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eLearning Evaluation: Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Model
I’ve written about how important assessment is for eLearning (or any training, development, or learning effort for that matter), and this is one area where it pays to get back to basics. There’s more to evaluating eLearning than just reflecting on how it went in a general sense. If you want to really do a […]
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The Challenge of Measuring Self-Paced Learning’s Return on Investment
As training options expand, many questions remain unanswered about self-paced learning’s return on investment and how to measure it. First, it’s important to consider the fact that both the workforce and the nature of the workplace need to be taken into account when measuring self-paced learning’s ROI. At what pace do people learn and more […]
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Instructional Design for Older Workers
As the ability to retire at 65 becomes a pipe dream for many Americans, there are a growing number of older adults in the workforce. While some younger workers like to joke about their older colleagues’ work habits – for example, printing and filing important emails due to a deep mistrust of cloud storage – […]
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Designing Enduring Structures for the Virtual Workplace
For centuries, architects have been building structures that do more than protect us from the elements. In Ancient Greece, temples were designed as powerful testaments to Greek society’s rising civilization. In the Renaissance, Italian cathedrals were designed to enhance and amplify choral music. And in the 18th century, a growing number of buildings were designed […]
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mLearning: Bringing Learning to Life
The majority of training professionals already recognize that the most effective training is interactive, continuous and takes place outside the formal classroom. In a nutshell, it happens in life, not in stand-alone training sessions. But how do you bring training to life?
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Mentoring Skills through eLearning
When you read about the robust mentoring programs that have been in use at Sun Microsystems since the 1990s, you can’t help but be envious of the fact that their estimated return on investment (ROI) has exceeded 1,000%. Whether you’re considering the launch of a mentoring program or wish the one you have could be […]
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Humor in eLearning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Great Recession was no laughing matter. It left a lot of companies and organizations hurting. However, a myopic focus only on the bottom line can become a rather mind-numbing affair. There is more to an organization than its bottom line. I’d like to suggest that in this post-recession environment it’s very important to make […]
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The Future of MOOCs for Education
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have generated a lot of support, as the potential to educate enormous numbers of people at once appears to satisfy the popular notion that better education throughout the world can improve the lives of many. The development of MOOCs is particularly exciting in an era where the teacher to student […]
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How to Leverage Data to Improve e-Learning
As new eLearning tools are developed and existing tools are optimized, we are collecting more and more data that will hopefully allow us to more systematically approach digital learning. In the early era of digital education, our analysis of the field has been limited due to the complexity of the relevant research and the number […]
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eLearning for Corporations: Leveraging the MOOC
Though online tools like massive open online courses (MOOCs) were developed for educational purposes, with the goal of reaching larger and more diverse audiences than is possible with traditional classroom settings, MOOCs can also be used by corporations for marketing purposes. Just as the top universities have the reputation of providing the highest quality educational […]
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How Blended Learning Can Improve Education
As massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other digital options for education become both more abundant and of higher quality, the landscape of education is sure to change. How exactly digital education tools will be implemented into education programs is not yet clear. Some believe that digital offerings will take over education and replace traditional […]
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eLearning Assessment of Emotional Intelligence
If you’ve taken to heart the latest trends in eLearning for soft skills training, then you know that emotional intelligence (EI) is a high-priority area for learning. Indeed, Daniel Goleman, who played a key role in popularizing the concept, conducted competency research on hundreds of companies all over the world and found that technical skills […]
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