I have worked in the eLearning field for many years in both corporate and academic settings, and have seen it all: the good, the bad and the ugly. Whenever I come across people or organizations that are struggling with realizing value from their eLearning, it usually comes down to the fact that they haven’t made…
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There has been a lot of hype lately about “rapid eLearning.” It’s difficult to read an eLearning journal, or go to an eLearning conference lately, without someone talking about rapid eLearning. Well, there is a very good reason for this and, although it sounds trite, it is as true as ever…TIME = MONEY. The drivers…
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I miss Rodney Dangerfield. He was a genuinely funny guy. You have to admire the one-man comic industry he built around the phrase “I get no respect!” I hear this same phrase, and am reminded of Rodney, every time I am in a room of training managers. They are often lamenting the fact that their…
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This is the time of year that people may be faced with drafting budgets for their eLearning initiatives. A key challenge is that they may have not completed any significant eLearning to date, and therefore are a bit in the dark on how to go about budgeting. eLearning differs from face-to-face learning in that it…
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A common refrain we here from people in the eLearning field is that it just takes too much time to design and develop their online courses. This is as true for higher education, as it is for corporate training initiatives. Why are cycle times such a concern? Well, time is money, whether you are in…
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The following has happened to me on more than one occasion. I’m either sitting at a table or I am on a conference call with a client group and we congratulate ourselves on coming up with a really solid plan for a new eLearning project. Then someone says that this will be taken up the…
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The blogosphere has been buzzing with a great deal of agonizing, soul-searching and prognosticating about what a recession means for the industry. As with recessions that have come before, there are concerns about huge cuts to training budgets, loss of training staff through down-sizing, and a general retrenchment in training operations. Many point to eLearning…
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Four leading lights of the learning business – Michael Allen, Julie Dirksen, Clark Quinn and Will Thalheimer – released a call to arms. Their Serious eLearning Manifesto laments the sorry state of eLearning and asks those who agree to sign a manifesto pledging to commit to producing eLearning that is relevant, performance focused, contextual and…
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