eLearning Design and Development

February 22, 2013

6 Simple Ways to Accelerate your Learning with Mind Mapping

Learning to learn remains a powerful and necessary skill in every field of activity.  In addition to this skill, imagine that your learning can be accelerated, your mind challenged and your efficiency improved.

by Mihut Naomi

February 22, 2013

The Use Of Music And Animation In eLearning

Do you think that introductory music and animation clips help, motivate and engage the participants of an e-learning course? Do genre, volume level and duration affect their concentration? Do music and animation clips constitute an attention grabber or an annoyance factor? Apparently, views are conflicting and experiences differ.

by Christopher Pappas

February 21, 2013

How To Create Interactivity That Works

How many times you have come across sessions that make you click various on screen objects and claim to be interactive? How many times you have talked to vendors who claim their content to be interactive because it has quizzes after every 5 screen? I guess the answer will be a plenty of times.

by Shyamanta Baruah

January 8, 2013

Video In Training And Education

At least partly because of the huge success of YouTube, people get excited today about the potential of video for training and education particularly in the context of e-learning and distance learning. There is a lot of hype about it but we need to examine the real benefits before plunging in. 

by Don McIntosh

November 30, 2012

6 Tips For Producing Good Quality Audio Narrations Every Online Educator Should Know About

Can we prepare, record, and finally produce a better audio narration? Of course we can. However, we should consider some aspects such as, budget, time, technology, and our available resources in general.

by Christopher Pappas

November 29, 2012

Test And Assess – Be A Curator!

Paint cures but what’s that to do with testing? Curation as a process has been going on a long time; you probably had teachers who shared reading lists, sites of interest, things to do on your next family vacation.

by William J. Ryan

November 28, 2012

Ultimate List of Free Music for eLearning Development

At the Ultimate List of Free Music for eLearning you will find 34 websites where you can use Free Music for your Online Courses. You can download hundred thousand music files for thousands artist and use it for Free.

by Christopher Pappas

November 11, 2012

How To Design Assessments That Promote The Learning Process

Assessments are critical elements of instruction; they determine accomplishment of lesson objectives. However, you can design assessments to be more than an evaluation of what has been learned. You can design them to be a part of the learning process itself.

by LuAnne Holder

October 29, 2012

Screen Tutorials in Technical Learning

In technical subjects, learners respond well and benefit from the inclusion of imagery and video. How Do I Make a Good Screencast?

by David Demyan

October 10, 2012

eLearning 101 Part 5: Evaluating

eLearning 101 Part 5: Evaluating. Evaluation of your course is essential but often under used.

by Anita Horsley

October 5, 2012

eLearning 101 Part 4: Developmental Process

eLearning 101 Part 2: Planning eLearning, describes best practices on script writing In eLearning 101 Part 3: Developmental Roles, discusses the communication process. eLearning 101 Part 4: Development Process, provides a more detailed development process.

by Anita Horsley

October 1, 2012

eLearning 101 Part 3: Development Roles

eLearning 101 Part 3: Development Roles includes the roles and responsibilities that are included during the development process. Some roles are mandatory during any course development process, while other roles may be optional depending on the needs of the course.

by Anita Horsley