Drop your invisibility cloak and increase your discoverability if you want to build a powerful personal learning network

Inclusion is a 2-way street. You need to be known to be included. Sometimes it's hard to get known, so the more channels and the fewer hurdles there are to including you, the more connected you are likely to become. To increase the types of situations where you can be included make sure you can be discovered and looped in. Included because someone knows your name, included because someone spots your face, included because you have a presence in web search and not just included because you happened to share your contact details. [More]

Learning in the moment without forgetting moments later - making micro-learning stick with assessments

Think about that youtube video that you watched to bake a cake or repair a thing. Could you do that unaided for a second time? We’ve been curious if micro-learning as quickly forgotten as it is consumed, and then relearned, or is the timeliness and relevance of micro-learning so meaningful that it cuts through and sticks with the learner for an extended time? We don't know the answer, and we're sure it's not black and white, but what we do know is how to make it stick. [More]

Best practice survey design probes one topic at a time; encouraging respondents to click "Next"

When you have a lot of data to collect, this can be offputting and lead to low survey completion rates. Breaking your survey into sections, and providing a sense of progress can motivate your audience to respond to your survey in full rather than ignore or abandon it. Learn about survey design techniques that will increase your response rates. [More]

Effective survey form design to get higher response rates and better data

Most best practices in form design are related to web forms for simple calls to action like subscribing to a list or signing up for a service. Form design for survey forms such as employee engagement surveys, stay and exit interviews, polls, pulse, feedback and performance review forms needs a different set of best practices. Learn 10 best practices in survey form design to improve your survey response rates and data quality. [More]