When I was a student thinking of joining the workforce, I jumped right into the vicious circle of inexperienced job seekers. All employers demanded some work experience, even the ones advertising for ...
One of my favorite story for kids is “The Wizard of Oz”. Each time I saw the movie along my childhood and young adulthood the story somehow got a different meaning. I started by being afraid of the Wi...
Gamification, virtual reality, augmented learning — these are e-learning hot topics that generated a lot of discussions lately. They all come with the big promise of keeping learners engaged, allowing...
You've heard it before: Millennials are set to take over the workplace. Wherever you turn, there are more and more young employees. Millennials are the largest generation of the workforce and there ar...
Learning at work happens all the time in this knowledge-based economy, and it's not always between office walls. The mobile worker needs instant access to information and uses more than one device dur...
Personalized learning at work means connecting the right employee with the right learning resource, at the right time. Sounds simple, right? But we all know that there's a looong way between theory an...
Our modern times are so different from those depicted in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. The world of work hopped on a super-fast conveyor belt and reached the point of omnipresent automation. Chaplin...
The use of games for business training purposes is still a technique that is met with a certain dose of skepticism. The fun and entertaining nature of games goes against the serious attitude of busine...
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...
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...
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...
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 interactive videos? Should we keep doing the math? ...
“70:20:10 is a reference model or framework that helps organisations extend their focus on learning and development beyond the classroom and course-based eLearning to build more resilient workforces a...
This post has been updated on February 4, 2020. Learning can be thought of as the continuous process of acquiring knowledge, which leads to the later ability to apply that knowledge in real situations...
One well-known rule for an engaging e-learning course is to design it with the learner's needs in mind. In other words, a course instructor needs to know his/her audience. While almost all instruction...
