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Introducing the April Update for the Drillster Question Crafter

We're excited to announce a major update to the Drillster Question Crafter, designed to make your learning experiences sharper, more structured, and more effective than ever before!

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Business professionals mastering Dutch spelling and grammar through interactive Spellingo adaptive learning platform

July 7, 2023

Superscript chooses Drillster for the new Spellingo Dutch spelling course

Taking a spelling course, that sounds pretty boring to most people. But that’s about to change with Superscript. Spellingo, created in Drillster, allows you to quickly brush up on your Dutch spelling knowledge and have fun while you’re at it. Spellingo has been created especially for the business market, and for anyone who writes to customers or fellow employees on a regular basis. We spoke to Liesbeth Louwerens about Superscript, Spellingo and why she, as a Dutch language specialist, has a big problem with boring language courses.

Adaptive learning platform using AI and big data to personalize employee training for long-term knowledge retention

July 7, 2023

The Benefits of Drillster's Adaptive Learning for Your Business

Adaptive learning is a method that adapts to each employee's level of knowledge and experience, adjusting to their learning speed. In this sense, Drillster is an adaptive learning methodology that uses Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and an intelligent algorithm to collect and analyze data, and assess each user's needs. The application then adjusts learning to these needs. In this way, employees are able to develop, maintain, and retain knowledge and skills in the long term, quickly and at low cost.

Virtual Drillster Kickstart Breakfast event featuring live workshop on creating smart question variants for learning

July 7, 2023

The first virtual Drillster Kickstart Breakfast session

Last week we hosted the first virtual edition of the Drillster Kickstart Breakfast event. We used to welcome everyone at the Drillster office, but like many of you we now work from home.

Learning and development professionals networking at Performance Journey conference discussing corporate training trends

July 7, 2023

The learning trends of 2022

On May 9-11, the Performance Journey goes Dutch event was held. Normally, the Performance Journey is the annualXprtise-organized trip to Orlando, Florida, the home of the Learning [2022] event. This annual journey sees a varied group of around 60 L&D professionals travel to the U.S. to attend sessions, dine together, and take the opportunity to go on a few working visits as well, so as to further enrich the trip with inspiration, new contacts, and interesting stories from others in their field.

Transavia aircraft showcasing stress-free cabin crew training approach for airline safety compliance

July 7, 2023

The no-stress learning method of Transavia

Keeping the cabin crew members skilled at all times is a challenge that every airline will recognize, includingTransavia. To do this, Transavia used to obligate its crew members to follow a mandatory learning program consisting of a yearly recurrent exam and after-exam classroom training. Six years ago, the airline realized that this was not the best approach. In fact, the cabin crew members experienced a lot of stress for the exam, and the freshly learned knowledge faded away quickly. This is what we call the temporary ‘knowledge peak’ problem, something that Transavia had to fight to ensure that crew members were fully skilledat all times. Read further to find out how they did it.

Positive feedback concept in corporate learning showing effective educational feedback methods and learning science

July 7, 2023

The positive effects of positive feedback

Now we’re going to talk about feedback. Not the feedback you get from your manager or director at the end of the year, but the feedback that is used in (corporate) learning to give information to the student after completing exercises or courses. What was good? What was wrong? And why? It isn’t exactly rocket science, but there’s definitely science behind it. And that knowledge is important to ensure that people learn as effectively and efficiently as possible. In this blog we discuss learning goals, important differences between direct and indirect feedback, and the usefulness of positive feedback.