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How to Write a Training Outline: Steps 1-3
Training outlines are designed to help trainers organize their training to make sure they have properly outlined the objectives, modalities, methodologies feedback and end results they want to achieve from the training effort. Your training outlines can also help you figure out the all the resources including trainers, rooms, schedules or rotation and other systems […]
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How Secure is Your Company’s Information?
You’ve no doubt seen at least one of several different versions of Microsoft’s recent cybercrime television commercials. In it you’ll hear a variation of these words: “Every day you read headlines about businesses being hacked and intellectual property being stolen. That is cybercrime, and it affects each and every one of us.” Behind those words […]
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Cyber Security: Top Concerns for U.S. Organizations
Fact: 53% of U.S. organizations plan to hire more cyber security professionals in 2016 but 59% of U.S. organizations report that when hiring new graduates for entry-level cybersecurity positions, it is difficult to identify who has an adequate level of skills and knowledge. Fact: 82% of U.S. organizations report that they would be more likely to hire a cyber […]
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5 Lessons from the MOOC Trend
It seems like only yesterday that everyone was talking about MOOCs. While MOOCs are no longer the latest craze in eLearning, they are still making waves. Some of the most interesting revelations about MOOCs, however, have to do with what MOOCs have revealed about learning, eLearning and workplace training more generally. Low Completion Rates May […]
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Cyber Security: Preventative Training
Fact: You or your business will probably get hacked at some point. Its not a question of if, it is a question of when and what you can/should do about this. In today’s technology landscape, every business owner is responsible for securing some amount of data and every business owner is vulnerable to security breaches. Preventative cyber security […]
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The ROI of Blended Learning in Corrections
The promise of blended learning rests primarily in its alleged ability to provide better learning outcomes than either face-to-face or eLearning can deliver on their own. But it begs the question of return on investment (ROI), which will inevitably come up somewhere along the line if blended learning is pursued in a substantial way. Having […]
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Blended Learning at Xerox, EMC, and WOW
Even though face-to-face learning remains the preferred modality for training throughout much of corporate America, accounting for 51% of all corporate learning hours delivered, the numbers related to learning retention are downright depressing. According to one Corporate Executive Board study revealed that seven days after a formal training, learners had already forgotten 70% of the […]
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Blended Learning Takes Root in the Public Sector
The Federal Government has been making a concerted effort to do better by its public sector workforce. After years of pay freezes and furloughs forced by sequestration’s automatic reductions, morale among federal employees has taken a deep hit. The 2015 Federal Government budget represented, among other things, an attempt to turn the situation around and […]
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The Rise of Corporate Blended Learning in Portugal
Although studies have shown that corporate training and education combining online and face-to-face elements works better than purely face-to-face instruction or purely online instruction, many companies are still trying to determine how to best leverage the concept of blended learning into business success. Portugal is one country that has taken the proverbial bull by the […]
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5 Ways to Deliver Successful Online Training
Grabbing and retaining the attention of training attendees is one of the biggest challenges companies face in delivering successful online training. You can provide extremely valuable and useful information to share with attendees, but if you are unable to retain the attention of the attendees, then all of your hard work is for naught. Use […]
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Take Pride in LGBT Awareness Training
As communities across the United States celebrate Pride Day, businesses are also paying attention. This year a record number of businesses scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and among other factors, this means that these businesses offer awareness training on both gay, lesbian and bisexual issues and transgender or gender identity […]
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Learning from Online Learning Trends
Remember when Second Life was all the rage? If you don’t, Second Life was a virtual world—a sort of second universe where players could don wings, change their gender, set up a hair salon, pub or art gallery and interact with other avatars (winged or wingless). It was also an immersive platform in which many […]
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