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eLearning Guild Research: Gender Issues in Pay, or What You Don’t Know Does Hurt You
Since we published The eLearning Guild’s 2014 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation report in February, there have been many comments in social media about the gender pay disparity highlighted in the report. How do we begin to explain the salary gap between men and women? If you read this article, you’ll understand it better—and learn what you can do about it.
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Best Practices: Planning a Great Virtual Training Event
Virtual training involves a live instructor, a virtual platform, and learners who are located remotely. This differs from a webinar in many ways. Planning for successful virtual training events incorporates best practices: frequent interaction, collaboration, learner engagement, and assessments. Here are the standards for effective virtual training events!
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Brain Science: The Forgetting Curve–the Dirty Secret of Corporate Training
We try to design training, including eLearning, so that people will remember what they learn and apply it to the workplace. But people forget half the information that instruction presents within an hour, and 90 percent of it within a week. Can a designer do anything about this? Read what neuroscience knows about why we forget—the foundation for understanding how to deal with it.
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Book Review: Interface Design for Learning, by Dorian Peters
In Interface Design for Learning, Dorian Peters weaves together her work as a designer and specialist in user experience to give readers dozens of evidence-based strategies for designing effective learning experiences. Anyone tasked with creating learning interfaces, or curious about how design affects learning, should consider Peters’s book a must-have reference.
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Marc My Words: Why I Hate ADDIE
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”—Albert Einstein
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Are You Ready to Deliver Personalized Learning?
Training organizations are moving toward an ideal: personalized learning. However, there is little agreement about what “personalized learning” means. In this article, the authors examine what personalized learning is in the corporate environment, and how organizations can prepare to meet this new learning need.
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Nuts and Bolts: Expectations
How can you spark a conversation between 12,000 employees in 66 countries … simultaneously? Kimberly-Clark did it, and it worked because they recognized that if you want people to really connect via social tools you’ll allow room for human conversation. Just like in “real life.” Read about the experience, and the unexpected outcomes here!
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Mobile eLearning Design: How to Survive Your First mLearning Project
Developing your first mLearning application is likely to present some new challenges, but planning ahead will smooth your path to success! Here is a step-by-step guide to managing the process and the project.
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Toolkit: So Many Tools, So Much Time
Joe has reviewed many of the better-known authoring and eLearning development tools. There are many other tools that don’t get much market recognition, yet they have enthusiastic users. Here’s your chance to tell Joe which ones you would like to know more about—he’ll provide summary reviews later this year for the most-requested and those he considers the best.
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Embrace the Benefits of Safe Failure
Including ongoing performance support as part of the solution strategy underlying the design of formal learning is good insurance against later failure. The failure may go undetected until it produces a disaster! The design process ought to include identifying and supporting tasks to allow learning through safe failure. Here’s how you can do that.