Articles

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

December 10, 2015

4 Tips To Search Twitter For eLearning Content

Whether you are already using Twitter for eLearning purposes or not, this powerful social media tool can reveal and offer you extremely useful information. In this article, I’ll share 4 ways to search Twitter for eLearning content and show you how you can take advantage of this influential social learning platform.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Project Management

December 10, 2015

Keeping It Zen: Dealing With Different Personalities In Your Learning And Development Project Teams

Similar to any project teams, Learning and Development project teams are made up of unique individuals, which can result in hot beds for all sorts of behavior and conflict. More often than not, teamwork can get disrupted by personalities. It’s important to identify trends in your team to help develop your strategy for managing from things to meetings milestones.

by Aristotle Domingo, CTDP, LSSGB

Mobile Learning

December 10, 2015

Going mLearning: 2 Points To Ponder

Use of mobile devices to carry out enterprise processes and transactions is on the rise, and so is the demand by organizational users to make eLearning available on mobile devices. This is popularly known as mLearning.

by Vinayak Khadye

eLearning Design and Development

December 9, 2015

3 Effective Ways To Create Memorable eLearning Endings

The best endings offer more than a simple thank you page. Effective eLearning gives learners a summary, as well as follow-up activities. This article explores 3 methods you can use to create a more effective eLearning endings.

by Li Whybrow

eLearning Design and Development

December 9, 2015

9 Tips To Get Started With Your eLearning Course

In this article I will share 9 key tips on how to create an interesting eLearning course that engages and inspires your online learners.

by Megan Hicks

Educational Technology

December 9, 2015

Periscope For eLearning: Is It Worth The Bother?

With a six-month hoopla around Periscope, this app gained the affection of many educators who started thinking on using Periscope in classrooms. But is everything so trouble-free? What are the advantages and drawbacks of using Periscope for eLearning, and what changes would save this software's reputation for making it #1 app among educators?

by Lesley J. Vos

eLearning Design and Development

December 8, 2015

Visual Thinking In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

How can eLearning professionals create eLearning courses that appeal to our visual nature while still including all of the key subject matter? In this article, I’ll explore the basics, benefits, and uses of visual thinking in eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Software

December 8, 2015

Yes We Can: A Tin Can API Primer

This isn’t the first Tin Can API explainer article ever written. But the subject is so important to the future of eLearning that, basically, the more the merrier. If we adopt it, Tin Can API is going to be a genuine game changer, so read on if you’ve heard of it but aren’t quite sure what it is, how it works, and what it can do.

by David Hill

Corporate eLearning

December 8, 2015

Compliance Simplified: Using Creative Instructional Design Approaches To Instill The Spirit Of “Why Comply”

“Compliance” is a buzzword used by governments, regulators, and employers for the process of following rules. Compliance rules are in place either to protect business and markets, or to protect individuals by guiding them on how to follow regulations. However, rules can be misunderstood. Therefore, the challenge shifts to identifying what more must be done to ensure that the employers and the employees do comply with regulations.

by Asha Pandey

eLearning Authoring Tools

December 7, 2015

Articulate Storyline's Mobile Player, Does One Slide Fit All?

Articulate Storyline have recently outlined their plans to release new software, specifically designed to deliver better eLearning content for mobile. But is it fit for purpose, and could it work across multiple devices? Does one slide really fit all?

by Timothy Shelton

eLearning Benefits

December 7, 2015

5 Ways eLearning Benefits Non-Profit Organizations

Technology has seeped in to the development sector and it is helping most far-flung organizations in the sector connect and collaborate more with their peers. Though training budgets are limited, technology-aided learning solutions can be designed as per the needs of the Development sector to reap a number of evident, short term benefits, as well as some not-so-evident, long term benefits.

by Heena Nanda

Learning Management Systems

December 7, 2015

Assessments And The LMS: The Case Of TalentLMS

While there are plenty of financial reasons to switch your training over to the cloud, there is one that you may or may not have thought of: how much better you can make it, and how much more your users will appreciate and, I dare say, enjoy it!

by John Laskaris