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Enhance Your Corporate Classroom’s Learning Ecosystem
As you consider your learning and performance ecosystem, remember to include your physical spaces: meeting rooms and classrooms. In many cases, these rooms have limited technology to optimize learning and communication, although digital presentation solutions have been available for some time. This article presents some options that can result in deeper learning when properly used.
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Seven “C”s Ensure Learner Engagement in Corporate MOOCs
In a recent corporate MOOC, over 85 percent of the participants completed the training—17 times higher than the average academic MOOC. What drove those results?
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Nuts and Bolts: The Story in the Slide Deck
Editing your own work or the work of your subject matter experts (SMEs) is an important activity for instructional designers, but it takes focus to do it well. Here are some tips that will help you become a ruthless editor!
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Creating “Customer Stickiness” Through Training: Don’t Hold Out on Customer Training
We spend millions of dollars and countless hours in training our staff on how to deal with customers and partners. But what about training our customers directly? Research and countless company journeys, such as that of software leader Bluebeam, show that customer training is key to unlocking bottom-line business results that can range from increased profits to decreased customer attrition.
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Flipping Training: Going Digital for Better Learning Outcomes
Designing systems and methods to support learning in a multi-generational workforce is now more of a challenge than it has been in decades. This is due not only to the generational diversity of work teams, but also to the different ways in which the different generations use technology. Here’s an answer to this dilemma.
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EMEA Reporter: Nokia’s Rebirth Accelerated by eLearning
Over the last two years, Nokia Networks (formerly Nokia Solutions and Networks) has changed ownership, changed its name (twice), and struggled with turnaround as they dealt with serious changes in their competitive situation. And they are succeeding, in part thanks to imaginative use of eLearning that supported company leadership in leading change. Read about it here!
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Book Review: Mastering Mobile Learning, by Chad Udell and Gary Woodill
Mobile learning is one of those topics that’s so obviously important that everyone involved in workforce development and education needs to understand its breadth and width and then explore the little spaces in between. It deserves your focused examination and consideration. Here’s a review of a great place to start (or continue) your journey!
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The eLearning Guild Releases 2015 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report
The eLearning Guild has released the 2015 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report. Based on data from more than 5,000 Guild members, the average base salary of an eLearning employee is $78,310. Make the most of new resources in the report to start your own research, access the Guild’s salary calculator, and develop an action plan to prepare for—and succeed in—future negotiations.
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Toolkit: An Overview of Two Tools—eXe and NimbleAuthor
This month, Joe’s review covers one free tool and one that is definitely not free. They have different purposes, both have their interesting features, both have their limitations. This review will help you sort them out.
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Responsive eLearning Is a Must-have, Not Just Nice-to-have
Responsive website design is the current darling of the web world and for good reason. Essentially, it means that content will respond to the screen size it detects. Here’s what you need to know about responsive design for eLearning, and some ideas to get you started using it in your projects!