Corporate eLearning Trends

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January 9, 2016

A Sneak Peek Inside The 2016 Learning And Development Community

It’s that time of year again! Learning and Development leaders are reflecting on what went well and what didn’t go so well to create a more effective plan for the coming year. With L&D adapting to continuous technology advances, leaders in the space need to have a good understanding of where the industry is going.
by Andrew Fayad
December 27, 2015

Artificial Intelligence In Sparky Prose

This impassioned fourth geek article, which is actually rather nerdy, meanders (a)musingly around a (human) writer’s actual paragraph attempts at writing something sagacious on artificial Intelligence (AI), and an alien (non-human-created) AI, who is drawn in by the writer’s maelstrom of contradictory thoughts. The alien AI finds the human writer entertaining and even murmurs something to itself as it flits away.
by Chris Alexander
December 21, 2015

Stop With “The Future Of Learning” Already

I see articles every week that have “the future of learning” in them. It may be gamification, micro-learning, social learning, device agnostic content, learning paths, etc. I believe that none of these are the future of learning, because within an organizational context, there are really three different goals we are trying to achieve - often simultaneously.
by Bill Bruck, Ph.D.
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 5, 2015

8 Ways MOOC Providers Can Generate Revenue From B2B And B2C Services

Without any doubt, one of the latest trends in eLearning is the wide spread of MOOCs as a free option to online learning. FREE makes MOOCs appealing to a wider audience, but what about the institutions and private companies that generate this eLearning content? How do they generate revenue and make profit out of MOOCs? Can education be considered as a product, and how ethical this might be? In this article, I’ll explain how revenue can be generated from MOOCs for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Customer (B2C) Services.
by Marisa Keramida (M.Ed.)
October 22, 2015

Real Learning: Bottom-Up Learning From The Top Down

When an organization undertakes a corporate renewal or “digital reorganization” or adopting social business and radical management or whatever earth-shaking move is next, it’s an ideal time to join in a mantra of “Let’s all learn together”. If investing in social/informal/experiential learning is on the Learning and Development drawing board, here are some ideas on what to do.
by Jay Cross
October 21, 2015

Real Learning: Learning For Everyone

Real Learning is DIY learning, a book, site, and technology to empower people to learn for themselves. It begins with setting goals, advances to practice (Just Do It!), and challenges the participant to reflect and improve. The details incorporate the latest findings from neuroscience about how people learn.
by Jay Cross
October 20, 2015

The Rise Of Informal Learning

In ten years, informal learning has gone from obscurity to the top of corporate learning agendas. Managers pay lip service to informal learning, tell people they have responsibility for their own learning, and then they abandon them. We need to empower DIY learners to fend for themselves.
by Jay Cross
October 8, 2015

The History Of Blended Learning

Blended learning is a hot topic in the eLearning industry, but how much do you really know about this interactive and engaging learning strategy? When did blended learning make its debut, and how did it evolve into what it is today? Let's explore the history of blended learning.
by Christopher Pappas
October 2, 2015

6 Corporate eLearning Trends Shaping eLearning Initiatives

Corporate eLearning has been around almost as long as computers have been in the workplace, but it hasn’t always been effective or engaging. We’ve all, at some point, experienced the mandatory computer training course whose biggest deliverable was mind-numbing boredom. But on the coattails of new technology and employee engagement initiatives, corporate eLearning is experiencing seismic shifts some for the better, others which have yet to prove their value.
by Aleksandr Peterson