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Learning & Development

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Innovation , Mobile Learning , Trends

Here's an overview of six red flags that will impact your ability to conduct effective Kirkpatrick level 3 assessments. Consider the following situation: You recently designed, developed, and delivered a blended learning workshop. The pre-work was online, and participan... More »

Learning & Development

Assessment , Curriculum Alignment , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Intermediate-level Content , Measuring and Evaluating , Skills Gap , Training and Development - General

There are three key areas practitioners measure when they discuss learning solutions: time, cost, and quality. Indeed, each supplier website claims to have a solution that saves time, reduces costs, and increases quality. But from the practitioner's perspective, tools a... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning , Training and Development - General , Trends

If you're very lucky, your company has a fully-equipped studio that records and edits presentations. In the real world, however, trainers often have to be hands-on throughout the process. Here are some simple editing techniques that can turn the raw footage of a present... More »

Learning Technologies

Delivering Training , Designing Learning , E-Learning

Simulations, which are often used in the training of pilots, military personnel, and health professionals, are turned to when it is too expensive or dangerous to allow students to use the real equipment and when a mistake would be costly. For example, flight simulators ... More »

Government , Learning Technologies

Assessment , Human Performance Improvement , Jobs , Measuring and Evaluating , Simulations and Serious Games , Students