boring training

Stop making your training boring

Damian Hehire-learning

Stop making your training boring Just for a moment, think about the user experience of your training course. Forget about the quality of the content, the message, or how much more knowledgeable a learner should be once they complete the course. When you consider the user experience, how boring is it? Boring training courses often look very similar – they …

e learning casestudy

An E-Learning Case Study for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Damian Hehire-learning

An E-Learning Case Study for the Pharmaceutical Industry The Project We recently completed an e-learning project for one of the largest and oldest pharmaceutical companies in the world. It has a presence in over 70 countries that includes a number of strategically located main offices. Those main offices are responsible for the management of teams in a particular region. Many …

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Making our clients happy

Damian Hehire-learning, entrepreneurship

Making our clients happy We pride ourselves on a number of things at Capytech.  First are our innovative and well designed e-learning and technology products.  Another area is the agile way that we manage our projects, getting our clients involved in the development from the earliest stages.  Lastly comes our pride in our customer service. We love making our clients …

Onboarding

Onboarding using E-Learning

Damian Hehire-learning

Onboarding using E-Learning Onboarding is a process that presents significant opportunities for many businesses in the UAE. Now, I know onboarding is not directly related to sales, your products, or service delivery. Many regard it as being an internal administrative process, but it is not just administrative. Instead, it gives you an opportunity to lay foundations for new employees so …

IT Departments cant do e learning

IT Departments Can’t Do E-Learning

Damian Hehire-learning, technology

IT Departments Can’t Do E-Learning IT departments can do lots of things. They can operate IT infrastructures with limited budgets and can manage the integration of systems built on completely different platforms. They are also resourceful and are skilled at dealing with individuals of all levels of IT ability. One thing they can’t do, however, is e-learning. Is that a …

Questions to answer

Questions to Answer When Starting an E-Learning Project

Damian Hehire-learning

Questions to Answer When Starting an E-Learning Project To ensure an e-learning project runs as smoothly as possible, you will have to provide information and/or make decisions. This will help the e-learning provider deliver a course that meets your objectives and expectations. What are the sorts of things you will be asked, though? Below are the main questions I ask …

Learning Styles

Learning Styles and Getting the Most from Them

Damian Hehire-learning

Learning Styles and Getting the Most from Them Learning styles is an educational concept that you may not have heard of. That said, it is something you have probably used repeatedly throughout your life – to both learn and to teach. It basically describes how we learn. Most education professionals (including me) agree there are four main styles. Visual – …

microlearning

What is microlearning?

Damian Hehire-learning

What Is Microlearning? Microlearning is a term that is more misunderstood than it should be. Among people not involved in the e-learning industry or the education sector, that is understandable. After all, there are probably things in your industry that would confuse me. What frustrates me, however, is when people involved in the e-learning industry misunderstand microlearning. That misunderstanding is …

outsource e learning

Why You Should Outsource E-Learning Development

Damian Hehire-learning

Why You Should Outsource E-Learning Development Should you outsource e-learning development? Maybe you have training staff or IT staff in-house – wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to get them to do it? The problem with the in-house approach is the range of skills that is required to deliver good e-learning. Of course, if you give anyone with some IT …

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What is E-Learning?

Damian Hehire-learning

What Is E-Learning? What is e-learning – this is a question that should be easy to answer. The “e” is for electronic after all, so it is any sort of learning that is delivered electronically, right? For me, that isn’t really true. After all, a DVD is a method of electronic delivery, but courses delivered on DVD are not e-learning …