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Learning Management System Usability: The Holy Grail
Everyone has experienced the pain and frustration of trying to use software applications that fail the usability test. This is why the new term for usability or what used to be called “user-friendly” is user experience or UX. Software that doesn’t deliver a superior user experience simply won’t be successful in the long run. When […]
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3 Things Learning Management Systems Cannot Do
Almost every learning management system (LMS) software vendor website you visit will have a blog, and the articles you find there are often very useful and informative for anyone working as an eLearning professional. Many of those articles are also serving a marketing purpose for the LMS product the company offers, which is fine, but […]
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5 Major Causes of Learning Management System Dissatisfaction
It feels like people have practically made a sport out of complaining about their company’s learning management system (LMS). It’s important, however, to weed out employees who are more dissatisfied with the content of learning programs than with the LMS itself, but even with that caveat the picture is bleak. And it’s not just the […]
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Learning Management System Administrator Career Path
There are lots of different career paths in eLearning, from content developer to instructional designer to programmers and coders for eLearning software. But there’s one employment opportunity that seems to be popping up more and more in job postings: The Learning Management System Administrator. Companies that utilize a learning management system (LMS) often find they […]
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Eliminate Harassment – Create a Positive Workplace
My last article about harassment in the workplace was an introduction to the topic geared specifically towards leaders of organizations. But harassment is a problem that everyone needs to deal with in workplaces across the nation, no matter what level or position they’re in. Employees need to be aware of the differences in different kinds […]
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eLearning Chatbots: The Future of Corporate Learning and Training?
Chatbots are computer software programs that can engage in conversations with human users. Or at least simulate a conversation-like interaction, whether by text messaging or voice chat with a simulated voice. Why is this important? In short, a lot of people are interested in figuring out how to automate interactions between customers and a company. […]
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The One-Hour Training Challenge
If you were tasked with creating a one-hour training module on some particular topic, how long do you suppose it would take? There are lots of reasons why taking the time to realistically and accurately answer this question is an important thing to do. You might be required to more accurately assess the cost and […]
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eLearning Days as Makeups for School Cancellations
Weather prognosticator extraordinaire Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, which means another six weeks of winter weather if you believe in the legend. Either way, depending on where you’re at in the world, there’s still a whole lot of winter left, which has some school administrators and teachers pulling their hair out from […]
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eLearning ROI Metrics
Whether your company’s eLearning efforts are small or large, many eLearning professionals still face an uphill battle in terms of getting the resources needed to produce quality eLearning programs and courses. A surprising number of corporate leaders are still hesitant or skeptical to fully embrace eLearning, and are quick to point out problems. The more […]
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Tips for Effective Rapid eLearning
Rapid eLearning is a term that gets used two different ways. Some people use it to refer to eLearning content that can be consumed quickly in bite-sized chunks. Others use it to refer to speeding up the eLearning content development process. It is this latter usage, the eLearning content development process, that is the focus […]
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5 Ways to Gamify eLearning for Better Engagement
In the last decade, there have been countless articles written about why gamification of eLearning makes good business sense. The basic argument is that gamification makes any eLearning program, course or module more fun and exciting, which translates into increased learner engagement, higher retention of material learned, and eventually better business results that can have […]
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Learning Management System Blog | LMS Articles | eLearning Whitepapers
eLearning, Traditional or Blended: How to Choose Your Learning Method
Many businesses in the 21st century will thrive or decline by how well they train their employees to creatively tackle and solve all the challenges they run into from day to day as well as enhancing the skills and knowledge needed to execute their tasks and responsibilities. But while the need for any company to […]
