eLearning Best Practices

June 13, 2014

6 Tips for Creating Smile-Worthy, User-Friendly eLearning

Is your e-Learning course easy to navigate, understand and use? Think of it this way—e-Learning should be so friendly and easy to use that it leaves your learners smiling! The last thing you want is frowns or grumbling as your annoyed learners rush to the end.

by Christie Wroten

February 27, 2014

What Students Love about e-Learning Courses

Since a continually increasing number of students are turning to online education, there are numerous courses available on the internet. Designing a basic online course may be difficult and is no different than working on an eLearning course. If you wish to design an effective e-learning program, that’ll make the transition from classroom to e-learning as pleasant as possible for the students, then that is a different story. It requires a good deal of time, planning, and hard work.

by Candice Smith

February 26, 2014

E-Learning: “Shorter Is Better” Mantra - Not Always What You Think!

Often when redesigning a training program, the goal is to accelerate a course, i.e., convert one week of classroom training to one day of e-learning. How would you feel about doing the opposite and making a course longer?

by John O Brien

February 5, 2014

Free Webinar: Make Your Learners Fall in Love with Your ELearning

Will you be our Valentine? Join Kineo for a special Valentine’s Day webinar – 8 Ways to Make Your Learners Fall in Love with Your eLearning. Friday, February 14th from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM CST.

by Cammy Bean

November 1, 2013

6 Keys To A Profitable Bespoke eLearning Business

Unicorn Training celebrates its 25th anniversary in the business of technology-based learning this year. Drawing on personal observations and experience from the past quarter century, Unicorn CEO, Peter Phillips asks why are there so few global players in the business of eLearning development and what are the keys to survival and growth in the highly competitive eLearning industry.

by Peter Phillips

October 19, 2013

eLearningInfographics: The Best Education Infographics

As founder of the eLearning Industry’s network I am super excited with our new user-generated infographics site. A few months ago, several members of the eLearning Industry network contacted me requesting a website that would be dedicated to the best education infographics. Having this in mind, we formed a team of creative, hard-working, and passionate online educators. As a consequence, we just released the eLearningInfographics.com.

by Christopher Pappas

October 15, 2013

‘RFP’ Woes And How To Get The eLearning Solution Of Your Dreams

The path to eLearning bliss may not be so simple. If you are new to eLearning, pursuing companies for proposals can be a bit overwhelming, even a little daunting. Learn the ins and outs of defining your needs so you get the right eLearning partner and avoid surprises.

by Steve Lowenthal

September 25, 2013

The Concept Of Individualized Learning Plans In eLearning

Individualized Learning Plans constitute a user-specific learning program or strategy that resembles a mapped academic plan, reflecting each learner’s unique set of strengths, weaknesses, goals, needs, abilities, preferences, and interests. It constitutes an educational technique, undoubtedly easier to implement in the field of eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas

July 24, 2013

6 Reasons eLearning Should Be Adopted In Every Classroom

Remember the days when you had desks, a blackboard, and you raised your hand to ask a question? Yep - those days are gone. Even if they were the days.

by Michael Adams

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

January 11, 2013

An Insiders Peek Behind Online Learning & Education - Book Review

There are certainly plenty of books around to help instructional and learning designers work their magic. Problem is, few authors have taken on the profession with a critical eye on the processes and practices of the field.

by Christopher Pappas

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