eLearning Marketing Articles

eLearning Project Management

October 11, 2013

How To Help Your Tech Teams Love Learning Design

Many learning designers in large organizations find themselves working together with multimedia technicians, web designers, graphic designers and other specialists who actually create the online materials that students will use. This can lead to tensions due to differing perspectives and priorities. These differences though can be sources of creativity if approached constructively by the team. Consider the following 5 tips to help you work together with your team, make your learning design pop and keep the love levels high at the same time.

by David Hilton

Blended Learning

October 11, 2013

Secondary LMSs Are Not Necessarily Aligned To “College And Career Readiness”

Secondary Blended education classes notoriously fall short of developing online community. The standard by which all college courses find success is online student collaboration. One teacher has found an answer to getting students to chat about discussion questions.

by Russ Elburn

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

October 10, 2013

Social Learning Trends 2013

Is your company considering using social learning as part of your training and development program? Research suggests that this can be very beneficial. 

by Stephanie Ivec

Corporate eLearning

October 10, 2013

Improving The Training Resource Review Process

When you send training resources out for review, are you getting back the type of constructive feedback you need? This article outlines 3 levels of review, and gives you 6 tips on how to apply these levels to get great feedback and take back control of the training resources review process. 

by Mary Hetherington

eLearning Design and Development

October 9, 2013

Sticking to the Instructional Design Basics - What, Why, How

We often hear about the debate of how Subject Matter Experts meddle with Instructional Strategies and how Instructional Designers do not have the freedom to develop their own product. In this debate we often forget about the target audience, and finally end up creating something for the Subject Matter Experts. This article talks about how sticking to the Instructional Design basics would help satisfy both the Subject Matter Experts and the target audience.

by Neelima Menon

Instructional Design

October 9, 2013

Does Blooms Taxonomy Still Have A role To Play In e-Learning?

Mayes and de Freitas (2004) state that the use of technology can be used to achieve better learning outcomes, more effective assessments or a more cost effective way of bringing learning environments to students; and that  reforming practice requires transformation of the understanding of the principles. So what are the pedagogical principles behind “e” learning?

by Mark Rollins

Mobile Learning

October 8, 2013

Top 5 Design Considerations for Creating Mobile Learning

Have you ever used a mobile device to take an eLearning course that was originally designed for computer-based training? If so, how did you feel about the overall learning and user experience? 

by Tim Buff

Learning Management Systems

October 8, 2013

Universities And Businesses: An Important Synergy

What will our world be like in ten years? Our research aims at defining an active pedagogy, and bringing together active learning environments. We aim to remap the ‘pedagogical’, and recognize that technologies such as cognitive technologies, or 'psycho-technology', mean to broaden horizons and break existing topographies.

by Valentina Piccioli

Corporate eLearning

October 7, 2013

What Can Khan Academy Teach Corporate Training?

Corporate America’s training departments have been providing online education for over 15 years so what could Khan Academy, launched in 2004, targeted towards childhood education, possibly teach adult/corporate education?

by Tracey M. Flynn

Asynchronous Learning

October 6, 2013

How To Use Wiki In The Classroom

More and more classrooms are now learning, creating, reading, and testing online. In order to keep up with our technologically demanding lifestyles, the traditional classroom is making way for such innovative tools as wiki. Not only is this an inexpensive way to manage your classroom, it’s also a fun way to engage students in content across the curriculum.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Design and Development

October 5, 2013

They’re Everywhere Else: Can Zombies Find A Home In eLearning?

Zombies are all around us, and not just at Halloween. In addition to movies, television and pop culture – they have found their way into many Universities. Can eLearning be far behind?

by Karen Fields

Educational Technology

October 5, 2013

The 5 Best Free Note Taking Tools For Teachers

Note-taking is an essential part of the educational process in order for students to retain and fully process information. However, getting students to hand-write effective notes with a pencil and paper can be difficult. Get your class excited to take notes with the 5 Best Free Note-Taking Tools for Teachers.

by Christopher Pappas