As a newcomer to the training industry, going to the 2015 Association for Talent Development (ATD) Conference and Expo was a fun look into a world I’m still getting to …
2014 Trends — The Big No Trend
Pausing to perfect and polish trends from 2013 leads us to… no trend in 2014. It comes as no surprise that our most popular blogs and articles tend to focus …
Solving Creative Challenges – Favorites in Rich Media from 2013
The best part of working in the art department at Allen is having all of the talented people necessary to make first class rich media. Two weeks ago a client …
Interface Inspirations for Web-Based Training Development from Games
When designing interfaces for WBT (web based training), practical controls exist in almost every module: Play, Stop, Pause, Next, etc. Although quite functional, these controls are passive options that help …
Social Media and the Art of Self-Regulation
Training has long been part of the art of internal corporate communication. In the recent past, one of the drivers for elearning was consistent messaging, scaled for both employees and …
Learning 2.0 and the Convenience Factor
Okay, apologies first while we ponder this issue once again…not to slow or accelerate the inevitable penetration of social media to the training function, but more to flush out the …
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 …