What is Mobile Learning?

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Mobile learning, or m-learning, is the delivery of learning content via any endpoint of the user’s choosing. Mobile learning is convenient, as it is available anytime, anywhere: courses can be accessed via smartphone, tablet, laptop, or any other device. That learning in the workplace is taking place on a mobile device should come as no […]

10 Quick Tips For Building Online Training

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What should you know before you build online training? In the past, most online training was created by either specialists (instructional designers) using “eLearning authoring tools” or by subject matter experts (SME) using PowerPoint slides (not really online “education”, but rather more like watching a presentation). While there are a lot of specialty eLearning authoring […]

Assessing the ROI of Employee Training

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As an employer, there are many questions to be answered when considering to invest in employee training. How much should I budget to train a new employee? How much time should an existing employee spend in training every month? Can I afford to take people away from the job for training? How do I know […]

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Build Online Training

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Every organization needs to produce employee training that only they have the knowledge to create. This means you can’t find it on the Internet, you can’t license it from a third party, and you can’t ask someone outside your organization to do it for you. Someone inside your company has to do it. What falls […]

10 Reasons to Invest in Employee Training

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With the explosion in educational content on the web, you often read about how employees can learn on their own, watching videos and reading articles. To the extent that you are looking for basic knowledge (STEM) and general skills (e.g. using popular software products), this is true. But when it comes to specific strategy, processes […]

How to Determine Whether Digital Training Is Right for your Company?

It’s actually a very simple answer. In today’s day and age, every company wants to provide great digital training to their employees and customers! With millennials becoming the majority of the workforce and mobile devices becoming the principal way people access the Internet, it just makes sense. But for many organizations, it’s still challenging to […]