Learning Objectives and GPS
Your supervisor stops by and says they’re super busy. They need you to take care of something they don’t have time to do. After showing you that “Everything you need is in this folder” they [...]
Using Nostalgia to Market Learning
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 [...]
Learning Escape Room
You’re locked in a room with a handful of people, often strangers. You need to work together to find clues and problem solve in order to escape before time runs out. That’s the premise behind [...]
Would You Subject Yourself to This?
Mind-numbing boredom and hair-tearing frustration happen. They’re facts of life. But the thought of learning something new shouldn’t put people on autopilot. If the learner comes out of an educational offering wishing for that chunk [...]
Can I Get a Mentor?
I hate to say it, but medieval Europe might have had better job preparation than we do today. In short, they used apprenticeships. I’m glossing over a lot of details and caveats here but, if [...]
Pokémon and Gamified Learning
I recently had a conversation about something I hadn’t thought about for a long time. Pokémon. And it dawned upon me that the franchise is a surprisingly good metaphor for gamified learning. For those who [...]
What Can Keep And Hold A Millennial In Your Organization? Learning and Development
Baby Boomers instilled the tradition of keeping one's head down, staying with "the Company" for 20+ years, and collecting a gold watch at the end of their career. But Millennials anticipate collecting many watches much, [...]
Quality Assurance: Fine-Tuning Your eLearning to Be Its Best
Chapter 1: The Basics Quality assurance, or QA as it is better known, is a vastly important yet surprisingly under-appreciated aspect of eLearning. Most course creators and teams do a fine job of working out [...]
Top 5 eLearning Trends Happening Now
I recently attended the Training 2016 Conference and Expo as an exhibitor. I was able to talk with many training and development representatives from a wide variety of organizations about their LMS needs. During these [...]
To Train or Not to Train
A group of teachers’ assistants at a local school are given one hour each day to make copies of tests and assignments for the teachers. Often, one or more of the assistants return without the [...]