We have all read articles about ‘Integrating Learning with Work’ and I agree it’s definitely the way forward. By empowering staff to work smarter you can increase employee performance. Research tells us that more than 70% of what employees need to know and do, they learn in the workplace rather than in the classroom. However, there is only so much you can do with authoring tools, so you can become restricted on how much you can offer your users. You’re creating a simulation environment and it’s often difficult to keep users focused. If they aren’t focused they aren’t going to learn and retain the information for when they need to put it into practice. Users want e-learning to be memorable, interactive, task based, stimulating, interesting, engaging and so much more.
