The Future of L&D in the New World of Work
This article from HBR.org got me thinking more about how Training, Learning and Development fit into the future of work. Over...
Snapchat: A Possible Future for Learning and Development
2016 has been the year of Snapchat. For those of you not following social media trends, what has happened is...
The SXSW Interactive Experience with L&D Perspective
SXSW Interactive is a massive event. Even writing that statement doesn’t feel like I’m doing justice to the size of...
Thinking Differently about Learning Content Development and Maintenance
If you spend anytime on the web, specifically looking at product or service sites, you probably have noticed some interesting...
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....
How to Improve Learning Retention by Over 300% – Hint: Don’t Bore me!
I attended the Edtech day of Phoenix Startup Week last week. And today some of the presentations went live on slideshare....
Free Your Training Content from the Chains of SCORM
If you’ve been in the eLearning industry for any significant period of time you know the industry thorn that is...
Upgrade Your Franchisee Training Program with Mobile Learning
In yesterday’s blog post we covered the importance of managing your franchisee training program with a learning management system. Today,...
The Ultimate Mobile Learning Video Production Studio
Earlier this year I attended CES2016 (Read more here, and here.) and discovered some very cool new tech. One of...
5 Important Questions to Ask Yourself in 2016
Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the C3 conference in London. I participated in a Fireside Q&A, which...
Fast Company Growth Requires Faster Training Solutions
From 20 to 200! This is how fast hundreds of small businesses want to grow. Like those currently attending the...
From Product to Process: Implementing an Iterative Training Development Model
Are you developing training products or learning processes? This is not one of those blog posts looking to divide the...
VIDEO: An eLearning View of CES2016
CES2016 was an interesting experience. And to experience it with an interest in eLearning made it even more interesting. It’s...
The Future of Learning Experiences is Here Today
At CES2016, Ginni Remmity, CEO for IBM, delivered her keynote focusing on one trend: Cognitive IoT. It’s the overarching term she...
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...
CES2016 Update Part 2: eLearning Mega-trend!
This year’s CES2016 is a glimpse into the near future of tech, but a further future for eLearning. It’s easy...
How Does Hardware Drive the eLearning Industry?
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (#CES2016) is happening in Las Vegas all week. It’s one of the largest events in North...
Top 5 Reasons Recorded ILT Content is Valuable
If training departments are going to be successful in the 21st century business environment, they must show business value. Part...
Future eLearning Tech 2016: Wearable Training Experiences
As 2016 quickly approaches we all look into our crystal balls and pontificate about the coming year. Whether we do...
Spontaneous Social Learning: Trigger, Content, Action, Outreach
This post started out with a management/leadership topic. And you can see the video below that resulted from serendipitous social outreach....
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...
Artificial Intelligent Instructional Design
The Artificial Intelligence trend will take the L&D industry by storm. Or by surprise, depending on how open you are...
The New Model for Learning and Development
We have a lot of terms in L&D: Training, eLearning, mLearning, Social Learning, Informal Learning, 70:20:10, Asynchronous, Synchronous, Instructor-led Training,...
Rainn Wilson Talks Soft Skills Training And More With Tim Ferriss
Let me start with full disclosure: I am a big Tim Ferriss fan, and have been since The 4-Hour Workweek....