Tips For Personalization in E-Learning
We hear a lot today about personalization. Online retailers are doing their best to personalize customer and potential customer experiences. They have to know their audiences, craft segmented advertising and offers, and target product and service promotions based upon diverse needs of those audiences. An e-learning course is no different. It is a product. And […]
5 Essential Elements in Elearning
No two elearning courses are exactly alike. Ideal elearning strategies vary between industries and between companies in those industries. Some training programs are aimed at existing employees, and some for onboarding new employees who have never worked in the company before. However, all elearning courses have something in common: they are all trying to teach […]
How to get tech-resisters on board with elearning
Despite its ever-growing presence in our lives, not all workers are au fait with technology. In fact, you’ll find during your tenure as a manager that many workers are almost completely tech-resistant. Convincing these people that an eLearning course will be of any benefit to them can be tough. Mentally, they are wired to avoid […]
How Language Training Impacts the Bottom Line
Globalisation has made acquiring language skills really important at all levels of the organisation and across business functions. Complex business challenges demand an international understanding and a level of cooperation never before seen. The ability to communicate with clients, potential customers, partners, and employees across multiple regions is critical. For this reason, language training shouldn’t […]
The choice every trainer has to make…
Despite the economic crisis being largely behind us, many trainers are still feeling its impact. New technologies are creating a momentum that offers opportunities for the innovating trainer, while the real expert has to consciously position himself. A non-profiled trainer who keeps doing the same thing, has a problem. Similar agencies are in trouble too, or […]
How to propel training into the big bad world
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s words are a variation on a well-known saying that is widely regarded as a basic educational truth. For educators the big question is: how can we achieve this in today’s digital world and turn instruction into experience? Whatever you think about the accuracy of the percentages […]
How do you raise the bar with your online training/eLearning especially when it is text-heavy and boring?
The less is more in eLearning. In one of my recent projects, the client provided 100-slide PPT as training material to create online induction and onboarding training for new hires. My focus was to exclude the irrelevant content and compel the learners to explore the content. I’ve used an interactive roadmap, videos and graphics to […]
The Benefits of Customer Education and How eLearning Can Help
Post launch of a new product or concept, begins the vicious cycle of customer acquisition followed by a tutorial to get the customer familiar with the product. This is a major challenge for every organization, failing which, the consequences could be dire leading towards inefficient usage, poor user experience, frustrated consumers, and falling adoption rate, […]
eLearning: How Big Should You Go?
“The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them” – Zig Ziglar. Most enterprises across the globe today realize the importance of training and development programs to develop their most valuable resource – their people. With apt corporate training programs, organizations can ensure that their workforce […]
Augmented Reality Takes Gamification to New Level
Since the early 2000s, “gamification” has been a favorite buzzword of the corporate training world. The idea is simple: Transform unexciting, routine activities into engaging and memorable experiences by adding game elements, such as competition, points, rewards, and interactive challenges that engage learners’ problem-solving skills. Many companies, including big names like Chrysler, Nike, and Coca-Cola […]
4 Tips For Creating Better eLearning Content
Whether you need to create eLearning content for an educational institution or an enterprise, you are likely to face the same old challenges both in terms of contents and visual representation. Don’t forget that even though you are not delivering the training in person, you are still an educator and need to emphasize the “learning” […]
Tips To Create and Present an Effective Webinar
Webinars are a powerful medium to deliver real-time training remotely to groups of any size and shape. In fact, most companies consider webinar training as the most time and cost-efficient method of delivering professional training. No matter how busy a professional is, incorporating a 20-30 minute webinar into their schedule shouldn’t come as a major […]
Time to align your corporate learning strategy to business goals?
This article describes the key features of an effective corporate learning strategy (CLS) and will help you understand how and why your strategy needs to be linked to organisational goals. In the 21st century business environment, it’s essential that L&D delivers to the pace and direction of the business. As the global environment and business are rapidly […]
What are Personal Learning Networks and why are they important?
In today’s business environment, companies want to not only recruit top talent, but create a skilled workforce. With a talented workforce, it positively affects an organization's bottom line, work productivity and strengthens the company’s overall culture and training and learning programs. Part of growing employees’ careers and skillsets includes learning programs that adapt to current […]
Is your business global-ready?
A ‘global-ready’ business arms itself with employees that possess language skills enabling them to communicate with colleagues and customers from different countries and relate to different cultures. This is a healthy position for a business operating internationally, as well as one planning an international future. The benefits are many and can directly impact the bottom […]
The 8 Learning & Development trends you can’t ignore
The field of Learning & Development has been developing immensely the last few years, the omnipresence of smartphones being, of course, a large factor. What are the most important L&D trends at this moment? According to Deloitte's research, the trends seem to be coming from the changing environments of the organizations, their need for a […]
How To Use Training To Foster Healthy and Engaged Employees
These days, it takes more than increasing salaries to cultivate healthy and engaged employees. Although the financial reward is why most of us need to work in the first place, encouraging true on-the-job motivation and enthusiasm is a slightly more complex matter. One of the most influential studies, conducted by the UK Civil Service Health […]
Do’s And Don’ts Of Mobile Learning To Have In Mind
Mobile learning is about disseminating information and learning through a mobile device. However, under no circumstances is mobile learning a compressed version of your eLearning module on a mobile device. Here are 7 dos and don’ts of mobile learning you need to keep in mind. Do’s And Don’ts Of Mobile Learning To Have In Mind […]
5 Ways to Tell if Your eLearning is Working
On July 5th of this year a team of tired NASA rocket scientists anxiously awaited the arrival of a radio signal that would confirm whether or not the Juno spacecraft had successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit. After decades of planning and preparation—culminating in the launch of Juno nearly 5 years ago—the NASA team had no choice […]
“Once your employees are taking online courses, there are a number of ways that you can encourage them to learn.”
FutureLearn is an online learning platform of massive open online courses (MOOCs), owned by The Open University. It is the first UK-led MOOC platform, and as of May 2016 included 83 UK and international partners including non-academic partners including the British Museum, the British Council and the British Library. Jamie Lawrence, Editor, HRZone: The rise of MOOCs […]
