Showing posts with label online courses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online courses. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Assessment Solutions Can Maximize the Efficiency of Human Resources Functions

Employers are looking for the best employees in the market because they want those who are looking for a long-term relationship. The old methods are no longer sufficient for companies to hire the employees they feel will fit into their company’s business model, so there is a need for human resources personnel to learn and implement new methodology for screening new employees and assuring existing employees meet the company’s needs.


The ability to work with new and old employees is an important one because companies want to eliminate turnover in both departments and within the company as a whole. Being able to use online training is both cost-effective and time-sensitive because there is no need for employees to sit down and write out answers that need to have someone manually evaluate the knowledge of the person taking the test.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

LMSs Enhance Learning for Shorter Attention Spans

As the internet generation is bombarded with newer and newer ways to distract itself, we can’t really get a clear picture of all the consequences they’re having on young people’s learning systems. But one outcome is plain to anyone who spends time in any classroom, whether it’s 100% face-to-face or LMS-supplemented: shorter attention spans.

Studies show that the digital generation is less willing to read long texts, perform repetitious exercises, and memorize basic information needed to advance in any learning system, LMS or otherwise.

One problem is that this tech-savvy generation expects instant gratification, and therefore is quicker to lose confidence when faced with challenges. When success is not immediately obtained, students are quicker to lose the confidence required to see a difficult task through to completion.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Customize Your Retail Training

Of course, there are many online retail training courses available which are pre-packaged and ready to be implemented in an organization. But why not design your own, customized to your organization's specific retail training requirements?

LMS platforms allow organizations to provide their employees and managers with robust training courses which are specifically designed for unique organizational structures. Using tools such as podcasts, video tools, simulation technology, streaming and other simple-to-use LMS tools, retail training can be tailored to individual companies and provided in a user-friendly way. For beginner authors of online courses, simple and user-friendly LMS course creation toolkits are available. Additionally, after designing a training course, authors can choose to syndicate the course, use it in-house only, or a combination of both.

Some LMS platforms include their own marketplace where online courses can be showcased and sold. Additionally, for the pre-packaged option, online courses that others have designed can also be found on some LMS sites.

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Fitness Certification LMS Tools

LMSs offer great resources for students and authors of fitness trainer certification courses. Course creation tools such as the Apple podcast producer, video and simulation tools open the door to highly visual instructive elements in the course, which should be complemented by quizzes and tests to check for understanding. Using an LMS, fitness training courses can be as dynamic and interactive as the course creator desires.

Online courses are a great option for aspiring fitness trainers or trainers who would like to brush up on their skills. Fitness trainers want to help others feel better, get into shape, and improve the quality of their lives. For anyone looking to either create or complete a fitness trainer certification program, LMSs are the perfect tool.

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Homeschooling - Technological Benefits for Your Child

There are many good reasons to consider homeschooling as an alternative to a public or private school system for your child. Support, flexibility, technological advantages, quality, and creativity are five major benefits to homeschooling.

As a home educator, you'll find great flexibility in your daytime activities. You'll have control over your day and your child's social activities, arranging get-togethers, taking educational day trips, and engaging in other fun activities.

Second, home educators have available to them a great support system, both at home and outside the home. If you are stuck on a subject you're not sure how to teach, finding online tutors tutors for these subjects. Additionally, with the wealth of curriculum and learning materials, learning management system courses and other internet resources, you'll find plenty of support. Coggno is now offering a free trial for home educators on its learning management system. Create online courses for home use, or for syndication.

Which leads to our third benefit: home educators have access to and control over the best educational web 2.0 tools for crafting a robust learning experience. Online work serves to complement lessons, activities and assignments. Learning management systems are a convenient and easy way to improve students' ICT skills and familiarize them with new technology.

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