OttoLearn® Blog

Analytics are great, but they can be tricky to understand at the start. This week, we're taking a look at Otto's Overview analytics panel and breaking it down.

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

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.

Our digital job aids tips will help supercharge your performance support strategy, improve efficiency, and, ultimately, help your employees do their jobs better.

If you share the right microlearning data with your LRS, you’ll be able to connect the dots and be on your way to calculating the ROI of your online training!

Effective training for adults is relevant, engaging, mobile-first. The OttoLearn gamified microlearning platform delivers all that to your adult learners and more!

Explore the ways OttoLearn gamified microlearning engages learners, extends learning, deepens knowledge retention — and enhances your training outcomes.

Prolonged WFH puts stress on team bonds. Use OttoLearn microlearning to boost virtual team building — and improve remote employees’ skills.

Deliberate practice is essential to learning any skill. We'll show you how to tap the power of deliberate practice and use it for improving employee performance.

Workers increasingly want flexibility; some may never go back to work at the office! Microlearning makes it easy to provide flexible remote employee training.

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.

Bridging distance, technology gaps, and more, microlearning showed its strengths by meeting the tough challenges 2020 posed.

Resolve the tension between eLearning that appeals to efficient learners and eLearning that is effective — turn to microlearning for the best of both worlds!

With our microlearning platform's rapid authoring features, frequent training updates aren't cumbersome and costly but instead handled with ease and efficiency.

A knowledge map shows the relationships among training objectives. Learn how planning microlearning with knowledge maps leads to improved training outcomes!

Learn how a continuous adaptive microlearning platform fits into every stage of your training program, improving training performance and training outcomes.

Whatever the reasons you do compliance training, your goal is changing behavior. Try effective continuous microlearning to boost your training outcomes.

Effective microlearning focuses on learners’ needs and preferences and uses proven cognitive science principles.

Think you don't have time to train? Move training into the workflow with OttoLearn's microlearning and watch your employees flourish and your business grow!

Our top 5 posts of 2020 (so far) dive into gamification, how to retain employees, using artificial intelligence (AI) in eLearing, and benefits of microlearning. Enjoy!

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

The COVID-19 crisis is driving interest in online training but workers are busier than ever. Tame their time famine with our adaptive microlearning platform!

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

We all use microlearning every day. Creating effective, engaging microlearning that your learners will use every day will improve your training outcomes.

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

OttoLearn, our gamified microlearning platform, has adaptive algorithms that measure actual learning — not just whether learners finished a training course.

Busy workers turn to self-directed learning for quick answers. Use a microlearning platform as a performance support to align this learning with business goals.

Microlearning has demonstrated its effectiveness in engaging learners and improving performance and retention. Learn what makes microlearning so effective!

We revisit your burning questions about how microlearning helps you prove training ROI, increases retention, and makes compliance training fun — and more!

Training is not always the solution busy employees need; on-demand performance support is an efficient solution to in-the-workflow information needs.

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

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

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

Use microlearning to prepare front-line workers needing to master new health and safety protocols to protect themselves — and customers — against COVID-19.

When combating adversity and unpredictability, deploy a tactical solution: OttoLearn Agile Microlearning

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

With most face-to-face instruction on hold, it’s a great time to turn to always-available microlearning.

Take advantage of the ways microlearning can reduce cognitive load, freeing learners to focus on mastering material for improved training outcomes.

Keep workers safe — and productive — with mobile-first microlearning. No-contact training and information updates are easy to deliver to your frontline.

Will microlearning appeal to my multigenerational workforce? With the workforce aging at the same time Gen Z is entering, find out how microlearning can help!

You can’t require them to train; instead, entice contractors and gig workers to upskill by engaging them with an adaptive microlearning platform.

Adult learners demand relevance, immediacy, convenience, utility — not fancy packaging. Find out how adaptive microlearning gives them what they want!

With OttoLearn, you'll meet your global learners' training needs with a microlearning platform that makes it easy to create and maintain multilingual content.

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

Replacing employees is costly — and often preventable. Learn how training can reduce employee turnover while also improving performance.

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?

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.

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

Discover what the 2019 Learning & Development Global Sentiment Survey results show as the next workplace learning trends and how adaptive microlearning aligns.

Announcing a major update to the UI of our adaptive microlearning platform. Inspired by popular media apps it's fast, intuitive, stunning and instantly familiar!

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?

Online training failed? Whether due to lack of learner engagement or retainment we'll show you how to create continuous training to meet long-term retention goals.

Can microlearning... Boost retention? Improve engagement? Help calculate ROI? Make learners love training? Your 'Burning Questions' answered and more!

Part of a large or high-growth business? Our adaptive microlearning platform solves your online training challenges by offering personalized, scalable learning.

Via Google searches, your learners are self-directing learning! Why not empower them further with self-directed micro eLearning for all aspects of their jobs?

What is microlearning, besides a buzzword? We feel it must answer a question, meet an immediate need, or help the learner solve a problem. Learn more!

People want to learn but long courses aren't the answer. Fit learning into workers' busy days with adaptive microlearning. A solution for today's learners.

We're constantly adding features to our adaptive microlearning platform. Check out new LMS integrations, exporting to SCORM and user engagment reporting.

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

Don't focus on the Forgetting Curve. Embrace the Retention Curve! Our engaging adaptive microlearning platform boosts retention and closes knowledge gaps.

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

Give your learners a break! Learn how spaced repetition boosts retention. Our adaptive microlearning platform uses this and other proven learning principles.

We're constantly adding features to our adaptive microlearning platform to improve personalized training for learners and training content delivery for admins.

What's your ROTI? Learn how to measure the real impact of your training, its Return on Training Investment, and why online training outcomes matter.

How do you get your learners to care about online training? Use learner feedback to drive training engagement, and enjoy improved training outcomes too!

Our adaptive microlearning platform has it all: engaging training, improved retention, fast deployment and measurable outcomes. Trainers AND learners win!

Completing training doesn't correlate to retention or engagement. That's why your learners benefit from adaptive microlearning delivering continuous training!

Marketers know a thing or two about engagement. Learn from the pros and spark change in learners' behavior with effective continuous adaptive microlearning.

Learn to create effective eLearning content with our handy guide and let our gamified microlearning platform engage your learners and improve training results.

Supplement your online training efforts and help your learners retain information with our adaptive microlearning platform's newest feature: Knowledge Cards!

Don't miss our best content of 2018: Top 9 posts on adaptive microlearning, online training, learner engagement, retention, training outcomes and much more!

Adaptive learning and microlearning are top eLearning trends in 2019. Explore our adaptive microlearning platform — proven to improve training outcomes!

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

8 trainers gather to share common training woes; a ninth offers a solution: OttoLearn. Try our adaptive microlearning platform for effective online training.

Move your annual compliance training to our adaptive microlearning platform and boost engagement by delivering short, daily, continuous training to employees.

Why choose OttoLearn as your adaptive microlearning platform? 10 reasons to improve learner engagement and retention with daily personalized training.

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

Do you need Agile Microlearning? These 5 signs point to a need for our adaptive microlearning platform to deliver effective personalized online training daily.

New 2019 features added to our adaptive microlearning platform included Knowledge Cards, the Analytics Dashboard and SCORM and LMS Integrations!

A microlearning platform alone won't improve learner engagement or training retention — you need an adaptive microlearning platform. But what's the difference?

Take control of your online training! Our do-it-yourself adaptive microlearning platform lets you build a personalized training experience for your learners.

Use our adaptive microlearning platform for initial training and to ensure long-term retention. Personalized training, delivered daily for improved outcomes.

Learners lost interest in traditional LMS eLearning? Move to an adaptive microlearning platform for improved engagement, better outcomes and so much more.

What do Google, Netflix, Nest and OttoLearn share? They use “big data” and adaptive technologies to improve efficiency and provide great user experiences.

Organizations value on-demand training, personalized learning and knowledge retention. That's why 2018 will be the year of microlearning.

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

Unlike traditional eLearning, our adaptive microlearning platform increases retention with personalized learning to efficiently deliver effective training.

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

How much do you remember from the eLearning course you took? Did you enjoy it? Switch to personalized, adaptive microlearning — the future of eLearning.