The 5 Principles of Design Thinking in eLearning

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By: Jessica Arenz Many learning and development professionals are starting to embrace design thinking in their enterprise learning. Contrary to what you’re probably thinking, this shift isn’t about aesthetics – it’s about applying the principles of design to the way people work and learn. According to Bersin by Deloitte, “Design thinking” is the focus on … Read more

Cutting Insurance Premiums with eLearning

Cutting Insurance Premiums with eLearning

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s an unfortunate truth that insurance premiums go up, not down – even when you’ve never made a claim. This is whether the cover is for health, motor, public liability or household insurance. Recently, there has been a campaign for educating policy holders in order to stop costs skyrocketing. Wearables Health insurance providers are offering … Read more

Designing Successful eLearning – Adding Interactivity

Designing Successful eLearning - Adding Interactivity

It is important for any organization that’s investing in elearning to make sure the courses they provide are of the highest quality. When developing your own courses, one of the best ways of improving the learning material and making sure that students get the most benefit from the course is by adding interactivity. Interactive training … Read more

Planning E-learning in 2016: Influential Trends in Online Training

Planning E-learning in 2016: Influential Trends in Online Training

As is common in a booming industry, a lot of new developments and trends are popping up in the field of elearning, with companies that need to onboard, train and ensure compliance from a large workforce looking not only at online vs traditional training, but how to make best use of the technology and techniques … Read more

Mobile Learning for Healthcare Professionals

Mobile Learning for Healthcare Professionals

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Training in the healthcare sector is unique in terms of the challenges related to the constantly changing environment as new research and development creates new best practices that may require instant retraining. What is more, the healthcare sector is highly regulated and the lack of mandatory compliance training may lead into not meeting the industry … Read more

Effective Compliance Training for Pharmaceuticals

Effective Compliance Training for Pharmaceuticals

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With such an influx of new drugs to prevent, treat and manage patients’ conditions, the pressure on health professionals to keep up-to-speed on all the latest offerings is significant. In addition, as regulations become more stringent (particularly in countries like India where significant numbers of pharmaceuticals are exported) effective compliance training for pharmaceuticals is of … Read more

Seven Things that Grab the Learner’s Attention when Designing Content

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’m always a little trepidatious whenever I have to do some elearning. Like most people, I expect, I’m doing it because I have to and not necessarily because I want to. Unfortunately, there is some dreadful elearning out there and it’s almost certainly guaranteed to make my eyelids heavy and I literally have to fight … Read more

Design thinking in Learning

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many companies are starting to embrace ‘design thinking in learning’. This means creating more personal and generally better experiences for our workforce development programmes. One driver for this change is the common use of social media and video in our everyday lives, think about your use of Linkedin, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube. They all … Read more