The learning trend of 2018: always-on learning
Always-on learning is becoming the new standard for employee development, with Deloitte naming “Careers and Learning” as a top HR trend. Organizations must enable continuous skill development through microlearning, social platforms, and flexible access to training to retain employees who expect constant growth opportunities.
What are the five big problems with ‘free’ content?
Free content presents five key challenges for enterprise learning: heavy curation demands drain employee time and L&D resources, quality cannot be guaranteed, accessibility standards may not be met, and alignment with organizational goals becomes difficult without expert oversight.
Social learning: feedback in e-learning
Social learning through peer feedback is crucial in e-learning, but participants often hesitate to share responses. To encourage feedback sharing, understand your trainees’ organizational culture, explain the feedback process clearly, emphasize its developmental value, and establish trust through small group settings and secure software.
Case Study – achieve results with digital learning
Discover how npower transformed employee training by replacing expensive classroom methods with digital cloning technology. The energy company achieved £3 million in savings and reduced onboarding time from 33 to 18 days while improving learning outcomes.
How to measure communication skills online?
Online video assessments measure communication skills objectively by recording participants’ reactions to scenario-based prompts via webcam or smartphone. Assessors evaluate recorded responses against specific behavioral criteria, providing reliable insights into skills like feedback delivery, negotiation, and presentation that predict real-world performance.
Digital Learning for an Evolving Workplace
Digital learning empowers modern workplaces by enabling employees to develop skills at their own pace while maintaining productivity. This technology-driven approach offers 24/7 accessibility and flexibility, making it ideal for diverse, multigenerational workforces including millennials and Gen Z workers.
Elearning: Is that how YOU learn?
elearning struggles with employee engagement despite numerous tactics like gamification and animations. Research shows most workers prefer web-search and informal online learning over traditional elearning courses to gain job-relevant knowledge and skills.
How to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
Discover how to keep remote workers engaged with effective strategies, tools, and considerations for maintaining productivity and team connection in a distributed workforce environment.
6 Types of Visuals to Spice up Your E-Course
Discover six powerful visual content types to enhance your e-course, including videos, infographics, charts, and animated characters that improve learning engagement and information retention.
How to turn digital learning content into revenue
Discover five proven strategies to monetize your digital learning content, from selling premium materials and certification programs to using content to drive sales of other products, reduce costs, generate advertising revenue, or build a loyal community around your expertise.
Face-to-Face Learning vs. E-learning: The Debate
E-learning and face-to-face instruction each offer distinct advantages and disadvantages for different learning contexts. While e-learning provides cost efficiency, flexibility, and accessibility across locations, face-to-face learning enables immediate instructor interaction and hands-on skill demonstration. Organizations should evaluate both approaches based on their specific curricula, workforce needs, and resources.
Cultural Resilience Is Not a Barrier to Elearning
Cultural resilience need not impede elearning effectiveness. While cultural factors like beliefs, attitudes, and values influence learning, online environments enable greater anonymity and flexibility that can minimize cultural barriers, especially when instructors employ constructionist, collaborative, and student-centered approaches.
How Chatbots Can Re-shape Elearning Experience
AI-powered chatbots are transforming elearning by providing instant student support, personalizing learning pace in real time, and gathering feedback through conversational interactions. As chatbots become smarter through machine learning, they enable instructors to focus on complex concepts while students get immediate answers to basic questions and adaptive learning experiences tailored to their progress.
Tips to curate your content for Online Training
Learn how to effectively curate and present training content for your organization. Discover key strategies for selecting current, engaging, and original materials across multiple formats and devices, plus best practices for delivering bite-sized learning that promotes retention and workplace implementation.
10 Ways to Boost Performance with Mobile Learning
Discover 10 essential strategies for implementing effective mobile learning programs, from prioritizing quality content and user experience to supporting BYOD policies and tracking learner performance across devices.
Way the World Teaches With Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is transforming education through automated grading, personalized learning systems, and adaptive technologies that enhance how students find and interact with information. AI adoption in the U.S. education sector has grown at a 47.5% compound rate, reshaping how institutions deliver instruction at all levels.
Practice Makes … Slightly Better than Eric?
Learning a new skill requires accepting a temporary dip in performance before improvement. Rod Webb explores how the J Curve—where performance initially worsens during change—applies to piano practice and training, emphasizing that easy wins motivate learners to tackle bigger challenges.
7 Ways to Improve Your E-course Accessibility
Make your e-courses accessible to all learners by using proper header tags, adding captions to videos, including alt text for images, and testing for accessibility across devices and assistive technologies.
Incentivize your customers to complete training
Learn how to boost customer training completion rates with effective incentive strategies. Online customer training increases retention by 88% and satisfaction by 82%, but getting customers to finish courses remains a major challenge. Discover proven methods to encourage course completion and maximize training ROI.
Why online training is the future for startups
Online training offers startups a cost-effective, flexible alternative to classroom learning, enabling employee development across distributed teams while improving engagement through interactive and gamified content. Unlike traditional in-person sessions, online courses eliminate venue and instructor expenses while ensuring consistent training delivery worldwide.