When you ask learning and development professionals their favorite aspects of the job, rarely does learning tool evaluation top the list. Doing a full evaluation takes time, money, and resources away from already busy schedules.  And yet evaluating learning tools is a critical step in ensuring learning is happening in your organization.

Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist Dr. Allen Partridge for this lively conversation about the latest trends in training & development. Based on recent studies and research the session will explore what people are doing in organizations around the world, and how organizations can achieve great results with modern learning programs.

You wouldn’t trust YouTube with a video that held your personal credit card information. But right now, a quick YouTube search turns up 815,000 videos for "internal meeting," 310,000 more for "product roadmap," and 168,000 for "confidential training". Hopefully, none of those are yours.

In this session attendees will learn how combining video and eLearning can create effective simulations that upskill and change behaviors. Attendees will experience first-hand award-winning video-based simulations as well as poorly constructed simulations. Attendees will then break down the anatomy of the simulation, piece by piece. 

So you've started creating responsive courses using Captivate and want to take it to the next level?

Called the "linchpin" of organizations, business unit leaders arguably have the greatest impact on an organization's performance. But they often get the least amount of training and development in an organization--and frequently not the training they need to succeed.

What will classrooms of the future be like? Emerging technologies such as cloud computing, learning analytics, artificial intelligence and wearables are paving the way for the future of learning. These promising technologies will change the way we deliver learning and empower us with the data and analytics needed to increase the consumption and efficiency of learning within the law firm. Click below to download this article.

For years, trainers have watched as interest declined in traditional approaches to technology training. Confronted with a changing job market, many still struggle to find their way on a new path. Key skills are required for trainers to increase their value, deliver programs with more impact and engage the modern learner. Click below to download this article.

At a time when financial capital is cheap and readily available, but human capital isn’t, there’s an urgency to increase Employee Lifetime Value. But to do that, we have to understand the employee journey.  In this ebook you will learn:  The fundamental elements of the employee journey The building blocks of employee success How to diagnose disengagement How to detect emotional distancing How to architect intervention opportunities Click below to download this eBook.

If you ask your executives what your organization's most valuable asset is, their response will probably be "Our people, of course!". And yet, when an opportunity to invest in leading talent programs presents itself, that level of enthusiasm seems to suddenly disappear. Womp-womp. Many C-suites still see learning and development as cost burdens, even though improved talent management strategies have been shown to drive growth in revenue time and time again. This eBook will equip you with winning strategies to get the leadership buy-in you need and elevate the role of talent management in your organization. Click below to download the Making the Business Case for Talent Management eBook! It's everything you need to get executive buy-in and ongoing support for your proposed talent initiatives.

For the second year, Training magazine and Wilson Learning Worldwide have teamed up to conduct the Annual Leadership Survey focused on creating effective leaders and preparing the next generation of leaders.

The pros make presenting look easy, but the polish you see involves hours of preparation and practice. If you’re not a professional speaker, how can you dedicate so much time to such a small part of your job? The answer is, "Don’t!" Instead, join Becky’s webinar to discover four simple fixes to create powerful presentations when you’re under a time crunch. Discover how to harness your nerves into energy that unlocks the secret ingredient to successful presentations: engagement.

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.