5 Distance Learning Lessons for Higher Ed from the Business World
In March, many college students were on spring break when they got an email from their schools: pack up your...
How Can L&D Contribute to Creating Highly Engaged Employees?
In L&D circles, employee engagement is always a hot topic. And it should be because at its core it’s about...
What Type of L&D Guru Are You?
Learning and development pros come in all shapes and sizes, and often from very different backgrounds from an instructional design...
Learning & Dev’s Positive Deviance Approach
We, in learning & development, often focus on fixing what’s wrong. We try to find guidance on how to do...
Making Small Learnings Work
The label "micro-learning" refuses to die. You’d think, like most hype-driven buzzwords, it would have faded away. Its very persistence...
In Challenging Times: Make Lemonade in eLearning
In 2009, an SRI team working for the Department of Education led by Barbara Means, reported for the first time,...
Extreme Engagement in Corporate Learning
I’ve written before about learning experience design, but I want to take it a bit further. I think we can,...
Smarter employee evaluation
What do you use as a basis for evaluation of employees? It’s easy to have a simple measure, such as...
What’s Organizational Intellectricity & Why Does It Matter?
What’s going to make the difference for an organization? These days, it’s about two things: optimal execution and continual innovation....
Managers are the key to learning and development
For as much time as we spend talking about learning management, companies do not seem to spend a lot of...
Training is Organizational Change
In Implementing E-Learning, Jay Cross and Lance Dublin suggested that implementing eLearning was an organizational change. That is, the introduction...
6 Top Tips To Measure Online Training With LMS Metrics
Analytics are generally used to market and attract new customers to your brand. Big Data can also help you determine...
360-degree view of training
Things have changed Today's workplace has changed and there are many references to the "Modern Workplace" in a variety of...
Make 2017 the Year of Training Effectiveness
Don’t expect better results from your training programs if you aren’t willing to change how you think about corporate training....
Is There Too Much Info in Your e-Learning Course?
I usually start my posts with a short intro about the topic, to entice you into reading more. But today I'm going...
Shannon Tipton, Learning Rebels LLC Have you ever been in front of a group who are training "captives"? Either people...
Why Courses Should Be Longer…Not Shorter!
Learning is a long term process. Traditional training is mostly approached from the content perspective. People need to learn how...
eLearning Quality – What Does it Mean to You?
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs We...
15 Serious Tips for Serious Learning Designs on a Budget
The strong result being seen in elearning is that our designs are not reflecting what’s known about good elearning. This...
Why Instructional Design is No Longer Trending
Why has the interest in instructional design declined over the last 12 years? Some say it's dead, others say...
Why Design is More Important than Instructional Design
Why instructional design? Why not just design, period!? I would encourage everyone to engage with others who work in design...
Top 5 Rules for Great Multiple Choice Questions
For many of us who design e-learning, the multiple choice question is the default question format we add at the...
Why Teaching Might Be a Successful Part of Corporate Training Strategy
Do you make teaching part of your learning strategy? Probably not. It might be on HR's list of things employees...
7 Tips to Practicing the Craft of Instructional Storytelling
"Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where...