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Your company has just upped the training budget and rolled out a new set of eLearning courses. You are upbeat and confident that these courses will help your employees be on top of their game. And then comes this shocker: the surveys reveal that your employees think your courses are not hitting the mark! They report not feeling motivated to take them. Worse, many amongst those who went through the training felt they wasted their precious minutes and hours. Can you fathom what went wrong? After all, you invested so much time, effort, and money into their development. It is natural for you to want to know before you launch a new set of training programs. According to the findings of a study published by CLO report, 45 percent of workers report that the training they go through is not relevant to their job needs. This is a piece of statistic that will make every training manager around the world sit up, shudder, and wonder aloud, “Have we been creating and dishing out content worth hundreds and thousands of dollars for nothing?”

64% of students say the ability to access courses on their phones is a must. Therefore, implementing training programs on mobile devices is no longer an option, now it is a norm. Therefore, one of the biggest challenges in 2021 is to improve the effectiveness of corporate learning programs, and for this, you must be where your students are. It's that simple! Mobile device usage has expanded. But, in 2020, device usage increased significantly due to the coronavirus. If you haven't taken your training programs mobile yet, we urge you to start considering it, as it brings benefits such as: Learners can have access to information at any time, anywhere. More than 70% of employees use search engines to learn what they need for their jobs; will unlock their smartphones 9 times an hour, and watch videos for no longer than 4 minutes. Higher engagement: Its ability to include more interactive and collaborative content, leads to higher participation. Online communities and social media features in mobile learning environments are a great way to keep learners interested and engaged. A learning process that adapts to modern needs. Removes formality. Mobile learning removes the sense of formality attached to education that non-traditional learners find unattractive. Before you start your journey in this world, it's important to know what the challenges come with mobile learning and, of course, how to deal with them. Read on and find out.

The essential responsibility of every Instructional Designer is to ensure a high-quality learning experience. That has not changed in our increasingly multi-device world. The basics, from audience analysis to writing to the objectives, are still important. However, the role of the instructional designer has evolved and now involves a new mindset to adapt and thrive in a multi-device world.

Mobile learning is a big deal! Every business is now focusing on mobile learning as a strategy to engage and train a remote and globally distributed workforce. However, as exciting as it may be, the decision to start implementing mobile learning takes time, effort, and adopting a new mindset. Embracing a mobile mindset means more than simply using mobile devices to train employees. It also means understanding the mobile behavior of your target audience and acting accordingly. The decision to move face-to-face training or desktop-only eLearning courses from a computer monitor to a small personal screen does require repurposing efforts too. Mobile learning can be extremely effective, but it's not a given. This "on-the-go training dynamic" is only useful when it’s done correctly. Below is a list of four basic mistakes to avoid while designing your mobile learning course.

If you're not yet as familiar with xAPI and LRS technologies, some of the following questions might be ringing in your mind right now: How do I know my company needs an LRS? Why do I need an LRS? Do I still need an LMS? The answers to these questions depend on your company's goals, goals, and resources. LRS technology is the result of the new habits that the technology context has fostered. And this means corporate leaders are pressured to implement training programs that adapt to the new learning expectations, behaviors, and needs of their employees. Learning is no longer happening in a fixed place, at a specific time, or even in a linear way. It happens everywhere and anytime. By implementing an LRS in your company, you will be able to capture the activities that occur by "learning in the flow of work". In other words, you will be able to collect and store every learning experience – from what happens online and offline, and not just within the LMS. Such information will be helpful to you to give a more detailed image of what REALLY happens in your training programs and thus optimize them accordingly. Read on and find out the key signs that will help you recognize if it's time to give a Learning Record Store (LRS) an opportunity in your company.

As a Learning & Development leader, there’s a good chance you’ve come up against employees’ lack of interest in training and development. Employee expectations and desires are changing, and there are new ways to engage them. If you’re still not using mobile learning or using it in a small way in the workplace, it is a missed opportunity to boost employee engagement.

Want to promote informal learning in your company? Need to keep track of online and offline training? Your main challenge when tracking a learning experience in your business is the lack of actionable data? Do you want to track each of your employees' progress at a detailed level, in real-time? Do your students access training content from multiple sources (from LMS to other third-party learning applications)? If you answered yes to one or some of these questions... Then you'll be interested to learn more about xAPI and LRS technologies in the corporate training environment. For learning and development leaders, getting acquainted with these concepts is key to implementing a training strategy that responds to the technological changes and new context we live in today.