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How a Modern Approach to Learning Invigorated Training at MCAP and Boosted Customer Service
If goal statements for learning and development programs are to be more than aspirational, it takes a systematic approach that makes use of what we know about learning and performance to meet those goals and to generate results. This is the story of how a mortgage financing company used gamification and adaptive learning to improve its already exceptional training programs.
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Build People, Not (Only) Processes
Using eLearning to develop employees’ potential beyond day-to-day job skills is a great way to position a company for future success.
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Why Your Learners’ Agility Is More Important Than Your Own
The agile manifesto, compiled more than 15 years ago, is hardly out of date today in its principles or core tenets. But there is another side to agility—the agility of your learners and customers. Here are some insights that may lead you not only to adopting agile development in eLearning, but also to reframing whose agility should be your focus.
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eLearning Tools Keep Remote Employees Connected
Tools and strategies that make eLearning engaging, when applied creatively, can keep remote employees engaged as well. Here are six tips for creating an office culture in which remote employees feel included.
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Nuts and Bolts: Music as a Design Element
The film and game industries have known it forever: Music is a critical part of user experience, creating atmosphere, supporting memory, and cueing emotion. As a designer of learning experiences, are you using music as a strategic design element? Here are some ideas for adding it to your toolbox.
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Understanding Organizational Knowledge-web Technologies
Just as the Internet is a repository for the world’s data and information, delivered via search engines, websites, and wikis, organizational knowledge-web technologies are designed to capture, manage, and deliver organizational knowledge. Users rapidly gain insight and understanding down into an organization’s how, why, and what-if microlearning tasks. Here’s an overview of how this works.
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RISC and iSpring Announce First Top-to-Bottom cmi5-Compliant Solution
RISC and iSpring Solutions have announced the first commercially available combination of an authoring tool and an LMS that is compatible with the brand-new cmi5 eLearning standard.
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Campus Sail Launches Online Orientation Platform
Campus Sail’s Online Orientation platform for higher education fully integrates with a school’s existing system in order to automate the onboarding process.
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Lost Among the Realities: A Guide to Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Immersive or augmented experiences are innovative tools that could transform eLearning. This guide explains virtual, augmented, and mixed realities.
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Research Spotlight: Understanding BYOD
The Guild has published a number of useful articles and papers that describe the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend. The purpose of our newest white paper—Understanding BYOD: A Guide to Concepts and Issues for Learning Practitioners—is to build on those resources, and provide learning leaders and practitioners an updated guide to understanding current BYOD concepts and issues.