2016 Training Trends:Quotes from L&D Experts

Trends help us refine our training techniques and stay relevant to the needs of learners. We talked to experts in learning and development to get their opinion about what’s big for 2016 in training trends.

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Karl KappProfessor of Instructional TechnologyBloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Jathan JanovePrincipalOrganization Solutions

David Zinger

Global Employee Engagement ExpertFounder Employee Engagement Network

Kellye Whitney

Associate Editorial DirectorChief Learning Officer

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Sybil StershicOwnerQuality Service Marketing

Zaid Alsagoff

Principle Lead (Elearning and Innovation) International Medical University

Ryan Tracey

Editorial BoardMembereLearn Magazine

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Our collective mindset has shifted away from pushing everything onto mobile devices so our people can learn outside of work hours (which is really quite naïve) to enabling our people to use their devices to pull in content when they need it.”

Mobile & Responsive Design

Learn More: Responsive Design

Ryan Tracey

Editorial BoardMembereLearn Magazine

We have been flooded with content. Now the dam has burst and we are flooded with learning material from a multitude of sources, such as Coursera, Lynda, and Udemy. Our challenge is to engage the learner. I have signed up for many online courses but have never gone beyond the first module.”

MOOCs

Learn More: Elearning

David Zinger

Global Employee Engagement ExpertFounder Employee Engagement Network

Gamification is no longer a buzzword. Over the last 5 years, the discourse has changed from how gamification is going to fix all of our ills—or that it’s a complete waste of time—to a more constructive conversation about how game mechanics might or might not help us improve our performance.”

Gamification

Learn More: Gamification

Ryan Tracey

Editorial BoardMembereLearn Magazine

Organizations are trying out more mobile, and even Snapchat, technology delivery systems for training use, but without the ability to customize development options to learners’ needs in the moment, the latest and greatest bells and whistles won’t help as much as they could.”

Personalization & Adaptive Evaluation

Learn More: Personalized Training

Kellye Whitney

Associate Editorial DirectorChief Learning Officer

It’s getting harder and harder as a CFO or a CEO to avoid the fact that the correlation between engaged employees and success can’t be denied. Talent is your investment.”

Employee Engagement

Learn More: Employee EngagementJathan JanovePrincipalOrganization Solutions

We invite learners. We can’t make them learn, so we must strive to ensure our invitation is compelling, and that once the invitation is accepted the training continues to be compelling and engaging until the very last word, video, or exercise.

Employee Engagement

Learn More: Grab the Learner’s Attention

David Zinger

Global Employee Engagement ExpertFounder Employee Engagement Network

It will be interesting to see how personalized learning will evolve and potentially grow disruptively in the coming years, as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook continue to venture into online learning to empower everyone online to learn whatever, whenever, wherever, however, from whomever they want.

Personalization & Adaptive Evaluation

Learn More: Quiet Leadership

Zaid Alsagoff

Principle Lead (Elearning and Innovation) International Medical University

It’s all about identifying where learners are in their development and creating programs and interventions to elevate them to that next level – without forcing peers to stride along the same learning path.”

Personalization & Adaptive Evaluation

Learn More: Blended Learning

Kellye Whitney

Associate Editorial DirectorChief Learning Officer

The social connectedness, the bite-sized learning element and the ability to access the content quickly and exactly when needed is an invaluable way of learning in our modern, fast-paced world.”

Social Learning

Learn More: Make Social Learning More Organic

Karl KappProfessor of Instructional TechnologyBloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Whether developing employees through in-house training or sending them off site to professional development programs or specialized industry conferences, quality face-to-face training provides participants the dedicated, uninterrupted time they need to digest, discuss, adapt, and apply.

In-person Development

Learn More: Instructor-Led TrainingSybil StershicOwnerQuality Service Marketing

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