White paper

Induction and e-learning

Induction: e-learning's killer app?

Induction is one of the few learning interventions that applies to everyone. And it happens at a point in a learner's career when they are uniquely curious and receptive to learning. For the organisation that can get it right, induction offers a one-time only opportunity to communicate core values before organisational inertia and negative messages muddy the water.

Too often however, because of the behaviourist values that still underly a lot of 'sheep-dip' style induction programmes, this is a missed opportunity. Too many traditional induction programmes are haphazard and badly executed. People, it doesn't have to be this way!

This new white paper from Epic CEO Donald Clark argues that e-learning provides an ideal medium for producing really effective, compelling induction programmes. In fact, due to the medium's particular ability to put the learner, rather than the organisation, at the centre of the experience, induction might just be e-learning's killer application...

White Paper: Induction & e-learning

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Summary of contents:

• Introduction
  • A process not an event
  • 10 reasons for using e-learning in induction
• Learning objects and induction
  • Benefits of a 'learning objects' approach
• Global versus local
  • Local involvement
• Innovations in induction
  • Pre-emptive strike
  • First impressions matter
  • Use your website
  • Buddies
  • Jargon buster
  • Handling values
• Sustainable induction
• Conclusion
• Epic Thought Leadership Programme

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