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What is Adult Learning Theory and Why Is It Important?

ej4 eLearning

We often take for granted that people know how to learn. After all, we all had to learn while in school, right? But that can be a dangerous attitude to take when it comes to corporate training initiatives. School curricula are built on theories about how children and teenagers learn (and how much time they can dedicate to learning). Have you ever considered whether adults learn in the same way?

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3 New Year’s Resolutions for a Successful eLearning Career

Tim Slade

While the New Year’s is a great time to set some personal resolutions, it’s also a good idea to add some professional resolutions to your list. Whether you’re looking for a new job, more clients, a promotion, or to simply become a better eLearning designer; in this post, I’ll share three resolutions you should consider adding to your list for a successful eLearning career in the new year. 1.

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8 Ways To Enhance The Learning Process In Online Education

eLearning Industry

Learning efficiency is typically determined by the money, time and resources that are crucial for obtaining desired results. This means the learning process becomes better if fewer expenses and less time is involved. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Training Strategies To Help Engage and Retain Millennial Employees

KnowledgeAnywhere

Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce, making it more important than ever to understand and motivate them in the workplace. Retaining millennial talent can be an ongoing challenge for employers. Only 50% of millennials plan to stay with their current employer long-term; willing to leave for better pay, benefits, or career growth.

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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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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

“Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” We all know this. It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. They’re our friends, but not always. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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Solo eLearning Design: How To Make The Most Of Your Resources

eLearning Industry

98% of all businesses will have some sort of eLearning in place by 2020. With smaller companies recognizing the benefits eLearning courses can offer their companies, individuals are being tasked more and more often with managing their respective company eLearning solutions solo. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Tips for Better Online Course Management

LearnDash

How to keep your online course management from overwhelming your life. One of the most appealing ideas about online courses for instructors is the assumption that, once the course content is created, instructors can leave their courses to run on autopilot and reap the benefits of passive income. However, as much as we might like this to be the case, there’s a laundry list of administrative duties, marketing tasks, and instructor responsibilities that can overwhelm educators if they aren

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Sharing Freely: Learning & Development Resolutions for 2019

Dashe & Thomson

Henry Kingman Instructional Designer. My resolution for 2019 as an instructional designer is to always go one step further. Whether I’m brainstorming solutions, designing meaningful interactions, or reviewing my content, I’m going to take one extra step to make sure I have the best version possible. I’ll take one more pass through, find another creative solution, add an extra bit of polish, reassess my decisions.

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Bringing Transformation to Life

Clark Quinn

I’m going to be delivering a mobile learning course for a university this spring. Consequently, I’m currently beginning the design. I need to practice what I preach in the sense of good learning design, so I’m working through the usual decisions. The real question I have is whether I can make it transformative. There are limitations, but one of my mantras is about design having many possible development forms.

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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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Flash To HTML5 Course Conversion: To Outsource Or To Do In-House?

eLearning Industry

Your existing eLearning courses in Flash have to be converted into HTML5 for ensuring compliance to latest web and mobile standards. Make an informed decision for getting Flash to HTML5 conversion done in-house or through a vendor. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Using Chatbots to Engage, Support, and Inform Your Learning Audience

Learningtogo

Learning Solutions 2019 – Everything Learning and Technology Join us March 26 – 28 in Orlando, Florida Joe Ganci and Margie Meacham You can’t be available to provide coaching and feedback 24/7, but an intelligent chatbot can! All over the world, people are using artificial intelligence to manage their bank accounts, book travel, and find […].

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4 Micro-Learning Trends to Watch in 2019

LearnDash

Micro-learning is no longer a trend—it’s a permanent e-learning development. Here’s how it will change in the year to come. It seems like micro-learning has been topping trend charts for years. People are predicting that a trend that’s already big is going to get even bigger. To my mind, micro-learning has proven that it’s here to stay, and that moves it from a “trend” to a full-blown industry powerhouse, complete with its own trends.

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The First Step to Creating a Fantastic Job Aid

InSync Training

Virtually There Session Recap. Job aids can make or break a blend. They provide support for learners in their informal moments of need on the job. Job aids provide key information when things go wrong, when launching new internal systems or processes, when employees want to learn more, or when it’s time to complete an especially complex or uncommon process.

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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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A foolish inconsistency

Clark Quinn

Here, a foolish in consistency is the hobgoblin of my little mind. While there are some learnings in here (for me and others), it’s really just getting stuff off my chest. Feel free to move along. This is just a lack of consistency that I suggest is unnecessary and ill-conceived. I’ve hinted at this before, but I don’t think I’ve gone into detail.

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A More Social Org Starts with Beliefs Not Behavior Change

The Simple Shift

Before you implement enterprise social technology or a strategy to use what you have, don’t make the mistake of starting with gimmicky activities that only get you to phase one, adoption. Remember, the goal is adaptation; adaption to a new level of connectedness, openness and working collaboratively. Changing behaviors is key but it doesn’t start […].

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Why Your Online Course Needs Branding

LearnDash

How a powerful brand can help you sell more online courses. When it comes to branding, many educators fall into one of two camps: Either they spend so much time absorbed in branding that their course never gets off the ground, or they never give it a thought and spend years muddling along without one. Of course, you don’t really want to belong to either of these groups.

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Employee-generated Learning is now mainstream

Challenge to Learn

The main takeaway for me looking back on 2018 is that our approach of Employee-generated Learning (EGL) is becoming more and more mainstream. Let me explain why this is the case. Knowledge sharing, social learning, and peer-to-peer learning have become household names driving new knowledge acquisition in the workplace. Most research such as Udemy’s Learning Trends, E-learning Guild’s Predictions, Jane Hart’s Annual Survey, Expert Economy Author’s Insights and so on emphasizes the importance of t

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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How Retail Companies Can Reduce Employee Turnover

TOPYX LMS

The retail sector sees more turnover than any other, except for the technology industry. 1 In 2018, one-third of HR and compensation professionals at 53 retailers reported an 81 percent turnover rate among their combined 2 million employees, according to Retail Dive. 2.

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Tool of the month: do-it-yourself animation videos

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Anyone can now create an animation video using handy do-it-yourself tools. In this blog you will find a number of tools and tips to start with. In every Ennuonline course there is someone who proudly shows a self-made animation video. Margreet rushed in very enthusiastically in the previous course: " Is there a timeslot to show my video ?" Of course that was allowed.

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Tired Learning Content? Use These Tools to Create the Best Training in 2019

Wisetail

Our partners have the best training. Maybe we’re biased, but still. Here’s a curated list of their favorite tools for creating learning content. Skim through and see what you can use to improve your training in 2019. The post Tired Learning Content? Use These Tools to Create the Best Training in 2019 appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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Learning Experience Platforms – A Sustainable Solution

Origin Learning

Learning experience through books is now considered a bit passé. In today’s fast-paced world, day-to-day chores have been simplified by the Internet. Similarly, the learning experience is now no longer confined to a classroom. Learners can access information during any time of the day and in any part of the world. Online learning has evolved significantly in the past decade.

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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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A Checklist To Find Out the Relevancy of Your Corporate Training Modules

Lambda Solutions

When it comes to the success of an organization, employees play an important role. The capabilities of a quality employee are directly proportional to the enrichment of a business. Planning corporate training for employees boosts their productivity which then reciprocates in several ways for the betterment of the company.

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Learning objectives: Our frenemy

Making Change

By Cathy Moore “Never design anything without first writing the learning objectives.” We all know this. It’s a useful rule, but only when the objectives are useful. And there’s the problem — conventional learning objectives can work against us. They’re our friends, but not always. What do I mean by “conventional learning objectives?

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Modern Workplace Learning 2019 is now available as a paperback

Jane Hart

The paperback version of Modern Workplace Learning 2019 (written by Jane Hart) was published on 4 January 2019.

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eLearning Trends In 2019: How To Use Them To Enhance Your Learning Strategy

eLearning Industry

At this time of the year, you look out for trends that can enhance your training delivery. In this article, I share the eLearning Trends in 2019 you can use to enhance, measure, and maximize the impact and returns on your learning strategies. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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How to Adapt Moodle so It can be Used for Corporate Learning

Lambda Solutions

Moodle has become a popular solution for corporate training and employee development programs since it is a flexible and customizable LMS. However, you will need to properly set up Moodle to get the most out of this LMS in a corporate setting.

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Zomato agent eating food meant for delivery, the result of the lack of training

Paradiso

Many companies don’t realize the importance of the employee training until they lose clients because of the bad customer service or their employees make mistakes that cost a lot of money for them. An example of that is the case of the Zomato agent eating food meant for delivery that went viral in minutes. That probably made that Zomato’s clients lost confidence in the company.

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Creating Great Custom eLearning Courses Using Varied Interactivities

Tesseract Learning

In this article, we will discuss where we use a variety of interactivities to keep the learner engaged and hooked to the content.