Learning Research & Science
Insights culled from analysis and inquiry that keep learning professionals up-to-date on how people learn, technologies, approaches, and performance improvement practices.
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Design Can Enhance eLearning Comprehension
Research indicates that reading comprehension suffers when learners move to screens from paper, but well-designed eLearning—that uses the strengths of digital media—can overcome both technical and psychological barriers.
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Forgetting Helps You Remember: Why Spaced Learning Works
Whatever paradigm is used, eLearning offers a variety of ways to implement spaced learning. The “spacing” can occur within a single session or by scheduling sessions several hours or days apart. And spacing can apply to time, content, or both.
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Research Spotlight: Learning Analytics: A Practical Pathway to Success
The eLearning Guild’s newest white paper provides timely information and guidance that supports and extends the ongoing goals of the September 2016 Data & Analytics Summit. This article reviews some of the basic concepts and practical advice presented in the white paper.
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Research Spotlight: Understanding BYOD
The Guild has published a number of useful articles and papers that describe the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend. The purpose of our newest white paper—Understanding BYOD: A Guide to Concepts and Issues for Learning Practitioners—is to build on those resources, and provide learning leaders and practitioners an updated guide to understanding current BYOD concepts and issues.
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Capture Learners’ Attention with Multimodal eLearning
Learners have different abilities, interests, and preferences. Presenting eLearning in different modalities—text, video, interactive—can keep more learners engaged.
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Buzzword Decoder: Spaced Learning
Spaced learning is ideally suited to teaching factual material or processes where you can check understanding by using projects or solving problems. It is intended for use in situations where learners need to acquire a large amount of information quickly.
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Research Spotlight: Using Interactive Video to Enhance Onboarding and Engagement: Allianz Global Investors
It is no secret that employers within the global financial services and banking sectors have endured tough times during the past decade. Employers in these sectors face serious issues with low morale, high turnover, and job candidates who no longer view the sector as a desirable career. Learn how the L&D team at Allianz Global Investors used interactive video to confront these challenges.
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In Real Life: Enabling Your Knowledge-Sharing Advocates
In an ideal world, workplace information and experience would flow together into a powerful collection of shared knowledge. Employees and teams would know what to share and how best to share it. L&D would focus on tools and enablement rather than content and control. Sorry to disappoint, but we don’t live (or work) in that world. Yet we could. Here’s how to get on the road to that world.
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Deeper Design: Putting It All Together
The end of any eLearning development project comes when you deliver the product. For the team of developers in this story, that will happen the week of September 12 (next week!). Here is the final chapter, in which the team deals with the authoring and user experience issues.
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Deeper Design: Tweaking the Media
With the high-level issues resolved, the design team began to wrestle with and fine-tune key choices of implementation for those decisions. This was necessary before final development within an authoring tool could be successful. This is a short story, but without it the course could never be realized.