eLearning presents an incredible opportunity to connect employees to high quality learning opportunities in the context of their workday- but there’s nothing more frustrating than a terrible elearning course. Poorly designed elearning courses can make your employees so frustrated they lose interest in any kind of learning opportunities, no matter how well designed. Whether you’re shopping for elearning courses to use with your employees or creating elearning courses for sale on OpenSesame, here are the 5 things that make learners crazy... and suggestions for how to avoid them. ... [more]
Between safeguarding employees’ well-being, protecting workplace morale, minimizing insurance risks and complying with federal regulations, providing employees with safety training is essential. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is the federal regulatory agency responsible for establishing and enforcing guidelines for workplace safety. OSHA promulgates regulations to protect employee safety, including 10-hour and 30-hour training requirements for specific employee roles. ... [more]
Free services and entertainment are two of the most important things Chinese people look for on the web and there is no Internet company that knows Chinese netizens better than Tencent.com. In the past 12 years, Tencent has developed China’s most popular instant messenger, built up China’s largest online game platform, and created China’s hottest group messaging app. Even in the smallest village in China, you will find Tencent’s most successful product, the penguin-iconned Tencent QQ messenger, connecting everyone to people they love. Tencent’s strategy is “modify and occupy”. ... [more]
Weibo has changed the world for Chinese netizens. As a top social network in China (the name literally means “Microblog”), Sina Weibo, known as the Chinese Twitter, affects Chinese people's experience of political events, current events and interactions with celebrities. Since Sina Weibo has a simple and user-friendly interface, it’s widely used by both the younger generation and less-experienced internet users. ... [more]
Social networks are transforming the ways people communicate, from meeting new friends and staying in touch with family to building professional networks and creating learning communities. While Chinese social networkers don’t have access to Facebook and Twitter, they use a variety of Chinese applications to make the most of the opportunities provided by online social networks. Facebook famously first started among college students, just like China’s RenRen.com (formerly known as Xiaonei.com, literally “on-campus network”). ... [more]
