Learning platforms, courses and training — clearly explained
Answers to the questions around digital learning in companies, universities, academies, coaching and tutoring: short first, then in depth, with sources and the date of the last review.
Topics
Learning platforms and LMS
What an LMS is and how to choose, roll out and run a learning platform — with criteria, open standards, data protection and an honest look at costs.
- What is an LMS? Learning management systems explained
- How to choose an LMS: criteria and checklist
- LMS, LXP and learning workshop: what is the difference?
- White-label learning platforms: multi-tenancy explained
- LMS for companies: what matters in corporate learning
- LMS for universities: from teaching to transcripts
Creating courses
How effective e-learning courses are made: from learning objectives and outlines to narration scripts, video, exercises, exam questions and design models.
- How to create an e-learning course, step by step
- Creating a course from existing material
- Microlearning: using short learning units well
- Writing learning objectives with Bloom’s taxonomy
- Writing exam questions: multiple choice and open-ended
- Producing learning videos: planning, recording, editing
Presentations
Good slides, effective talks, hybrid presentations and the route from a PowerPoint file to an e-learning course or a narrated video.
- Converting PowerPoint to e-learning: how it works
- Turning a presentation into a video with a speaker
- Designing good slides: rules for clear presentations
- Presenting to an audience and in hybrid settings
- Presentations with live interaction: questions and polls
- Accessible presentations: slides for everyone
Learning & Development
Planning, running and evidencing employee development digitally: skills matrix, learning paths, skills gap analysis, leadership development and honest impact measurement.
- Digital learning & development: how to make the switch
- How to build a skills matrix, with a level model
- Learning paths at work: structure, examples, mistakes
- Measuring training: four levels and an honest ROI
- Leadership development: programmes that work
- Upskilling vs reskilling: the difference and how to do it
Onboarding
Designing onboarding digitally: preboarding, checklists, the plan for the first 90 days, remote onboarding, measuring success and knowledge transfer when people leave.
- Designing digital onboarding: the complete guide
- Onboarding checklist: every step from contract to day 90
- Preboarding: making the most of the time before day one
- A 90-day onboarding plan: template and timeline
- Remote onboarding: inducting remote and hybrid hires
- Measuring onboarding success: metrics that mean something
Mandatory training
Mandatory training and safety briefings at work: legal bases, refresher intervals, digital delivery, audit-proof records and compliance training.
- Mandatory training at work: overview and organisation
- Delivering health and safety briefings digitally
- Organising data protection training for employees
- Phishing and information security training for staff
- Audit-proof training records: what an auditor wants to see
- Refresher intervals for mandatory training: an overview
Regulation and mandatory training
Training duties under the AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, whistleblower protection, anti-money laundering law and labour law — explained with official sources.
- EU AI Act: what companies need to know now
- AI literacy under Article 4 AI Act: duty and practice
- Evidencing AI literacy: documentation that holds up
- Article 50 AI Act: labelling AI avatars and synthetic content
- GDPR data protection training: duty, content, frequency
- NIS2: mandatory training for management bodies
Academy
Corporate academy, customer academy, partner academy and the academy as a business: setup, organisation, white label, trainers and how it differs from a university.
- Building a corporate academy, step by step
- Company academy or university: differences and bridges
- Building a customer academy and a partner academy
- The academy as a business: earning money with your courses
- White-label academy: a learning platform in your own brand
- Involving trainers and lecturers in your academy
Coaching & Tutoring
Online tutoring, AI tutors, learning support, coaching and mentoring programmes: what works, where AI helps, where people are irreplaceable and how to link to curricula.
- Online tutoring: how digital learning support works
- AI tutor or human tutor: strengths, limits, combination
- Learning support: helping people learn independently
- Supporting coaching programmes digitally
- Building mentoring programmes: process, matching, success
- Curriculum alignment in tutoring: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
School
AI at school: privacy-compliant assistants, self-hosted models, relief for teachers, digital classrooms and AI literacy for pupils.
- An AI assistant for schools: using it in line with the GDPR
- Self-hosted and offline AI models in schools
- Taking the load off teachers: where AI really saves time
- Digital classrooms: what they need to deliver
- AI literacy for pupils: what they should learn
Higher education and digital study
Campus management, online study, student administration, ECTS, module handbooks, examinations, accreditation and the university as a tenant — clearly explained.
- Campus management: what a digital university needs
- Studying online: how it works and what matters
- Digital student administration: applications to records
- ECTS explained: credits, workload and recognition
- Module handbook: structure, required content, upkeep
- Digital exam management: from scheduling to certificate
Credentials, certificates and micro-credentials
Micro-credentials, Verifiable Credentials, Open Badges, digital certificates, Europass and qualification levels — what they are and how to verify them.
- Micro-credentials: what they are and what they must contain
- Micro-credentials for companies: issue your own, build them well
- Verifiable Credentials: digital records under the W3C standard
- Checking a certificate's authenticity: how the QR code works
- Open Badges or Verifiable Credentials? The standards compared
- Digital certificates: what the law says and what tech can do
AI in learning
How artificial intelligence is changing learning: AI avatars, AI tutors, AI-assisted authoring, fact-checking, voices, data protection and adaptive learning paths.
- AI avatars as lecturers: possibilities and limits
- AI tutors as learning companions: what they can and should do
- AI-assisted course authoring: faster, but checked
- Fact-checking AI-generated course content
- AI voices in learning: speech synthesis and consent
- Data protection for AI in learning: GDPR and AI Act