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Train Quickly and Easily with How-to Videos

What are How-to Videos? How to Videos are a quick, easy way to convey information to learners, especially people with shorter attention spans. Well-designed How-to videos can be used to teach people how to follow a process or how to do a task. These types of videos are very popular on websites such as YouTube …

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Dec 9 2021

eLearning Narration – In House vs Outsourcing

An eLearning course can sometimes be seen as an interactive book or movie, and what often separates the forgettable from the memorable books is the quality of the narrative. With eLearning, one can use narration to inspire, educate, and increase learner interest in the content. The question becomes, how best can you accomplish this? Do …

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Nov 29 2021

The Art of On-the-Job Training

One Size Doesn’t Fit All On-The-Job Training is happening constantly across a myriad of businesses with different needs, clients, products, and services. However, not all on-the-job training is created equal. Many workers are undertrained or forced into position they don’t feel ready for in a move some people call being “thrown into the deep end.” …

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Nov 11 2021

The Value of Process Documentation

What is Process Documentation? Process Documentation is the act of taking your organization’s processes, tasks, and responsibilities out of people’s minds, and putting them into written form. This allows them to be seen, reviewed, referred to, and updated to better match the company’s goals and vision. It is an important part of training development, but …

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Oct 28 2021

How Content Curation Improves Training Development

What is Content Curation? Content Curation is the act of researching, and collecting specific information and content from various sources that fit a need, and then aggregating it into a form that can be easily consumed to fill that need and add value to the learning experience. Content Curation is often utilized in social media …

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Oct 15 2021

Overcoming 5 Training Development Pitfalls

Beware the Pitfalls of Training Development Training development can be a complex endeavor. Each organization, and each course being developed, is its own unique entity that has a specific set of criteria that will work best for them. This often leads to distinct challenges that arise from their unique use cases. Overcoming these challenges is …

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Train The Trainer Best Practices

Why Train Trainers? Does your business need to train internal team members on how to do something, but you lack anyone with the ability to properly run the training? Do you have a subject matter expert in the content you wish to teach, but they lack the skills to be able to train effectively? This …

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Sep 16 2021

The Power of Blended Learning

What is Blended Learning? Blended Learning is the combination of traditional, in-person learning experiences (such as Instructor-Led Training, Seminars, etc) and virtual learning (eLearning, Webinars, etc). While traditional learning has been around for centuries, Virtual learning has become more popular lately due to global circumstances, and has demonstrated that it can be a very useful …

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Sep 2 2021

Choosing the Right Training Delivery Method

In the instructional design world, choosing the right packaged training delivery method is sometimes as important as creating the training itself. This is because how a training is delivered to learners can greatly impact your goals and learning outcomes. What is Packaged Training? Packaged training is the buzzword often used to describe the courses and …

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Aug 19 2021

eLearning Development Roles

Why are Roles Important in eLearning Development? eLearning development can be a large undertaking that contains many moving parts. Changing one part can impact other areas, creating extra work, so it’s vital for everyone to know what needs to be done and who is responsible. This is why eLearning development roles are so important. Roles …

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Aug 5 2021

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