Corporate Learning

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 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

March 8, 2015

Getting On-board with E-Learning

In this article, we will briefly touch on what E-learning is and the benefits associated with online training delivery.

by Mason Martin

February 18, 2015 | Sponsored

Build Or Buy eLearning Content To Support Your Product Launch

Developing e-learning content to support a product launch might not seem as immediately important as much as say, marketing or PR, but it’s crucial to get everybody in your organisation not only understanding it, but living and breathing the messages behind it. Once your product is released, it’s too late to start developing e-learning content - by this point, your people need to know it inside and out, and have the necessary tools at their disposal to help it succeed.

by Mike Alcock

February 4, 2015

The Great Onboarding Elearning Courses

A great onboarding experience should be efficient and empathetic. Here we look at some elearning courses from agencies in the elearning sector, which either hit or come close to doing this.

by Li Whybrow

January 27, 2015

Great Onboarding eLearning: Our Top 20

What are the characteristics of an a great onboarding program? In this post I discuss my top 20 and look at how eLearning can be blended with traditional delivery to help you design and deliver a course that can help your new starters reach their potential faster and the organization reach its goals smarter.

by Li Whybrow

January 21, 2015

The Anatomy Of Great Onboarding eLearning

Onboarding is the first impression your company makes on a new employee and can have a huge impact on staff retention. With such high stakes - it is important to get it right. In this post I look at the most important aspects of onboarding and share our 4 part framework for creating great onboarding elearning.

by Steve Penfold

January 14, 2015

Top 5 Benefits Of Using eLearning Tools For Staff Training

As the percentage of the tech-savvy millennials rises in the workforce, the reliance on elearning tools should increase commensurately. However, this is not the only reason why elearning tools are important for staff training. Here are a few serious advantages that elearning tools bring to workforce training.

by Kumar Venkatesiah

January 12, 2015

Top 10 eLearning Conferences For Chief Learning Officers in 2015

Every year the eLearning conference scene opens and closes with a bang. ATD Tech Knowledge starts the year off right in January, and DevLearn closes the year with grandeur. Sometimes it is hard to know which eLearning conferences you should attend. Here is a list of eLearning Conferences for the savvy Chief Learning Officers (CLO) to attend or send eLearning developers and instructional designers to.

by Curtis J. Morley

December 31, 2014

How The Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Got It’s Name

Find out how the Chief Learning Officer came to be. This blog reveals the story behind the planet's first Chief Learning Officer and how he became CLO.

by Curtis J. Morley

December 30, 2014

4 Important Reasons To Encourage Social Learning

We live in a world of voyeurs and exhibitionists. We like to watch and we like to be watched; and in watching we learn. In this article on social learning, I will give you 4 important reasons to encourage social learning in your organization or educational institution.

by Heera Edwin

December 17, 2014

How The 70:20:10 Model Can Takeoff

The 70:20:10 model has a growing fan-base, but Learning and Development Departments will still need to have more concrete evidence for the value of the 70:20:10 model and how it will add value to the company as a whole, so as to be a worthwhile financial investment. A lack of empirical data supporting the 70:20:10 model as well as a lack of concrete certainty about its origin, impact on its uptake which is why traditional learning still stands its ground. Well, at least for the time being.

by Mark Rose