Cognota Feature Update: Tasking and Commenting Updates
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Tasking and Commenting Updates We have combined comments and tasks into a new, simpler view. You will now see all your assigned tasks as soon as you open the Tasking and Commenting Tray. To see other tasks, simply click on the […]
How to Scale your Training Department
Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) face serious challenges in scaling quality online training. Hiring a dedicated training manager is often the first step in addressing this issue, but in many organizations, this position remains unfilled until it becomes painfully obvious that the existing training isn’t really effective for employees and customers. Or that there simply […]
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 […]
How Fast-Growing Companies Leverage Technology to Make Training More Effective
After reading and watching many articles and videos about the disruption in corporate learning and development space, I started thinking, “how do small to medium sized businesses (SMB) make sense of all of this”? Do SMBs really think, “Gee, I really need to understand all of the strategies being discussed by corporate L&D experts before […]
Crushing the ‘Forgetting Curve’
Learner retention is perhaps the most important metric to measure the success of L&D initiatives. However, as we’ve covered in this blog before, the vast majority — often as high as 90 percent — of new skills are lost within a year if not reinforced by practical follow-ups or assessments. A recent article in Chief Learning […]
More Bad News for For-Profit Colleges
News last week that an accreditation group for for-profit colleges may lose its federal recognition has prompted many L&D leaders to re-think their strategy of making courses from such programs available for their employees. According to the Associated Press, an advisory panel to the Department of Education (DOE) has voted to recommend the government sever […]
Don’t Write off Instructor-Led Training Just Yet
With thousands of courses and learning opportunities, we still need competent teachers. With the explosion of online courses, tutorials, and other self-directed learning materials, the L&D leader may think that instructor-led training (ILT) is all but dead. But don’t count on that just yet. According to The Future of Corporate Learning: Ten Disruptive Trends, a […]
The Case for Continuous Learning
Elearning programs usually fail because they deliver the right content at the wrong time: employees do not want to sit through day-long training sessions for seemingly irrelevant material (think Death by PowerPoint). But employees are eager to seek out training when they need it. They vigorously look for the guidelines or How-To’s when they are […]
