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What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?

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According to Wikipedia: “Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.”.

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What is Cognitive Load, and Why Does It Matter for Corporate Training and Development?

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Cognitive load is an important concept in instructional design, and it gives us good evidence as to why traditional corporate training—think 60-minute sessions led by an instructor in a classroom or 30–60-minute video—are so taxing, and why we remember only a fraction of the information presented that way.

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4 Best Practices for Keeping an Organized eLearning Video Library

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Videos must be created with sound instructional design to ensure that they’re “just right” for employees and will last for many years. “Instructional Design is defined as a systematic process that is employed to develop education and training programs in a consistent and reliable fashion” (Reiser, Dempsey, 2007). .

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First Aid Training Courses Contribute to a Healthier, Safer Workplace

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I’ve had friends and colleagues learn first aid in health classes in school, or through their kids’ scouting programs, or during a course of instruction to get certified for something else (child care, scuba diving instructor.you name it). Have you ever taken a first aid training course?

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If People Have Such Short Attention Spans, How is it We Can Binge-Watch Netflix?

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The assumption that attention spans are getting shorter and shorter has dramatically shaped the eLearning industry, with directors of learning looking for newer and newer technologies to cater to our diminished attention spans, and content providers building the assumption into their instructional design.

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Lessons in Creativity from DevLearn 2018

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Whether your job description or title includes words like training, eLearning, instructional design, talent, safety, or performance, we all need to be creative in our jobs, specifically when creating training content.

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The Cost of an Ineffective Training Program

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We all have the ability to record, thanks to smartphones and GoPros, but with a training video, you need strategic instructional design. Instructional Design is defined as “a systematic process that is employed to develop education and training programs in a consistent and reliable fashion” (Reiser, Dempsey, 2007). What’s that?