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The posts in this category cover subjects L&D managers and other decision makers involved in business training might find useful or at least interesting.

cultivating a happy workforce
March 17, 2016
2238
by Livia B

10 insights for cultivating a happy workforce through learning

E-learning, Learners, Managers

The working world changes fast and the only way to keep up with it is through learning and development. Employees need to learn and develop themselves if they want to have thriving and flourishing careers. Companies need to learn how to attract the best talent and how to clearly align individual learning objective with the ones of the organization.

At the end of the day, companies need a happy workforce, in order for them to be happy, because that is a sure fire way to solve business problems and make profit.

marketing courses to employees
March 10, 2016
2574
by Livia B

Why should you consider marketing courses to employees?

Instructional Designers, Learners, Managers

In a world of constant change, it’s not enough for instructional designers to create engaging business training courses; they also have to focus on marketing their courses to employees. Promoting the benefits employees have by attending and being involved in courses, finding people that could influence the number of attendees and using emails to communicate about training are just three simple marketing strategies instructional designers can use for this purpose.

gamification techniques
March 8, 2016
3382
by Livia B

Top 3 gamification techniques for your business training

E-learning, Instructional Designers, Managers

There are many ways to include gamification in a business training strategy, so L&D professionals need to test various techniques to find out exactly which ones best suit their specific organizational learning needs. While there is no perfect recipe for this, including levels of progress, rewards and offering instant feedback could be part of a success story. Read on to find out more about each of these three gamification techniques.

Millennials + Video = Love
March 1, 2016
3790
by Livia B

Millennials + Video = Love

E-learning, Learners, Managers

Millennials in the workplace. Love them or hate them, they are here to stay. And you have to adapt your ways of office training if you want to benefit from the sometimes surprising minds of the largest generation today. Because between a cat video and an Instagram post there can be a tutorial on how to create extended reports in SalesForce or any other video related to a tough task everyone else avoids to do. Video learning rocks!

Things to avoid when selecting an LMS
February 23, 2016
2106
by Livia B

7 Things to avoid when selecting an LMS

E-learning, LMS, Managers

It’s impossible to tell what features should have the perfect LMS. With so many types of organizations, multiplied with so many types of learning needs, this is a rather impossible task. But I’m pretty sure that most L&D professionals faced with the challenge of getting a new LMS know by now what they DON’T want in an LMS.

interactive videos
February 18, 2016
3640
by Livia B

How interactive videos shape the future of workplace learning

E-learning, Instructional Designers, Managers

They say a picture is worth 1000 words. If that is true, how much is a video worth? One million words, maybe? Taking a step even further, what about an interactive video? Should we keep doing the math?It is probably invaluable, anyway. At least in today’s day of workplace learning and the strive for engaging learning materials.

Interactive videos in e-learning perform the best when it comes to emotional engagement, time spent on page, attention grabbing or later recall of the learned information.

Selling online courses
February 2, 2016
2436
by Livia B

Selling online courses: What you need to know

LMS, Managers

The market for online courses has witnessed an incredible growth over the past few years, and this is mostly due to all the technological advances in e-learning. It’s easier now than ever before to sell courses online, but this doesn’t mean that you can make money with just a few clicks and a play button. Before seeing any dollar from selling online courses, you need two important things: a great product (read course) and a significant amount of online followers.

coordinate your company L&D strategy with an LMS
January 28, 2016
3224
by Livia B

How to coordinate your company L&D strategy with an LMS

E-learning, LMS, Managers

Your company is just like an ecosystem; everything is interconnected. The success of your learning and development company strategy depends not only on instructional designers and their knowledge and ability to create training courses, but also on the coordination between them and your internal departments of HR, IT, Design or Marketing. A learning management system can support this coordination by providing the best tools and by hosting all the knowledge in one centralized place.

augmented learning
January 19, 2016
2706
by Livia B

Why all the hype surrounding augmented learning?

E-learning, Instructional Designers, Managers

Augmented reality allows us to create digital layers of information on top of the physical world, thus connecting our digital lives with the surrounding environment. Augmented learning extends the possibilities in the real world for education and training, redefining the learning space and increasing engagement and boosting productivity.

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