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What are Development Ratios and How Do They Affect eLearning Courses?

Thinkdom

This is where the concept of ‘development ratio’ becomes important. What is a Development Ratio? A development ratio is a measure that reflects the amount of time required to develop an eLearning course. The development ratio is influenced by the complexity and interactivity of the eLearning course.

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Beating Recession: Align L&D and Retain Your Budget

Degreed

Retaining your budget is imperative. Imagine an HR team that’s so tightly aligned to its line-of-business counterparts it doesn’t submit separate budget requests. When IT implements a new system, part of the IT budget includes training programs sourced or curated in partnership with an in-house L&D expert.

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Cloudy with a chance of budget approval

CLO Magazine

When there is uncertainty, anxiety or volatility in the global economy, there is a tendency to prepare for the unknown by having a tighter ship and leaner budget. This translates into significant budget controls and, consequently, budgets will be scrutinized and challenged. This forecast can be. Think chain of value.

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Product Reviews – Lucy.ai, and Cognota

eLearning 24-7

People love product reviews, okay some people. Next week, I will be doing a product review only on BizAcademy, an impressive system around experts, with cohort-based learning at its core. Please note, that these reviews are high-level product reviews – but with plant-based meat to them (I do not eat meat, hence plant-based).

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Training Your Employees on a Budget | For Small and Medium Businesses

AbaraLMS

It can directly impact employee productivity, engagement, compliance costs, and retention, hence directly influencing business profitability. Smaller companies need to plan their training spends much better in their annual budgets than bigger companies. An untrained employee could potentially cost a business more than training costs.

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The Freemium Three: Three Free Tools That Will Work Wonders For.

Dashe & Thomson

So, when budgets are tight and the dollars can’t be found for more expensive tools – here are three freemium products I’ve recently discovered that can help get your enterprise training project rolling on next-to-nothing. Following some careful product reviews and some alpha-testing we settled on this system and never looked back.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena

Dashe & Thomson

We train our clients’ employees on new systems, processes, and ideas, with the intention of helping them maximize their productivity while simultaneously minimizing disruption. Cathy cites research that indicates soldiers prefer this format to all other types of training except video (which wasn’t an option due to budget). Properly d.

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