The business world is tough, and the L&D part of it makes no exception. Instructional designers need to pay great attention to the workplace learning environment if they want to create successful onli...
When people have ideas that can solve a need but lack the resources to put them into practice, they access that brilliant part of the brain where creativity dwells. They have to either come up with cr...
The mobile employee is among us. Are you aware? It happened smoothly, one day after another, one technological advancement after another. It crept like a bug in every office space and in every workpla...
The 70:20:10 model of reference for workplace learning implies that traditional training methods are just a small jigsaw piece in a very large puzzle. In a workplace setting, most learning occurs thro...
When I was a kid, 20 years ago, I had a tricycle and I was cool. Ten years ago, all the cool kids had sneakers with rollers in the heels. Today, tricycles are kind of vintage, while roler-sneakers are...
I have a confession to make: I'm a gambler. Or I just like to call myself that way. I like to place bets on all sorts of things. But I never ever place a bet unless I'm 100% certain that I'll win. My ...
E-learning enthusiasts everywhere promote the benefits of online courses and present their advantages over traditional learning methods. Most of the times, there are more positive aspects to e-learnin...
The traditional way of training is based on the didactic method of a teacher / professor / instructor pushing new information / knowledge onto learners / trainees' brains. While the core of this metho...
After inventing the wheel, our ancestors needed something to ease the trade between all of the goods that could be moved faster thanks to the circular innovation. So they invented money — another circ...
Information is the currency of today. Until recently, the more information a business had, the better their chances to rise above everyone else and advance in the profitable part of the market. But "t...
There has been a lot of talking in the last past years on the Internet of Things and how our lives will be more and more interconnected with technology. Wearable computers are the means and augmented ...
“Happy wife, happy life!” These words of wisdom found their way to that part of my brain responsible with long-term memory after watching RIO 2. There was something about that toucan that made this ph...
Uber is one of the fastest growing tech companies in the world, climbing to the top of the most powerful American companies, and rising its business worth well above $60 billion. Apart from all protes...
“Change is the only constant.” I don't know who said this, in what year, or in which context, but I feel it is a general truth. You know, like the Sun rises in the morning and the boiling temperature ...
Business training doesn't really have the best reputation among employees. As I said in a previous post, Gamification: the spoonful of sugar for the training medicine, e-learning professionals had to ...
Do you have any idea of what this picture represents? Cotton balls, maybe? The two whitey things in the middle could be some sort of flowers, but the ones from the left are definitely popcorn. As for ...
