Below is a selection of blogs and articles, outlining some of our key thoughts around digital learning.
We have a range of different contributors, both from our team here and from trusted external partners.
Drive Learner Engagement: Tailoring Learning to The Needs of The Modern-Day Employee
To create an engaged learning culture, we must first ask, what do learners want?
Storytelling with Scenario-based eLearning: Why It's Not Just Books
With scenario-based eLearning, harness the power of storytelling to create a more compelling & meaningful learning experience.
In a culture where everything is personalised, why should our learning be any different?
5 Advantages of Using a Learning Management System in the Automotive Industry
Learn why an LMS is the perfect solution for the automotive industry.
You studied, you worked, you conquered. What more learning could there possibly be?
The Psychology of Leaderboards: Why They Do In Fact Work
Yes, ranking 1000th out of a possible 1001 is not exactly motivating. But the real question is, why were that many people on the leaderboard in the first place?
The Top 5 Tips for Conquering Compliance Training
Compliance Training. Two words often dreaded amongst businesses and their employees, due to its stigma as boring and tedious...
Whatever your perspective or experience of onboarding (or induction) to a new place of work, one thing is for sure - like everything else emerging technology...
Unless you've been hibernating under a rock thus far this year, you will be aware GDPR (the EU's General Data Protection Regulation) is coming into force on 25th May 2018.
"Gen Z has a clear advantage over Gen Y because they appear to be more realistic instead of optimistic, are likely to be more career-minded, and can quickly adapt..."
The introduction of Digitalisation can often be perceived as a negative change. Whilst change is inevitable in almost everything we do, the pace at which technology changes...
We have used stories as a way of passing down knowledge from one generation to another for thousands of years.
Digits has a wealth of experience in looking at the key indicators that drive learning in a franchise dealer network.
This article is for anyone that’s interested in the basics of neuroscience and how this can be used when designing good digital learning.
Whether you are considering your first LMS, or you need to upgrade an existing solution where there’s no alternative to building a solid business case.
A Skills Analysis Tool takes you to a new level of business advantage.
Digits MD Colin Bull shares his thoughts on the latest Towards Maturity In-Focus report findings, and how to engage learners in a digital world.
Wherever you work and whatever your role there are common experiences that we all share.
This month our guest blogger Dionne Hamilton Smith gives her thoughts on technology and the future of learning.
Not so long ago, it was only very large companies that used elearning or any other technologies to support learning.
I previously wrote a post here about gamification and concluded (with some small caveats) that it is a useful technique which can work. In this post I’d like to highlight some of the key reasons why it works.
In my recent post here on skills analysis I made two bold statements: 1. That whether it is through competency frameworks or job descriptions...
I’ve previously written here about the benefits of learning journeys and about the importance of induction. In this post I’d like to look at...
Not so long ago, everyone wanted to talk about user generated content (or UGC) and yet today it’s a term you hardly ever hear (at least not in L&D circles).
Over the years we’ve seen many changes in L&D. Less classroom delivery, the rise (and fall?) of elearning and the ubiquitous access to content through mobile devices.
You might think that asking what reporting is good for is an odd question. Reports are one of those things, especially in the world of LMS, which we almost take for granted.
I’ve been posting to this blog for a while now and some of those posts have been about how an LMS can benefit the organisation, but at their heart most of the posts are about the potential benefits to the learner.
If you work in the field of learning and development it’s likely that you will have heard of 70:20:10.It’s equally likely that you may not be sure what it actually is, so let’s step back for a moment and consider that.
The CIPD Learning & Development Show is the UK's leading L&D event. It attracts approximately 3,300 professionals who are searching for ideas, tips and solutions.
In the ongoing debate about the value of formal learning, one of the most common criticisms is that formal learning (or training) activities are usually separate to the learner’s work. This is a fair criticism.
Many organisations implement an LMS, fill it with great learning content, offer really useful resources and provide modern tools to connect learners with each other - only to be disappointed when learners don’t use it...
Gamification is definitely one of the big topics for 2015, and not just in learning - marketing and customer engagement are two areas in which gamification is expected to have an increasing role.
Recently, I was talking with a client who was keen to show me why she was so frustrated with her organisation’s LMS.
It’s late 2014 as I write this post, and we’ve reached a point where we can do pretty much everything ‘in the cloud’. Whether you’re shopping, selling, dating, divorcing...
What is blended learning? Blended learning has been with us for many years now, and yet many people would struggle to articulate exactly what it is.
Big Data has been much talked about over the past few years and recently people have begun to take an interest in how it can be used to improve learning.
Over the past couple of years I’ve made some fairly in depth suggestions for how and why you might use an LMS.
I don’t think it’s overstating things to say that the biggest change to the way we learn, communicate and do business in the 21st Century is the widespread adoption of mobile devices..
“The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave, is not training them and having them stay.” - Henry Ford.
The lines between working and learning have always been blurred, but the adoption of powerful mobile devices and the mostly ubiquitous availability of internet access has radically changed the way we work, learn and play.
Gather together any group of learning professionals, turn the subject to compliance training and you can almost guarantee a room full of moans, groans and pained faces.
In the blog posts that I have written here I have frequently asked the question "how can an LMS help us?". In this case I'm going to get the question out of the way right up front; so, how can an LMS help us with induction and onboarding?
In my previous post I talked about the choice between buying and building an LMS, and this time I'd like to consider a slightly simpler but equally important decision – when should you consider switching your LMS
In the early days of e-learning adoption it was quite common to have to make a decision between buying an LMS and building one yourself. Just ten years ago the LMS market was a much smaller place...
It’s the time of year when witches, ghosts, vampires and zombies are out to terrify the world. However one thing that is most terrifying of all, is the resemblance between a groaning...
In previous posts I’ve talked about the importance to both students and managers of having access to good data in order to monitor and manage progress...
Dashboards and reports are both great methods for keeping on track of development. Managers can drill through to see the overall progress of departments...
Companies with a strong community of workers understand that starting a new job can be both exciting and daunting. Introducing new employees to the business...
I’m pretty sure that in each of the last ten years that I’ve worked in the elearning industry, at least one person has told me that it would be the year that mobile learning would take off.
An LMS is a useful and important training administration solution for L&D departments within medium to large organisations. Companies
Organisations are tasked with training challenges which require stretching a small budget to administrate, manage, schedule and deliver training...
