Open Badges are becoming a more widely used achievement tool, particularly in online learning. In this blog post I'll be talking about what Open Badges are, reveal 6 benefits of incorporating Open Badges into your LMS and explain how Open Badges work in our SkillBuilder® LMS learning platform.

Shauna Carson

Read on to look at what Open Badges are, the 6 benefits of incorporating Open Badges into your LMS and how Open Badges work in our SkillBuilder® LMS learning platform.

6 Benefits of Incorporating Open Badges into your LMS

One way to increase learners' eLearning engagement is to implement gamification. Read on to find out five ways you can gamify eLearning experiences, including points, leaderboards, open badges, avatars and animations, and ensure you get the most out of your training programs.

Read on to find out five ways you can gamify eLearning experiences, including points, leaderboards, open badges, avatars and animations, and ensure you get the most out of your training programs.

Designing a Gamified Learning Experience

A subject matter expert (SME) has the knowledge and experience you need to create your eLearning courses or offline courses. The relationship between your and your SME will determine the quality of your learning material. So how could you effectively work together? What good practices should you follow to get what you need during your interview?

Jill W.

Read on to look at how the relationship between your and your SME will determine the quality of your learning material.

Build Engaging eLearning Courses: 7 Tips to Ensure SME's Commitment

Microlearning is a way of delivering content to learners in short and focused learning “nuggets”. Content is focused on targeted pieces of information and learners spend no more than 3-5 minutes on a particular learning activity.

What can we do to engage and motivate workers to learn as the workplace dynamic shift over the next decade? One solution is to adopt microlearning.

10 Reasons to Adopt Microlearning in Your Training

In this article, I’ll explore some common objections to eLearning and explain how to answer them and how to convince clients that eLearning is the right choice for them.

Sarah Flesher

Read on to look at some common objections to eLearning and how to answer them. Also learn how to convince clients that eLearning is the right choice for them.

Convince Clients That eLearning is the Right Choice

This article will look at the challenges modern learners face, and how organizations can respond to their needs.

Read on to look at the challenges modern learners face, how those challenges shape their approach to learning, and how organizations can respond to their needs.

What Challenges Does the Modern Learner Face?

This article will explore how to ensure your learners stay engaged with their training.

Read on to look at a few things you can incorporate into your learning program to ensure your learners stay engaged with their training.

Want to Improve Your Training? Stop Boring Your Learners!

This article will show some ways to add a bit of humour to your eLearning content.

Read on to look at some ways you can add a bit of humour to your eLearning content.

Using Humour to Improve Your Learning Content

This article will talk about 7 ways that you can energize learning content and give your learning audience an engaging learning experience.

Read on to look at 7 ways that you can energize learning content, please your client and give your learning audience an engaging learning experience.

7 Ways to Energize Learning Content

This article will explore the Cognitive Load Theory that provides strategies we can use to optimize our learners' ability to learn.

Did you know that people can only store around seven items in short term memory? Read on about the Cognitive Load Theory that provides several strategies we can use to optimize our learners' ability to learn.

Optimizing Cognitive Load in eLearning

This article will look at what makes feedback effective, and how to create it for your eLearning.

Read on to learn what makes feedback effective, and how you can create useful feedback for your eLearning.

How to Provide Effective Feedback in eLearning

This article will review the benefits and drawbacks of the ten top eLearning trends.

This article will outline some of the benefits and drawbacks of the ten top eLearning trends. It will also take a closer look at each of these trends and how they interact.

The Future of eLearning

This article will explore the definition of soft skills and look at five ways to motivate people to develop them.

Read on to look at the definition of soft skills and five ways to motivate people to develop them.

Motivate People to Develop Soft Skills

Learning is such a great way to train your workforce. This article will take a focussed look at what you can offer to engage your learners.

You can encourage people to take a course with all the incentives you want, but if they aren't engaged with what you are offering, your training won't be a success. In this article, let's take a look at what you can do to avoid this.

Keep Your Learners Engaged in eLearning

Online learning doesn’t have to be isolating. Collaborative learning offers social contact while encouraging learners to engage in higher-level thinking like analysis and evaluation. How can you incorporate collaborative learning in your next online course?

Read on to look at how you can incorporate collaborative learning in your next online course.

Collaborative Activities for Online Learning

Training that contributes to business goals must be evaluated accurately, and sometimes that means using a chainsaw as well as a computer. eLearning may be versatile, but when physical skills are involved, the corporate trainer's toolkit must include practical skill evaluations.

Read on to look at the value of on the job evaluation.

When You Need a Practical Learner Evaluation

This article will look at what you should be doing to continue to skill your employees and deliver valuable and effective learning during COVID-19.

It's too early to say how COVID-19 will ultimately impact companies, but we can turn to digital and virtual technologies to promote and deliver learning. Read on to look at what you should be doing to continue to skill your employees and deliver valuable and effective learning during COVID-19.

Learning in the Time of COVID 19

This article identifies the benefits and challenges of mobile learning and provides tips for organizations developing mobile friendly training content.

What is mobile learning? This article defines mobile learning, identifies the benefits and challenges associated with mobile learning and provides three tips for organizations who are considering developing mobile friendly training content.

Benefits and Challenges of Mobile Learning

This article will look at who the modern corporate learner is, and how we can design learning that engages millennials.

The migration of millennials into the workforce has led to a rapid evolution over the last 10 years. But how do we engage the younger workforce? Read on to discover who the modern corporate learner is, and how we can design learning that engages millennials.

Online Learning: 5 Ways to Engage Millennial Learners

This article will look at some drop-off causes and how to reduce it.

Registration drop-off is much higher than learning developers would like. This article will review some causes of high attrition rates and what we can do to reduce it.

Prevent Registration Drop-Off!

What effect is digital technology having on the modern learner, and how can learning providers make sure we are meeting the digital learner's needs? In this article, I'll talk a bit about the effect of digital technology on the learner and how we, as learning providers, can make sure we are meeting the digital learner’s needs.

What effect is digital technology having on the modern learner? Read on about the effect of digital technology on the learner and how we, as learning providers, can make sure we are meeting the digital learner’s needs.

How are Digital Technologies Shaping the Modern Learner?

The age of AI is here and it's here to stay. Artificial intelligence has and will continue to affect many aspects of our lives, including learning. In this article, I'll describe some of the ways that AI is being used in L&D and take a look at what experts say is in the future of learning.

The age of AI is here and it's here to stay. Read on about some of the ways that AI is being used in L&D and take a look at what experts say is in the future of learning.

What is Artificial Intelligence and How Will It Impact Learning?

One great thing about developing online training is that you can add a variety of media to your course. Two of the most important types of media available are graphics and video. Read on to take a closer look at different types of videos and their uses.

In the first part of this series, I looked at how to effectively incorporate graphics into your eLearning. Now, let's turn our attention to video.

Successfully Incorporating Visuals into Online Training: Part Two - Video

One great thing about developing online training is that you can add a variety of media to your course. Two of the most important types of media available are graphics and video. Read on to take a closer look at different types of graphics and their uses.

One great thing about developing online training is that you can add a variety of media to your course. Read on to take a closer look at different types of graphics and their uses.

Successfully Incorporating Visuals into Online Training: Part One - Graphics

Social learning is learning from others. Today, social learning is largely driven by technology and by web-based applications. In this article, I will discuss some must-have LMS social learning features and describe how they facilitate it.

Social learning is largely driven by technology and by web-based applications. In this article, I will discuss some must-have LMS social learning features and describe how they facilitate it.

Must-Have Social Learning Features for Your LMS

Corporate learning for skill development generally falls into the formal training category. This article will introduce Experiential Learning as a viable strategy for workplace learning, and identify strategies that ensure meaningful learning occurs when incorporating these ideas into corporate training.

This article will introduce Experiential Learning as a viable strategy for workplace learning, and identify strategies that ensure meaningful learning occurs when incorporating these ideas into corporate training.

How to Rock Experiential Learning in Corporate Training

There are many reasons why organizations choose to convert instructor-led training to an online course, including flexibility, accessibility and cost effectiveness. In this article, we will briefly introduce change management and provide some tips to get your entire team on board with eLearning.

Read on to look at a brief introdution to change management and some tips to get your team on board with eLearning and to motivate learners to adopt new learning initiatives.

How to Get Your People on Board with eLearning

How can you ensure your employees use your new LMS? This article will outline some of the top tips you can use to motivate employees to engage in learning using your LMS, and make sure the application you spent all that time choosing enjoys the success it deserves!

This article will outline some of the top tips you can use to motivate employees to engage in learning using your LMS, and make sure the application you spent all that time choosing enjoys the success it deserves.

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6 Benefits of Incorporating Open Badges into your LMS

Shauna Carson

Designing a Gamified Learning Experience

Shauna Carson

Build Engaging eLearning Courses: 7 Tips to Ensure SME's Commitment

Jill W.

10 Reasons to Adopt Microlearning in Your Training

Jill W.

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