Good learning objectives capture the essence of a learning solution. From the results of a gap analysis to how the solution will be measured, they are a snapshot of what the ADDIE cycle will look like. They have multiple audiences: business owners, designers and learners must all find the right…
Learning designers who only start thinking about the translation of an elearning solution when the original language has been released face unnecessary additional costs and, potentially, a lengthy list of minor corrections that will lead to an inconsistent, expensive, hard to maintain solution. Here are some recommendations for designers who…
Opinions about locking navigation in elearning are riddled with assumptions. These assumptions are not always disclosed as part of the conversation. So when I hear yet another “best” course of action regarding lock navigation, it usually feels like a cacophony: while most opinions are certainly sound (pun intended), we haven’t…
If you are here, it is quite likely that you have read the “Serious eLearning Manifesto“. When I first saw a reference to it, I immediately left what I was doing, excited and determined to learn more. Then, disappointment. I can’t, I won’t sign the Manifesto. Here’s why. Blame is…
Here’s a collection of things I’d rather avoid when delivering virtual training, either observed while attending sessions, or experienced through my own sessions and learned the hard way, turned into 5 webinar tips. Enabling the webcam After very interesting discussions with many L&D consultants and instructional designers, I concluded that…
Tighter budgets and the pressure to “become more agile” are making L&D teams nimbler and pushing them to achieve great efficiency gains. But the process may also lead the team to inadvertently lose sight of the horizon, and that loss can easily cancel any cost benefits gained in this or…
Personas are fictional characters that reliably represent a target demographic. Personas are commonly used when designing products and software to bring a tangible, detailed description of the typical user to the makers of those products. Designers use personas to understand product needs, the most likely uses of a product, how…
How do we measure training, and why? Are L&D departments tracking, measuring and reporting meaningful learning data, or just data that makes a solid case for their own survival? It’s not easy to determine learning effectiveness and learning transfer. But sometimes I wonder if the metrics we usually gather and…
Onboarding is probably one of the best examples of how you can “pit a good performer against a bad system, and the system will win almost every time” (Rummler & Brache, 1990). Picture this from the new hire’s point of view: They’ve just completed what was probably an exhausting interview…
We are flooded by content. It is, literally, a world of information. And Google’s mission, apparently, is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. I take note that Google assumes “the world’s information” is worth accessing. It is true that by democratizing broadcasting we pay the…