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 […]
Why Project Management Should Be a Natural Part of a Learning Design System
In today’s increasingly projectized world, aren’t we all project managers? We are constantly finding ourselves in team environments needing to initiate, plan, execute, and monitor projects — all with a substantial amount of reporting and analytics built in. The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, issued by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the global nonprofit association dedicated to […]
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the “Publish” button, the clock is counting down to the point at which the information delivered in the course becomes outdated or irrelevant.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 […]
The Need for a Knowledge Management Repository
Knowledge is everywhere you look. Every employee has something valuable to contribute to the organization. Whether it be a new business idea, a new process for fixing a broken one, or valuable advice on how to work with a particular client, this knowledge should be captured and analyzed. Further, if this knowledge can result in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Centralized or Decentralized Training: Which model is better?
“It takes too long.” This is the single most common complaint from stakeholders with regards to centralized learning organizations who create training content for different business functions. The traditional method of pairing a centralized team of instructional designers with distributed Subject Matter Experts (SME) no longer scales effectively to meet the ever-increasing speed of business (with rare exceptions). […]
Is Your Training Request and Development Process Inefficient?
If you really want to streamline the training development and instructional design process, a good place to start is with the initial training request. Training requests typically list information about the expected productivity improvements or performance goal for the training. Additional information usually includes the department, sponsor, audience, preferred method (Online, face to face, blended, […]
What approach do you apply for Instructional Design: Agile Vs. ADDIE
Many corporate training and development departments find it difficult to meet the increasing volume of training requests. There’s been a great debate for the last few years about whether or not the ADDIE model of instructional design is too slow for today’s speed of business. To refresh your memory, ADDIE stands for analysis, design, development, implementation, and […]
