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Interleaving vs. Targeted training: What’s more effective for learning?

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Your job as an L&D professional is not only to get the right training in front of the right people. It’s also to help ensure those people are engaging with and absorbing the content. With the focus on actual learning, let’s consider two different training approaches: targeted learning vs. interleaving. The first is familiar and straightforward—you focus on and complete one topic at a time.

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Instructor-led vs. self-paced learning: What’s more effective?

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Both instructor-led and self-paced learning are common workplace training practices. And both have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s see two examples to get a better idea of what they look like in real life. In a busy office, a new software was about to be introduced. The company wanted employees to learn how to use it effectively. They decided to have an instructor come in and teach the employees in person.

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Train employees with bite-sized courses

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Imagine having a movie marathon or binge-watching your favorite show. Time flies and you don’t even notice. Likewise, long conversations with friends and family can be stimulating and refreshing. But can you say the same about hour-long training sessions? There’s hardly a chance anyone enjoys these. Especially when there’s a simpler way to learn.

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Off-the-shelf training: How to grow employees’ skills with ready-made courses

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When thinking of employee development, you’ve likely debated at some point whether to go with off-the-shelf training or create your own course content. Off-the-shelf training is ready-made content you can plug directly into your existing development program. Unlike custom content , which you create yourself, either with an internal team or with an outside vendor, pre-built courses are ready to use right out of the box.

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Digital transformation: How L&D shapes the future of work

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Digital transformation is not a new concept. Using tech to optimize the way they work and connect with employees and clients is something most companies have been doing ever since the internet was invented. But since the pandemic outbreak, it seems like someone pressed the fast-forward button. The expansion and normalization of a remote workforce, coupled with the subsequent increase in connectivity and mobile device use, brought the future of work a bit early.

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9 key stakeholders to consider when developing online training

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Even if you’re working with minimal L&D staff and limited resources, there are still multiple players involved in online training. In this article, I’ll shine a spotlight on 9 crucial stakeholders involved in the eLearning development process. Who are the key stakeholders in online training? Creating a high-quality online training course that exceeds employee expectations and achieves the training objectives is a team effort.

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Real-world application of online training: 6 reasons employees aren’t putting theory into practice

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