A reputed agro based company recently approached us to conduct an assessment centre for their sales force. An assessment centre is a tool to systematic and objective identification of behaviours in individuals, to support actions such as selection, placement, promotion, career management and training. In an assessment centre, individuals are put through various activities, which help assessors test a set of specific competencies in individuals. These competencies could be to do with the attitude of employees, their skills set, or their domain knowledge. Usually, the set of competencies will encompass all three aspects. Read more…
Three Ways to Test Effectiveness Without Learners
By Archana | Jun16, 2009 | Main Articles No Comments »Have you worked on projects where you have limited access to learners? Do you roll out the course anyway? Let us first list the reasons why learner testing cannot be conducted for all projects.
- Learners may be situated halfway across the world and therefore, they are accessible only over phones/Skype/emails.
- Clients may not wish to give you direct access to their learners as they are not comfortable about this. Read more…
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Informal Learning - 7 Reasons Why Organizations Must Promote it
By Archana | May27, 2009 | Main Articles 1 Comment »Informal learning is also known also social learning and collaborative learning (Read about it: What is Social Learning? by Rupa. As defined by Jay Cross, “Informal learning is unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu, way people learn to do their job.” How often have you heard people talk business during social gatherings? Students discuss what was taught in class outside. People share their thoughts on interesting reads during coffee breaks. Read more…
We often face many issues with LMS and SCORM packaging as we program for different types of LMS. This article will help e-learning course providers understand SCORM and LMS in detail and why the SCORM issues pop up.
What is an LMS
LMS is a suite of functionality designed to deliver, track report on, and manage learning content and learner progress and interactions. Most LMS are web-based to facilitate “anytime, anywhere” access to learning content and administration. Read more…
This post has been coauthored by Geeta Bose and Archana Narayan.
This month’s Big Question is Stuck? Getting Unstuck? We would like to share three instances where we get stuck and the ways we got unstuck. Read more…
Do we consider mental models of our learner before we design training? Is this necessary? Let us first understand the concept of mental models better. Mental models is a person’s perception of reality and how they understand a particular concept. Cognitive scientists studied mental models to gain a better understanding of how humans think and perceive things. Donald Norman explains that people constantly form mental models of themselves and of things they are interacting with. These models help people understand certain phenomena. Read more…
Audio is a crucial aspect of an elearning application. There are lots of courses that do not have audio. These courses can still be good if the learner hates audio. But audio can play an important role in learning. Audio:
- Sets the tone for your course. If the audio is formal, the theme of your course will be formal. If the audio is humorous, the theme of your course is light and humorous.
- Adds a personal touch by giving your course a personality. This does not apply for robot-like audio.
- Captures learner’s attention.
- Completes the learning experience.
- Reinforces learning by supplementing visuals and content. Read more…
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Analyzing responses on a rating scale can pose a challenge because there is no universal standard in measuring each component. We do not know the variation in severity from “strongly disagree” and “disagree.” There is no standard, measurable or even equal distance between “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree.” Read more…
