Articles

Employee Engagement

September 24, 2020

Why Employees Disengage From Training And How Gamification Helps

Company training programs often fail, leaving employees uninterested in Learning and Development. The first step to engaging employees in training is to promote L&D programs from the top down. The next step is to create employee incentives with gamification strategies.

by Brittany K. King

Coaching And Mentoring

September 24, 2020

The Ultimate Technology Blend To Support A Coaching Culture

LMS and videotelephony technology offer a powerful blend to support an informed/targeted approach to ongoing employee development and continuous improvement for a coaching culture. Here are 2 examples of how this might be structured from a pragmatic perspective.

by Phil McInnes

eLearning For Kids

September 24, 2020

The Education Vending Machine And The Future Remote Learner

Students in grades K-12 during the 2020-2021 school year are being taught via remote synchronous learning. Rapid and unsettling to many, this innovation in K-12 education will bring with it a future workforce of remote learning natives. Here's how L&D professionals can work with K-12 educators.

by Peter Marotto

Learning And Development

September 23, 2020

10 Most Common Mistakes Rookie L&D Professionals Make…And How To Avoid Them

Newcomers to any field often have the world in front of them, and newbies to the Learning & Development (L&D) and Instructional Design (ID) profession are no different. The tendency is to put everything they’ve learned to practice, in the hope that they’ll produce more effective eLearning solutions. In the process, they often make some rookie mistakes.

by Marina Arshavskiy

Microlearning

September 23, 2020

eBook Release: Microlearning Strategies For Corporate Learners

Microlearning is considered to be one of the most modern and famous eLearning strategies for corporate learners. Discover all about implementing it, how it is beneficial for your organization, as well as possible pitfalls you should avoid. Learn more in this article.

by Christopher Pappas

Remote Working

September 23, 2020

4 Tips On Creating Effective Remote Onboarding

If you’re thinking of adopting a fully remote or hybrid workforce, you’ll need to reconsider how you onboard future employees. That’s why we’ve put together all our best tips for adapting your onboarding program to cater for employees working from home.

by Claire Boucher

Blended Learning

September 23, 2020

5 Ways An LMS Benefits Blended Learning Courses

With a Learning Management System, it’s very easy to organize and administer blended learning courses.

by Tarika Arun

Compliance Training

September 23, 2020 | Sponsored

3 Challenges For Safety And Compliance Training During The Pandemic

COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the workplace, including safety and compliance training protocols and systems. As with many business procedures currently in effect, employers are reinventing training in an environment where past practices are not possible or no longer work.

by Graham Dail, M.Ed., CHCM

Game-Based Learning

September 22, 2020

Gamification Design Elements For Learning

20+ gamification design elements to kick-start your creative brainstorming on engagement and motivation in learning design.

by Zsolt Olah

Microlearning

September 22, 2020 | Sponsored

What Makes Scenario-Based Microlearning Content Cutting-Edge?

Both scenario-based training and microlearning have been successful L&D strategies that are known to increase knowledge retention and boost employee engagement. Pairing these two learning strategies together can help you take your training to the next level.

by Anu Galhotra, CPLP

Employee Performance

September 22, 2020 | Sponsored

How To Drive Just-In-Time Learning With Performance Support Tools

Business is accelerating. The amount of information employees need is expanding, and they’re often remote. This article illustrates how performance support tools can help you drive Just-In-Time learning—particularly for your remote workforce.

by Asha Pandey

eLearning Design and Development

September 22, 2020 | Sponsored

Converting Flash-Built eLearning To HTML5 Efficiently In 3 Steps

On January 1, 2021, Adobe Flash will be laid to rest. You have hundreds, if not thousands, of learners that will receive errors when they attempt to start a course. The fix is simple, convert your legacy courses to HTML5. But, doing it efficiently depends on the conversion strategy you choose.

by Dan Keckan