eLearning Marketing Articles

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

September 8, 2015

Social Learning In Instructional Design: Practical Tips To Design Effective Collaborative eLearning Activities

The significant penetration of social media in our daily lives as well as the raise of corporate presence in them, without any doubt, make them ideal learning tools, a fact that instructional designers for eLearning cannot overlook. In this article, I’ll present the different types of collaborative eLearning activities you may include in your instructional design for eLearning, and I’ll share some tips for designing collaborative eLearning activities that in practice I've found effective.

by Marisa Keramida (M.Ed.)

Corporate eLearning

September 8, 2015

Learner Centered Approach: Does It Really Matter In eLearning?

eLearning is the integral part of any learning these days, as we continue to learn through multiple channels. But how important it is to be learner centered?

by Anand Timothy

eLearning Authoring Tools

September 7, 2015

Trivantis Lectora Inspire 12.1 Review: Create Powerful eLearning Courses Quickly And Easily

Creating mobile-ready courses and powerful eLearning experiences doesn’t have to be time consuming and stressful. Thanks to the robust and flexible authoring tools available today, such as Trivantis Lectora Inspire 12.1, eLearning professionals can create eLearning courses without this headache. In this article, I’ll take a closer look at the features, pricing, ease of use, and support services offered by Trivantis Lectora Inspire 12.1, so that you can determine if it’s the ideal solution for your eLearning design and development needs.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

September 7, 2015

The Online Teachers’ Guide To Difficult Students

Online teachers need practical strategies for dealing with difficult students – from rude emails to constant demands for special treatment. Here are the 4 most common types of difficult behaviors – and some practical ways of dealing with them.

by Dr. Liz Hardy

Custom eLearning

September 6, 2015

The Benefits Of Custom Mobile Learning Solutions For Your Company

In one of my earlier articles, “Top 5 Tips For Innovative eLearning Development”, I had touched upon two significant challenges that Learning and Development teams face today. First is, how to enhance efficacy of learning; second being what learning strategies should be adopted to ensure both learning and business mandates are met. Adopting custom mobile learning solutions for your company could be one of the measures to mitigate these challenges.

by Asha Pandey

eLearning Design and Development

September 6, 2015

4 Mistakes Creating an eLearning Course

If an eLearning course doesn’t truly engage the self-motivated student, you’ll have a failure on your hands. Many of us think the transition of live workshop courseware to eLearning is as easy as recording an existing PowerPoint as a movie for viewing on a LMS website. I made plenty of mistakes attempting to create a self-study course directly from a traditional, live classroom course. It is easy to underestimate the courseware preparation and content differences between eLearning and traditional classroom learning.

by Ken Whitaker

eLearning Design and Development

September 5, 2015

4 eLearning Course Evaluation Strategies To Receive Valuable Feedback

Giving feedback in eLearning is one thing; but how to solicit it in order to gather valuable information about the effectiveness of your eLearning course? In this article, I''ll share 4 eLearning course evaluation strategies to receive valuable feedback so that you will be able to know exactly what is right or wrong with your eLearning course.

by Christopher Pappas

Educational Technology

September 5, 2015

5 Pillars Of Online Teaching And 40 Smart Apps And Tools To Make Your Life Easier As An Online Educator

In this article I will identify 5 pillars of the online teaching business and share 40 smart apps and tools to help strengthen each pillar. Each pillar will then strengthen the others, so that each aspect of the business becomes its own powerful hub of productivity, in and of itself, as well as beyond itself.

by Sylvia Guinan

Game-Based Learning

September 4, 2015

23 Effective Uses Of Gamification In Learning: Part 2

This is the second part of my article that shares 23 powerful uses of gamification in learning to show you how gamification can reshape learning and make the learning experience refreshingly appealing.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Market

September 4, 2015

Top 5 Things You Need To Do When Starting Your eLearning Job Search

Starting your first eLearning job search is like entering into a new phase of your life. Here are the top 5 things you need to do in a proactive job search.

by Swati Srivastava

Blended Learning

September 4, 2015

Blended Learning ≠ eLearning Course + Workshop

Blended learning could be a very powerful approach to building competencies. I see, however, a major problem - many of educators still understand it as a simple conglomerate of an eLearning course, used as a pre-work or post-work, with traditional training. In this post I will discuss this issue and present an example of an excellent blended learning process.

by Marek Hyla

eLearning Market

September 3, 2015

6 Tips To Price Your eLearning Courses

Content development, target audience research, and marketing are usually regarded as the most important elements of developing a successful eLearning course. Figuring out the perfect price point of the eLearning course belongs at the top of the list. In this article, I’ll go over 6 top tips on how to price your eLearning courses to sell.

by Christopher Pappas