As a well-known fact, one of the advantages of classroom instruction compared to self-paced corporate training is that the learners can share their own stories, problems, and solutions with their …
Elearning Development: The Importance of Content Readiness
One of the areas that often gets overlooked in training projects is content. Somebody has a great idea for a web-based training course. Others agree. They envision amazing scenarios, activities, …
The Challenge of Teaching Soft Skills in Web-Based Training: Ethics
Dealing with soft skills is always a challenge in web-based training. How do you model the behaviors in an elearning environment? How do you assess the learner’s understanding? It’s possible …
Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Engaging Corporate Training
My daughter and her friends enjoy making those annoying YouTube-style videos that feature improvisations, movie parodies, and music videos. I hate them—not my daughter (or even her friends) but the …
Engaging a Diverse Audience: Movie Trailer Approach to Corporate Training
We were recently approached with a challenge from our client, eBay: To create a custom training program that their audience would opt in to taking. Now, unlike the majority of …
Are You Using Your Training Tools Effectively?
Recently, I spoke with a former colleague who has worked in the instructional design field for over 20 years. As we talked, he pointed out how much the field has …
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 & …
Creating an Instructional Design Company that is Roaring with Creativity
At Allen, we are known and appreciated for our incredibly sound instructional design skills. We are also proud to have customers take a peek at our incredibly talented instructional designers. …
Building the Visual Aesthetic for eLearning Development
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about working memory lately. This likely stems from working on a project with dense financial and legal content—everyone’s favorite kind of course. We’ve whittled …