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The Year in Learning—89 Hand-Picked L&D-Related Articles from 2017

The Learning Dispatch

Meghan Lazier at DigitalGov discusses important factors for running an effective design critique meeting. One of my favorite articles of the year, “ Prototyping Games at The New York Times: Live Fast. Michael Litt at Fast Company has thoughts on what VR might offer work in general. There is no cost to subscribe.

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LMS Contracts – What U Must Have, Need 2 Know

eLearning 24-7

What about the cost of customer service (more on that in a second)? Reason: It is simple, if you went into a car dealership, and looked at all the cars, test drove one and said okay, I want it. Do you ever see extra costs hidden in there and say to them, uh what is this? Total Costs and Discount Breakouts.

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LMS Contracts – What U Must Have, Need 2 Know

eLearning 24-7

What about the cost of customer service (more on that in a second)? Reason: It is simple, if you went into a car dealership, and looked at all the cars, test drove one and said okay, I want it. Do you ever see extra costs hidden in there and say to them, uh what is this? Total Costs and Discount Breakouts.

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How to Layoff Employees: 5 Best Practices for Doing a Reduction in Force

Avilar

This exercise is prone to the “ halo effect ,” so be sure to align desired workforce skills and competencies with the organization’s goals to help make the best decisions. One note of caution. Resist the temptation to “ quiet cut ” your employees to trim costs without dismissing workers. 3) Communicate. Communicate.

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Top Training Evaluation Questions To Ask

eLearningMind

Post-training evaluation questions assess the effectiveness of a training course. You can do it at no cost other than the time you spend creating it in a survey tool that will deploy it for you. Before we give you some sample training evaluation questions, we should discuss how to write effective ones. Accessibility.

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Breakthrough eLearning: Compliance Training: Going Through the Motions

Breakthrough eLearning

This not only creates tremendous savings in administrative costs, it provides documented evidence that training was completed. In other words, it’s a relatively high fixed cost, low marginal cost solution. eLearning also saves on travel, accommodation and site costs associated with face-to-face training.

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Angela Brown’s Recurring Revenue Niche Membership Site Journey and Success Story

LifterLMS

And I think there’s a really big distinction between having a hobby and having a business, because hobbies cost you money, and businesses make you money. Angela Brown: So as I started my business, I decided the housecleaning will be a business. And so, for me, it was always ever going to be a business.

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