Organizations are reporting they expect to continue to expand use of eLearning over the next five years to deliver all types of training to employees, including onboarding, compliance training, sales and …
5 Self-Paced Online Training Activities to Include in Your Onboarding Program
The beauty of online learning is that you train at your own speed. How can you apply this flexibility to your onboarding program so that new hires can pace themselves and ease into their new job duties?
Custom eLearning Topics: 3 Tips from a Training Company Design Team to Improve UX
Custom eLearning courses must be built with the user experience in mind to be most engaging and effective. Could you use tips to improve the UX of your custom eLearning …
Meet the Team: An Interview with AllenComm’s Nathan Hauke
Recently, we had a sit down with Nathan Hauke, one of our instructional designers here at AllenComm. We dug into a discussion of instructional design in a brief interview, which …
Creating Instant Gratification through Gamification
Last month a record breaking 114 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, a game touted as one of the most exciting in history. The drama came in part from the …
Keep Innovation in Training Design Alive
Recently, I led an Allen team in a meeting with the senior leadership of one of our longtime clients. This client has entrusted us with more than 20 courses, and …
Expect more from your training! A little remix goes a long way.
Generally speaking, we as design professionals tend to settle. We’re not lazy, nor do we lack ambition; rather, as these scholars argue, we tend to seek to stabilize the world …
Training Design: Anticipate Potential Pitfalls and Landmines
I once asked one of the surgeons in my network, as I prepared for a medical training project, what he wanted out of training. He said that when he’s learning …
Training ROI: Chasing a Unicorn or Real Possibility?
Somewhere in the midst of the dog and pony show, the investment manager lost me. I think it was right after he said, “Check out how slick this is; you …