eLearning Marketing Articles

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

eLearning Trends

February 25, 2014

5 eLearning Trends Leading to the End of the Learning Management System

With so much information easily accessible from multiple sources in the cloud, learners will take more and more control of their own learning, changing the role of learning professionals, departments and software. I believe this will lead to an end of the corporate Learning Management System (LMS) within 5 years.

by Kasper Spiro

Game-Based Learning

February 24, 2014

eBook Release: How Gamification Reshapes Learning

The Learning Professionals' Gamification eBook. Would you be interested in the Most Effective Uses of Gamification in Learning? In the How Gamification Reshapes Learning ebook you will find useful Gamification Tips provided by 23 Gamification professionals.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

February 24, 2014

How to Increase Training Engagement with Corporate Sustainability

Corporate sustainability and social responsibility (CSR) is making waves in Fortune 500 companies, so why haven’t HR and Learning & Development teams caught on? Don’t miss opportunities to infuse CSR messaging into training to increase engagement and impact. 

by Andrei Hedstrom