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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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Developing Online Curriculum

5 Tips For Developing Online Curriculum

Developing online curriculum can be both exciting and overwhelming for many businesses. Online learning is attractive for employers because it is straightforward to deliver, and can be scaled more easily, compared to traditional classroom-based instruction. However, there are some pitfalls when designing online course content. Here are five tips to consider. Tip 1: Curriculum Should Solve Real-World Challenges Online training scenarios are only truly effective and powerful if they deal with real world challenges or situations that learners will actually encounter outside of the virtual classroom. For a companies designing curriculum to train employees, this means course content should be…

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Online Learning

Online Learning Management News for September 2017 | Udutu

Each month Udutu publishes Personal Online Learning Management News, a curated selection of articles about online learning, LMS other topics related to adult online learning. To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle In a 2014 survey, 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI). And in another survey, 87% said they cannot calculate quantifiable returns on their learning investments. In short, companies have little idea whether they are spending too…

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Social Learning

Social Media: Your learners are already here – where are you?

It is without a doubt a time where people have a vast amount of information at their fingertips. There is never a question that can be unanswered since “just Google it” has been added to our vocabularies. As such, an increased amount of informal learning takes place on a daily basis. The way we use the internet has changed over the years. Before it used to be a resource we used to find information. Now we use it as a way to express opinions, connect with people, learn and share our learning. Additionally, people can communicate what they are learning…

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The Truth About Free Software

There Must be a Catch: The Truth About Free Software

It’s not about the money.  Certainly one objective of a free tool is to make it available to everyone and eliminate price obstacles. But the main reason is that a free tool allows more people to spend time on the instructional design without being held back by restrictive licensing issues. Why? Several reasons. First there is the reality that a licensed authoring tool associated with a cost will usually be limited to a few desktops. Typically a specific group of people who will use it a lot. That makes sense. But the problem that goes along with that, is that now…

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