Corporate eLearning Archives

May 7, 2015

The Knowing-Doing Gap In Online Training

Do you ever wonder what prevents your employees to put what they have learned to good use? In this article, I’ll explain what is the Knowing-Doing Gap, what are the factors that cause it, and how to minimize it in order for your audience to take the most out of the online training.

by Christopher Pappas

May 4, 2015

7 Benefits Of Moving Your Corporate CRM Training Online

Customer relationship management training typically involves costly on-site instruction and printed learning materials that need to be updated regularly. There is a more productive and profitable option. In this article, I’ll highlight the benefits of moving your corporate CRM training online.

by Christopher Pappas

May 1, 2015

The Role Of eLearning In Performance Improvement

This is the second part of the article titled “Dealing with Poor Performance: Is eLearning a "silver bullet"?” In this article, we will talk about the role of eLearning in performance improvement.

by Marina Arshavskiy

April 29, 2015

How To Use The Endowed Progress Effect To Motivate Corporate Learners In eLearning?

In technology-aided elearning, motivation plays even a stronger role as the elearning effort is self-led and depends completely on the interest of the learner. So, e-learning developers, instructional designers and even subject matter experts are often pondering over the ways to keep learners motivated within the elearning environment. A strategic way of creating a suitable ‘push’ for learning is adopting the endowed progress effect.

by Heena Nanda

April 28, 2015

Online Training: A Competitive Edge For The Pharmaceutical Industry

For the Pharmaceutical Industry, online training has a competitive edge over any other form of learning - given the ever-changing environment of this Industry.

by Heera Edwin

April 24, 2015

Workplace Training Now Needs To Be More Flexible And Adaptive Than Ever

When I read that there is a “significant gap” between the skills and capabilities Learning and Development practitioners know they need compared to what they actually have, (according to latest research from the UK's Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) and research organization Towards Maturity), it came as very little surprise. [1] Workplace training needs to be more flexible, adaptive and innovative as staff are taking the lead on their training requirements not the Learning and Development department.

by Mark Rose

April 23, 2015

7 Powerful Reminders To Finally Adopt HTML5 In Corporate eLearning

HTML5 is finally going mainstream as the leading technology to structure and present learning content online. Here are some powerful reasons to adopt HTML5 today even when legacy constrains seem to favor a “wait and see” approach.

by Alfredo Leone

April 21, 2015

Dealing With Poor Employee Performance: Is eLearning A "Silver Bullet"?

According to a survey by international pollster Gallup, only 13% of the world's workforce is "engaged" at work. Out of a roughly 180 million employees in 142 countries polled, a staggering 63% responded that they were not totally committed to their work. Invariably, that "noncommittal" ultimately translates into poor performance. So what drives employees to perform poorly? What interventions can organizations put in place to deal with the challenge? And, is there room for eLearning and instructional design to deal with declining employee performance? This article is the first in a series about Dealing with Poor Poor Employee Performance. Check it out and learn some of the ways to improve poor employee performance.

by Marina Arshavskiy

April 14, 2015

How Minutes A Day Can Reinvigorate Your Workforce

We know you’ve seen it. Your employees sit in a day-long training session watching presenter after presenter. They fight drowsiness, boredom and distractions as they listen to more and more information that sucks the life out of any brainpower they have left. And all they can think about is their growing to-do list that is only getting longer by the minute.

by Carol Leaman

April 9, 2015

Learning Motivation For Employee Engagement

From many points of view Employee Engagement is critical for business success and in a broader sense a digital transformation has to take place regardless of the market segment a corporation belongs to. This transformation must include new innovative solutions that motivate employees to produce, share, acquire and retain knowledge, in order to be successful. What a better content/theme then to infuse through a modern Learning Motivation Environment than Corporate Culture, the hottest issue for Employee Engagement.

by Elias Parlavantzas

April 7, 2015

The Value Of Simulations When Creating eLearning Solutions For Application Training

Simulation based eLearning solutions are being created to provide learners a chance to explore and practice on newer software or other applications before actually working on them. This adds on to the overall success of the eLearning solution.