Regardless of industry, learning management systems (LMSs) remain the central focus for corporate and academic learning, as well as the foundation upon which most types of traditional, informal, social, and mobile learning are built, deployed, and tracked. Initial results from our recent LMS research study, conducted in collaboration with Adobe Systems, show …
A big challenge in launching a new training initiative is getting (and keeping) learners engaged. Our case study of Microsoft’s successful design and launch of a corporate MOOC for sales training has several key takeaways for those designing training with MOOC elements. Market your course to the community as an …
Back in November, we went searching for the right person to join the Guild team as we prepared for the launch of the Learning Exchange. Now that the cat’s out of the bag about the Learning Exchange I can share with you that we found a perfect fit in Jamie …
Today, at our Learning Solutions 2015 and ECOSYSTEM 2015 conferences in Orlando, we announced the Learning Exchange, a new platform for Guild members to access on-demand instructional content in the form of courses, discussions, and shared content from other members of the community. It’s a great new way to engage and …
We’ve just released the 2015 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report. Thank you to those 5,000+ Guild members who updated their profile information so we could have a really interesting look at eLearning salaries and trends worldwide. New in the 2015 report, you’ll find an “action planning” section to help you …
I think most eLearning scriptwriters, whether writing for voice-over narration or dialog, write in the hopes that they will create something that is highly successful. Success might be reflected in audio doesn’t sound like someone is reading a manual, paper, or report. Success might mean you are using an active …
The eLearning Guild Academy is offering four 4-week blended (i.e., online + in-person) courses with the in-person component taking place on October 25 and 26 (before the start of DevLearn 2014) at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Each one of these four programs use a flipped learning approach with online …
When Google Reader was discontinued my whole blog reading pattern stopped. The number of blogs I had in Google Reader was not manageable so I just picked a few and added them to Feedly. It wasn’t the same. Unfortunately, I missed a bunch of my favorites in the transfer and …
Today, January 27, 2014 is Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD). The day was an initiative in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang who wrote a now seven-year old article called The Four Tenets of the Community Manager. For L&D those four tenets look something like this: Advocate: Representing the learner (listening, monitoring, being active …
OK, so I should warn you here that this isn’t exactly an upbeat blog post. It’s loaded with words like “don’t.” It was…how shall I say…a challenging, invigorating, and humbling 2013. I transitioned from seven-ish years as an L&D analyst and researcher to an L&D practitioner/director. Here’s are some random …