The Strategic Thinker’s Guide to Managing Training Requests
How do you know whether your employees want training? (Chances are, they do.) And how do you know whether training requests are worth your and your team’s time to develop? First, a system or mechanism needs to be in place for fielding training requests. This mechanism is essentially finding out who wants training and in […]
What is a Learning Assessment?
A lot of time and development goes into a great corporate training course, but the assessment phase is often one of the most neglected areas of the process. Learning consists of action and reflection, and assessment is an important part of the guided reflection that is needed for optimal learning. The most important thing to […]
What Is Crowdsourced Learning?
Crowdsourced learning is learning content requested, developed, and delivered by a group of individuals not normally tasked with creating learning content. Crowdsourced learning need not be sourced from a specific set of designated learning and development professionals or instructional designers. Instead, crowdsourced learning originates from anyone within a department or company who can provide meaningful, […]
What Is a Learning Objective?
A learning objective describes what learners should know or be able to do at the end of the course that they couldn’t do before. A learning objective should clearly define the expected outcome of a course in terms of demonstrable skills or knowledge that will be acquired by the learner as a result of the […]
What is Mobile Learning?
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 […]
What is Instructional Design Software?
If we can build slideshows in PowerPoint and record videos on YouTube, why do we need separate software to create training? Clearly, such programs like Captivate and Articulate when used in conjunction with your LMS offer more than simply the opportunity to generate attractive, engaging lessons. You can also create quizzes and keep track of […]
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 […]
Why small and medium sized businesses need to train their employees online
If you follow any of the industry publications and pundits, you will find that online training dominates the conversation. For the last 15 years “eLearning” has been the buzz. Yet at the same time, there is a significant dissatisfaction with “eLearning” and still a huge amount of instructor-led training being delivered. Small and medium businesses […]
