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HT2 Labs Showcases Next-Generation, xAPI-Powered Learning Ecosystem at DevLearn
Using Learning Locker LRS as the backbone for a range of solutions to L&D’s biggest challenges, HT2 Labs specializes in helping organizations improve student success rates and reducing time to competency by adopting a “plan, learn, measure” approach.
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BizLibrary Introduces Reinforcement Boosters to Online Employee Training Library
BizLibrary, a leading provider of online employee training solutions, aims to increase learning retention and ROI in training programs with a new feature called Reinforcement Boosters. Microlearning “bursts” and reinforcement “boosts” provide opportunities for learners to practice effortful retrieval.
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Why You Should Change the Way You Deliver Training, and How to Do It
Modernizing learning means putting the focus on the needs of the organization and ways to propel it forward. This includes new technologies, new methods, and new ways of thinking about learning. Here are nine key initiatives you can use now to begin updating the learning ecosystem of your company, institution, or agency.
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How Well Do Employees Know Basic Tools?
Employers might assume that employees who’ve been using MS Office tools for years know how to use them correctly. But how many employees use blank lines instead of paragraph spacing—or copy and paste repeating elements in PowerPoint because they don’t know how to use slide masters? The good news is, there is a simple, low-cost fix for this problem: eLearning.
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Yet Analytics Demonstrates New xAPI Data Visualization Capabilities at DevLearn
Yet Analytics leverages the Experience API specification to collect activity and human performance data from a wide range of sources. At this year’s DevLearn, the data analytics startup will present new data structuring and real-time visualization capabilities for xAPI.
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‘Tis the Season: Use “Guerrilla-Style” eLearning to Train Holiday Hires
“It’s a video world now,” says CGS senior vice president Doug Stephen. That’s why his “guerrilla-style” learning—easy, inexpensive, mobile-friendly eLearning for seasonal employees—is so appealing.
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Watershed Essentials to Launch During DevLearn 2016
Watershed is introducing its new product offerings, ranging from basic to advanced learning analytics as well as enterprise solutions. This includes the launch of Watershed Essentials, which provides out-of-the-box functionality and is designed for L&D practitioners who want to start tracking and exploring learning outside an LMS.
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Are Your Employees Really Learning?
US companies invest a significant amount of money, time, and resources into training their employees. At the same time, disengaged employees cost US businesses up to $550 billion annually in lost productivity. A new approach to learning could address this, yet many companies are still using stale materials. Here are some thoughts on giving those materials a much-needed update.
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Koantic to Announce New Features at DevLearn 2016
Koantic, the eLearning authoring tool that solves the challenges eLearning content creators face when adding custom videos to their courses, will attend DevLearn to present upcoming updates. Koantic is a new cloud-based eLearning tool for creating interactive eLearning video courses with gamification.
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Extend the Enterprise Learning Ecosystem with a Centralized LRS
Data narratives and more can come from a centralized learning record store (LRS) database using the Experience API (xAPI). New technologies and specifications like xAPI are proving to be valuable in a number of diverse enterprise case studies. The article includes a comprehensive list of current and coming activity around and about xAPI.