What does talent mean? Is it something that you innately have, or is it something you can cultivate? Identifying talented individuals within a company is important because organizations need them to face everyday business challenges and remain competitive.
eLearning’s basic goal is not only to reduce the cost of training, but also to generate business results and since in the most cases there is no face-to-face interaction, what we have is a lot of content. By wisely using the content, we will be able to measure effectiveness and therefore get a ROI. There are basically 5 steps we need to follow in order to ensure the effectiveness of our eLearning content.
There are a lot of articles that say "here are the most important things in designing elearning". But I think this one really boils it down to the essentials: Challenge, Engagement, Personalization, Control, Collaboration, and Relevance.
This quick, visual approach to instructional design helps you change what people do, not just what they know. It keeps your team members focused on a measurable business goal, and it can keep stakeholders from adding extraneous information.
Too few people realise how important sleep is! Sleep improves recall in learning, but it's only been in the last decade that research has illuminated the fact that sleep is necessary for learning. Sleep is so important that we recommend you cover it with your students as a topic as a precursor to any topic!
Training is still very much on trial. Federal, military and private training budgets are being cut by 25% and more, primarily because the business leaders of the world are not sold on learning in and of itself. The word learning, years ago seen as a positive evolution from the word training, is now working against the training industry.
By focusing on business results during the instructional design process, realigning resources to support on-the-job learning and making formal learning more efficient, organizations can deliver greater impact on organizational objectives.
An effective way to show the value of a training initiative is through return on expectations (ROE). When done properly, it cannot fail. Nearly every goal-setting philosophy begins with a clear vision of the desired end result. While this principle is quite simple and easy to understand, examples of people ignoring it abound.