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Designing Your xAPI Data Strategy: xAPI-Statement Framework
By now, you probably know that xAPI statements store better and more usable data than SCORM. Maybe your first instinct is “store everything.” However, that may not be the best idea if you want to have analytics later! Knowing the structure of an xAPI statement may make it easier to decide what data to track. This article will help you assemble the xAPI statement components to do exactly that.
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Learning Leaders: Jean Marrapodi’s Key Question for Training Designers
Adult learners come to training with different levels of knowledge and different gaps. Guild Master Jean Marrapodi talks about how to teach to the “holes” in the Swiss cheese—how to design training when you can’t assume that everyone has the same foundation.
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Using eLearning to Drive Performance Management in the Era of Pokemon Go
The success and popularity of Pokémon Go confirm what eLearners have known for a long time: A digital interface, engaging interactions, gamification, and a focus on action lead to user engagement. Here are three ways to help keep your performance and eLearning management strategies in step to help employees grow and develop.
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Four Tips for Creating Effective Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
Although in theory a virtual classroom should duplicate the environment of a physical classroom, that is not the most effective way to think about virtual instructor-led training (VILT). In fact, the VILT environment can be even better and foster greater participation. Here are four tips to help you make that happen!
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Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing an eLearning Format
What’s the best way to provide training? Learning occurs in a variety of situations and for different purposes. Delivering information in an appropriate format and using an appropriate means of delivery can make it more accessible and therefore more useful to employees. Ask yourself these five questions before choosing an eLearning format.
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Buzzword Decoder: Just-in-Time Training
Short, tightly focused training delivered just in time—at the moment and to the location where learners need it—can improve job performance and reduce the need for longer, costlier training. Here are the reasons you should consider just-in-time training, some approaches to designing and delivering it, and the benefits.
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Marc My Words: Back to School: Tech-Savvy Students Challenge Our Notions of Learning Technology
Thanks to their use of technology outside their educational environment to learn and to collaborate, communicate, and document their own lives, today’s students are different from students of a generation ago. Now the emphasis must be to open up education to personal technology and enable students to use it wisely and productively.
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Learnnovators and Quinnovation Launch Demo Course Based on Learning Design Best Principles
Learnnovators and Clark Quinn have created a course on “Workplace of the Future.” The free course is now available. This first-of-its-kind project models deeper design and advanced presentation style, including development under real-world constraints, baked-in best practices, experiential learning, collaborative social media, and open navigation. A link to the course is in this article.
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Personalizing the Learning Process: A Developer’s Role
You can personalize the eLearning process, even if management has defined uniform learning outcomes. Developers can structure and code content to make it available to learners in multiple ways, offering learners control over which content they access and when. Here are some possible strategies for developers to consider.
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“Accidental” Plagiarism Is Still Plagiarism
Anyone using even a small snippet of someone else’s work—text, images, music—must give credit to the author. Not doing so is plagiarism, an unethical act that damages the credibility of your eLearning content. Learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.