Your learning and development materials can sizzle with some easy, and often free, online tools. To keep ideas fresh and learning engaging, training and development professionals need to constantly update, freshen, or create new training materials. Fortuna... More »

Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning

Networking is a word that evokes dread in many people. While most of us would agree its a necessary evil, few of us know how to successfully use events to form professional contacts and lifelong friends. I was once one of those people. I have always admired how ... More »

Career Development , Learning Technologies

Career Development , E-Learning , Intermediate-level Content , Social Learning

Instructional systems development has been in existence for a long time. Even though ISD is now recognized and implemented worldwide, there are many facets of the ISD process that are misunderstood or underappreciated. ISD in its purist form is simply a system for the d... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Beginner Level Content , Designing Learning , E-Learning

The model presented in "A Model for Self-Paced Technology-Based Training" specifies that adult learning begins with and is sustained by self-assessment and self-correction (metacognition). The model also indicates that in addition to metacognition, adults consistently u... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies , Senior Leaders & Executives

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Engagement , Training and Development - General

For quite a while now, Ive been pouring over mobile design books, listening to podcasts and reading online content to learn the best practices for designing mobile phone applications as I design one of my own. Strangely enough, it seems as though many gurus actually agr... More »

Learning Technologies

Designing Learning , E-Learning , Mobile Learning , Trends