Our practitioners are in client businesses every week. These are the arguments, patterns and practical methods that come out of that — written for people who have to make a decision on Monday, not for people collecting reading material.
Both published, both written from live programmes
L&D;, compliance and platform owners who have to choose
Singapore and Hong Kong SAR, referenced globally
Written and scheduled; they publish as they clear review
If you read nothing else, read these two. They carry the argument the rest of this site rests on.
Each system owns a different question. Without a single learner record underneath, they drift. Why buying one and bolting the rest on makes the problem worse, and how to sequence the decision properly.
Most enterprises hold the pieces and cannot produce the chain — and the gap shows up at audit, when there is no time to rebuild it. The six-link evidence chain, the record fields auditors ask for first, and retention periods that hold up under external review.
Our own coverage map. If a topic is in a pale column we will say so rather than pretending to expertise we do not have — which is also why this page is not a list of everything anyone has ever published about learning.
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Filter by the area you are working in. Everything published is here — nothing is held back for the newsletter.
In the business perspective, is staff training an investment or expense?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to adversely affect the globe, many employees are working from home. Although the outbreak of disease caught…
Editor's note: First of all, I want readers to think about a few questions first: What is the essence of online education? Is it MOOC, big data,…
Over the last ten years the learning technology industry has undergone radical change. With a flurry of acquisitions and many new technologies now…
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If you’ve never used e-learning in your business, you might meet some resistance to its introduction. If you already use e-learning, you might know…
Among all that’s happened this year, one of the most important parts of business has been learning. More than 40% of Americans have changed jobs;…
Compliance training is a legal necessity, but it is also important for the smooth running, competitiveness, and profitability of your business. It’s…
E-learning brings a range of advantages to the training function in your business. You can reduce costs with e-learning as well as improving training…
In today's rapidly changing business environment, your organization has an ever-growing need to provide timely and effective training and learning to…
The importance of company culture cannot be overstated. It’s connected to staff retention, productivity, and standards of customer service in addition…
What is e-learning – this is a question that should be easy to answer. The “e” is for electronic after all, so it is any sort of learning that is…
The annual enterprise meeting can give every employee and team an opportunity to show their elegant demeanor, and stimulate morale, strategic…
If you are new to e-learning or have only tried it on a small scale, expanding its use in your organisation requires careful consideration.…
E-learning product training can be offered to employees anytime and anywhere. Compare this with classroom-based training. With classroom-based…
As we read more and more about talent management suites and the rapid growth in the market for integrated HR software, what has happened to the market…
After many years as an analyst in this market, learning management systems continue to amaze me. They are like chameleons – continuously changing and…
The enormous market for training and learning tools is very fragmented. Today there are more than 200 LMS vendors, more than 30 LXP vendors, and…
Over the last several years the corporate learning marketplace has been under stress. Video-based learning programs, free courses, MOOCs, and hundreds…
We just released our newest research on the corporate Learning Management Systems market and the numbers are astounding. The market is well over $2.5…
The market for corporate training and education (including onboarding, leadership development, and compliance) is well over $240 billion around the…
A shoe just dropped in the talent management marketplace. Workday introduced Workday Learning, the company’s new solution for learning management…
In many ways, this transition is very similar to the last “big thing” to hit corporate training – the “e-learning” era. The word “e-learning” started…
China has passed its data protection law named the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) that came into effect on November 1, 2021. The PIPL is…
By Anna Gamvros (HK) and Lianying Wang (CN) on August 24, 2021 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Cybersecurity
In the high-stakes world of insurance—where competition is fierce, regulations are non-negotiable, and agent performance directly impacts customer…
You can put all e-learning courses into one of two categories – synchronous e-learning and asynchronous e-learning. The technology used for both is…
Analysing client needs – your needs – is one of the most important parts of the process of developing an effective e-learning course. When done right,…
A lot of effort goes into the creation of an e-learning course. After all, you want to make sure the course achieves your objectives and delivers a…
The 70/20/10 learning model has been around since the 1980s. In brief, it describes how people learn:
There are some training and e-learning topics that are simply dull. In many of these situations, the objective is just to get through them while…
If you haven’t used e-learning to train your team, when is the right time to start? A similar question applies if you have used off-the-shelf…
Everyone involved in creating a new e-learning course wants it to be successful. As with all forms and methods of training, however, success is not…
If you are getting started with e-learning for the first time, you’ll achieve better results if you don’t repeat commonly made mistakes. If you have…
E-learning can benefit your business’s training strategy in a range of different ways, from lowering costs to improving the quality of your training to…
Providing good customer service is critical to business success for almost all companies. Good customer service is not a given, though, and it doesn’t…
There is no optimum length for e-learning , as courses should be as long as they need to be to cover the topic and achieve your objectives. However, it…
E-Learning can be defined as anything you learn electronically, whether it’s an instructional video, a question you answered using Google or articles…
How to build training compliance audit evidence that survives external review: the six-link chain, record fields, retention, and what auditors ask first.
A plain comparison of LMS, TMS and HRIS — what each owns, why a single employee record matters, and how to sequence the implementation without buying three broken systems.
Coming in the next batch. Credit accrual across schemes: how to configure a rule once · Evidence retention that survives external review · Multi-language content maintenance without version drift · Partner enablement frameworks for external ecosystems. Subscribe to the briefing and we will send them as they publish.
Because the argument only holds if all the parts connect. A platform without compliance is a portal. Compliance without courseware is a spreadsheet. Courseware without operations is a launch that decays.
Learning centres, enrolment and approval, assessment, certification and reporting on one learner record.
Credit counting, licence validity, renewal cycles, and the evidence a governing body accepts.
Competency records, workforce planning, partner enablement and the administration behind them.
Instructional design, simulation-based learning, multilingual production and authoring at scale.
We write to be useful to somebody who has to make a decision. We do not write to be quoted in a press release, and we will disagree with a prevailing position when we think it is wrong.
Four editorial rules. They are why this page reads like a practitioner wrote it rather than a content team.
Every piece comes from something we built, measured or had to fix. No thought leadership written by people who have not run an engagement.
Each one is written for a specific role making a specific decision. If it does not help anyone decide anything, we do not publish it.
Definition-first, question-form headings, comparison tables and a stated position — so it can be found and cited, not just read.
Articles carry dates because the field moves. Anything that has been materially wrong gets corrected visibly rather than quietly.
The articles above, condensed into what matters for a decision this quarter. No campaigns, no third-party sharing.
Pick the training obligation you most want to stop running by hand. One working session, one scoped diagnostic, and you leave with a decision you can defend to finance.
