Great Instructors Are Born, But They Can Also Be Made

Sometimes it seems that great presentation skills are a personality trait…some people have them and some don’t. Certain people have infectious personalities and dynamic speaking abilities made to stand up and conduct classroom training. And then there’s the rest of us. Fear not! While it isn’t realistic to think you can transform your instructors into…

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Instructor-Led Training

What You Can Expect Sadly, the standard ILT experience we see with many clients is one of two unfortunate training experiences. The first is a monologue presented by a SME know-it-all. This person is going to bombard you with everything they know in a frighteningly boring and hard to follow format, with tons of information…

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Course Conversions

What You Can Expect The first thing you need to realize is that not all training is the same. Some formats excel in some areas, and some in others. This is certainly the case with eLearning versus classroom training. Unlike eLearning, a classroom course is dynamic because the instructor can react and engage in real…

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5 Tough Questions You Need to Be Able To Answer About Implementing eLearning

Implementing eLearning is a great way to improve your training department. But the process itself involves some work. If you’re not prepared, you can invest time and money into a course that doesn’t do all of the things you need it to do. To help you through the getting started process, we’ve outlined five tough…

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Training Lessons from TED Talks

The brilliant people at TED are talking about Training. Here are five TED talks, on topics ranging from post-industrial economics to dancing tango, with valuable eLearning takeaways. Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity? “Math is very important, but so is dance.” Ken Robinson is calling for a revolution in education. For the past hundred-and-fifty years,…

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Self-Determination Implications for eLearning

Professors Edward Deici and Richard Ryan are the founders of the Self-Determination Theory, which is a motivation theory based around the human’s natural behavior to act in effective ways. This theory is well-loved. It’s referenced in training, sports, education, health—you name it. Why? Because it helps us better understand how to motivate people, and motivation…

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Instructional Design: How to Draft a Design Plan & Proposal?

Welcome to the completion of week seven as we progress through our 12-week service course, Instructional Design Service Course: Gain Experience For Good. The focus this week was on drafting a design proposal, also referred to as a design plan. For the purposes of this course and for this stage of our design project, the…

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3 Downton Abbey Characters with Traits eLearning Teams Value

Even if you weren’t one of the 9.9 million people who tuned in for the premiere of Downton Abbey’s final season, there are probably similarities you could recognize from the eLearning world just from the characters’ personalities. What do we mean by that? Well, Downton Abbey is known for it’s cast of very different characters—ranging…

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