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Synapse Feature Update: Tasking and Commenting Updates

We've rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! 

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How to Scale your Training Department

Many small and medium sized businesses (SMB) face serious challenges in scaling quality online training. Hiring a dedicated training manager is often the first step in addressing this issue, but in many organizations, this position remains unfilled until it becomes painfully obvious that the...

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How to Determine Whether Digital Training Is Right for your Company?

It’s actually a very simple answer. In today’s day and age, every company wants to provide great digital training to their employees and customers! With millennials becoming the majority of the workforce and mobile devices becoming the principal way people access the Internet, it just makes sense....

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How Fast-Growing Companies Leverage Technology to Make Training More Effective

After reading and watching many articles and videos about the disruption in corporate learning and development space, I started thinking, “how do small to medium sized businesses (SMB) make sense of all of this”? Do SMBs really think, “Gee, I really need to understand all of the strategies being...

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Crushing the 'Forgetting Curve'

Learner retention is perhaps the most important metric to measure the success of L&D initiatives. However, as we've covered in this blog before, the vast majority -- often as high as 90 percent -- of new skills are lost within a year if not reinforced by practical follow-ups or assessments.

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More Bad News for For-Profit Colleges

News last week that an accreditation group for for-profit colleges may lose its federal recognition has prompted many L&D leaders to re-think their strategy of making courses from such programs available for their employees.

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