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What’s your learning style? Are you sure? At one point or another, most of us have expressed our learning styles and learning preferences: maybe you consider yourself a visual learner; maybe you consistently get tripped up when listening to audio lectures. Either way, the concept of learning styles is deeply…
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Are you a learning designer who wants to do more in Articulate Rise? Do you lead a team of innovative learning creators eager to explore new tools? Do you want to push your course design further? If you’re a learning professional who creates courses in Articulate Rise, or you lead…
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Register to watch this webinar on demand whenever it’s convenient for you! Learning teams everywhere are ramping up their use of media in learning experiences. In the age of remote and hybrid work, video-based learning is a go-to solution for engaging with a distributed workforce. But not all video is…
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What are the most-pressing learning challenges facing organizations today? Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at London Business School, ran a workshop with executives from over 40 companies to explore the pressures facing traditional learning models. Gratton identified the following three challenges as the most acute: increased workloads have reduced learning time, hybrid work has increased the complexity of learning, and a tightening labor market has brought skill shortages.
These challenges are tied in part to the emergence of new work models, and many learning leaders worry that remote employees are missing out on informal learning opportunities and that remote work may be negatively impacting how people share knowledge with one another. “Addressing this challenge will require leaders to build a robust learning strategy in a hybrid business environment,” says Gratton.
But even the most robust learning strategy will fail if it doesn’t account for the realities of work life today, namely employees’ increased workloads.✦
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We need to talk about the validation step. It’s incredibly valuable to the solutioning process, yet it’s one of the most frequently skipped steps in learning design. As a learning strategist, I see it all the time—despite the best of intentions, tight budgets and even tighter timelines squeeze the validation step out of the solutioning process. When validation is undervalued, it chips away at the end result. Small oversights that could’ve been adjusted during validation add up over time and can negatively impact anything from learner performance to L&D’s budget. It’s a small aspect of the learning design process, but…
“At the end of the day, your learners want to feel that you believe in their talent, trust them to do well, and want to invest in their future.”A quote from Malcolm Knowles’ Five Assumptions of Learners and Why They Matter
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Your learners are smart. They have entire, broad-reaching depths of knowledge that would make it all too tempting to skip your carefully crafted learning experience. While we all love making life as easy and aesthetically pleasing for our learners as possible, you don’t necessarily want them skipping their way through your Thinkific tutorial—especially if there’s a big, tempting shortcut on the bottom of their screens. After all, the last thing you’d want is for your learners to bypass the lesson…
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Our eLearning development process plays a significant role in many of the L&D experiences we create—after all, our organization lives and breathes learning innovation. And while it’s often just one aspect of a more-comprehensive learning strategy, it’s an extremely important tool in any L&D toolkit. But not all eLearning is created equally. The eLearning development process is both a technical art and a complex science. One that requires collaboration across teams, consistent checks and balances, and a range of resources.…
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