Corporate eLearning

October 31, 2013

Corporate MOOCs are coming are you ready?

MOOCs—massive open online courses—have shaken up the higher education world in the past few years. Now it’s time to see how they will impact corporate training.

by Stephanie Ivec

October 29, 2013

7 Instances To Build Your Training Rather Than Buy It

There are, no doubt, times when you should buy (purchase off the shelf) rather than build (custom develop) your company’s training. However, the times when you should build rather than buy are more often than you might think. Typically, your offerings will be a blend of the two. You should consider building your company’s training rather than buy it when…

by Robert Bilotti

October 28, 2013

The 5 Ws In The E-Learning Adoption For Enterprises

Success of Large organizations depends on their ability to keep information flowing across their departments so that it can reach the appropriate people at the right time. People have the ability to learn at every moment. The firm’s ability to assess, improve, motivate, and maintain their employee’s knowledge, actively affects the ability of the organization to succeed.

by Jacopo Mauri

October 22, 2013

Why Do Employees Forget Their Training?

Even the best looking online training courses will fail if they don’t take into account long-term knowledge retention. While easy to deliver, there is a responsibility to ensure that the information not only becomes a skill but an innate habit. Well developed elearning courses can help to stem the outward flow of knowledge.

by Eric Skilling

October 16, 2013

Making E-learning Interesting: Experiences in Soft Skills Training

About the turn of the century, e-learning was touted as the new great thing that would quickly replace traditional training. Everyone wanted e-learning. Text was quickly being digitized and called e-learning, but for many it was more of a sleeping pill. Then everything changed.

by Dale Olsen

October 12, 2013

The Challenge Of Teaching Soft Skills

It is easy to lecture on soft skills and then for students to pass a test showing that they have learned the material. But will behavior really change as a result of the lecture and testing? Do role plays result in behavioral change? Research shows that behavior changes at a minimum require repeated practice with extensive feedback. Simulation technology now offers the capability to go past traditional training and produce effective soft skills training.

by Dale Olsen

October 10, 2013

Improving The Training Resource Review Process

When you send training resources out for review, are you getting back the type of constructive feedback you need? This article outlines 3 levels of review, and gives you 6 tips on how to apply these levels to get great feedback and take back control of the training resources review process. 

by Mary Hetherington

October 7, 2013

What Can Khan Academy Teach Corporate Training?

Corporate America’s training departments have been providing online education for over 15 years so what could Khan Academy, launched in 2004, targeted towards childhood education, possibly teach adult/corporate education?

by Tracey M. Flynn

October 1, 2013

Kineo eLearning In The Enterprise Survey Results 2013 - Infographic

Would you like to know the eLearning trends for 2013? Check out Kineo’s E-Learning in the Enterprise survey results infographic.

by Steve Lowenthal

September 20, 2013

Designing Real-Time Learning Using a Performance Support Platform

Today's Performance Support Platforms put aside the technical issues associated with performance support and recreate the need to consider basic instructional design methods when admitting real time learning. 

by Eran Gal

September 12, 2013

How Real-Time Data in Online Training Benefits the Learner

We all know there’s no substitute for real-life experience. But sometimes setting up a real-world, immersive learning scenario for your training is too expensive, or time-consuming and difficult.

by Stephanie Ivec

August 21, 2013

5 Tips To Add Interaction To Your Training Courses

Many employees enter a training course with the expectation that it will be boring, long and a waste of time, but why? Whether it’s from past experience or just from stories heard from friends and colleagues, employees are not typically excited when they find out they need to go through training.

by Kristen Marshall