Corporate eLearning Trends

July 14, 2015

What Are The Benefits Of mLearning? Featuring 5 Killer Examples

mLearning or Mobile Learning is fast becoming a significant part of training delivery for organizations, as tablets and smartphones are increasingly becoming the preferred mode of learning.

by Asha Pandey

July 12, 2015

Why The Learning And Development Industry Should Think Differently To Improve Performance

Hands up if you know what is working in your learning departments and why. Do you make assumptions about what’s working in your organization, or do you gather evidence and use it to understand why learning initiatives succeed or fail? In this article I will share why the Learning & Development industry should think differently in terms of how we are using evidence in order to improve performance.

by Christopher Pappas

July 7, 2015

13 Vital Tips For Creating A High Impact Learning Function

Check out these tips from leaders in top learning organizations and find out what kind of benefits and impacts they are having on the business, as seen through the eyes of Towards Maturity's in-depth research program.

by Laura Overton, FCIPD, FLPI

June 29, 2015

How To Review The Effectiveness Of Your Learning And Development Function

An invaluable source of external, credible data is performance benchmarking – this article shows you how to provide robust, genuine and independent evidence on Learning and Development’s performance; the effectiveness and impact of the learning process.

by Laura Overton, FCIPD, FLPI

June 3, 2015

Top 10 eLearning Trends For 2015

So, do you want on-trend, tech savvy eLearning? We’ve got you covered. Here are the top 10 trends for what’s hot in 2015 and beyond.

by Ruby Spencer, CTDP

June 1, 2015

Why Videos And Movies In eLearning Are Bad Idea?

There are many great examples of using movies as an e-learning tool. On the other hand many of our corporate clients have a lot of challenges with using this medium. How is that? Why good examples of using movies (such as TED, Lynda, Coursera, etc.) are not so easily transferable to corporate environment?

by Marek Hyla

May 29, 2015

12 Reasons For You To Embrace eLearning

If you are one of those who hesitates to give technology-enabled learning a try, here are 12 reasons for you to embrace eLearning.

by Heera Edwin

May 25, 2015

Gamification – First Things First

Gamification has become one of the hot topics of recent years. Everybody talks about it. Every eLearning vendor claims that implements this idea in their solutions. It is hard, however, to find really successful cases of such implementations. No wonder why gamification as a concept is going down to the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner's Hype Cycle.

by Marek Hyla

May 23, 2015

What Are The New Training Technologies?

We are in the midst of a technological revolution, and are seeing perhaps the fastest rate of technological growth and development in history. Thankfully, no industry is being left out, and training technologies are being caught up in this wave and are developing at a rapid pace. Training software tools exist today which simply did not exist 5 years ago.

by Roz Bahrami

May 12, 2015

No Challenge For Learning and Development From LinkedIn’s Lynda.com Acquisition

Interesting but not innovative, creative but not challenging, LinkedIn’s acquisition of Lynda.com reshapes the traditional learning materials sourcing model. However, it falls short of providing a major change in that model. That major change is due to come later this year.

by Bob Little

May 5, 2015

Augmented Learning 103: Location Based eLearning - Learn on the Go

What if the information you needed was whispered in your ear, just when you needed it the most? Sound futuristic? Creepy? Maybe a little spooky? Or could it simply be technology? And what if we said that all that is already happening to people right now… and it’s happening because people are asking for it?

by Joel Copeland

April 30, 2015

The eLearning Ecosystem Metaphor: Key Characteristics And Basic Components

What is an eLearning ecosystem and what do eLearning professionals need to know about it in order to develop eLearning environments that foster learner success? In this article, I’ll explain the key characteristics, as well as the benefits of using the eLearning ecosystem metaphor in eLearning deliverables.

by Christopher Pappas