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Learning Leaders: Jean Marrapodi on Improving the eLearning Experience
Guild Master Jean Marrapodi believes that eLearning should be accessible to all learners. Universal design is important for ADA compliance, she says, and it improves learners’ experience and makes eLearning more convenient.
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Research Spotlight: Pioneering Medical Device Training in the Digital Age
This case study describes how a pharmaceuticals company overcame substantial learning challenges and created an interactive video solution for users of its new medical device. While this study focuses on innovative uses of interactive video for medical device training, the lessons learned extend far beyond the realm of health care. What applications will you find for this technology?
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Is Video Learning the Magic Bullet for Sales Training AND Sales Enablement?
Sales organizations are using more just-in-time video learning to drive sales productivity. Over time, video will enhance onboarding of new sales professionals and their foundational training, and also support sales enablement, simplifying the collection, curation, and sharing of valuable content from the field.
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In Real Life: Kick-start the Shift to Modern Workplace Learning
The call to evolve the role of learning and development (L&D) has become downright deafening. If you haven’t heard it, you just aren’t listening. The workplace has changed, but we have not kept pace with the ways we support it. Many L&D thought leaders are sharing great ideas on how to shift the L&D mindset. Here are four key tips for you!
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Six Steps to Collaborative, Interactive Video
Excited by new technologies, including online video? Tempted to design your learning program around it? Be careful! You may be ignoring the basic principles of collaborative learning. Here are the best practices to get the most collaborative-learning value from your online video use, and ideas to help you get started using collaborative video!
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Improving Employee Learning Experience: Sarah Thompson at CME Group
CME Group is an international company. In this interview, Sarah Thompson, manager of professional development, discusses the challenges of staying connected to employees located outside of company headquarters, outlines the strategy for using visual instruction and communication, and explains how L&D is leveraging peer-to-peer learning and responding to younger employees. Great information!
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Will the Nanodegree Replace the Bachelor’s?
Nanodegrees, Open Badges—whatever you call them, alternative credentials are filling gaps that traditional academic degrees can’t or won’t; employers are increasingly turning inward to design needed training. Here’s an overview of credential types, their risks, and their benefits. Along with workplace learning and newer ways to approach performance, this is a topic on which you must stay informed!
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Learning Organizations Have Critical Value … It’s Time to Prove It!
Learning leaders rarely get the credit due for impacting employee performance and bottom-line results. But we must share the blame. We often fail to communicate our successes, and our goals don’t always align with what the business has in mind. We make assumptions that interfere with demonstrating the impact of learning to the business goals. Here are steps you can take to change all that!
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Keep Design Focus on User Experience
User-centered design engages learners in all stages of design, development, and testing of eLearning products. This approach can help eLearning developers and designers avoid costly mistakes, achieve better design, and produce usable, successful eLearning modules.
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Marc My Words: From Content Creation to Content Curation: Do You Have a “Decrapulation” Strategy?
We search for something on the web, or on our organization’s intranet, only to find tons of outdated, irrelevant content. It seems we find it too easy to publish content and too bothersome to update or “unpublish” it. How do you avoid creating a content curation mess? Marc offers four guidelines for content expiration.