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Construct a Training Strategy to Create Employee Engagement
“How can we do better?” If employees were successful in the past with no training, imagine how productive they could be given tools, knowledge, and resources! An onboarding program is a great start, but what comes next? Specific questions about employee efficacy, detailed knowledge needed, and organizational questions allowed identification of success factors for strategic employee development.
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Comcast Uses Mobile to Deepen Learning and Verify Skills
Designs that take eLearning into the field have really worked for Comcast, where new sales hires and engineers use their tablets to reflect on learning, converse with managers and peers about tools and procedures, and demonstrate their abilities.
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Demystifying the Connections Between the LMS, LRS, and xAPI
If you’ve attended a learning conference recently, you’ve heard the buzz around learning record stores (LRSs) and the Experience API (xAPI). With so much attention focused on the potential, organization leaders look for ways to use data interoperability. Many are still having difficulty identifying a practical starting point. Here are three case studies and advice that will clear things up.
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Metafocus: Is Virtual Reality Safe for Kids?
At the South by Southwest (SXSW) and SXSWedu conferences in March, several speakers and panelists brought up the safety of virtual reality for children. Evidently, the risks of VR are weighing on many people’s minds. Is this a reasonable concern?
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Go Virtual Classroom? Go Mobile? Why Not Do Both!
Virtual classroom platform vendors are amping up their offerings as learners and instructors alike shift to mobile devices. “We’ve built our virtual learning apps to include activity-based learning for instructors on the go,” said Jigsaw vice president Ginger Ackerman.
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Using Social Media in eLearning
Social media is part of many lives, at work and elsewhere. People at least add to their knowledge through social media, and sometimes to their skills. Doesn’t it make sense to integrate social media into eLearning? Here are some ways that these sites can further learners’ understanding and provide insight.
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Toolkit: Adobe Captivate Prime
Adobe set out to create a new LMS that it hoped organizations would find easy to use and yet powerful too. The company began by researching first what organizations liked and then what they didn’t like about their LMSs. If you are looking for an LMS, you really need to read this review!
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Going Pro: Voice Actors Enhance eLearning Voice-overs and Soundtracks
The audio track is as important to a polished, professional eLearning module as the navigation or visual content. Consider using professional voice talent to ensure quality audio.
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Making eLearning Video in a Department of One
Sometimes we get to produce eLearning with a team, and sometimes we are a video department of one. Doing all the work of video creation—being a department of one—has many advantages and some disadvantages. What are they, and how do you deal with them? What are the differences between working with and without a crew?
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LRS Conformance: A Call to Action for Industry and Academia
Today, most business enterprise functions quantify their very existence with data. Compared to them, the training function is in the Stone Age. On April 12, ADL released the LRS Conformance Test Suite. Conformance and certification are critical steps in moving xAPI technology into L&D practice. For organizations that are not ready, the consequences will be disruptive.