Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
Latest trends, ideas and reports in the world of talent development, learning management and edtech
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Talent Analytics: Issues, Ethics and Possibilities
It is now commonplace to keep detailed statistics on one’s customers. Customer analytics help organizations make smarter decisions and lead to a higher return on investment. In theory, talent analytics do the same thing—they help guide upper management’s decision-making processes by arming managers with increased knowledge on everything from their workforce to the micro impacts […]
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Is Over Hiring an Effective Recruitment Strategy?
When farmers plant a field, they generally plant more than they intend to harvest. Wine growers, for example, “green harvest” excess grape clusters, typically from younger vines, to ensure that the remaining grapes are able to fully ripen. The same holds true in other agricultural niches. If one fails to thin out their beet crop, […]
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Writing for eLearning, Part III: 6 Tactical Tips
In this third installment of my series on writing for eLearning, I want to present some good tactical tips that will help keep your writing as good as it needs to be for your learners.
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Writing for eLearning, Part II: Clarity
You may have the best learning management system (LMS) available and the most powerful authoring tools, but even those can’t write your content for you. In this second article on writing for eLearning, the focus will be on clarity. After all, the whole point is to make your content as clear as possible to your […]
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Writing for eLearning, Part I: Concise and Compelling
Everyone needs a great learning management system (LMS), from a business to a learning professional to an end-learner. But when it comes to your job as an eLearning professional, you and your staff need more than a fantastic LMS. And that’s because even if your LMS has all the amazing bells and whistles that make […]
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How to Train Like an Amazonian (or Not)
A recent report on Amazon by New York Times writers, Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld, offers new insight into the company’s largely secret approach to recruitment, training, and employee management. Among other revelations, the article highlights the extent to which the company has built its retail empire on an allegedly punitive approach to training and […]
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Exploring the Future of LMSs: Mobile Augmented Reality
Most people now more or less understand virtual reality. In short, virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated world. By contrast, few people still fully understand and appreciate the concept of augmented reality, despite the fact that a growing number of applications (both commercial and educational) rely on augmented reality applications. At its […]
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Office Design and Inclusion
Over the past month, temperatures have soared across the United States–except in most workplaces. And as a widely circulated new study, published in Nature Climate Change last week, concludes, the chilly climate of many offices may reflect a problem that can’t be easily solved by simply adjusting our thermostats. Indeed, the study suggests that the […]
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eLearning TrendWatch: Badges
You know how important gamification has become in corporate training and eLearning, but are leveraging as many of its aspects as possible for better learning outcomes and success? One aspect that often gets overlooked is how you reward progress.
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eLearning TrendWatch: Characters and Avatars
Learning professionals are always looking for ways to jazz up their eLearning and other corporate training content, and making good use of characters and avatars is a great way to do that. This article will cover some of the basics as well as latest developments in eLearning trends for leveraging characters and avatars into learning […]
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eLearning TrendWatch: HTML5
As a learning professional, you already know how important it is to stay on top of all the latest developments, and while many have probably already started working with HTML5, even more have yet to jump onto that bandwagon. In this article, I’ll cover what’s important to know about HTML5 and what to keep in […]
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Learning Management Systems and Training Resistance
Although training is now part of the culture of most contemporary workplaces, there are still some employees who resist training or resist training under specific circumstances. While it can be frustrating when employees refuse to participate in mandatory training, by analyzing their reasons for resisting training, organizations can gain insight into their workplace culture and […]
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