eLearning Marketing Articles

Blended Learning

March 3, 2014

Weathering The Storm With eLearning

The weather has been playing havoc, and this year the world witnessed a series of odd climatic changes. What does this mean for the eLearning industry? Check out the following article to find out the Top 6 eLearning Benefits for Weathering the Storm.

by Heera Edwin

eLearning Design and Development

March 2, 2014

Top 10 Competencies of a Gamified Learning Designer

Gamified learning is one of the major revolutions happening around us that demands a shift in the mere thinking of ‘learning’. It requires us to unlearn and relearn some of the traditional notions related to learning styles and preferences, and the dimensions and the elements of learning design. In this article, we will take a quick look at the top 10 essential competencies required for a learning designer to design effective gamified learning interventions.

by Ravi Pratap Singh

Corporate eLearning

March 1, 2014

4 Questions That Drive Learning Results

All learning includes the asking and answering of four questions. These questions form a cycle of learning. This four-part cycle applies to learning anything. Check the article to find more!

by Jeanine O’Neill-Blackwell

Educational Technology

February 28, 2014

Lesson Study 2.0 by SIBME

Group lesson study when executed well is one professional development exercise that can help contribute to improving teacher efficacy and student achievement. Sibme, a video collaboration platform developed by educators and for educators, helps make this cumbersome process more efficient and informative. 

by David Wakefield

Mobile Learning

February 27, 2014

Beyond the Office: Mobile Learning in the Workplace

For many people, work isn’t defined by a desk or office; their work requires them to be flexible and on the go. In addition, 60 percent of people believe they don’t have to be in an office to be productive, according to an international workplace study by Cisco. But what do we do about required department training?

by Christie Wroten

eLearning Design and Development

February 27, 2014

3 eLearning Techniques to Create Effective eLearning

What’s stopping your eLearning getting off the ground? Audience research from our Learning Technologies 2014 seminars exposed some common barriers to effective eLearning, so we’ve taken a look at three ways to overcome them.

by Kate Pasterfield

eLearning Design and Development

February 27, 2014

What Students Love about e-Learning Courses

Since a continually increasing number of students are turning to online education, there are numerous courses available on the internet. Designing a basic online course may be difficult and is no different than working on an eLearning course. If you wish to design an effective e-learning program, that’ll make the transition from classroom to e-learning as pleasant as possible for the students, then that is a different story. It requires a good deal of time, planning, and hard work.

by Candice Smith

Instructional Design

February 27, 2014

Demystifying Competency Models - Just A.S.K.

Competency models apply to those developing eLearning too. Everyone involved in adult education should know what they are and how they’re best used. This article makes competency models easy to remember (just A.S.K.) and provides the top 20 failures programs exhibit when the fail to live up to their potential usefulness.

by Tracey M. Flynn

Microlearning

February 26, 2014

What Content Curation, Chunking Information and Micro-learning have in common?

In this article I’ll present a framework that could help educators to make a shift from designing long, information based online courses to micro-learning, which is a result of content curation techniques and chunking information design strategy.

by Tadej Stanic

Mobile Learning

February 26, 2014

E-Learning: “Shorter Is Better” Mantra - Not Always What You Think!

Often when redesigning a training program, the goal is to accelerate a course, i.e., convert one week of classroom training to one day of e-learning. How would you feel about doing the opposite and making a course longer?

by John O Brien

Corporate eLearning

February 25, 2014 | Sponsored

7 Ways to Improve Your Compliance Culture without Breaking the Bank

Millions of dollars are spent on compliance training every year. Though necessary and crucial to organizational success, many organizations are struggling to keep up with new trends due to budget constraints. Here are some great tips for improving your compliance training programs without breaking the bank.

by Steve Lowenthal

eLearning Articles

February 25, 2014

Online Learning - What do we actually mean?

With their Online Language Learning Challenge The Guardian wants to find out if it’s possible to learn languages purely through the use of online tools by discussing the topic with readers and experts. Most people have doubts that learning online would get you as far as being able to speak a new language fluently. But there seem to be very different understandings of what online learning actually means.

by Ansgar Frankenberg