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Reduce Your Video Editing Time by 70 Percent with These Ai apps

Unlock the full potential of your video projects with the latest AI video tools. From text-to-video generators like InVideo and Fliki to AI video editors like Jupitrr and CapCut, and cutting-edge B-roll generators like Opus Clip and Jupitrr, discover how these platforms can transform your content creation process. Perfect for filmmakers, content creators, and digital marketers aiming for efficiency and creativity.

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Captions-to-Video Ai Generation with Jupitrr

Need to make an instructional video fast? Skip the tedious editing and get straight to Jupitrr, the Ai-powered app that jazzes up your content in a snap. Podcasters already dig it for audiogram creation, but its Ai Video Maker is a real game-changer, automatically adding captions and letting you insert relevant b-roll or images to your script with just a click. While it’s not perfect and may require a few tweaks, Jupitrr can save you loads of time, transforming a monologue into an engaging video. Give it a whirl and streamline your editing workflow!

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3 Exciting Ai-Powered Tools for Learning Professionals

Artificial Intelligence or Ai is everywhere today and many, I mean, many automation apps are now available. Apps like Opus Clip that takes video and chunks it in several bite size pieces, Jupitrr adds b-roll stock video to your existing narrated video, or ChatGPT4 that can be used to generate storyboard images based on course […]

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The StyleLearn Origins Podcast Reveals it All

There were exceptional challenges in the past that pushed the might of the American workforce to its optimal capacity. The catalyst for all this was training and the new StyleLearn Origins podcast brings you these powerful lessons.

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10 Principles of Learning Experience Design

Learning Experience Design (LXD) is the creative and intentional process of designing learning experiences for lasting results. The concept of “learning experience” is nothing new, but it’s certainly full of ambiguity today. I mean, 100 years ago, scholars like Dewey, Thorndike and Lindeman gave us many thoughts that challenged institutional educational and learning practices.

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Barriers to Games and Gamification for Learning

Games and gamification have been around for hundreds of years.  Last week I had the pleasure of participating as a panelist to discuss common barriers to games and gamification in organizational learning at DevLearn 2017 in Las Vegas.  I shared the floor with Marci Morford and Nick Floro who are well known practitioners of gamified learning […]

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Instructional Design is not Information Technology or is it?

Instructional Designers or IDs are in need of several skills which are often not developed in academic programs and are only gained by work experience.  Even then, IDs have a propensity to be “techie” in their talk about project requirements and may often mimic the behaviors of an Information Technology or IT professional.  You know, […]

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The worst LMS in the world is Within your HCMS

The worst Learning Management Systems (LMS) in the world are likely the top-selling ones. Why are they the worst? They are the worst because you didn’t purchase a LMS, you purchased a small integrated portion of a Human Capital Management System or HCMS. I’ve used, implemented, managed and played with several systems and thus far […]

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10 L&D Worst Practices Everyone Must Know

Best practices have a common popularity among business people.  This is a great way to incite quality work but, it’s also easy to see how Learning and Development (L&D) may have trouble identifying what those best practices consist of. Therefore, in good StyleLearn fashion, here are some great worst practices with the hope of enabling […]

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3 Solid Strategies For Smarter ILT Experiences

Instructor Led Training (ILT) is still vibrant and dominating the Learning and Development (L&D) landscape.  However, there are many reasons ILT is the worst, most inefficient and effective way to transfer knowledge and skills.  The only edge ILT has on any other learning medium is the human aspect and the ability to ask questions ad […]

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Active Shooter eLearning Experience

Mass shootings are a sad reality of our times and can happen to anyone, anywhere.  Recently, active shooter courses have become a staple of compliance training for many companies. Last year, I designed an active shooter elearning course which was my submission for LSDemoFest at LSCON16.  Even though it was not a winner, the feedback given […]

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L&D: The 3 Dimensions of Effective Learning

For most of my career in Learning & Development or L&D,  I’ve been a frustrated spectator at an individual contributor level. I would watch endless  attempts to provide effective training which merely stopped at content delivery. Not matter how I tried to influence my previous leaders, we would encounter unsurpassable barriers ranging from lack of […]

Effective Software Training Strategies

In a world where most businesses use many computer applications to document and track transactions; trainers often struggle to provide effective software training.  The most common occurrence explaining why this happens is the appointment of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the application to conduct the training.  SMEs tend to view the world through their our […]

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9 Events Every Trainer Should Know

Robert Gagné (1916-2002) gave us many concepts surrounding the learning process in adults.  However, his most significant contribution to all of us in the Learning and Development (L&D) world is known as “Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction”.  Whether you are a Subject Matter Expert (SME) who is or wants to become a trainer, any training course […]

Power Up Your Elearning with Adobe After Effects

Animating images in your elearning project can add some screen movement to give your learners context or grasp their attention to focus on certain area of the screen. Adobe After Effects is a motion graphics and motion picture effects software that allows you to bring still images to life. In this AndragoBlog post we’ll take […]

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Become a Office Rockstar with these Microsoft Lync Power Moves

Instant Messaging is a very effective way to quickly gain access to key players and coworkers in your organization without clogging your email inbox. Chances are that if your company uses Microsoft Outlook for email communications, you probably use Microsoft Lync for your Instant Messaging (IM) needs. If the latter is true or even if […]

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3 Slider Tips in Articulate StoryLine2

One of Articulate Storyline2’s feature is the slider interaction. The slider is a powerful interaction because you can give the learner real-time outcomes based on the position (step) he or she drags the slider button to. Although you can simulate slider interactions in other authoring tools (usually installing external widgets), nothing compares to the ease-of-use […]

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Another 3 Ways to Rock Out Your Presentation

A couple of days ago I wrote a post on LinkedIn titled “3 Ways to Develop Better Presentations”. Today I offer a follow up with three more “hidden treasure” techniques in PowerPoint for my fellow trainers and presenters who want to sharpen their design skills. Do you find yourself always “building” PowerPoints from scratch? Do […]

Take Your Training to the Next Level with Augmented Reality (AR) Apps

Nowadays, the average learner spends as much as 30% of their day interacting with a mobile device.  According to ExactTarget.com’s 2014 Mobile Behavior Report “Smartphone users spent an average 3.3 hrs and tablet users 3.1 hrs per day on their respective devices”.  Talent, training and learning development professionals can maximize on the focus and attention […]