Hopefully, you have been with us for a while and you have read some of our previous posts like Measuring your Success and Making Learning Stick. You won’t be lost if you have not – and you can always check them out later – but they are helpful – and we are nothing if not helpful around here!
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Now hear this ……. You are no Robin Thicke and Pharell ……. I mean sure, you are probably pretty cool, but as a learning designer, we implore you ……no blurred lines. Ok – so all silliness aside, let’s get serious for a moment about accessibility and digital learning product. Image if you will being John Every Employee. You have asked John to complete a mandatory training course – you know – code of conduct, keep out of company jail kind of stuff that we are all so excited to do every year…..repeat after us “I solemnly swear I am up to no good….” – ok we are there. But John can’t launch the course – and it is not because he has a browser issue or even an issue with the course itself per se.
Picture it, your office, some day in the future – you have redefined the role profile, you have tons of new qualified candidates, and you have your pick of the best candidate you can imagine. This is awesome right. But how did this come to be?
Organizations of all sizes, across all industries are challenged to find the talent they need the most. Once you find the talent, it’s a race with the clock to keep that talent as long as you can. (Cue the Mission Impossible Music) – does this feel familiar?
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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.
