Training Evaluation – are you getting it right?
Most of us devote significant effort to collecting feedback and assessment of our training. We seek to improve our delivery, our materials and the end user experience while measuring the business impact to support future training resources. For now, let’s think about the latter. Of course, any business wants to have a clear picture of […]
Insider advice: eLearning editing tools
I’m often asked about authoring tools – either for recommendations or I am asked whether we can build courses using them (the answer is yes – we use all of them by the way). However as we do have some expereience with them all, I thought I’d take the opportunity to provide a quick update on […]
SCORM 2004 flopped. xAPI won’t.
eLearning courses have multiple standards to choose from for sending results. And despite that, the oldest of the standards above (SCORM1.2) still dominates. a full 75% of course developers don’t bother with SCORM 2004 at all, and of those that to, 97% use SCORM 2004 on only on a technicality – using SCORM 2004 to […]
Trust me, I’m a trainer
A recent three-nation survey on Learning Transfer conducted by a consortium led by the University of Sussex made for some salutary reading. The survey looked at the US, the UK and Australia and found that Australian employers were the least likely to insist on staff undertaking learning. Australians were much more likely to report “regulatory […]
Learning Cultures – an accountant’s view
Deloitte Global’s 2019 survey of Human Capital Trends was pretty stark – 86% of respondents believe that in the face of rapid change in the workplace, they must reinvent their ability to learn. However only 50% of those respondents reported that their L&D department was evolving rapidly and 14% said it was too slow. Just […]
Design Thinking (and a puzzle)
A lot has been said about design thinking recently, and a lot of it’s really really technical. That strikes me as ironic when design thinking is supposed to teach us to do the opposite of being geeks! Like all fashionable terms, it’s nothing new. Like so many other exciting ides, you will know you have […]
Engagement – a case study (with tricks)
About fifteen years ago I was asked to help redesign a CPD program. As you always should, we started by getting to know our audience and we learned as much as we could about the profession and its workers. One thing that was clear was that the people involved were good. I mean really good. […]
Training videos on a shoestring
Yesterday I had coffee with a fellow instructional designer. She spoke about how videos are perfect for some of the things she’s tasked with teaching before adding “… of course I don’t have the budget to do that”. It was the second time I’d heard exactly that line in the last week alone. My company […]
The economic case for knowledge sharing
After my post on 70:20:10 at the end of last year, I took a bit of a break from posting to read more research on this area and was struck by the findings of a number of studies that show just how crucial it is to create knowledge sharing cultures. It’s becoming clear that there […]
70:20:10 and how to do it
In recent weeks I’ve spoken about xAPI and in particular how it relates to the idea of 70:20:10. Today I gave a presentation on xAPI and found myself looking at blank faces when I got to that 70:20:10 part. to appreciate xAPI means knowing about 70:20:10 and so I found myself on a 70:20:10 tangent. […]
