Don Duquette, Vice President, GP Strategies Corporation looks at the Top Trends for Learning & Development in 2017 including Micro-Learning, Adaptive Learning, MOOCs, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning, Content Curation, Corporate Learning Apps and Spaced Learning.

1. Top Trends for
Learning & Development
By Don Duquette,
Executive Vice President, Learning Solutions

2. LEARNING TRENDS
COME AND GO…
From higher education, to
technological advancements,
and even behavioural sciences.
GP Strategies, Executive Vice President,
Don Duquette provides insights on
what could potentially have the most
Learning and Development success
in your business.

3. LEARNING TRENDS
CONTENT CURATION
SPACED LEARNING
MICROLEARNING
VIRTUAL REALITY
CORPORATE MOOCS
CORPORATE LEARNING APPS
ADAPTIVE LEARNING
MACHINE LEARNING

4. CONTENT CURATION
Leverages content with other resources
for easy access and just-in-time learning
What are the advantages?
• Greatly reduces your dependence on paid, off-the-shelf courses
• Delivers a rapid ROI
• Can improve learner satisfaction
Learn more in our Content Curation webinar

5. SPACED LEARNING
Or spaced repetition, is a technique
that incorporates increasing amounts
of time between course content
and subsequent review
What are the benefits?
• Dovetails into Microlearning
• Shorter bursts and repetition increases
memorability and retention of
relevant information

6. MICROLEARNING
Breaks courses down into
small digestible chunks
Advantages of this include:
• Lasting 5-7 minutes maximum
• Learners can get straight to the information they need
• Less attention loss
• Shorten the development cycle and speed time to market
Learn more about Microlearning

7. VIRTUAL REALITY
Provides a fully immersive
experience where learners
can explore virtual environments
as if they were there in real life
Why use it?
Many applications for Virtual Reality in
learning from equipment maintenance
training to on-boarding experiences
and interviewing techniques.
Learn more about Virtual Reality
and Augmented Reality

8. CORPORATE MOOCS
A MOOC = Massive Open Online Course
Available on demand
What are the benefits?
• Can be tailored and made more specific to your business
• Expands your learning offering
• Delivers a variety of solutions
Learn more in our MOOCs webinar

9. CORPORATE LEARNING APPS
Allow users to learn on-the-go
from any mobile device
Advantages of this include:
• Supports mobile access to learning
• Enables anytime, anywhere learning
• Adapts to learners needs

10. ADAPTIVE LEARNING
Uses technology to respond
to the users interactions in
real time - changing the rate,
repetition and difficulty
of learning
What are the benefits?
• Content adapts to the learner
• Delivers relevant level of challenge
• Keeps the learner more engaged
• Highly effective strategy for increasing pass and completion rates
Learn more in our Adaptive Learning webinar

11. MACHINE LEARNING
• Artificial intelligence is
becoming a reality
• Not reality for corporate
learning yet
• How can we apply a
“technology that learns”
• Adaptive learning a step
in that direction
• Many more possibilities await
Try Machine Learning
for yourself

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