How To Transform Your SMEs Into Employee Mentors & Content Creators

Your subject matter experts (SMEs) are brimming with useful information—so why not allow them to author and deliver learning content?

There are plenty of practical reasons to create a direct link from your experts’ knowledge to your learners’ brains. By letting your SMEs take the reins, you’ll boost the productivity and output of your L&D function, taking the edge off your instructional designers’ workloads without a drop in content quality.

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3 Ways Games Support Microlearning

Have you ever read a whole book in one sitting (besides when Harry Potter came out)?

Likewise, you wouldn’t expect your learners to read a textbook or your training material all in one sitting. Even if your learners were required to digest that much information in one sitting, they’d likely forget most of it.

For today’s workforce Microlearning makes training digestible by breaking things down into smaller bites, and games are the best way to implement that learning.

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Top eLearning Trends To Watch 2023

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As we emerge from the year that will go down as a ‘stabilisation year’, we look around to find ourselves in a new normal. One where we find ourselves grappling with hybrid work and a technological explosion we can barely keep up with.

While 2022 was less ‘annus horribilis’ (to quote the Queen) than the pandemic years that preceded it – it was nevertheless tumultuous. It ended with high interest rates, and a predicted economic slowdown in 2023.

So, what lies ahead in 2023? We look at some of the most significant trends to watch for in 2023, and how to deal with the rapid changes and capitalise on opportunities.

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Create Something As Engaging As Instagram And Addictive As Candy Crush

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How IT Cosmetics Engaged & Immersed Its Sales Force

Moving Training From PDF To Passport Journey

For a young cosmetics brand, it’s challenging to ensure that products are known and highlighted in the open-sell environment. IT Cosmetics, a division of L’Oreal and top beauty brand sold at ULTA Beauty, QVC, Sephora, and a variety of other retailers, set out to find creative ways to make fast facts and information available at their educator’s fingertips. In 2018 Shannon Pirie Charles, Group Vice President of Education asked, “In an open-sell environment like Sephora and Ulta, education is pivotal and we are constantly asking ourselves…how do we stand out?”

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The VR Creator Economy Will Make You Faster, Smarter

Immersive learning production is now easier than ever. Could this be the welcome boost L&D needs, bringing it back to the top of the corporate agenda again?

It looks like this is the transformation we’ve all been waiting for – with the introduction of new tools, platforms and other offerings aimed at creating immersive experiences for use in the metaverse or other platforms.

Alongside the growth in VR content, the growth of VR Content Management platforms is underway. These are aimed at managing and disseminating learning experiences within enterprises and industries. And importantly, one in particular, CenarioVR has the ability to tailor content, capture and collate learning outcomes.

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