eLearning Development Best Practices

April 25, 2016

Developing eLearning Characters: A Quick Guide For eLearning Professionals

Are you looking for ways to connect with your learners on a more personal level? This article explores the benefits of using characters in eLearning, and highlights eLearning character types and some of the top tips that can help you create more dynamic and emotionally-centered eLearning courses.

by Christopher Pappas

April 21, 2016

6 Tips To Get A Head Start On Your Next Rapid eLearning Project

Your next rapid eLearning project is just around the corner, and you know that time will be of the essence. But is there anything you do NOW to get a head start? In this article, I'll offer 6 tips that will help you prepare for your rapid eLearning course in order to beat the clock and increase productivity.

by Christopher Pappas

April 21, 2016

Augmented Learning: An Argument For Its Use

While the concept of “on demand” eLearning is not new to Instructional Designers, the use of Augmented Learning (or AL) is fast catching currency within learning content creation circles. For those of us who are new to this concept, augmented learning is a technique that helps Instructional Designers adapt learning environments to a particular learner. In this article, we will talk about Augmented Learning (AL) and look at some use cases and tips for augmented success.

by Marina Arshavskiy

April 19, 2016

Audio In eLearning: 7 Golden Rules For eLearning Professionals

If text and images are the stars of an eLearning course, then audio in eLearning is one of its most effective supporting actors. It has the power to create the perfect atmosphere and set the tone for the entire eLearning experience. In this article, I'll share everything you need to know about using audio in eLearning.

by Christopher Pappas

April 14, 2016

Inline Editing: Change The Way You Create Online Courses

There are tools out there that let you build websites with simple drag and drop functionality, so why can’t you do the same thing with creating online courses? Now you can with inline editing!

by Scott Cooper

April 12, 2016

Introducing eBridge: An Online Review And Collaboration Tool To Optimize eLearning Course Development

All of us who are in the business of custom eLearning development are aware of its increasing complexity and the intrinsic need to have an agile process to keep pace with increasing customer expectations. Customers today are looking for just-in-time online status updates, faster turn-around time, and reduced cost for better and enhanced learning designs. Often, the development process includes reviews from multiple Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and reviewers working from different regions and time zones across the globe without access to a single source to review and get online status updates. Due to varied needs of customers, you possibly use multiple authoring tools to craft the required custom online training solution. In an ideal world, you would love to provide a single interface for all of these (both to your development teams and customers), won’t you? Let us introduce eBridge, which does just that.

by Asha Pandey

April 11, 2016

Using The Waterfall Model In Instructional Design: A Guide For eLearning Professionals

Are you looking for a Project Management approach that focuses on in depth analysis and detailed planning to facilitate your Instructional Design process? If so, then the Waterfall approach might be just what you need. In this article, I'll share 4 benefits of the Waterfall approach in Instructional Design, and I'll highlight each of the 6 steps involved.

by Christopher Pappas

April 9, 2016

16 Essential Steps Of eLearning Course Design

Starting a new eLearning project? Here we list the 16 essential steps that you could follow for effective eLearning course design.

by Anand Timothy

April 8, 2016

Localization: Taking eLearning Above And Beyond!

Can we expand the scope of localization to include more than just translations to other languages and cultural sensibilities? Can localization also mean making the course more intelligent to suit the learning preferences of the user? This article attempts to explore why localization should now be the next big eLearning revolution.

by Shweta Iyer

April 3, 2016

Why Meaningful Online Feedback Is Important

Meaningful online feedback is critical to all learning environments. In online learning, feedback occurs between the learner and instructor in various ways. Methods of communication in eLearning include verbal and written electronic exchanges called commuter-mediated communication, such as through Skype or email.  Instructor feedback provides learners with critical information about meeting course goals and performance expectations.

by Michael Higley

March 29, 2016

5 Benefits Of Iterative Design In eLearning

Are you looking for a hands-on design approach that relies heavily on incremental revisions and evaluations? In this article, I'll highlight the basics and benefits of Iterative Design in eLearning, so that you can decide if it's the right strategy for your next eLearning program.

by Christopher Pappas

March 28, 2016

10 Benefits Of Microlearning-Based Training

While microlearning is not a new concept, it is suddenly being talked about as the next significant approach to train workforce. Although chunking content into short bytes has existed for a long time, we are seeing an increased focus on microlearning as a fairly significant part of an organization’s overall training delivery. Here are 10 benefits of microlearning-based training.

by Asha Pandey