Does L&D Keep Up with the Joneses?
Job descriptions for senior L&D professionals often include a requirement that the applicant is eager to stay current and embrace the most cutting-edge learning technologies. This makes sense, as increasingly sophisticated software has transformed industries by using automation and personalization to increase efficiency and reduce costs. And if L&D professionals create learning for others, it follows that they […]
How Non-Technical Professionals Can Do Instructional Design
Given the growing training needs inside organizations today — the massive amount of content needed to carry out that training — many organizations are facing the challenge of simply not having enough instructional designers or learning and development professionals to build a sufficient number of courses. We are living in a knowledge economy. Forward-thinking organizations are focused on creating a […]
Producing Quality Training Results in ‘Challenging’ Timeframes
One of the biggest resources needed to build learning content is time. To develop one hour of e-learning training that has an intermediate level of interactivity on the part of the learner (in which the training requires the learner to make multiple responses to instructional cues), the ATD reports that between 71 to 130 hours of development time […]
eLearning Industry: How to Incentivize Subject Matter Experts
Few can take on more work: we’re all at capacity nowadays. So how can you get subject matter experts (SMEs) to help the learning organization? As they are not on your team, how can you get SMEs to take time out of their busy schedules to write content that forms courses which others in your […]
The Math Behind Agile Learning Design
Time is the most precious resource when building courses. The longer the time needed to build and deliver a course, the greater the risk to the organization. Aside from hours lost to productivity in the L&D department, learners are prevented from using their acquired knowledge and skills in their jobs for the benefit of the […]
Is Continuous Improvement Possible in Learning Design?
One of the pain points of building courses is obsoletion: just as you hit the “Publish” button, the clock is counting down to the point at which the information delivered in the course becomes outdated or irrelevant. Thankfully for instructional designers and L&D managers, learning management systems and authoring tools include dynamic “editing” features that allow content […]
Reducing the Pain of Creating and Delivering ‘Customized’ Learning
According to the ATD 2017 State of the Industry report, sponsored by LinkedIn Learning and Study.com, organizations spent $1,273 per employee in 2016 on direct learning, compared with $1,252 in 2015. The average number of formal learning hours used per employee also grew: 34.1 hours in 2016, up from 33.5 hours in 2015. This is the […]
How to leverage employees to effectively develop training content
In the case you want to expand on what topics you offer to employees for training programs, you may want to set up an internal crowdsourcing campaign and leverage subject matter experts. Here are a few suggestions on how to get started: Streamline your idea/intake process If you want to be innovative and capture new […]
Improve the ROI of your Training Development Efforts
Recent L&D Reports in corporate training state that only a third of business organizations feel as if their training programs meet expected results. And this means that over 60% of the organizations fail to generate any significant return on investment from the training they provide to employees and partners. As such, if you are planning […]
Converting Instructor-Led Training into eLearning
A few years ago there was a project to move thousands of hours of instructor-led training to online “eLearning” in a very short period of time. There was a huge business driver behind this. The company was facing a potential strike in six to nine months and they were preparing a contingency plan in case […]