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What if Learning Was a Martial Arts Movie?

By Digitec Interactive|2016-10-20T22:14:25+00:00October 20th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, eLearning, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Training and Development, Uncategorized|

Whether they’re a hardened mercenary or a peace-loving monk, the main characters in martial arts films are always dedicated to what they do. It’s clear that they’ve devoted their lives to their art and everything [...]

Can I Get a Mentor?

By Digitec Interactive|2016-10-13T09:00:43+00:00October 13th, 2016|Communications, Employee engagement and reterntion, Learning Theory, Member Engagement and Retention, Online Communities, Training and Development|

I hate to say it, but medieval Europe might have had better job preparation than we do today. In short, they used apprenticeships. I’m glossing over a lot of details and caveats here but, if [...]

Crash Course For Constructive Feedback

By Digitec Interactive|2016-10-06T19:16:32+00:00October 6th, 2016|eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Project Management, Training and Development|

Feedback is a wonderful thing, when you can understand it. When you can’t… To quote Captain Jack Sparrow, “Well that’s even more than less than unhelpful.” You get the idea. Think back to the last [...]

I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development – Part 3

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-29T09:00:25+00:00September 29th, 2016|Association Management, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Post, Game-based Learning, Gamification, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Member Engagement & Retention, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Training and Development, Uncategorized|

Part 2 discussed five outdated Learning and Development (L&D) practices and why they don’t work. This final installment is going to visit the other side of the coin. Here are five updated practices that will [...]

Bridge the Skills-Gap with Competency Based Learning

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-22T09:00:42+00:00September 22nd, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Communications, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Member Engagement & Retention, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

Dear Associations, I am trying to get into a skilled labor position at company X. I have some experience but there are new rules and regulations and I just can’t keep up. I could go [...]

The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned From Instructional Design

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-16T18:28:58+00:00September 16th, 2016|Creative Design, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Posts, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Mobile Learning, Project Management, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

I’m not a “numbers person.” I never have been. Some people aren’t “words people.” And that’s okay. In college, I cringed on behalf of my science major friends when they told me about their multi-hour [...]

Simple Learning Solutions

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-09T21:24:08+00:00September 9th, 2016|Communications, eLearning, Featured Posts, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Project Management, Tips and Tricks, Training and Development|

A year or so back, I was part of a mentoring program at my alma mater. They were pairing current students with recent graduates to help them with life skills that aren’t usually taught in [...]

What Instructional Designers Really Do

By Digitec Interactive|2016-09-02T00:40:05+00:00September 2nd, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, eLearning, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Strategic Planning, Training and Development|

I want to apologize. I write about instructional design (ID) all the time but I’ve never stopped to explain what Instructional Designers really do. There are numerous definitions for it and many of them are [...]

I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development

By Digitec Interactive|2016-07-14T09:00:54+00:00July 14th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Association Management, Creative Design, eLearning, Employee engagement and reterntion, Featured Post, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Strategic Planning, Training and Development|

The learning and development (L&D) world seems to be confused by, if not outright afraid of, millennials. Curious about the ruckus, I did some research. And admittedly, as a millennial, I was curious to see [...]

eLearning Glossary Part 2: More Commonly Used Terms

By Digitec Interactive|2016-06-09T23:21:33+00:00June 9th, 2016|Association eLearning Blog, Communications, eLearning, Featured Posts, Game-based Learning, Gamification, Gamification, Instructional Design, Learning Theory, Training and Development|

Previously we dug into the alphabet soup of eLearning terms and acronyms. But you weren’t full. You asked for seconds. So, here are some of the additional terms you wanted defined. ADDIE- The ADDIE model [...]