eLearning Marketing Articles

Instructional Design

April 29, 2016

Safe Learning Environment: Instructional Designers, Safety First!

Schools have long known that a main hindrance to any child’s learning is feeling unsafe. It makes sense; if a child is in fear they cannot learn. On the other hand, a supportive and safe learning environment makes children learn at a better pace. The same is true in any business setting.

by Alex Terego

eLearning Articles

April 29, 2016

eLearning On Purpose

How well does your job fit you? Is your personal purpose aligned to your company’s vision? Are you doing something you love for a company that shares your values, or are you plugging away for a paycheck, hoping it will all work out somehow?

by Ben Butina, Ph.D.

eLearning Trends

April 29, 2016

Organizational Trends In Learning And Development

This article highlights organizational trends around cost, time, modality, and content in the field of Learning and Development based upon ATD’s 2015 State of the Industry report, the latest available. In addition to presenting data, the article posits theories about what may drive certain metrics.

by Chris Straley

Corporate eLearning

April 29, 2016

4 Techniques To Fuel Employee Participation

You can have the best designed course with the most amazing content in your industry, but if employee participation in learning what you offer is low, what do you do?

by Roz Bahrami

Corporate eLearning

April 28, 2016

The Importance Of Raising Self-Confidence In Online Training

As Stephen R. Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal, so aptly put it: "To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions." But what roles does self-confidence play in online training? In this article, we'll explore how perceptions about ability and talent may impact your corporate eLearning strategy.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

April 28, 2016

3 Techniques To Improve Memory Retention: An Elephant Never Forgets, But Trainees Do

As an Instructional Designer, I build in ways to help the learners in my courses improve their memory retention of core concepts. Otherwise, I know that if they’re anything like me, most of them will forget older concepts as we move through the material.

by Eric Kean

Instructional Design

April 28, 2016

Instructional Designers + Introspective Thinking

Understand our gift for looking within and your job will be easier and your results better. To begin: What could introspective thinking or looking-within possibly have to do with Instructional Design?

by Alex Terego

Educational Technology

April 28, 2016

Creating A Virtual Spanish Language Learning Community

Spanish speaking children, teens, and adults use their public libraries for a variety of programs, classes, materials, and other services and resources. Many public library professionals who don’t speak Spanish lament their inability to serve these patrons as effectively as they would like. Many, though, have an admirable desire to learn. As you would guess, we don’t have time or money to travel to instructor-led language classes and, anyway, we are 16% through the 21st century! So, the Indiana State Library Spanish Language Learning Community is getting together in a virtual environment to learn and practice speaking in ways that relate to our library roles. Here is my first chapter in Aprendiendo con Bibliotecarios (Learning with Librarians) with details on the framework, development of the curriculum and assessment tool, and the web-based tools we are using for learning and conversation practice.

by Emily Schaber

Corporate eLearning

April 28, 2016

7 Simple Zen Principles To Improve Your Online Training

Here are 7 simple Zen principles you can put to use in order to improve your online training courses.

by Anand Timothy

Corporate eLearning

April 27, 2016

4 Key Components For Developing Online Training Standards

Are you looking for a way to make your online training program more uniform and ensure that every department adheres to the same guidelines? Developing a set of online training standards may be the best approach, and this article will highlight 4 key components that you should consider.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Software

April 27, 2016

Why Software Licensing Must Consider The Needs Of The End User

As the traditional software application market migrates from the desktop to the enterprise and mobile, end user license management becomes a must-have design issue for software development servicing the eLearning community. For more than twenty-five years, I have had the pleasure of working with commercial software development teams. My first real lesson came when I joined Software Publishing Corporation as VP of development where end user awareness was more important than features. And then there was the effort involved with consumer-based software authentication in the form of end user licensing. I was surprised how much time we spent in internal warfare discussing how best to enforce user access with product management, financial, and legal effort. I’ve learned some dos and don’ts about software licensing that I’d like to share. Warning: This is going to sound a little preachy.

by Ken Whitaker

eLearning Market

April 27, 2016

How To Book The Right Spanish Voiceover Talent For Your eLearning Project

Those who know me at a professional level know that I am a strong advocate of my first language: Spanish. This is a feeling that has grown stronger over time, especially from the moment I decided to reside in the United States. As a professional Spanish voiceover artist –and a curious human being–, I became aware that in this profession I was surrounded by talents who, although Spanish speaking, were not 100% native or who didn't have a complete understanding of the grammatical rules and nuances of the language. Here is how to overcome this issue and book the right Spanish voiceover for your eLearning project.

by Simone Fojgiel