April, 2016

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What Can Keep And Hold A Millennial In Your Organization? Learning and Development

Association eLearning

Baby Boomers instilled the tradition of keeping one’s head down, staying with “the Company” for 20+ years, and collecting a gold watch at the end of their career. But Millennials anticipate collecting many watches much, much earlier. Forbes reports that “91% of Millennials only expect to maintain their current job for 3 years or less,” as they move on to opportunities that accelerate their career advancement.

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TOPYX LMS Releases Salesforce AppExchange Application

TOPYX LMS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. BONITA SPRINGS, FL – Interactyx, the developer of the TOPYX® learning management system (LMS) software, is excited to announce the release of a new application on the Salesforce AppExchange that provides data integration between TOPYX and Salesforce clients. The new application is offered at no cost to clients of TOPYX and can be easily initiated from the Salesforce AppExchange at the TOPYX LMS: Salesforce Integration page.

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eLearning: Attention, Attention!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel        A few years ago I wrote about the  perfect playtime for an eLearning lesson (or module). In my article, I referenced a piece by the BBC,  Turning into Digital Goldfish , where the author said "The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of a goldfish.

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Articulate User Group – What You Missed

B Online Learning

On Thursday 31st March, B Online Learning hosted the first online Articulate User Group meet via a webinar. We had around 150 people from Australia and New Zealand register for the event which was terrific! Myself and our new Creative Designer, Matt Blackstock took turns presenting a session each. To be invited to our future […].

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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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How to Create a Custom Review Results Slide in Articulate Storyline

eLearning Brothers

I love the versatility of Articulate Storyline 2 and the ability to forego the default options for navigation in favor of truly custom courseware. However, there’s one drawback I learned of by getting rid of all the buttons that line the bottom of the Storyline course player (Previous, Next, Submit, volume, and the seekbar): navigation for the Review Quiz function is missing!

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eLearning Memories of a Millennial Instructional Designer

Association eLearning

What do you picture when you hear the word “eLearning”? Chances are everyone thinks of something slightly different, based on their personal experiences. I’d like to share my first impressions of it, from back before I’d ever heard of “eLearning.” This was years before I became an instructional designer, back when I was a kid. Kid Meets Computer Games.

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What I Learned from Dyslexia

Learningtogo

If I had been born a little bit later, I might actually be a neuroscientist instead of a learning consultant. But as Neil deGrasse Tyson has often pointed out , bright girls in the 1960s and 1970s were primarily encouraged to become nurses or teachers. I’m a bit squeamish when it comes to blood, so I believed from the age of 12 that I would become a teacher.

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7 CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIGITAL MINDSET

Learnnovators

The post 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIGITAL MINDSET appeared first on Learnnovators.

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Who is the Blended Learner?

B Online Learning

This is the second blog in a series that looks at the learning principles behind blended learning, the needs of the audience and how these are determined, the technologies available and combining all these aspects together. The needs of the learner are paramount when developing a single course, an entire curriculum or a blended training program, as […].

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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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Developer Diaries: A Healthier Developer

eLearning Brothers

When working from home, Instructional Designers and Developers can easily fall into a routine that involves a lot less getting ready for the work day and a lot more getting straight to work – which can be problematic for many of us who call home their office. For myself, I know I am guilty of rolling out of bed, letting the dogs out, then promptly getting to it.

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The Difference Between Games, Game-Based Learning, and Gamification

Infopro Learning

In 2009 FarmVille owned the simulated farming world. Within a year of being released Farmville had 73 million monthly active users – 20% of Facebook’s 350 million users signed on to play the game on a monthly basis. Even more intriguing, 27.5 million users signed on every. Single. Day. If you somehow missed the revolution, Farmville was a farming simulation and social network game, developed by Zynga, which could be played on Facebook.

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Competency-Based Learning: How to Bridge the Skills-Gap

Association eLearning

Competency-Based Learning: How to Bridge the Skills-Gap was originally published in the IACET blog as a guest post by Digitec President Jack McGrath. The skills-gap issue is growing more critical in the U.S., especially within those industries that are supported by professional associations. Continuing education is needed to address the crisis, but while most associations do provide education, a number of third-party suppliers have entered the marketplace as well.

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How Flexible is Your LMS at User Management?

Absorb LMS

One of the most import questions you will face when deploying an LMS is, “how do I organize my users?” The decisions you make here will impact things like Reporting and Admin Rights, as well as Content Management, Branding, and Enrollment Rules for learners. If you plan to create your user accounts via a feed from your HRIS or payroll system, then it will be difficult to make changes down the road without impacting your integrations and processes.

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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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12 e-Learning trends that you need to know about

Challenge to Learn

I like to know what the trends are in e-Learning. I checked 20 posts on trends and selected the 12 trends that are mentioned most. Here they are, from large (most mentioned) to small (least mentioned). 1. Gamification. Gamification is the most mentioned trend. It is about applying game thinking and game techniques to e-Learning. It sounds cool and people really want to ride the wave of success of online games, but I have to say that I’m quite critical about applying this successfully into

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35+ ID & Elearning Blogs

Experiencing eLearning

One way I stay connected with the community and what’s happening in the field is by reading blogs by instructional designers, elearning professionals, and educators. I use Feedly for my RSS reader, but you can use other readers or subscribe via email. If you don’t want to subscribe to all these blogs individually, check out eLearning Learning.

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Is your annual kickoff meeting killing your sales enablement program?

Docebo

Still counting on event-based training for sales enablement? There’s a better way. We know that a solid sales enablement strategy involves a delicate balance of the knowledge, skills, materials and process expertise necessary to win deals, faster. But without the proper training content to put the right information in the hands of the right people at the right time, you’re going to lose business.

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The Difference Between Games, Game-Based Learning, and Gamification

Infopro Learning

In 2009 FarmVille owned the simulated farming world. Within a year of being released Farmville had 73 million monthly active users – 20% of Facebook’s 350 million users signed on to play the game on a monthly basis. Even more intriguing, 27.5 million users signed on every. Single. Day. If you somehow missed the revolution, Farmville was a farming simulation and social network game, developed by Zynga, which could be played on Facebook.

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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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3 Ways to “Spring Clean” eLearning Content

TOPYX LMS

Are you using LMS-based learning or utilizing any eLearning content? Probably. It’s safe to assume that individuals understand eLearning to simply be learning that is enabled and available online. That’s a simple definition. To get a little more technical, Elliot Massie defined online learning as “ the use of network technology to design, deliver, select, administer, and extend learning ,” wrote Jay Cross.

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4 LMS Features That Were Hot and Now Are Not

Absorb LMS

Make sure your team is buying an LMS for the year you’re in. Apart from a two-year stint selling tropical fish at a local pet shop when I was 16, my entire career has been in learning technology. Fresh out of university, I worked as a content developer and designed and authored hundreds of hours of online courses. As an analyst a decade later, I wrote industry reports about learning management systems, authoring tools, and other technologies.

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Why do searches on e-Learning terms drop dramatically?

Challenge to Learn

Searches on Google on some e-Learning related terms are dropping year by year: searches on Instructional design for example dropped by 80% since 2005. On SCORM the drop is 83%. Is this a decline in interest for e-Learning or is a signal for something else? Why is this happening? I do not believe it is a declining interest in e-Learning. The e-Learning market is over 50 billion and is growing with double digits each year.

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ID and E-Learning Links (4/17/16)

Experiencing eLearning

Google Forms: Create a Branching Quiz Question – Teacher Tech. Use Google Forms to create a branching quiz. This could be used for a branching scenario as well. You can add images in Google Forms, so you could add some visual interest as well. A tool called Flubaroo can be used for scoring. tags: branching scenarios google howto tools. Rev – Transcription, Captions, Translation.

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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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3 easy ways media companies can improve the quality of training content

Docebo

3 easy ways publishing companies can improve the quality of their online training materials Even the best learning management system ( LMS ) is only as good as its content. We borrowed a few tips from our friends at the learning content authoring tool Elucidat to compile a few best practices that media and publishing companies can use to improve the quality of learning content for partner training, internal employee training and customer training programs.

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My Journey from Instructional Design to Learning Experience Design

Infopro Learning

Recently, InfoPro Learning acquired another learning company with a substantial amount of content for leadership and organizational development. Little did I know at the time that that content would involve me and ultimately change the way I look at my job. It started with a simple conversation…. “How about transforming this new content into a blended learning program?

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Our Must-read Books on Business, Marketing and Beyond

Administrate

One of the eight values that the Administrate team live by is ‘always improving’ This value applies to everything we do – our product, people and the company in general. One of the key elements of this is learning, and that’s why every staff member must read a relevant book per Read More.

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Informal vs. Formal Learning: Creating a Blend!

Gyrus

The corporate training world often questions and evaluates the concept of incorporating informal learning. The question always arises whether informal learning can be added to the formal learning and if so, how both can be combined together. Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, and unplanned way to learn and gain knowledge, whereas formal learning is delivered in a systematic, intentional way with a reporting and evaluation process.

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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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