Converting Instructor-Led Training into eLearning
A few years ago there was a project to move thousands of hours of instructor-led training to online “eLearning” in a very short period of time. There was a huge…
Centralized or Decentralized Training: Which model is better?
"It takes too long.” This is the single most common complaint from stakeholders with regards to centralized learning organizations who create training content for different business functions. The traditional method of…
Is Your Training Request and Development Process Inefficient?
If you really want to streamline the training development and instructional design process, a good place to start is with the initial training request. Training requests typically list information about…
What approach do you apply for Instructional Design: Agile Vs. ADDIE
Many corporate training and development departments find it difficult to meet the increasing volume of training requests. There’s been a great debate for the last few years about whether or…
Five tips for crowdsourcing training content
Many corporate training and development departments find it difficult to meet the increasing volume of training requests. With already constrained training resources, innovative organizations are turning to “crowdsourcing and user-generated…
Using A Learning Design System to Scale Corporate Training Development
While there are many challenges when trying to scale corporate training development, two of the most fundamental problems that must be solved for learning and development (L&D) departments are automating…
Microlearning is the focus this week!
In case you didn’t hear, an educational technology company recently registered the generic term “Microlearning” for a trademark. Industry experts were quite surprised by this announcement, as Synapse was too.…
Instructional Design or no Instructional Design… that is the question!
There have been many articles written about the Death of Instructional Design. Whether you believe Instructional Design is a dying breed or one that is evolving into something new, the…
10 Quick Tips For Building Online Training
What should you know before you build online training? In the past, most online training was created by either specialists (instructional designers) using “eLearning authoring tools” or by subject matter…
Why You Should Use Employee-Generated Content for Training
As Facebook, Amazon, and Yelp have proven, user-generated content is much more respected by consumers than company promoted content. So, wouldn’t it make sense for training departments to complement the…
