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Online Learning and Higher Education: A Sleeping Giant Awakens
Shortly after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange plummeting, I interviewed a director of learning and development at one of the major semiconductor...
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Issuing Points for Completion of Learning Events
The point system is engrained in higher education. A typical undergraduate degree in a university where I reside requires the completion of 120 credits. A university student who completes an individual...
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How to Use a Learning Management System to Support Your Workplace Culture
Nilofer Merchant wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review last year titled “Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time.” It contains a fantastic definition of organizational culture that I would have...
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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy
The year 2012 will likely be remembered as the “Get Off Your Butt” year. In recent months, major studies have been published indicating that sitting for extended periods dramatically increases our...
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The Role of a Learning Management System in a World Awash in Learning Content
A client recently asked if I could help him prepare a presentation he’ll be delivering to colleagues within his organization. The aim of the presentation is to provide an overview of workplace learning...
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Using a Learning Management System to Gather Good Ideas
There’s a winding, two-lane highway in Quebec that has a telephone/electrical pole standing in the middle. This isn’t a joke. I’ve inserted a photo from a reputable news source below to show you that...
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How to Use a Learning Management System for Performance Support
About a dozen years ago, learning and development professionals thought performance support was bigger than Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and The Beatles all rolled into one. Conferences about performance...
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Course-of-the-Month Club: Using a Learning Management System to Sell...
It seems as if almost every organization I speak to wants to use a learning management system (LMS) in a different way. One company I recently met with uses a magazine subscription-like business model...
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How Mobile Devices are Influencing User Interface Design
“Dear Doctor, I’m concerned about Stanley. He has developed an unusual growth between his left thumb and index finger. The growth is the size of an average hardcover book, yet thinner. One side is...
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How to Use a Learning Management System to Solve the I-Didn’t-Get-the-Memo...
Somewhere among the hundreds or perhaps thousands of e-mails in your inbox, somewhere in the skyscraper-high piles of paper on the corner of your desk, is something really really important. This might...
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The Learning Management System Feature People Hate the Most
Satisfaction surveys of learning management system administrators invariably identify reporting as the most reviled feature in their platform. Administrators complain about reporting being...
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How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills
Remember reflection? That’s something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Prior to...
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The Most Important Learning Management System Features to Support...
In many organizations, workplace learning consists of getting people into a room to listen to an instructor. If the workforce is distributed, the room used may be virtual instead of physical, and the...
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Turbo Charge Scheduled Events in Your Learning Management System by Using Tags
Instructor-led sessions, either in physical or virtual classrooms, play a big part of many organizations’ learning strategies. To support such initiatives, the best learning management systems (LMS)...
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Try This `Winning Strategy’ to Increase Learner Engagement
There are two ways to get a young child to school on time in the morning: Method 1: Every minute or so, repeat the words `HURRY UP!’ at increasing levels of volume. After about ten minutes, and upon...
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How Branding Your Learning Management System Can Influence Culture (and...
The best companies I’ve worked with have had great workplace cultures. Management in these companies understand that happy team members are more productive and less likely to jump ship the next time...
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The Powerful Amazon Feature You Should be Adopting in Your Learning...
It seems like just yesterday that business analysts were wondering whether this newfangled e-commerce fad would catch on. Would anxiety over credit card theft deter customers from trusting on-line...
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Identify Your LMS Requirements Easily Using this Powerful Visualization Tool
I’ve ranted repeatedly (here, here, and here) about the horribly-designed Request for Proposals (RFPs) that cross my desk. Invariably, these so-called learning management system selection tools suffer...
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Borrow this University Business Model to Sell Certification Programs
You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you...
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A First Look at Absorb LMS Version 5
After more than a year and a half in development, Absorb LMS version 5 was launched this week. This release contains more than 400 new features and enhancements. Highlights include: A responsive, HTML...
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