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Learning Leaders: Julie Dirksen on the Importance of Feedback in Changing Behavior
A key reason that employees’ behavior doesn’t change, even after comprehensive training, is a lack of feedback, according to Guild Master Julie Dirksen.
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Five Best Practices When Converting Classroom Content for the Virtual Classroom
Taking traditional training materials online is akin to substituting baking soda for baking powder. It can be done, but it’s not a straight one-to-one translation. Adjustments must be made: content, learner situation, format, and more. Here are five best practices for making those adjustments!
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Five Disruptions in Learning and Performance That You Must Adopt Now
About six percent of Fortune 500 companies have reimagined and redefined work and, in the process, have enjoyed increased profits and higher employee morale. How did they do it? By embracing and implementing disruptive technologies in employee performance and training. Here are the five disruptive technologies that are the “secret sauce” for these companies’ successes.
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Pearson Shares Its Learning Design Principles
In a push for transparency, Pearson has published a set of 45 learning design principles under an open license; a company blog says that the company seeks an “extended dialogue” around their use.
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The Keys to Engaging Virtual Classroom Training? Planning, Design—and Channeling Oprah
Being a great presenter is only the beginning of what an instructor needs to engage learners online. The ability to build rapport with an audience you can’t see is essential.
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Marc My Words: Using Training to Support Performance Support
We have often heard it said that performance support can be used instead of training. But that doesn’t mean the two are at odds with each other. Here are six scenarios where training might be helpful in fostering performance support adoption and use.
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Developing an On-Demand eLearning Solution: Upskilling the UK School Workforce
Many organizations are challenged to bring individuals up to speed quickly in order to fill critical roles. Education is no different. In the UK in recent years, the loss of teaching staff has created a need for temporary staff, but many are deficient in key skills and knowledge. Here’s how the challenge is being met—and much of it is entirely relevant to all kinds of organizations and vocations.
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Turning MOOC Cons into Pros: Using MOOCs for Recruitment in Higher Education
MOOCs have developed rather negative connotations as a learning delivery platform: high attrition rate, middling rigor, heterogeneous student cohorts with widely varying skill levels and backgrounds, insufficient recognition of learning value, and an unsustainable “free” business model. Using a MOOC as a recruitment tool, not just a content delivery system, flips these MOOC “cons” to “pros.”
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Designing Game-Based Learning to Enhance Employee Work Life
Development teams often struggle to meet the demands placed upon them. They may become demotivated and unproductive. What they need is time to work on the factors that produce these symptoms. How can you help them with this? Well-designed games! Read about this approach here.
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Jhana Offers Targeted Coaching for First-Level Managers—via eLearning
Much content and coaching for managers tilts toward executives and corporate leaders. Jhana focuses on a different market: first-level managers. The company targets coaching and problem-solving advice to team leaders, whom they see as “linchpins” of the organization.