Articles

Learning Psychology

November 25, 2014

5 Brain Hacks to Get Your eLearners to Learn Faster

What if you could give your elearners the superpower of learning faster? Sound impossible? Not if you know the cognitive hacks to boost brain performance. Your subconscious mind is smarter than you. It makes most of your decisions without you--and without the permission of your conscious mind. It’s the fastest-acting part of your brain. Yet most eLearning courses engage the slowest acting part of the brain - the neocortex, seat of logic and reasoning.

by Vicki Kunkel

eLearning Design and Development

November 24, 2014

Tips On How To Use The 6 Laws of Perception in eLearning

In this article, I'll highlight the 6 Laws of Perception, also known as the Principles of Grouping (or Gestalt Laws of Grouping), and show you how to use each one of them in your eLearning course strategy. Regardless of the subject matter, the target audience, or the eLearning objectives, these Laws of Perception can help you to design highly effective eLearning courses.

by Christopher Pappas

Educational Technology

November 23, 2014

7 Tips To Use Google Sites In eLearning

In this article, I'll highlight the many ways that you can use Google Sites to enhance the overall educational experience for your learners. I will also share some practical tips on how to get the most out of this user-friendly, but highly effective, eLearning tool.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

November 23, 2014

Elearning For Learning, Performance Support For Performance

While the goal of elearning and training interventions is to achieve learning, it is performance support that can help achieve performance (employee and organizational). Almost every organization applies elearning or other training interventions to achieve training goals. Why do we not see many organizations apply performance support to achieve performance? What is the show-stopper?

by Isha G

eLearning Design and Development

November 22, 2014

10 Tips To Use Online Gradebooks in eLearning

Saying goodbye to old fashioned gradebooks and integrating online gradebooks into your eLearning course strategy can be simple and convenient, especially if you follow these 10 simple but amazingly effective tips that I'll be sharing with you in this article.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Authoring Tools

November 22, 2014

eXeLearning: A Free Software Tool To Create Educational Contents

eXeLearning is a free software tool under GPL-2 that can be used to create educational interactive web contents in XHTML or HTML5. eXeLearning 2.0 is now available for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

by Ignacio Gros

eLearning Project Management

November 21, 2014

6 Tips to Estimate Your eLearning Course Development Time

In this article, you'll learn about the important considerations to bear in mind when estimating your eLearning course development time. Estimating the development time of your eLearning course as accurately as possible is of high importance, as it will help you to create a spot-on bid. So, you won't have to worry about overestimating or underestimating your work due to inaccurate quotes.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Market

November 21, 2014

Freedom: Writing MOOCs For Income vs Writing Curricula For An Institution

I recently made the leap from higher education to MOOCs. That’s right, I left my cushy full-time role (with a great salary and benefits) as an academic to earn an income creating MOOCs and selling them on Udemy. No one has said I’m crazy to my face, but my former colleagues do send job notifications every now and then.

by Monica Gragg

Instructor-Led Training

November 20, 2014

3 Instructor-Led Training Pitfalls to Avoid - and 16+ Solutions

Instructional designers and facilitators: Are your tried-and-true techniques for instructor-led training killing your participants with boredom? Instructor-led training continues to be a critical component of many organizations’ training offerings. Yet it has the potential to become stagnant, as instructional designers and facilitators fall back on the methods they’ve used for years. Shake things up by recognizing three pitfalls to avoid and by getting new inspiration from Catherine Davis, SweetRush’s Instructional Design Practice Lead.

by Catherine Davis

eLearning Design and Development

November 20, 2014

Path-Goal Theory for e-Learning Motivation

So, you want to motivate your employees during e-Learning. And who better than your training instructors or instructional designers to lead that motivation? One strategy is for instructors to lead e-Learning by applying the Path-Goal Theory.

by Christie Wroten

Blended Learning

November 19, 2014

Tips To Use Blended Learning In Corporate Training

In this article, I'll explore how to use blended learning in corporate training in order to create an immersive and engaging blended learning experience for your learners. Also you'll find out about the 4 blended learning models and the 4 sub-models, as well as, how to apply each one of them in your corporate training course.

by Christopher Pappas

Learning Management Systems

November 19, 2014

Online Grading to Make Teaching Life Easier

Moodle, the world’s leading open source learning platform, introduces the latest grading tools to meet pedagogical goals. Traditionally, grading has been handled by educators in their own evenings and weekends, hand marking papers to collate and review to track student progress and scoring. E-Learning has not only relieved educators of  this time consuming task, but given them well aimed tools for particular pedagogical scenarios. Moodle is designed and implemented for teachers by teachers, and the recent advancements with the gradebook tool are evidence of that. Grading is easy to do on all devices, with a scrollable grader report optimized for all browsers and screen sizes.

by Samantha Gartner