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August 21, 2015

The Power Of Personalization In eLearning

Ask 10 people to order a pizza and you’ll see just how individual we all are and that there are endless ways to create personal savory perfection. Thin base or thick? Order in or take out? More mozzarella… but hold the anchovies, thanks! Personalization allows us to add a touch of the pizza experience to eLearning through customizing content and features to the learner’s individual needs, preferences, and learning style. Through applying personalization in eLearning, learning content can be presented to the individual rather than the group… and allow everyone to choose their own toppings!
by Ruby Spencer, CTDP
August 14, 2015

12 Incredible Ways Custom eLearning Helps Distributed Workforce

Custom eLearning development offers a wide range of advantages in the private sector, but is custom eLearning really the way to go for distributed workforces? When your employees are scattered around the globe, designing and developing an online training program can be a challenging task. In this article, I’ll share 12 of the most convincing reasons why custom eLearning is a worthwhile investment for global organizations, so that you can enrich the overall experience for your staff that is located in different parts of the world.
by Christopher Pappas
July 6, 2015

Differentiated Instruction In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

Every learner comes into your eLearning course with unique learning needs, skills, experience levels, and personalities. This makes it increasingly difficult to provide an individualized learning experience to each member of your audience unless you know the basics and best practices of differentiated instruction. In this article, I’ll share 4 ways to identify the needs of individual learners and 5 tips on how to employ differentiated instruction in eLearning in order to increase the effectiveness of your eLearning course.
by Christopher Pappas
June 30, 2015

What Is Bespoke eLearning? Featuring 6 Killer Examples

The edge that a bespoke or custom developed course has over off-the-shelf course is well established. In this article I will illustrate the power of bespoke eLearning to create sticky learning through 6 examples. I have picked examples that address varied training needs like compliance, application simulation, and professional skills.
by Asha Pandey
June 23, 2015

Personalized eLearning: A Customized Approach To Accelerated eLearning

Today's world is far different than the one our parents and grandparents grew up and lived in. The age of "standardization" and "One-size-fits-all" no longer applies. Today, especially where technology is so ubiquitous in every aspect of our lives, "personalization" has become very important - be it in manufacturing, services or retail business. Personalization is needed to make a product or service more endearing to the target audience, and this is especially true for eLearning. As a result, the concept of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) is becoming more relevant in today's academic world.
by Marina Arshavskiy
June 8, 2015

Catalog eLearning Courses vs Custom eLearning Courses: 6 Factors To Consider

Not sure whether you should choose a custom eLearning course or a pre-built one? Whether you’ve opted to go with a catalog eLearning course for your learners or have decided to start from scratch and develop a custom eLearning solution, choosing the right eLearning course and vendor is essential. In this article, I´ll share 6 valuable tips to help you choose the best custom and catalog eLearning courses addressing to your audience.
by Christopher Pappas
June 3, 2015

Developing Custom eLearning: 7 Benefits For Your Organization

A significant percentage of your organization’s budget goes into employee development. So, why not make the most of your resources by developing custom eLearning and provide your corporate learners with an online training experience that truly benefits them and offers the best ROI. In this article, I’ll discuss why and how custom eLearning development benefits your organization and improves employees’ performance.
by Christopher Pappas
June 2, 2015

Custom eLearning: 7 Tips For Aligning Learning To Business Goals

Learning and Development function of modern organizations needs to clearly find important links between learning and business objectives of the organization. It is now imperative to align custom eLearning efforts of employees and individual departments towards business success. It is important for the Learning and Development function to create a continual learning process that is beneficial both to the learners as well as to the organization. This builds the confidence and capability of workers as well as improves business results for organizations. The shared tips will help create successful custom eLearning initiatives for corporate training by aligning learning with business goals.
by Heena Nanda
May 15, 2015

Top 9 Reasons To Develop Custom eLearning That Engages Employees

There are many benefits that Learning and Development professionals find in custom eLearning development, but increasing your employees’ engagement is one of the top. In this article, I’ll delve into why and how you can develop custom eLearning courses in order to make your online training immersive, interactive and engaging for every employee of your corporate learning audience.
by Christopher Pappas
April 10, 2015

Custom eLearning Content: Lessons Learned

The road to eLearning hell is paved with great intentions, good content… and lousy delivery. A large american telecom had to face the truth of this statement. A new tool and a pretty eLearning approach to teach the employees how to use it. Yet, not all eLearning has the effect hoped for, as it turns out. Some might call it failure, but certainly it is a lesson learned...
by Greg Wasylik