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We know that incorporating video into elearning boosts the already plentiful benefits of learning online. Video can enhance understanding, engage users of different learning styles, reduce training time and demonstrate how products work.

Unfortunately, with some LMS platforms, it can be a frustrating task and feel like you need a degree in course design to add in even the simplest video. Here are some tips to start incorporating video into your online learning to get more out of your training program.

Brooke Parker

Elearning Product Manager

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported there were 4,551 workers who died on the job in 2009.

Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers declined in 2009 to a rate of 3.6 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers--down from 3.9 cases in 2008. The construction industry sector reported 71,700 fewer cases in 2009, compared to 2008 – a 22 percent decline, lowering the incidence rate by 0.4 cases to 4.3 cases per 100 workers. The number of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses reported in 2009 declined to 3.3 million cases, compared to 3.7 million cases in 2008.

These declining statistics are great, but that is still over 3 million cases where people were killed, hurt or made sick on the job.

Andy Cole

Sales & Marketing Intern
Guest blogger

As businesses continue to adapt in the face of today’s great economic challenges, budgets are tighter now than they have ever been. Things like training, both on and offline, can fall into the “nice to have” rather than “must have” category when it comes to budgetary planning.

So if you’re a manager, you’re going to have to prove the value of an online training program before being able to invest in one. Theory is great (who doesn’t want to believe in the power of education when it comes to increased job performance?), but in today’s economic climate, you need numbers and analytics to get the company behind your decision to invest in elearning.

Renee Seker

Marketing & Branding Leader

The typewriter didn’t die, it became a computer and a keyboard. Cassettes didn’t die, they became CDs and now digital music, There has recently been quite a bit of buzz on whether or not Learning Management Systems (LMS) are dead.

Renee Seker

Marketing & Branding Leader

Most of you probably know Mike Rowe from his hit Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs, where Mike apprentices with hardworking men and women across the country who work fear-inducing, dangerous or, you guessed it, just plain “dirty” jobs.

But did you know Mike Rowe has launched a “PR Campaign for Hard Work”? The mikeroweWORKS Foundation is the self-proclaimed UNhandyman’s courageous attempt to draw attention to the fact that our country needs more skilled professionals – lots of them.

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