eLearning Software

March 11, 2013

What Do Teachers, Marketers, And HR Managers Have In Common?

Teachers, marketers and HR managers share the need to communicate, present, persuade, engage, explain, introduce and document. They would naturally focus on different topics and target different audiences, but their goal is the same: reach out to an audience and find effective ways to get their message across.

by Paolo Leva

March 4, 2013

Easy Remote Trainings With Kadrige iSharing App

With more than a billion employees being mobile in the world, three trends are becoming more and more important in the Learning industry: eLearning, mLearning and Blended Learning.

by Christopher Pappas

February 7, 2013

Getting Started with SCORM: How does SCORM really work?

The purpose of this series of articles is to provide an easy to understand technical explanation of how exactly the SCORM protocol works. One of the things that greatly surprised me when I first began working with SCORM was that there seemed to be a surprising lack of good, practical technical documentation.

by Christian Gainsbrugh

January 30, 2013

LearnDash Bringing Tin-Can API To WordPress

By now you have undoubtedly heard about Tin-Can API, the new protocol set to replace SCORM. There are many benefits for Tin-Can, the biggest being its ability to record learning outside the restrictions of a browser window. This “light weight” factor of Tin-Can makes it very versatile, so it was only a matter of time until we started seeing it incorporated in many different ways.

by Christopher Pappas

January 23, 2013

Chalktips Aims To Make The College Paper More Engaging And Entertaining

The college essay has a very short shelf life. The student writes, professor reads and hopefully comments, grades are issued, course is done. For most majors, the college paper showcases the skills a student is supposed to possess. But papers are meant to be read by one person, the teacher. Chalktips hopes to redefine how papers are written, presented, and extend their utility beyond a grade.

by Christopher Pappas

December 22, 2012

A New Way To Enable Today’s Experts and Learners

Typical learning systems tend to focus on the development of traditional training, deployment of learning content, and logistics of learning events. However, they do little to capture and retain valuable business knowledge.  For many of today’s businesses, this knowledge is not just about how to conduct transactions but how, when, and why to utilize these transactions within their business process.  It’s also about employees being able to make the best decisions and being able to apply operational talents and expertise to the ultimate practice of the business – satisfying and delighting customers and constituents.

by Christopher Pappas

December 5, 2012

Visual Engagement Takes It Up A Notch With Camtasia 8

If you watched the Camtasia Studio for E-learning webinar last month you probably caught on pretty fast that the revamped quizzing feature and interactive hotspots available in Camtasia Studio make for an amazing degree of interactivity. But students can still find a courses boring no matter how much clicking and dragging they get to do if the course itself is not visually engaging.

by Michelle Schoen

November 5, 2012

Creating Learner-First Workplace Training With Schoox

We highlight how Schoox can help you personalize your L&D program and put your learners front and center.

by Christopher Pappas

October 24, 2012

Are You Building The Next Experts?

Helping students grow beyond your course. Trusted experts routinely deliver the most useful information, based on a great depth of knowledge.

by Joseph Kern

October 13, 2012

Tinkering With Tin Can

The newest version of eLearning protocol is upon us – are you ready to take the the plunge?

by Justin Ferriman

September 18, 2012

Camtasia Studio For E-learning: Common Myths Exposed

One of the greatest struggles I see with Instructional Designers is trying to decide which rapid authoring tool to purchase and spend their limited time learning. Generally, it's a choice between Articulate, Captivate and Camtasia Studio with Camtasia running a distant third (unless software demos make up the bulk of the training).

by Michelle Schoen

August 31, 2012

Need Help Developing A Syllabus For An Online Course?

Want to create an accessible syllabus in a native PDF environment, using a free program? My colleagues and I at Utah State University recently released the first version of a syllabus authoring tool at the Sloan Consortium Emerging Technologies for Online Learning conference.

by George Joeckel