Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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eLearning Authoring Tools
How do you author your eLearning content? Do you use a collection of different tools such as PowerPoint (storyboarding), Audacity (audio), Snagit (capturing pictures and videos), Photoshop (image manipulation), or do you draw upon one main authoring tool from the many that are available? This article will cover some of the authoring tools and how […]
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eLearning TrendWatch: The LMS and the Cloud
In this edition of the eLearning TrendWatch, I tackle what’s happening in general with the learning management systems, and specifically look deeper into what’s happening with the cloud-based LMS options.
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eLearning TrendWatch: Personalized Learning
Every learner is a unique human being with his or her own needs, interests, skill levels, and so on. The challenge for learning professionals has always been to what degree learning can be tailored to the individual learner.
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eLearning TrendWatch: APIs
One of the most important and challenging situations facing learning professionals today is the integration of the LMS with other systems, applications, and platforms. This is typically achieved by utilizing an API or application programming interface, a set of tools, routines, and protocols that can be used to facilitate communication between applications as well as […]
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eLearning TrendWatch: Automation
In this edition of eLearning TrendWatch, the topic is automation. We are all painfully aware of how time-consuming sometimes downright tedious the learning content creation process can be. It should come as no surprise that learning professionals often find themselves wishing that content creation could somehow be automated.
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eLearning TrendWatch: Augmented Learning
In this latest edition of eLearning TrendWatch, it’s time to see what the latest developments are regarding augmented learning. If you haven’t kept up with it, augmented learning is a kind of learning that is both on-demand and one in which the environment adapts to the learner. There are all kinds of ways to make […]
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eLearning Trend-Watch: Corporate MOOCs
The eLeaP blog often reports on the latest trends in eLearning and corporate training, but with the rapid evolution of such trends, it’s important to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments beyond our initial reporting. That’s what the eLearning TrendWatch is designed to do. In this first installment, it’s time to take another look […]
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Agility in the eLearning Environment
Agility has become something of a buzzword in the business world in recent years. But what does it really mean and how can it apply to the world of corporate learning and eLearning? Most dictionary definitions of agility highlight two different aspects of agility’s meaning, including the physical (being able to move quickly and easily; […]
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Top 5 Signs You Need a New LMS
Having the right learning management system (LMS) in place at your organization makes a huge difference in ensuring that your learning efforts add real value to the company’s bottom line. Sometimes you just know you really ought to have a new LMS, but all kinds of things get in the way, especially time and money, […]
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Learning Innovation Part III: How to Ask Great Questions
Everyone wants to be more innovative in their work, and in today’s business world, being innovation is increasingly becoming something that is demanded of everyone, including learning professionals. In the first two articles of this series I looked at what happens when we don’t ask questions, as well as what gets in the way of […]
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Learning Innovation Part II: The Importance of Questions
In the first article on this series about innovation, I presented a simple definition for innovation from author Stephen Di Biase and the serious consequences that can result when we fail to ask the right questions at the right time, including the sinking of the Titanic and the Challenger space shuttle explosion. As you can […]
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Learning Innovation Part I: Setting the Stage
As learning professionals, you are already all too familiar with the pressure you feel to be increasingly innovative in your work. But have you ever stepped back to think about what innovation really is, and what you can do to boost your own innovation? Many people consider innovation to be synonymous with creativity. While being […]
