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Benefits of e Learning

Unboxed

The cost and logistics that go into organizing a face to face training add up: instructors, venue, learning material, etc. Alternatively, eLearning provides a variety of training modalities that are both cost effective and mobile. What makes it effective?”. Let’s start with the definition before jumping into the data.

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How FrieslandCampina Uses Knowledge Guru to Increase Engagement (Interview)

Knowledge Guru

They wanted a bold, new approach to corporate learning. Mathias learned about Knowledge Guru when we launched the Game Creation Wizard at ASTD International, and he was an early adopter of the tool. People will have to do the e-learning and one of the main modules is the Safety Guru.

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Skills Training

Tony Karrer

When I combined this with a common theme across a lot of my writing and on Work Literacy : Tool Set 2009 ASTD Follow-Up I'm more convinced all the time that there's a gap in awareness and skills among Concept Workers. I describe this as the Tilde Effect. Skills Training? I'm not so sure that really works. eLearning Technology.

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Achieving Competitive Advantage through Training

Enyota Learning

Bersin by Deloitte 2014, Corporate Learning Factbook, cited that across the world, companies are spending more than $130 billion on training their employees. They are the key point of contact – are they promoting the principal message of your brand effectively? Training the employees in the right manner makes all the difference.

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Are You Ready? Your ATD ICE Conference Bag!

Learning Rebels

For example: 2 years ago at the ASTD ICE expo it was about finding translators who could translate the LMS into multiple languages, the year before it was simulation developers. Goal for the sessions – for example: last year I wanted to learn everything I could about mobile learning, from development to best practices.

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Why microlearning is not just about mini training videos

Ed App

Encyclopaedic slideshows reinforce negative connotations associated with corporate learning and development (L&D) and condition already overburdened learners to approach such activities with a certain weariness (queue the collective eye-roll). On the effectiveness of self-paced learning,’ Journal of Memory and Language vol.

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Better Discussion / Debate in Learning

Tony Karrer

Mark Oehlert post: I long for this kind of debate in our learning circles. In particular, he laments that as he was reading a discussion in a different domain and "working on the team picking out sessions for the 2007 ASTD conference " he found himself wanting to have better discussion and debate in our world of learning.