Corporate Training

January 26, 2016

3 Ways Online Training Providers Can Use Gamification In Their Courses

If you’re simply taking a game and apply it to online training, you’re doing gamification wrong! For example, think of gamified training that’s based around a word search or a board game. These forms of gamification can be expensive to create and often offer little value to the learner. Instead, you need to find ways to use gaming elements to create better experiences that are not possible with traditional learning mediums.

by Li Whybrow

January 25, 2016

eLearning Best Practices For Digital Signage

Digital signage is a fairly new communication medium that evolved from corporate TV back in the seventies. This new communication technology really took off when the internet became popular and now anyone can run their own private communication channel. The main components of any modern digital signage system are: Hardware (TV and content playback device), Content Management Software (CMS), and an internet connection. Digital signage is commonly used for corporate communication, public information, and advertising. The skills required to deploy and use a digital signage network cover many disciplines, from creative to technical skills. However, as CMS products mature, we see more administrative personnel requiring training on these products.

by Maurice Doran

January 24, 2016

How Gamification Will Impact Corporate Learning

At EI Design, we have been crafting gamification for serious learning (corporate learning) for over two years now. We now see a maturing in corporates’ understanding of its true potential and how a well-crafted gamification solution can create the right learning impact. Today, gamification is poised to impact corporate learning. It is more than a buzz and is steadily gaining momentum on account of increase in adoption of mobile learning or mLearning and significant numbers of millennial learners in the overall learner demographics that are asking for it.

by Asha Pandey

January 24, 2016

5 Top Tips To Maximize Your Compliance Training Experience

The reality of compliance training for most organizations goes something like this: Legal responsibilities and regulatory requirements continue to increase, budgets shrink, and seat time pressures rise — not quite the formula for a winning training solution. Here are 5 top tips for maximizing your compliance training experience.

by Fionnuala Courtney

January 22, 2016

Corporate eLearning In Asia: The Global Relevance

Comparatively speaking, corporate eLearning still represents a rather small portion of the overall eLearning market –8% according to one recent survey–, but in part because of that the upside potential is enormous, and nowhere is this truer than in Asia. Let us see what happens with corporate eLearning in Asia.

by Julia Bespala

January 20, 2016

4 Learning Evaluation Models You Can Use

How do you know that the learning programs you put together work with your learners and the particular context of your organization? When you attend a conference session or read a blog about the latest craze, how do you know if it really is a useful approach or just hot air? Learning evaluation can help answer these questions. So how do you evaluate learning?

by Andrew Downes

January 20, 2016

The Art Of Application Learning

Is it possible to drastically reduce expenditures and time spent training, especially for application learning, simply by switching to more modern methods? The answer is yes.

by Julia Bespala

January 19, 2016

Creative Instructional Design: Featuring 3 Innovative Onboarding And Induction Examples

All of us are aware of the impact of well-designed onboarding and induction programs. Today, several organizations prefer an eLearning-based approach to deliver them. They seek learning strategies that can deliver high impact programs that can induct new team members quickly and efficiently. With changes in learner demographics that now include Millennials in significant numbers, organizations are looking at more engaging and immersive formats that appeal to this profile.

by Asha Pandey

January 18, 2016

Is Your Organization Ready To Implement Microlearning?

When it comes to corporate training, has your organization hit a wall? Or worse, is your company training no longer effective with employees? Whether you’re onboarding new employees or introducing new software/programs within a department, it’s important that organizational training techniques are not only up-to-date, but remain effective for every type of learner within your company. Enter microlearning. But is every organization cut out for it?

by Jayme Jenkins

January 16, 2016

Enterprises Investing Billions In Business Security

Enterprises invest huge money, efforts, time, and energy to compete in the race, but forget to implement basic security measures. And when these businesses suffer from cyber attacks and security breaches, they close down. Nonetheless, you could somehow manage to recover from cyber exploits and other failure issues, but it’s unworkable when customer’s data are at risk. These inevitable issues bring business security to the forefront so much so that even the topmost companies continue to invest millions and billions.

by Vaishnavi Agrawal

January 14, 2016

Why Companies Need To Address Unlimited Users With Their Trainings

In coming across online training platforms with unlimited user models, you might have wondered what their advantages are. In short: Adding unlimited users to your training academy is highly profitable and saves a lot of effort! The following 3 examples show how every company can grow using a scalable learning platform.

by Annika Willers

January 12, 2016

The 4 Hottest eLearning Trends For 2016

With 2016 upon us, we now have a firm footing into the 21st century. Although we’re not quite at the Johnny Five stage yet (the robot demonstrated the ability to scan and instantly assimilate information in the 1986 movie, Short Circuit), technology is starting to revolutionize the learning landscape. In this article I will share the 4 hottest eLearning trends for 2016.

by Ruby Spencer, CTDP