We recently surveyed training and development professionals to get a better understanding of their views on the future of mobile learning. We were enlightened by the information that we gathered. …
Keep your SITEs on the Future of Corporate Training
Conferences. We’ve all been there, right? A long succession of concurrent sessions, interrupted with meals and punctuated with social events. I recently attended the 2012 Society of Insurance Trainers & …
Understanding the Advantages of Mobile Learning
Mobile learning is part of our everyday now. Take a look at some of the advantages of why you want to incorporate it into your learning strategy.
Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 2
Learning Affordances When technology provides additional capabilities for employees to do their work more efficiently, it allows us to think about the emerging technologies from the affordance perspective—rather than just …
Doing Something, Action Mapping and Birthday Cakes!
It’s easy to snooze through instructor-led training. In my high school days, a friend of mine perfected sleeping in class – he rested his head on his hand, holding a pencil, …
Training Course Development for Instructional Design? There’s an app for that!
It’s been a month since we released DesignJot, the first iPad app for instructional design. And we couldn’t be more pleased with the response it’s received from the training and …
Obama and Mobile Learning
Being involved for over 25 years with training, I have always grappled with the question: Does a new generation demand a new way of learning and more specifically become so …
Day Two Learning 2008 – Giving Training a Second Chance with Second Life
OK, I will admit that the popularity of 2nd life among training professionals surprised me. With our own experience at Allen and the reticence of IT departments to open up …