eLearning Marketing Articles

eLearning Design and Development

January 19, 2016

eBook Release: Digital Learning Manager’s Handbook - New Ideas And Examples

Do you go to bed worrying about the quality of your digital learning? Are you under pressure from directors to deliver more learning in less time? As an ambitious Digital Learning Manager or someone new to Digital Learning Management, you would have wished for a job aid that would offer you personal experiences from the world’s top digital learning managers or difficulties and ways to overcome them.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Project Management

January 19, 2016

5 Phases To Set Up A Successful eLearning Production Process

Are you looking for new ways to improve and streamline your eLearning processes? In this article, we look at some best practices for approaching each of the five phases in the eLearning production process: Analysis, design, specification, production, and evaluation.

by Li Whybrow

eLearning Authoring Tools

January 19, 2016 | Sponsored

4 Tips To Create 3D Simulations With ITyStudio

Regardless of our age, playing with simulators (such as flight or driving simulators, stock market investment) and video games (such as World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Starcraft) usually brings us on the path to experiencing and learning new things. Have you ever wondered why? Well, simply put, if our goal is to win the game, we will have to learn and explore the system, in order to be successful. Actually, this is exactly what game-based learning is all about, and this the very best way to obtain great results quickly with your learners. Indeed, by giving your attendees the opportunity to interact with the environment of the training module, and thus to impact the outcome of the simulation, you will engage them and make them retain the pedagogical material more efficiently. The best way to do so is by creating 3D simulations. In this article, we are going to breakdown the main benefits of setting up 3D simulations by using the authoring tool ITyStudio as an example to illustrate our words.

by Yann Teyssier

Corporate eLearning

January 19, 2016

Creative Instructional Design: Featuring 3 Innovative Onboarding And Induction Examples

All of us are aware of the impact of well-designed onboarding and induction programs. Today, several organizations prefer an eLearning-based approach to deliver them. They seek learning strategies that can deliver high impact programs that can induct new team members quickly and efficiently. With changes in learner demographics that now include Millennials in significant numbers, organizations are looking at more engaging and immersive formats that appeal to this profile.

by Asha Pandey

eLearning Design and Development

January 18, 2016

7 Tips To Create Hollywood-Worthy eLearning Videos

You don't have to be a movie producer to create top notch eLearning videos that wow your audience. As a matter of fact, the right tools can help you design online presentations that are powerful, profound, and perfectly polished. In this article, I'll share 7 tips to help you develop eLearning videos that are worthy of the silver screen.

by Christopher Pappas

Microlearning

January 18, 2016

Is Your Organization Ready To Implement Microlearning?

When it comes to corporate training, has your organization hit a wall? Or worse, is your company training no longer effective with employees? Whether you’re onboarding new employees or introducing new software/programs within a department, it’s important that organizational training techniques are not only up-to-date, but remain effective for every type of learner within your company. Enter microlearning. But is every organization cut out for it?

by Jayme Jenkins

Mobile Learning

January 18, 2016

5 Things Modern Learners Love About Game-Based Mobile Learning

As eLearning developers, our main focus has to be on the ways that learners can be best engaged. Game-based mobile learning has been immensely successful in corporate circles as well, to create impactful learning opportunities for employees. Now learning games are available on learners’ mobile devices as well and this takes their popularity on a whole new level.

by Heena Nanda

eLearning Project Management

January 17, 2016

Top 6 Skills Of An Outstanding eLearning Project Manager

There is no other way to perceive the eLearning Design & Development process, but as a project, that is, as specific stages and actions to be planed and followed given strict budget constraints, delivery deadlines and limited available resources. In this article, I will examine eLearning from a Project Management’s perspective and I will identify the top 6 qualities an outstanding eLearning Project Manager should have in order to manage the eLearning team and be able to provide excellent eLearning deliverables to the client.

by Marisa Keramida (M.Ed.)

Corporate eLearning

January 17, 2016

3 Ways To Test And Improve Online Training

In today’s competitive online training landscape, it’s essential that you listen to learners and consistently find ways to test online training and improve learning experiences. Let’s look at 3 areas in which you can focus your efforts: Quality assurance testing, acceptance testing, and engagement analytics.

by Li Whybrow

eLearning Articles

January 17, 2016

Distance Learning: Still A Distant Possibility?

Distance from last bench to teacher in a huge class in Africa is the same as the distance between that student and a professor teaching a class at MIT in the virtual world. The entire construct of learning and distance learning has been undergoing a change thanks largely to the ever lowering cost of connectivity and access to the internet. There has been more innovation in the distributed education space in the last 10 years than in the convention classroom delivery model in the past 300 years.

by Samiran Ghosh

Corporate eLearning

January 16, 2016

5 Training Resolutions For 2016

We start the year with the best of intentions, but resolutions are difficult to keep when life gets in the way. But 2016 can be different with specific, achievable resolutions and mechanisms to track your progress. Here are 5 training resolutions that our team at Versal came up with to make 2016 the best training year ever.

by Carlos Cuadra

eLearning Design and Development

January 16, 2016

Simplify eLearning Content Development With Visual Feedback

Subject expertise, design, development, delivery, oh my! That looks like a job for a lot of people. In my previous article, I talked about why an eLearning course review is essential. In this one, I’ll focus on content development teams and introduce you to a platform where you can collaborate with your team to review your courses during the production phase itself and deliver better products faster by simplifying content development with visual feedback.

by Utkarsh Talwar