This has a dramatic impact on the Business of Learning and perceptions around value and cost. Grade: C #4 - Quick Wins & Toolkits With the tough economy, everyone will be looking for quick wins. How can you improve performance quickly and at low cost? The answer for many organizations will be less training and more performance support in the form of toolkits. Essentially, the toolkit is a web page containing a ton of great information, links, etc. MORE

Tablet Learning, however, can be viewed as a separate category that serves as an effective stepping stone in the transition from eLearning to mLearning. We’ve presented some cost-effective options below to help you get started. This method allows the previously developed Flash animations to be reutilized, leading to sizeable cost-savings. Again, this is a good low-cost option for quick conversion of existing Captivate based projects for Tablets. MORE

4 - Quick Wins & Toolkits With the tough economy, everyone will be looking for quick wins. How can you improve performance quickly and at low cost? The answer for many organizations will be less training and more performance support in the form of toolkits. Corrollary: transition to virtual means greater demand for help on effective virtual classroom training and for people who are good at creation effective remote experiences. #6 MORE

Monday, April 2, 2018, 10AM – 11AM PT: Straight Talk: Communication and Connection Skills to Increase Influence (Free for ATD members) Learn effective communication techniques to improve your communication skills, and learn to connect effectively to leverage those communication skills. Uncover the organizational and personal costs of avoiding feedback. Leave with a toolkit to help you implement Perpetual Learning Design in your organization. MORE

Tim Brown, the president and CEO of IDEO (who played a big role in the development and spread of design thinking), puts it this way: Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success. If you’ve never heard of design thinking, you might find this brief introduction of value. MORE

You can design training courses that are highly effective at developing skills and competencies. Several decades ago, software companies began offering no-cost access to products for a limited time (or with a limited feature set), hoping to drive more demand for the premium version in the long-run. Here are some of the no/low-cost techniques that work for us. It doesn’t need to be overly complicated or costly. “If you build it, they will come.” MORE

By using these rapid authoring tools, we can develop simulation based e-learning courses too quickly, at low cost. Choosing the tool that suits your requirements will not only reduce the course development time but also the costs. Here I am going to share the top ten authoring tools you can choose from to build effective and efficient simulation based e-learning courses. Branchtrack is used to develop effective role-play simulation courses. MORE

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Instead, my belief is that the discussion will be much more around rapid, low-cost content creation. MORE

We talked about some of these tools in two of our previous blog posts, 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads and Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions , but I have now put together a wider list of authoring tools that can both help you convert your legacy content and which can also be used to develop new, mEnabled content for delivery to iPads and tablets. Flash CS6 Toolkit for CreateJS. MORE