Articles

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

March 4, 2016

5 Ultimate Tricks Of Using Social Media As Learning Tools

It’s no secret that our students spend most of their free time on social media websites. Teachers keep seeing their students with their phones, and we usually get frustrated by that habit. It’s time to start seeing things differently: Social media can be a useful tool to use for educational purposes. You constantly try to bring your teaching methods closer to the “real world”, so why don’t you use social media as learning tools and networks as the perfect chance to achieve that goal?

by Stephanie Norman

Blended Learning

March 3, 2016

Applying The SAMR Model To Create An Effective Blended Learning Strategy

Technology is a powerful tool in corporate training environments, but creating an effective blended learning strategy can be a trying task. In this article, I'll offer insight on how to use SAMR to integrate technology into your online training curriculum.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Challenges

March 3, 2016

5 Technology Challenges Faced By Adult Learners

Adult learners acquire their knowledge very differently to children. They are much more results driven, goal oriented, and practical, as well as being very self-directed. When it comes to technology, we can’t simply assume that all adult learners understand or know what to do with technology. In this article I have grouped what I believe to be the 5 main technology challenges faced by adult learners.

by Julian Davis

Simulation and Scenario-Based Learning

March 3, 2016

Tell Me A Story: How I Used Storytelling To Enhance Training

How do you make an impact on learners?  How do you help them find the relevance and WIIFM (“What’s In It For Me?”) in your training?  Embrace storytelling. 

by Melissa Dougherty

eLearning Market

March 3, 2016

3 Reasons Technical Skills Training Is The Best Investment To Make In Your Team

In this article I will share 3 reasons technical skills training are absolutely essential for your team’s success.

by Matthew Bell

Virtual Classroom

March 3, 2016

Will eLearning Be The End Of Walled Classrooms?

eLearning has brought affordable and high quality education outside walled classrooms and made it accessible to students all over the world. Will the growing popularity of eLearning wipe out conventional institutes?

by Shweta Iyer

Corporate eLearning

March 3, 2016

Using Elements Of Improv Theater For Virtual Onboarding: An Interesting And Effective Learning Tool

Face-to-face meetings, meeting in time-displaced blended settings like blogs, or meeting in virtual real-time like through video chat, or immersive 3D environments, all have their advantages and challenges. In virtual environments the non-verbal elements are limited. Whenever you don’t meet in real person, the lack of personal face-to-face communication is a gap that has to be overcome in all other virtual variations of get-togethers. So, organizations are now facing new challenges to virtual onboarding where it is essential to emphasize the interpersonal dynamics of virtual collaboration and establish practices for team building. This can be achieved by adopting some elements from Improv Theater.

by Heena Nanda

Instructional Design

March 2, 2016

8 Important Characteristics Of Millennials eLearning Professionals Should Know

It’s well known that millennials, who were born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, are “digital natives”. It’s a known fact that they grew up with technology and feel right at home in social communities, but what else defines this generation? In this article, I’ll highlight the characteristics of millennial leaners.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

March 2, 2016

Corporate Learning And The New Knowledge Economy

Corporate learning is changing at a rapid pace making it more important than ever to be across all of the latest tools of new knowledge economy.

by Scott Cooper

eLearning Project Management

March 2, 2016

MSU Denver Agile Instructional Design Network (AIDNet)

MSU Denver is currently immersed in a unique opportunity to become a pioneer in a nationally shifting paradigm; not by simply adopting more agile, entrepreneurial models, but by constructing their very own, uniquely tailored, strategic Agile Instructional Design Network (AIDNet).

by William T. Kendal

Corporate eLearning

March 2, 2016

Sales Training: Why Your Sales Staff Needs Continual Training

If your Human Resources department operates like most others, sales training is entirely focused on training your staff to sell your company's products or services.

by Roz Bahrami

eLearning Trends

March 2, 2016

Personalized eLearning: The Personalization Wave In Online Learning

Today, each one of us lives in a highly personalized world of our own. Marketing 2.0 makes complete use of our digital footprint and it is no surprise that what you, and only you, want is what you get in the digital space today. It is “personalization” that is filtering out the noise and homing in on your personal signal. Force feeding information is a thing of the past. No surprise, then, that eLearning has also succumbed to this trend of personalization. So, what one should look for in a personalized eLearning plan?

by Anand Timothy