Zsolt Olah

Gamification

June 3, 2018

Game Thinking In Action: ATD ICE 2018

When a stakeholder comes to you with "we need training yesterday", it is often too late. You are considered an order taker, a learning blender. Using game thinking might be worth a try to move from "order taking" to problem-solving.

Corporate eLearning

May 25, 2018

11 STRANGER THINGS: Moving From Face-To-Face To Online

11 STRANGER THINGS that can go wrong when entering the upside down WORL&D of eLearning while moving face-to-face content online...

Learning Analytics

May 10, 2018

Instructional Design: Data Is The New Plastics

In the classic movie, The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman's character gets pulled aside to hear the advice of the century. One word: plastics. For a Learning and Development professional today, that one word would be data. Data is the new plastics! Let's do some hands-on machine learning!

eLearning Design and Development

April 18, 2018

Behind The Scenes Design Tips, Part 2: Using Game Shows In Training

This article is the second in the behind the scenes design tips series, exploring design decisions we made while creating a “game show” experience for an instructor-led new hire course.

eLearning Design and Development

March 28, 2018

Behind The Scenes Design Tips, Part 1: Content That Comes Alive (Like A Zombie)

What’s better than learning about anything? Learning anything! The "behind the scenes design tips" series explores actionable design tips you can try next time on a project. Don't just learn about things, learn things! By doing things! This first episode is about bringing content alive via storytelling.

eLearning Trends

February 12, 2018

Tired Of Waiting For The Future Of Learning? Click NOW, And Nobody Gets Hurt!

While everyone is excited about the future of learning, many of us in the field want to do something here and now. Instead of waiting for the Next button to show up, we need a Now button! This article offers 5 actionable insights to click here and now!

Corporate eLearning

December 13, 2017

Reframing Training: 8 Tips On How To R.E.F.R.A.M.E. Training Problems

Only 8% of business leaders see Learning and Development business impact! The value of L&D is not in the visible course content, it's in the invisible behavioral change. The era of order-taking. content-tossing is gone. Reframing is a tool that can help you see the WORL&D in a different light!

eLearning Best Practices

April 21, 2017

4 Steps To Ensure You Create Stories Of Relevance

You are the story of relevance. Skills we have now may be obsolete within five years. Many jobs in demand today didn’t even exist ten years ago. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other applications of new tech is changing the world as we know it. Some are talking about a new industrial revolution coming. How does the story end?