eLearning Design and Development

October 5, 2014

Top 5 Tips To Effectively Use Humor in eLearning

In this article, I will give you the insight and advice you need to effectively use humor in your eLearning deliverables. This article offers a variety of tips on how to use humor in your eLearning courses or online training events, without stepping on any toes or compromising your learning goals.

by Christopher Pappas

October 3, 2014

18 Tips to Engage and Inspire Adult Learners

In this article, I'll highlight 11 adult learner tips that will give you the ability to engage and inspire adult learners, as well as to overcome the obstacles that are often associated with educating or training adult audiences.

by Christopher Pappas

October 2, 2014

Helping Online Learners Succeed (Part 1)

How can we help online learners successfully complete a course of study? The first of two blog posts by Mary Burns focuses on strategies, the first of which is to figure out who should be an online learner. The next post, will offer strategies for promoting retention in online courses.

by Mary Burns

September 30, 2014

7 Tips For Proofreading And Editing Your eLearning Course

In this article, I'll share 7 invaluable tips for proofreading and editing your eLearning courses. Each of these techniques can help you to put your best foot forward by developing high quality deliverables that are always polished and perfected.

by Christopher Pappas

September 29, 2014

6 Reasons To Use Focus Groups in eLearning

In this article, I'll delve into the most notable benefits of using focus groups when developing and designing eLearning courses. If you've been on the fence as to whether focus groups are worth to be incorporated into your eLearning development strategy, these convincing arguments may just be the catalyst you need to start using this analysis tool.

by Christopher Pappas

September 25, 2014

5 Ways to Effectively Assess your eLearning Course Audience

In this article, I'll discuss the many ways that you can assess your eLearning course audience, in order to design eLearning deliverables that meet their objectives and offer an overall invaluable eLearning experience to your learners every time!

by Christopher Pappas

September 25, 2014

Key Tips for Working with Short Attention Spans

YouTube videos are usually about 3-4 minutes. An average phone call is less than 2 minutes, according to Statista . It makes sense—people have short attention spans. Research firm Basex says that unnecessary workplace interruptions take 28% of US workers’ days and $650 billion a year in productivity. So, how do you design effective e-Learning courses when your learners are easily distracted?

by Christie Wroten

September 23, 2014

Top 10 Tips to Use Collaboration Tools in eLearning

In this article, I'll share 10 tips to use collaboration tools in eLearning, so that you can create eLearning courses that are truly interactive, immersive, and innovative. Each tip, trick, and technique will allow you to not only more effectively utilize collaboration tools, but to make social collaboration an integral part of your eLearning strategy.

by Christopher Pappas

September 22, 2014

Top 8 Agile Practices for Best eLearning Results

While Agile has been proven to deliver higher-quality eLearning projects faster, thereby reducing both the time and the cost of developing courses, its benefits can only be reaped if Agile is done correctly. Here are a few best practices to follow when using Agile for eLearning project management/development.

by Marina Arshavskiy

September 17, 2014

What You Should Know About Software Training

In this article, I will present the basics of software training. To illustrate, I will walk you through different stages of software training development and most importantly I will discuss how knowledge is effectively transferred during these stages.  

by Sukumari P

September 17, 2014

Creating Context in Product eLearning Design

There have been numerous articles written about the importance of creating context in your e-Learning design. In this article I will show a few examples of how I successfully created context in e-Learning designed for clients using our payroll software. This approach has received rave reviews and the clients feel confident after this training – all the necessary ingredients for a winning recipe. It is a privilege to share my lessons learnt and I hope it is of great value to others!

by Celeste Mulder

September 12, 2014

ELearning Development - The Agile Way!

Since the word "eLearning" was first used at a Computer Based Training (CBT) systems seminar back in 1999, a number of structured design methodologies (ADDIE, SAM) have been used to develop eLearning content. As far as methodologies go, you will be hard pressed to find two eLearning project managers (PMs) who agree upon which methodology is "right" and which is "wrong". The fact is that many of those "iterative" models, where content is developed using a cycle of repeated processes, have proved immensely resilient over the years in projects that produced high-quality content. However, now, there is a new kid in town. "Agile" (has been around for several years!), and eLearning sponsors and PM's are taking notice of it!

by Marina Arshavskiy