Category: Learning Technologies

Participants in online meetings, webinars, and virtual training events want and need them to be great experiences. But what do great experiences look like? The business buzzword answer is that it’s all about participant engagement—and for once the buzzword is...

Even after many years of online training in business, industry, and academia, there remain many myths concerning this method of delivery. Online training is impersonal. Online training can be made personal. The leader can post his profile, engage in discussions with...

“Digital badges are a 21st century credential. Why, in today’s hyperlinked, online world, would we depend on an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper to carry all the significance of our learning? We’ve self-reported experience and KSAs for years...

To be sure, today’s virtual classroom tools offer many bells and whistles. But unless your virtual classroom also provides the basic features, you will find yourself in trouble very quickly when you really need to get down to business. I...

Across the globe, higher education institutions and professional organisations are harnessing the power of digital badges to motivate, demonstrate, and validate learning and development (L&D). Digital badges are currently in use at postsecondary institutions such as MIT, organisations such as...

This is a real-life webinar disaster that recently happened to me. The host logged on two hours before the session. The panelists logged on one hour before the session. Extra computers were logged in. Everything was tested. And then…it happened....

Think about your last webinar frustrating experience. What was the problem? Why wasn’t it a 10 on the scale of greatness? Chances are at least one of the deadly sins of webinars was committed. Part of avoiding sins is known...

Transforming Training Over the next five years, how you train and educate your staff won’t just change; it’ll transform. What’s the difference? Changing means continuing to do essentially the same thing, only introducing some variation in degree. Transformation means doing...

Today it is generally accepted that the average trainer will have, along with his/her vocational expertise, skills in instructional design processes and group facilitation. That is, he/she can both design and deliver face-to-face training. In recent years, additional skill sets have been added to what...

Practical intervention or pipedream? Elearning and soft skills are not the most obvious of bedfellows, but could one be used to educate people in the other? Over the last 20 years, digital learning has evolved from the periphery to a...