eLearning Design and Development

May 3, 2018

How To Meet The Demand For Home Health Care Workers Through eLearning

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.

by Andrej Kovačević

May 1, 2018

4 Tips And Examples Of Great Web-Style eLearning

The ever-growing focus on digital, along with declining attention spans, means that today’s learner is looking for an interactive and intuitive experience. Using web-style design is a great way to keep your content up to date with the 21st century. These tips and examples will help you get started.

by Steve Penfold

April 29, 2018

6 Prerequisites For Engrossed Online Learners

I have observed a disparity in how consumers of everyday information and consumers of training and development see, access, and consume information. To facilitate this intervention, I’ve identified 6 reality checks, or consumer sentiments, that need to be acknowledged and applied to training and development.

by Treion Muller

April 27, 2018

How To Facilitate Both Intrinsic And Extrinsic Motivation In eLearning

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?

by Andrew Heikkila

April 26, 2018

Why Scrum Might Be Perfect For L&D

Learn how Scrum can help Learning and Development teams foster flexibility, cost control, and quality in their workflow.

by Carly Rae Zent

April 25, 2018

Create Habits Among Your Learners To Set Them Up For Lifelong Success

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.

by Dan Westmoreland

April 24, 2018

10 Pointers You Can Use To Create An Effective Outsourcing Strategy For eLearning

To align with a rapidly changing learningscape and pressure on training budgets, organizations opt for outsourcing eLearning development. In this article, I share 10 pointers to create a successful and highly effective eLearning outsourcing strategy.

by Asha Pandey

April 24, 2018

4 Examples Of How To Effectively Use Audio For Your eLearning

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.

by Steve Penfold

April 23, 2018

5 Timely Tips To Make The Most Of Your eLearning Translation Budget

Training managers can make the most of their eLearning translation budget by following the simple tips mentioned in this article.

by Ayesha Habeeb Omer, Ph.D

April 22, 2018

Improving Assessment In eLearning Programs

What should we think about as we develop assessments in our online education programs? Mary Burns shares some thoughts for you to keep in mind.

by Mary Burns

April 22, 2018

Top 5 Reasons Why eLearning Projects Fail

Before reaching any conclusion on why an eLearning project failed, it is important to understand the reasons first. This article will help you identify those 5 mistakes that can lead a project to its failure.

by David Miller

April 18, 2018 | Sponsored

Behind The Scenes Design Tips, Part 2: Using Game Shows In Training

This article is the second in the behind the scenes design tips series, exploring design decisions we made while creating a “game show” experience for an instructor-led new hire course.

by Zsolt Olah