December, 2018

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2019 eLearning Predictions – Hype Curve

Web Courseworks

Around New Year’s Day each year, we issue our predictions for the top eLearning trends of the coming year. In the past, we’ve plotted these predictions through dead reckoning – relying on our experience living, eating and breathing online learning all day, every day throughout the year. But this year, be warned: we come armed with #data.

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Combating the Forgetting Curve in Online Education

LearnDash

Learners only retain information for so long. How can you help improve their retention rate? Human memory is a frustratingly fickle thing. You can design an amazing course, and learners can work hard to master the information, but at the end of the day, they have to either use it or lose it. You are probably already familiar with the forgetting curve from your own personal experience.

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Gamification and Virtual Reality Being a Trend Setter in eLearning

Swift eLearning Services

When you feel like nothing is important more than learning, then you can think out of the box and add new dimensions to your ideas. In this context, Gamification has evolved by bringing online learning as a game to immerse the learners in life-like scenarios by virtual walkthroughs smearing virtual reality with it.

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9 New Year’s Resolutions eLearning Pros May Want To Add To Their List (2019 Edition)

eLearning Industry

Have you already set your resolutions for 2019? If you’re still trying to formulate your list, this article will help you make, and keep, your yearly resolutions to achieve eLearning success. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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2024 State of Customer Education Report

Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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The Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning

The Learning Dispatch

Inclusion and diversity are imperatives in today’s workplace. For those who create training or administer training programs, that means considering and meeting the needs of learners with disabilities. This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. .

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“It’s new, so everyone needs training on it.” Nope.

Making Change

“We’re introducing something new,” your client says. “So of course everyone needs to be trained on it.” Hmmm. Really? Maybe your client is thinking this: “This new thing is so bizarrely new that no adult Earthling could possibly figure it out without formal training.” Or maybe they’re really thinking this: “This new thing is a pain in my neck and I don’t know how to introduce it.

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Agile Development for eLearning

Infopro Learning

Linear vs. Leaner eLearning Development: How to Drive Innovation and Customer Satisfaction. Traditionally, eLearning industry has followed the linear development process forever. ADDIE is probably the most well-known method of this linear process. With clear Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation stages, this time proven method has been successful and has played a key role in defining our industry.

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Custom eLearning development templates in Articulate Storyline – 5 layouts

Swift eLearning Services

We release the next set of Articulate Storyline ready-to-use introduction templates to help budding developers and instructional designer in Custom eLearning Development. Click on each image to view the template details. Introduction-007 The templates interface or the screen is divided into two halves with a slanting line. The left half has logo placeholder, title placeholder,… The post Custom eLearning development templates in Articulate Storyline – 5 layouts appeared first on Top eLearni

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Why Learning Experience Is An Evolution Of eLearning

eLearning Industry

Learning Experience (LX) is not only the 'next' evolution of eLearning, but it's also the only path eLearning can take in its growth and maturation. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How to Create a Better Blended Learning Experience on Mobile

LearnDash

How can mobile learning make blended classrooms more effective? It seems like, with every passing year, technology and daily life become increasingly wound together. With most learners bringing their technology with them into the classroom—either on their laptop or their smartphone—there’s less of a distinction between when classroom learning ends, and the out-of-class, self-directed learning begins.

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7 Characteristics of Winning Team Dynamics

ej4 eLearning

Have you ever wondered why some teams get everyone rowing in the same direction, while others just struggle or sink to the bottom?

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When Training Is NOT The Answer

Tim Slade

Whether you’re an instructional designer, an eLearning designer, or just an everyday learning professional, a crucial part of your job is understanding when training is not the answer. It’s easy to get bogged down with the endless number of training requests that get thrown your way from your stakeholders and subject matter experts. The truth is, it doesn’t take a lot for a stakeholder to see the slightest drop in performance and conclude that “training will fix this issue!

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Learning Experience Portals?

Clark Quinn

What is a learning experience platform? Suddenly the phrase seems ubiquitous, but what does it mean? It’s been on my mental ‘todo’ list for a while, but I finally spent some time investigating the concept. And what I found as the underlying concept mostly makes sense, but I have some challenges with the label. So what am I talking about?

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Why Customization is Essential for an Effective LMS Strategy in Your Company

Customization is crucial for an effective LMS strategy. A one-size-fits-all approach no longer works for diverse and dynamic organizations. Customizable LMS platforms allow tailored learning experiences that meet specific company needs, boost user engagement, and seamlessly integrate with existing systems. Customization also supports scalability, adapting as an organization evolves, ensuring long-term investment value.

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Crazy Eight

E-Learning Provocateur

Is it just me or is every year a “big year”…? Well 2018 marked a decade of blogging by yours truly, and that alone is something that I’m proud of. Throughout the highs and lows that life gifted me this year, I was able to share another 8 thought bubbles in addition to my annual list of conferences. I call them my Crazy Eight and I recall them here for your enjoyment and critique… Battle scars – We can’t fight an “ism” with yet more ism. 25 mo

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7 Things To Consider Before You Build An Online Course

eLearning Industry

The success of any online course starts with the right approach. These ultimate pre-launch tips would help you to avoid most common pitfalls and mistakes while building your online course. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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How to Create Custom Sidebars for Your Courses

LearnDash

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more great tips! Here is an easy way you can personalize your course content! One of the great things about WordPress are the sidebar (widget) areas of your WordPress theme. Depending on your theme you will get a different number of widget areas. This means you are locked into one or two widget areas for your LearnDash course content.

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Pictures From Berlin (#oeb18)

Patti Shank

I just returned from Online Educa Berlin 2018 (#oeb2018), a conference that brings together higher education and workplace learning practitioners from mostly Europe. I’d heard of the conference and knew it was considered one of the best adult learning conferences in the world. So, I was super excited when they asked me to present and knew it’d be a great experience.

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Challenges and Solutions in High-Volume, High-Stakes Hiring

Facing a hiring surge that feels like conducting a complex orchestra? Our guide is your roadmap to harmonious high-volume hiring. In it, you’ll learn: Strategies to maintain quality while hiring at scale The real math behind agency vs. in-house recruiting Secrets to a stellar candidate experience during hiring spikes Resource optimization techniques for stretched TA teams Don't let resource constraints or market pressures derail your hiring goals.

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What is eLearning?

Tim Slade

When you think about how someone learns a new skill, it’s easy to immediately think of someone sitting in a classroom, with a teacher or facilitator lecturing at the front of the room. And frankly, I don’t blame anyone for thinking that way. If you’re reading this article, you likely spent that vast majority of your childhood and early adulthood sitting in a classroom.

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Thinking Strategically

Clark Quinn

Repurposed from another use. In today’s increasing rate of change and competition, coupled with growing ambiguity and uncertainty, L&D just can’t be about delivering courses on demand. Optimal execution, the result of formal learning, is only the cost of entry, and continual innovation will be the necessary element for organizations to thrive. Organizations have to move faster, be more agile, and adapt more effectively.

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Choosing an LMS: Navigating the Process

Web Courseworks

Great content is only part of the equation for successful online education – most organizations also need a way to effectively deliver that content, track participation, and manage credits and certificates. The right technology can mean the difference between a big success and a big headache, but the selection is no easy feat. How do you navigate the LMS selection process ?

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Continuous Learning Experiences

Infopro Learning

Harnessing People Power to Energise the Learning Cycle. As organisations look to scale business performance and growth, many L&D leaders have made the move to e-learning courses as a means to reduce cost and increase access to training opportunities across their workforce. This shift has yielded dramatic results; what once used to take weeks can now be accomplished in an hour, but it has created a new set of challenges.

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Transform Your L&D Strategy: Register for the 2024 Virtual LearnOps Summit

The 2024 Virtual LearnOps Summit is a free event designed for Learning & Development professionals who want to enhance their approach to Learning Operations. Join industry experts to explore the latest strategies, tools, and best practices in the field. The summit offers practical insights and advice to help you optimize your training programs and improve operational efficiency.

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7 Reasons You Haven’t Launched Your Online Course

LearnDash

Starting can be hard. Here’s 7 reasons you need to do it anyway. For many of us, launching an online course remains an aspirational goal, rather than one we’ve made an clear steps toward accomplishing. Online courses hold a lot of appeal, both as an educational concept, and as a way for entrepreneurs to start a business. Yet, for all the interest they hold, many would-be instructors struggle to get theirs off the ground.

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Gift Ideas for Instructional Designers and eLearning Developers: Books!

Experiencing eLearning

Are you doing holiday shopping for any instructional designers or eLearning developers? Maybe you received some gift cards and are looking for something for yourself. Here are some of the books I recommend for the learning and development professionals on your gift list. (Yep, those are affiliate links in the list. It doesn’t cost you any more, but I get a small amount back.).

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How To Find The Right Learning Management System For Employee Training?

Gyrus

How To Find The Right Learning Management System For Employee Training. Employee training has always been one of the most important concerns of businesses around the world. But, traditional training methods consume much time and costs in the process. This is why modern-day entrepreneurs are getting inclined towards ‘LMS or learning management system’ that is known to create a virtual learning environment for the perfect delivery of online training courses.

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The pain of learning

Clark Quinn

My dad , in his last years, lost the use of his hands and most of his hearing. It seemed like he then gave up. I finally challenged him on it, and he said “when you’re in constant pain…” And I got it. So, turns out I’ve a misbehaving disk in my back, and it started pressing on the nerve over the summer. Pain scales are 1-10; this ultimately got to an 8 when I was trying to walk or even stand (from my lower back down my leg to my toes).

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Shaping a Better Future by Uniting Corporate and Higher Education Content

With the increased interest in reskilling and upskilling existing workforces, companies are looking for more training and development content and realizing that higher education has a lot to offer. Similarly, companies are finding value in providing training to students and preskilling their future workforce. The challenge is that the technology and platforms used to serve these two audiences have never had to work well together—until now.

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