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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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Welcome to the New Absorb LMS Customers We Can’t Name (and Those Below That...
As is typical, a number of our new clients have asked that we not announce them publicly on this Blog and on our Web site’s client list. These customers include: Departments in large organizations that...
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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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APRIL WEBINAR: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up Your Learning Management...
It’s been quite a few months since we presented our popular Webinar on the topic of configuring a learning management system. Since then, many of you have likely started using a new platform....
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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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Registration Now Open for May and June Webinars
Absorb LMS Tips and Tricks Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MDT (UTC-7) Join Absorb LMS team members for a fast-paced presentation of their favorite Absorb LMS tips and tricks. Whether...
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May 9th: Delivering Content in an Increasingly Mobile World
More than half of the phones sold in the U.S. are smartphones, and Gartner predicts that tablet sales will outpace PC sales by 2017. This reality has many organizations rethinking how they approach...
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More than 100 Blatant^ Clients Now Using Mobile eLearning Version of Absorb LMS
January 15, 2013 was a big day at blatant^. That was the date that our first customer, a major global manufacturer and retailer, went live with the new HTML-5, iPad- and iPhone-friendly version of...
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June 20: Does Your LMS Focus on the User Experience?
Registration is filling up fast for our next Webinar: Does Your LMS Focus on the User Experience? A Bersin & Blatant Media Webinar Wednesday, June 20, 2013, Noon – 1:00 PM MDT (UTC-7) When your...
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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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