e-Learning
I always love seeing blog entries that contain great resource references. So, I thought I would start one! Here is the start of a list that I decided to start compiling of some really good blogs that contain a ton of resources, tips, tricks and more links. Feel like sharing yours and growing the list?
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org
Box of Tricks
Creative Teaching
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
Custom Training and eLearning Blog
Educational Origami
Experiencing E-Learning
Jane...
An ideal way to engage learners is through video. As an example of the popularity of video you only need look as far as the website YouTube, which currently has 15 hours of footage uploaded to it by users every minute. Digital technology whether it is mobile, video or computer games has fundamentally reshaped the way most of us connect with, make sense of and engage with society.
We need to understand that most of the younger generation will expect an entirely new type of relationship with the...
eLearning plays an extremely important role in terms of sustainability. For those organizations looking to be more sustainable and save costs in the process, eLearning is the best way to improve and expand employee skill sets without having to incur additional travelling costs.
eLearning helps organizations expand training opportunities to more employees in more places. It’s available on-demand, providing instant learning at a moment’s notice. For organization’s looking to impart new security...
Consistent updates will assist you in managing change throughout the yearly life cycle of your security awareness program. It is imperative that you update your program to ensure that training/ awareness/education deployments do not become stagnant and therefore irrelevant to real emerging issues faced by the organization. A planned and consistent update program will also allow you to address changes in security policy, directives and procedures driven from new threats, technologies or...
What can possibly go wrong? Find some applicable e-learning that meets the need to the organization, deploy and away you go…right? Wrong. There are multiple factors one must consider when choosing to deploy an e-learning program. There are the direct outcomes such as: learner retention, sustainability, ROI, and both business and learner impact. There are also adoption considerations, such as relevance, acceptance and completion. Also, you need to factor in alignment considerations, such as:...
If you are considering instructor led vs. e-learning methodologies for your next security awareness training class, it might be interesting to note that it has been indicated that only 15 minutes of a one of a one-hour instructor-led class is relevant and therefore the class may be only 25 percent efficient because the learner had to sit through 45-minutes of unnecessary material. If an e-learner is able to skip 45-minutes of material, or pass a pre-assessment test, allowing them to focus...
e-Learning, can deliver enormous effectiveness gains to an organization. But how do you justify the initial investment and how do you ensure that learning is aligned with the company's business goals?
Almost everyone realizes that eLearning provides convenient 24/7 access to learning, tremendous cost savings, reduced time away from the job, centralized knowledge management and built-in ease of use in terms of student enrollment, course management and tracking.
However, telling managers about...
