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Planning Migration of Legacy Courses to HTML5 You have decided to adopt mLearning (or mobile learning) and are ready to move your legacy courses to HTML5. Obviously, this involves a significant budget and you want to be certain that you have chosen the most efficient approach to migrate your legacy courses to HTML5. In this Newsletter, we share insights on: Understanding the power of HTML5 technology as well its challenges: Take a look at tips that you can use as you plan the migration of your Flash to HTML5. What is the right way to convert legacy courses into HTML5: Take a look at case studies that show successful conversions and how you could use some of these best practices. 8 Tips To Convert Flash To HTML5 That Will Help Your Business In this article we will outline the HTML5 technology advantage, its challenges, and share 8 tips that you can use when you plan the migration of your Flash to HTML5 that will help your business. Read the article How To Convert Legacy Courses Into HTML5 The Right Way In this article, we are featuring two case studies that reflect dynamics that will resonate with most organizations and will provide the pointers on what approaches will help you design an efficient and effective migration strategy and convert legacy courses into HTML5 the right way. Read the article The post Newsletter Nov2015 | Migration of Legacy Courses to HTML5 appeared first on EI Design.

Innovation in Learning Designs for Retention and Application of Learning Amongst the challenges that Learning and Development teams and Learning Consultants face today, the top 2 pertaining to training would be: How to increase the efficacy of training? What learning strategies should be adopted to ensure that the learning and business mandates are met? In this newsletter, we showcase our articles on innovative eLearning development that outline how we can address these challenges. We begin by looking at the "Forgetting Curve" and how this can be offset or changed to "Learning and Retention Curve" by adopting approaches that make learning sticky. We also look at application of innovative approaches particularly in Banking, Finance and Insurance sectors. While, the focus is on these industry verticals, you will find some of the approaches are equally relevant to other industry verticals as well. Top 5 Tips For Innovative eLearning Development In this article I will outline 5 tips for innovative eLearning development that will help organizations improve efficacy of training by making the learning stick. Read the article Innovative Training Solutions For Banking And Financial Services While Banking and Finance industries have been early adopters of eLearning, only in recent times is mLearning being considered. In this article, I will outline how mLearning can be one of the most meaningful training solutions for Banking and Financial Services. Additionally, I will share my insight on "learning as a continuum" and how eLearning or mLearning-based formal training can be effectively supplemented through Performance Support Tools (PSTs). Read the article 5 Innovative Training Strategies For Insurance That Work In today’s environment of economic volatility, increasing calamities (natural and man-made) and changing global dynamics, the Insurance sector needs to adopt training approaches that will help them equip their employees to manage these variables successfully. While the Insurance sector continues to grow, the Learning and Development professionals in this sector have challenges of addressing the external variables as well challenges that are intrinsic to the industry. In this article I will outline 5 of our innovative training strategies that have helped our customers in Insurance meet these challenges. Read the article The post Newsletter Nov2015 | Innovation in Learning Designs appeared first on EI Design.

Gamification in eLearning is Trending-Part 2 Continuing with the hottest topic in eLearning "Gamification for serious learning", we present two of our recent articles. We have also appended one of the previous articles and this bundle will provide the required insight on understanding the Gamification essentials, its benefits and how it can be used to meet your different training needs. Gamification For Serious Learning: 5 Facts That Will Impress Your Boss: In a Q&A format, the first article touches upon some of the questions you may have. These include "What is Gamification?", "How is it different from a game?" and "Does it indeed create the required learning impact?" 6 Killer Examples Of Gamification In eLearning: This article shatters the myth that Gamification cannot be applied effectively across the varied training needs of an organisation. It showcases examples of using Gamification in induction and onboarding, professional skills enhancement, compliance, soft skills enhancement and behavioural change programs. Top 6 Benefits Of Gamification In eLearning: This article focuses on the key benefits that Gamification provides in enhancing learning. Gamification For Serious Learning: 5 Facts That Will Impress Your Boss In this article, I have shared 5 facts about Gamification for serious learning through a series of questions and answers. I am sure these pointers will help you in evaluating and embracing Gamification soon. Read the article 6 Killer Examples Of Gamification In eLearning In this article, I have shared 6 examples that outline how we have created immersive learning experiences using Gamification for varied training needs like induction and onboarding, professional skills enhancement, compliance, soft skills enhancement and behavioural change programs. Read the article Top 6 Benefits Of Gamification In eLearning In this article, I have explained some of the benefits of Gamification for learners and how the experience of learning (recall and retention) can be enhanced through Gamification. Read the article The post Newsletter Dec2015 | Gamification appeared first on EI Design.

Insights on Learning and Performance Ecosystems and Performance Support Tools With pressure on training budgets, all L&D professionals and organisation heads are seeking ways and means to ensure effective ROI on training investments. A key success factor is to adopt measures to step up the learning to application on the job. This will lead to the required business impact and will have a direct bearing on ROI. One of the approaches is to work with a bigger picture of "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" and drive training through multiple channels (including formal and informal learning, social learning, and performance support). This combination ensures that multiple learning avenues are available to learners, and instead of one-off trainings, the focus shifts to "learning as a continuum". An integral component of "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" are Performance Support Tools (PSTs) that can push the learning acquisition to learning application. In this newsletter, we share two of our articles that provide insights on: Learning and Performance Ecosystems Performance Support Tools (PSTs) In the next newsletter we will share examples of PSTs and exactly how they can be leveraged to push application of learning on the job. Learning And Performance Ecosystems: 5 Things Your Boss Wants To Know In this article I will address the questions that you may have while evaluating or adopting a "Learning and Performance Ecosystem" based approach, and specifically how it can create a better learning environment in your organization. Read the article Performance Support Tools: Top 5 Things Your Boss Wants To Know In this article, through a series of questions, I will provide answers on what Performance Support Tools (PSTs) are and why they must be an integral part of your organization’s learning strategy. I will also share my insights on how they help learners and how they can help address a key challenge that Learning and Development professionals face in terms of increasing knowledge recall, its retention, and application. Read the article The post Newsletter Jan2016 | PST appeared first on EI Design.

Insights on Performance Support Tools and how you can use them to improve your training ROI In our last newsletter, we had highlighted how ROI of training budgets can be improved by using Performance Support Tools (PSTs) that can push the learning acquisition to learning application. This will lead to the required business impact and have a direct bearing on ROI. In this newsletter, we share examples of PSTs and how exactly they can be leveraged to push application of learning on the job. You will note that PSTs can be used to complement or supplement your varied training needs. In the next newsletter, we will see high impact, innovative formats of PSTs that push the knowledge acquisition to application on the job. These include formats like Mobile Apps, Interactive pdfs, eBooks and Prezi. 5 Innovative Examples To Boost Your Workforce Performance With Performance Support Tools (PSTs) Performance Support Tools (PSTs) are increasingly used to extend the discrete, formal training through a learning path that provides these assets within the learner’s work-flow. They are excellent tools to transform learning from a finite number of days to "learning as a continuum". In this article, we have shared 5 innovative examples that illustrate how you can boost your workforce performance with Performance Support Tools (PSTs). Read the article 3 Examples On How Performance Support Tools Can Supplement Compliance Courses In this article, we have shared 3 examples that illustrate how Performance Support Tools (PSTs) supplement Compliance courses. We have provided a quick recap of what Performance Support Tools (or PSTs) are and then shared 3 examples to illustrate how Performance Support Tools can be used to supplement Compliance courses. Read the article The post Newsletter Jan2016 | ROI appeared first on EI Design.

Performance Support Tools (PSTs): Innovative Formats That You Can Use Continuing our thread on usage of Performance Support Tools (PSTs), we look at high impact, innovative formats of Performance Support Tools (PSTs) that will push the knowledge acquisition to its application on the job. These include formats like Mobile Apps, Interactive pdfs, eBooks and Prezi. See how you can use them in your organisation through the following three articles: Article 1: This article outlines how you can use Mobile Apps for formal learning as well as an effective PST. Article 2: This article outlines how you can use Interactive PDFs and eBooks as PSTs to effectively supplement your formal training. Article 3: This article outlines how you can use the presentation tool Prezi to design an engaging and immersive PST. mLearning: What Are the Uses of Mobile Apps? In this article, I have outlined the usage of Mobile Apps for learning. Mobile Apps are one of the delivery formats that offer the additional flexibility of offline viewing of the eLearning course to the learners from their mobile devices. (They need to have an internet access to download the course and then they can view it with/without the internet connection. However, to track their progress through the LMS, they must be connected to the internet as only then can their progress information be passed on to the LMS). Read the article How To Boost Your Workforce Performance With Interactive PDFs And eBooks In this article, I have outlined how you can use interactive PDFs and eBooks as Performance Support Tools. Read the article Performance Support Series: Featuring Prezi animations in our Learning framework to supplement online training In this article, I have shared a case study on how we have used Prezi (a presentation tool) to create an innovative learning aid. Shortly, this will be a part of our upcoming Performance Support Solutions. Read the article In the next newsletter, we will go back to the hot topic of Return on Investment (ROI) on training. We will share articles that will provide insight on the definition and a methodology to determine Return on Investment (ROI). We will also look at the measures you can adopt to maximise it.The post Newsletter Feb2016 | PST appeared first on EI Design.

Insights on ROI-How to measure it and approaches to maximise it ROI on training is a hot topic as organisations seek effective (and feasible) ways to measure the impact of training. While, you possibly have some mechanisms in place to do so, we would like to share some pointers that can be easily applied in your context. In this newsletter, we share two articles on ROI: Article 1: This article outlines what ROI is, how it can be computed and more specifically, how it can be increased. Article 2: This article outlines how supplementing eLearning by Performance Support Tools (PSTs) can achieve your performance gain mandate and how it can contribute in improving the ROI in eLearning. On a related note, we share an update: We conduct workshops on ROI determination methodology. As an extension, we will work with you in identifying and implementing measures that will enable you to maximise your ROI. Do contact us if this would be of interest. Return On Investment (ROI): Are you in? This article outlines what ROI is, how it can be computed and more specifically, how it can be increased. Read the article Improve ROI of your E-learning solution through Performance Support Tools This article outlines how supplementing eLearning by PSTs can achieve your mandate and how it can contribute in improving the ROI in eLearning. Read the article The post Newsletter Feb2016 | ROI appeared first on EI Design.