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The Four Ms of Successful E-Learning Courses

Damian HehirGeneral

The Four Ms of Successful E-Learning Courses The four Ms of e-learning will help you make your courses as successful as possible. Think of each of them like a pillar – when you have all four in place, the structure will be much more stable. The four Ms are: Meaningful Memorable Motivational Measurable Michael Allen talks about the Ms in …

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How to Make E-Learning Courses on Dull Topics Engaging and Interesting

Damian HehirGeneral

How to Make E-Learning Courses on Dull Topics Engaging and Interesting Running training courses on topics that are dry, dull, and heavy is not easy. Trainers and trainees can become frustrated leading to poor results and negative feedback. Luckily, it is possible to make e-learning courses on dull topics both engaging and interesting. It takes planning and creativity, but the …

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The Power of a Flexible Online Training Strategy

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The Power of a Flexible Online Training Strategy Employees respond to training in a more positive way when courses are relevant to their immediate needs, easy to access, and fast to complete. How can you do this, though? After all, each of your employees will have different needs, they will access training in different ways, and they will progress through …

A Very Capy 2017

A Very Capy 2017

Damian HehirGeneral, UAE

2017 sure was a heck of a year for Capytech.  I’ve heard in a few places that it takes about 1000 days for a business to really start to get traction – and that’s proven fairly true for us as well. We got going late in 2013 and I went full time at the end of 2014 with Jason following …

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Capytech and FORGE join forces to create great soft skills e-learning

Damian HehirGeneral

Capytech and FORGE join forces to create great soft skills e-learning Capytech is often one of the first companies that people call when they’re looking for e-learning. This is amazing, and our clear messaging (and work on SEO!) has really assisted in this.  For most of Capytech’s history, we’ve focused mostly on custom e-learning content and solutions.  This has served us well …

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Stop Overwhelming Learners with These Tips

Damian Hehire-learning, General

Stop Overwhelming Learners with These Tips Here’s a frustrating scenario you may have encountered: you create a visually stunning e-learning course packed full of on-topic content that you think explains exactly what the learner needs. They don’t get it though, so the results of the course are disappointing. One of the problems could be that you’re overwhelming learners. There’s psychology …

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Work 2.0 Wrap Up

Damian HehirGeneral

Wow, what an incredible past couple of days we’ve just had! Work 2.0 was our first exhibition, and I’m thrilled to say that it was an outstanding success! Jason and I were busy the entire time basically, often with both of us talking to different groups simultaneously. I think we paid for our investment in the first hours of the …

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Why we’re exhibiting at Work 2.0

Damian HehirGeneral

Why we’re exhibiting at Work 2.0 We’ve been thinking about exhibiting at a trade show for a while now. I had thought about it at defence type shows (as I know the industry), or a HR Show (but they are always expensive!) – but Work 2.0 has been the one that made the most sense. I attended the show in …

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Why Capytech started using Dubai Font

Damian HehirGeneral, UAE

Why Capytech started using Dubai Font At Capytech, we are very often developing e-learning modules in both English and in Arabic. To be honest, we’d struggled to find an Arabic font that matched what we wanted to achieve aesthetically in our products. Then along came Dubai Font. Dubai Font was announced April 2017 by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid …

How E learning can save you money

Saving money using e-learning

Damian HehirGeneral

We love creating short animated videos for our clients and including them within e-learning.  It’s a great way to keep students engaged and explain concepts.  These videos can also be very useful to explain what we do, and how you might like to use e-learning. So in this video, we set a scenario of a training manager and how he’s …