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Something all learning pro’s should do

E-Learning Provocateur

I didn’t want to be one of those tourists who’s first words are inevitably: “Do you speak English?” OTJ, PBL and job aids. When you are in the moment, job aids – especially mobile job aids – become indispensable. As a profession, we need to shock ourselves out of that state.

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How Does Instructional Design Affects Executive Function?

LearnDash

As we’ve talked about before on this blog, there are two parts to designing any course: There is the content itself (the subject matter you are an expert in), and then there’s the instructional design, or how that matter is taught. Use visual aids to help learners remember processes.

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Using Retrieval Practice to Boost Learning Retention

LearnDash

Creating effective and rewording courses for adult learners therefore means focusing on efficient teaching strategies. This is great news for educators and learners alike, but taking advantage of this for your e-learning course will mean re-thinking what it means to administer tests—and what to do with the results.

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6 Ways to Creativly Use Canva for Online Courses

Fly Plugins

As a course creator I have used Canva for online courses and for brading my online course website. The number of web-based graphic creation packages has exploded over the last two to three years and that’s great news for creators of online courses.

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3 Shocking Facts About Knowledge Retention

Docebo

Here are three shocking facts about employee knowledge retention and how a learning platform can help: 1. In fact, making the move to digital learning is one of the first steps to take when overhauling your learning programs. One-third of employees don’t think the training materials they’re provided are interesting or engaging.

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How Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Can Make Your Online Courses Better

CourseArc

This famed nine-step process can be adapted to help instructional designers and trainers in all fields create highly-effective courses in any topic. Here are Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction, and how you can employ them in your course design. Your objectives should be stated within the first few pages of content.

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The Secret to a Competent, Loyal Workforce

TOPYX LMS

He mentioned that he had been “underwhelmed” by all of the training he had ever been exposed to in the workplace and was therefore not a big advocate for it when he first became a manager at a company called Netscape. He said, “ I was shocked by what happened next. Reading this book, in his words, “changed his career.”