Score an “A” in eLearning (x4)
There are many ways that even the best eLearning training interventions can be kiboshed, but I see the following two come up again and again. Firstly, many really good eLearning ideas do not even get off the ground because key stakeholders or gatekeepers in the organization have pre-determined that their people “are not ready for…
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Dealing with eLearning Objections
I heard that an eLearning project that we had hoped to bid upon is on hold because of “internal resistance.” It got me to thinking about the various objections to eLearning that I have heard over the course of my ten years in this field. Here are some of my favourites, and my responses to…
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Online Synchronous Learning Reconsidered
For the longest time I used to resist online synchronous learning. I’m not sure where this negative attitude to real-time web conferencing came from, but it may have had something to do with my long history in university-level distance education. I suppose I had a bias for asynchronous web-based learning because it freed learners from…
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Life Imitates Art: When Things Go South in eLearning
Life is full of ironies. In preparation for our webinar titled Going Live: Best Practices in Online Synchronous Training, we had planned to stress that “going live” was much like tightrope walking without a net, and that things can and will go wrong. The point is to be ready for this and to work your…
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Two Ships Passing in the Night: Corporate and Non-Profit eLearning
I’m in the unique position of straddling the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors and seeing the way that each approaches eLearning. I have worked in both sectors. I now serve clients in both sectors, and speak to prospective clients in both sectors. And what a study in contrasts this presents. It is like observing two absolutely…
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Can You e-Learn at Your Desk?
Elliott Masie is constantly polling readers of his Learning Trends online newsletter on interesting questions related to workplace learning. One survey asked “Can workers really e-Learn at their desks?” In other words, can they fit eLearning into their daily tasks at their workstations without having to do it at home, or before or after the…
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