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Dear Michael, My Content Is Boring

Allen Interactions

Editors Note: some years ago (10,000 in internet years) Allen Interactions produced an e-zine.

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Using Learning Objects as ?Knowledge Packages? to Achieve Learning Objectives

Docebo

Learning objects cover a single learning objective, while acting as autonomous units that can be leveraged across multiple courses. One of the main advantages with e-learning and the delivery of online training is the opportunity to serve learning objects (compliant with SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC and Tincan) that reflect the needs of your training objectives.

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8 Examples Of Video-Based Learning For Corporate Training

EI Design

The usage of videos for learning is an established practice. It is seeing an acceleration in adoption on account of the wider usage of Mobile Learning and Microlearning. In this article, I share 8 examples on how you can use video based learning. Video-Based Learning For Corporate Training. We all are aware of the popularity of videos. Let me highlight their impact through some statistics: There are 22 billion daily video views: Snapchat (10 billion), Facebook (8 billion), and YouTube (4 billion

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Defining the Modern Learner Experience

InSync Training

When designing and delivering content, we need to balance five elements of the learner experience: technology, design, people, place, and time. In order to achieve this balance, we need to focus on the learner experience. We need to define and leverage how learning is structured, including when it is taking place, where it is taking place, and how it is being delivered.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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How do you measure microlearning?

Axonify

Learning and development (L&D) professionals have been dealing with problems measuring the effectiveness of their programs for decades. Does this sound familiar? First, you schedule people out of the operation to attend a class or complete an eLearning module. Then, to get to level 1 (reaction) measurement, you have to send them a survey and hope they respond.

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Articulate Storyline Introduction Screens to Engage Learners

Swift eLearning Services

60 seconds to catch the attention of the learner. The introduction screen is plays a vital role in any eLearning course. It may not affect the course performance, but it sets a tone for the learners’ enegement. Introduction slide 01 This introduction e-template is a bit different from the other templates.

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7 Project Management Tips For Learning And Development Professionals

eLearning Industry

How often do your projects go according to plan? Do you find yourself wondering why your projects keep running into issues with budgets, timelines, or unrealistic expectations? Define these 7 items before crafting that next project plan to avoid those same headaches on your next project. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning Localization: Why Learning in a Native Language is the Most Effective

KnowledgeCity

eLearning courses are effective only if they reach the learners. eLearning trainers put in maximum effort to create courses that resonate well with the learners. While the trainers take extreme caution in how the content is delivered, one important factor that needs to be considered is the language of the course delivery. Though English is considered the global language, learning in one’s native language helps the learners to understand better than in any other language.

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Webinar: How to Choose an Authoring Tool: Essential Checklist – Tuesday 19 June 2018, 09:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Adobe Captivate

Let’s face it: we all need a little help sometimes. Whether you’re a manager, an instructional designer, a developer, a programmer, or some combination—no matter what your role is, sooner or later you need to choose an authoring tool to develop eLearning content. But how to decide? In this topic, we’ll discuss various criteria and decision points to help you figure out which authoring tool is the best fit for you.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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The best of both worlds

E-Learning Provocateur

There’s no point landing the perfect plane at the wrong airport. That’s an analogy someone shared with me several years ago to explain Design Thinking, and it has resonated with me ever since for two reasons. Firstly, it exposes the solution-first approach that pervades the corporate sector; and secondly, it challenges our obsession with perfection.

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Why Drupal Is The Right Choice For Beginners In Web Development

eLearning Industry

Though Drupal is considered as a Content Management Framework, the technology offers its various unique benefits to beginners in web development as a Content Management System. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Engage New Employees with a Successful Onboarding Program

Infopro Learning

New employee training should be more than checking a box. It should lay the foundation for your employee experience. It’s rare that anyone would deny that a successful onboarding program in important. The first 90 days on the job are the most critical for the long-term success of your employees. And 20 percent of turnover happens in the first 45 days of employment.

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My Favorite Instructional Design Books for New eLearning Designers

Tim Slade

When you’re new to eLearning, you might find yourself spending a lot of time learning how to use your very first eLearning authoring tool or how to design your slides. In fact, you can get so distracted trying to master these things, that it becomes all too easy to forget the importance of also mastering your instructional design skills! And one of the best ways to master this skill is to check out some of the great instructional design books available.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Managing the Self-Directed Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter Five). There is a moment in the movie The Matrix when Trinity says, “I need to know how to fly a helicopter!” She plugs a jack directly into her brain and downloads the skills. Plugging in to what she needed to learn was as direct and fast as the screenwriters could imagine….

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Vote for the Top Tools for Learning 2018

Jane Hart

The Top 200 Tools for Learning 2018, the 12th Annual Learning Tools survey, is now open. Jane Hart will once again be compiling the list from the votes of contributors worldwide as well as 3 sub-lists: Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning 2018 – ie.

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4 Steps for Marketing Learning Programs

Infopro Learning

How L&D Leaders Can Increase Learning Engagement and Drive Business Results by Thinking Like a Marketer. Marketing and L&D might not come to mind as a natural pair, but training is one of the most cost-logical areas to spend marketing dollars and effort. Marketing’s most basic function is to increase demand. Marketing learning programs can help establish a culture of continuous learning by creating a consistent demand for it.

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Resources from eLBX Conference

Kapp Notes

Great time at the eLBX Conference. Met up with some old friends and made some new ones. Here are the slides and some resources discussed. Here is a link to the conference. Games, Gamification and Game-Thinking: Making a Impact with Learners from Karl Kapp. Click here for a link to the Zombie Instructional Design Card Game and Zombie Sales Card Game.

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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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How Can We Think Bigger as Instructional Designers?

InSync Training

Here's a radical idea: maybe we've been thinking too small when it comes to instructional design. Relying on proven principles while purposefully expanding the scope of our vision can help us accomplish organizational goals and empower learners to better navigate their modern workplaces. We believe in a more thorough model so much that we practice and preach perpetual learning design.

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7 Excellent Tips To Create Compelling E-Learning Course Descriptions, Titles and Introductions

JoomlaLMS

Writing a good, attention-grabbing text is never easy, no matter what it's purposes are. With education courses where descriptions, titles, introductions and all of the other elements have to be impeccable and compelling, this is even more noticeable.

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4 Steps for Marketing Learning Programs

Infopro Learning

How L&D Leaders Can Increase Learning Engagement and Drive Business Results by Thinking Like a Marketer. Marketing and L&D might not come to mind as a natural pair, but training is one of the most cost-logical areas to spend marketing dollars and effort. Marketing’s most basic function is to increase demand. Marketing learning programs can help establish a culture of continuous learning by creating a consistent demand for it.

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4 Closing Tips to Help You Sell Online Courses

LearnDash

How to close more leads without making them feel pressured. If you’re new to selling online courses (or selling anything, really), you may not know what sales funnels or pipelines are, not to mention what the “buyer’s journey” is all about. Briefly put, when a person goes to make a purchase, they pass through various stages of a sales cycle—from discovery of a product, to assessing various options, to making a final decision.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: 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? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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When History Happens and No One Notices

KnowledgeStar

“When we look back across five centuries, the implications of the Renaissance appear to be obvious. It seems astonishing that no one saw where it was leading, anticipating what lay around the next bend in the road and over the horizon. Even the wisest were at a hopeless disadvantage, for their only guide in sorting […].

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Full-Managed Cloud Hosting for Moodle Vs. Self-Hosting

Lambda Solutions

Once your organization has made a decision to use Moodle as your chosen learning management system (LMS) , another big decision lies ahead. Do you host it yourself or rely on a Moodle hosting services partner to guide you? Many factors play into this decision. Keeping a large project like a Moodle implementation in-house can be overwhelming, time restrictive, and, believe it or not, can end up being more costly than outsourcing to a Moodle hosted provider.

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How to Engage New Employees with a Successful Onboarding Program

Infopro Learning

New employee training should be more than checking a box. It should lay the foundation for your employee experience. It’s rare that anyone would deny that a successful onboarding program in important. The first 90 days on the job are the most critical for the long-term success of your employees. And 20 percent of turnover happens in the first 45 days of employment.

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How to Create and Sell Online Courses in 10 Steps

LearnDash

If you want to make money selling online courses, follow these steps. You want to start an online business where you sell online courses, but you don’t know where to start. There’s no shortage of information out there, and digging through it all can be overwhelming. Fortunately, you’re in luck! If you’re excited about online education and ready to try your hand at it, here’s how to get started.

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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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3 Ways Companies Can Use LMS Software to Improve Employee Training

TOPYX LMS

Forward-thinking company leaders are interested in improving employee training any way they can. CEOs of the most successful companies in the world have seen firsthand the difference effective employee training makes in company culture. This is precisely the reason they invest in training. Many highly successful companies rely specifically on learning management system (LMS) software and other types of eLearning tools to improve employee training.

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The case for credentials: street cred for employees, real cred for companies

Kineo

In this age of ‘every kid gets a trophy’ just for participating in a sporting activity, the notion of incentivizing employee training can be met with groans and eyerolls. Credentials and certificates are not merely gold stars of achievement, however. Credentialing employees through trainings and workshops can be meaningful for their companies and their careers.

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Our Favorite Moments From eLBX

eLearning Brothers

Well kids, it happened! eLearning Brothers’ first go round at hosting a conference is now behind us, and you know what? It was everything we hoped it would be. The only problem now is the year-long wait for eLBX 2.0. You know that feeling you get right after your favorite holiday? Where you’re happy and enjoying the glow of it, but already just a little sad that it’s over?

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