eLearning Marketing Articles

eLearning Trends

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

eLearning Market

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

Online Learning Platforms

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

Mobile Learning

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

Corporate eLearning

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

Online Training Certification

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

eLearning Software

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

eLearning Authoring Tools

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

eLearning Project Management

April 11, 2016

Using The Waterfall Model In Instructional Design: A Guide For eLearning Professionals

Are you looking for a Project Management approach that focuses on in depth analysis and detailed planning to facilitate your Instructional Design process? If so, then the Waterfall approach might be just what you need. In this article, I'll share 4 benefits of the Waterfall approach in Instructional Design, and I'll highlight each of the 6 steps involved.

by Christopher Pappas

Learning Management Systems

April 11, 2016

Know Your Employees: Talent Development With eFrontPro

The thing about talent is that you don't just want to possess it in your company, but you need to make it thrive. And there is a great solution for you to drive talent development, effectively.

by John Laskaris

Microlearning

April 11, 2016

5 Killer Examples: How To Use Microlearning-Based Training Effectively

Microlearning is more than a buzz today. It is being increasingly used by many organizations for both formal and informal learning. It appeals to the learners as it consumes less time and is available to them exactly at the time of the learning need (just-in-time). Furthermore, its rich media formats ensure better retention of the learning. Organizations are embracing microlearning as it is cheaper to build, quicker to deploy, and can be updated fairly easily. You can use microlearning nuggets flexibly as stand-alone assets or as multiple micro-courses. Here are 5 great examples of using microlearning-based training effectively.

by Asha Pandey

Corporate eLearning

April 11, 2016

Report: Corporate Learning Is “Wildly Out Of Sync” With How People Prefer To Learn

Corporate learning is “wildly out of sync” with how people prefer to learn. That’s according to a recent report by Towards Maturity, the independent, UK-based, not-for-profit company that investigates the impact of learning technologies at work.

by Steve Penfold