Origin Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The idea is to make them do (by playing a game) what you’d in fact teach through training. Employees should not be wasting their time when they play a game. It should add to their skill sets- like speed, agility, decision making, leadership, efficiency etc. Make it Social. Games are one of the best ways to encourage social learning.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

However, soft skills may not be so easy to teach. Podcasts are effective when emphasis has to be laid on verbal skills such as English pronunciations or accent, tone and modulation of voice, or while teaching a new language. As per principle 3 above, the intended learning may not take place.

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JUNE 19, 2014

For example, consider a scenario where eLearning is being used as standalone or in a blended format to teach critical skills or impart specific knowledge. To begin with, let us identify certain cases where completion is a reliable measure of eLearning efficiency.

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MARCH 31, 2015

A simple statement such as ‘To teach behavioral interviewing skills to new HR recruits’ will keep you focused on the scenario must teach them. To avoid such a situation, you must write down the learning outcome to keep yourself on track. Research your audience.

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Origin Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

A little bit of training and guidance can polish the skills of your interviewers and equip them to ask specific questions to unearth particular attributes of candidates.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

So to summarize, the key to smarter instructional design lies in reducing the amount of extraneous load by stepping into the shoes of learners and asking yourself the question: “If I were to learn the concept that I wish to teach, what would be the way in which I could have understood it the most?”

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JANUARY 7, 2015

That is, by using vicarious learning to teach abstract yet important behaviors or skills to employees – for example handling customer queries, price negotiation, communication skills, interviewing skills for an HR trainee or probing skills for a new doctor.

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MAY 22, 2018

You enroll at a driving school and the driving instructor takes you through each step of the way teaching how the brakes, steering, and accelerator works and lets you drive under his supervision. Understanding Informal Learning? Let’s take a simple example, you are learning to drive a car. This is a case of formal learning.

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Origin Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Try to take their opinion about how the training program could be improved, what could be the alternative way of teaching a particular skill, etc. Measuring how much learners feel contented with the learning program and material. Unless your employees like what they are being taught, they will not put much effort into it. Level 2: Learning.

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Origin Learning

JULY 27, 2014

By using infographics, you can convert incomprehensible pages into visually appealing images that still capture all or most of what you intend to teach. This is avoidable to some extent. However, creating an infographic is not a random process.

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Origin Learning

JANUARY 19, 2015

The quality of the training material is the same for all employees, which may not be the case with classroom based teaching, wherein the personal characteristics of the trainer influences the learning experience. Classroom based teaching limits the amount of personalization that each employee can get in his/her learning experience.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2017

While the steps in a sales process can be taught in a digital course, it is difficult to teach how to implement those steps while making a sale in real life – where the flow of events is continuous and not controlled. The Interactive Video Simulation address a critical gap in the digital learning paradigm.

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Origin Learning

JULY 13, 2018

Garrison and Kanuka defined ‘Blended Learning’ as – “At its simplest, blended learning is the integration of classroom face-to-face learning experiences with online learning experiences.” Blended learning has its roots in both classroom teaching and online learning. The Benefits of Blended Learning.

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Origin Learning

MAY 10, 2015

Storytelling helps to maintain curiosity in the audience and teaches concepts in a practical, case based manner. Be it storytelling techniques or use of an avatar, learners grasp information much more easily when they can relate emotionally to a subject.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Another innovative method of teaching these young professionals is by applying techniques used in some video games (such as multi-path scenarios) that put learners in control. Virtual classroom sessions also can be used to bring together groups of learners to discuss topics that have been covered in online self-study.

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Origin Learning

JANUARY 27, 2015

Glass-based recordings can also provide teaching tools for resident students and a means of compiling best practices for procedures. These videos can be compiled to form an immensely great source of shared learning among practicing doctors who can access these videos on high end mobile devices such as iPads when the need be.

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JUNE 27, 2014

The video teaches an important best practice which is current and more interesting than a Lectora training video hosted on the LMS on the same subject with 96 frames. Suppose an employee has a video that he captured all by himself.

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Origin Learning

JULY 31, 2014

Videos are an excellent media for imparting knowledge about live things, for example teaching how a certain task needs to be done or how something works. This is particularly true for videos. 4G LTE eliminates this risk.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Blog Posts. Blogs are also very useful when it comes to applying micro-learning for online training.

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APRIL 28, 2016

One thing is clear: traditional methods of teaching have to undergo a transformation if efficiency, performance, and competencies are to become the yardstick of discussions centering or veering around learning, work environment, and technologies. Did you know that at least 40.4% of the US workforce is in non-traditional ‘contingent’ jobs?

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Origin Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

One thing is clear: traditional methods of teaching have to undergo a transformation if efficiency, performance, and competencies are to become the yardstick of discussions centering or veering around learning, work environment, and technologies. Did you know that at least 40.4% of the US workforce is in non-traditional ‘contingent’ jobs?

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Origin Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The “unbelievable” teaching tool enables a complete review of a game from all angles. How to operate cranes, handling hazardous wastes, how to weld, teaching surgical procedures, and rehabilitation are the diverse range of VR courses available in the market. Origin Learning Solutions has taken the next leap.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

As Christmas arrives and ushers in the New Year, why not take a moment to sit back and reflect on what this simple story can teach us today? Dickens’ role was not so much in inventing these traditions as in resurrecting them to how they are observed and practiced today.

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APRIL 10, 2015

A quick word of caution though: this does not mean that we undermine the importance of formal teaching; it simply acknowledges the fact that various other media too can contribute to an individual’s knowledge building. The new era recognizes the importance of informal learning as much as formal learning. What is the TIN Can API?

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

What best can we teach by giving learners reading material? Any instructional design process will typically consist of a mix of text, graphics, audio, video and animated elements. The question is- what to put where. What part of the training can be explained using animations, and so on.

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JUNE 17, 2014

In a classroom training setup, it has always been challenging to accommodate learners with different learning styles and keep them engaged throughout the teaching-and-learning cycle. The eLearning technology aids modern day teaching for all classes and environments.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Classroom (chalk and blackboard) teaching is passe as virtual learning (click and touch – e-way) is fast catching up everywhere. A tip of spending just 5 minutes to research a product before a call is known to have boost a sale success by 40%! Such outcomes are possible by scouring the different learning platforms available today.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Since learning for the first time involves introducing and teaching core concepts and ideas, it is best done via instructor led classroom training so that employees have direct face to face interaction with the instructor as well as with their colleagues. Let us see how: Learning for the first time (New).

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Origin Learning

AUGUST 14, 2015

Can Abraham Maslow have made a mistake? His theory of psychological health premised on fulfilling innate human needs in order of priority culminating in self-actualization, is a known fact. But given the speed of change that is currently taking place everywhere, the 3 rd level of human needs based on relations will perhaps need to be re-evaluated.

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APRIL 25, 2015

Moreover, these updates are very effective in teaching practice guidelines, safety procedures, confidentiality issues, etc. Easy updates. Small updates in the form of the company’s mission/vision, history, values and business model can reiterate information. which are too over whelming to be learnt and absorbed in single, long sessions.

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JULY 15, 2014

Teaching methods were mostly didactic and the teacher-student relationship placed higher emphasis on the teacher than the student. In Asia, since many countries were part of the British regime, learning was more oriented towards getting the basic education that could get one a job in a government department.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Employees can attain higher levels of concentration and engagement by participating in situational analyses, games and quizzes that focus on teaching the necessary compliance courses. Last but not the least, e-learning is a very effective medium to provide regular compliance training – a prerequisite for the banking industry. Like our post ?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Bite-sized learning modules that are designed keeping in mind the small screen size are extremely effective in teaching small concepts and case based scenarios, without overloading the minds of the learners.

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Origin Learning

MARCH 8, 2015

E-learning is less about teaching and more about guiding and directing. Do not bombard learners with too much information or too many interactive elements on a single screen as it leads to cognitive overload. Keep the learning experience neat and controllable from the employees’ perspective. STEP 5: PROVIDE GUIDANCE FOR LEARNING.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We published a post that teaches you to use Adobe Spark to create functional eLearning courses with ease. Tools like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora Inspire, and the open-source favorite Adapt, are changing the way organizations are creating eLearning.

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Origin Learning

AUGUST 3, 2015

For many, blended learning is still a muddled concept. One may be basking away in the glory of facilitating learning via all sorts of devices – PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones, thinking that blended learning is ‘mission accomplished’. Sorry to burst the bubble, but that is NOT blended learning.

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