Blended Learning
A mix of approaches, techniques and/or technologies to meet the contextual needs of learners and content types which can create a rich and diverse learning experience.
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Eight Ways to Best Spend Your Online Learning Budget
With all of the choices available today to support learning, collaboration, and sharing and building knowledge, confusion about the best path for the learning journey can ensue. Here is a guide to making the most effective investments in learning by blending free, user-generated, and paid-for content.
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Rosalind Franklin’s New Approach to Training Clinicians
Hands-on learning through simulation is a cornerstone in 21st-century healthcare-professional school curricula. Simulations enable students to gain clinical proficiency by applying classroom and book knowledge to lifelike near-real clinical scenarios. By putting learning into action, students build clinical knowledge and skills. Here’s how it’s done at RFUMS in Chicago.
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Empowering Humanitarian Aid Workers with Soft-skill Curriculum
Logistical skills are critical for relief workers and humanitarian aid workers, but their “soft skills” are equally important—the nontechnical skills needed to effectively manage problems and work with others in high-stress situations. Thanks to the generous support of Cegos, DisasterReady.org is able to offer soft-skill courses to humanitarian aid workers at no cost.
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Design Tips for Flipping the Virtual Classroom
Most virtual classrooms attempt to replicate live classroom lectures, which are known to be one of the least effective instructional approaches. The flipped classroom—converting lecture content into self-paced tutorials and reserving classroom time for interaction—is a proven approach that works. Here’s how to apply this idea to the virtual classroom.
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Moving Beyond Event-based Learning—a Managed Journey to Demonstrated Proficiency
Are we stuck in a rut? An event-based eLearning mindset? A “default to PowerPoint” design paradigm? Maybe it’s about time to get out of that rut through a blended journey that leads to demonstrated performance. This article offers a real-life example of doing exactly that.
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Bridging the Gap Between Training and Job Performance
Today’s modern workforce is used to accessing tools that help them perform tasks in their daily lives. At the same time, while workers must know more and use more technology in their jobs, this is where training efforts fall short. Read here about how performance support bridges this gap!
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Five Steps: Changing Paradigms from Training to Performance
The challenge for many learning organizations today is how to change the paradigm from training to performance. This transition includes not just the traditional training organization but also senior business leaders, stakeholders, and even the average employee. Today’s article provides a case study that illustrates the first four of five steps to make this change.
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Microsoft’s Corporate MOOC: Transforming Training to Increase Seller Engagement
This paper explores Microsoft’s first massive open online course (MOOC), examining lessons learned from the design and implementation process and how Microsoft L&D leaders plan to move forward.
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Microsoft’s Corporate MOOC: Transforming Training to Increase Seller Engagement
This paper explores Microsoft’s first massive open online course (MOOC), examining lessons learned from the design and implementation process and how Microsoft L&D leaders plan to move forward.
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Mentored Tasks: Support Learners Where They Are
Supporting today’s agile organization with training solutions alone is difficult. And while instructor-led training, eLearning, and blended solutions will continue to be important parts of the L&D toolkit, we also need solutions that address pressing matters and move at the same speed our businesses move. Mentored tasks may be exactly the performance support solution you have been looking for.