IT Training Department Blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Let surveys tell you this information. For example, many surveys of employees we’ve seen from organizations say that employees prefer self-paced eLearning courses more than instructor-led training. Let employees practice learning the software. That’s only easy to do with a realistic software simulation.

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IT Training Department Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

No Application Is As Easy As It Seems My favorite example that I’ve seen others use for simple applications is Google. There’s infinitely more that can be done in Google too including how to find the best information and use it more effectively. My last example that nothing is as simple as it seems is ChatGPT.

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IT Training Department Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Being able to quickly and effectively find information, apply it to tasks, and complete work efficiently is key to good technical training. It can be engaging and entertaining with a bit of good writing for eLearning or training videos. Show examples of how it can be used to solve common workplace problems.

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IT Training Department Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

No Application Is As Easy As It Seems My favorite example that I’ve seen others use for simple applications is Google. There’s infinitely more that can be done in Google too including how to find the best information and use it more effectively. My last example that nothing is as simple as it seems is ChatGPT.

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IT Training Department Blog

AUGUST 14, 2023

But that’s not even good enough for many because the preference is switching to eLearning and for good reason, especially for technical training. eLearning is preferred by most employee and it’s also the most effective way to train employees in most circumstances.

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IT Training Department Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

How you write the content for both eLearning and training videos makes all the difference in how engaging and relevant the content is. We created an eLearning course on office ergonomics that you could otherwise say is an inherently boring topic. These are just some examples of what can make writing boring.

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IT Training Department Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Anything that will help employees regularly remember or even better use the information they’ve learned will maximize performance improvement and make sure training is contributing to projects and organization growth. Professional development is useless if employees aren’t retaining the information, plain and simple.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

With the script now 1/3 complete and with a session agreed at the eLearning Guild's DevLearn 2007 in San Jose in November, my mind is turning to how I can convert this script into a half-decent piece of e-learning to show all those folks who come along to take a look.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, named after German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, describes the exponential rate at which we forget newly acquired information over time. Spaced repetition involves reviewing and revisiting information at increasingly longer intervals, maximizing the chances of retaining it in our long-term memory.

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IT Training Department Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

How you write the content for both eLearning and training videos makes all the difference in how engaging and relevant the content is. We created an eLearning course on office ergonomics that you could otherwise say is an inherently boring topic. These are just some examples of what can make writing boring.

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IT Training Department Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What Is A Self-Paced Course You may know it as a self-paced course, digital course, eLearning, or something else entirely. Then there are things like software simulation courses that allow you to learn a new system at your own pace and may have additional information about that software.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning. Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs - Experiencing eLearning , July 6, 2010 Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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eLearningArt

AUGUST 2, 2017

For example, write “3rd quarter sales rose 5% over last year” instead of just “3rd quarter sales.” Tease your audience by revealing your information in parts”. Let me give you an example…. All you need is to apply a simple custom animation to your visuals – to reveal information in stages.

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IT Training Department Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

I used to use the built-in tools that Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate come with for building software simulations. The purpose of this article is here to change your mind so hopefully you keep an open mind and at least weigh the options of ditching the old worn-out software simulation tools of Storyline and Captivate.

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