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Why Is Technology Training For Remote Workers So Painful?

eLearning Industry

With the shift of most knowledge workers working remotely these days, the ways we conduct technology training has to change. However, the good news is, there is a better way and it's called contextual microlearning. The old ways are not working. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Legacy Systems Don’t Have to Halt Digital Adoption or Slow Down Employees

Ontuitive

Especially in both the pharma/biotech and financial services industries, legacy tech is usually very complex and leveraged by highly skilled and/or highly specialized knowledge workers. The good news is that an organization can make maintaining legacy applications easier by implementing a digital adoption platform.

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

The bad news is that exercise has little impact if it does not replace time sitting. Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. If you feel smug about hitting the gym before going to work and sitting all day, you shouldn’t.

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

The bad news is that exercise has little impact if it does not replace time sitting. Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. If you feel smug about hitting the gym before going to work and sitting all day, you shouldn’t.

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I Feel the Need - The Need for Speed

Tony Karrer

If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done. Of course, most of it is pretty old news in two years time. How is that circle doing for most knowledge workers? What's our ideal kind of content?

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20 Awesome Quotes From Jay Cross

Learnnovators

The news of Jay Cross’s passing away on 6th November came as a bolt from the blue to his scores of admirers. Millions of knowledge workers and their managers have been told they are responsible for their own learning but have no more idea what to do than the dog who got on the bus (Now WTF do I do?). ”. “

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The Role of Training in the Wider Productivity Puzzle

OpenSesame

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. Plenty of studies confirm this view and suggest that the modern worker spends less than half an hour a week on learning and development. more-than-a-month-away) benefits.

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