Over a century ago, Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote about the learning curve, a concept that quantifies the relationship between memory and time. In a nutshell, it states that, during a lecture, if your abso...
It’s generally agreed that video has become the favorite of the new generations. People all over the world watch short films on subjects that interest or amuse them – cats have become real stars onlin...
People have always had a fascination with the future. There are those who want to know everything in advance and employ all sorts of non-orthodox methods to take at least a glimpse and there are those...
Designing good-quality, engaging e-learning content can be both an exciting and a daunting task. It’s exciting because there are so many resources available nowadays, such easy access to plenty of res...
The work of instructional designers presents many challenges. Sometimes they need to draw up training material for people who are not fully aware of what they need to learn. This means having to dwell...
This post has been updated on October 23 2018. When a company opts for implementing a new Learning Management System the decision is usually based on a very solid business case. E-learning has many pe...
E-learning has already won its place as the best suited learning & development tool in today’s organizations. It is flexible, cost-effective and most appealing to the new generations now becoming the ...
Games have found their way to the training room quite a while ago. Initially, their purpose was to animate the room and bring some fun to learning. With the transformation of generations, however, muc...
Mentoring is definitely not a recent concept. It has been around in the corporate world almost from its beginnings. Traditionally this means pairing an older, experienced employee with a younger one w...
L&D specialists face the challenges of the modern business world every day. Markets evolve at incredible speeds, technology improves even faster, objectives and employees don’t stay the same for as lo...
This post has been updated on March 4, 2020. The business world is constantly changing, along with markets and employee dynamics. What was the norm for corporate learning and development nor farther t...
Today’s workplace is made of various and very different generations. In theory, employees vary in age from eighteen to seventy-five. For L&D professionals this means that they have to manage a very bi...
The theory or social learning is anything but recent. Back in 1977 Albert Bandura developed it from the behaviorist theories that supported the ideas of operant and classical conditioning. He shows, h...
Leadership development is vital for the survival and growth of any organization. Hiring talent is in itself a difficult endeavor. Keeping talented people on board is increasingly complicated and harne...
E-learning is advertised as being the more cost-effective approach to training in today’s corporate world. It doesn’t require a conference room, people taken out of their daily schedules and sometimes...
Microlearning is on everybody’s lips these days. It’s probably the latest in terms of effective learning – as efficiency has an important time component and a nugget usually varies between three and s...
