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You Can Win the Battle against ‘Confident Misinformation’

Your employees know stuff – but what do you do if what they know is wrong? Uncover and eradicate confident misinformation in your workplace with microlearning!

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Continuous Learning Leads to Continuous Performance Support

Fostering a learning culture through continuous learning provides performance support and prepares employees to face new challenges.

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Effective Microlearning Design Boosts Impact

Use Gamification to Boost Motivation — and Learning

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Measure Actual Learning?

How Does Performance Support Enhance Self-Directed Learning?

Microlearning: Effective Training Anywhere

Microlearning Solves Your Toughest Training Challenges

Microlearning Offers On-Demand Performance Support

Soteria120 & OttoLearn Protect Workers, Combat COVID-19 Misinformation

Mitigate COVID-19 Risk with OttoLearn

Does your eLearning vendor eat their own dog food?

Reskill Your Workforce with Microlearning

Prepare Your Front-Line Workers to Battle COVID-19!

10 Ways Artificial Intelligence and L&D Intersect

Everboarding: Turn Online Training into Constant Learning

Deploy Tactical Training to Win World War C

betterU & OttoLearn Join Forces to Quickly Deploy Critical COVID-19 Resources

Microlearning 101: A Comprehensive Introduction

Pivot to Microlearning

7 Ways Microlearning Helps You Reduce Cognitive Load

Leverage Microlearning to Keep Learners Risk-Free

Shape Learning & Build Retention with Formative Feedback

Burning Questions: Will Microlearning Appeal to My Multigenerational Workforce?

Entice Gig Workers to Engage More Deeply — with Microlearning

Where’s the Beef?

Are You Considering the Nuclear Option?

Effective Training Is Friction-Free

Simplify Multilingual Content with the Right Microlearning Platform

Instructional Scaffolding Flexibly Supports all Learners

How OttoLearn Uses Game Mechanics to Leverage Learners’ Motivation

Burning Questions: How Can I Reduce Employee Turnover?

Microlearning Gamification: Not Just Playing Games

That's a Wrap! Our 5 Most Popular OttoLearn Blog Posts of 2019

Top 10 eLearning Myths EXPLODED!

Most Harassment-Prevention Training Doesn’t Work

How Is eLearning Like the Company T-shirt?

You Need Better (Training) Insurance!

Why Spaced Repetition Is Critical for Learning & Retention

On Trend & On Point: OttoLearn at DevLearn 2019

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

Burning Questions: What Does Mobile-First Learning Mean?

2019 L&D Global Sentiment Survey

Burning Questions: Can MicroLearning Make My Employees Love Compliance Training?

OttoLearn Q3 Feature Updates

Uncover Training ROI with Free Data Analysis Tool: Power BI

The Microlearner's Bill of Rights

Training: Special Event or Stepping Stone?

Did You Miss This Summer’s "Hottest" Reading?

Choose Microlearning for Scalable and Personalized Learning

Empower Self-directed Learning with Agile Microlearning

What IS Microlearning Anyway?

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Finally Be a Gateway to Calculating Real ROI?

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Actually Ensure That Learners Master Content and Retain Knowledge?

Learner Engagement Starts at the Top

We Don't Need No Education!

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Eliminate the Challenge of Managing Enrollments?

OttoLearn Q2 Feature Updates

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Eliminate the Stress of Chasing Learners?

Otto Meets Bloom: A Firm Foundation for Advanced Knowledge Application

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Eliminate the Pain of Managing Annual Compliance Training?

Want Learner Engagement? Turn Learner Feedback Upside Down!

Move Past the Forgetting Curve

Comprehensive Cyber Security Training: Free from OttoLearn

Want Better Retention? Give Learners a Break!

eLearning Plus MicroLearning Equals Dynamic Digital Learning

Q1 Feature Updates

What Trainers Can Learn from Marketers About ROI

Give Learners a Reason to Care

The Case for Agile Microlearning

Why Your Course Completions are Misleading You

What Trainers Should Learn from Marketers About Engagement

Agile Microlearning: The Definitive Guide to Effective Content

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OttoLearn's Knowledge Cards Have Been Released!

The Top eLearning Trends in 2019: A Comparison

3 Reasons eLearning Fails (and How to Fix Them)

A Tale of Nine Trainers

Continuous Microlearning Ups Compliance Training Engagement

Top 10 Reasons to Choose OttoLearn as Your Mastery & Retention Platform

5 Signs You Need Agile Microlearning

Build your own Training Analytics Dashboard for Free!

The State of Agile Microlearning: OttoLearn’s 2019 Q1 Roadmap

"Make it Stick" with OttoLearn

Forget Courses! Deliver Strategic Training Interventions for Immediate Results

Sneak Peek: Real Learning Tech Trends for 2019

Microlearning vs. Adaptive Microlearning: What's the Difference?

OttoLearn Wins Gold in Brandon Hall Technology Awards

Accelerate Multilingual Projects with OttoLearn

Customizing Your OttoLearn Analytics Dashboard

The OttoLearn Corporate Playbook

Creating Compliance Training Learners Will Love: Whitepaper

OttoLearn’s Q3 Feature Update

Taking Agile Microlearning to DevLearn 2018

The OttoLearn Multi-location Retail Playbook

Bonjour, Hallo, Ciao! OttoLearn Has 8 New Supported Languages

Image & Video Support Has Arrived!

Image & Video Support is Coming Soon!

Your LMS is a Cargo Ship & It Needs a Speedboat

The OttoLearn Professional Sales Playbook

Where are you on the Training Intent Index™ ?

DIY Adaptive Microlearning

ICYMI: Watch the Enhanced Engagement & Advanced Analytics Webinar Recording

Introducing Our Content Studio!

The OttoLearn Certification Prep Playbook

ICYMI: Our 9 Best

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!

The Cognitive Science Behind OttoLearn

ICYMI: Migrating To Microlearning: The Webinar

The OttoLearn Not-for-Profit Playbook

OttoLearn Cyber-Security Training Saved My Computer!

Why Training Matters

The End of Annual Compliance Training?

The OttoLearn Contact Center Playbook

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The Secret to Increasing Learner Engagement

Can OttoLearn be Used for Initial Training?

Viva la Revolution in Pricing!

The 6 Promises of Microlearning, Plus One That’s Shocking

Learning, Forgetting & Trivial Pursuit™

The OttoLearn Franchisor Playbook

When Depressed, DISRUPT!

What Google, Netflix, and Nest Teach Us About Microlearning

Your Robot Tutor is Arriving

The OttoLearn Manufacturers Playbook

What an Uber Driver Taught Me (About Data-Driven* Decisions)

2018 Will Be the Year of Microlearning

Santa's Workshop Playbook

A Tale of Two Trainings

What Pigeons, AlphaGo, and Spock Teach Us About Learning

The OttoLearn Academic Playbook

The Vanity Metric of Course Completions or “Sprints vs. Marathons”

Personalized Learning is a Walk in the Park

DevLearn: The Future is Here — and the Future is Microlearning

Introducing Otto to the World: The World Conference on eLearning

WHY We Built OttoLearn

The Painful Truth about eLearning

A Funny Thing Happened on our Way to Modern eLearning

Why OttoLearn Works: The Future of eLearning

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