Learning Technologies

  
  • Designing Better eLearning More QuicklyPDF Link

    Designing Better eLearning More Quickly
    The most impressive learning designs draw from best principles of adult learning theory, take a card from marketing and advertising, and ultimately result in effective programs that inform, instruct, and perhaps even change behaviors
  • Cloud Computing: An Evolving Infrastructure for LearningPDF Link

    Cloud Computing: An Evolving Infrastructure for Learning
    Cloud computing—it’s one of the most talked about subjects in the business world today. Many of the technologies we use every day exist or are supported by the cloud. Collaborative environments such as Facebook and
  • Why Product Training Often Disappoints, and How to Make it BetterPDF Link

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    When it comes to delivering effective product training, most organizations are challenged to keep their content up to date with the latest launches. Products are changing all the time, but what really needs to be communicated to the teams who interact
  • 10 Things a Performance Management System Can Do for YouPDF Link

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    Wondering why performance management matters? Discover the ten vital capabilities an organization can only achieve with a best-of-breed Employee Performance Management (EPM) system.
  • Brand-led learningPDF Link

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    Learning in corporate organizations is far more than just acquiring a set of skills or specific knowledge, it is also about consolidating the attitude and behaviors that fit with the organization’s brand values. Organizations each
  • The Ideal Learning Management System for Multimedia LearningPDF Link

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    Early attempts at teaching online started with simple stick figures or blocks of text on monochrome screens. In many ways, this approach to teaching online can be seen as a form of “sensory deprivation,” because
  • The Virtual Learning Advantage: Designing a Best-in-Class VILT ProgramPDF Link

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    As L&D learning leaders are asked to do more with less, this timely white paper by 3g Selling and Citrix provides L&D leaders with a compelling case for embracing live virtual instructor-led training (VILT). Drawing
  • How Informal Learning is Transforming the WorkplacePDF Link

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    With social media everywhere these days, you might assume it’s a top medium for informal workplace learning today. Not so, according to CARA’s recent pulse survey on social media’s role in informal learning. Though 81%
  • The Four Essentials for Achieving Real-Life Engagement in Online Instructor-Led TrainingPDF Link

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    Today’s digitally enabled companies are more geographically dispersed than ever before, even as many of their wallets are tightening to fend of economic uncertainty. In an effort to cut costs by moving instructor-led training (ILT)
  • Web 2.0 and Social Learning Best PracticesPDF Link

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    Organizations of all sizes have in recent years started using so-called “Web 2.0” or “social media” technologies both externally for marketing, customer support, and many other uses; and internally to increase collaboration, communication, informal learning, and ultimately, business success. The technologies vary
  • Blending Web 2.0 Technologies with Traditional Formal LearningPDF Link

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    Many of us have for years invested in traditional training programs across a multitude of delivery options, e.g., Instructor-Led Training (ILT), self-paced e-Learning courses, synchronous virtual classroom programs. As we all know, these traditional approaches to organizational learning and training have had various levels
  • Best Practices for Excellent Presentations in the Virtual WorldPDF Link

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    It’s a big sign of the times. First, large numbers of routine communications meetings were moved to the web. Now, many companies are rushing to shift even their large, high-stakes, face-to-face communication events – global
  • Solving the training dilemma with game-based learningPDF Link

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    Corporations and not-for-profi ts have long struggled with how to effectively train their employees, while showing a solid return on investment (ROI). The rising costs associated with instructor-led training have added to the dilemma. Imagine that you need
  • WEB 2.0/3.0: Emerging Widgets and the Next Generation of Higher Education ApplicationsPDF Link

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    The emerging generation of students is reared on unprecedented forms of collaboration that have redefined the way students retrieve, capture, and exchange information. Businesses have already seized opportunities to leverage this powerful transformation in innovative ways, and their
  • How to Scale Your Training Organization to Meet Growing Demand for eLearningPDF Link

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    As more and more organizations are building e-learning internally, training departments and e-learning development teams often find it difficult to meet the growing demand for good e-learning courses, both inside and outside of the organization.