5 Tips To Win As A Professional In 2018
It’s time to put up the tree and stockings and enjoy plenty of good cheer as we shut down for the holidays. As you take advantage of a much-deserved recharge, start to renew your mind so that you’re able to march in 2018 with the tools to succeed. A lot of changes have shifted the […]
Train your in-house coach!
Appointing in-house coaches or ‘buddies’ can be a good way to train and coach (new) employees. A less good idea: leaving these important coaches (volunteers, often) to fend for themselves. These in-house coaches have been trained for their own job and might be an amazing designer, account manager or HR professional, but they haven’t trained […]
betterU Signs Agreement With Swift eLearning
OTTAWA, Dec. 30, 2017 — betterU Education Corp. (TSX-V:BTRU) (FRANKFURT:5OGA), (the “Corporation” or “betterU”) has entered into a five-year partnership agreement with Swift eLearning Services Pvt. Ltd (“SWIFT”), an Indian e-learning development services company. The partnership will support SWIFT in managing an online e-template marketplace which will include both betterU and SWIFT’s library of hundreds […]
The Importance Of Reflection And Free E-Learning
We’ve all heard the phrase, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got”. But what many of us don’t realise is how to elevate ourselves, a process where reflection is key. The science and psychology behind reflection is telling and can be traced back to human instinct. […]
10 Hacks to Improve Your eLearning Programme
You offer great elearning products. That’s the first step. However, in order to have a successful e learning program, you have to create and deploy a successful marketing program. Your goals will center around the following: Creating engagement on social media Boosting traffic to your website Earning great reviews and referrals Getting email subscriptions Converting […]
Training staff for marketing roles
To do marketing properly, you need access to a huge skillset. We demonstrate this with a list of ten of the major career streams for marketing graduates. The list shows that marketing training can be a great investment for almost any business. For each of the different marketing roles, a business can hire an expert, […]
Who should learn online?
Before someone invests in an online or cloud-based course, it’s worth checking to see if that person is a good fit for the learning format. The advantages of studying online are great, not the least of which is the pure convenience. But certain personal attributes are required to make it work. Let’s consider the qualities for […]
8 Tips for Mobile Learning
Providing timely, useful and relevant content, tailored to the needs of your audience is the most important aspect of designing a mobile learning programme. To achieves these outcomes there are many other factors to consider. Here are 8 tips for delivering sucessful mobile learning programmes: 1. Design a mobile optimised user experience Create a user interface […]
Building A Cloud Based Corporate Training System
For over a decade now, eLearning has been the most preferred model over physical classrooms for corporate training programs. These training systems have traditionally been software-based because of the sheer bandwidth required to store learning packages and to access them. But there have been a few developments in the recent past that have made cloud-based […]
eLearning technology can better your training
Employee training is expensive. Studies show that US businesses spent approximately $156 billion on employee training in 2011, but 90% of that learning was lost due to lack of follow-up and reinforcement. Fortunately, eLearning technology is offering new approaches to corporate training, which results in improved accessibility to learning opportunities and higher employee engagement, which […]
Evaluating your corporate coaching strategy
In order for a company’s staff to grow and develop professionally, you have to create a well planned and carefully implemented corporate learning strategy. Having such well-trained employees can greatly affect the return on investment of your business, given the fact that these people can help you reach your goal. Inside every organization, there is […]
Do you know these 12 design principles for next generation learning?
What is next generation learning? And why does it have the attention of the board as well as learning professionals? When done well, next generation learning enables organisations to build the transformative skills, mindsets and behaviours that are required, far faster and more cost effectively than ever before. It uses all the resources of the […]
8 ways to improve extrinsic training motivation
Imagine you have put a nice online training in place and you have thought of everything: the program meets your employees’ needs, it’s relevant to their work and it maps their growth. Everything seems to be in order and it kicks off! But then… After a few weeks, it appears that most employees haven’t even […]
Interview Questions and Answers – The Secret Guide
If you’ve got an important interview coming up, then you’ll want to be prepared. However, when you don’t know what your prospective employer is going to ask you, it can be tough to know how to think about an appropriate response. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of some of the trickiest interview questions and how […]
How To Create Exceptional E-Learning Experience
It is one thing to get enrollees into an e-learning educational or training program. It is quite something else to keep them. When enrollees attend by their own choice, it is one thing. They can simply drop out. But when companies require e-training, users do not have that option. They must attend, even when their […]
Spotting mobile learning opportunities
The mobile learning explosion has tempted many organisations into simply making anything and everything available for mobile, whether it’s suitable or not. This may be due to pressure from management and their desire to get everything on to mobile ‘now’. eLearning courses built using flexible development tools are easy to transport across platforms. But making all your eLearning and […]
5 Steps to Mobile Learning
1. Understand what you want to deliver to your community and why Think about the curriculum design – does a mobile learning delivery approach support your overall strategic objectives and if so which topics will still best be covered by the following methods: face-to-face distance learning just-in-time training performance support tools Maybe some will need them all. […]
Providing bespoke training materials
Hi, I’ve just started a business that creates bespoke training materials. We don’t actually do the training ourselves, though we can provide a lot of support to help clients set up their training provision. I’d love to know what people think, and whether we should market our services to businesses that already do training courses, […]
Setting up employee training and development
Employee training and development can instil fear into some company owners or management, as there seems, in some companies at least, to be this idea that if a company offers an employee training, that employee will leave and get another job elsewhere. I do not know where this idea originates, but I have worked for […]
4 Ways to Minimise the Forgetting Curve
Decreasing the forgetting curve should be a key objective for all learning programmes, be that eLearning, mobile learning or classroom based learning. When considering how to create a learning programme that minimises the forgetting curve, you should consider the following points: 1. Preparation before learning With any eLearning, classroom or blended learning programme your learner may […]
