How to Design a Course Using the eLearning Manifesto
Several years ago now, some colleagues and I shared our disappointment in the state of eLearning. We felt that the promise wasn’t being lived up to, and wanted to do something about it. Out of that...
View ArticleWhy L&D Should Innovate and Foster Enterprise Innovation
Innovation is no longer a ‘nice to have’. The increasing rate of change is suggesting that organizations need to become more agile, and that comes from moving to a state of continual innovation. The...
View ArticleMicro-Learning: Best Practices for the Delivery of Additional Resources
Alongside gamification, mLearning and xAPI, ‘micro-learning’ has become one of the buzzwords within the e-learning industry over the past few years. In this article, we'll explain the optimal way to...
View ArticleHow to Choose the Right Future for Your Enterprise Learning and Development...
Things are moving faster, and recognition is growing that organizations need to be both excellent in execution and in innovation. What makes those happen are different, but they both benefit from the...
View ArticleHoliday Wish List for Corporate Training Professionals: Part 1 - Books
The holidays are a great time for sharing and gift giving. This holiday series of lists is always specific to the training professional. Throughout the year, I keep an eye out for new items and I'm...
View ArticleHoliday Wish List for Corporate Training Professionals: Part 2 - Trainer's...
The Trainer's Emergency Kit is your goto bag for everything you need as a corporate training professional. You may not find all of these items necessary, but there are some aha! items that I don't...
View ArticleHoliday Wish List for Corporate Training Professionals: Part 3 - Video Gear
Welcome to Part 3 of this year's holiday wish list for the corporate training professional. If you want to catch up, here is Part 1 & Part 2. And here is last years Video Gear Post. I still...
View ArticleWhat Corporate Training Can Learn from Military Training - IITSEC Recap
If you don't work in the government, or with a company that does, then you've probably never heard of I/ITSEC. Most people just refer to it as ITSEC. It's a huge military training conference held in...
View ArticleHoliday Wish List for Corporate Training Professionals: Part 4 - Software for...
Introduction to Scaling Up Knowledge The creation of media content is how we scale up the sharing of knowledge. When 1:1 training becomes impossible we capture the wisdom of subject matter experts in...
View ArticleThe Most Popular Blog Posts for 2016
It's the end of the year and, in case you've missed the most popular blog posts throughout 2016, I've compiled the top 5 for you here. The act of reflection is a major learning theme for me this year...
View ArticleWhy Usability is Critical in a Learning Management System
Usability and Ease of Use Ease of use means having incredibly successful usability. When your product is easy to use that means the developers put a major focus on usability. And when usability is a...
View ArticleThe Most Common Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing an LMS (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, we started discussing some common mistakes that you can avoid when you choose your next LMS – click here to read that article if you missed it. Part 1 contains common...
View ArticleThe Corporate Training Predictions You Need to Know for 2017
Ah yes. The annual December tradition of crystal-balling the coming year is alive and well. And who am I to be the Grinch and sit this one out. I'm all in on 2017! 2017 is going to be fantastic for...
View ArticleATD TechKnowledge 2017 and Enterprise Learning that Works
The Litmos team had fantastic team at ATD TK this year. They showed off enterprise learning that works, and everyone enjoys using. The event had over 1000 people attending in Las Vegas. I caught a...
View ArticleHow to Rock Being a Training Leader
The business of training and development is crucial to any organization’s performance. Businesses, want to gain a competitive advantage and for others the need to improve productivity or obtain better...
View ArticleHow the Future of Hardware and Software Might Impact Training
In the world of corporate training, hardware is a complicated issue. Training departments are reliant on IT and other departments to make hardware decisions. Training managers adjust their strategies...
View ArticleLitmos Takes Home the Gold...and MORE... at HCMx Awards 2017
The HCMx awards event happened last week. HCMx is the Human Capital Management Excellence conference produced by the Brandon Hall Group. And this year it was in beautiful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida....
View ArticleLitmos in London Educates Training Professionals on Extended Enterprise
Are you a training professional working in the UK? I hope you're attending LearningTech 2017. Litmos has a much larger presence at the Learning Technologies conference in London this year. Stop by...
View ArticleIs Content Curation the Future of Instructional Design?
Curation is a trending topic getting a lot of attention in the training and learning and development industry. But why? What’s happening in business, which makes some believe curation is a problem? Is...
View ArticleA Brief Historical Look at Corporate Training
I’ve been working in this industry for almost 25 years, but like everyone, the other 25 years were also spent in the learning industry: elementary school, high school, college, etc. As I get older,...
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