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What are microinteractions? How can you use them to deliver better, effective, and engaging learning experiences? Today, we talk about the importance of user experience, user engagement, and user interaction in learning. But, why do we usually limit them to a website or a web-based product? Why do we not use them in digital learning?

When it comes to the efficacy of learning, other than course content and instructional design elements, what matters a lot is learner motivation. Well, you cannot control the learners' motivation but you can influence their levels of motivation for sure. You can either motivate the learners to learn or entirely kill their interest. As a learning experience designer, your influence is unlikely to be neutral. In this article, we will look at motivational design and specifically the ARCS model of motivational design.

Mobile devices are an effective learning and training aid. They are handy and provide anytime, anywhere learning. However, the overall impact and effectiveness of mobile learning depend on multiple factors.

A virtual learning environment is a medium of learning where learners go through courses, study materials and learning aids through an online medium. It can be browser-based or a virtual training session through Zoom. Virtual learning offers activities, interactions, and resources within a course structure and provides different levels of assessment. Given this context, learners can access learning materials through peer-to-peer collaboration networks such as forums. As social learning is a continuous process of learning from other people within and outside the organization, it can be integrated into virtual learning through various means.

Onboarding is both a nervous and an exciting experience for a new employee. A new employee brings to the table varied technical know-how. However, soft skills are an area where a new employee may require training.

Organizations large and small face the difficult task of continually ensuring their employees are up-to-date on the latest compliance training, the various aspects of their products and services and are encouraging an ethical and positive corporate culture. It's impossible to continually take employees away from their mission critical tasks to attend lengthy, time consuming training programs to achieve all these goals.

Today, corporate training is all about - 'Out of the training room and into the flow of work'. Organizations are working towards changing their approaches in delivering learning and reshaping their learning models to deliver meaningful content, which is accessible as just-in-time training to support employee development.

Among the custom digital learning solutions, I find gamification to be one of the most effective in creating the right impact on the learners. Gamification in eLearning helps in better retention of knowledge and concepts. In this blog, I will discuss some approaches to make gamification in eLearning work well.

With COVID-19 taking a grip over the world, organizations across the globe are forced to rethink how they conduct business, train, and equip their employees to meet the challenges posed by the disruption and business dynamics. How are organizations gearing up for the coming year in upskilling and reskilling their employees? We will look at some key trends that will reshape the learning landscape in the coming year and beyond.

Summary: The modern learners are looking for mobile, self-paced, and personalized eLearning content. You might be looking to develop such content on your own or outsource your eLearning to a custom eLearning vendor. But, before you decide on one, you should know why you need a custom eLearning vendor.

This article will go through a few strategies that you can utilize to revamp your obsolete eLearning content into highly engaging training material. However, before we get started, let us look at why transforming your outdated content is essential.

Learning journeys are a key component in achieving the learning objectives and training outcomes for the workforce. It is especially important during this unprecedented pandemic. This article will discuss 4 strategies that will help you create effective virtual learning journeys for your employees.

Microlearning can be implemented as a pre-training solution to get familiar with the subject or as a post-training refresher. In this article, I will share 3 scenarios where microlearning fits best.

Remote workplace management hasn't been easy for business leaders. But remote culture is something that's here to stay. In fact, it is anticipated that 74% of the workforce will work remotely by 2028.

The debate on good content, relevant content, legacy content, and futuristic content will be never-ending. Content relevance and usefulness are two pivotal aspects defining the presence or absence of an effective learning outcome. Let's see how this content comes alive.