eLearning Marketing Articles

Educational Technology

March 7, 2015

Self­-paced, Teacher­-directed: Vocabulary Software Helps Online ESL Learning

Finding the right balance between structure and flexibility is key to your success as an online instructor. This is especially true with ESL classes and English language courses, where students progress at different rates towards the same goal. But, how can you provide students with enough guidance to keep them on track, while still allowing for individualized study?

by Chassie Lee

Educational Technology

March 6, 2015

The Key To Innovation In Educational Technology

Educational technology companies face a unique challenge in finding ways to innovate: their products don’t have to work in order to succeed. In fact, many educational products don’t work, yet they still sell and even find passionate proponents. Plenty of ideas in education drift along, find purchase with the right crowd, and as long as they present a more engaging method of learning than traditional schooling, are hailed as innovative. Learn more from Grovo!

by Jeff Fernandez

Learning Management Systems

March 6, 2015

Tips To Consider While Choosing A Cloud LMS

There are many reasons for cloud learning management system development and all these should be kept in mind when choosing to deploy an enterprise wide Cloud LMS.

by Heena Nanda

Corporate eLearning

March 5, 2015

6 Tips For Creating A Winning Performance Management Online Training Strategy

A company's bottom line relies heavily, if not entirely, on the knowledge and skills of its employees. In this article, I will highlight tips and techniques you can use to create a winning performance management online training strategy for any organization.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Benefits

March 5, 2015

Data’s Dirty Secret: Is Your e-Learning Getting Results?

According to Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, “An organization's ability to learn and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage.” Is your e-Learning getting results? Well, first let’s talk about what kind of results you’re looking for. Ultimately, e-Learning isn’t just about reducing the cost of training—although that’s a nice benefit too! e-Learning is about driving business results by improving employee knowledge and performance.

by Stephanie Ivec

eLearning Career

March 5, 2015

Interview Sample Requests: How To Make It Work For You

Identify ways to make interview sample requests work for you whether hired or not!

by Monique H

Corporate eLearning

March 4, 2015 | Sponsored

Performance Support Tools For Customer-Facing Staff

The difficulty for customer-facing staff is the constant unknown, the customer itself. You simply can’t prepare for (or hide from) them or their questions, problems and queries. Learn how a reliable performance support tool can help your staff give great customer service.

by Mike Alcock

eLearning Authoring Tools

March 4, 2015

Implementation Of The Experience API Within The SOFAD Author Environment

This experimentation was conducted in the course of the regular activities of GTN-Québec, with the technical support of the SOFAD IT team. The purpose of the experimentation is to make recommendations available to the education community on the implementation of this new standard in the online learning field. The following lines briefly present the approach taken for implementation of the xAPI specification within our author environment. We first explain why we decided to design our own plugin (SOFAD/author). We describe the limitations we encountered with SCORM. We show how the implementation of xAPI in our authoring environment allowed us to solve the limitations encountered with SCORM. We identify some possible issues and constraints with this new standard. Finally, we propose some recommendations.

by Moussa Traoré,PMP

Instructional Design

March 4, 2015

5 Step Design Model To Gain Attention Of A Learner

You might have learned or seen many techniques to create an effective eLearning. But after all these learnings have you ever realized that to gain and retain the attention of a Learner is the most challenging aspect of an eLearning course design. In this article, I will take you through an effective 5 step design model to gain the attention of a Learner.

by Jiyo Mathew Johnson

Mobile Learning

March 3, 2015

How Mobile Learning Tackles Compliance Training

"We wanted more than just a run-of-the-mill compliance training; it is important for us that our employees know the Qualcomm Way, which transcends the minimum legal guidelines, to treat each other with care and respect. Our work on the PSH app allows us to relay this message."

by John J. Park

Asynchronous Learning

March 3, 2015

Writing For Online Learners And Readers

More and more educators are doing more than simply teaching in the 21st century. Technology has expanded and changed our role. You may already be in this position, either by chance or not. Are you an educator who is new to the job of writing eLearning resources? I was. Here is what I’ve learned.

by Caterina Mastroianni

Game-Based Learning

March 2, 2015

Gaming Design For eLearning

Gamification is the buzz word in eLearning at the moment, but of course, you don’t want to gamify eLearning for the sake of it. In this post, you’ll explore the principles underpinning good gaming design for eLearning, and set out an eight point checklist to help you create better, gamified learning.

by Li Whybrow