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In Real Life: Don’t Leave Your L&D Team Behind
As L&D professionals, we often find ourselves in chase mode as we try to keep up with our stakeholders’ evolving strategies. We therefore must become change-management experts to drive desired behavior change. But do we always apply the same expertise when there is change within our L&D teams? Thoughts on driving a mindset shift across L&D.
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Next-Generation eLearning: Learning Quests Combine Original Content, Story, Curation, and Gamification
Most eLearning design is still stuck in the 1990s. Can’t we easily replicate the type of online or app experience that most of us now take for granted outside the workplace? And why hasn’t this happened already? It may only require some reframing of the design and development process, and that has led to this concept of a learning quest. Read about it here!
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New eBook: 157 Tips on Improving eLearning Design
Instructional designers today face the challenge of designing an experience, not just a training program. Designing these experiences requires an abundance of specialized knowledge and skills. The eLearning Guild’s new free eBook, 157 Tips on Improving eLearning Design, offers insights on ways to improve eLearning design from members of The eLearning Guild community.
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Design Can Enhance eLearning Comprehension
Research indicates that reading comprehension suffers when learners move to screens from paper, but well-designed eLearning—that uses the strengths of digital media—can overcome both technical and psychological barriers.
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Strong Infographics Start with Design
Dual goals of providing visually appealing, engaging eLearning and moving more eLearning to mobile devices seem to conflict. But, with careful design, eLearning designers can meet both. This article offers guidelines for creating mobile-friendly infographics.
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Case Study: Blended eLearning for Editors Provides Focused Skills Practice and Engaged Learning
A blended eLearning seminar created by News University and ACES offers professional editors advanced training, focused practice, and participation in an online learning community. This solution offers a blueprint for skills-based professional development in a variety of professions.
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Marc My Words: Why Many Corporate Universities Fail, and Some Don’t
Corporate universities (CUs) have been a mainstay of many businesses—and government agencies—for almost 40 years. They all began with great promise and support across all sectors of the organization. Yet many fail. If your organization has a corporate university (or something similar), these are the seven wrong turns to look out for.
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Convert Effective Instructor-led Training to Captivating eLearning
Learning and behavior scientists at the University of Southern California are finding new ways to digitize effective live training, keeping it captivating when blended into distance learning. A case study of one of their programs, undertaken for the US Army, is summarized in this article.
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Improve Engagement, Focus, and Comprehension with Closed Captions for eLearning Videos
It’s a mistake to view closed captioning through the narrow prism of accessibility; most people who use captions, whether in eLearning or in daily TV viewing, are not hard of hearing. They report that captions help them focus and improve comprehension.
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Learning Solutions Magazine Is Looking for Writers!
Learning Solutions Magazine intends to step up the pace of its publishing in 2017. To do that, we need more writers, and we hope that could be you! Here is a quick sketch of what we are looking for.