eLearning – What Format Is Best? The five formats of eLearning
Running an eLearning content marketplace means that clients often ask for our recommendations for content that best meets their unique requirements. Whilst, in part, we are well placed to provide a qualified answer, in other ways, we can find this a very challenging request. The…
Interpreting the results of the latest Learning in the Workplace Survey
What does the Learning in the Workplace Survey actually tell us? The Learning in the Workplace Annual Survey is now in its seventh year and has now had over 6,000 responses from 69 countries worldwide. The latest results are summarised in the table below: …
GDPR eLearning: Build or Buy?
GDPR eLearning as a case study for the build or buy decision How to do you make the bespoke course versus off-the-shelf decision when it comes to eLearning content? It’s always a challenge. The marketplace for off-the-shelf content is growing year on year and if…
Courses versus Performance Support
Courses versus Performance Support, which is your priority? Performance support is ‘in’ and courses are ‘out’ is perhaps the perception you will reach through listening to the learning industry commentators of the day. My view is that there remains a need for both. Let me explain…
What is worth learning?
What is worth learning in the eyes of your learners? This might sound like a strange question, but is it not the most important and fundamental question that all learning professionals should be asking? How much time are we wasting on ‘unworthy learning’. In this…
How can you develop a learning culture?
How can you develop a learning culture in your organisation? We know of so many customer stories in which major investments in and/or opportunities for organisational learning remained untapped and simply wasted. Just how many course enrolments, or better, still course completions, where actually made…
Improving learner engagement
How can you improve your learner engagement with eLearning? Data analytics is a current hot topic both in the L&D world and in the wider organisational context in general. In many organisations LMS data analytics can reveal a depressing story in terms of the levels…
Is SCORM dead?
Do SCORM courses still make a valued contribution to workplace learning strategies? SCORM-based eLearning content continues to dominate the course catalogues on many an organisation’s LMS platform. Is this simply due to an unwillingness to let go of what at some time in the past…
Do people like studying eLearning?
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARNERS IS A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND NOT THE MEANS OF DELIVERY For some years I have been promoting that working learners (as opposed full-time students) are seeking what I call a ‘J3’ learning experience: ‘Just-in-Time, Just-Enough, Just-for-Me’ The ways in which the…
SKILLS SHOULD WE DEVELOPING IN OUR PEOPLE KNOW FOR THEIR FUTURE SUCCESS AT WORK?
There is a great deal of research out there in the public domain that explores and analyses what skills employers are seeking most in their new recruits. From an HR perspective, Talent teams will do their best to gain these skills from the external workforce, but…
