Category: Learning Design

Creating community and collaboration around your learning using social tools like Facebook or Yammer is a great way to support training transfer. Social tools can be used to supplement the content in an e-learning or live virtual class and provide a space for...

by M. Carolyn Miller How to trigger learning at a deep level.Our lives always have revolved around stories. Throughout time, we have sat around campfires and kitchen tables listening to stories that made us laugh and cry and make sense...

Researchers have two theories for the beneficial effects of visuals on learning. Dual encoding states that when information is provided in both text and visual formats, two memory traces are formed. A double representation increases the probability of encoding new...

Sometimes people use the words “mentoring” and “coaching” interchangeably, but they do not describe the same type of working relationship. Both share basic organizational goals including employee learning and development that leads to peak performance, and the realization of full...

Here are nine principles, in no particular order, to consider when designing and delivering learning. Organize learning so it’s easy to understand. You can reduce cognitive load by breaking information down into small, digestible chunks and arranging them into patterns...

Facilitation Skills for face-to-face and Virtual training As a trainer, have you ever been rushed to finish a class? Or realised too late that you have more information than time? Or wondered why some of your training classes finish early...

Coaching typically begins with a personal interview to assess the individual’s current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted in person or using...

More training organisations (including RTOs) than ever are using video as part of their learning strategy. But specifically what part of the strategy? And what’s motivating them to use video rather than face-to-face seminars or synchronous online solutions? Apart from...

Action learning is a process by which participants “learn by doing”: that is, they acquire and apply knowledge through actions rather than traditional instruction. Research on action learning has shown that action learning programs are at least 30 percent more effective...