Welcome to the January issue of the Learning Dispatch newsletter. Today, we’ll discuss: Planning for 2026: Delivering Training Let’s talk about training modalities—that is, how training is delivered. Specifically, how training might be shared with employees or staff. The start of a new year can be the start of a new budget. How best to put your training dollars to work? Note, this is a very practical question. Even asking[…]
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Planning for 2026: Closing the AI Governance Gap: A Roadmap for Learning and Development in 2026.
Please note: Over the next couple of months, we’ll be looking at influential trends to consider when planning training programs for 2026. A post by Sanjay Nasta, CEO of Microassist, Inc. Synthesia’s research, based on a late 2025 survey of 421 L&D professionals, found that eighty-seven percent said their teams already use artificial intelligence (AI). Most reported AI use centers on production tasks: voice generation, content and assessment drafting, voice[…]
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Please note: Over the next couple of months, we’ll be looking at influential trends to consider when planning training programs for 2026. Okay, having a greater focus on evidence-based training is a perennial topic. Why put it forward as an essential component of planning for training programs for 2026? It’s true that every year training needs to throw off the shackles of myth (learning styles, memory of a goldfish, digital[…]
READ MORE about Planning for 2026: Evidence-Based TrainingRealities of Engaging Neurodiverse Students in Higher Education During COVID
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” Attributed to Alan Turing, as depicted in the film The Imitation Game (2014) When I first became a teacher of record at a university for entry-level writing composition courses in 2018, the teaching environment looked entirely different from the world we see now. Before the days of obsessive hand washing, mask-wearing,[…]
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Planning a Training Rollout to Better Equip Your Team. Here’s How to Get Started. A training rollout is a series of trainings offered to a targeted group to help achieve an organization’s training goals. Planning a training rollout is a complex task, but necessary to project success. There are several items to consider when creating a training rollout. They are best framed by the famous 5 W’s: Who, What, When,[…]
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Some training presentations, team meetings, and event brainstorming sessions are ‘simple’ enough to move online for a virtual meetup. However, recreating a training experience that is both engaging and effective online typically requires more than uploading a PowerPoint deck to your video-conferencing platform, or building in time for participant questions. Well before the reset to “work-from-home”, learning designers and HR professionals often struggled with how to take an existing, effective[…]
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Is your virtual training accessible? Many of us, by now, have mastered the art of virtual in-person training (sometimes known as “Zoomversity.”) But now we need to consider—is our virtual training accessible? Can it be used by people who have disabilities, such as those related to vision, hearing, mobility, or cognition? I recently presented on the idea that online training needs to be accessible—whether “live” virtual in-person training or training[…]
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This seems to be a boom time for elearning. With stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and the explosion of work-from-home, online training has experienced tremendous growth in popularity these last several weeks. Online training, of course, isn’t new—it’s been around for over a decade. Examples include the one-hour self-paced, self-study course and the instructor-led, video-based, take-it-on-your-own-time courses from universities, LinkedIn Learning, Skillshare, and numerous other providers. Is the sudden popularity (by[…]
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How to engage all your learners when faced with moving training online? Training Managers have a lot to do – especially as you have team members moving to working remote, that were in-office last week. How do you continue to address accessibility for your organization’s training program as you move more elements online? There are things that you’ll be able to do that are not difficult. Ensuring that designers check[…]
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2020 has already been a year of surprises. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting us all: our employees and their families, our neighbors, our colleges and universities, business communities, public servants, and our daily way of life. As we all strive to keep our homes safe and sustain our businesses, we are deeply grateful and inspired by all the selfless individuals in the front lines to care for those who are[…]
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