eLearning Blog: Thought Leadership & Ideas

April 15, 2015

Microlearning: Strategy, Examples, Applications, & More

By: Jack Makhlouf

What is Microlearning? Microlearning (also spelled ‘micro learning’) is a teaching style that involves short bursts of highly engaging and interactive information, delivered to the the learner at his request. The learner is in full control of his education, and decides what, when and how much he is learning.

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April 14, 2015

Multitasking Vs. Continuous Partial Attention

By: Jack Makhlouf

Multitasking Vs. Continuous Partial Attention Continuous Partial Attention (CPA) is an automatic process that enables people to simultaneously pay attention to several sources of information, whilst scanning for relevant information. It allows people to shift from superficially concentrating on a lot of information to focusing on highly relevant information during a short attention span.

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April 12, 2015

Special Delivery: How 10-Second Training Can Improve Microlearning

By: Andrew Fayad

Snapchat Stories: They’re a fun way to check in on friends and even generating buzz, but could they be the next big thing for eLearning? Probably not. Unfortunately, Snapchat Stories–while super entertaining and hyper-condensed–might seem like a natural fit for microlearning, the format might put too heavy an emphasis on the “micro.”

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April 10, 2015

LinkedIn Acquires Lynda.com for $1.5 Billion

By: Andrew Fayad

No one would every blame LinkedIn for being a 98-pound weakling in the career sphere, but now, the social networking giant adds a lot more power to its punch: It was announced on April 9th that LinkedIn has acquired eLearning website, Lynda.com, as part of a new push toward eLearning and changing the way the world […]

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April 07, 2015

Stop, Collaborate, and Beacon: Why GPS Might Hold the Key to Talent Management

By: Andrew Fayad

If the idea of being tracked gives you Orwell-esque “big brother” vibes, you might not love what’s trending now in talent management: Beacons. But letting coworkers know where to find you shouldn’t make you think the NSA is over your shoulder. Instead, it’s a method of collaboration gaining traction in organizations like Google.

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April 01, 2015

NanoLearning on the Apple Watch: The Next Small Thing in eLearning

By: Andrew Fayad

If microlearning is information distilled into small bites, nanolearning are tiny nibbles of the same. At least, that’s how the Apple Watch will deliver bits of information to the user. With limited space (and even less attention span), the rise of the Watch promises to add an entirely new layer to current eLearning efforts.

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March 30, 2015

The CIA Creates New Plan of Attack for Recruiting, Training, and eLearning

By: Andrew Fayad

It sounds like an initiative even Jack Bauer could be proud of: CIA Director John Brennan announced via internal memo that the Agency would overhaul its existing digital arms, including a new plan to institute more sophisticated recruiting, training, and performance management structures.

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March 23, 2015

There’s Always Next Year Comcast (How Can eLearning Fix Bad Customer Service)

By: Andrew Fayad

The latest numbers from Temkin Ratings are in, and it doesn’t look great for Comcast. Out of the 293 companies that were included in the customer service ratings poll, Comcast TV service ranked 291st, and Comcast Internet service squeaked by at 289th.

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March 19, 2015

U.N. Unites the World One eLearning Course at a Time

By: Aaron Hill

When the U.N. offers a giant catalog of e-courses in many languages, it’s a certainty that eLearning is here to stay. The U.N.’s Institute for Training and Research is where diplomats, NGO employees, public policy bureaucrats, U.N. employees and others go to learn. The institute is also open to the public. Anyone willing to pay the price […]

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March 18, 2015

C’mon, Get Appy: What eLearning Pros Can Learn from App Developers

By: Andrew Fayad

What did we ever do before apps? Whether they’re helping us plan our monthly budget, run a presentation, or kill some time at the airport, we love ‘em. And, according to the numbers, so does everyone else: TechCrunch estimates that app purchases will generate around $26 billion in revenue in 2015, with an additional $14 billion in […]

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