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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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Responding to the Training Needs of EMTs
Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) have one of the most high-risk occupations in the United States. For only a fraction of the pay earned by other first responders, such as fire fighters, or emergency room doctors and even nurses, EMTs deliver vital medical services and often do so under highly perilous conditions. While their low compensation […]
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Learning Management Systems for Change Management
There is nothing that drives business more than a great, even revolutionary, idea. Failing to prepare one’s employees and clients for big changes, however, can be catastrophic, no matter how great one’s idea may appear on the surface. For this reason, managing change is essential and training is a key part of change management. A […]
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Learning Management Systems for Any Attention Span
Earlier in 2015, Microsoft Canada’s consumer research division released a new study on attention spans. Based on a survey of 2000 adult respondents, the company’s researchers discovered that over the past 15 years, our attention spans have been plummeting at a rather alarming rate. Indeed, among the study’s most alarming observations is the fact that […]
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Never too Small to Adopt a Learning Management System
While learning management systems (LMSs) have been widely adopted by larger companies, to date, many very small companies, including family-owned businesses that focus on delivering a single product or service to people in a limited market and/or geographic area, remain reluctant to explore the benefits of LMSs. Ask our experts about the benefits of adopting […]
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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: 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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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 […]
