When Cindy Huggett envisions a great online training facilitator, she’s thinking about Oprah. A key skill is “building rapport with an audience that you don’t have visual contact with. People do this all the time. Think of a television personality like Oprah. She’s the master of creating that connection. And how many of us have […]
Jhana Offers Targeted Coaching for First-Level Managers
It can be difficult for first-level managers to find their way. They might excel at specific job skills, but if they’ve never led a team or project before, they’re likely to have a lot of questions about managing others. An enormous industry provides management research and advice, but it primarily targets executives and corporate leaders. The […]
Professor lawsuits University Forced Him To Teach Maths Only Because ‘Asians Are Good At Maths’
A Korean-American professor filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Chicago last week, claiming that officials in his department “systematically harassed” him because of his ethnicity and forced him to teach a math class because he was Asian. Seung-Whan Choi, a professor of international relations, says that UIC’s political science department denied him […]
Be worthy to the employees learning?
US companies invest a significant amount of money, time, and resources into training their employees. A new approach to learning and training should be at the top of employers’ to-do list.As the matter of fact, Gallup estimates that disengaged employees cost US businesses up to $550 billion annually in lost productivity. Yet many companies are […]
Writing a Good RFP
We’ve all heard the phrase caveat emptor (buyer beware), but too often we ignore it when selecting an eLearning vendor. One way to protect yourself is to write a solid request for proposal (RFP). An RFP is an invitation to the vendor to propose work according to criteria youset. Most RFPs contain three sections: 1) […]
The Iterative Design and Development
“No eLearning application is perfect.” This bold statement forms one of the three “fundamental thoughts” underlying Michael Allen’s Successive Approximation Model of eLearning design and development, SAM, presented in the second edition of Michael Allen’s Guide to e-Learning. A strength of iterative processes like SAM is: “We will never get to perfection, but this process […]
The Short Videos Can Animate eLearning
Pairing pithy videos—the epitome of hip modernity—with the ancient art of storytelling can invigorate otherwise ordinary eLearning. Storytelling is among the best ways to communicate, share experience, and teach; a good story stays with the audience for a long time. Video storytelling might be a relative newcomer, but it has surged to supremacy. Reading a […]
Nick Floro on eLearning Design
This article is a continuation of my interview with Nick Floro; the first part of the interviewappeared in Learning Solutions Magazine on October 6, 2016. In case you missed that part, Nick is the president of Sealworks Interactive Studios. The eLearning Guild recognized him as a Guild Master at FocusOn Learning 2016 Conference & Expo. […]
Improving Employee Learning Experience
As a senior manager of learning and development (L&D) at Lending Club, Joe Deegan is responsible for developing and executing new learning strategies for Lending Club’s fast-growing workforce. Figure 1: Joe Deegan, senior manager of L&D at Lending Club We connected with Joe to learn about Lending Club’s use of technology and video in its […]
Six Tips to Make The Visual Design Support Your Content
It’s important to understand the relationship between content and design. Content, whether good or bad, paves the way for design, and a graphic designer’s job is to understand and respond to the content given to them. They need to be able to see the patterns within the materials and find a way to create a […]