Different clients from different industries all had very different business challenges and learning objectives. But they have one thing in common: they all achieved extraordinary outcomes using VR training strategies. From a 400% ROI to $588,000 in savings, the myth that VR is too expensive and too complicated is proven outdated and wrong. 

In today's fast-paced world, rapid development can be the key to your e-learning success. Rise allows you to create beautiful, responsive courses using just a browser. Courses look gorgeous on PC, tablet, and phone with NO programming knowledge needed! Leave having seen how to create and publish beautiful and engaging e-learning using Articulate 360 Rise. Perfect for the accidental e-learning instructional designer!

Nomadic - remote, hybrid, dispersed, Gig - workers are here to permanently stay. The nature of their work has changed. The way they learn is different from the usual methods. But many learning specialists - designers, developers, leaders - continue to think of the nomadic learners as employees that they must train using dated and old-fashion methods that do not meet the demands of success.

Curious about new tech tools and applications that could support your training design, development, delivery, or management? Wondering what the Innovations in Training Test Kitchen is all about?

Are you making the most common training and evaluation mistakes that threaten the success of your mission-critical initiatives? Find out the truth in this informative webinar.

Are you one of the many L&D professionals who would like to conduct Level 3 evaluations, but don’t? You’re not alone.

Surveys are key tools for evaluating training programs. Surveys are revered for their ease of use and promise of reaching many, but we must be able to craft rich, concise, and focused questions that yield useful data. For this, we must understand the cognitive processes our respondents use to answer questions with accuracy and candor.

In 2023, the success of your sales team will be determined in large part by how effectively sellers use content.  If you’re like most organizations, you have a comprehensive repository of solution briefs, case studies, videos, product guides, and more to support sellers. But creating great content is not enough. Sellers must know WHEN and HOW to use it.  Sellers need context to squeeze the most juice out of every piece of content.

A new generation of reality-bending learning simulations is unleashing a wave of experiential and visceral learning we once could only dream about. Virtual reality (VR) allows students to move seamlessly from the workplace to a pixelated practice space where they can build muscle memory and mastery, in the presence of peers, mentors and experts. Learn why 2023 promises to be a breakout year when VR learning transforms:

Have you ever heard this common saying? "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." This sentiment doesn't just apply to tree-planting. It also applies to the development of your workforce. The best time to grow their skills is in the past, but if that hasn't been a top priority previously, the second best time is now.   Within the scope of this report, we will look at data from 1,000 talent and learning leaders just like you to draw insights into what priorities exist for the coming year. In addition, we will leverage the perspective of 1,000 learners as well to determine what they need most. 

The reality is that just over half of sales reps in a given group achieve quota. Similar to the games you play on your smartphones, the gamification of your sales training is a powerful tool to motivate and engage your sales team. As you make your reps actions reward-based and more competitive, you will find your sales team approach the daily grind of sales more readily.

Coaching has grown more popular than any other developmental technique in recent years. Today, most organizations need leaders at all levels who can drive rapid change. The more an organization can make every leader an effective coach, the more fluidly it will adapt to today’s fast-moving business environment. With the rapid changes in markets and technology, learning and upskilling have become everyday activities. Coaching is a great tool to nurture talent on an ongoing basis.  This guide offers twelve coaching best practices that organizations can share with leaders and employees. Each best practice is accompanied by reading recommendations from the getAbstract library.

The future is an unknown variable, and we never really know what tomorrow brings. However, we can look at the trends of today to see what’s likely on the horizon. Looking at trends in learning and development can help leaders formulate a game plan for training strategies in the coming year and even mitigate risk. In this ebook you’ll learn: How personalized training is the way to train moving forward Why employee disengagement is a problem and how to combat it Ways to focus on training and developing managers and leaders

Training, Learning, and Talent Development leaders and professionals rely on Training magazine's Annual Training Industry Report report--this year sponsored by Adobe Learning Manager--as a statistical gauge for measuring their own training functions against industry norms. With data representing a cross-section of industries and company sizes, the Industry Report presents a comprehensive view of the current environment, as well as historical trends. Click here to for analysis of 2021-2022 training expenditures, budgetary allocations, and delivery methods, plus COVID-19’s continued impact on budgets and training.

Core practices are at the heart of most, if not all L&D practices. This may seem to be the preferred low-risk and safer route.  However, forward-thinking and innovative organizations strive to test and experiment, reinvent, and disrupt their methods and practices constantly. The disruptive practices are outliers, but they work in the cases mentioned below.

Have you ever felt limited by the out-of-box interactions? Have you ever wished to have flexibility to build your own advanced actions?

George Orwell once said wisely, "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." The concept of age diversity in the workplace has been around for a long time, but only 8% of organizations include it in their DEI efforts. Yet nearly 65% of workers say they have experienced aged-based discrimination, and generational blaming and shaming costs organizations dearly. In fact, in 2015 alone, between 60 and 70 million dollars were spent on generational consulting.

Join Dr. Britt Andreatta as she walks you through insights from building an award-winning training program. This brain-based program operates at 2 levels: managers who gain vital skills in bringing out the best in their people, and facilitators who get certified through an online learning platform. Discover how various learning technologies are utilized for both audiences, creating a rating of "excellent" in 95-100% of learners.

Instructional designers say, "It’s not the tool you use that creates interaction, it’s good instructional design that leads to interaction." When it comes to effective engagement in live learning sessions, the tool matters. Adobe Connect 12 provides structure and uniformity for consistent experiences while offering extreme flexibility for custom activities.

Both stakeholders and learners want more from your eLearning these days. Stakeholders are concerned that traditional learning needs to be more engaging and interactive, while learners are looking for something that will grab their attention, like a good story or game. One way to satisfy everyone is to introduce branching scenarios to your elearning.

Gamification and game-based learning are very similar. BOTH are effective to motivate players AND are accessible in terms of  cost and implementation. Would you like to leverage the power of BOTH for learning for adult education and corporate training?

Are you using Canva to create graphics for your ILT, vILT, and eLearning courses? If you are like me, you may have been resisting Canva thinking that is just a tool for marketing professionals, but Canva is a tool for learning professionals too. Canva is a creative graphics tool that empowers anyone to create impactful, professional designs for your training courses. Don’t worry, no graphic design experience necessary!

Ever wondered how you can provide personalized training to remote employees?    This infographic looks at three crucial aspects that every trainer/instructional designer needs to consider when planning a successful training program for your remote workforce. Knowing how to design on-demand training, how to embrace asynchronous training, and what is the best way to leverage technology can mark the difference between success and mediocrity. 

Augmented reality (AR) is a growing technology widely used in games, marketing, learning, and development. Getting started with AR is easier now than ever before however, some questions need answers. Where do you get started? Where does it fit in your design workflow? What tools are available for use? How do I share and track these types of experiences? What skills does my team need?