Logicearth blog

When you’re faced with the question, “what is it you do?” do you grab a swift intake of breath, and ready the room for your elevator pitch? Kate Middleton talks about how her new title of ‘Learning Experience Designer’ over..

Recently we have been having meaningful conversations with a number of our content development clients about the move away from SCORM content courses, to the development of individual learning assets. Here we look at some..

Exploring a world of forward-thinking 

Paul, Director at Logicearth, talks about what he’s most looking forward to at #LT19UK and shares his predicted hot topics...

'Learning in the flow of work involves accessing, quickly and easily, an answer or a short piece of learning content while you're working. The phrase was coined by Josh Bersin.

Our Learning Experience Designers (aka the artists formerly known as ‘Instructional Designers’) have been instant messaging again. This time it’s Niamh and David talking about spaced repetition (aka spaced learning or spaced..

The landscape of learning has changed dramatically, with most workplace learning happening on the job rather than through formal courses. Knowing this, our expert Learning Experience Designers (LxDs) tap into the hidden..

We’ve seen very welcome changes in the last couple of years within the digital learning industry, in particular, the catching up of tools and technology that are now enabling us to better deliver on the theories we’ve spoken..

Our medical writingteam excel at making complex information easier to understand and keeping our clients up to date with the latest innovations. In this blog, they take an in-depth look at the potential of artificial..

The role of managers in organisations has changed over the last few years. Historically, organisations reduced the number of middle managers and moved towards flatter structures. But recent research highlights the vital role..

One of the biggest challenges for Learning and Development teams is to develop, deploy and maintain learning content that is relevant, accessible and engaging. Learning experience platforms (LXPs) offer a solution.

Learning technology and digital learning content can be used to better support your staff - and to specifically help them with their productivity. Procrastination can come from feeling overwhelmed, and digital learning can..

The LMS has evolved over the years, but many organisations are either unhappy with their initial choice, or down the line, find it isn't flexible enough for them to scale as the organisation grows or changes.

Onboarding matters - it matters to employee engagement and has a huge impact on retention. Research shows that a well designed onboarding process has the biggest impact on employee retention and sets new employees up for..

On average, staff now stay in jobs for four and a half years and skills become half out of date within five years (skill half-life). With careers lasting 40 to 50 years these days, continuous, lifelong learning is vital.

Your body’s own immune system is the best weapon against cancer. That’s the claim behind one of the latest developments in cancer treatment, called immuno-oncology, a specialised type of immunotherapy. Our team of medical..

Earlier this year, Gartner predicted that worldwide IT spending will rise to $3.7 trillion - the highest increase in more than a decade. When you think about digital transformation, though, which areas of your business come..

Training and Development teams have been asked to provide better services and make a bigger impact on their businesses for the best part of 10 years now. Away from work, we have easy and (usually) free access to high quality..

Experimenting with colours and textures is an innate human ability, as our Neanderthal forefathers used a variety of pigments from coal to red and yellow ochre extracted from plants in order to create animal forms. So saying..

How can business leaders and L&D teams better select, train and support managers? Managers have a surprisingly big impact on your business and there are many different ways to train and support managers - but first you need..

If you live on planet earth, then the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impact you. It is good to know your data rights; to understand how companies store and use information about you. If you work with..

Blended learning is used to describe the way digital learning is combined with traditional classroom training and independent study to create a new methodology for learning. Rather than simply adding one type of learning to..

Our guest contributer, John Strutt, an intelligence analyst and cyber security expert, explains what GDPR risk really means for your organisation. Intelligence analysts are the people most likely to see the consequences of..

Html5 video is used in most eLearning and digital content production. The big advantage of html5 video is that it is a universal standard for different mobile devices and screen sizes. But just because it is easier to use..

What is the difference between usability design and user experience design? How are both important in elearning? At Logicearth, we pride our selves on great UI and UX and have gathered some tips for getting them right.

Our clients are always asking us about how to get started with creating their own eLearning content. Part of this challenge is choosing a digital learning authoring tool. This blogs explains the benefits and features of a..

What to look for in a next-generation LMS?

There are many learning management systems (LMS) offerings on the market today and procuring an LMS is a complex buying decision - if you are new to eLearning or planning to upgrade.

Improve learner engagement by using realistic eLearning scenarios that highlight key decision points in challenging situations.

Once upon a time there was a Learning Experience Designer called Niamh. One day, Niamh's boss sent her to visit a client and told her that she must use her magic powers to convince them that a story-based approach was best..

How can you create high quality elearning content that will challenge and stretch your staff as they learn? We specialise in eLearning of the non-patronising kind, so read on if you want to create better digital learning..

I've recently been involved with a project that had two key animations explaining the key concepts of the course. Of all the elements in the course (text, videos, audio conversations, case studies etc), it was the explainer..

Many organisations use eLearning for compliance training and often, for staff, it becomes a race-to-the-finish, tick box exercise to just complete the course. How can you as an L&D start to change this behaviour? We don't..

Here's how to create responsive elearning - or mobile-ready elearning content. Gone are the days where people were stuck at their desks trying to complete long and tedious elearning courses in one sitting. 

This blog is about the role of instructional design in the eLearning development process. If you are working with instructional designers to create eLearning content, this blog will help you to understand the value IDs bring..

Here are 5 visual design techniques to keep your elearning content engaging and impactful. Excellence in design is our thing - we have a design team who are passionate connoisseurs of design excellence. 

There are new approaches to learning that your staff now expect - from more flexible ways to learn to create content personalised to them. Blended learning is a way of picking what you want, and I was recently inspired by..

It's time to challenge the elearning industry to offer clients better solutions - and to stop the buzzwords! If you've ever been unhappy with an elearning solution in the past, then this will help you to address the gaps and..

Elearning has been around for a long time - since the early 1990s. Yet many organisations still have a bad impression of it. We're aiming to change that. We look at how elearning can deliver.

How can you design eLearning content that provides enough challenge for the learner? We talk to many clients who complain that sometimes eLearning patronises and can be boring. (Not any of our content obviously!) 

What is staff engagement and how can we use modern digital learning to improve it? Elearning has evolved in recent times and your staff need and want better and more flexible options for training and development. But most of..

How do you prepare to work with an elearning provider and start elearning projects with success in mind? Like all business transactions, thinking through what you want is a great place to start. We have crafted our Content..

How can you use digital learning to tackle the big challenges of business to give clients better learning solutions? Although we focus on the specific challenges of the IT sector here - staff engagement, selecting and..

We look at recent research on the importance of managers for your organisation and the impact on employees. At Logicearth, keep up-to-date with the latest research, trends and insights into the typical business challenges..

What is the future of elearning and the opportunities it could bring to your business? Learning technology and learning content have a terrible history, but all that could be about to change. New, innovative learning..

How can you challenge barriers to make social learning work for you? The more we work with clients, the more we see that company culture is the biggest predictor of success when it comes to introducing any type of learning..

We've worked with many clients over the years and have gathered requirements for thousands of hours of eLearning, so we'd like to share our insights. We've all been there - and this post is as much for my fellow eLearning..

The process of learning is more complex than most people consider.  We're really fascinated by the topic of unlearning. We first wrote about it here - unlearning is the new learning. In our experience, once the baggage of..

High-quality explainer animations help to make complex information more understandable. Our expert in-house team of digital designers explain how they script a video and how to design excellent explainer videos for your..

The science of learning has evolved significantly in the last ten years. If you work in learning and development, understanding the science of learning and new techniques and insights for workplace learning will help you to..

Whether you design your own eLearning content, or you outsource to an eLearning vendor like Logicearth, there are some design sins you should look out for. Here's how to improve the graphical design of eLearning content. 

Using a variety of learning techniques can better engage your staff. If you develop your own elearning content, you might want to try these out. There are lots of different ways to learn - from reading, to observation, to..

How can you make the experience of completing an eLearning course as easy as possible? User experience (UX) is a critical part of digital learning design that must be considered at every stage of development - especially as..

Much has changed in L&D (or training departments as many people still know them as), in the last 5 to 10 years. Not least that budgets have been slashed. This is a common pattern – when times are hard, training departments..