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Benchmark for better or worse

CLO Magazine

Did I shred all of my blocks of cheese before beginning my mac and cheese recipe? You and your learning and development team probably kicked off the new year with renewed focus and fresh recipes for success on your journey to hitting your company’s 2024 business objectives. Are my knives cleaned and sharpened?

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McDonald’s Special Sauce: Learning

CLO Magazine

McDonald’s commitment to in-store training has kept its learning function aligned to the business in the company’s most pivotal area: customer service. executive chef Dan Coudreaut gave away the secret recipe to the company’s famed Big Mac special sauce last summer, customers around the world marveled at the revelation.

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Development Drives Innovation and Revenue

CLO Magazine

” It’s not easy for a manufacturing company to make a million-dollar foray into the learning business, so Hillphoenix first set out to learn from other large manufacturing companies. The new Learning Center platform also includes style sheets for Windows and Mac users. The Learning Center helps answer those questions.”

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

In Defense of Powerpoint - Free as in Freedom , September 5, 2010 In the past couple of years that I’ve had a Mac, a lot of people I’ve spoken to about presentation skills have remarked to me, “Oh, but you have Apple Keynote for presentations. If you’re like me, you’ve probably been busy, as well. Editing shortcuts.

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Something is Going on Down there in the LMS Market

eLearning 24-7

HP Slate already is in the market, runs on Windows7, but targets the business market. Several years ago, many LMS vendor products did not work on Macs, a major consternation for end users who used this system. Samsung Galaxy S is expected to be the first real challenger to the iPad, it runs on Android OS, offers Flash 10.1

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Instructional Design Orthodoxy

Xyleme

I will be dating myself here, but so much of the orthodoxy in the instructional design process was forged back in the late 80’s and early 90’s when the only Computer-Based Training (CBT) tools were Toolbook for the PC, and Hypercard for the Mac. Due to the technical constraints it became a law that “pages must not scroll”.

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How to Train Your Customers

CLO Magazine

A 2010 Aberdeen Group study of nearly 400 organizations found 51 percent of employers trained customers, and another 41 percent trained business partners such as distributors, advisers and vendors. “And about half of the remaining 70 percent of those inquires have a component for training customers or business partners.”

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