Articles

eLearning Market

October 15, 2013

‘RFP’ Woes And How To Get The eLearning Solution Of Your Dreams

The path to eLearning bliss may not be so simple. If you are new to eLearning, pursuing companies for proposals can be a bit overwhelming, even a little daunting. Learn the ins and outs of defining your needs so you get the right eLearning partner and avoid surprises.

by Steve Lowenthal

Educational Technology

October 13, 2013

Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools For Teachers

Finding educational content in the web is no big deal- but managing it, is. Educational content curation is the art – rather than the act – of sorting out the vast amounts of educational content on the web and organizing them around a specific educational topic in a coherent way. 

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

October 12, 2013

The Challenge Of Teaching Soft Skills

It is easy to lecture on soft skills and then for students to pass a test showing that they have learned the material. But will behavior really change as a result of the lecture and testing? Do role plays result in behavioral change? Research shows that behavior changes at a minimum require repeated practice with extensive feedback. Simulation technology now offers the capability to go past traditional training and produce effective soft skills training.

by Dale Olsen

Educational Technology

October 12, 2013

The 5 Best Free Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers

Organizing thoughts is a difficult task, for both teachers and students. Lack of a medium to organize all these thoughts can lead to stress, confusion, and lack of success in regards to yourself, or your students. Utilize these 6 Best Free Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers in order to be the best educator possible and ensure that your students are able to reach their full potential. *Update: we added one more!!!

by Christopher Pappas

eLearning Project Management

October 11, 2013

How To Help Your Tech Teams Love Learning Design

Many learning designers in large organizations find themselves working together with multimedia technicians, web designers, graphic designers and other specialists who actually create the online materials that students will use. This can lead to tensions due to differing perspectives and priorities. These differences though can be sources of creativity if approached constructively by the team. Consider the following 5 tips to help you work together with your team, make your learning design pop and keep the love levels high at the same time.

by David Hilton

Blended Learning

October 11, 2013

Secondary LMSs Are Not Necessarily Aligned To “College And Career Readiness”

Secondary Blended education classes notoriously fall short of developing online community. The standard by which all college courses find success is online student collaboration. One teacher has found an answer to getting students to chat about discussion questions.

by Russ Elburn

Social And Emotional Learning (SEL)

October 10, 2013

Social Learning Trends 2013

Is your company considering using social learning as part of your training and development program? Research suggests that this can be very beneficial. 

by Stephanie Ivec

Corporate eLearning

October 10, 2013

Improving The Training Resource Review Process

When you send training resources out for review, are you getting back the type of constructive feedback you need? This article outlines 3 levels of review, and gives you 6 tips on how to apply these levels to get great feedback and take back control of the training resources review process. 

by Mary Hetherington

eLearning Design and Development

October 9, 2013

Sticking to the Instructional Design Basics - What, Why, How

We often hear about the debate of how Subject Matter Experts meddle with Instructional Strategies and how Instructional Designers do not have the freedom to develop their own product. In this debate we often forget about the target audience, and finally end up creating something for the Subject Matter Experts. This article talks about how sticking to the Instructional Design basics would help satisfy both the Subject Matter Experts and the target audience.

by Neelima Menon

Instructional Design

October 9, 2013

Does Blooms Taxonomy Still Have A role To Play In e-Learning?

Mayes and de Freitas (2004) state that the use of technology can be used to achieve better learning outcomes, more effective assessments or a more cost effective way of bringing learning environments to students; and that  reforming practice requires transformation of the understanding of the principles. So what are the pedagogical principles behind “e” learning?

by Mark Rollins

Mobile Learning

October 8, 2013

Top 5 Design Considerations for Creating Mobile Learning

Have you ever used a mobile device to take an eLearning course that was originally designed for computer-based training? If so, how did you feel about the overall learning and user experience? 

by Tim Buff

Learning Management Systems

October 8, 2013

Universities And Businesses: An Important Synergy

What will our world be like in ten years? Our research aims at defining an active pedagogy, and bringing together active learning environments. We aim to remap the ‘pedagogical’, and recognize that technologies such as cognitive technologies, or 'psycho-technology', mean to broaden horizons and break existing topographies.

by Valentina Piccioli