Our Top 10 eLearning Blogs of 2021

Our Top 10 eLearning Blogs of 2021

Learning is at the core or our existence at Harbinger. While we love designing and enabling impactful learning experiences for our customers, we are equally excited about sharing and keeping you updated on the latest in eLearning through our blogs. Our endeavor is to focus on business related insights, project implementation experiences, ideas shared by eLearning influencers from the industry and of course bringing back the strategy, content and technology discussed in our live industry discussions on virtual forums. Your readership and active participation have always been a source of encouragement for us. We wind up this eventful year by bringing to you a compilation of our top ten blogs (in no particular order) that bring you a great content mix, endorsed by you. Whether it is technology, emerging trends, thought leadership, or buzz in the eLearning industry, these blogs will give you a comprehensive glimpse of all the interesting happenings from the Harbinger Group world. Happy reading!

1. How Off-The-Shelf Learning Providers Can Take Advantage of Technology Disruptions

‘Disruption’ is not always an uncomfortable word. While on the face, it may imply break, disturbance or a radical change to an existing industry or market, it is most often driven by technological innovation that has the potential to become a game changer for the industry.

You should not miss this blog that provides links to two interesting Interactive Learning Power Hour sessions that Harbinger had hosted. These sessions were graced by accomplished L&D leaders who explored the impact of some key disruptions that changed the course of learning. Interestingly, everybody seemed to agree that these major disruptions ultimately proved to create life-time opportunities that off-the-shelf content providers could leverage to their advantage. Read on for amazing insights on the various types of disruptions that the industry saw and the opportunities that these disruptions created.

2. Chatbots: A Good Way to Engage and Enable Learners

One of the most transforming eLearning innovations that has created a huge impact on learning outcomes is the chatbot technology. With the promising possibility of supporting real-time interactions, chatbots can be intelligently leveraged to deliver scalable, personalized solutions. It is therefore not a surprise that by 2024, the global chatbot market is expected to reach $ 9.4 billion.

This informative blog, penned by Harbinger’s eLearning expert, traces the origin of the chatbot technology while discussing in detail the different types of chatbots that can be utilized based on their capability to deliver specific solutions. If you want to understand the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of chatbots or even if you want a quick 101, this is a recommended read for you.

3. Don’t Create, When You Can Curate

One of the ways in which L&D teams can help organizations prepare for the future is by creating personalized experiences and integrating learning in the flow of work. Content curation is a very effective way to accomplish these goals. This blog projects transformative ideas of a strategic learning and development leader of global repute. The guest elaborates on how content curation and technology are the imperatives that can deliver continuous value enhancement in today’s eLearning world

4. 6 Best Practices For Building a Culture of Learning in Your Organization

LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report states that 94% of employees feel investment in learning and development is one of the major reasons they would decide to stay in a role for longer. With re-skilling and upskilling becoming an imperative in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, creating a learning culture along with an environment to support it is non-negotiable.

We, at Harbinger, have been working with a variety of customers helping them with creative ideas and tools to build a culture of learning. We share our learnings and best practices through this immensely useful blog. Keep learning!

5. Cultivating a Learning Culture with an AI-powered Virtual Coach

The next one on our list double clicks further on the topic of developing a learning culture by focusing on the strategies and tools that will help you make learning central to engaging employees and retaining talent. Want to know about the technology that will help develop better learning experiences?

To stay ahead in the game and know how AI (Artificial Intelligence) plays a significant role in making learning an everyday work, you will have to park yourself here for some time. We are sure you will step out better informed on how AI is on its way to becoming the next remarkable thing in L&D.

6. Digitization of Education – Modernizing Classrooms for Good

We have all been witness to a global event that changed the world – the Pandemic of 2020. This was a turning point that had a considerable impact on the entire world’s outlook towards education. Integration of technology into learning and education was perhaps the most significant outcome of this global disruption.

This blog is a good refresher on the basics of digitization, along with notable recommendations on the approaches that will help you with your digital transformation. Read this blog to not only understand the challenges that you may encounter but also learn about the ways to overcome them.

7. Gamification: An Effective Strategy to Enhance Learning Outcomes

Gamification is not just a buzz word in the eLearning ecosystem. It is a proven strategy that is catching up the fancy of elearning content creators across industries. There are innumerable examples of how this strategy has been implemented by content creators successfully with impressive learning outcomes.

Harbinger is a front-runner in this ‘game’ with a proven track record. If you want to do a rapid course on gamification, including insights into the strategies, approaches, elements, and Harbinger’s innovative Gamification framework then this blog cannot be missed. Be sure to check on the interactive Power Hour on Gamification. The link has been provided in the blo

8. Making Learning Available in the Flow of Work Using AI

Learning in the flow of work is not only the need of the hour but is poised to revolutionize the learning ecosystem for a long time to come. Modern learning technologies and platforms seek to make it easier to meet such changing needs of the workforce and promote learning in the workplace. L&D leaders will therefore have to go past traditional learning systems and adopt latest tools and technologies. This blog is a treasure house of information for those who want to know how AI (Artificial Intelligence) is helping organizations with intelligent learning and performance support. Our team of experts share the learning that they have assimilated after helping multiple clients set up AI-powered learning systems.

9. Competency-Based Learning and What’s in it For Your Workforce?

Competency-based learning is a future looking strategy that is a win-win for both the organization and the employees. It is definitely gaining traction in the corporate world. What are the reasons for organizations to gravitate towards competency-based learning? How can an organization make it an intrinsic part of their learning management systems? How can employees benefit from such an ecosystem? The answers to all the above questions and many other related aspects are provided in this contemporary blog that explains the whole concept, simply. Read this article to understand in very simple terms the merits of implementing competency-based learning.

10. Content Modernization Strategy: Need of the Hour

To adapt to technology disruptions and meet the modern-day learners’ demands, many organizations are looking at modernizing their existing learning material. However, modernization is not only about repackaging an ‘old wine in a new bottle’, but it should ideally be looked at as a transformational strategy to deliver business results by creating new and unique experiences for the learners.

Our learning expert draws from his extensive experience of working on content modernization projects to explain in simple terms the need for organizations to undertake this much-needed initiative.

Happy 2022!