Articles

eLearning Challenges

January 21, 2015

5 Tips To Use Mistake-Driven Learning In Your eLearning Courses

Mistakes should not be perceived as errors, but as opportunities to expand our educational horizons. But how can you give your audience the chance to learn from their mistakes, instead of treating them like obstacles in the learning process? In this article, I'll share tips that will help you design eLearning experiences that allow your learners to benefit from their own mistakes.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Market

January 21, 2015

Intellectual Property Rights In eLearning

eLearning professionals are increasingly creating educational materials that are offered on a wide scale, globally. With this dynamic frontier of content delivery, emerge questions and concerns about intellectual property rights among content developers and providers. Questions such as who owns the digital materials and content that I create and post online? What are institutional or organizational limits of ownership to my e-materials and digital products?, Can I patent my work and what are organizational implications? Do I have the right to use content for eLearning courses that is easily downloadable and found on the worldwide web at another organization? This article addresses intellectual property rights related to the field of eLearning and discusses its implications for eLearning practitioners.

by Jasmine Renner

Corporate eLearning

January 21, 2015

The Anatomy Of Great Onboarding eLearning

Onboarding is the first impression your company makes on a new employee and can have a huge impact on staff retention. With such high stakes - it is important to get it right. In this post I look at the most important aspects of onboarding and share our 4 part framework for creating great onboarding elearning.

by Steve Penfold

Virtual Classroom

January 20, 2015

6 Tips To Design Interactive Virtual Classroom Training

Virtual classroom training offers a variety of benefits to organizations. However, performance goals can only be achieved if the design and development process is carried out effectively. In this article, I'll be offering insight into how you can successfully design interactive virtual classroom training.

by Christopher Pappas

Instructional Design

January 20, 2015

Designing An Online Course? It’s Like Flying a Kite!

Have you been charged with developing an online course? Do you feel overwhelmed by content, and not sure how to organize it all? What should you do first? If you build a strong enough frame, instructional design can be as easy (and fun) as flying a kite.

by Guila Muir

Game-Based Learning

January 19, 2015

7 Tips To Create Effective eLearning Games

Games aren't just for entertainment any longer, thanks to the surge in popularity of gamification in eLearning. In this article, I'll highlight some tips on how to create entertaining and effective eLearning games.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Benefits

January 19, 2015

Are MOOCs and eLearning Just Fads?

The Massive Open Online Course, aka MOOC, is an online course designed for unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs have made a mark because the history of learning has now changed. Anyone with an Internet connection can take MOOCs, at no cost, from a top university. MOOCs, just like eLearning and Virtual Training, show how the nature of learning - be it in the education sector or Learning and Development in the business world - is changing. But just like the principle of MOOCs, which some will dismiss as a fad, the principle of eLearning is that it’s cost effective, efficient and can deliver great results. It’s all a matter of how you use it.

by Mark Rose

Mobile Learning

January 18, 2015

6 Tips To Use Mobile Performance Support For Your Sales Team

Regardless of whether you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 or the proud owner of a small local business, giving your sales team the mobile performance support it needs, offers a variety of lucrative advantages. In this article, I'll offer insight into how you can use mobile performance support to boost your company's sales.

by Christopher Pappas

Game-Based Learning

January 17, 2015

Fall In Love With eLearning: Gamification, Personalization and Clear Pathways

Learning new things is incredibly rewarding, yet we often find the process of knowledge acquisition dull, tedious and unclear. But it doesn’t have to be that way – by utilizing gamification, personalizing eLearning and demonstrating clear pathways of development, you can help your learners to fall in love with learning once again. Let me show you how.

by Juliette Denny

eLearning Design and Development

January 16, 2015

5 Tips For Running A Successful eLearning Focus Group

Regardless of whether you are brand new to the world of eLearning or have been involved with countless eLearning projects over the years, we all know just how important feedback is during the eLearning design and development process. One of the most effective feedback tools you have at your disposal is eLearning focus groups. In this article, I'll share some tips for how to successfully conduct an eLearning focus group that can give you the insight you need.

by Christopher Pappas

Instructor-Led Training

January 16, 2015

Instructional Presentation Is Just As Important As Instructional Design

Good instructional design does not translate into a good instructor-led training if the instructional presentation is done poorly.

by Jeffrey Slapp

eLearning Market

January 15, 2015

The Top 6 eLearning Courses Payment Gateways

Thanks to the sheer abundance of payment solutions available today, choosing your eLearning courses payment gateway is often easier said than done. In this article, I'll highlight the top eLearning courses payment gateways you might want to consider when selling your eLearning courses online.

by Christopher Pappas