OttoLearn® Blog

Articles about OttoLearn and our story, ideas about Agile Microlearning, thoughts on online training, and much more.

May 3, 2023

Designing for All: Creating Accessible Content in OttoLearn

Discover how to make your content accessible in OttoLearn and ensure everyone benefits, and finds value, in your training.
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August 16, 2021

Burning Questions: How Does Microlearning Fit into Your eLearning Ecosystem?

When creating your eLearning ecosystem, microlearning becomes a perfect option, as it fills many business training needs including engagement and retention.
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September 7, 2020

Learn to Love Learner Feedback

Learn to love learner feedback – it gives your learners a sense of ownership and creates an opportunity for training admins to improve your eLearning content!
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August 3, 2020

Effective Microlearning Design Boosts Impact

Microlearning design affects its impact. Follow visual design principles to create effective training content, and in turn boosting learner engagement!
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June 1, 2020

Does your eLearning vendor eat their own dog food?

An eLearning vendor who believes in their product uses them to train their own employees. By using our microlearning platform, we're eating our own dog food.
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April 13, 2020

Microlearning 101: A Comprehensive Introduction

Microlearning is a buzzword that’s popping up everywhere. Our new article series explores what it means and why microlearning matters.
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January 27, 2020

Instructional Scaffolding Flexibly Supports all Learners

When you build instructional scaffolding into your adaptive microlearning, providing each learner with the support they need, all learner outcomes can improve!
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January 20, 2020

How OttoLearn Uses Game Mechanics to Leverage Learners’ Motivation

When it comes to gamifying eLearning, often the motivation is supposed to be the "gold star trophy" achievement at the end — but that's not what motivates adult learners.
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December 2, 2019

How Is eLearning Like the Company T-shirt?

No two learners are alike, yet corporate training treats all learners the same. What's the best way to create personalized training that adapts to your learner?
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November 25, 2019

You Need Better (Training) Insurance!

Compliance training needs to work to protect your workers, organization, and customers from harm. But how do you deliver engaging, compliance training?
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November 7, 2019

Girls S.T.E.A.M. Press Release

The new Online Learning Center uses our adaptive microlearning platform to deliver 24/7 self-paced, multilingual, personalized training on S.T.E.A.M. topics.
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November 4, 2019

Burning Questions: What Does Mobile-First Learning Mean?

What does mobile-first learning mean? How is it different from mobile-friendly eLearning? Learn how mobile-first learning impacts your learners' experience.
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September 23, 2019

The Microlearner's Bill of Rights

There’s the Learner’s Bill of Rights and the eLearner's Bill of Rights. But what other rights do learners have when engaging in with a microlearning platform?
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July 29, 2019

Learner Engagement Starts at the Top

Corporate culture is created and reinforced by leaders, including corporate learning culture. Learn where to start building a positive learning culture.
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June 24, 2019

Otto Meets Bloom: A Firm Foundation for Advanced Knowledge Application

Our adaptive microlearning platform looks to Bloom's Taxonomy for a solid foundation to improve understanding, retention and ability to apply learning.
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May 27, 2019

Comprehensive Cyber Security Training: Free from OttoLearn

Employees are the most vulnerable part of your organization. But with our cyber security training course, you can build up your employees' cyber-defenses.
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May 13, 2019

eLearning Plus MicroLearning Equals Dynamic Digital Learning

Want to boost learner engagement and retention? Add our adaptive microlearning platform to traditional eLearning and creating dynamic digital learning magic!
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February 25, 2019

3 Reasons eLearning Fails (and How to Fix Them)

Avoid 3 common pitfalls that failed compliance training or industry-specific training share. What's the solution? Engaging, continuous training delivered online!
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January 7, 2019

"Make it Stick" with OttoLearn

Understand spaced repetition, retention, retrieval practice and interleaved learning. 'Make It Stick' is essential reading for corporate training professionals!
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December 24, 2018

Sneak Peek: Real Learning Tech Trends for 2019

Learning technology trends for 2019 include continuous learning, eLearning and mobile delivery — sounds like you need our adaptive microlearning platform.
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December 11, 2017

What Pigeons, AlphaGo, and Spock Teach Us About Learning

What do pigeons, AlphaGo and Spock teach us about personalized, adaptive learning focused on retention? Hint: Our microlearning platform has it built in!
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November 20, 2017

Personalized Learning is a Walk in the Park

What do park visitors and learners have in common? They create their own paths. Provide better user experience with our adaptive microlearning platform.
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October 16, 2017

The Painful Truth about eLearning

Do you love traditional eLearning? Do your learners? Not likely. Let us introduce engaging adaptive microlearning and build excitement about learning!
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October 9, 2017

A Funny Thing Happened on our Way to Modern eLearning

An adaptive learning machine was created in 1928 — but mass eLearning led to impersonal training. Return to eLearning's roots with adaptive microlearning.
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