the workflow I use during course development with an authoring tool (see Why You Should Show Your Work for more on this). This workflow is the process I typically use after I have an approved storyboard/script and prototype. It’s simple and straightforward and is […] Post from: The eLearning Coach My Workflow For Development.

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1 Million Views. Thank You!

Experiencing eLearning

Today, I reached a milestone in my blog: 1 million total views. Thank you to everyone who is reading this, from the long term readers who have been there since the beginning to the ones who just found me today. It’s taken me over 8 years to reach this milestone, and I’m hardly the most-viewed blog in our field. It’s still a bit mind-boggling to me though.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Is BYOD Right for Your Business?

Infopro Learning

These days, asking someone to leave their mobile device at the door is like suggesting that a fish go a day without water. Whether it’s our phones, tablets, laptops or watches, most of us feel as dependent on our devices as we do air. It doesn’t matter if we are out to dinner, on top of a mountain or in a meeting—we can’t help but wonder what we’re missing on the screens tucked away in our pockets and briefcases.

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The best of August 2015

Jane Hart

Here are links to some of the posts and articles I shared on Twitter in August – with some quotes from each. If you’re not on Twitter you can subscribe to them by email. There are 4 key themes this month, and the reason I chose them, is because these are exactly the topics I discuss in my […].

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Boost Your ROI with a Better eLearning RFP

dVinci Interactive

Establishing a new eLearning vendor relationship is a complicated process. How can you make sure you get the ROI you need? Two words: “Focus” and “Partner.”. Focus – First, you need to make sure you’re considering the right questions. How will eLearning help your organization succeed? What skills do your learners need? How will the content be delivered?

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Imagine a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Imagine a company that, in the face of unprecedented change, is continually learning how to learn fast: managing tremendous amounts of information; creating new products and processes in response to global competition; using new apps to be more efficient and effective; and being responsive to learning preferences of a multi-generational and diverse workforce.

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Coursera Banks $50 Million – Now What?

LearnDash

If you are immersed in the elearning industry then there is a good chance you know about Coursera. Actually, even if you aren’t part of the elearning industry then you may know them by taking one of the courses offered on their site. Coursera is the world’s most popular MOOC and is largely responsible for starting a formalized uprising of similar services like edX, Codecademy, SkillShare, and so on.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Explore, Experiment and Experience the power of mobile learning

Origin Learning

Our Top 5 Posts on Mobile Learning. Mobile learning is new and exciting, and we have a passion for it. Here is a compilation of our top 5 posts on mobile learning that have had the industry buzzing with energy –. Are you curious about the use of social media apps at work? Check out: [link]. Want to save time in content creation? Looking for a strategic way to integrate the mobile platform into the existing learning architecture?

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 4 – Examples

Learnnovators

This is the fourth post in a series of six that covers Deeper eLearning. The goal of this series is to build upon good implementations of instructional design, and go deeper into the nuances of what makes learning really work. It is particularly focused on eLearning, but almost all of what is mentioned also applies to face-to-face or virtual instruction.

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5 Tips to Remember When Adding 'Play' In Your Learning

Kineo

In our recent webinar, Play to Learn by Learning to Play , we had a good discussion on ways to use elearning to encourage learners to think creatively and foster a culture of curiosity. .

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Adobe Captivate: Knowledge Check Slides

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel      Last week Adobe announced a major update to Adobe Captivate: Adobe Captivate 9. While similar in appearance to Adobe Captivate 8, version 9 offers several enhancements that I'll cover over the next few weeks. This week: Knowledge Check questions.   When adding question slides to a project, you can insert graded questions, survey questions (questions that do not have a right or wrong answer), Pretest questions (questions with right and wrong answer

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Beyond Static, One-Time Training Events

Axonify

The job of an Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) sales rep is only becoming more demanding. Besides needing to remember increasing amounts of medical product information, reps must also keep up with changing medical policies and procedures. The company’s outdated approach to training was falling short and Ethicon knew it had to radically change its approach.

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Best Practices for Blended Learning Design

Web Courseworks

A Case Study of the UW Professional Life Coaching Certificate Program. Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Association educational leaders who are responsible for developing adult learning programs often struggle with defining what makes for a quality educational program, especially one that relies heavily on technology.

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5 Features That Define the Next Generation Social LMS

Origin Learning

Social learning has been in existence for ages now. Inherently, man’s basic desire is to observe, learn, and share. Today, social learning is more defined to the extent of being perceived as a formal concept. Leveraging the existing social learning platforms has promoted the culture of learning. Hence, the future of social learning at the workplace lies in continuous social communication and collaboration via personal and technology-enabled methods.

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Social Technology, Community Management & Organizational Development

Learnnovators

I have been reading a spate of articles and posts related to the need for a change in the way organizations function. The diagram below by Dion Hinchcliffe is a succinct illustration of how digital technology has been and will continue to play a key role in bringing about this change. The diagram traces the evolution of different social technology and their potential to enforce and enable a deep change in how organizations function and their structure.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Lessons Learnt From The Evolution Of Journalism: Creating Content In The Digital Age - Part 2

Kineo

Open, frequent and real - taking lessons from The Guardian. In my last blog I talked about my recent attendance at a Guardian Masterclass with senior feature writer Jon Henley. I shared the parallels I’d drawn between the evolution of journalism and elearning and how we might learn from the way journalists are responding to the opportunities posed by the digital realm in which they now operate.

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Writing & Grammar: A Peculiar Kind of Parallelism

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby  I was reading my current favorite author the other day, but something was wrong. The text did not flow as smoothly as usual. I had to read one paragraph three times to figure out who shot whom (yes, my current recreational reading is in the spy/action/detective genre). And then I stumbled over a raggedy sentence that made me stop to look at its grammar.

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Beyond Static, One-Time Training Events

Axonify

The job of an Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) sales rep is only becoming more demanding. Besides needing to remember increasing amounts of medical product information, reps must also keep up with changing medical policies and procedures. The company’s outdated approach to training was falling short and Ethicon knew it had to radically change its approach.

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Best Practices for Blended Learning Design

Web Courseworks

Darcy Luoma, Lead Instructor, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Aphra Mednick, Program Director, UW–Madison Professional Life Coach Certificate Program. Association educational leaders who are responsible for developing adult learning programs often struggle with defining what makes for a quality educational program, especially one that relies heavily on technology.

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Why and How to Earn Your PMP® Credential

Gaining your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification can be very beneficial for any project manager. Most successful PMP candidates treat preparing for the PMP exam as a personal project. As such, it requires careful planning and a structured approach. Eligibility criteria must be met, and the exam is known for its difficulty, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.

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Powerful LearnDash Engagement Trigger

LearnDash

One of the reasons WordPress is so great for online learning is because of how it often enables you to tap into other useful features without much effort. In the simplest of ways this is done by leveraging another plugin. For example, you can add a forum to your WordPress learning management system by simply installing and activating bbPress. Using the LearnDash-bbPress integration, courses can have associated forums.

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SAHANA CHATTOPADHYAY – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

The post SAHANA CHATTOPADHYAY – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS appeared first on Learnnovators.

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15 Bloggers choose their Top 10 Tools for Learning

Jane Hart

Voting is continuing in the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015 survey. Although most people opt to cast their votes for their Top 10 Tools, privately, using the online form, a number of people have shared their tools list in a blog post, and it is really interesting to find out (in more depth) which tools they […].

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70:20:10 Primer

Performance Learning Productivity

I have often been asked to explain the fundamentals of 70:20:10 as a strategic framework quickly and simply. I wrote the one-page ‘primer’ below to serve that immediate purpose. Please feel free to use it for any no-commercial purposes. It is published here under the Creative Commons: Attribution – Non-Commercial – Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Webinar: 10 Tips for Better eLearning Design on Sept 3

Learning Visions

Join me on September 3rd, 1:00 eastern for a webinar with Training Magazine Network. Here's the description: Has your eLearning design gotten dull and same-old, same-old? Looking for some design ideas and inspiration? Cammy Bean, Kineo's VP of Learning Design, shares some ideas and examples to get your design juices flowing. In this session, you'll learn to: Liven up your eLearning designs with strategies for making your content more human Design interactions that rely less on clicking and more

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4 Key Elements for a Successful Leadership Program

ej4 eLearning

According to a Retention and Leadership Survey study done by Harris Poll (commissioned by Saba), 39 percent of companies surveyed offered leadership development programs, but only 15 percent of employees at those firms felt that the training they were receiving in any way prepared them for leadership positions. Those numbers, and a little math, tell [.].

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APL Maritime Navigates the Challenges of Reaching Learners at Sea

dVinci Interactive

Video interview with APL Maritime’s Manager of Regulatory Compliance, Training and Incident ResponseCaptain Christian Volkle. APL Maritime operates a fleet of US flagged ocean cargo carriers that go all over the world. Each ship is operated by crew members with various skills and jobs that are essential to successfully moving massive amounts of cargo across the world’s oceans.