As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the way many of us go to work has changed drastically over the last several months. According to an IDG survey released in April, 78% of employees have been working from home more than 60% of the time. That represents a big change;... more
The term “mindfulness” has been used a lot in the past several years – and not just in yoga studios and meditation classes. It’s made its way into the workplace with companies offering online therapy that includes mindfulness training – and no doubt it’s popped onto your podcast suggestions or... more
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work and learn, but it’s also changed another fundamental thing about the L&D community: how we connect. We’re halfway through 2020. By this point in a normal year, there would have been several major L&D conferences. We’d be connecting with our friends... more
Organizational learning is going through a seismic shift. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new world of remote workers, with no chance for in-person classroom training. Delivering digital learning to a dispersed workforce is a challenge most organizations have been nibbling at the edges of for years. Now, seemingly overnight,... more
As you may have heard, Disney+ recently released a filmed version of the Broadway smash hit, ‘Hamilton’. For those of you who aren’t familiar, ‘Hamilton’ is a musical created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton. During its original Broadway run, tickets were impossible to... more
As the U.S. prepares for our annual Fourth of July celebrations this coming weekend, this year takes on a different tone as we continue to endure the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. There will be very few picnics, barbecues, and pool parties, although I have heard about some virtual fireworks events, as... more
Getting started with digital learning can be deceptively simple. Buy some online content, put the content into a platform, then market it to your audiences to increase use. Voila! You have a digital learning strategy. Or do you? The truth is that executing in such an overly simple way will... more
We’re all learners right now. Most workers, still clocking in from home, are learning skills they didn’t know they needed. We’re learning skills like how to look professional and polished on surprise video calls, when we might feel otherwise. We’re learning how to get our pets to understand we are... more
Tomorrow is Earth Day 2020 and here on the Litmos blog, we’ll be dedicating several posts this month to the various ways that online learning is a better choice for the environment than traditional, in-person training. I’m happy to be part of this collaboration with the internal team at Litmos... more
In 2009, an SRI team working for the Department of Education led by Barbara Means, reported for the first time, that eLearning was superior to face-to-face. This is in contrast to the work that Kulik and Kulik had been doing that showed that Computer-Based Training was no worse than face-to-face... more
