by Lora Davis, Joy Marie De Block
Professional development and individual skill improvement are two of the most important reasons for doing sales training — if only the sales team had the time and the motivation to participate! When the Sales Learning & Performance team at ADP set out to tackle this challenge, the first step was to build a relationship with the audience.
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by Eugene O’Loughlin, Steven Osterlind
Educators face a dilemma when they attempt to determine the best method to assess learning. The considerations become more complex with recent advances in blended learning technologies. In this article, investigate the advantages and disadvantages of traditional pencil and-paper assessment versus multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with an emphasis on the online environment.
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by Clarence Bouchat
How can you bring the benefits of high-quality classroom delivery — where face-to-face interactive discussion and deliberation create the insights that drive high-quality learning — to the virtual classroom? Part of the answer is to master the technical aspects of the software that makes the virtual classroom possible, but it is also essential to engage the learners.
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by Clive Shepherd
Many e-Learning designers have come to think of blended learning as a strategy only for situations in which some of the skills or the practice require a physical classroom or in-person facilitation. But with the advent of computer support for informal learning, blending is coming to imply a much broader range of possibilities. Here's how to identify and deal with the challenges.
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by Garry Forger
Language teaching is an extraordinarily complex process, requiring support from fluent speakers, frequent practice sessions, and development of competence in both written and spoken forms. In this article, you’ll find an excellent example of our newer, broader understanding of “blended” learning.
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by Ross Hight, Mahnaz Javid, Don Zwicker
Many e-Learning professionals think mainly in terms of delivering instruction in stand-alone packages, such as the traditional “course” or “module.” However, it is often more effective to deliver instruction and performance support wherever the learner happens to be, even if that place is most often inside another application. Microsoft has taken an innovative approach to this.
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by Karen Scott
Large e-Learning projects can seem daunting, but there are sound ways to successfully tackle them — even without resources. It is important to pay attention to your process and to make adjustments to the procedures and tools you use. In this article, you will learn how a single developer converted an entire instructor-led curriculum to a blended concept!
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by Gina Orefice
Blended learning may be the next focus of process re-engineering to affect all e-Learning professionals and require development of entirely new design and management skills. Without much research to support optimum blended learning creation, it is important to do what we can to minimize the risks and maximize success. In this pioneering article, read how Canon USA, Inc. is leading the way.
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by Patti Shank
Practice is critical to learning many skills. While practice is relatively easy to arrange in classroom instruction or OJT, it is not always so simple in e-Learning. Furthermore, this is also true of the activities we require learners to perform when we evaluate whether they learned. This article discusses strategies for thinking about how to solve this problem.
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