eLearning Best Practices

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.

This article—a continuation of last month's article on evaluating online teacher professional development programs—examines 3 evaluation frameworks you can use to evaluate the effectiveness of your online teacher professional development program.

As an online instructor or course developer, we understand how much work goes into creating an online course. Don’t let all of your hard work go to waste. In this article, I’ll discuss some best practices to keep your online course relevant and updated after the initial development process.

Online teaching is an important tool for teachers and students, but in order for it to be used correctly teachers must go through rigorous training.

More students are signing up for online classes, but more are also dropping out. Why the high dropout rates of online courses? A major reason is that students are not prepared for the class' time, academic, and technology requirements. Here are practical ways teachers and institutions can reset student expectations.

Many people believe once they’ve earned all the degrees needed for their dream job, their learning days are over. This is a dangerous way to manage a career, because technologies and business models emerge and force change so rapidly.

Evaluation is often one of the weakest areas of any eLearning program. This article (the first of two parts) talks about ways to evaluate online programs. Here we examine evaluation—what it is, types of evaluations, measures, indicators, and instruments.

Students feel less engaged when eLearning, leading to higher drop-out rates. How can teachers connect with their online students?