Last year, model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen put in a grocery order with a shopping service. She ordered 5 limes. She received 5 bags worth: 200 limes. Teigen’s response to this overabundance of limes was both good-natured and delicious; she made key lime pies, documenting the event on Instagram. But the fact remains that […]
There are a lot of reasons not to invest in training for gig workers. For one thing, mandatory training for contract workers is illegal in the U.S., but there's a lot more to this story, so let's dig into it. Most companies in the sharing economy rely on independent contractors to provide their services — […]
In the second part of this guest series, David Wilson, Founder and CEO at Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, builds on his last post for us and reveals practical ways to create learning journeys that help your people and your organisation’s performance. ~~~ If your organisation’s goals are customer centric (and let’s face […]
It’s St Patrick's Day weekend and millions of people around the globe are about to get their green on and go “Irish for a Day,” even if they don’t have a drop of Irish blood. Not an issue! That’s part of the fun. St Patrick’s Day is celebrated in more countries around the world than […]
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 […]
Are you offering your customer service team the resources they need to keep your customers loyal? In this article, I highlight eight skills that are often overlooked in customer service online training. Customer Service Online Training: 8 Overlooked Skills To Consider Your customer service staff deals with any number of challenges every day, ranging from […]
You’re a sales manager, and your sales team needs training on a specific aspect of their jobs. Your organization intends for this training to be just-in-time learning — if they need a little help, they take a learning module in your LMS, and then they return to what they were doing in the CRM, and perform […]
The ATD 2017 International Conference and Expo in Atlanta is THE place to be May 21-24! This is an awesome event with tons of info-packed sessions, so be sure to come prepared to learn the latest trends and best practices to design, deliver, and measure your learning programs. We’d love to hear what you think […]
How do I turn my current live classes into e-learning? This is a very common question from many new LMS customers. Many companies adopt an LMS expressly to overcome the challenges they have with live training. When customers ask me this question, I first ask them if they are sure they should take their classes […]
The Big Picture of Learning The bigger picture of learning in the organization goes beyond courses. Frameworks like 70:20:10 as promoted by Charles Jennings, and Modern Workplace Learning as represented by Jane Hart, suggest that most of the valuable learning doesn’t come from courses. I don’t disagree; it is not that courses aren’t valuable, but we […]
I've launched a few LMSs in my career. And I've heard about many, many, more implementations. In my early days you really had no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, on a hardware/software solution supported by your internal IT department. But that all changed with cloud technologies and the massive shift […]
Congratulations to the entire Litmos Team! The SIIA announced the finalists for their annual CODiE awards and Litmos was chosen in the following categories: Best K-12 Course and Learning Management Solution "Recognizes the best digital learning environment/system designed for K-12 educators to manage curriculum-based content, student access and use, diagnostic and remediation programs, data management […]
There isn’t really one clear definition for online training and there are even more names for it: online learning, computer based training, eLearning, mLearning, distance learning, self-paced learning, asynchronous training, and the list goes on… What we do agree on, is it happens online. The type of online training that we’re talking about is a […]
Over the years I’ve produced several software training courses for Instructor-led, classroom-based training. We all know the kind, where such courses last anywhere from 1 to 5 days in length. Then during a project implementation, as the solution nears completion and client testing begins, the Project Manager comes to you as the Training Manager and […]
You have been asking for some new features and we have been listening. We have decided to change how learners are notified of updated courses and we have also updated reports to fit your needs better. We have added a feature that shows courses as updated only when you want to notify the learners that […]
Let me wish you a happy and productive new year from the Litmos blogging team! It's time to continue with our occasional manifesto on how to bring eLearning to your organization (and maximize the use of your LMS). This is a food-for-thought post on authoring tools. Many Litmos clients (and others tasked with magically converting […]
Over the weekend we released a major upgrade to the way that Litmos sends emails. What this means for you is more of the emails that Litmos sends out to your students will find the inbox rather than get caught in spam or junk filters. Over the past year the number of emails that Litmos […]
Today I read about a cool program in the UK called 'Health e-Working' developed by e-Learning for Healthcare. It is a resource made possible by the UK government's Health, Work and Well-being initiative to protect and improve the health and well-being of working age people. 'Health e-Working (which I think sounds quite catchy) offers six […]
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 […]
We love hearing great feedback from our customers about our Learning Management System and last week we received this wonderful comment that's definitely worth sharing: "Using Litmos as our online training host provider has been a wonderful experience. Your responsiveness to all of our questions has been outstanding. An even greater surprise has been your […]
A new survey released last week by Citrix Online and Kelton Research of 1,100 businesses and 4,300 workers in Britain, France and Germany shows some very positive results for the online training industry. Overall 500 businesses and 1300 workers in the UK were surveyed, here are some key figures to come out of that research: […]
We're happy to announce the release of the new 'Team Leader' role in the Litmos Learning Management System. This much-requested permission level sits squarely in between a regular 'Trainee' and a 'Training Administrator' and fulfills a very specific purpose. The Team Leader cannot create or edit training courses but they can create users in their […]
Last week I attended the DevLearn09 conference in San Jose (California) and I had a ball - not often you can say that about a conference! DevLearn is an annual event put on by the eLearning Guild and this year's did not disappoint with big name keynotes like Andrew McAfee, Eric Zimmerman and Leo Laporte. […]
A new report has just been released by Ambient Insight called "The US Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2009-2014 Forecast and Analysis.". The report forecasts expenditures for Self-paced eLearning products and online training services across 'eight customer buying segments: consumer; corporations and business; federal civilian and military government; state and local government, Pre […]
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