This article looks at a local Park District who saved hundreds of hours by converting their onboarding to eLearning. Previously they struggled with delivering a consistent message and their supervisors were spending tons of time with seasonal hires. Changing how they delivered tranining changed all that.
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Instructor-Led Training
What You Can Expect Sadly, the standard ILT experience we see with many clients is one of two unfortunate training experiences. The first is a monologue presented by a SME know-it-all. This person is going to bombard you with everything they know in a frighteningly boring and hard to follow format, with tons of information…
Course Conversions
What You Can Expect The first thing you need to realize is that not all training is the same. Some formats excel in some areas, and some in others. This is certainly the case with eLearning versus classroom training. Unlike eLearning, a classroom course is dynamic because the instructor can react and engage in real…
5 Tough Questions You Need to Be Able To Answer About Implementing eLearning
Implementing eLearning is a great way to improve your training department. But the process itself involves some work. If you’re not prepared, you can invest time and money into a course that doesn’t do all of the things you need it to do. To help you through the getting started process, we’ve outlined five tough…
Training Lessons from TED Talks
The brilliant people at TED are talking about Training. Here are five TED talks, on topics ranging from post-industrial economics to dancing tango, with valuable eLearning takeaways. Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? “Math is very important, but so is dance.” Ken Robinson is calling for a revolution in education. For the past hundred-and-fifty years,…
Self-Determination Implications for eLearning
Professors Edward Deici and Richard Ryan are the founders of the Self-Determination Theory, which is a motivation theory based around the human’s natural behavior to act in effective ways. This theory is well-loved. It’s referenced in training, sports, education, health—you name it. Why? Because it helps us better understand how to motivate people, and motivation…
Instructional Design: How to Draft a Design Plan & Proposal?
Welcome to the completion of week seven as we progress through our 12-week service course, Instructional Design Service Course: Gain Experience For Good. The focus this week was on drafting a design proposal, also referred to as a design plan. For the purposes of this course and for this stage of our design project, the…
eLearning Context Lessons from Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Performance
Did you see Lady Gaga sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl on Sunday? We did, and we were pretty impressed. But this also got us thinking about context. Isn’t it interesting that this performer, known for her crazy outfits (like a dress made out of raw meat), wild, sky-high hair, and bold statements…
Lessons From Sean Penn’s El Chapo Interview on the Importance of SMEs
When news broke that Sean Penn interviewed the infamous drug kingpin El Chapo for Rolling Stone, it didn’t take long for professional writers to speak up about how they felt about it. Journalists from the Washington Post, New York Times, and many more noted how dangerous this move was on Penn’s part—and how many professional…