Your learning management system as the foundation of your training program. Choosing the right one will result in a success, but choosing the wrong one could be disastrous. This article will explain how to identify and evaluate your LMS needs to ensure you make the correct decision and lay the proper foundation for your learning program.

Sarah Flesher

This article will explain how to identify and evaluate your LMS needs to ensure you make the correct decision and lay the proper foundation for your learning program.

How to identify and evaluate your LMS needs

Choosing the right LMS for your organization is a months-long task that requires a significant investment of time and money. As you're comparing LMS solutions, you will encounter two different types of LMS - open source and cloud-based. This article will help you understand the different pricing models, and decide which option is the best for your organization.

Jill W.

This article will help you understand the different pricing models, and decide which option - open source LMS or cloud-based LMS - is the best for your organization.

Open Source LMS vs. Cloud-Based LMS: Which is Right for You?

This article will be more than a simple examination of mobile learning and how it can benefit your organization. Rather, it will explore how you can optimise this eLearning platform in order to specifically engage one key demographic - millennials.

Shauna Carson

This article will explore how you can optimise your eLearning platform in order to specifically engage one key demographic - millennials.

Engaging Millennials in the Workplace using Mobile Learning

Buying a Learning Management System can be a daunting process. There are hundreds of LMS vendors to choose from, and so little differentiation in must-have features. This article will explore the top seven learning platform buying challenges.

How can you ensure that your chosen learning platform allows you to compete in the global marketplace? This article will explore the top seven learning platform buying challenges.

Common LMS Buying Challenges

How can you ensure your employees use your new LMS? This article will outline some of the top tips you can use to motivate employees to engage in learning using your LMS, and make sure the application you spent all that time choosing enjoys the success it deserves!

This article will outline some of the top tips you can use to motivate employees to engage in learning using your LMS, and make sure the application you spent all that time choosing enjoys the success it deserves.

Tips for Motivating Employees to Use Your LMS

Employees acquire the skills, knowledge and competencies they use at work in all kinds of ways. 94% of employees engage in some form of informal learning everyday and the highest level of learning with the deepest cognitive impact is informal learning.

Read on about informal learning, a few reasons why you should start measuring informal learning, and ways you can use your learning management system to engage learners and track informal learning activities.

How to Track Informal Learning in Your LMS

Delivering training is not a mission unto itself; the training has to have the results that you intended. Measuring the effectiveness of the training we produce should be as much a part of the production process as research, revisions and quality assurance. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how you can find out if your training program is delivering how you want it to.

Read on to take a closer look at how you can find out if your training program is delivering how you want it to.

How Do You Know Your Training Program Is Working?

Ken Flesher, President and Founder of BaseCorp Learning Systems answered questions from students at Concordia University in Montreal about the the eLearning industry.

This article is an interview with Ken Flesher, President and Founder of BaseCorp Learning Systems. He answered questions from students at Concordia University in Montreal about the the eLearning industry.

Interview with Ken

An eLearning authoring tool is an application for building eLearning courses and content. Let’s take a look at what an authoring tool can do for you.

Read on to take a closer look at what an authoring tool can do for you.

Why You Need an Authoring Tool

Online learning doesn’t have to be isolating. Collaborative learning offers social contact while encouraging learners to engage in higher-level thinking like analysis and evaluation. How can you incorporate collaborative learning in your next online course?

Read on to look at how you can incorporate collaborative learning in your next online course.

Collaborative Activities for Online Learning

Training that contributes to business goals must be evaluated accurately, and sometimes that means using a chainsaw as well as a computer. eLearning may be versatile, but when physical skills are involved, the corporate trainer's toolkit must include practical skill evaluations.

Read on to look at the value of on the job evaluation.

When You Need a Practical Learner Evaluation

Skill gaps can be responsible for poor productivity, failure to meet business goals, unsatisfied clients, error-prone processes and even safety incidents and injuries. They can develop for any number of reasons, but successful companies don't let them continue. This article will introduce and discuss four steps for finding the skill gaps that are causing you problems.

Are you wondering where skill gaps might be hiding in your organization? This article will introduce and discuss four steps for finding the skill gaps that are causing you problems.

Finding Skill Gaps

Single sign-on (or SSO) is a feature we hear a lot about today. But what does it mean? Let's take a closer look at what single sign-on means for you as you research different learning management systems, and how it connects with other terms you may be researching, such as APIs.

Read on to take a closer look at what single sign-on means for you as you research different learning management systems, and how it connects with other terms you may be researching, such as APIs.

What's the Deal with Single Sign-On?

Accessible eLearning means making your content available to the widest audience possible. This article will look at what sort of things must be done to develop accessible online content.

Read on to look at what sort of things must be done to develop accessible online content.

8 Ways to Make eLearning Accessible

Inverting your training is one of the easiest, most cost-effective ways to reinvigorate your training program and pique your learners' interest. Read on about what it means to invert your learning, how you can do this, and the ways this can benefit your training program.

This article will look at what it means to invert your learning, how you can do this, and the ways this can benefit your training program.

3 Ways to Invert Your Training

It's a real challenge to write without (or at least with less) bias when our biases are so often unconscious. This article will look at some of the things we can do to keep them out of what we write.

Read on to look at some of the things we can do to expose biases for what they are and keep them out of what we write.

6 Tips for Writing Without Bias

Learning in the Time of COVID 19

Collaborative learning is a highly effective way to learn. How can SkillBuilder LMS help you get the most out of this type of learning?

Collaborative learning is a hot topic these days.

Online Collaborative Learning with SkillBuilder® LMS

eLearning requires inclusive design to reach a diverse audience. This article will explore several elements of inclusive design and how to incorporate them in eLearning.

This article will explore several elements of inclusive design and how to incorporate them in eLearning.

5 Steps to More Inclusive eLearning

What factors make the difference in quality collaborative learning? We explore how to build a valuable experience for your learners.

Read on to find out how to build a valuable experience for your learners.

Maximizing the Effectiveness of Online Collaborative Learning

Find an LMS that can connect to the best-in-class systems that someone’s already built, ones that you may be using now.

Do you want an LMS with top-of-the line, custom-built learner forums, payment processors, and analytics?

SkillBuilder® LMS Integrations

What can you do to overcome the forgetting curve and make the learning you develop last? Five tips for you to start incorporating today!

What do you recall about the last eLearning module you completed? If you’re like most of us, not much.

Tackling the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve in Corporate Training

Writing effective assessment questions is harder than many people realize. This article will review strategies for building fair and meaningful eLearning assessment items.

Read on to look at some strategies for building fair and meaningful eLearning assessment items.

Building Meaningful eLearning Assessments: Summative Online Test Questions

How do you determine if your training is actually working? In this article, I'll discuss some of the ways that you can assess the effectiveness of your learning, the types of information you need to do so and how to get it.

How do you determine if your training is actually working? Read on about some of the ways that you can assess the effectiveness of your learning, the types of information you need to do so and how to get it.

Is Your Training Actually Working?

The problem for many leaders in our fast-paced corporate world is that they are too busy leading to do anything else. Yet, to maintain success as leaders, they need continuous learning. How do they find the time to do their jobs and engage in management and leadership development? In this article, I'll talk about different ways eLearning can be used to promote leadership qualities and foster leaders within an organization.

How do leaders find the time to do their jobs and engage in management and leadership development? Read on about different ways eLearning can be used to promote leadership qualities and foster leaders within an organization.

How eLearning Can Foster Leadership Skills

What effect is digital technology having on the modern learner, and how can learning providers make sure we are meeting the digital learner's needs? In this article, I'll talk a bit about the effect of digital technology on the learner and how we, as learning providers, can make sure we are meeting the digital learner’s needs.

What effect is digital technology having on the modern learner? Read on about the effect of digital technology on the learner and how we, as learning providers, can make sure we are meeting the digital learner’s needs.

How are Digital Technologies Shaping the Modern Learner?

Is your organization doing just fine - flourishing, in fact - without a Learning Management System (LMS)? Many organizations are. But what if you could be doing even better? If you've got (or ought to have) a training program, you need an LMS. This article will review eight of the ways an LMS can enhance organizational training and help you achieve your goals.

Is your organization doing just fine without a LMS? Many organizations are. But what if you could be doing even better? If you've got a training program, you need an LMS. This article will review eight of the ways an LMS can enhance organizational training and help you achieve your goals.

Why an LMS Is an Integral Part of Your Organization's Future

The age of AI is here and it's here to stay. Artificial intelligence has and will continue to affect many aspects of our lives, including learning. In this article, I'll describe some of the ways that AI is being used in L&D and take a look at what experts say is in the future of learning.

The age of AI is here and it's here to stay. Read on about some of the ways that AI is being used in L&D and take a look at what experts say is in the future of learning.

What is Artificial Intelligence and How Will It Impact Learning?

Being an up-to-date, web-savvy HR professional, you've scoped the latest trends in workplace learning. In this article, I'll discuss some criteria that you can use to determine if your L&D program is addressing your training needs.

Read on about some criteria that you can use to determine if your L&D program is addressing your training needs.

Ensuring Your L&D Program is Addressing Your Training Needs

These are exciting times in the world of eLearning. Improvements on existing development tools and technologies and the emergence of new trends in eLearning mean upgrades and changes if your courseware is going to keep up. Take a look at what’s trending in eLearning and five big trends in eLearning.

Technology is changing, and learners are changing with it. Read on to take a look at what’s trending in eLearning and five big trends in eLearning.

Help Your L&D Program Evolve

Outsourcing learning content development can be a cost-effective way to get experienced learning specialists working for you. It can also be a headache, with all the downsides of working with an external organization and negotiating in a field you're not familiar with. So how can you make sure it works for you? Read on for five tips on how to get the best results when outsourcing your learning resource development.

Outsourcing learning content development can be a cost-effective way to get experienced learning specialists working for you. Read on for five tips on how to get the best results when outsourcing your learning resource development.

5 Tips for Outsourcing eLearning Content Development

There are many interesting courses and books that cover on the huge number of concerns that go into designing a learning program. This article focus on a list of four key considerations for developing content that is effective and relevant to your audience.

Read on about four important points to consider when designing your learning content that will help make it relevant to your audience and give you the best bang for your buck.

Finding the Sweet Spot for your Learning Design

Teaching a learner to be able to perform a skill or task to a predetermined standard is the essence of competency-based training. This article is about what competency-based training is, why it is effective and the benefits of competency-based training.

Teaching a learner to be able to perform a skill or task to a predetermined standard is the essence of competency-based training. Read on about what competency-based training is, why it is effective and the benefits of competency-based training.

Why is Competency-Based Training So Effective?

In a competency-based training program, standards are set and learners are provided with multiple types of support to ensure that those who are able to will meet the pre-set standards. This article is about how you can make CBT a part of your learning and development strategy.

In a competency-based training program, standards are set and learners are provided with multiple types of support to meet them. Read on to take a closer look at how you can make CBT a part of your learning and development strategy.

Make Competency-Based Training Part of Your L&D Strategy

The success of your LMS choice can rest on how well the implementation goes – how does SkillBuilder® LMS ensure this process goes as smoothly as possible? This blog post is dedicated to ensuring your set up process goes as smoothly as possible.

How SkillBuilder® LMS Makes Your Set Up a Snap

LMS users break down into two basic groups: Learners and Administrators. This article will discuss LMS administrators. It will briefly describe what LMS administrators do, the LMS functionalities they need to use and some tips on training an LMS administrator.

This article will discuss LMS administrators. I'll briefly describe what LMS administrators do, the LMS functionalities they need to use and some tips on training an LMS administrator.

Training Your People to Use Your LMS – Part 2: The Administrators

LMS users break down into two basic groups: Learners and Administrators. Each of these groups use the LMS in different ways. In this two-part series, I'll discuss how each of these groups use an LMS, and what they must be taught in order to use it to their full advantage.

This two-part series will discuss how Learners and Administrators use an LMS, and what they must be taught in order to use it to their full advantage using SkillBuilder® LMS to illustrate various functionalities used by each group.

Training Your People to Use Your LMS – Part 1: The Learners

The world of eLearning is dynamic place where learner requirements and expectations can change with the wind. Sure, as an eLearning provider, you're up to staying on top of new trends, but is your LMS? In this article, we'll explore four vital content delivery capabilities that will supercharge the way your learners access your eLearning content.

How can an LMS help you take your training to the next level? In this article, we'll explore four vital content delivery capabilities that will supercharge the way your learners access your eLearning content.

Supercharge Your Content Delivery with Your LMS

Most LMSs support multiple types of learning activities. This is an important feature because people learn differently, they like options, and content isn't always delivered in one format. This article will identify the different types of content that you can integrate into your LMS and explain how, by doing this, you can boost your training strategy and more effectively engage learners.

There is a misconception that a learning management system (LMS) can only support online learning. This article will identify the different types of content that you can integrate into your LMS and explain how, by doing this, you can boost your training strategy and more effectively engage learners.

Types of Content to Integrate into Your LMS: How can you boost your strategy to better engage today’s learners?

Blended learning is something you should consider when choosing an LMS for your organization. Read on to learn more about blended learning, and how SkillBuilder can help you introduce this valuable learning method to your organization.

Why is blended learning something you should consider when choosing an LMS for your organization? Read on to learn more about blended learning, and how SkillBuilder can help you introduce this valuable learning method to your organization.

How SkillBuilder Delivers Blended Learning

There are almost 500 learning management companies out there, any one of which could potentially have the perfect LMS for you. Demonstrations and/or free trials are a great way to sift through the competition and really get a feel for what different LMSs can do for your organization. Download our Maximizing Your LMS Demo or Free Trial eBook to ensure you get the most out of this investment, and choose the right LMS for your organization.

Download our Maximizing Your LMS Demo or Free Trial eBook to ensure you get the most out of this investment, and choose the right LMS for your organization.

Maximizing Your LMS Demo and Free Trial

You can use a team to find the LMS that best fits your firm. This article will explore how you can use a team to search for the right LMS by looking at who the team should include and what team members should be looking for.

This article will explore how you can use a team to search for the right LMS by looking at who the team should include and what team members should be looking for.

Your LMS Search: Who to Have on Your Team

Corporate training programs delivers knowledge-based information to employees. This article will provide some tips and tricks to help corporate organizations find what's missing in their learning and development (L&D) strategy. It will also identify current *trends* that you may want to consider adding to your toolbox.

This article will provide some tips and tricks to help corporate organizations find what's missing in their learning and development (L&D) strategy. It will also identify current trends that you may want to consider adding to your toolbox.

Spotting the Void in Your L&D Toolbox: How can you tell if something is missing in your L&D program?

One great thing about developing online training is that you can add a variety of media to your course. Two of the most important types of media available are graphics and video. Read on to take a closer look at different types of videos and their uses.

In the first part of this series, I looked at how to effectively incorporate graphics into your eLearning. Now, let's turn our attention to video.

Successfully Incorporating Visuals into Online Training: Part Two - Video

One great thing about developing online training is that you can add a variety of media to your course. Two of the most important types of media available are graphics and video. Read on to take a closer look at different types of graphics and their uses.

One great thing about developing online training is that you can add a variety of media to your course. Read on to take a closer look at different types of graphics and their uses.

Successfully Incorporating Visuals into Online Training: Part One - Graphics

A positive relationship with your vendor can directly impact the success of your LMS implementation. This article will identify and discuss seven things you can do to help foster a positive relationship with your LMS vendor.

This article will identify and discuss seven things you can do to help foster a positive relationship with your LMS vendor.

Fostering a Relationship with Your LMS Vendor

Social learning is learning from others. Today, social learning is largely driven by technology and by web-based applications. In this article, I will discuss some must-have LMS social learning features and describe how they facilitate it.

Social learning is largely driven by technology and by web-based applications. In this article, I will discuss some must-have LMS social learning features and describe how they facilitate it.

Must-Have Social Learning Features for Your LMS

Return on investment - it's what it always comes down to in business. This article will look at what informal learning is, the benefits of informal learning in the workplace and how to measure the ROI of informal learning.

Read on to look at what informal learning is, the benefits of informal learning in the workplace and how to measure the ROI of informal learning.

Measuring the ROI of Informal Learning

A great Learning Management System (LMS) is worthless if you can't get support when you need it. You don't just need the right LMS features, you need an LMS backed by the right vendor. It's time for a good look at how to evaluate and compare LMS vendors.

A great Learning Management System (LMS) is worthless if you can't get support when you need it. You need an LMS backed by the right vendor. Read on to look at how to evaluate and compare LMS vendors.

Vendor Comparison: Who’s Backing Your LMS?

When it comes to creating eLearning, you need to determine if eLearning is the right learning solution for your client. This article covers 4 questions you should ask before creating an online course.

Read on to look at 4 questions you should ask before creating an online course. The answers will help you create a better course that is appropriate to the learners' requirements and deliver the training that your clients want to deliver.

4 Key Questions to Ask Before Creating an Online Course

An LMS is a big investment - in time and in dollars. Before you invest, read some common arguments you may hear against investing in an LMS. As you read, consider if any of these arguments ring true for your organization, and how you may counter them, or if they represent a real barrier.

An LMS is a big investment - in time and in dollars. Read on to look at some arguments you may hear against investing in an LMS. As you read, consider if any of these arguments ring true for your organization, and how you may counter them.

Is It Time to Invest in a Learning Management System?

Our eBook will help you optimize the RFP process and create a succinct, well-written document that will help you select the Learning Management System that best meets your organization's needs. Here, I'll go into more detail regarding these documents, and how they can help you create a powerful RFP.

Read on to look into more detail regarding our eBook Creating an Effective RFP for Your LMS Project, our RFI and RFP templates, and how they can help you create a powerful RFP.

Getting the Most Out of BaseCorp’s RFI and RFP Templates

The Learning Management System (LMS) as an Investment: Four Steps to an LMS ROI

Read on to look at some of the things we can do expose biases for what they are and keep them out of what we write.

The Dangers of a Good Enough LMS Software

Using SkillBuilder LMS is easy. In this article, learn how to use your SkillBuilder Learning Management System. If you're new to the system, this short blog post will help you get started.

Using SkillBuilder LMS is easy. In this article, learn how to use your SkillBuilder Learning Management System.

Six Steps to Getting Started with SkillBuilder LMS

Despite the potential advantages demonstrations offer, many potential LMS buyers remain hesitant to ask for one. This article will detail nine steps to getting the most out of your LMS demo.

This article will detail nine steps to getting the most out of your LMS demo.

How to Get the Most out of your LMS Demonstrations

The purpose of this article is to provide you with some simple and easy to implement strategies for "beefing up" your existing material without spending a lot of effort, time and money.

Read on to look at some simple and easy to implement strategies to enhance your existing material without spending a lot of effort, time and money.

Six Simple Ways to Enhance Existing Training Programs

Corporate learning for skill development generally falls into the formal training category. This article will introduce Experiential Learning as a viable strategy for workplace learning, and identify strategies that ensure meaningful learning occurs when incorporating these ideas into corporate training.

This article will introduce Experiential Learning as a viable strategy for workplace learning, and identify strategies that ensure meaningful learning occurs when incorporating these ideas into corporate training.

How to Rock Experiential Learning in Corporate Training

When is the right time for an association to invest in a Learning Management System (LMS)? In this article, I'll explain what an LMS is and list three situations when associations should consider the advantages of investing in an LMS.

In this article, I'll explain what an LMS is and list three situations when associations should consider the advantages of investing in an LMS.

Is it time for your association to invest in an LMS?

There are many reasons why organizations choose to convert instructor-led training to an online course, including flexibility, accessibility and cost effectiveness. In this article, we will briefly introduce change management and provide some tips to get your entire team on board with eLearning.

Read on to look at a brief introdution to change management and some tips to get your team on board with eLearning and to motivate learners to adopt new learning initiatives.

How to Get Your People on Board with eLearning

Your LMS is a piece of software. And, like all software, there are things that users like and things that users hate. What is it that you hate about your LMS? I've come up with a list of 6 common issues that users hate about their learning management systems

Read on to look at 6 common issues that users hate about their learning management systems.

What Do You Hate About Your LMS?

Microlearning is one solution that can be used in corporate training to capture learners' attention. This article will explore the different applications of microlearning, as well as the dos and don'ts that will help you build microlearning-based training.

Read on to look at the different applications of microlearning, as well as the dos and don'ts that will help you build microlearning-based training.

Microlearning Dos and Don’ts for a Successful Implementation

Instructor-led training, or ILT, is how many people picture learning. But is this traditional training method really best, or is there a way to improve face-to-face training? Consider eLearning, which has already made a huge impact on corporate training.

Read on to look at the benefits of eLearning, as well as some common some important steps to follow to successfully make the leap when converting instructor-led training to eLearning.

Successfully Converting Instructor-Led Training to eLearning

With literally hundreds of eLearning platforms to choose from, how do you choose the right one, and ensure you don't come to regret your decision? This article will explore the five most common mistakes made when comparing eLearning platforms, and how to avoid them.

This article will explore the five most common mistakes made when comparing eLearning platforms, and how to avoid them.

5 Mistakes to Avoid when Comparing eLearning Platforms

Social learning is inherent to us, from discussions with our peers, interactions on forums or blog posts, or by simply being active on social media. This article will introduce you to the concept of social learning, and identify strategies that ensure meaningful learning occurs when incorporating these ideas into corporate training.

This article will introduce you to the concept of social learning, and identify strategies that ensure meaningful learning occurs when incorporating these ideas into corporate training.

Social Learning – Tips for Corporate Training

Open Badges are becoming a more widely used achievement tool, particularly in online learning. In this blog post I'll be talking about what Open Badges are, reveal 6 benefits of incorporating Open Badges into your LMS and explain how Open Badges work in our SkillBuilder® LMS learning platform.

Read on to look at what Open Badges are, the 6 benefits of incorporating Open Badges into your LMS and how Open Badges work in our SkillBuilder® LMS learning platform.

6 Benefits of Incorporating Open Badges into your LMS

What should you do to ensure you are leveraging your training program to be of the most benefit to your learners? Read on to find out why reporting is so important, and how you can use LMS reporting to maximize the benefits to your learners and your organization.

Read on to find out why reporting is so important, and how you can use LMS reporting to maximize the benefits to your learners and your organization.

5 Secrets of Effective LMS Reporting

One way to increase learners' eLearning engagement is to implement gamification. Read on to find out five ways you can gamify eLearning experiences, including points, leaderboards, open badges, avatars and animations, and ensure you get the most out of your training programs.

Read on to find out five ways you can gamify eLearning experiences, including points, leaderboards, open badges, avatars and animations, and ensure you get the most out of your training programs.

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