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A well-constructed storyboard provides the at-a-glance view you need to evaluate your soon-to-be learning experience. Our Instructional Design Checklist pairs perfectly with our storyboard template for the ultimate evaluation of your learning experience. Use this Instructional Design Checklist to discover content and clarity gaps, inconsistencies, and potential learning lags—before those…
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Register to watch this webinar on demand whenever it’s convenient for you. Is your vILT strategy making the impact you want? The last two years brought a massive shift from instructor-led classroom training (ILT) to virtual instructor-led training (vILT). In today’s world of hybrid and remote work models, vILT is…
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Video is a powerful tool for learning. It grabs and keeps learner attention, and it’s a proven medium for boosting retention, too. Plus, learners already engage regularly with video in their daily lives on apps like TikTok and Instagram, and we know that learners prefer experiences that feel intuitive and…
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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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When it comes to convergent vs divergent thinking, some of us favor one style of thinking over the other. You see it most clearly in the problem-solving process. When you're solving a problem, do you tend to use logical reasoning? Or do you prefer to generate tons of creative ideas and see what sticks? Although some may naturally veer toward one method over the other, you need both to innovate the best possible solutions. Convergent and divergent thinking—terms coined by American psychologist J.P. Guilford in 1956—describe two complementary cognitive methods for analyzing a problem and choosing the optimal solution. For…
“When teams are working from a set of shared principles specific to their craft, it sets a standard for consistently operating at a high level.”A quote from Design Principles: What They Are and How to Use Them to Create Great Learning
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Articulate Rise is a powerful tool for creating beautiful, responsive e-learning courses. But there might be times when you want to customize elements that aren't directly accessible through the standard interface, such as hiding the "Start Course" or “Begin” button on your course’s cover page. Depending on your course design, the Start button might tempt learners to skip over important information in your introduction. Or perhaps you’re using an image as your cover page and the placement of the Start…
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Register to watch this webinar on demand whenever it’s convenient for you! What does it take to create a learning experience that inspires and engages your learners? In this webinar, learn about a little-known psychological phenomenon that can have a big impact on your learning efforts. The illusion of explanatory depth occurs when people feel that they understand a complex topic or concept better than they actually do—it’s only when we’re tasked with having to explain a concept that we…
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