eLearning Best Practices

After a full day of work, there is nothing better than heading home. For remote workers, transitioning from work-life to home-life tends to be a more difficult task and requires purposeful planning.

When you study online, you can feel stressed for various reasons. This article will show 7 ways to cope with this situation.

An aging population in the U.S. is leading to a shortage of trained home health care workers. Other developed nations are responding to similar challenges through eLearning platforms. Here's how one nation is meeting the demand, and what's stopping the U.S. from following their lead.

The online world has made life a lot simpler and more convenient. Certainly, the virtual world can make one emotionally hollow, but surviving without it is simply impossible.

While externally motivating factors like grades and points are quantifiable and concrete, intrinsic motivation is more difficult to get a handle on. So how do we facilitate intrinsic motivation, particularly in relation to eLearning, in a fashion that doesn’t take away from extrinsic motivation?

Habits are an action that requires minimal motivation or effort to complete. The idea is over time; a habit will slowly build on top of itself and result in something significant.

We’ve all come across those dull voiceovers reading exactly what you see on screen (but much slower). Not exactly a riveting piece of learning! However, there are some great examples of audio in eLearning—it just needs to be used in the right way to deliver an engaging learning experience.

Pursuing a career while balancing other responsibilities such as a job, or a family poses quite difficult. The flexibility that online courses offer is a tremendous help in instances like these. While online courses may not suit everyone's individual needs, it certainly works for many.

If you buy a great LMS and load it with great content, your learners will take courses. Maybe. Maybe not. There are 9 actions a training and development leader can do to boost eLearning courseware usage.

What are the health risks associated with participating in an eLearning course, and how can teachers reduce those risks? Below are 3 common issues, as well as course design principles instructors should adopt to improve student academic outcomes.

In today’s interconnected world, learners can access content from across the globe—which means more and more digital learning providers are making localization a priority. Here are 4 things you must do if you want to reach a global audience and maximize their engagement with your eLearning.

The process goes beyond the simple translation of the words on the screen. Preparing eLearning modules with translation in mind can save you time and money.