Top 5 Tips for Producing Microlearning Videos
Introduction Today’s guest post is written by Tom Spiglanin. He was one of the first in my network to identify,...
How I Saved $50,000 Moving from Classroom Training to eLearning
When I started working at my previous employer back in 2011, they didn’t have any elearning. With a team of trainers travelling...
A Design Thinking Tool for Learning and Development
In 2012 I was introduced to the Business Model Canvas at a gathering of creative design thinkers. Recently I discovered that a colleague in...
If Pre-Authoring Becomes Primary Authoring…is Authoring Dead?
Pre-authoring is the content creation process that occurs before authoring. The media content you create that will end up being used...
Top 10 LMS Requirements For Corporate Training
Ready to move your corporate training online but aren’t quite sure what your LMS needs are to get the job...
Top Reasons to Love Powerpoint
The eLearning industry loves to hate powerpoint. However the hate has mostly passed, and isn’t as bad today as it used...
Join the Growing Learning Rebellion
My friend and colleague Shannon Tipton released her new book titled Disruptive Learning: Discover Your Inner Learning Rebel. And I...
How Formal Training Courses Fit In Your Learning Ecosystem – by Dr. Clark Quinn
The Big Picture of Learning The bigger picture of learning in the organization goes beyond courses. Frameworks like 70:20:10 as promoted...
10 Reasons to Move Your Training to the Cloud
IT departments are moving to the cloud. In many enterprise businesses it’s even a mandate. The cost savings are undeniable....
Why You Need to Market Your Training Courses
Just because you build a training course, and list it in your LMS, doesn’t mean your target audience will automatically...
Making the Distinction Between Serious Games and Gamification – Guest Post by Clark Quinn
Guest post by Clark Quinn (@quinnovator) One of the hottest topics around right now is gamification, and as with any...
Culture Shifting from Corporate Owned Training to Employee Owned Learning
Recently I’ve written about trends in eLearning as well as how general technology trends impact the training industry. There is...
Training: Right Place, Right Time, Right Format
Everyone is looking to solve this problem. The ultimate solution rests in a partnership between designers/developers and technology product providers....
7 Top Blended Learning Benefits For Corporate Training
Blended learning for corporate training is not only cost effective, but it is also a more natural way to learn...
Effective Use of Vertical Video for Training
I guess technology is moving more quickly than I thought. So quickly, in fact, that vertical video has already jumped...
5 Training Department Guiding Principles
I delivered a session at the ATD International Conference and Expo last week titled Back to the Future…of Training &...
The 4 Most Important Questions When Building Your Training Strategy
New to training? Answering the following 4 questions will help get you started on the path to success. Obviously there are...
GUEST POST by Jay Cross: Why Content Curation Should be in Your Training Skillset
Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity...
Content Mining for the 21st Century Training Professional
Training content is the most critical ingredient in any training project. And finding existing content is the key to quickly...
Mobile Statistics and What it means for Corporate Training
In terms of technology, hardly anything is moving faster than the increase in use of mobile devices such as smart...
Corporate Training Departments: Predator or Prey?
Humor me for a minute and think about this. Would you consider yourself, and/or your corporate training department, as Predator or...
Top 5 Corporate Training Department Guiding Principles
Does your training department have a list of guiding principles? If not, then you can have mine. Well, at least...
7 Levels of Corporate Training and eLearning Development
This framework attempts to clarify and harness the realities of developing training solutions in today’s 21st century corporation. One thing I...
My Top 5 Training Development Tips
The world of Corporate Training is really not that complicated. But with all of our instructional models and frameworks, we...