5 Types of Learning Content You Should Buy Off the Shelf
A successful workplace training program should have custom-created content. After all, you need your employees to have knowledge specific to...
Thinking Beyond the Course
A client bought some of my time, and we’re working with a series of regular meetings with me serving as...
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....
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...
Supporting Gig Worker Performance
The Gig Economy is a thing. What I mean here is that there are an increasing number of companies using...
Emotion in learning (Part 2)
Before reading this post, please take a few minutes to read Part 1 for important context and info on why...
Emotion in learning (Part 1)
The secret behind learning design? Emotion. You know the old saying:"leave the emotion out of it." I'm here to advise you...
What NOT to do in L&D
As do most articles in the L&D space, I frequently talk about what we should do. And, it occurred to...
New thoughts on design thinking
In the early 80’s, I read an article calling for a cognitive engineering: designing systems that matched how our brains...
An Alternative eLearning Development Model for the Social Age
Supporting the social nature of work is not easy. It requires new ways of thinking and new ways of working. It...
eLearning Development is a Sprint Not a Marathon
If your course development projects are taking longer than a week or two you may need to rethink your strategy....
The Ultimate Blended Learning Course Design Pattern
In a recent blog post I introduced the idea of training course patterns to kickstart your LMS. The needs of every...
Top 5 Training Design Tips for Everyone
You've been asked to create some training for your organization. Don't panic. That voice inside your head will not steer...
Why Recording Instructor Led Training is Part of Your Design Process
Recording events is easier than ever. If you have a smartphone then you have a video recording device with...
Is Instructional Design Bias Limiting Your Success?
In a recent post I made the claim that a digital media file (video, pdf, audio, etc.) and a quiz...
The Most Important Secret to 21st Century Instructional Design
And I won't even make you wait until the end for the big reveal. Here it is! Digital media + quiz = course...
Making Training Delivery Part of Your Training Development Process
In my last post How a New Training Process Scales Up Your Talent, I set the stage for a new training...
How I Learned "Done is Better Than Perfect"
"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week" - George S....
Why storytelling in eLearning design works...
I read a great post yesterday from the eLearning Coach, Connie Melamed, that reminded me just how important storytelling is to learning....
Guerrilla-style Rapid Development with Adobe Captivate, Part I
Hi there, Litmos community! This week, we're going to shift gears. Today's post is the first of a multi-course feast....
Efficiency in eLearning: Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5 (Part II)
Greetings, Litmos community! We've been taking a look at how to create efficiency when designing/developing eLearning in Adobe Captivate 5....
Efficiency in eLearning: Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5 (Part I)
¡Bienvenidos, Litmos community! Those of you tasked with converting your organization's content into rapid eLearning -- we're looking at you. ...
How Do I Get My Stuff Online?! The Fun-filled World of Authoring Tools
Let me wish you a happy and productive new year from the Litmos blogging team! It's time to continue with...