Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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Best Practices for Creating the eLearning Content for Your LMS
It’s not enough to choose an LMS that is robust and allows you to create dynamic content. You also need to know how to create content that is engaging, relevant, and helpful to those who are “digesting” the content. Several challenges come with developing content for the first time when you move to an LMS, […]
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LMS Content Management: Five Types of Content Every LMS Needs
Choosing and setting up an LMS is no easy feat—there’s a reason that there are hosted solutions available. However, once the basic structure is in place, anyone in the organization should be able to easily alter, add, or remove content (provided that they have the authority to do so, of course). Cloud-based LMSs offer organizations […]
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Can a New LMS Help with Your Culture Shift?
Sometimes, it takes a culture shift for companies to adopt new technologies. In other cases, it’s the new technology that helps shape the culture shift. The adoption of a learning management system could be a result of the change in your organization’s culture, but in many cases, people come to the LMS before they figure […]
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Should Organizations Worry about Data Breaches with Cloud-Based LMS Solutions?
In setting up digital tools and resources, including the learning management system (LMS) that the organization will use, leaders and managers need to ensure that they choose systems that offer reliability and secure access. Of course, as with everything in the cloud and on today’s Internet, data breaches are a common topic of discussion and […]
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Does Your LMS Need a Custom Domain? Pros, Cons, and Things to Consider
Does your team know where to turn for education and support without having to look it up or spend a lot of time getting to the right URL? There’s something to be said for creating a custom domain for your LMS and other eLearning resources—in addition to helping brand your content, it also ensures people […]
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Use Social Learning to Improve Engagement, Retention, and Collaboration
Learning and development are evolving just as quickly as the technology created to assist with them. Today, people are no longer willing to spend hours sitting in training courses, taking online assessments, or even worse, doing this training after-hours or on their time because there’s no room for it in the workday. To take it […]
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The Importance of Mobile Learning Opportunities Alongside Your LMS
There is a time and place for employees to sit down at a computer and take a training course or attend a virtual educational seminar. However, there is also a time and place for more focused learning that is in line with their everyday routines—including their mobile Internet browsing and social media scrolling. Thus, it […]
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How to Make the LMS Just One Part of the Learning Culture of Your Organization
In modern business, culture plays a huge role in the success of an organization. Not only are employees demanding it, but companies are seeing that embracing a more engaged, interactive culture is helping the organization as a whole, in more ways than one. There are several types of cultures that a company can focus on […]
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Information Sharing in the LMS: How to Ensure Your Team Shares Valuable Content
The first thing many organizations mention when asked why they balk at the idea of information sharing between employees is that they aren’t able to monitor what’s shared as closely—a “resource” could be posted in the employee forum for hours, or even days, before management notices and corrects the information or takes it down entirely. […]
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User Experience in the LMS: A Priority Often Forgotten
The user experience is perhaps the most integral part of the entire implementation of a learning management system. After all, if your employees can’t easily navigate the platform and upskill their abilities without hassle, you’re not going to get the results that you want. Not only that, but you’ll be lucky to get an engagement […]
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The Benefits of An Adaptive, Personalized Onboarding Strategy
Your people aren’t identical. Why should their onboarding process be? Granted, you do want to have some structure in place and have an actual onboarding process, but it should be flexible enough to be adapted to the various people that you bring into the organization. Some people might need more time with training courses. Others […]
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LMS vs. External Online Courses and Degrees: How to Choose the Right Learning Journey for Each Employee
When talking about learning management systems, the topic of external programs and training courses often arises, as well. There is a time and place for internal training and upskilling, but in the same regard, there is also a time and place to send employees out into the world to seek higher training and education in […]
