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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Deeper Design: Beyond Traditional Instructional Design
“Deeper design” goes beyond traditional instructional design to reflect on what’s known about how we learn and what that implies for the strategy. Too often we talk about “content” without talking about the subtleties. Continuing the story of how a team of designers implemented these ideas, here is their high-level process as they move from the objectives to deciding on pedagogy.
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Deeper Design: Working Out Loud
This is the start of a narration, a story—working out loud, in other words—about how a small group of designers decided to build a better way to support learning. The end of this narration will come in September, when the team releases its product, free of charge, to the world. Enjoy the view as you travel along with the team under the guidance of The eLearning Guild’s first Guild Master.
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Research Spotlight: Pioneering Medical Device Training in the Digital Age
This case study describes how a pharmaceuticals company overcame substantial learning challenges and created an interactive video solution for users of its new medical device. While this study focuses on innovative uses of interactive video for medical device training, the lessons learned extend far beyond the realm of health care. What applications will you find for this technology?
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If You Think Training Should Make Learning Easy, You Are Doing It Wrong
Certain “desirably difficult” conditions of learning that more actively and effortfully engage learners lead to better long-term learning. In other words, training that makes learning difficult is more effective. Does that seem shocking to you? Find out here why the common wisdom that says you should make eLearning easy is wrong, and to learn what “desirably difficult” entails.
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Research Spotlight: Aon Hewitt Uses Interactive Video to Create Innovative Consumer Experiences
Last week, Guild Research published a new case study about the use of interactive video to better educate and communicate with employees on health care plans, well-being programs, and retirement options. This overview explains what Aon Hewitt’s Consumer Experience practice did, why they did it, and the process they used to build the interactive video interface.
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Research Spotlight: Supporting Multiyear Business Transformation at Rent-A-Center
Our newest case study describes how Rent-A-Center (RAC) designed and implemented a series of highly innovative mobile learning and performance coaching solutions for the company’s 18,000-plus employees in over 2,800 retail rental centers across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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Research Spotlight: The Gender Pay Gap in eLearning
With publication of the 2016 US eLearning Salary & Compensation Report, the gender pay gap continues to be a highly controversial topic, as it was for last year’s report. In this follow-up to our 2016 salary report, we focus on additional information regarding the US gender pay gap.
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The eLearning Guild Releases 2016 US eLearning Salary & Compensation Report
The eLearning Guild announces the publication of its annual salary report, the 2016 US eLearning Salary & Compensation Report. The report examines data from more than 3,500 members of the Guild to analyze US salary and compensation trends, taking variables such as state, company size, and job focus into account.
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Research Spotlight: Managing Organizational Knowledge
The concept of knowledge management (KM) is not new, and for some it has a negative legacy. But the challenges that call for a KM solution have not gone away; in fact they have intensified. So it is important to take a look at KM again, with fresh eyes, and that is what our newest white paper does, as this article outlines.
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Research Spotlight: Writing Assessments to Validate the Impact of Learning
Members of the learning and development profession who are not assessment specialists need assessment writing tools and resources to support them with guidance in this increasingly important skill area. Providing practical tools, templates, professional perspectives, and resources for creating today’s learning assessments is the goal of The eLearning Guild’s latest eBook.