Mobile gaming is exploding in popularity, faster than any other learning technology. In this session, we will explore various mobile learning games and discuss the decisions that influenced their game design, learning design, user interface design, and user experience design. We’ll also share a case study of how a mobile learning game was used as part of a larger curriculum to drive business results. 

The education game market continues to grow rapidly, and mobile learning games are the dominant force in this market. Newzoo provides the insights for the generic games market; the Serious Play Conference released its annual report showcasing the huge growth specific to the education and corporate training sector. The compound annual growth rate in the U.S for corporate learning games will be over 20% between 2017 - 2022 and about 35% globally with the U.S. and India being the top two markets for serious gameplay. Newzoo predicts the overall mobile game market across all game types will grow 40% between now and 2020, a significant growth increase. Click below to download this article.

Achieving Results through Virtual Teams As organizations continue the trend towards virtual workplaces and teams, managers quickly discover that leading teams with dispersed team members poses new challenges. Only 5% of companies today believe they have strong digital leaders in place (Deloitte). Virtual team members often report that they enjoy the autonomy and flexibility that working from home or a remote office may offer, but they also complain that they often feel both micro-managed and isolated from other team members.

Video has always been desirable in training. Now the cost has become affordable enough so that just about anyone can begin exploring learning applications with Virtual Reality (VR). In this session, we’ll discuss the differences several topics to get started with VR including the differences between 360-degree photos (for viewing in every direction is recorded at the same time, shot using an omnidirectional camera or a collection of cameras) and video and 3D spatial environments. Photos and video are the easiest to get started with VR because the cameras cost less than most smartphones and most of the software is open source to prepare media for distribution. There’s more to getting started with VR than acquiring hardware and software, and we’ll look at instructional design approaches for immersive learning and other applications. 

It’s a call center conundrum… Creating the right training is critical to driving down training/operational costs associated with massive turnover in many industries, and especially call centers. This high turnover workforce needs training that’s effective and easy to roll out.

This ebook addresses how to approach the dramatic changes involved in moving to a digital workplace, using cloud-based applications and document management. As Millennials flow into the workplace with their technological savvy, we’re going to continue to experience the drive toward more virtual workplaces. This ebook covers issues around virtual leadership, digital communication practices, and how to resolve conflict often emerge in these disconnected settings. Click below to download this eBook.

Research show that around 80% of our knowledge comes from our experiences and that of others. And we learn this by sharing experiences and stories. In spite of this, there is a strong bias - most training and learning programs focus on the 20% content handed down by instructions and lessons.  Why is this bias so strong? How do you make a shift to take advantage of rich experiences to accelerate the learning of your workers and team members?  

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for turning your presentations into videos using PowerPoint only or a combination of PowerPoint and 2 free programs—Zoom meeting (the free level) and Audacity.

Whether new, experienced, young or old, there are new workers and learners in our modern workplaces. They are the let's do it and must do it learners. Their mindsets are set for constant learning, rapid speed, and net connected with their tools. Their work environment is modern driven by newer, better and faster tools which encourage collaboration, sharing knowledge, and contributions to problem-solving due to demands of business.  As learning and training professionals this is our new playing field. How well are you prepared or coping or surviving with this environment?

Sooner or later, we all have to change. The march of progress is inevitable and nowhere more so than in today's light-speed business environments. Nonetheless, organizations are often change resistant and figuring out methods to incite and inspire change can be an enormous challenge for business leaders. Many of those leaders are now turning to their training departments with expectations that managing change can come from learning leaders. How do we address those needs? And how do we deal with the inevitable resistance?

The first time I immersed myself in a video-based simulation, I felt like something was off, uneasy, or just plain awkward. For those musically inclined, it was like hearing a half cadence or a sequence of incomplete notes. To help instructional designers avoid half-cadence simulations, designers should follow this 12 key guidelines. Click below to download this guide. 

Members of the training community are bombarded with messages about the latest trends: microlearning, video, virtual classrooms, and social collaborative learning, just to name a few.

The world has changed and the next industrial revolution has arrived.  According to the World Economic Forum, we have entered the 4th Industrial Revolution, in which technology has been and will continue to be embedded into society in ways that involve and require entirely new capabilities for people and machines. Technology has also destroyed the staying power of traditional companies, reducing their average lifespan by two thirds since 1950, and moving the majority of their assets from tangible products to intangible assets, comprised of people and intellectual property.  In short, this means that in this new digital age, skills have become the new currency, and data is the oil that fuels our transactions.

Our profession requires us to be practicing in alignment with what science tells us about learning and more.  What we don’t need is to be continually in the sway of myths, urban legends, and misconceptions about how our brains think, work, and learn.  

If sales managers, who have underperforming teams, should have teams with a minimum of 70% of their team hitting the goals, anything less is not acceptable. An overall goal does not dictate that a team's performance is improving. This webcast will teach three specific sales coaching strategies for underperforming teams.

West Marine believes that the soul of adventure is in the willingness to face challenges, even when the outcomes can't be guaranteed. When West Marine looked at its business performance data, senior leaders knew the company had to change so it could thrive in a new retail environment. The company made a business decision to create a culture that supports continuous learning, growth, and development - for every single person at all levels of the company. But how would the people navigate through these waters?

You’ve worked endless hours (including nights and weekends) prepping for this training session. You’ve set up the room (physical or virtual), welcomed participants and successfully started your session. Then it happens. The dreaded "problem children" start to emerge.  

Are you just getting started with Adobe Captivate? Looking for some solid foundations to build your eLearning content? Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for this fun and easy introduction to Adobe Captivate for first time eLearning developers. You'll get a simple introduction to the software - aimed at helping you get started making great eLearning content. Dr. Jaisingh will walk you through a simple eLearning project, and you'll have a chance to chat with her and other new eLearning creators, exploring similar projects.  

We're experiencing the biggest talent shortage since 2007, and businesses feel more pressure than ever to improve learning programs. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the idea of creating a more evolved learning program. It’s easier still to revert back to tried and true (and often tired) training content. But as someone who contributes to growing and retaining top talent, you can lean into this opportunity to inspire and champion innovation across your organization. In this eBook, we cover three steps to building a modern workforce through learning:   STEP 1: Increase access to essential, high-value skills for work and life  STEP 2: Focus on skills that inspire people and drive business forward STEP 3: Design reporting that captures tangible benefits of your learning programs Download today, it could change the way you think about developing your workforce.  Click below to download this eBook.

Training for performance outcomes needs to engage modern learners. To affect these changes, we need to look at the format and accessibility of learning material to tap into the "just in time, just for me" mindset. Learning events need to be relevant and intentional so learners can translate that material into their job performance. It can be a challenging balancing act for learning leaders.

Learning and development isn’t a once-in-a-while activity. It’s a business-critical priority for increasing performance, staying competitive and improving employee engagement. To deliver the personalized and continuous learning experience your employees expect, you need to make development planning more effective and enjoyable for your employees. But you also need to ensure learning and development drive individual, team and organizational performance. Use this handy template to identify appropriate learning activities based on your employees' needs and the learning outcomes you want them to achieve. Click below to download this job aid.

Learn to use variables, advanced actions, multi-state objects, and fluid box responsive design. In this course, you will learn how to... create a responsive design interface for your question slides in Adobe Captivate 2017 using fluid boxes setup variables to keep track of the selections made by the users of your eLearning course write advanced actions that will form the basis of the interaction for your users write conditional actions that will validate if your user has submitted the correct answers to your questions convert your questions to become scored final quiz questions

You may be familiar with IQ, which measures your cognitive intelligence.  But has anyone ask you about EQ or Emotional quotient? What is EQ? Emotional intelligence is your awareness regarding your actions and feeling, including how they affect the people around you. Successful sales professionals have a VERY HIGH EQ. They understand how to work with people and work within situations.

Today’s interconnected, fast-changing and unstable world demands a new kind of leadership. Instead of putting the entire weight of leadership on individual managers and their capabilities, we need to examine how the whole system is involved in making leadership happen.