Tactics to Create a Culture of Learning & Development Creating a culture of learning and development (L&D) has become a priority for many organizations recently. With numerous driving factors, learning development is an unavoidable element in today's workplace. Employees want to learn, be challenged, increase productivity, be innovative and have a real impact on company

Learning via Gamification: Latest Data, Stats & Trends The effectiveness of gamification is well-represented in the field of education. Studies involving varied subject groups from young children to older professionals have often churned out positive results. One example is Theresa A. Papp's paper 'Gamification Effects on Motivation and Learning: Application to Primary and College

Video Learning: Latest Data, Stats and Trends Video learning is no longer seen as a novel idea, it is now considered a common standard of content delivery in the world of corporate learning. Delivery via video has grown rapidly in recent years, and for good reason. It has proven to be an effective, cost-efficient and

Create a Learning Culture: Qualities of The People Who Drive Change The role of knowledge development is ever-present in the workplace. Oftentimes, there is a particular group in charge of driving/guiding these initiatives, from implementing knowledge management solutions, communicating the initiative internally and measuring its success. All of the preceding elements will be deemed failures

How to Create Buy-In Around Employee Education Intuitively, one would assume a culture of collaboration within an organization lends itself to overall performance. One of these performance goals is closing the skills gap through internal learning initiatives. Key to this initiative is collaboration (or buy-in) from the relevant parties. From a scientific standpoint, there is

Upgrade your Learning Ability Series: Supercharge Your Learning Programs Now Two tips that will supercharge your learning programs. And won't cost you a cent. In this series of Upgrade your Learning Ability we’re offering you evidence based tips to help you upgrade your own ability to learn better, so that you can learn faster and

Learning Trend 5: Wired for Speech Each decade has brought with it a new interface to interact with our computers and electronic devices. Where once we typed into a command line beside a blinking green cursor, today we use a mouse with a visual graphical user interface or swipe, tap and pinch our commands into

Learning Trend 4: Big Data and Learning Analytics Uncovering useful knowledge from the data we collect has been happening for some time now, at least since the 90s but when the term ‘Big Data’ entered the Oxford Dictionary in 2013, the ‘big’ that set this data apart referred to a volume, speed and complexity of

Learning Trend 3: Social Learning Comes of Age This trend has been through some ups and down over the last number of years. Social and collaborative learning gained some traction from expectations that everything would become social, paralleling the power of social at the consumer level, then followed by the ‘reality check’ of the complexities