Articles

Game-Based Learning

January 16, 2014

Gamification Meets Mobile Learning: 4 Best Practices

How do you give learners engaging, instant access to e-Learning content? You combine two of the most popular e-Learning trends and create a mobile game.

by Christie Wroten

Game-Based Learning

January 15, 2014

4 Mistakes That Ruin A Serious Game’s Learning Value

If serious games are not carefully mapped to the key elements needed for learning. Instructional designers new to game design must take the time to learn about common game elements and how they link to learning. The result? Serious games that avoid the common mistakes detailed in this article!

by Steven Boller

Educational Technology

January 14, 2014

The 5 Best Free Cartoon Making Tools For Teachers

Cartoons are likely a form of entertainment that your students are very familiar with. As a matter of fact, every student in your class probably enjoys cartoons in some form. What they are likely unfamiliar with, however, is using cartoons in the classroom. Utilizing cartoons and comic strips in your classroom is a way to meet students where they are at and allow your goals to combine with their interests. These 5 best free cartoon making tools for teachers will give you the resources you need to get your students’ attention.

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

January 14, 2014

Commercial-Free Web-based Training for the Process Industry

KROHNE, a full-service provider for process measuring technology, offers a free online training tool focusing on various elements within the area of industrial process measurement. Published on the ILIAS learning platform, the KROHNE Academy online consists of electronic learning content with full audio.

by Steffen Brauers

Instructional Design

January 13, 2014

The 1st Global Portrait Of Instructional Designers' And Educational Technologists' Survey

Concordia University, EduConsillium, and eLearning Industry invite you to participate at The 1st Global Portrait Of Instructional Designers' And Educational Technologists' Survey.

by Claude Martel Ph.D.

Educational Technology

January 13, 2014

Online Flashcards for Active Recall and Spaced Repetition

People have been using flashcards as a revision aid for decades, but now they are being brought into the 21st century by online flashcard apps. Flashcards are an effective learning aid for a number of reasons, and online flashcards are able to build on these reasons to make learning even more successful. Online flashcards are created using theories of spaced repetition and active recall.

by Michael Bollinger

Educational Technology

January 12, 2014

6 Secrets Of Online Education Popularity Revealed (2018 Update)

The biggest reason why organizations train online is cost. But are there little-known reasons why employees seem to willingly, even eagerly, go along with the plan? In this article, I shed light on 6 secrets of online education popularity.

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Articles

January 12, 2014

Learning a language: Interactive Videos and Spaced Repetition

by Nikolay Filevskiy

eLearning Trends

January 12, 2014

Top 9 eLearning Predictions For 2014

2013 was an exciting year for eLearning professionals with many discussions around learning paradigms and technologies. The year saw many interesting developments in areas such as Learning Standards/Specifications (xAPI), Programming Languages (HTML 5), Gamification, Game-based Learning, etc. We believe that 2014 will see more powerful changes, owing to the maturing and convergence of some of these technologies. If 2013 was a year of ‘contemplations’, 2014 will be a year of ‘decisions’! Read on…

by Ravi Pratap Singh

eLearning Design and Development

January 9, 2014

4 Tips For Content Chunking In e-Learning

If your learners aren’t performing as well on their post-training evaluations as you’d hoped, you may want to try an e-Learning development technique to help them remember - content chunking.

by Christie Wroten

eLearning Design and Development

January 9, 2014

Creating Section 508 Compliant ELearning Solutions

This article suggests techniques an instructional designer can incorporate into eLearning projects in order to meet the needs of people with disabilities. The article also outlines steps for developing 508 compliant training courses.

by Marina Arshavskiy

eLearning Trends

January 8, 2014

eLearning Business Trends in 2014

Predictions on how e-learning business might trend in 2014 based on key business drivers across geographies, L&D challenges and e-learning buzz words like Social, MOOC, gamification, games, byte-sized learning, performance management, mobile content, HTML5, Tin Can API.

by Manish Gupta