The Importance of Performance Support
The old model of training a workforce to perform a job or task by simply sitting them in a classroom is (thankfully) fading into the past. Today’s workforce doesn’t need more training, they need more...
View ArticleAppealing to Your Audience with E-learning
The need for training in our modern work environment has never been more critical. That’s because the job skills we require of our workers have never been more complex or more specialized. The advances...
View ArticleWhy Use Branching Scenarios in E-Learning?
One of the biggest challenges we face in designing effective e-learning courses is keeping the learner engaged and interested in the lesson. It’s a fact that people learn best when a topic captures...
View ArticleUser Feedback in Online Corporate Training
How effective is your online corporate training? Is it providing your workforce with the critical job skills they need to be successful? Does it provide the up-to-date learning experience that today’s...
View ArticleCreating Captivating Content
As more corporate training is becoming self-directed, a major challenge faced by learning and development professionals is how to maintain the attention of audiences. This challenge has been addressed...
View ArticleBenefits of Training Simulations
Many of the job performance tasks that we require of our modern workforce involve specialized training on expensive or dangerous equipment. Others call for very detailed and precise procedures that...
View ArticleWhy Corporate Training Fails
The amount of capital spent by corporations on training their employees has risen steadily over the past decade. With the exception of 2008, the height of our Great Recession, companies have increased...
View ArticleE-Learning Statistics and Trends You've Gotta Know!
There’s no question that eLearning has grown both in popularity and acceptance in recent years. It has also become one of the most effective and efficient ways for people anywhere to gain knowledge and...
View ArticleWhy You Should Be Looking Into Online Training
As training professionals, we’re living in exciting times. The convergence of technology and advances in instructional system design principles have led to training programs that are more effective in...
View ArticleBenefits of Gamification in Corporate Training
In the on-going quest for better and more effective training techniques, capturing the attention and imagination of the learner is still the key. The more we can engage our training audience, the more...
View ArticleHow Training Simulations Reduce Risk
Imagine being seated in the operator’s cab of a heavy-equipment lift as it prepares to move a 20-ton piece of gear into place. Now imagine that it’s your first time doing this. But not to worry –...
View ArticleWhy Your Company Needs Performance Support Now!
What’s the most important factor in developing a highly-productive workforce? Is it training? To some extent yes – but training alone doesn’t increase performance or productivity. Then is it providing...
View ArticleWhat the BYOD Movement Means to your Organization
A gradual shift has taken place within the corporate landscape over the past few years. The mobile devices we carry for personal use, from smartphones to tablets to personal laptops, have increasingly...
View ArticleE-Learning Course Development
With the wrong expectations or talent, E-Learning course development can easily miss the mark. Designing Digitally, Inc. knows the E-Learning space inside and out across numerous industries. We’re...
View ArticleHow Narrative Enhances Serious Games Training
One of the greatest challenges faced by training developers is capturing and holding the attention of an increasingly distracted audience. This is especially true in an e-Learning environment where the...
View ArticleM-Learning vs. E-Learning: Is There Really A Difference?
When addressing the training needs of today’s workforce, no discussion is complete without mentioning mobile learning. That being said, mobile or m-Learning can often mean different things to different...
View ArticleCorporate Gamification: How Businesses Can Engage Workers
If you want employees to retain what they learn, how can you make sure that happens?Training can be effective depending on the employee’s desire to learn, the instructor, the topic or other...
View ArticleSerious Games - How Learning Can Be Not So Serious
Think learning is serious business? Well, you’re right. But learning can also be interesting, fun and engaging at the same time. By using non-traditional delivery techniques, training designers have...
View ArticleMarketing Your Online Training Internally - Tips and Tricks
What if you built it and they didn’t come? Imagine pouring untold amounts time, money and resources into building an online training program for your workforce, only to have it go unused. The best...
View ArticleE-Learning vs. Really Good E-Learning
As L&D professionals, all of us have seen the good, the bad and the... well, really bad of e-Learning. We know that when it’s done well, e-Learning can be an effective and enjoyable way of...
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