OttoLearn® Blog

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

Generate Excitement With a Rewards Store

Setting up a rewards store is a great way to get your learners excited about learning and engaged with their training.
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Boost Engagement with Leaderboards and Contests

While some learners are intrinsically motivated, other learners are extrinsically motivated. Provide your learners with some extrinsic motivation in the form of OttoLearn leaderboards and contests.
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Otto’s New Learning Interface Enhances Learner Engagement

We've updated our learning interface to create a more intuitive, engaging experience for your learners! Interested? Book a demo with our experts to learn more.
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How Your Online Training Platform Helps with Employee Retention

Don't let training detract when it comes to employee retention. With a training platform, you'll solve the equation — relevant training equals improved retention!
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How Microlearning Supports the ‘New Normal’ in Corporate Training

With organizations shifting to fully remote or hybrid work, how can microlearning support corporate training when it comes to the “new normal”? Find out how!
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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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A Gamification eLearning Platform Can Improve Your Learning Culture

Using a gamification eLearning platform is just a start; it needs to tap into things that motivate learners to improve learning culture and employee engagement.
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Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Deliver Effective Training for Adults?

Effective training for adults is relevant, engaging, mobile-first. The OttoLearn gamified microlearning platform delivers all that to your adult learners and more!
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7 Ways OttoLearn Engages Learners & Extends Learning

Explore the ways OttoLearn gamified microlearning engages learners, extends learning, deepens knowledge retention — and enhances your training outcomes.
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Reap the Benefits of Active Learning in Employee Training

Compared to traditional learning styles, active learning focuses on delivering a deeper understanding and building connections between the learning materials.
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Why Use Contests and Leaderboards for Effective Team Training

Gamification continues to top eLearning trends because it works. Our leaderboard contests motivate team training, improving eLearning outcomes even more!
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Virtual Team Building with Microlearning Can Reduce Work-From-Home Stress

Prolonged WFH puts stress on team bonds. Use OttoLearn microlearning to boost virtual team building — and improve remote employees’ skills.
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Top 10 Ways to Explore Microlearning!

Our most popular posts of 2020 focused on providing a great microlearning experience and learning about technologies, like AI, that could help make that happen.
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Build Microlearning with Knowledge Maps to Improve Training Outcomes

A knowledge map shows the relationships among training objectives. Learn how planning microlearning with knowledge maps leads to improved training outcomes!
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Enhance Learner Experience (LX) with Adaptive Microlearning

Adaptive microlearning covers all the elements needed to boost learner experience: personalized, retention-focused content, low cognitive load and more.
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You Use Microlearning Every Day

We all use microlearning every day. Creating effective, engaging microlearning that your learners will use every day will improve your training outcomes.
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Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Measure Actual Learning?

OttoLearn, our gamified microlearning platform, has adaptive algorithms that measure actual learning — not just whether learners finished a training course.
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Soteria120 & OttoLearn Protect Workers, Combat COVID-19 Misinformation

OttoLearn & Soteria120 present a business resource to fight COVID-19 misinformation, educate, and assist business owners, via microlearning platform.
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Mitigate COVID-19 Risk with OttoLearn

Instill confidence with training on new safety protocols quickly with OttoLearn's microlearning platform, mitigating COVID-19 risk to employees and customers.
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Reskill Your Workforce with Microlearning

As work roles change, reskill employees using a microlearning platform to close knowledge gaps, helping to boost employee retention and trim team turnover.
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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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Pivot to Microlearning

With most face-to-face instruction on hold, it’s a great time to turn to always-available microlearning.
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Entice Gig Workers to Engage More Deeply — with Microlearning

You can’t require them to train; instead, entice contractors and gig workers to upskill by engaging them with an adaptive microlearning platform.
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Simplify Multilingual Content with the Right Microlearning Platform

With OttoLearn, you'll meet your global learners' training needs with a microlearning platform that makes it easy to create and maintain multilingual content.
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Burning Questions: How Can I Reduce Employee Turnover?

Replacing employees is costly — and often preventable. Learn how training can reduce employee turnover while also improving performance.
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Gamified Microlearning: The Definitive Guide to Effective Content

Learn to create effective eLearning content with our handy guide and let our gamified microlearning platform engage your learners and improve training results.
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OttoLearn's Knowledge Cards Have Been Released!

Supplement your online training efforts and help your learners retain information with our adaptive microlearning platform's newest feature: Knowledge Cards!
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Crowd Favorites: Our 9 Most Popular Otto Blog Posts!

Don't miss our best content of 2018: Top 9 posts on adaptive microlearning, online training, learner engagement, retention, training outcomes and much more!
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Build your own Training Analytics Dashboard for Free!

Not reaching expected outcomes with your online training? Use Microsoft's Power BI with our adaptive microlearning platform to measure training impact!
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