The aviation industry is facing a major personnel shortage. According to Boeing’s 2018 Pilot and Technician report, airlines will need 790,000 commercial pilots and 890,000 new cabin crew members in the next 20 years. This is a concern for several reasons, including the fact that airline positions require a lot of training. Commercial pilots, for […]
Before reading this post, please take a few minutes to read Part 1 for important context and info on why emotion is so important to learning and why Emotional Intelligence needs to be considered in learning design. Enjoy, and then meet me back here! ~~~ Emotion in Learning (Part 2) Lead a horse to water. Here's […]
Videos are memorable, entertaining, and visually engaging, which makes them the perfect addition to your external sales team online training. But how can you use these powerful online training tools to increase profits and retain your top talent? How To Use Videos In External Sales Team Online Training Your external sales staff needs to […]
*This is a guest post from our featured blogger Ant Pugh. If you are looking to invest in an LMS for your organization, you may be wondering where you can find enough content to keep your audience coming back for more. In this article we’ll take a quick look at five sources of online learning. […]
"80% percent of life is just showing up" - Woody Allen We love to make jokes about why taking attendance is so useless. But showing up is important. If you are still creating courses, then it just makes sense to know who showed up. And showing up applies to courses delivered in a classroom as well […]
Let's get real about compliance training. We hate it! Not only do we hate taking compliance training courses, but we hate building them even more. There. I said it. Oh! Hello Mr. Elephant sitting in the room! Would it be okay if we called you Compliance Training just for today? Yea, I know you've been […]
I often find myself in conversations about developing training courses. They are always fun but inevitably contain the comment, "yea, but we can't do that because this is a compliance course". I've even found myself adding "...unless your developing a compliance course" at the end of statements during my presentations. As passionate proponents of LEARNING, I […]
In any organization, there are multiple types of mandatory staff training. These training fall on a continuum from how to perform specific job functions to a certification course in CPR. One of the most critical types of training in any business or organization is compliance training. What is Compliance Training? Compliance training provides employees […]
Our release today has seen a few very exciting changes roll out, one of which is the addition of certificates to the Litmos LMS. Completion Certificates So, first up, you can now add a certificate to any course you build in Litmos. This will then be issued to the learner as a PDF upon successful […]
On 18 October 2010, new guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) will be published by the American Heart Association (AHA). The latest CPR and ECC Guidelines came out in 2005, so over 4 years of research has gone in to the updated guidelines. According to AHA documentation the '2010 AHA Guidelines […]
Health Care is another industry that is really pushing forward with innovation when it comes to online training. In a 24/7 industry, a well-implemented online training system offers the flexibility to fit in with the learner's/ admin's schedule. Ultimately, it also benefits the organization by reducing costs and improving operations. The Health Care industry is […]
If you're putting together your eLearning or online training content and you can't stand the sound of your own voice, or you just need a professional voice of a different accent or language to narrate the audio, look no further than www.voice123.com. Voice123 is a really cool site that has hundreds of thousands (!) of […]
The major obstacle for those wanting to move their learning programs online is content. Classroom-based or Instructor Led Training could have been the norm in a company for years, but getting that content in to an online format and making it work is a whole different story. We often have the 'content discussion' with clients, […]
So I arrived in San Jose this evening and managed to meet up with a few DevLearners at the Fairmont Hotel and head out to dinner. Not sure exactly what happened to our Peruvian dinner group, but in the end there were just the three of us - Steve Nguyen, Darrin Hayes and myself. Great […]
There are a lot of eLearning companies out there custom building courses to order and charging a decent amount of money for it. There are also a lot of companies delivering online courses from their own websites at a per seat cost. But is there a marketplace or repository where anyone developing an online learning […]
Australian franchise Hungry Jacks announced yesterday that it had broken through a number of online training records. For those who are unfamiliar with the brand, Hungry Jacks is the 'exclusive Australian master food franchisee of the Burger King Corporation'. Basically, when the BK franchise moved in to Australia the name "Burger King" had already been […]
With today's economy not looking so hot, classroom-based (or face-to-face) training is not always the most cost-effective or feasible option for many companies. More recently it is compliance training that's moved online for a number of reasons, one of the most persuasive being the ability to maintain an accurate record of employee training completion and […]
The most successful businesses invest a lot of time and money in achieving brand consistency, whether it be in their marketing or sales message, or in how their employees actually represent and embody the company's values. Geographically disperse organizations have more of a challenge maintaining brand consistency because although the offices all share the same […]
In the last few days I've found some interesting articles that show the extent to which online training is now being used in different industries. I thought these two examples from the transportation industry were worthy of a mention as they demonstrate the scale and credibility that online training is achieving. Firstly, Ohio Country Schools […]
When you think of successful franchises, the first ones that probably spring to mind are fast food chains like McDonalds and SUBWAY
I just read a great article from David Becker called "What's Your E-Learning Strategy for Compliance Training?" which you can find on the eLearning Guild website. You'll need to login to read it though, so I thought I'd post up the most important points I've extracted. It's a timely article about being cost-effective with compliance […]
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