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February 1, 2015

Digital Learning Styles Present A Challenge For Online Educators

Distance education is rapidly growing and demands constant adaptation by everyone involved, including educators. It opens up more opportunities for a wide range of students, making higher education accessible for more people. However, with the increasing diversity in student populations and rapidly changing technology, defining and supporting learning styles for all students is becoming more challenging.

by Mary Norton

eLearning Articles

January 31, 2015

Don’t Get Eaten! How Training Professionals Can Survive and Thrive with Software

Software is eating the world. Learn what this means to you and your organization, and how to respond.

by John Peebles

Corporate eLearning

January 31, 2015

Savvy Transition: An Online Program To Help Leaders Excel In Their Roles

Emergent, a leader in business transformation and strategic change management services to the Fortune 500, introduces a new online leader transition program called Savvy Transition.

by Jesse Jacoby

eLearning Market

January 30, 2015

7 Tips To Evaluate eLearning Professionals

Rifling through a seemingly endless stack of resumes and applications can be tedious, especially if you aren't quite sure what you're looking for. In this article, I'll share some tips on how to evaluate eLearning professionals, so that you can find the eLearning candidate who offers the experience and skill sets you need.

by Christopher Pappas

Asynchronous Learning

January 30, 2015

How To Encourage Continuously Interactive Online Discussions

Ever get tired of grading posts at 11:00 pm on a Sunday night as the last students desperately try to finish the week’s discussion question with just minutes remaining? Looking for ways to keep a more even flow of posts and better interactions among your students? This article shares two techniques to develop better learning communities with more and better interactions among students in online discussions.

by Tony Birch

eLearning Design and Development

January 29, 2015

Top 7 Tips For Effective eLearning Course Subtitling

Adding subtitles in your eLearning course can offer learners the chance to more easily acquire and absorb the subject matter, which should be reason enough to consider doing so. However, it also provides another key advantage that should not be overlooked, which is the ability to reach more potential learners. In this article, I'll share some tips for effective subtitling in eLearning, so that you can reap all of the rewards it has to offer.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Benefits

January 29, 2015

Quick Tips to Boost Your e-Learning ROI

“An organization’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage.” This quote by Jack Welch, the former Chairman & CEO of GE, is a perfect summary of why e-Learning is so important. Companies all over have turned to online training—with great success. IBM created an e-Learning program for managers and discovered that participants learned nearly five times more material through e-Learning—without increasing time spent training. That’s incredible ROI!

by Stephanie Ivec

Simulation and Scenario-Based Learning

January 28, 2015

Effective Branching Scenarios In eLearning: 5 Tips For eLearning Professionals

Branching scenarios in eLearning can give your learners the opportunity to engage in the decision making process without being exposed to real world risks. In this article, I'll be sharing a variety of tips that can help you to successfully integrate eLearning branching scenarios into your eLearning course.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Project Management

January 28, 2015

Got E-Learning Subject Matter Expert Challenges?

This article will provide an overview of Subject Matter Expert Challenges. How to Flip your scripts to ensure ‘Subject Matter Expert Satisfaction’. Gain Subject Matter Expert Buy-In and get Sign-Off. And make sure you’re not the cause of resistance.

by Monique H

eLearning Design and Development

January 27, 2015

5 Marketing Tips To Apply In eLearning

This article features marketing ideas and principles that you can apply in your eLearning course design to increase learner engagement and excitement. If you're looking for ways to transform even the most dry and dull subject matter into something truly motivational and interactive, then you've come to the right place.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

January 27, 2015

Great Onboarding eLearning: Our Top 20

What are the characteristics of an a great onboarding program? In this post I discuss my top 20 and look at how eLearning can be blended with traditional delivery to help you design and deliver a course that can help your new starters reach their potential faster and the organization reach its goals smarter.

by Li Whybrow

eLearning Market

January 26, 2015

6 Tips On Interviewing eLearning Professionals

Asking the right questions during an interview can help you to gain insight into what a candidate has to offer to your organization. But what questions should you ask, and how can you insure that you get the most out of the interviewing process? In this article, I'll share some helpful tips on interviewing eLearning professionals.

by Christopher Pappas