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Learning Management System is a powerful tool to help organizations streamline, create, deliver and track and organize all kinds of training and talent development. Make sure to stay ahead of the curve in terms of learning management system technology or industry trends.
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Quick Tips on Choosing a Learning Management System
Whether it is for a small business, large business or educational institution, choosing a Learning Management System (LMS) in the growing LMS market, which includes hundreds of options, can be a challenge. First, an organization needs to familiarize themselves with the pros and cons of different LMSs. Second, they need to determine who the key […]
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Goldman Sachs Scandal Begs The Question: How Do You Prevent Cheating in e-Learning?
Earlier in October it was announced 20 entry-level analysts were being fired at Goldman Sachs. These fresh college graduates were given the axe for cheating on internal training assessments, designed to test their industry and regulatory knowledge. A Goldman Sachs spokesperson commented on the scandal, saying the cheating is “completely inconsistent” with the firm’s values. […]
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How Large Companies Train Thousands of Seasonal Workers
With the holiday season nearly upon us, many retailers are scaling up their workforce to handle anticipated surges in customers over the coming two months. While smaller stores may hire just a few additional part-time workers to ensure they have extra bodies on the floor at high traffic times, other companies are scaling up on […]
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Contingency Plans: Working During Platform Outages
Yesterday, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides took an early weekend. For thousands of workers around the world, the platform’s outage—which at least for some workers conveniently fell on Friday afternoon—meant an early weekend for them too. While many workers may have welcomed the early weekend, for businesses, the three-hour outage came at a high […]
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How to Implement an LMS, Part 1: Laying the Groundwork
The Learning Management System (LMS) market has become huge in recent years. The global Learning Management System market is expected to grow to $40.9 billion by 2029 (source). The Learning Management System (LMS) Market is estimated to reach $15 billion by 2023. Despite this, it’s surprising that many organizations (mainly on the smaller side) still […]
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Learning Management Systems: Adding Value to Instruction
For at least some people, the idea of online learning is still cause for alarm. On the more moderate end of the spectrum are those people who assume that virtual classrooms—and more generally, all distributed forms of learning—hold the potential to augment but never truly replace face-to-face forms of instruction. On the more extreme end […]
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Writing for eLearning, Part III: 6 Tactical Tips
In this third installment of my series on writing for eLearning, I want to present some good tactical tips that will help keep your writing as good as it needs to be for your learners.
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Writing for eLearning, Part II: Clarity
You may have the best learning management system (LMS) available and the most powerful authoring tools, but even those can’t write your content for you. In this second article on writing for eLearning, the focus will be on clarity. After all, the whole point is to make your content as clear as possible to your […]
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Writing for eLearning, Part I: Concise and Compelling
Everyone needs a great learning management system (LMS), from a business to a learning professional to an end-learner. But when it comes to your job as an eLearning professional, you and your staff need more than a fantastic LMS. And that’s because even if your LMS has all the amazing bells and whistles that make […]
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Office Design and Inclusion
Over the past month, temperatures have soared across the United States–except in most workplaces. And as a widely circulated new study, published in Nature Climate Change last week, concludes, the chilly climate of many offices may reflect a problem that can’t be easily solved by simply adjusting our thermostats. Indeed, the study suggests that the […]
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eLearning TrendWatch: Characters and Avatars
Learning professionals are always looking for ways to jazz up their eLearning and other corporate training content, and making good use of characters and avatars is a great way to do that. This article will cover some of the basics as well as latest developments in eLearning trends for leveraging characters and avatars into learning […]
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Learning Management Systems and Training Resistance
Although training is now part of the culture of most contemporary workplaces, there are still some employees who resist training or resist training under specific circumstances. While it can be frustrating when employees refuse to participate in mandatory training, by analyzing their reasons for resisting training, organizations can gain insight into their workplace culture and […]
