David Kelly’s Curated L&D Content for the Week of 3/19/18
This week’s curated content includes links exploring the following: does humor enhance learning? how NASA has and continues to use VR for training What Google […]
How to Improve Staff Retention and Reduce Turnover Rates
We all want to feel part of a work culture that’s positive, supportive and inspiring. Yet many employees are leaving their jobs within the first […]
How To Use Short Attention Spans To Your Advantage In eLearning
It takes mental focus and undivided attention to reap the rewards of eLearning, but what if the attention spans of your audience are in short […]
Use it, Don’t Lose it
What is the best way to remember a person’s name? Many people suggest that when you are introduced to a new person, you should say […]
How to Plan a New Online Course, Part 1: Establishing the Basics
Developing an eLearning course from scratch is a different process than converting an existing Instructor-Led Training (ILT) course into a digital course. Unlike a […]
How Audio Can Improve Online Learning
As the methods for seamlessly including rich media assets in eLearning continue to improve, instructional designers are finding creative uses of audio and video to […]
How to Increase Student Engagement Using Polls and Surveys
Our brains are impressive computers, but they only have so much available memory, so every new piece of information we encounter is viewed through a […]
The Secret to Beating the Forgetting Curve
Is it better to binge on new lessons, or to learn incrementally over time? If your goal is to retain that knowledge and apply it […]
Louder than words
My last couple of blog posts have argued in favour of extracting value out of organisational capabilities. Due to the nature of my role I […]
Using stimulus to keep users engaged and retaining information.
Using stimulus to keep users engaged and retaining information. Video games have been around for several decades now, and in that time, have undergone a […]
The Secret to Beating the Forgetting Curve
Is it better to binge on new lessons, or to learn incrementally over time? If your goal is to retain that knowledge and apply it […]
The good life
In a previous role I had cause to draw up an employee lifecycle. Despite my years in HR up until that point, it wasn’t something […]
