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Employee engagement – why learning and development must be the torchbearer in the 4th Revolution

Employee engagement is in a moment of crisis, with organisations that are too slow to adapt rapidly being left behind by the 4th Revolution. In our new article, discover how it falls to L&D to drive engagement in the digital age, because your organisation could be next.

http://saffroninteractive.com/employee-engagement-learning-development/

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VR learning — potential as far as the eye can see

We recently released a more cautionary blog on the drawbacks of VR, but in this one we've let the imagination run wild. Developer Fabio Felizzi explores the boundless pedagogical potential of VR from a learning perspective, and why we should all keep our (and our learners') eyes on it.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/vr-learning-potential-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see/

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Lean process — How lean learning benefits L&D

Lean process is a philosophy devoted to a perfect value creation cycle with zero waste. For L&D departments, that means tuning your work processes to harness a lean, mean, learning machine. Find out how to lean out in our latest Spicy Learning Blog.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/lean-process/

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Learning trends 2017: All hail the… VR?

Has VR arrived to save the learning world? Not so fast... In our brand new Spicy Learning Blog, 'All hail the… VR?', Saffron's Egle Vinauskite dives into the latest learning trend, VR, and surfaces with some cautionary pearls of wisdom about the dangers of being distracted by shiny new toys.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/learning-trends-2017-hail-vr/

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Super Personalize Me

Super personalize me – a brand new long read Insight article from Saffron's James Parry – goes on a deep exploration of our desperation for personalization, how it's fueled by big data, and ways in which it can fire up your learning propositions. Read on, because this time it's personal!

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/article/super-personalize-me/

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Live and Let Comply – How compliance training can be improved

How do you drive learner engagement in compliance training? Give them a supervillain to fight against, the 007 gadgets to do it with, and a save-the-world motivation. Then you have a license to instil. In our Bond-themed latest Spicy Learning Blog, Saffron's James Gregory shows you just how to illuminate the shadowy world of compliance training, leaving you ready to comply another day.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/how-compliance-training-can-be-improved/

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Enough fussing about it – what does Pokémon GO really mean for the future of elearning?

Anyone with access to a mobile device, a newspaper, or even a pair of eyes will be aware of the recent craze, ‘Pokémon GO’ hitting the world by storm over the last two months. The app based game, which incentivises walking outside so that the user can collect Pokémon and grow their collection, peaked with almost 45 million worldwide users in July. So what does this tell us about the future of augmented reality? Or even the future of elearning?

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/enough-fussing-about-it-what-does-pokemon-go-really-mean-for-the-future-of-elearning/

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Enough fussing about it – what does Pokémon GO really mean for the future of elearning?

Anyone with access to a mobile device, a newspaper, or even a pair of eyes will be aware of the recent craze, ‘Pokémon GO’ hitting the world by storm over the last two months. The app based game, which incentivises walking outside so that the user can collect Pokémon and grow their collection, peaked with almost 45 million worldwide users in July. So what does this tell us about the future of augmented reality? Or even the future of elearning?

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/enough-fussing-about-it-what-does-pokemon-go-really-mean-for-the-future-of-elearning/

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Leveraging the IKEA effect to create an LMS your learners love

Where do you find your insights at work?

Where do you go to find insights and information at work? A Saffron Interactive survey revealed that people overwhelmingly turned to Google, with the second most popular response being to ‘ask a colleague’. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Google is instant and easy to use, but provides information from the whole of the internet, making it difficult to filter the most relevant information. In contrast, asking a colleague is instant and contextual, but what happens when a trusted colleague leaves your organisation, and takes with her all of her knowledge and expertise?

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/leveraging-the-ikea-effect-to-create-an-lms-your-learners-love/

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You can’t automate blood, sweat and tears (versions 1, 2 and 3)

Thesis v1: Bespoke elearning will never be produced by robots. Artificial intelligence is simply not going to replace the blood, sweat and tears of instructional designers, graphic designers, developers and project managers.

And when it does, we will find other things for them to do.

Let me explain. An algorithm can put text and pictures together and format them. An algorithm can assemble meaningful questions from raw content. In other words, an algorithm can probably do what a bad instructional designer or a bad elearning developer can do.

But the algorithm cannot choose the best picture. The algorithm cannot devise the right question. It cannot do what a good instructional designer can do. And as soon as it can, the good instructional designer will go one better.

I’m being deliberately contradictory. And this blog post is not the place to solve the conundrum of what endows a digital object with value. But I suspect it’s human effort, not software.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/you-cant-automate-blood-sweat-and-tears-versions-1-2-and-3/

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Bottom’s up! Let’s change the rules…

It’s that time of year again, you know, when at the top of your inbox is an all staff communication reminding you to put time aside to prepare for a career development conversation with your manager. The question is, do you:

1. Get annoyed at the thought of yet another item for your ‘to do’ list

2. Get cynical about how ‘valuable’ your last one was

3. Dread the thought of having to think about where you’re going in your career

If any of these sound familiar; you’re not alone. So why is something that should be the chance to focus on yourself, often tossed aside or feared? Well there may be a several reasons but the overriding one is that development should by its nature be a continuous progression. A journey of self-discovery into one’s own needs and ambitions, enabled through honest personal reflection.

When deadlines are inevitably missed it’s often HR that are blamed for the ills around the performance management cycle. To help put the onus back into the hands in which they belong, it’s worth considering two points.

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Driving engagement; the use of behavioural nudges

The movie Avatar is on TV again, but in 2009, when it was released, did you subject yourself to the 2 hours and 42 minutes because you thought you were one of the few who hadn’t seen it? And do you try to avoid the ‘free taster’ stands in supermarkets because you can’t trust yourself not to buy something from them afterwards? And don’t even get me started on the stampedes caused by a rare Pokémon appearing in Hyde Park…

These experiences are structured by marketers who have been using behavioural insights for years, albeit under a different name. More recently policy makers have caught up and have been devising behavioural science-driven policies to increase school attendance, voter turnout, cancer prevention and other public benefit programmes for a fraction of the price.

That got me thinking: if an app can persuade a person to skip their lunch and instead run to Hyde Park, dress, shoes, suit and all, there must be a way to use the same techniques for a more worthwhile endeavour such as learning. As an instructional designer at Saffron, my colleagues and I diligently integrate these techniques in our course design but the first hurdle is to get the learner to start the course in the first place!

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/using-behavioural-nudges-to-drive-elearning-engagement-part-1/

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Are you enabling learners to share their knowledge?

Over 75% of all Internet users are on social media. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and more,  have now invaded our everyday lives, and added a new dimension not only to the way that we communicate, but also to the way we learn!

With social media, communication is no longer a one-to-one conversation, but rather a one-to-the-community, or community-to-community conversation. The power of an individual using this medium cannot be understated, given that major social revolutions in our recent history such as the Arab Spring were fuelled by Facebook.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/are-you-enabling-learners-to-share-their-knowledge/

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Are you enabling learners to share their knowledge?

Over 75% of all Internet users are on social media. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and more,  have now invaded our everyday lives, and added a new dimension not only to the way that we communicate, but also to the way we learn!

With social media, communication is no longer a one-to-one conversation, but rather a one-to-the-community, or community-to-community conversation. The power of an individual using this medium cannot be understated, given that major social revolutions in our recent history such as the Arab Spring were fuelled by Facebook.

Read more: http://saffroninteractive.com/are-you-enabling-learners-to-share-their-knowledge/