Editor's Note

The economy is growing and so is your business. Experts point out that the pace of change will continue to accelerate, and success in this new economy is based on your team’s ability to stay up to speed and adapt to change.

SMEs And Tacit Knowledge: Unearthing gems

Star performers, master salesmen — really any kind of subject-matter expert (SME) — know what they know based on years of experience. They’ve seen many situations, solved many problems. From a training perspective, the value these experts bring is their developed understanding — not only of what they do, but, more importantly, why they do what they do.

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Excellence In Practice: Impacts of Learning

This short video features one of HR.com’s industry experts and Technology Enabled Learning Advisory Board members Robin Yap(Learning, Change, Talent Strategies, Social Collaboration Tools & Measurement, Executive Coach) interviewing Darren Short (Director, People Development at GoDaddy), who has shown exceptional innovation and leadership in his chosen field.

Localized Learning: Engagement beyond onboarding

It’s official. The economy is on the upswing. Sales are up. Hiring is up; however, with this set of good news, comes a new set of challenges for corporate training. With increasing market demands, companies need updated business strategies, internal processes, product improvements, and internal systems for employee management and engagement.

Building Training Strategy?: The 4 most important questions to answer

New to training? Answering the following 4 questions will help get you started on the path to success. Obviously there are more than 4 questions you should be getting answers too, but these should rank the highest on your list. The most important thing to remember is that this is only the beginning. The answers you receive will most likely only lead to more questions. And that's a good thing.

Post-Course Evaluation: 15 aspects eLearning professionals need to check

You know that evaluating your eLearning course will help you assess its effectiveness, which is a key aspect for the eLearning experience you are offering. In this article, I'll share some tips on how you can conduct an effective post-course evaluation, in order to collect invaluable feedback for your eLearning course and revise it accordingly in order to improve it.

Procurement And LMS: Friend or foe?

Look, I have nothing but respect for what procurement folks do on a daily basis, but let me ask you something, how hip would they be, if you Training/L&D person said, “Whoa whoa, I need to have input, wait final decision making on your new procurement system or something you need in procurement.” How would that fly over? Exactly. Yet, time and time again, procurement is involved or makes that final decision on a learning management system (LMS), a learning system for learners no less.

Games In eLearning - Where To Place?: 5 reasons not to place it at the end

In the past, learning design followed the pattern of instruction, instruction, instruction with one final activity (if you were lucky!) to cement the learning. Games and activities were treated as a way to reward learners, rather than as a way to engage and involve them with interactive content.Thankfully we’re no longer using that approach for training and development, and it’s no wonder why when you consider everything games can do for learners.

ELearning ROI: How to build a business case for eLearning?

Here are some quick tips for developing a business case for eLearning in your organization •Make a strong case. Link your desired training programs and the objectives directly to business results (bottom line). •Demonstrate how it will cost less to use established eLearning programs than it does to write, develop and design your own. •Define the categories of costs and how they differ from using established methods. What will the future of these costs be?