Collaborative Learning

The power of collaborative learning

Introduction Collaborative learning is one of the “secret weapons” of a growing company. It is a crucial ingredient that enables scale while fostering culture, creating the conditions for greater productivity while ensuring that employees feel a collective sense of ownership and accomplishment in what they are building. Collaborative learning is larger than any single tool […]

How collaborative learning enables high-growth teams

For SaaS companies, the right LMS solution can be the key to enabling your teams to reach their maximum productivity and potential.

What SaaS companies should look for in an LMS

For SaaS companies, the right LMS solution can be the key to enabling your teams to reach their maximum productivity and potential.

LXP vs. LMS: What’s the difference?

While traditional LMS solutions provide the structural foundation your business needs for a robust approach to learning and development, LXP solutions ensure that all learning content and initiatives are highly engaging, flexible, and customizable.

Why immersive learning is the key to L&D program success in 2024

Establishing a dynamic approach to learning comes down to one crucial factor — leveraging immersive learning technologies to enhance learning and development (L&D) programs.

How L&D leaders can make an impact at any organization

To become the architects of successful workplace learning, L&D leaders must understand the evolving needs and expectations of the teams they work with.

4 ways to improve knowledge sharing at your company

Fostering a highly collaborative and communicative culture in the workplace requires a strong knowledge sharing strategy that combines human innovation with technological support.

Enhancing training & development in 2024: 5 best practices to consider

If you're an L&D leader planning for 2024, here are a few things you should consider during your planning:

Why L&D leaders need to focus on adaptable learning solutions in 2024

Find out how to measure success of program managers on your team this year:

What makes a successful L&D program manager?

Find out how to measure success of program managers on your team this year:

Are you a Learning and Development Program Manager? Here are 3 things you need to know in 2023

Today’s technological landscape has made it more possible than ever for organizations to upskill and enhance internal innovation constantly. Yet, the only way to make this upskilling and innovation sustainable long-term is to establish a workplace culture that embraces ongoing learning to the fullest.

Why psychological safety is the key to building a culture of learning in the workplace

In TechKnowCon’s recent Roundtable, CEO and Founder of effectivEDU Sean Dagony-Clark hosted an insightful presentation on how to lead like your favorite teacher. Today, we are showcasing the key points from Sean’s presentation, including several actionable takeaways you can apply within your own organization’s learning environments.

Beyond LMS: 3 reasons your current LMS platform isn’t cutting it (& what to do about it)

To remain competitive, companies need a learning platform they can rely on — but what, exactly, should a business look for in an LMS platform and where can these platforms fall short? Let’s take a closer look:

How employee enablement drives talent retention and growth

To achieve growth in 2023 and beyond, employers need to consider the role that continued learning and employee enablement play in building a resilient (and well-retained) business team.

Why collaborative learning is an essential strategy for engineering leaders in 2023

Without the right strategy in place for continued learning, a software engineering team can end up with diminished efficiency, productivity, and overall employee satisfaction.

Top 10 challenges for learning & development leaders in 2023

The challenge for learning and development (L&D) leaders will be to keep up with the pace of change in the workplace this year:

Lessons from scaling Uber’s machine learning program for your own L&D programs

How Uber delivers ML educational resources to Engineers, Applied Scientists, TPMs, and PMs across the globe.

5 tips from Splunk’s Engineering Productivity team for engineering efficiency

Splunk's Engineering Productivity team explained how their tech enablement efforts help manage operations better and increase engineering efficiency.

How Twitter University inspired tech enablement

By empowering internal people easily teach one another, Twitter University allowed Twitter to create a strong culture of learning company-wide.

How collaborative learning helps Spotify speed up innovation

Spotify shares how they creates a collaborative environment through peer-to-peer learning to speed up their innovation.

Peer Learning Framework Step 6: Rinse & Repeat

As you scale up your learning program, you’ll run into issues. These are good problems to have. Here, we’ve outlined a few helpful cases to keep in mind.

Peer Learning Framework Step 5: Measure

By now you have a rich calendar of learning events. Training is happening. How do you know if it’s working?

Peer Learning Framework Step 4: Promote

How best to promote internal courses and learning events that help unblock your people.

Peer Learning Framework Step 3: Show & Tell

There are pain points in your organization. And there are people who can share best practices that would help others. These people are your heroes.

Peer Learning Framework Step 2: Creating Heroes

Experts are rarely acknowledged. This is a mistake. Here's how to celebrate them and promote their invaluable know-how.

Peer learning framework step 1: uncover the pain

Internal systems are aren't always clear. That tool or process lacks easy-to-find documentation. So, how do you uncover these pain points?

Peer learning framework: overview

Peer Learning Framework is the best practices to create a culture of learning in your organization. This framework came out of building Twitter University.

Netflix shares their internal training checklists

Jasmine Robinson from Netflix shares how they empower their subject-matter-experts as instructors to deliver effective workshops.

How Netflix Studios adds human touch to blended learning experience with PlusPlus

Netflix found out that to truly operate at scale, they needed to add back a missing ingredient, one that's seemingly the least-scalable—the human touch.

Engineering ways to close the knowledge gaps at LinkedIn

Narsi Nagampalli and Sandi Friend from LinkedIn shared the methods their team is using to close the knowledge gap for engineers.

How a Dojo differs from traditional training

Learn how learning leaders could apply the ancient concept of a dojo to accelerate knowledge sharing across their organizations.

How Shopify transitioned to delivering workshops remotely

Kate Brennan from Shopify spoke about transforming their in-person workshops into meaningful remote experiences.

How Cruise uses standard story construction to train subject matter experts

Stuart Collins from Cruise explains how learning professionals can use standard story construction to train SMEs to share knowledge.

How Twitter University scaled peer learning for engineers

Saša Gargenta explains how his team grew to include over 200 engineer instructors who both teach and facilitate learning.

How Expedia group scales Train the Trainer for engineers

Rebecca Shepherd describes how her team developed an ‘Instructor Academy’ to help scale learning at Expedia Group.

Staying in the know at any distance: 3 actions you can take now to keep your team learning

This socially-distanced way of working has been so effective that the tech world is making it semi-permanent.

How Lyft achieves classroom quality in remote learning

As onboarding has shifted online for many companies, Lyft want to make remote onboarding the best product ever!

How Twitter enables peer instructors in a remote-first environment

Here is what Twitter University had to say about effective peer-to-peer teaching and learning in a remote-first work environment.

So you’ve built a peer-to-peer learning program. Now what?

Katie Hawkes & Simeon Franklin of Twitter Have 3 Tips to Keep the Momentum Going.

How PlusPlus helped unlock Shopify’s peer-to-peer learning opportunities

How Haidee Thanda & Andrew Barrett Introduced PlusPlus and Peer-to-Peer Learning at Shopify.

Balancing peer-to-peer learning with external conferences at SSENSE

Tuan Bach from SSENSE has noticed that peer-to-peer learning not only improves employees’ skills but also boosts productivity and motivation.

How to get experts to share their knowledge

People naturally want to share their skills with fellow coworkers. Often, they don’t think they know how. It turns out that a bit of a system can help.