CLO Series: Nick Howe of Area9 Learning
Cognota® has recently kicked off a series of interviews with current and former Chief Learning Officers and senior learning professionals. We are pleased to share the results here in our blog. We recently were fortunate enough to catch up with Nick Howe, CLO of Area9, former Vice President of Learning and Development at Hitachi Data Systems, and […]
Overcoming the Challenges of Working with Subject Matter Experts
Subject matter experts (SMEs) drive the content for the courses your organization needs. Since their job requirements usually don’t include teaching others, how can you encourage them to commit to your projects so everyone can be successful? SMEs are busy people. They may be heads of engineering, technology, sales, marketing, finance, accounting, human resources, operations, […]
The Importance of Testing in Instructional Design
While many people truly enjoy learning something new, most people dread having to take a test that measures how much they just learned. So why do we keep forcing people to take exams? This blog has covered testing in the past. The testing industry abounds, from state-mandated aptitude exams, to the college-entrance SAT and ACT, to […]
How Long Does It Take Instructional Designers to Create One Hour of Learning?
In an age of YouTube, where 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, course creation shouldn’t be too difficult or time-consuming, right? Instructional Designers and development teams always identify the single biggest resource constraint for creating learning: time. Much has been written about how to estimate the hours needed to create quality courses. Several factors include: […]
Instructional Design for Non-Instructional Designers
According to Deloitte, less than 6 percent of L&D leaders believe that their teams have the necessary capabilities to provide adequate learning. More encouragingly — though still surprisingly low — 38 percent of L&D professionals think that their organizations are ready for the learners of the future, according to ATD Research. It stands to reason […]
Are You Using the Right KPIs for Your Learning Initiatives?
The success of learning initiatives needs to be measured and communicated via key performance indicators (KPIs). KPIs allow you to measure the success of not only the efforts of the L&D department, but also your programs across the entire organization. This is the hard part. ‘Universal’ or traditional KPIs might be the following: Sales Money […]
Easing the Pain of Course Design
It’s tough enough figuring out what learning and courses employees need. Then, the L&D team needs to build them. Responsible for ensuring that employees are acquiring the skills they need, today’s learning leaders are tasked with delivering all necessary learning — quickly and at scale. For broader or more fundamental knowledge, many L&D leaders have […]
Can You Really Speed Up Instructional Design?
With more and more responsibility falling on the shoulders of today’s learning and development leaders, the process of course development does not have the luxury of time and other resources it once had. What is the beleaguered L&D executive to do? Instructional designer Diane Valenti, in the article, 6 Secrets for Speeding Up Instructional Design, published […]
