eLearning Marketing Articles

Custom eLearning

June 30, 2015

What Is Bespoke eLearning? Featuring 6 Killer Examples

The edge that a bespoke or custom developed course has over off-the-shelf course is well established. In this article I will illustrate the power of bespoke eLearning to create sticky learning through 6 examples. I have picked examples that address varied training needs like compliance, application simulation, and professional skills.

by Asha Pandey

eLearning Design and Development

June 29, 2015

9 Tips To Enhance Active Listening Skills In eLearning

What is active listening and why it is important for your learners to master such a skill? Unlike its involuntary counterpart, hearing, active listening actually involves a great deal of concentration. But when a learner is able to truly master the skill, a world of unforgettable learning opportunities is revealed. In this article, I’ll explore everything you need to know about active listening so that your learners will not only absorb, but also retain information presented in your eLearning course and I'll share 9 invaluable tips on how to design eLearning courses that enhance active learning skills of your audience.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

June 29, 2015

3 Strategies For Quickly Delivering High Quality eLearning

Building high quality eLearning collaboratively with colleagues is a time-consuming challenge. In this article we’ll look at how to use branded themes, collaboration tools, and Rapid Release™ republishing to save time when building and delivering eLearning.

by Li Whybrow

Instructor-Led Training

June 29, 2015

5 Best Practices For Transforming Faculty Into Fully Online Educators

It is no easy task to train faculty to become teachers of fully online courses. This article presents a few tips for helping develop and prepare faculty to design, develop, and deliver engaging online courses to the students they teach.

by Sabrina Taylor

Corporate eLearning

June 29, 2015

How To Review The Effectiveness Of Your Learning And Development Function

An invaluable source of external, credible data is performance benchmarking – this article shows you how to provide robust, genuine and independent evidence on Learning and Development’s performance; the effectiveness and impact of the learning process.

by Laura Overton, FCIPD, FLPI

eLearning Design and Development

June 28, 2015

8 Tips To Use The Next Button In eLearning

The next button in eLearning often gets a bad rap. It’s seen as a “boring” or “predictable” navigation icon that many eLearning professionals avoid like the plague. In this article, I’ll give you some tips that can help you make the most use of this underappreciated icon in your eLearning course design.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Companies

June 28, 2015

How To Evaluate A Custom eLearning Development Company In India

The last few years have seen an influx of outsourcing of eLearning to India. This is clearly reflected in the growth of custom eLearning development companies in India who have a focus on international business. In spite of this, the success stories are not too many. In this article I will share the pointers that I have picked up from the evaluation of my own organization by several global companies when they chose to outsource to India.

by Asha Pandey

eLearning Market

June 27, 2015

8 Common eLearning Interview Questions

Ready to expand your Learning and Development team? Want to find the perfect eLearning professional to design your next eLearning course? In this article, I’ll share 8 common eLearning interview questions you’ll want to ask before hiring an eLearning professional. On the flipside, eLearning professionals can use these questions to get prepared for their upcoming eLearning interview.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

June 27, 2015

Top 5 Tips For Innovative eLearning Development

Amongst the challenges that Learning and Development teams and Learning Consultants face today, the top 2 pertaining to training would be: 1) How to increase the efficacy of training?, and 2) What learning strategies should be adopted to ensure that the learning and business mandates are met? In this article I will outline 5 tips for innovative eLearning development that will help organizations improve efficacy of training by making the learning stick.

by Asha Pandey

Learning Psychology

June 26, 2015

5 Instructional Design Tips To Enhance Metacognition In eLearning

An empowered learner is a successful learner. Not only do they have the confidence they need to solve problems autonomously, but they are active participants who are motivated and inspired to learn. One of the most effective ways to empower your online learners is to incorporate metacognition into your eLearning strategy. In this article, I’ll share 5 tips on how to enhance metacognition in eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

June 26, 2015

Multiple Choice Questions: Getting Them Right

Multiple choice questions are considered to be the question type with the widest possible range of applications, as they are well suited for testing almost any degree of understanding. This question type works equally well whether you need to test for knowledge retention, application of newly acquired knowledge, or the ability to analyze new contexts. Due to this (and a number of other factors), multiple choice questions are the leading question type both in the corporate and in the academic sector.

by Michael Treser

Corporate eLearning

June 26, 2015

Creating An eLearning Incentives Program For Your Employees

Creating an eLearning incentives program can be a great way to encourage your employees to continue learning. Here's how to build one your employees love.

by Adrienne Erin