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The Surge of Corporate Training Videos: 6 Styles to Engage Your Learners

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For example, the new level of video quality from news sources like The New York Times is drastically different than a 6 o’clock news format. The power of the moving visual communicates and captivates in a way that simple text and images (clickable or not) fall short. Video is a powerful teaching tool, even outside the L&D world.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

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Here’s an example: A company is rolling out a new expense reporting and approval system and needs to train over 1000 users. Adobe has a twitter widget for Captivate 5 that allows elearninger to ask a Q about a lesson from inside the.swf. The Q goes to a twtter hastag defined by the instructor.

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Video Training – why it’s here to stay

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We’re a captive audience. Video training takes the benefits of Instructor-Led training classes – watching the instructor and seeing the examples work – and combines them with what’s good about “How to” books – the affordability and portability.

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Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become.

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Take the film industry as an example. For example (and you really should check out this link) this guy , who blows stuff up with automatic weapons, is so cool (at least to his viewers), he’s like a modern-day Fonzie. Don’t become too aligned with any single technology.