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How to be a mover and shaker in the corporate online learning sector

If you want to be a ‘mover and shaker’ in the corporate online learning sector – and even if you don’t – there are some things you probably ought to be doing.

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Interviews
Keys to achieve higher levels of efficiency in the learning process

Tips to help improve learner motivation for learning and integrate motivation with instructional design. Recommendations to obtain high levels of efficiency in the learning process. What are the factors that can derail a project of eLearning? Social media as a great tool that students can use to share information, ideas and experiences.

Interview to Matthew Guyan - Learning and Development Officer at Lake Macquarie City Council (Australia)

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Best Practices
“The aesthetic quality of a online course can improve the learning outcomes”

Recommendations to grab attention and engage students in e-learning courses. Suggestions to help virtual learners to retain what they learn. Tips for creating aesthetically pleasing courses that promote the interests of learners. How to persuade online students? An outstanding set of best practices in e-learning processes.

Interview with Karla Gutiérrez Trejos, Marketing Coordinator - Aura Interactiva

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Analysis
Customers versus LMS providers

What are the things that customers hate from LMS vendors? What do clients expect from them? Lee Watson analyses the difference between a vendor providing support and a vendor providing help, giving suggestions on how they can improve their customer relationships, working together with the clients. What will be the keys to developing successful training projects in 2014?

Interview to Lee Watson - author of MedEMT and Training You and Health & Safety Trainer for Virginia Tech

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Best Practices
Marketing with infographics for e-learning companies

Infographics are incredibly popular, but they’re more than just eye candy. Unbounce published an e-book that will teach how to use them as a powerful marketing tool. A resource of great interest for provider companies of virtual training solutions.

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Breaking News & Articles
Orange UK use Luminosity Studio to Create Quality and Engaging eLearning

Orange (UK) has been using Luminosity Studio, CM Group’s eLearning authoring tool, to enable its own staff to collaborate and internally develop high-quality, engaging eLearning for a wide range of audiences.

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News
Learning Moves: flashbacks from Online Educa Berlin 2013

During the first week of December, Online Educa Berlin 2013 received over 2,000 people from over 90 countries with a desire to expand their ideas of what is possible in e-learning and to discover the directions in which learning is moving today and tomorrow.


From hugely diverse backgrounds, what these digital pioneers shared is a common belief in the power of connectivity for good.

 

Online Educa Berlin is the Europe’s leading conference on technology-assisted learning,

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Research & Surveys
Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018

This report informs education leaders about significant developments in technologies supporting STEM+ (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

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Interviews
New trends make us rethink traditional learning methods

This interview, conducted with Bob Mosher, covers the following topics: Keys to developing successful learning processes, effective instructional strategies, and efficient knowledge-sharing processes; Recommendations in developing effective processes of learning evangelization; The main challenge for instructional designers in 2014 along with eLearning trends for next year; and, How students can become producers of content. Interview with Bob Mosher, Chief Learning Evangelist at APPLY Synergies

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Interviews
Speculating about social learning

In a controversial and thought-provoking conversation, the international expert in online learning, Bob Little, discusses, among other things: some of the keys to developing successful social learning projects and the factors that can de-rail these initiatives; recommendations to achieve higher levels of efficiency in the learning process; the main trends for e-learning in 2014, and potential future changes in the e-learning industry.

Interview to Bob Little, Senior Partner - Bob Little Press & PR

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Best Practices
21 Rules For Effective Social Media Marketing Strategies

There are unwritten rules involved in social media marketing. Everyone is obliged to follow these rules, but those that are new to the game, may miss out on the basics. An infographic analyses 21 unwritten rules to running a successful campaign.

by Daniel Tan - Founder of SomoThemes, Social Metrics Pro, SEOPressor and XTabApps

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Breaking News & Articles
Leading Australian distance learning University selects Blackboard to expand online education program

Charles Sturt University (CSU), the leading distance education provider in Australia, has chosen to replace its current learning management system (LMS) with Blackboard Learn&trade following a review of several platforms.

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Product review: New version of Raptivity

A review of the latest version of the wizard-led interactivity building software tool, Raptivity – which now includes major advances in online learning development, via a ‘re-energised user interface’.

by Bob Little, Senior Partner - Bob Little Press & PR

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News
Two-Thirds of Companies are Using Social Learning Technology

Saba, a global leader in next-generation cloud solutions for talent management, in partnership with HCM Advisory Group, announced a new research report: “State of the Industry Study: A Pulse on Social Learning”, which examined how businesses are leveraging social learning, the areas of success, and some of the challenges faced when adopting it.

The study, which surveyed more than 500 decision makers at companies of various industries and sizes, shows that, while adoption remains a challenge for some, more than 65 percent of respondents are using social learning technology.

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Research & Surveys
E-learning is the de facto standard for corporate training methods

New research developed by Docebo unveils the value of e-learning adoption for large organizations across the globe. The whitepaper refers the importance of selecting a new way of delivering training and development programmes for large enterprises. What to consider, what to prioritize and lessons learned.

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