AllenComm announces two new industry awards for blended learning and gamification.
Hit the Target: Craft Learning Activities that Transform Ideals into Results
It’s day one on your new learning design project, and you’re meeting with the client to discuss desired outcomes for their employee training program. You’re all ready to talk about …
Motion Graphics: Increasing the Effectiveness of Training Through Storytelling
The past few years have brought a crescendo of new technologies, trends, and changes in customers’ needs. Now we will pause to evaluate, polish, and perfect these and other recent …
Link’spiration™ November 11th – Internal Social Networks: Kick Down the Cubical Walls (figuratively, of course)
Link’spiration™ is a summary of what our team is talking about behind the scenes on our internal social network. Since we can’t turn off our designer eyes, this network is …
Training Providers: Peace Through Preparation
A couple of weeks ago I attended a Design Meeting with a client in Dallas, Texas. The night we arrived 12 tornadoes tore through two communities a few miles south …
Deciding Between an LMS & Learning Portal?
Learning Management System (LMS) platforms and LMS portals are both popular methods for training employees —but the learning portal is definitely emerging organically as a preferred choice for engagement, support, …
Training Consultants: Take Advantage of Blurring Lines Between Customer Training and Marketing
Consumer education is becoming a frequent topic of discussion inside and outside of training and development groups. The necessity for customer training to enhance the customer experience, brand loyalty and …
Training Development: 6 Tips for Project Organization
The importance of keeping project documents organized hit home when I was unexpectedly hospitalized a month before the birth of my daughter. I left one day at 5:00 and didn’t …
Instructional Design Tips: Measuring Quality
We recently did a quality campaign here at Allen, and it got me thinking about what quality is and how we measure it. In my work as an Instructional Design …