Tag: learning effectiveness

9 Best Practices for Blended Learning in 2018 (Part 1)

While the e-learning market is anticipated to be worth approximately $65.41 billion by 2023, it’s not the only learning medium that should be considered. Many instructors in the workplace still provide in-classroom training sessions and often combine their in-classroom instruction with e-learning methods, blending their learning methods together. In fact, the blended learning market is […]

What You Need to Know About Learning Decay in the Workplace

According to a Bridge study about knowledge retention from training, 70% of employee respondents admitted to forgetting something they had been taught during a training within 24 hours of learning it.1 And because so many organizations invest so much time and money developing their training programs, this number is quite alarming. Is there a way […]

Best Practices for Employee Learning Retention (Part 2)

[Part 1 of this article appeared in yesterday’s edition.] Get Learners to Be Active According to The Learning Pyramid shaped by research conducted by the National Training Lab, participatory teaching methods ensure high learning retention rates. So, if you want your learners to truly retain what you’re teaching them, have them participate in their own […]

Best Practices for Increasing Learning Retention (Part 1)

According to longstanding scientific research by German psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus, employees will forget up to 50% of what they learned within an hour if they don’t revisit the material they were covering. They’ll forget 70% of what they learned within a day. And they’ll forget 90% of the material they covered within a month!1 This […]

Can Collaboration Be Detrimental to Employee Learning?

Collaboration is usually lauded for enhancing an organization’s operations, as well as its overall levels of employee satisfaction. But is it also helpful for employee learning? Or, can it be detrimental to employee learning? A report by Pearson, as well as a review published by the Association for Psychological Science, indicate the answer to both […]

Understanding Different Learning Styles in the Workplace (Part 1)

It’s easy for trainers and learning and development (L&D) professionals to get so preoccupied with securing funding, technology, supplies, and staff for their initiatives and courses that they overlook the intricacies of their main audience: their learners. But learning programs can’t be truly successful if they don’t address learners’ intricacies, especially the various learning styles […]

How to Measure the Value of Your Online Training Programs (Part 1)

 Understanding the full value of your online training programs is important for more than just selling the programs to the C-suite to gain their buy-in. Understanding the full value of your online programs also allows you to make guided decisions about the training content you develop, how it will be distributed, and allows you to […]

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Accelerate Learning and Increase Knowledge Retention

Any business will want to maximize the benefits of their online training system and to achieve the best return on investment (ROI). This means ensuring that each learner who participates will inwardly absorb the information given to them, retaining it for future use rather than their forgetting it the moment they step away from the […]

What Are Kolb Learning Styles? A Way to Make Learning More Effective

In the science of teaching adults, or “andragogy,” a teacher isn’t a sage on the stage but rather a facilitator by the side. Your success as a trainer is mostly measured by how well the trainees learn, retain information, and apply it in their job. The thing is, every individual learns at his or her […]