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The Sun has Risen on Learning Experience Design

NovoEd

You’re an instructional designer who has invested lots of time and energy into creating beautiful online modules for a corporate course. You’ve followed your stakeholders’ wants and needs to a T. You’ve created animations and quizzes. However, once your course is live, you find the engagement from your actual learners is dismal and your completion rates are low.

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Integrate Discovery Learning in eLearning: 3 Fetching Strategies

CommLab India

Discovery learning helps learners learn by solving problems. Explore three easy strategies to incorporate discovery learning in eLearning.

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Drink your own champagne?

Clark Quinn

I was talking with a vendor of a robust suite of tools. In the course of it, in my usual teasing way, I asked a question. And, while I wasn’t surprised at the answer, I was ‘concerned’ And so should you be. So I’m going to suggest you start asking of your vendors “Do you drink your own champagne?” So, this was a manufacturer of an LMS (and some other, related, platforms).

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Formal and Informal Learning: What’s the difference?

LearnUpon

Every learning and development team has one ultimate goal. They want to ensure every member of the organization is given every opportunity available to train. But for a modern, growing business, what’s the best way to do this? . Formal and informal learning are two opposing learning styles. One is pragmatic and organized. The other, casual and unstructured.

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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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How Off-the-Shelf Training Content Can Support Your Employee Onboarding

ej4 eLearning

When onboarding new employees, there is a lot of “showing them the ropes.” They need to learn about your organization’s particular culture, values, and ways of doing things. If you think this means that all your onboarding requires custom content, however, and that you can’t use off-the-shelf content.you’ll drive yourself and your team crazy with a never-ending list.

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SCORM Is Dying, Long Live xAPI

eLearning Industry

SCORM, in all its incarnations, has been a constant within the eLearning community for well over a decade, 18 years to be exact. Since then, technology has left the standard in the dust with users looking for new and more detailed ways to track learner journeys. In truth, SCORM is dead. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Accessibility & Responsiveness: Designing Successful eLearning Courses

Gutenberg Technology

In 2017 - the most recent year for which data is available - 77% of US companies reported using eLearning. With IBM alone reporting $200M in savings from switching to eLearning versus traditional learning, that percentage is no surprise! With this level of technical evolution in the corporate training space, gone are the days of simply slinging text onto Powerpoint slides and printed employee handbooks.

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Focus on the context to design effective compliance training programs

Upside Learning

There are certain factors that tend to play a key role in the entire cycle of designing and delivering compliance training programs. These factors are largely related to the way employees perceive the training – the right perspective, in turn, encourages them to adopt a compliant outlook and act in a way that works for […].

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Calendars & Clocks: Key Components of a Global Training Program

InSync Training

Recently, the InSync Team worked with a large corporate client on an extensive blended virtual program roll out. With multiple two-hour live, online sessions and self-directed activities supporting thousands of learners in Company X’s offices across the global training program , logistics proved to be a veritable logic puzzle. Not only did content need contextualization (and regionalization in some cases), but each live session needed a supportive and talented instructional team.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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What's L&D's Role in Supporting the Brand Promise?

Litmos

One of the robust issues for organizations is purpose. It’s become a rallying cry for organizations to address the dilemma of lack of ‘engagement’. Another important promoted issue, particularly in the area of customer experience and success is ‘brand promise’. Here, it’s about an offer to the customer that’s enticing and delivered upon. The question is, is there a link?

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Animated GIFs in eLearning – The Why and the How

CommLab India

How can you include animated GIFs within eLearning courses? This blog explores this interesting microlearning asset – animated GIF.

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Know Your Audience: Designing Content for Generation Z

Gutenberg Technology

As you know, the main goal of designing a successful course is to impart the necessary knowledge to your learner. However, the way you plan to deliver your course can drastically impact their learning and retention.

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Articulate Rise Scenario Block Example

Experiencing eLearning

Articulate recently added a scenario block in Rise. This block is designed to create responsive branching scenarios quickly. The final products look great, although there are some limitations. I think the Rise scenario block works well for quick conversation simulations. Branching scenario example. Try the scenario yourself to see the finished product.

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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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Managing Change in the Workplace Through Your LMS

Absorb LMS

Any conversation about managing change in the workplace should include learning. That’s because nearly 70% of change initiatives in the workplace fail to achieve the desired outcome, according to the Center for Creative Leadership. If your organization is struggling to adapt, you might need to consider either tapping or making more effective use of training tools.

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Gamification Is easy! Just don’t follow what the listicles have to say

Upside Learning

It’s important to start designing for gamification in eLearning without looking at the killer examples that some of us in the community have put out. I cannot stress more the importance of this. After a few months of designing with the help of these examples freely available on the internet, the projects that I’ve worked […].

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Professional Development for Training Leaders

dVinci Interactive

Professional Development for Training Leaders Through its publications, events and professional development opportunities, Training Industry is a leading source for the insights and resources needed to effectively manage the business of learning. As president and editor in chief, Ken Taylor has a constant connection with the industry’s leaders while sifting through the latest thinking from a variety of perspectives.

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How to Prepare for Virtual Classroom Success

InSync Training

Even though virtual classroom platforms have existed for over 20 years, many learners and learning professionals struggle to thrive in this environment. One of the reasons is that the same technology "bells and whistles" that designers and facilitators use for engagement activities can distract and overwhelm our audiences.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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Open Course: Introduction to Experience API (xAPI)

Julian Davis

The final part of the Edx course on MicroMasters Instructional Design and Technology was to develop a course. If you’ve been following, you would’ve seen a few articles on Experience. The post Open Course: Introduction to Experience API (xAPI) first appeared on Digital Learning Solutions.

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How to Leverage eLearning Software to Grow Your Association this Year

TOPYX LMS

In 2017, an estimated 50 percent of associations said they didn’t experience membership growth.¹ That’s not because the hype about associations being on the decline is true. The opposite, in fact. Associations have incredible growth potential, they simply aren’t leveraging all the tools or strategies at their disposal effectively. There are many strategies associations could use to increase their membership numbers, and you’ve likely already tried a number of them.

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How to Get More Results out of your Learning Management System?

Gyrus

A learning management system (LMS) is a huge asset for your organization in achieving training needs. From onboarding to training your employees and preparing them for future challenges, an LMS is your friend that guides you in the right direction.

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Check Out These 5 Killer Features of The eLearning Designer’s Academy

Tim Slade

Last week, I announced the launch of The eLearning Designer’s Academy , which is my new online learning platform for new eLearning designers, launching on July 31st. Since announcing the official launch date, I’ve received so many emails and messages from folks who can’t wait to jump into the courses they’ve pre-ordered. And as a reminder, you can still pre-order any of my new courses between now and July 31st.

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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The Docebo Discovery Lab: The Next Era of Mobile Learning

Docebo

Companies invest a lot in branding and image. It makes sense, considering consistency is key to providing each and every customer, both new and old, with the same experience – time and time again – to keep them coming back for more. . But how do you ensure brand consistency within your learning experience, especially with more and more learners turning to mobile devices?

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Quick and Easy Ways Tech Companies Can Make eLearning More Interactive (and Why They Should)

TOPYX LMS

The current speed of technological change is a marvel. According to Forbes, rapid technological change is the biggest threat to global business. 1 Also, a contributor to the New Zealand Listener claimed “the rate of technological change is now exceeding our ability to adapt.” 2 Because technology trends change so quickly, tech employees must constantly learn new skills and become familiar with new technologies - including their own products and the tools they use to produce them.Interactive eLea

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How to Tell Whether You Need a SCORM Compliant LMS for Your Business or Institution

Lambda Solutions

For businesses and academic institutions, eLearning has started to become the norm. More and more businesses are utilizing eLearning experiences to train new employees, and academic institutions are increasingly using eLearning to help students learn in the most efficient and pedagogically sound way.

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Is your onboarding program ready? The holiday rush is coming.

Axonify

Retailers’ shelves may be brimming with summer inventory this month, but their boardrooms tell a different story: the countdown to Christmas is on. In a tight 2019 labour market, reaping the rewards of “the most wonderful time of the year” means getting a jump on seasonal recruitment as early as June or July. With recent … Continued. The post Is your onboarding program ready?

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The Credential Everyone Wants: The PMP Certification

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification is one of many professional credentials that is awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Currently, there are approximately 1.4 million PMI PMPs awarded by PMI, the world’s leading authority on management. The PMP® certification is accredited against the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and ISO/ANSI 17024 standards.

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Pros and Cons of Virtual Knowledge-Sharing Venues for Onboarding

Living in Learning

All told, the Virtual Knowledge-Sharing approach was successful, especially when a geographically dispersed audience is on the receiving end. Hopefully, the list of key learnings provided here offer some help and crash-avoidance tactics should your team go down this path. Our audience satisfaction and engagement scores were bright points despite a less than optimized launch.

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The Key Metric to Measure the Success of Your Online Courses

Client Engagement Academy

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How to Tell Whether You Need a SCORM Compliant LMS for Your Business or Institution

Lambda Solutions

For businesses and academic institutions, eLearning has started to become the norm. More and more businesses are utilizing eLearning experiences to train new employees, and academic institutions are increasingly using eLearning to help students learn in the most efficient and pedagogically sound way.

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