eLearning Marketing Articles

Learning Management Systems

March 27, 2014

9 Questions to Help You Select the Best Learning Management System

Globally, companies and organizations spent between $1.8 and $1.9 billion on learning management systems in 2013, according to Bersin & Associates. With big dollars at stake, it’s important to find the best learning management system to meet your needs. These 9 questions will help you focus your search, selection, and implementation efforts.

by Kerri Simmons

eLearning Design and Development

March 27, 2014

Use Perfect Learning Objectives To Boost The Quality of your e-Learning

The best way to create terrible e-Learning is to dump content in an authoring tool (as if it was PowerPoint) add some questions and call it a course. Everybody knows (or should know) that learning development starts with defining clear learning objectives. This blog post precedes the course and tool to explain to you the basics on how to create good learning objectives. 

by Kasper Spiro

eLearning Infographics

March 26, 2014

Doing More than Infographics

Most infographics are just well-designed infodumps. This article provides strategies to ensure that your work doesn’t receive this label.

by Steven Loomis

eLearning Design and Development

March 26, 2014

Listen Up - Coursera, iVersity, and Udemy!!!

I recently took a couple of courses from Coursera and iVersity. The former is an established American name in the world of MOOCs while the latter is European and showing tremendous growth. I also took a course from Udemy, which is a major player in delivering reasonably good quality free and paid courses. In this post, I’ve…well…identified a few basic issues related to learner engagement.

by Rupen Sharma

eLearning Project Management

March 25, 2014

The Role of an Instructional Designer as Project Manager

Managing e-Learning Projects is extremely important for successful e-Learning course design. This article is the second in a series about e-Learning Project Management. Check it out and learn about the role of an instructional designer as project manager.

by Marina Arshavskiy

General

March 25, 2014

Why Teachers are Against E-mails in the Classroom

E-mail is one of the most important tools for communication, both at the classroom level and in the workplace. While it is useful, there are a number of disadvantages, and there is a good number of teachers that are against emails at the classroom level. Here are 7 reasons why.

by Adam Fort

eLearning Market

March 25, 2014

8 Easy Ways You Can Turn eLearning Business Into Success (2018 Update)

eLearning is more popular and lucrative than ever. But that also means more competition. In this article, I share 8 easy ways to turn your eLearning business into a success, even if you’re a startup with limited resources.

by Christopher Pappas

Virtual Classroom

March 25, 2014

How To Create A Paperless Classroom With Your Blog

I haven't used paper textbooks in my school for a few years now, as I've decided to go digital. Using my blog as a digital teaching and learning environment has drastically reduced the amount of paper consumption. You are more than welcome to check the following article that includes 8 Paperless Classroom examples.

by Tiziana Saponaro

Instructional Design

March 24, 2014

Instructional Design Models And Theories: Information Processing Theory

In the 1950s, the Information Processing Theory emerged. For more insights, read this article and take an in-depth look at the theory's key concepts, applications in education, and its influence on effective teaching strategies aimed at enhancing learning outcomes.

by Christopher Pappas

Microlearning

March 24, 2014

Are You Already Microlecturing?

When it comes to online learning, we are often faced with libraries with untransparent lists of resources, among which there are also narrated slide presentations that could be long from 40 minutes to several hours. These long online presentations are not aligned with our attention span and are not suitable for using on mobile devices also. So what is the solution for this problem? In this article I’ll present microlectures as a possible solution and also the procedure of how to create them.

by Jana Jan

Mobile Learning

March 23, 2014

Top 5 Performance Support Apps for Learning Designers

Connie Malamed was one of the first in the learning industry to design and develop an app for learning designers. Naturally, during our interview with her, we were eager to probe and find out more about her inspiration and the thought process that went into the making of her app. This is also one of the many things that we were left wondering about after our interview. We set out on a journey to explore and learn more about other apps that are available for learning designers. Read on...

by Ravi Pratap Singh

Virtual Classroom

March 22, 2014

9 Techniques For Online Educators To Gamify Their Digital Classrooms

Involve and motivate your students into the process of online learning with the help of gamification. Check what gamification is, and what gamification techniques you can use as online educator to make your digital classroom more interesting for your online students. Check the following 9 techniques that will help you gamify your digital classroom.

by Lesley J. Vos