Why Online Learning Institutions Fail
3 reasons
Gamification Meets Employee Development
Five “fun” ways to improve staff
ELearning Development Checklist
The dos and don’ts
Teach How to Learn
And, not what to learn
Why Online Learning Institutions Fail
3 reasons
Gamification Meets Employee Development
Five “fun” ways to improve staff
ELearning Development Checklist
The dos and don’ts
Teach How to Learn
And, not what to learn
It’s 2015. By now, almost everyone reading this post has taken some form of self-paced online learning, aka “eLearning,” either by choice or under duress. Perhaps you got a speeding ticket and had the option of taking online learning to reduce that $300 ticket. Maybe you’ve accessed a software tool’s online tutorials to get up to speed. Or maybe your company has compliance requirements that make you take a few hours of required eLearning every quarter.
It’s common knowledge that professional success can be greatly enabled and enhanced with a college education at any stage of life and no matter where a person is in their career path.
While a cursory understanding of the process itself often brings a rolling of eyes and possibly a smirk of condescension from managers, departmental to board level, the concept of gamification is actually quite a valuable tool when it comes to engaging employees in meeting company expectations and goals.
Instructional designers often look for a handy eLearning development checklist that they could use as a reference when they develop their courses or when they do that final check before hitting the publish button. I created a checklist below for my personal use.
Not, how to teach someone a new language… or how to ride a bike… but how to teach someone to acquire knowledgeof any kind? It’s an interesting question and a challenging one to answer, but one that L&D teams at organizations of every size and in every industry need to address, since only 1 in 5 employees are actually effective learners.
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” – William Arthur Ward
Given decades of informative research on instructional paradigms, human learning, and performance measurement, it seems the burgeoning e-learning industry would have achieved enormous success in bringing each learner to a state of performance mastery economically and as quickly as possible. Instead, however, it seems the industry continually degrades its offerings—relying on technology for learner engagement and focusing more on content presentation than on learner needs and performance improvement.
An eLearning experience within an organization is made up of several components that in collusion make or break the learning experience. An important component of this experience is the online training course itself. For an organization that depends on customized online training courses or off-the-shelf/catalog online courses for training, successful training depends on the popularity of the online training courses. Here’s how to go about choosing online training courses that work for your employees.
The concept of deploying internal sales certifications is gaining steam. Leaders at companies of all sizes are interested in or are in the process of rolling out programs to certify their team on company specific items.
When my son was in third grade, he asked that I participate in a Parent's Career Day. Duringmy 15 minute segment, I was to explain his classmates what I did for a living. When I took my place in front of the room, introduced as Ben's mom who works in a downtown insurancecompany, I explained that I worked as a boss who managed people in the operationaldepartments of my company.