OttoLearn® Blog

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

June 26, 2023

Notification Management: Tips for Different Types of Employee Leave

Learn how to manage your employees' training notifications while they're spending time out of the office.
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February 8, 2023

Create Learning Content for a Global Audience Using OttoLearn (Part 2)

Deliver content in multiple languages and ensure every employee receives the same training opportunities and knowledge.
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January 25, 2023

Create Learning Content for a Global Audience Using OttoLearn (Part 1)

Deliver content in multiple languages and ensure every employee receives the same training opportunities and knowledge.
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October 11, 2021

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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September 13, 2021

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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June 21, 2021

Digital Job Aids Supercharge Your Performance Support Strategy

Our digital job aids tips will help supercharge your performance support strategy, improve efficiency, and, ultimately, help your employees do their jobs better.
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May 24, 2021

Share the Right Microlearning Data with Your LRS

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!
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April 26, 2021

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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April 12, 2021

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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March 15, 2021

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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February 15, 2021

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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January 18, 2021

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Deliver Remote Employee Training?

Workers increasingly want flexibility; some may never go back to work at the office! Microlearning makes it easy to provide flexible remote employee training.
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December 14, 2020

Microlearning Shines Amid 2020’s Challenges

Bridging distance, technology gaps, and more, microlearning showed its strengths by meeting the tough challenges 2020 posed.
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November 2, 2020

5 Reasons to Use Microlearning for Your Compliance Training

Whatever the reasons you do compliance training, your goal is changing behavior. Try effective continuous microlearning to boost your training outcomes.
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October 12, 2020

Motivate Learners with Meaningful Gamification

Let OttoLearn show you how to intrinsically motivate learners to do better, be part of a successful team effort, or simply increase their knowledge and skill.
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October 5, 2020

Bring Training into the Workflow with the Right Microlearning Platform

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!
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September 21, 2020

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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September 7, 2020

Learn to Love Learner Feedback

Learn to love learner feedback – it gives your learners a sense of ownership and creates an opportunity for training admins to improve your eLearning content!
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August 24, 2020

Burning Questions: Can Microlearning Help Workers Tame the Time Famine?

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!
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June 29, 2020

Microlearning Solves Your Toughest Training Challenges

We revisit your burning questions about how microlearning helps you prove training ROI, increases retention, and makes compliance training fun — and more!
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June 22, 2020

Microlearning Offers On-Demand Performance Support

Training is not always the solution busy employees need; on-demand performance support is an efficient solution to in-the-workflow information needs.
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June 15, 2020

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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June 8, 2020

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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June 1, 2020

Does your eLearning vendor eat their own dog food?

An eLearning vendor who believes in their product uses them to train their own employees. By using our microlearning platform, we're eating our own dog food.
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May 18, 2020

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

Use microlearning to prepare front-line workers needing to master new health and safety protocols to protect themselves — and customers — against COVID-19.
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May 4, 2020

Everboarding: Turn Online Training into Constant Learning

Start everboarding your team's training! It's similar to onboarding but continues indefinitely, as one-time exposure is not enough to boost knowledge retention.
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March 23, 2020

Leverage Microlearning to Keep Learners Risk-Free

Keep workers safe — and productive — with mobile-first microlearning. No-contact training and information updates are easy to deliver to your frontline.
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March 16, 2020

Shape Learning & Build Retention with Formative Feedback

Providing formative feedback throughout the learning process deepens understanding and knowledge retention — and produces improved training outcomes!
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March 9, 2020

Burning Questions: Will Microlearning Appeal to My Multigenerational Workforce?

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!
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March 2, 2020

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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February 17, 2020

Are You Considering the Nuclear Option?

The use of smartphones at work can drain productivity but also bring many benefits, including easy access to training. Say No to a ban!
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December 30, 2019

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

We published so much great content in 2019 that it was tough to choose. Revisit these 5 popular posts. Don’t miss out on the hottest info on microlearning!
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December 9, 2019

Most Harassment-Prevention Training Doesn’t Work

Most harassment training fails to teach people what harassing behavior is AND is not. And this lack of clarity causes even more problems in the workplace.
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November 25, 2019

You Need Better (Training) Insurance!

Compliance training needs to work to protect your workers, organization, and customers from harm. But how do you deliver engaging, compliance training?
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October 21, 2019

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

Do your employees put off their annual compliance training? Adaptive microlearning changes that with continuous training to engage learners like never before!
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September 30, 2019

Uncover Training ROI with Free Data Analysis Tool: Power BI

Struggling to measure training ROI? We make it easy! Power BI is included with our microlearning platform! Measure and improve training outcomes today!
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August 12, 2019

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

Can microlearning be used to calculate training ROI? We believe in measuring and analyzing your eLearning — and give you the analytics dashboard to do so.
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July 15, 2019

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

Imagine online training with no enrollments or annual updates. Say goodbye to your training backlog. Our adaptive microlearning platform makes it happen!
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June 17, 2019

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

Eliminate the pain of completing tedious annual compliance training with our adaptive microlearning platform that delivers continuous training to employees.
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June 10, 2019

Want Learner Engagement? Turn Learner Feedback Upside Down!

What if your corporate training contains an error? Will your learners still trust it? Engage your learners with the ability to give feedback on their training!
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May 13, 2019

eLearning Plus MicroLearning Equals Dynamic Digital Learning

Want to boost learner engagement and retention? Add our adaptive microlearning platform to traditional eLearning and creating dynamic digital learning magic!
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April 22, 2019

Give Learners a Reason to Care

How do you get your learners to care about online training? Use learner feedback to drive training engagement, and enjoy improved training outcomes too!
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April 8, 2019

Why Your Course Completions are Misleading You

Completing training doesn't correlate to retention or engagement. That's why your learners benefit from adaptive microlearning delivering continuous training!
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February 18, 2019

A Tale of Nine Trainers

8 trainers gather to share common training woes; a ninth offers a solution: OttoLearn. Try our adaptive microlearning platform for effective online training.
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February 11, 2019

Continuous Microlearning Ups Compliance Training Engagement

Move your annual compliance training to our adaptive microlearning platform and boost engagement by delivering short, daily, continuous training to employees.
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January 28, 2019

5 Signs You Need Agile Microlearning

Do you need Agile Microlearning? These 5 signs point to a need for our adaptive microlearning platform to deliver effective personalized online training daily.
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January 14, 2019

The State of Microlearning: OttoLearn’s 2019 Q1 Roadmap

New 2019 features added to our adaptive microlearning platform included Knowledge Cards, the Analytics Dashboard and SCORM and LMS Integrations!
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November 19, 2018

Creating Compliance Training Learners Will Love: Whitepaper

Help learners gain value from compliance training by delivering continuous, personalized training on an adaptive microlearning platform they'll love to use.
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April 16, 2018

Why Training Matters

Training your employees means new skills and growth! It leads to happy employees, safe workplaces, better customer experiences — and successful businesses!
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November 26, 2018

The OttoLearn Corporate Playbook

How does our microlearning platform help with corporate training? It complements your LMS with personalized training for improved retention and engagement!
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October 29, 2018

The OttoLearn Multi-location Retail Playbook

How does our adaptive microlearning platform help with retail training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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September 17, 2018

The OttoLearn Professional Sales Playbook

How does our adaptive microlearning platform help with sales training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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June 4, 2018

The OttoLearn Certification Prep Playbook

How does our microlearning platform help with certification prep training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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April 30, 2018

The OttoLearn Not-for-Profit Playbook

Trying to improve not-for-profit training? Our adaptive microlearning platform offers affordable multilingual personalized training that boosts learner retention.
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April 9, 2018

The End of Annual Compliance Training?

Need continuous compliance training? Take a personalized training approach using our adapative microlearning platform to exercise your content year-round.
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April 2, 2018

The OttoLearn Contact Center Playbook

How does our microlearning platform help with contact center training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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February 12, 2018

The OttoLearn Franchisor Playbook

How does our microlearning platform help with franchisor training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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January 15, 2018

The OttoLearn Manufacturers Playbook

How does our microlearning platform help with manufacturer training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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January 8, 2018

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

Data-driven decisions doubled my Uber driver's earnings. Use the same approach, with our adaptive microlearning platform, to improve your training results!
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December 25, 2017

Santa's Workshop Playbook

An adaptive microlearning platform could help Santa's Workshop! On-demand personlized training will boost the elves' performance in only minutes a day.
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December 4, 2017

The OttoLearn Academic Playbook

How does our adaptive microlearning platform help with academic training? It delivers personalized training daily for improved retention and learner engagement!
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