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  Learning Management System (LMS). A learning management system (LMS) refers to a technology used to automate the administration, development, and delivery of training programs. LMSs can provide employees, managers, and trainers with the systems support to manage, deliver, and track learning activities. Some features of LMS include tracking and reporting learners’ progress, authoring skills for consistent content creation, discussion boards for interaction and trainer feedback, being able to assess learners, providing a great deal of personalization, and supporting professional development. LMS is a great tool for integrating employee training with all aspects of the human resource function (e.g., performance evaluation, human resource planning) to determine training cost and impact on business goals. It provides a central system for managing all employee's learning activities, tracking compliance, and measuring individual and team performance.   The long-term impl...

Conducting a training needs assessment with a focus on the following:  1) What stakeholders would you want to make sure to get buy-in from? Americares is a global health nonprofit organization that aims to save lives and improve people's health in vulnerable communities. Its principal activities are to respond to emergency situations caused by natural disasters, war, and health epidemics. The emergency response may lead to a long-term recovery program that may lead to the creation of an organizational country presence. To conduct an organizational country-level training program improving specific health capacities within a community, stakeholders involved would be the top-level leadership team, the country directors, key employees occupying the roles in which the training would be implemented for or by, employees managers, finance headquarters team, technical unit experts or SMEs, and other headquarter roles that directly work with the country offices. It will be beneficial to have...

  Hello, Ever wondered about the place of training within your team?      Growth in market share and an increased bottom line are at the core of organizational goals, and certainly, ABC Digital is not an exception.     Equipping your employees through training to develop their cultural competencies and grasp various political and socio-economic situations in potential global markets positions your organization on the path to incredible and tremendous success when aiming for an effective global presence.     Again, in an age where technology and the use of artificial intelligence are major work tools for efficiency, you bet these have become one of the salient drivers of gaining competitive advantage. Therefore, investing and motivating your employees while retaining them through mandated training in using such technologies will not only get your team to thrive in the moment but will certainly be sustainable in the future.     It is n...

End of Course Reflection   Distance learning has shown that learning is possible in an online environment where learners and teachers are physically separated from each other and connected by technological tools. According to Simonson et al. (2019), distance learning is “institution-based, formal education where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors.” Different names have been attributed to distance learning, from online learning, virtual learning, and e-learning, all incorporating the key notion of learning from a distance ( Sangrà et al., 2012). Distance learning can be carried out synchronously –occurring at different places at the same time, asynchronously –occurring at different places at different times, or in a blended format—online activities occur at certain times during a conventional face-to-face course (Simonson et al., 2019). Constant technological advancement has r...

Before this course, I was opportune to take a course from the United Kingdom from Cameroon about 10 years ago, where course materials were shared via postal systems, and students were expected to self-study with the help and guidance of a local subject matter expert (SME) and take a one-time paper-based test. According to Johnston (2020), this form of distance education is known as correspondence courses, and its use dates to 1728. This paper-based test was facilitated by an external body in Cameroon, with roles being exam administration and supervision in designated centers. The support of the SME was a personal step left at the learners' discretion. For learners who could not have a local SME guide, feedback was only shared with learners after the one-time assessment was taken in the form of scores and grades. This learning and teaching approach was understood by me as distance learning simply due to the geographically spatial separation between instructor and learner. ...

  Learning is still much of a complex process. For me to say I have gained new knowledge, know how, and when to use this knowledge and use it effectively relies mainly on the use of a mix of learning theories, learning styles, and in some instances, assistance from technology. Again, understanding, retaining, and retrieving information is a process that involves complex scientific elements involving the human brain ( Walden University, LLC. , n.d). In my understanding, this cognitive dimension of learning seems to sit at the central point of learning. When applied or used in learning, all learning theories and styles require the brain to process, retain, and retrieve the needed information using varied methods, speed, and comprehension. Confidently, I can say I learn by using various learning theories and styles. As an adult learner, I tend to learn best when making decisions about what I learn and determining a reason to answer the ‘why’ the choice of a particular course or subj...