April 14, 2016

Inline Editing: Change The Way You Create Online Courses

There are tools out there that let you build websites with simple drag and drop functionality, so why can’t you do the same thing with creating online courses? Now you can with inline editing!

by Scott Cooper

April 14, 2016

5 Tips For eLearning Quality Assurance: How To Get eLearning’s Worth

Despite the popularity of eLearning, there is a high degree of skepticism and concern being expressed by many Learning and Development professionals on the effectiveness and ROI of technology-aided learning, keeping in mind investments in technology and infrastructure. The principal concern for them is the lack of empirical evidence for learning enhancement, as compared to overheads and associated costs. The only way to relieve them of the skepticism is to provide adequate eLearning quality assurance (QA) and prove that it fulfills the training needs well.

by Heena Nanda

April 14, 2016

Learning And Development Trends And Practices To Watch In 2016

In 2015, the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) issued its annual Learning and Development (L&D) survey report. This report covered the latest Learning and Development trends and practices and explored the rise of eLearning and eLearning technology. Let's take a look at some of the findings and consider how they might affect you in 2016.

by Steve Penfold

April 13, 2016

Creating A Hands-On Online Training Demo: 3 Benefits And 5 Useful Tips

Do you need to give your employees real world experience without exposing them to real world repercussions? If so, then a hands-on online training demo may be the perfect solution. In this article, I'll discuss 3 benefits of using these powerful training tools, as well as 5 tips that can help you create an effective hands-on demonstration for your corporate learners.

by Christopher Pappas

April 13, 2016

5 Amazing eLearning Trends Of 2016

2016 is showing some surprising eLearning trends. From big data, gamification, and new user-friendly expectations, it is important to stay ahead of the curve.

by Jeffrey Roth

April 13, 2016

Content Marketing For Online Training: Lessons From Aristotle

People who sell courses online for passion and profit are sometimes referred to as “edupreneurs”. Let’s assume you are an edupreneur and have some courses built and installed on a Learning Management System. We’ll focus here on how to make learners aware that those courses exist – without attention paid to this it is not likely they will sell well. The topic of this article is content marketing for online training, and inspiration comes from an unlikely source in the context of modern digital marketing: The Greek philosopher Aristotle.

by David Hill

April 13, 2016

7 Online Student Verification Platforms For Your Online Course

Online student verification systems can do so much more than just record results. These systems offer eLearning platforms a way of organizing, storing, verifying, and budgeting for their entire school.

by Sarah Smith

April 13, 2016

How To Engage Adult Learners: The Remind App

Remind is a communication tool that helps tutors connect instantly with students; especially adult learners. Send quick, simple messages, notes, attachments, or audio to any device or broadcast to all clusters (classes). Messages can be translated to over 60 languages.

by Julian Davis

April 12, 2016

8 Tips To Reduce Corporate Learners Stress

Employees have to deal with enough stress over the course of their work day. The last thing they need is an online training course that adds to it. In this article, I'll share 8 tips for creating a cool, calm, and collected corporate eLearning program.

by Christopher Pappas

April 12, 2016

How To Use Exams And Certification For eLearning Assessment

Assessment is one of the most crucial phases of delivering eLearning. Effective eLearning assessment is essential for everything from delivering formal compliance requirements to deciding how courses need to be improved. In this article, I show how exams and certification can be used to successfully assess eLearning performance.

by Antoinette Curtin

April 12, 2016

Introducing eBridge: An Online Review And Collaboration Tool To Optimize eLearning Course Development

All of us who are in the business of custom eLearning development are aware of its increasing complexity and the intrinsic need to have an agile process to keep pace with increasing customer expectations. Customers today are looking for just-in-time online status updates, faster turn-around time, and reduced cost for better and enhanced learning designs. Often, the development process includes reviews from multiple Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and reviewers working from different regions and time zones across the globe without access to a single source to review and get online status updates. Due to varied needs of customers, you possibly use multiple authoring tools to craft the required custom online training solution. In an ideal world, you would love to provide a single interface for all of these (both to your development teams and customers), won’t you? Let us introduce eBridge, which does just that.

by Asha Pandey

April 12, 2016

9 Tips To Use A Serious Game Authoring Tool Effectively

A serious game authoring tool alone is nothing. When it comes to Instructional Design, the hardest part is not the handle all the technical stuff related to the authoring tool you are using. It is the reflection behind it. Unfortunately, training managers tend to forget it over time, leading to missuses of their authoring tool. Consequently, in this article, we will share with you 9 tips to use your serious game authoring tool effectively.

by Yann Teyssier