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Inspire Your Development Team and SMEs: Communicate the Wins
People love to be successful, and they also want to receive recognition for their “wins.” But you can’t just assume they know their how their hard work has paid off, especially when everyone is busy all the time. Here are one manager’s “lessons learned,” including a simple method for documenting her team’s accomplishments and recognizing their contributions in a highly visible way.
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Here to There: Unlocking Business Insights with Data and Analytics
As our conversations focus on extracting better data about learning, we wonder: How do we get from where we are today to where the business wants us to be? Other fields reap the benefits of innovations in the cloud, big data, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, but we can feel left behind—and we are, but we have some difficult history to overcome.
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Use a Digital Portfolio to Showcase Skills, Accomplishments
A digital portfolio offers a flexible, shareable way to showcase skills, highlight work examples, or provide information on a company’s products and services. Whatever the goal, certain elements are essential to a successful portfolio.
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Nuts and Bolts: Self-Directed Learning
How many ways do workers voluntarily, intentionally learn? There are more ways than conferences! From books to YouTube to social media, the list can get pretty long when you really think about it. Jane walks you through some methods, some examples, and maybe even some inspiration.
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Online Compliance Training: An Adaptive Approach
Much training in organizations today is repetitive and does not take into account learners’ prior knowledge and experience. This is especially evident in yearly or biennial online mandatory compliance training. The training can be costly, both financially and from a reputational viewpoint, for the organization and the individual. How can we fix this problem?
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JoomlaLMS Has Announced the Release of JoomlaLMS 2.1.0
JoomlaLMS, an eLearning company and provider of a fully functional LMS solution for Joomla! CMS, has announced the release of JoomlaLMS version 2.1.0. The new release focuses on significant performance and data visualization improvements.
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Mobile or Not, eLearning Needs Strong Visual Design
Anyone can learn the basic principles of good visual design; applying them to eLearning can make it more effective.
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Research Spotlight: 2017 Salary Research: Advanced Degrees and Professional Certifications Matter
For more than a decade, the Guild’s salary and compensation reports have been recognized as the industry’s most trusted source of data on eLearning professionals’ salary and compensation. In this article, we take a deeper look at an important topic included in the just-published 2017 report: the relationship between salary, academic degrees, and professional certifications.
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What Is a Chatbot?
Chatbots are popping up everywhere—including in eLearning. You can use them to enroll learners, reinforce learning, quiz learners, and even help with onboarding new hires.
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70-20-10 Holistic Knowledge Ecosystems
Holistic knowledge ecosystems (HKEs) require a different kind of modeling expertise from that of instructional designers. The former is about faithfully modeling domains of knowledge, while the latter is about translating those domains into creative expressions intended to make learning more effective and engaging. There is a strong connection between HKEs and the 70:20:10 learning principle.