Corporate eLearning

December 1, 2015

5 Tips To Create eLearning For Modern Learners

How do you educate someone who has never known anything but high speed broadband and internet access, instant gratification, and quick fixes? How can you grab their attention and keep it long enough to get your message across? In this article, I will share 5 key tips to create eLearning courses for modern learners that will convince them to stay focused, absorb the information, and get the most out of their eLearning experience.

by Harman Singh

November 28, 2015

Grabbing The Learner’s Attention

You think that designing a visually appealing and compelling training program is enough to glue the learners to their seats? Let us accept the truth: For a learner, our training program is just another training program. He/she will do any or all of the following while taking the training; take calls, chat, check mail, talk to a colleague, wonder how long the training program is going to last, and so on. I am sure everybody has done all these in school/college, so why should our learners be any different? The real world is full of distractions. Thus, it is very important to be able to grab the learner’s attention.

by Aman Vohra

November 28, 2015

6 Insider Insights Into Localization For Training Expansion 

Text expansion can be challenging to both the developer and the learner. An increase in seat time for eLearning courses can be a concern. Video based training also has its own set of unique production challenges. Good planning makes for a smooth development and production flow.

by Susan Bowles - Dir. of Client Strategies

November 26, 2015

3 Ways To Support Corporate Technology-aided Learning Solutions 

Technology-aided learning programs allow employees to work on a more flexible schedule as they provide the flexibility of time and location. At the same time, such training programs require greater effort and skills as most of them are self-paced. The learner needs to have considerable personal organization and study skills to engage in fruitful eLearning.

by Heena Nanda

November 24, 2015

3 Examples On How Performance Support Tools Can Supplement Compliance Courses

One in every six online courses we develop is for compliance. As a result, our focus has consistently been on how to enrich the learning experience for the learners as well as meet the corporate compliance mandate. We pride ourselves in creating compliance courses that truly engage the learners and instill the spirit of “why comply”. Besides engaging learning designs, we have successfully used Performance Support Tools in innovative design formats to supplement and complement several compliance initiatives globally.

by Asha Pandey

November 23, 2015

2015 Training Trends That Can Be Applied To eLearning

As eLearning becomes more popular in today’s work environment, organizations are looking how to best optimize training with current trends. Within this past year, current corporate training trends have related to employee productivity, retention as well as better career growth. When training brings these results, organizations not only get a better ROI, but employees grow to become leaders within their industry.

by Jayme Jenkins

November 17, 2015

5 eLearning Costs That May Put At Risk Your eLearning Budget

Want to know how you can stay within your eLearning budget and get the most out of every resource? In this article, I’ll highlight the 5 most common eLearning costs that can put your eLearning budget in jeopardy, so that you can know how to tackle them when they show up on your expense sheet.

by Christopher Pappas

November 17, 2015

How To Create A Meaningful And Engaging Compliance Course

Compliance courses are often driven by the corporate “compliance mandate” and tend to miss the ingredients for learners to relate to them, internalize the information, and apply it. As I see it, given the significance of the compliance mandate, there should be a higher focus on using approaches that appeal to the learners, impart learning that will stick, and finally ensure that this learning indeed gets applied at work.

by Asha Pandey

November 14, 2015

Go Global With Training: Insider Insights Into Localization

As many companies now have a global footprint, training needs have become much more diverse. Effectively maintaining the impact of your training initiative is critical and a bit more complicated when more than one language is involved. As a developer, you are tasked with developing effective training in your source language. The challenge can be taking that across a bigger gamut of languages that you may not read, speak, or write. This is where localization comes in to play.

by Susan Bowles - Dir. of Client Strategies

November 13, 2015

Soft Skills Training: How To Make eLearning Work For Enhancing Soft Skills?

Keen to learn soft skills? Here is how can you use eLearning for soft skills training and enhance your top soft skills in no time.

by Akansha Arora

November 11, 2015

Audience Analysis: Human Resources Is Your Friend

If you don't have the time or money for formal audience analysis, there's a group of people in your company that can help: Human Resources. They know the people and they know the business.

by Ben Butina, Ph.D.

November 11, 2015

Why Do We Still Bulk Buy eLearning Courses?

The way that companies buy off the shelf eLearning is changing. A new generation of online operators like Learndirect’s eCourses offer, Course-Source.net, Lynda.com, and eLearning Marketplace (to name a few) are offering various viable alternatives to the traditional “site license” that’s dominated eLearning procurement so far. So what should we expect as the industry’s new online buying models go mainstream?

by Tony Small