Adult Learners

Why Investing In Training Is Critical For Your Business

Why Investing in Training Is Critical For Your Business

Although critical to their success, many businesses overlook training their employees. Training is often seen as an unnecessary expense that doesn't contribute to the bottom line. However, an effective employee training program will determine whether or not a business succeeds or fails. Companies like McDonalds built their entire business around a systematized training process, and have gone on to conquer the world. Their competitors, who did not embrace training, have never been able to catch up. Get help with your online course development >> A&W vs McDonalds: Why Did One Company Come to Dominate the Global Market? Founded in 1919,…

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Powerpoint Scorm Converter

More Than Converting PowerPoints: How Engaging Employees Will Improve Your Training Outcomes

Udutu's Richard Mundell discusses going beyond converting PowerPoints to create truly engaging training A graduate of the National Coaching Institute in Victoria, Canada, Richard started his career as a professional sailing coach working with provincial and national team athletes striving for national and international success. He was eventually recruited for, and transitioned into, business and IT management applying his analysis and coaching skills to the natural gas and mobile telecom industries as an analyst and certified ITIL specialist. Get help with your online course development >> In 2001, Richard was asked to help West Marine, the world’s largest retailer in…

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Evaluating Training And ELearning

Use Four Levels to Evaluate Training and eLearning

The best way is to evaluate training is to keep in mind the following four levels of evaluation. Evaluation of eLearning content and training materials has always been a concern for business managers. No matter what the mode of training might be, managers are often confused as to how best measure the effectiveness of the eLearning content. To tackle this, the best way is to evaluate training is to keep in mind the following four levels of evaluation. Reaction - what the learners thought and felt about the eLearning content Learning - the resulting increase in knowledge or capability Behaviour…

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The Advantages Of Being An ELearner

The Advantages of being an eLearner

What exactly is an eLearner? Well simply put, an eLearner is any individual who engages in electronic technologies to access educational, training or developmental content outside of traditional learning methods. Over the years, there have been many terms used to define an eLearner such as a distant learner, online learner and electronic learner. The Advantages of eLearning Regardless of what we call an eLearner, there are certain advantages that eLearners enjoy over traditional learners. Here we list some of them to encourage you to give eLearning a try. Cost Effectiveness: Regardless of the provider or the platform, most eLearning content…

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Adult Learner

The Rise of the Adult Learner

A Human Learner is a complex being dependent on a variety of correlating social and intellectual variables. When it comes to e-learning, this process becomes even more complex, leading to a need to develop a categorization of differences between online and traditional learners. The e-learning industry as a whole has developed an indication of these differences through trial & error and following trends & cultural clusters, best exemplified by the popularity of the short video format (1-4 minutes) and its widespread use in implementing training. However, there is not a lot of focus on the science or psychology behind these choices…

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