eLearning is dead. Now that we agree, where are our standards for developing digital learning?

Learning Administration, Learning Strategy / By / February 23, 2021

As learning designers, can we all agree that eLearning is dead? I’m not trying to be controversial, but eLearning conjures notions of bad PowerPoint-like courses (no offense PowerPoint, we still love you, but only when appropriate). You know the ones we’re talking about—the courses where your mouse hovers over the “next” button in anticipation of when you can advance to the next slide. It’s the courses with the excruciatingly slow voiceover, the click-until-you-get-it-right knowledge check, and the grand-finale quiz that serves as our shining beacon that this experience will eventually end. So, we feverishly click “next” through slide after slide, just to end the experience.

Swipe Left, Swipe Right: Making the Connection with Your Learners in a Digital World

Learning Strategy / By / February 23, 2021

Today, we are going to jump back into the topic of digital habits. In our first post on this topic we discussed how we can use our target audiences digital habits and meet them where they already are. AKA using their already learned and formed digital habits to educate, inspire and inform. If our learners are connected to their mobile devices 24/7 we have to use that to our advantage! However, today we are going to take it one step further and discuss the six-letter word that has taken the marketing world by storm, content, but more importantly we are going to discuss how to structure your content so your learner engages with it!

Frontline Workers and the Health of Your Community

Workforce Development / By / February 23, 2021

We introduced you to WeThink through the lens of frontline worker development. We discussed scenarios in which organizations could help grow this employee segment, which is a win-win for all those involved! Today we are going to continue the conversation and dive into frontline worker development and how it not only benefits the worker and organization, but also the communities in which we live and thrive.

Talent Management in Healthcare – Building New Pathways for Talent to Grow

Workforce Development / By / July 11, 2020

If you’ve been following WeThink from the beginning, you have the idea that frontline worker development is an important issue to us. We are not only passionate about it because, well, we’re learning professionals, but also because helping employees grow is a strategy that can be applied to employee retention across almost all industries. Frontline workers, specifically, are an integral part of an organization that don’t always have educational pathway options available to them. And we think that ought to change.

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Organization DNA: Do Something Big

Workforce Development / By / July 11, 2020

So if you have stuck with us so far, you have learned about the Organizational DNA Model for Workforce Development, we have shared with you the Why? of this model, and we have talked about the important stakeholders in this model. So naturally you are thinking this is a really big thing……. how do we possibly do it?

Organizational DNA: Know Your Stakeholders

Workforce Development / By / July 11, 2020

If you are joining us mid-stream, we have previously talked about the Organizational DNA Model and the why behind it, and now we want to turn our attention to looking at who the important stakeholders are in such a model and those you must engage with.

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Is Workforce Development in Your Organizational DNA

Workforce Development / By / July 11, 2020

Odds are as a talent development leader you are faced with the same challenges many as other talent development leaders– how do I find, develop, retain, and grow the talent that I need in my organization. This rings even truer if your organization is looking to recruit middle skills talent – that talent that has a high school diploma – but requires less training than a four-year degree.

Digital Habits – We All Have Them! So What ?

Content Development / By / February 23, 2021

They say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit…and with the vast amount of digital media in the world we’re living in, it seems like it takes even less time to form habits for how we consume information. At WeLearn we spend a lot of time thinking about just this—digital habits—how we interact with the technology in our lives and how it affects the way we learn.

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