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Learner Engagement

October 29, 2013

The Impact Of Tiredness And Fatigue On Learning

Do you think about the impact of tiredness and fatigue on learning? What effect could these have on your training design? Well, unless you can regulate your learners' sleep patterns, tiredness may seem a little beyond your control. For fatigued learners the challenge is to pique their interest, so that a subject becomes fascinating. However, there are a couple of useful thoughts.

by Tim Buff

Corporate eLearning

October 28, 2013

The 5 Ws In The E-Learning Adoption For Enterprises

Success of Large organizations depends on their ability to keep information flowing across their departments so that it can reach the appropriate people at the right time. People have the ability to learn at every moment. The firm’s ability to assess, improve, motivate, and maintain their employee’s knowledge, actively affects the ability of the organization to succeed.

by Jacopo Mauri

Educational Technology

October 27, 2013

Top 10 FREE iPad Apps For Teachers

Do you want to engage your students and encourage them to participate more actively? Plenty of Free iPad apps are now available to save you precious time and get your work done, while impressing your students and keeping their interest alive. Below you will find the Top 10 FREE iPad apps for teachers.

by Christopher Pappas

Microlearning

October 27, 2013

Creating Bite-Size Learning With SlideTalk

Organizing learning as collections of short educational episodes is a trend that is getting more and more attention from corporates. While educational episodes do not provide a complete context and do not provide a complete background in the same way as a full course could do, they are particularly effective in delivering “ just enough” or “just-in-time” information, and are often more easily accepted by employees than larger and more time-consuming courses.

by Paolo Leva

Mobile Learning

October 26, 2013

BYOD: Extra Hardware Enhances Teacher Efficiency

Is it wrong to compare technology in education with the Six Million Dollar Man? There really is an important blend of human and technological components that make the system work. The question is how to make it best work for teachers.

by Russ Elburn

General

October 26, 2013

Just Remember: PC GAMES For Effective Written Feedback

The purpose of this article is three-fold: (a) to define written feedback and identify the benefits of effective written feedback (b) to identify the components of an effective written feedback, and (c) to provide an acronym that reminds instructors of the importance of giving effective written feedback for their students.

by Dorothy Kropf

eLearning Design and Development

October 25, 2013

5 Time-Saving Tips for Online Instruction

Do you check your email before breakfast? Ever feel like your online class is taking over your life? Online instruction does operate at its own schedule, but the schedule should not control you. Here are some time saving tips for the online teaching environment.

by Douglass Bourne

Educational Technology

October 24, 2013

4 Fun and Creative Mind Maps to Develop Kids' Multiple Intelligences

The article dwells upon the creative ways in which you can use mind mapping to develop children's verbal, logical, visual, and intrapersonal intelligences. Children can become smarter and wiser, from different perspectives, if we seek to help them nurture and refine their intelligences. Parents and teachers altogether can use mind maps to engage their kids in  fun, exciting activities that will have multiple benefits for their personal development.

by Nadina Lupu

eLearning Design and Development

October 24, 2013

5 Steps to Help You Create 508 Compliant Content

Is your e-Learning course accessible? Take a look at this 5-step checklist to help you create a 508-compliant e-Learning course.

by Christie Wroten

Educational Technology

October 24, 2013

29 Free iPad Apps For Teaching The US History

Are you looking for a way to teach your children, or enrich your personal knowledge about the history of the United States? If so, the 29 Free iPad Apps listed below are exactly what you are looking for. These applications offer all the information that a parent, student, or teacher is looking for. Learning history will become and entertaining experience that will be enjoyed by everyone. Perfect for both, home and school use. 

by Christopher Pappas

Corporate eLearning

October 22, 2013

Why Do Employees Forget Their Training?

Even the best looking online training courses will fail if they don’t take into account long-term knowledge retention. While easy to deliver, there is a responsibility to ensure that the information not only becomes a skill but an innate habit. Well developed elearning courses can help to stem the outward flow of knowledge.

by Eric Skilling

Custom eLearning

October 22, 2013

Going Global eLearning Best Practices

Picture this scene: you are the eLearning guru at your small to medium sized company. Your company grows, which means more work for you and maybe even additional staff to share the burden, this is great. However with growth comes a wider audience. With International growth comes an even more diverse audience with potential language barriers and connectivity issues. But this is not a problem for you, eLearning Guru. You can handle anything that comes your way!

by Tiha Baker