Performance Support Basics: 3 Lessons on Learning Portals
Over the past few months, we've talked a lot about the learner experience and learner-centered solutions. These types of solutions are designed with the target learner in mind and focus on learners' needs. Learning portals are a great example of a learner-centered solution. When designed with learners' needs in mind, they are an excellent performance support tool.
Essentially, a learning…
eLearning Trends That Will Fizzle, Sizzle, or Simmer in 2014
Our industry is notorious for chasing after trends. We all enjoy reading the summaries of the past year - and seeing predictions for the new one. Most folks want to know: which trends are worth pursuing and which ones are going to fizzle? Is gamification going to go the way of Myspace and Foursquare? Will social learning be replaced by "isolation learning" (okay, I made that up)?
At any point in…
Top 7 Custom eLearning Articles on our Blog in 2013
Why do we all love 'best of' posts so much at the end of the year? Love is a strong word here, but I find them helpful as a quick reference to useful content shared during the past twelve months.
Regular readers know we strive to make this blog a hub for corporate learning professionals. Our goal is to educate and inform, and to that end we invest considerable time creating and researching…
Less Formal Training; More Informal Social Learning
This is an excerpt from Sharon Boller's newest white paper, Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today's learning landscape... then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 - 18 months. Here is Trend 6:
Twitter chats, Twitter lists, massive open online courses (MOOCs), YouTube channels and blogs devoted to highly specific topics, resources such as Lynda.com,…
Shifting from Trainer to Community Manager
Profit margins are razor thin and the business landscape is more competitive than ever. Past inefficiencies that were once tolerable at work are now unsustainable. As businesses, we must adapt or contract. But where does this leave the learning and development department?
The training paradigm has not changed too much in the last 100 years, has it?
Much maligned after years of instructor led…
Learning Lab Part 1 Wrap-up: 5 Social Learning Lessons
Well, that was fun.
The last of the celebrities and East Coast football fans have left Indianapolis, and what a party it was! It was hard not to get caught up in the "Big Game" buzz last week. Football was on everyone's brain, and we are so happy to have been able to share Gridiron Guru with you. This was part 1 of our m+s+g=l? learning lab experiment.
Our sign-ups were modest, but we had players…
Does Mobile + Social + Games = Learning? Help us find out
Yes, we're all hearing the buzz. The holy grail of learning is shifting to games/gamification, mobile, and social. Within my team at BLP, we actually are already believers of the value that blending these three things together can have on a learning experience....but we want proof, not just gut feelings about this. So - we invite you to join our newly-created "learning laboratory" at Bottom-Line…