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How can you strategically innovate your training so that your learners develop new knowledge faster, become more deeply engaged, and have a greater impact? Emerging technologies are providing many new and different approaches for designing and delivering training ... but where to get started?

Learning analytics is changing learning and development (L&D) departments dramatically, and the departments that effectively leverage analytic processes will create substantial competitive advantage for their organizations.  This webinar focuses on defining new measurement needs and describing new analytic solutions that can dramatically boost the impact of talent development programs.  John will share insights based on CEB research and best practices formulated while deploying world-class learning analytics tools.  

The Consumerization of Learning Guide The purpose of this e-book is to help organizations, learning and development (L&D) professionals, human resources (HR) departments, and business leaders navigate today’s constantly changing work environment through the concept and idea of consumerizing the learning experience at work. Inside, you’ll find information about: • What the consumerization of learning is and why it is happening • How consumerization is impacting the learning landscape • A comprehensive guide to help leaders, L&D and HR staff, and organizations meet workplace challenges and succeed in a tough, but opportunity-rich, environment

In 2013 TechSmith ran a study with 1900 participants to learn more about video viewer preferences and what attributes make for effective videos. During 2016, TechSmith conducted follow-up research to see how these views have changed over the last several years as video has become more prevalent and more widely used.

An effective learning management system (LMS) engages your workforce, reduces training costs and elevates skills to maximize productivity. But if your system isn’t optimal, it’s not delivering these benefits.

Opening channels for collaborative communication is critical in today’s ever-changing work place.  Employers and managers risk drowning out valuable input and alienating employees if they simply push information out and dictate direction.  However, providing and managing invitations to participate can be challenging.  In other words, moving from monologue to dialog is necessary, yet difficult.  You must balance presenting clear information concisely - that is, commanding the room -- with facilitating input and innovation - in other words, collaborating creatively.

Mustering the courage to present confidently in front of others is hard enough, but when it comes to actually engaging an audience and managing their participation, nervous and novice presenters either usually freak out, forget to add interaction, or both. And there’s another, lesser-known but equally important issue: Audiences can struggle with interactions in presentations, too, feeling uncomfortable participating and not knowing what is expected of them. Why must engaging with your audience be so difficult?

Scenarios have been with us for so many years. Yet, a significant number of designers and trainers use these as a memorization tool or branching exercise. They forget that scenarios are supposed to recreate life situations.

Leadership support is critical to the success of a training program, but many are challenged in building that bridge and actually gaining the support that is necessary.

The 2016 Online Learning Conference is nearly here! The conference is loaded with great keynotes, xFactor experiences in Chicago, in-depth certificate programs, diverse breakouts, hands-on clinics and lots more.

Join Jesse Novak as he covers all the existing and new features in Adobe Captivate Prime.     

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Sr. Adobe eLearning Evangelist, to learn how to set up and manage Adobe Captivate Prime LMS, in just 90 minutes. During this session, you will see a quick demonstration of adding users, creating modules, and assigning courses to the learners. You will learn how to leverage the gamification elements, badges, learning plans, certifications, and learning programs in Adobe Captivate Prime, to foster a learning culture in your organization. You will also learn about the unique learner experience and the different reporting and tracking options available in this self-service LMS.

If modern technology is so groovy, why do so many webinars put people to sleep faster than "The Monotone Silence" Symphony? Often, instructors neglect their participants’ learning needs. In this fun and interactive session, Pluth models activities and principles that convey content through a webinar format while keeping learners engaged, no matter the size of the audience. You’ll get to the CORE of Webinars with Super Closer, Openers, Revisiters, and Energizers.

Is your virtual classroom viewed as just a cost-cutting measure? Prior to 2013, the SAP sales organization utilized virtual and blended learning, but without an integrated strategy. Learn how in 2013 they introduced GCO University Virtual Live Classroom program, serving over 15,000 sales and sales-related employees globally and changed from a perception of "yet another online training program" to a core value in learning plans with an integrated approached and consistent, quality instructional design.

Once upon a time, learners attended full-week workshops. They had others who backed them up so they could be fully focused on the learning.  When they returned, their boss and team expected them to be competent in the new things learned, and begin using them immediately. 

Just a year or so ago, inclusion meant ensuring equal representation related to gender, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation. But today, driven by the large numbers of millennials in the workforce, inclusion has come to mean something different. Increasingly, employees are calling for cognitive inclusion (CI), or the full acceptance of the whole person and their unique set of attributes and perspectives within the organization. In this interactive webinar, we'll explore recent research documenting the rise of CI and provide strategies for taking your inclusion strategies to the next level.

In this session Martyn Lewis (Founder 3GS) will contend that training has been heading in the wrong direction for 200 years and that we now have the chance to reverse this trend by embracing blended and continuous training approaches.  Thanks to technology, we can now re-architect and redesign training for how people actually work and live their lives in today’s world.  However, this requires us to let go of old standards and embrace new approaches.

You see potential in good design. You can change behavior, drive results, decrease errors, and improve engagement. But, even the best designs are jeopardized if the process lacks the ability to support them.

Strategists Reveal Insights Expert selling strategists and "Beyond the Sales Process" authors Steve Andersen and Dave Stein reveal what decades of experience and deep research have taught them about how societal and technological changes are dramatically changing how we need to relate to and engage with our customers and every prospect differently.  In this segment we learn that if we haven’t already evolved, we are already caught behind the curve!  Fortunately, they also show us the strategies our sales teams need to adopt to get back out in front.

One of the challenges faced by trainers and instructional designers is their lack of real-world experience of the content they are trying to train people on. There is a huge gap between the knowledge and information and its application. The gap is fueled by the sheer volume, high speed and ongoing change of massive knowledge to be learned by workers.

Meeting today's modern learners' expectations requires a shift in our approach to the tools, resources, and strategies we use and implement as our environment rapidly changes with various generations merging in the workforce. Developing and implementing a strategy can be daunting with so many technologies to explore, along with the challenging work environment and engaging the right stakeholders while forming the collaborative partnerships with IT and other partners.

Does reading an e-learning blog result in more questions than answers?  Does reviewing descriptions of conference sessions make you wonder what language they are written in?  Do acronyms such as SCORM, LMS, and LCMS make you dizzy?  If so, then this session is for you.  It can be challenging to understand e-learning information without a baseline of knowledge.  This session is designed to give you that foundation so you can understand everything else you see, hear, and read.  So bring all your questions (yes, even the ones you are afraid to ask), and get the answers you need so that all the other sessions will make sense.

This rapid design approach can be applied to creating e-learning on any topic using any platform. The outcome of this approach is an online training module that is divided into four areas: The library contains the content such as reference materials and job aids, the playground contains games with closed questions, the café contains a chat area with open-ended questions, and the assessment center contains a performance test. The participants work through any of these areas in any sequence, any number of time. Based on self-determination theory of intrinsic motivation, this approach treats adult learners with respect and provides them with meaningful choices.