Given the growing training needs inside organizations today -- the the massive amount of content needed to carry out that training -- many organizations are facing the challenge of simply not having enough instructional designers or learning and development professionals to build a sufficient...
How Non-Technical Professionals Can Do Instructional Design
Producing Quality Training Results in 'Challenging' Timeframes
As we've written previously in our blog, one of the biggest resources needed to build learning content is time.
Few can take on more work: we're all at capacity nowadays.
So how can you get subject matter experts (SMEs) to help the learning organization? As they are not on your team, how can you get SMEs to take time out of their busy schedules to write content that forms courses which others in your...
The Math Behind Agile Learning Design
Time is the most precious resource when building courses. The longer the time needed to build and deliver a course, the greater the risk to the organization.
Aside from hours lost to productivity in the L&D department, learners are prevented from using their acquired knowledge and skills in their...
One of the pain points of building courses is obsoletion: just as you hit the "Publish" button, the clock is counting down to the point at which the information delivered in the course becomes outdated or irrelevant.
According to the ATD 2017 State of the Industry report, sponsored by LinkedIn Learning and Study.com, organizations spent $1,273 per employee in 2016 on direct learning, compared with $1,252 in 2015. The average number of formal learning hours used per employee also grew: 34.1 hours in 2016, up...