Editor’s Note

Millennial workers are critical to the future of any business today. By 2020, they will form 50% of the global workforce! When it comes to learning, they prefer to know the gist of a story from a one-line update than read pages about it. And, majority of them prefer bite-sized learning modules to eLearning courses that run to 30 minutes and more! (Source: Rapid Learning Institute)

Learning: Think Small: 8 commandments of bite-sized learning

According to a survey carried out by the Rapid Learning Institute, a whopping 94 percent of the learning & development professionals who took part in the study said that their learners preferred bite-sized learning modules to eLearning courses that run to 30 minutes and more. They have their reasons.

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How To Grab Your Learner’s Attention?: Here are 5 scientifically proven ways

Does this sound familiar? You’ve spent weeks writing, editing, and re-writing e-learning content only to watch learners skip through your carefully constructed on-screen text as fast as their little fingers can click “Next.” As demoralizing as this experience can be for a designer, it is not new to any of us. In our office, we even have a saying: “You can lead a learner to content but you can’t make him read.”

Why Employees Get Frustrated With eLearning: And how to fix It!

Creating courses for your employees is now easier than ever thanks to technology. However, before you rush ahead and start blowing your budget churning out courses that no one wants to suffer through, take a look at the following reasons why eLearning courses fail with employees and what steps you can take to ensure the courses you produce are winners.

If Content Is King, What’s Next?: Let’s learn from Uber

UBER is transforming the way we think about urban transportation, and it’s only a small part of the new “sharing economy.” Airbnb helps people connect about lodging. Rover is an app that helps people find willing pet sitters. The list of “sharing” services, apps and sites is growing by the day, and we can all learn a lot for our businesses and for our employee learning efforts from this new market reality.

Infusing Technology Into Learning: L&D function is witnessing a shift

In today’s world, if you haven’t already jumped on the ‘tech wagon’ you will be left behind. Leading companies are slowly abandoning traditional methods of learning for more innovative solutions that have a greater impact on employee engagement and performance.

Want To Align Business Strategies With Learning?: It can be done through custom learning

In the current setup, corporate houses are increasingly becoming inclined towards technology-aided learning, which is quite obvious keeping in view the close integration between work and learning. It is very essential for the Learning and Development function to find a clear link between the business objectives of the organization and individual development through learning. In this regards, custom learning greatly helps in aligning both the personal and organizational objectives.

The Primacy Of Instructor-Led Training: e-learning doesn't replace ILT with equal value proposition

Fifty years after e-learning promised to replace classic teaching with computerized instruction, the promise hasn’t been kept. We still rank the classroom, rather than our devices, as the best platform for learning. Why?

eLearning SME: Getting Off To A Great Start: 7 tips

As the famous blue jean business mogul, Levi Strauss, once said: "An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions". A Subject Matter Expert (SME) is a key member of your eLearning team, but only if you know how to get off to a great start and make the most of your collaboration.