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Using Nostalgia to Market Learning

By Digitec Interactive|2017-01-05T09:00:21+00:00January 5th, 2017|Association Management, Featured Post, Marketing, Member Engagement & Retention, Member Engagement and Retention, Strategic Planning|

For marketers, memory has been long relied on to persuade the buying public to purchase their products. We use images and music to make the consumer remember their past and experience a level of nostalgia [...]

I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development – Part 3

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-29T09:00:25+00:00September 29th, 2016|Association Management, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Post, Game-based Learning, Gamification, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Member Engagement & Retention, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Training and Development, Uncategorized|

Part 2 discussed five outdated Learning and Development (L&D) practices and why they don’t work. This final installment is going to visit the other side of the coin. Here are five updated practices that will [...]

Bridge the Skills-Gap with Competency Based Learning

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-22T09:00:42+00:00September 22nd, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Communications, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Member Engagement & Retention, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Dear Associations, I am trying to get into a skilled labor position at company X. I have some experience but there are new rules and regulations and I just can’t keep up. I could go [...]

What Instructional Designers Really Do

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-02T00:40:05+00:00September 2nd, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Strategic Planning, Training and Development|

I want to apologize. I write about instructional design (ID) all the time but I’ve never stopped to explain what Instructional Designers really do. There are numerous definitions for it and many of them are [...]

Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best Part 3

By Digitec Interactive|2016-08-18T09:00:32+00:00August 18th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Creative Design, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Project Management, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Chapter 3: Advanced QA Testing So far we’ve talked about the basic and intermediate techniques of quality assurance testing (QA). In our final installment, we’ll look at more advanced techniques that will help your eLearning [...]

3 Questions to Consider Before Developing New eLearning

By Digitec Interactive|2016-08-11T09:00:58+00:00August 11th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Strategic Planning, Training and Development|

Developing new eLearning is a big undertaking. While it may be tempting to dive right in and start designing, it’s important to answer several critical questions first. Having a solid grasp on your goals and [...]

Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best Part 2

By Digitec Interactive|2016-08-04T09:00:16+00:00August 4th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Chapter 2: Intermediate Quality Assurance Testing In our first chapter, we discussed some of the basics of quality assurance (QA). Now, we will discuss some of the more involved tasks that are associated with making [...]

RF, Please…Why an RFP Isn’t the Best Method For Choosing an LMS Vendor

By Digitec Interactive|2016-07-28T09:00:26+00:00July 28th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Budgets and ROI, eLearning, Featured Post, Learning Management Systems, Mobile Learning, Strategic Planning, Training and Development|

Analyst John Leh says there are 700 LMS vendors in the industry. That means there are a lot of options, with a lot of features, a lot of variations, and a lot of sales teams [...]

Once Upon a Gamified Interstate

By Digitec Interactive|2016-07-21T21:40:05+00:00July 21st, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, eLearning, Featured Post, Game-based Learning, Gamification, Gamification, Mobile Learning, Training and Development|

It was a dark and lengthy car ride. I had two and a half hours of nighttime driving ahead of me and I’d had a long day. I needed to stay alert, but my usual [...]

I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development

By Digitec Interactive|2016-07-14T09:00:54+00:00July 14th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Creative Design, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Strategic Planning, Training and Development|

The learning and development (L&D) world seems to be confused by, if not outright afraid of, millennials. Curious about the ruckus, I did some research. And admittedly, as a millennial, I was curious to see [...]