eLearning Marketing Articles

Mobile Learning

November 20, 2015

5 “Apps” Educators Shouldn’t Use (And 5 They Should)

What if I told you there are some apps that no educator should ever use? Or, what if I told you there are some apps that if you don't install them you have no chance of ever being successful? Find out about the “apps” educators must delete and install today.

by Craig Blewett

Educational Technology

November 19, 2015

10 Must-Have Google Chrome Apps For eLearning Professionals

If you aren’t already using Google Chrome Apps in your online course, then you may be missing out on an invaluable design resource. In this article, I’ll highlight the top 10 Google Chrome Apps that every eLearning professional should know about.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

November 19, 2015

4 Ways To Allow Your eLearners To Bloom

While it is common practice to incorporate tasks from Bloom’s lower order objectives into eLearning, educators and learning professionals often have difficulty leveraging eLearning to involve the model’s higher order tasks. This article will illustrate 4 scalable ways to attain higher order cognitive objectives through eLearning.

by Nicholas Crowe

Learning Psychology

November 19, 2015

Why Attention Is Essential To Learning And The Formation Of Memory 

Successful training programs should all be designed to ultimately keep people’s attention; it’s the foundation for memory and information retention. This is why an understanding how the brain receives and saves information will help Learning and Development (L&D) departments to make informed choices for effective learning methods.

by Mark Rose

Instructional Design

November 18, 2015

How To Apply Gagné's 9 Events Of Instruction In eLearning

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a step-by-step guide that could help you provide a complete and comprehensive online experience for every member of your audience? In this article, I’ll show you how to apply the 9 Events of Instruction introduced by Gagné, in order to create effective and comprehensive eLearning experiences.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Project Management

November 18, 2015

9 Tips On How To Make Time To Finally Create Your Online Course

Everyone's pressed for time. Add the horrors of procrastination and you have the typical “I wish I had time to do this” scenario. Actually, we have time - we just don't manage it very well. Here are some little-discussed ideas on how to find time to build your money-making online course.

by Juste Semetaite

eLearning Trends

November 18, 2015

What Do Private Tutors Think About Online Tuition?

Online tuition is a growth industry worldwide, but there's been little research into this area. This article reveals what private tutors in the UK think about online tuition, and how they are using online technology to tutor their students.

by Henry Fagg

Mobile Learning

November 18, 2015

mLearning And Cloud Computing Are Making Browser Based eLearning Obsolete

Over the last 10 years, eLearning has evolved a lot with new technologies and standards. Right from SCORM standard in the year 2004 to the proliferation of new technologies, especially mobile technologies, eLearning has seen a tremendous transformation.

by Anand Timothy

Corporate eLearning

November 17, 2015

5 eLearning Costs That May Put At Risk Your eLearning Budget

Want to know how you can stay within your eLearning budget and get the most out of every resource? In this article, I’ll highlight the 5 most common eLearning costs that can put your eLearning budget in jeopardy, so that you can know how to tackle them when they show up on your expense sheet.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

November 17, 2015

How To Create A Meaningful And Engaging Compliance Course

Compliance courses are often driven by the corporate “compliance mandate” and tend to miss the ingredients for learners to relate to them, internalize the information, and apply it. As I see it, given the significance of the compliance mandate, there should be a higher focus on using approaches that appeal to the learners, impart learning that will stick, and finally ensure that this learning indeed gets applied at work.

by Asha Pandey

Learning Management Systems

November 17, 2015

Gamification And The LMS: The Case Of TalentLMS

Gamification is on the fast track to becoming an industry standard for eLearning, and is certainly a best practice for almost any service and piece of software. Find out how TalentLMS brings its legendary ease-of-use to this integral feature.

by John Laskaris

Microlearning

November 16, 2015

6 Ideas To Help You Create Nano-Learning In Under 15 Minutes 

Fast-paced organizations need just-in-time (JIT) learning. Nano or micro-learning gives learning managers a quick and simple way to adapt to the fast-changing needs of their learners. In this article, I'll show you how to create nano-learning in under 15 minutes.

by Li Whybrow