Three Essential Tips for New Online Training Designers
One of the biggest challenges online training developers have is that they often have no background in online training. Online training is very different than face-to-face training, yet many classroom trainers inherit the online learning developer role simply because their organization has decided to begin offering online training. This is … Read more
Four Ways to Keep Education Alive and Profitable
A quick question. Why do you pay your employees? My answer: You pay them to provide the best, most efficient and most profitable response in the moment – then to do it again in the next moment, then the next. We pay our employees to think through each situation, using … Read more
The Easy Way to Learn, Courtesy of Psychologists
As a trainer, it’s pretty intuitive to understand your role as an imparter of knowledge. Your students’ brains, in this common sense understanding of learning, are like buckets into which you dump key facts and concepts. Keeping those facts stuck there is simply a matter of will and hard work … Read more
Conference Outlines Cutting-Edge Learning Technology
From how we communicate, to how we work, to how we shop, advances in technology have radically changed how we go about nearly all aspects of our lives — with at least one notable exception. In classrooms from grammar school to Master’s programs, many teachers still wield chalk, lecture notes … Read more
What Business Can Learn from Remote Teaching
A futurist’s out-of-the-box ideas on how education should develop provide inspiration for the training programs of today. Among the proposed solutions to America’s much-discussed crisis in public education are merit pay for teachers, more charter schools and curriculum reform. But recently the blog of The Futurist magazine offered a less … Read more
