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8 Lessons Learned for Converting In-Person Training to Virtual Training

The Learning Dispatch

Before the pandemic response and reset to ‘work-from-home’ by organizations of all sizes and models, learning designers and HR professionals often struggled with how to take an existing, effective classroom training program and offer to learners online – or whether it made sense to do so at all. Would an online course be as effective?

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How a Free Certification Course Can Help Grow Your Program

LearnDash

You can instead offer a micro certification, offer an excerpt, or let the learners test run the first few lessons. If you begin by offering a course for free, you can fine tune your material before launching a paid version of your content. If it seems popular, you can develop a more in-depth version. Grow your mailing lists.

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eCombat: Lessons from the Interactive Battlefields of Afghanistan

Vignettes Learning

Spencer Ackerman features Vanguard of Valor, an interactive teaching tool built to instruct the mid-career officers who pass through the Army’s Combined Arms Center, about the lessons accumulated from years of hard-fought war in Afghanistan. According to the writer, this upgraded version is far better than previous Army digitized books.

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Articulate Rise – Responsive Authoring Like It Should Be

B Online Learning

This usually meant you would need to develop one version for the desktop and another for any other device that may possibly need to access the learning module. Who’s got time to develop up to 5 different versions (Desktop, tablet portrait, tablet landscape, phone portrait, and phone landscape) of the same module? All I can say is Wow!

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Adobe Captivate: Say Hello to Version 7

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe has promised a more aggressive upgrade cycle for its programs that will make even the recent upgrade cycles look almost snail-like. Case in point: version 7 of the Captivate software was released today. Allow your learners to access additional web-based reference material that complements course content. so stay tuned.

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Cost-Effective Training: Leveraging Free Tools and Resources

Learning Rebels

Despite budgetary challenges, we don’t want to compromise on the quality of training programs. With the right approach it can be possible to create effective training programs without breaking the bank. Leveraging OER can significantly reduce content creation costs while maintaining high quality.

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LearnDash Version 1.3.6 – Assignments & More!

LearnDash

Well, it’s that time again – the time where we officially release a new and improved version of the LearnDash WordPress LMS based on user feedback captured in the forums, help desk, and through phone conversations ! When creating a lesson, simply check the box to indicate whether there is an assignment associated with the lesson.

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