Jack Scholl

September 2019 - ATD Links

Assess your reasons for wanting to attend school. Identifying goals ahead of time will help you evaluate return-on-investment. Education requires a great deal of resources, both time and finances. Get clarity before embarking on a costly effort.

Back-to-School Checklist for Working Adults

It’s that time of year: Students are saying goodbye to summer and heading back to the classroom. However, the opposite is true of your training programs. Now is the time to take your learners out of the traditional or virtual classroom.
In this session, we’ll explore why the modern workforce needs us to rethink traditional training models. Using real-world examples, we’ll dig into three different types of nonclassroom training, along with tips and tricks for shifting the composition of your L&D programs toward a more blended model—without having to start from scratch.
Attendees will learn:

why you need to go beyond classroom-based learning to effectively train the next generation
three key types of nonclassroom learning
tips for implementing these new strategies in your training programs.


This Back-to-School Season, Get Your Learners Out of the Classroom

Increasingly, your employees, especially Millenials, demand mobile learning. In a shifting mobile landscape, how do you know what works and what doesn’t?

Enter the world’s top executive MBA programs. Among the first to adopt devices like iPad for all students, these programs are using mobile-first content to train the next generation of C-suite leaders, leading to improved learning outcomes for students and reduced costs for programs.

Jennifer Steben, Inkling’s academic solutions director, has been on the forefront of this transition in higher education for more than a decade. In this webcast, she’ll show what training and development professionals can learn from EMBA programs that are going mobile-first.
Three learning takeaways for attendees:

Determine how to train your employees more effectively with mobile-first learning content.
Discover how to reduce costs by implementing a mobile-first content solution.
Learn the five key things to look for in a mobile content solution.
