eLearning Marketing Articles

Learning Management Systems

May 26, 2015

11 Moodle Plugins For A Corporate Moodle

Almost a year and a half ago, our little internal training team introduced our colleagues to the new corporate learning management system (LMS). The LMS is a modified Moodle installation. At the time it was version 2.4, and we have since upgraded to 2.8. Typically, K-12 and higher ed institutions use Moodle as an online platform for learning. With a little tweaking, the software can work well in the corporate world, too.

by Heather MacCorkle Edick

eLearning Career

May 26, 2015

WANTED: Six-Figure Instructional Designers

Instructional designers with entrepreneurial experience, creativity and tech skills are highly sought after by companies. Here's why...

by Vicki Kunkel

eLearning Design and Development

May 25, 2015

How To Create Memorable Online Training Courses: 6 Tips For eLearning Professionals

You want to bring the best out of your audience by offering them an excellent online training experience. You have carefully developed your online training course and it is important for you that your content will be retained. But how can employees remember everything they learn? In this article I will share 6 top tips on how to create a memorable online training course that will help employees fully understand and deeply absorb everything you have to offer them.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

May 25, 2015

Moving Towards Corporate Online Learning Success: Some Proven Strategies

Many corporate online learning initiatives often fail to make the anticipated impact - which is a waste of time as well as effort of learners and furthermore, a waste of organizational funds as well. Digging into the reasons why an online learning initiative fails, the two main culprits are Learners’ apathy towards learning and Lack of Organizational support. Improving these factors can increase the effectiveness of training monumentally.

by Heena Nanda

Game-Based Learning

May 25, 2015

Gamification – First Things First

Gamification has become one of the hot topics of recent years. Everybody talks about it. Every eLearning vendor claims that implements this idea in their solutions. It is hard, however, to find really successful cases of such implementations. No wonder why gamification as a concept is going down to the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner's Hype Cycle.

by Marek Hyla

eLearning Design and Development

May 24, 2015

Extrinsic Motivation In Online Training

To create an engaging online training experience, you must deeply understand how motivation works. In this article, I’ll share the basics of extrinsic motivation in online training and share 5 tips that can help you add extrinsic motivation elements in your online training course.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

May 24, 2015

Choosing The Right eLearning Methods: Factors And Elements

Many organisations are now transforming their learning and development programs to the eLearning domain. But choosing the right methods for their business based on their needs is still a challenge. Choosing the right eLearning programs depends upon many factors like proper need analysis, target audience analysis, task analysis, topic analysis, and evaluation methods. Apart from these analyses there is the very important principle of Learning Pyramid created by the National Training Laboratories. Choosing the right delivery methods directly impact effectiveness and cost benefit for the organisations.

by Soni Amit K

eLearning Benefits

May 24, 2015

Digital Education: Scope And Challenges Of A Developing Society

The role of education in an individual’s personal growth, skill development & democratic responsible behavior (his/her rights and duties to be exercised in terms of learned human resource pool) thereby contributing immensely to the overall prosperity of a nation, is irrefutable.

by Satish Bisla, PMP®

eLearning Design and Development

May 23, 2015

7 Tips To Beat Short Attention Spans In eLearning

Even if learners are excited about their eLearning experience and can see the true potential in learning the subject matter, they may not be able to concentrate on one thing for too long. There are, however, certain ways that eLearning professionals can beat short attention spans when designing eLearning courses in order to increase knowledge retention and steer clear of cognitive overload.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

May 23, 2015

Interactive eLearning: A Key Component In Online Course Development

There is no doubt that interactivity is a key component in eLearning. This is truer when you are designing a course for online learning where you have to keep in mind that attitudes and learning levels of the learners will all be different. Therefore, it becomes critical in eLearning to develop only content which is relevant and how it ties in with what the learner is expected to achieve at the end of it. The main point is that learners will be viewing the information, gather information and make decisions of applying it to their real life situations where applicable.

by Hemina Shah

eLearning Software

May 23, 2015

What Are The New Training Technologies?

We are in the midst of a technological revolution, and are seeing perhaps the fastest rate of technological growth and development in history. Thankfully, no industry is being left out, and training technologies are being caught up in this wave and are developing at a rapid pace. Training software tools exist today which simply did not exist 5 years ago.

by Roz Bahrami

Custom eLearning

May 22, 2015

5 Tips To Develop Custom eLearning That Improves Employees’ Performance

You want to drive higher performance from your employees and motivate them to use their talents and skills to the fullest capacity. In this article, I’ll share 5 top tips on how to improve your employees’ performance by developing custom eLearning that will enable you to unlock your company’s true potential.

by Christopher Pappas