LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Since the beginning of online education, many courses have been plagued by a misconception about how to successfully deliver an online course that has kept them from achieving the success they’re looking for—namely, that video is the only thing needed to run an effective course. Want to know how to take your course to the next level?

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How do you plan your project? Having spent the last decade working to help others elevate their eLearning and visual communications content, Tim has a wealth of knowledge on the subject of creating eLearning that delivers results. How to build confidence in your abilities. How to know if you have effective learning content.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some ideas for how to improve. It’s a new year, and for most business owners, that means it’s time to reflect on how far they’ve come since the previous year, and where they hope to go in the year to come. The more you know about how your learner’s learn, the better equipped you will be to teach them.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Procrastination is a trap many learners fall into. How can you offer useful strategies that help them keep on task? ” His research indicates that some 20% of adults in the United States are chronic procrastinators. ” As an educator, learner procrastination will have a direct impact on your success.

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LearnDash

MARCH 13, 2020

Here are some tips to help the process go smoothly. Educators don’t always know what to expect, and if they’re struggling, it’s likely their students are, too. A platform that is slow or crashing means lost time as educators struggle to upload their materials, and often lost data as well.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Meanwhile, learners at the receiving end of this new format have suffered from outdated and difficult technology, and have often had to muddle through with fewer support resources to help them along. So I know from experience how easy this solution is—and how tiring it can be at the same time. Zoom exhaustion is real.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In the previous post, How to Start Creating Conversation-Driven eLearning , I described how I use conversations between two characters to deliver eLearning content. In this post, I’ll explain how to write and structure the conversation. Learner Challenge. Your character seeks help from a mentor.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

Specifically, I invited a shortlist of L&D practitioners around the world to answer the following question: How will the COVID-19 pandemic impact learning and development in the long term? The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new normal for L&D professionals as millions of people were sent home to work remotely.

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LearnDash

JULY 14, 2020

Learners studying from home frequently struggle to complete their course work. Here are ways you can improve the design of your course to help them. As a master procrastinator, I am always looking for advice on time management—and paying attention to tools and techniques that help me get down to work and stay focused.

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Julian Davis

JULY 8, 2024

In my book, The Seven Year Education Itch: Adult Learning in Vocational Training , published in 2016, I explore the various hurdles that adult learners face when grappling with technology. Literacy : Digital literacy varies widely among adults. So how has this changed in the past 8 years ?

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

What is micro learning, and how can you use it to your advantage? Micro learning is an effective means of reducing cognitive load , which is the limit of information a learner can absorb at one time before their short-term memory becomes over-burdened. Here’s how to start. Either way, their time is limited.

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LearnDash

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Many other adult learners seek online education to further their careers, or for self-improvement. But despite its rising popularity, many adults haven’t yet taken an online course—even though they may be interested in teaching one. As an online course instructor, what can you learn from taking one?

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Making Change

MARCH 13, 2017

Then show the information that the learner should have looked at. The result is a stream of activities in which learners pull the information they need. The information available depends on the step that the learner is completing. Then, show them what to do. Finally, have them do it.” It’s probably a scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

The presentation also shows how these principles complement the following adult education theories: constructivism, andragogy, cognitive economy, and asynchronous learning. Taoism: Eastern philosophy on the how and why of nature. In the West, we are very dualistic–cosmic struggle of good and evil. Discussion, chat.

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LearnDash

MARCH 5, 2018

Here’s how you can support your learners. Learners have more freedom and independence, but they also face more distractions. Without regular face time in the classroom with instructors and peers, many online learners begin feel isolated and alienated from the learning experience. Online learning is harder than it looks.

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CourseArc

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Traits of Adult Learners. And How to Keep Them Engaged. Working with adult learners comes with a lot of perks. They’re savvy, motivated learners who have specific goals in mind and they bring valuable personal experience that instructors can leverage to create engaging learning experiences.

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LearnDash

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

You want to create a quality online course for your learners. How do you know you’ve made it? How do you know you’ve created a course that’s ready to launch ? And will your learners be able to recognize it as such when you do? Instead, you want your learners to know what they’re signing up for.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 25, 2023

How can you use AI to write scenarios for learning? So far, I have found these tools helpful in generating ideas, writing first drafts, and summarizing. I’ll also share my thoughts and how I refine the AI-written drafts for this example scenario. I’m using the free ChatGPT 3.5 and Bard for these examples.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 7, 2020

Some of these learners turn to their employers for training, but many more are quick to seek this training on their own, especially if they are preparing to change jobs, ask for a raise, or launch their own business. Here’s how to make that happen. These learners are also adults with many competing priorities.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Wondering how to use the flipped classroom effectively for your blended classroom? The traditional classroom structure has teachers delivering lectures during class time, and learners working on problem sets at home. Flipped classrooms have many demonstrable benefits for learners.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

People who play video games are used to challenges, they need to figure out how to navigate a level, they face a “boss&# who wants to destroy their character and force them to start a level over again and they are challenged by increasingly difficulty activities in a game based environment. In fact, they are the opposite.

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Learningtogo

AUGUST 25, 2017

This “unlearning to learn” behavior probably helped our ancestors develop increasingly more effective survival strategies, rather than sticking with things we already knew. When you are in the middle of the process, however, it can be just as vexing as it is helpful. There really is a “Homer Simpson” effect in neuroscience.

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CourseArc

APRIL 28, 2017

Over the past year, the feature request we’ve heard most from users was the ability to track the progress of online learners. Yes, CourseArc was built to help you create high quality online courses quickly and easily, but how do you know if your students or employees are actually learning?

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TOPYX LMS

MAY 24, 2017

Have you ever noticed how things are constantly being improved upon? This drastically increases the odds that employees/learners will participate in training. Learner controlled – No one likes to be told what to do. Something that many company decision makers consistently work to improve is employee training.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 10, 2011

. For the last couple of summers I’ve played in an “over 40” adult soccer league. Here’s how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more. Last summer, I scored my first and only goal.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 17, 2014

I now focus mostly on other ways of supporting learners, especially learning with social media. Bozarth : The learners, who are increasingly identifying their own learning needs and quick, low-effort ways of meeting them without necessarily enrolling in a course. It just doesn’t happen, especially with tacit knowledge.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Yet, for all the interest they hold, many would-be instructors struggle to get theirs off the ground. Yet, for all the interest they hold, many would-be instructors struggle to get theirs off the ground. You may know your topic, but struggle to find a compelling angle. Do you want to teach adults or children?

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Integrated Learnings

OCTOBER 25, 2010

It seems like every major news outlet runs the occasional story about how the United States workforce is aging. In both instances, my colleagues found literature that described what eLearning should look like for older learners. A common stereotype of older generations is that they struggle with technology. By Shelley A.

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Learningtogo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Give Learners a Nudge by Margie Meacham As often happens in the learning profession, what most of us know as nudge learning has been adapted from its original purpose in a different domain to address L&D needs. Want to Change Behavior? People can’t be forced to change behavior.

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Here’s a question for the eLearning managers out there: How many members of your instructional design team got involved in the field by accident? The accidental aspect of our careers is symbolic of the life-long learning journey most adults should ready themselves for.

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Learningtogo

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This “unlearning to learn” behavior probably helped our ancestors develop increasingly more effective survival strategies, rather than sticking with things we already knew. When you are in the middle of the process, however, it can be just as vexing as it is helpful. There really is a “Homer Simpson” effect in neuroscience.

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Digitec Interactive

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The current push to remote work has raised many questions, one of which being: how do you provide your employees with the training they need? This series will provide the main reasons to move your training online and guidelines to follow that can help you put together quality content. Maybe you’re getting tired of the Zoom calls.

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Web Courseworks

MARCH 7, 2016

As you may know, I am currently hosting a new webinar series, Managing eLearning: Thought Leaders , in which I invite thought leaders from the training & development and eLearning industries to discuss how associations can benefit from recent innovations in eLearning. But how best to go about this? Practice makes perfect.

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KnowledgeAnywhere

JANUARY 19, 2021

The science of knowledge retention is worth studying, as it helps you design more effective training. When you need to teach something, you need to understand how retention works and how to address the needs of different types of learners. Learning Retention in Adults. Adults are Self-Directed and Motivated.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. A third of teachers 'struggle with technology' | E-learning | EducationGuardian.co.uk Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Understanding E-Learning 2.0

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bozarthzone

MARCH 3, 2012

3 Birds, One Stone Bird 1: I do lots of workshops on using social media for learning, and I struggle to help participants see the possibilities of using images rather than text-based approaches in their work. Bird 2: I struggle with helping learners recognize when they are learning.

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Ed App

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you want to set your organization’s learning and development programs up for success, understanding the various adult learning principles should be prioritized. Adult learners need to know why they should learn. Adult learners prefer relevant training . Read on to learn more. .

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