When to Choose Self-Paced Learning Versus Live, On-Line Learning
As you begin to learn about the different ways to bring e-learning into your organization, you will invariably come across the question, “Which is a better option: self-paced e-learning or live, on-line training?” It is not an easy question to answer because there are benefits and drawbacks to both methods. … Read more
Instructional Designers: Create Workbooks, not Manuals
How many binders do you have on your bookshelf? A lot, right? Just about everyone has taken a training class and been given a training binder, taken it back to their desk, and never opened it again. It’s crazy. So many people have have all these training binders on their … Read more
Nine Ways to Make Training More Engaging
Training and performance improvement professionals work hard every day trying to make training more engaging. Our goal is not to make the training more engaging by itself; we want to improve participation in class, increase learning and retention, and ensure application on the job that improves performance. Increasing engagement does … Read more
Four Ways to Speed Up the Instructional Design Process
Yes, I know. The business is putting more pressure on you to deliver more training and you just don’t have the resources. “If only they understood how long this stuff takes,” you think to yourself. “If we had two more instructional designers we could give them what they want.” The … Read more
Gen Y to Pollsters: We Love Training But Not the Traditional Kind
On the Mindflash blog before we’ve pointed out there’s plenty of evidence for a training crisis in American business, with various experts and surveys bemoaning a “sink or swim” approach to on-boarding new employees. But is one group in particular especially underserved by current approaches to training? Due to their … Read more
