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E-Learning is a uniquely transformative force which has direct bottom line impact. However Elearning has to be done right to ensure its vast advantages are realized in organizations. Get the latest thought leadership in Elearning.
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Can social media help you do your job better?
Although first and foremost associated with entertainment or socializing with friends and family, social media now pervades nearly all aspects of the modern workplace. From recruitment to training to promotions, social media is an integral part of how people carry out their everyday work, but does social media necessarily help us do our jobs better?
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Leveraging Social Media as a Recruitment or Job Search Tool
Two decades ago, recruiting job candidates typically took place in person at a job fair or via a print-based advertisement, usually in a major newspaper. Today, few jobs are found in newspapers and while job fairs still exist, they serve many purposes that extend well beyond recruitment. From employment-focused sites, like Mediabistro and LinkedIn, to […]
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Instructional Design: Learning from Social Media
Learning is no longer assumed to be a discrete experience that can only take place in a classroom or at a training center. Most students and workers now accept the fact that learning is for life and further accept that learning is no longer location bound. At the same time, social media platforms continue to […]
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Creating a Culture of Assessment for Creative Workers
While they may not recognize it, most educators and trainers are constantly assessing the impact of their course delivery. This may take place in a conversation with a colleague over coffee after teaching a class or facilitating a workshop. This may take place when they ask students or workshop participants for feedback using informal methods […]
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Recruiting and Training Transit Workers in the 21st Century
While some transit jobs, such as train operators, continue to go into decline, the demand for bus, rapid rail and subway operators, especially in urban areas, continues to rise. The growing need for urban transit workers is driven by two factors. First more people are moving back into city centers and as a result, they […]
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Media Production Part 1: eLearning Leaders
There’s really no way around it: Being an eLearning professional in the 21st century means at least knowing a good deal about media production. Why? Because corporate learning resources need to be available to employees not only when they need it, but also in the most conducive media format to the situation at hand. In […]
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Bringing the Right Soft Skills into eLearning’s Focus
In previous articles such as eLearning and Soft Skills: What Went Wrong? and New Directions in eLearning Soft Skills, I covered the historical challenges encountered in trying to figure out how to teach soft skills in the eLearning environment, and how such new approaches emphasizing speed, thin-slicing, and coaching orientation are overcoming those historical challenges. […]
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Conducting an eLearning Tech Audit
Getting all the different technologies working together seamlessly to support your eLearning efforts can feel like a daunting task, but it’s far too important to let it slip off your radar screen. When things don’t work well, it causes stress, anxiety, unnecessary complications, and inefficiency. That’s why a periodic eLearning Tech Audit should be on […]
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When Should eLearning Happen?
If you want your eLearning efforts to really pay off with big impacts, employees need to be able to engage it when they’re at their most focused and productive. Obviously, that can’t always happen because we also want employees to devote their most productive times to the important work that needs to be done in […]
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eLearning’s Hang-Ups
If you’re a regular reader of my articles, then you know how often I point out that although eLearning is one of the hottest topics out there, it’s utilization rate still remains surprisingly low. You’d think that in today’s digital era that more than 27% of instruction and training delivered to employees would be all […]
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Tools for Collaborative eLearning
A few articles back I wrote about The Government’s Take on eLearning Effectiveness, and one aspect that clearly boosted eLearning’s effectiveness was collaboration. In this article I want to highlight a sampling of the many tools that you can use to inject plenty of collaboration into your eLearning programs.
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Creating Blended eLearning Experiences
In my previous article, The Government’s Take on eLearning Effectiveness, blended eLearning fared well in the US Department of Education’s meta-analysis of 45 different studies of eLearning from the last decade. But what does it really take to create effective blended eLearning experiences? To get this right, it’s useful to choose a model or framework […]
