IT Training Department Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Corporate technical training is a powerful tool to help employees adapt and usher them through the change process. With good corporate IT training, employees will transition quickly and effectively to new systems and technologies without disruption to their daily tasks and operations. Not every question asked should be trained on.

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IT Training Department Blog

MAY 15, 2023

While user guides can provide employees with information when they’re stuck, they cannot truly connect with it and apply it to their job. Training does so much more than simply show employees how to use software. And the best type of training for a software launch? Less is more, always. Especially in training.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

I don't know if I've seen this reported by the eLearningGuild , but their reports showed some interesting information about satisfaction levels reported by members on course authoring and rapid eLearning tool satisfaction levels. Microsoft PowerPoint Articulate Presenter StudyMate Adobe Captivate Flashform Rapid eLearning SN.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Watching videos on YouTube and having your own channel is not the same as managing information in Outlook and being able to use your company’s ERP system. Custom corporate technical training offers hands-on learning experiences that allow employees to gain practical skills and apply them directly to their work.

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IT Training Department Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In other words, the training can be highly tailored to only include what employees will use rather than everything about the software. Not only that but with quality custom software simulations online training can be more effective. If you train on everything then you might as well train on nothing.

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IT Training Department Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Inaccurate or outdated information : If the self-service options do not provide accurate or up-to-date information, employees may lose trust in the system and resort to calling the help desk rather than bothering with a library of poor resources. With training, nothing is important if everything is important.

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IT Training Department Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Quality determines the cost and time it takes to create corporate technical training. There are tools available that make creating software tutorials easy and quick; the problem is that their quality is lacking. It’s also what rapid development tools have done for some eLearning. Easy to create, overwhelming to take.

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IT Training Department Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Few things can derail any type of training quite like too much information. There are two main reasons why too much information goes into training and it becomes ineffective: Training is designed by the subject matter expert or product owner. Even the most non-technical job in the world now requires some level of technical knowledge.

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IT Training Department Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Indeed, there exists a better alternative for learning software that also helps put things into real life context with real situations relating to how employees work they must do with the software. No more hoping to retain information through passively watching on the screen and calling it good. How cool is that?

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IT Training Department Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Anything that will help employees regularly remember or even better use the information they’ve learned will maximize performance improvement and make sure training is contributing to projects and organization growth. Professional development is useless if employees aren’t retaining the information, plain and simple.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, named after German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, describes the exponential rate at which we forget newly acquired information over time. Spaced repetition involves reviewing and revisiting information at increasingly longer intervals, maximizing the chances of retaining it in our long-term memory.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning. Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs - Experiencing eLearning , July 6, 2010 Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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eLearningArt

AUGUST 2, 2017

Tease your audience by revealing your information in parts”. All you need is to apply a simple custom animation to your visuals – to reveal information in stages. Here’s a quick and easy one I share in my PowerPoint for eLearning 101 classes: Want to move something just a smidge using the arrow keys? Explain the context.

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