eLearning Development Best Practices

May 2, 2013

How To Convert Your eLearning Course From Boring To FUN!

This post is about the approach of using humor in your eLearning courses. Often eLearning is boring and tedious, but it doesn’t have to be! With simple and freeware available on the Internet you can easily incorporate humor into your eLearning environment. By following Keller’s ARCS model you can motivate your eLearners!

by Kara Leyva

April 24, 2013

Top 5 Tips To Avoid Sucky Virtual Classrooms

“Experts” of the virtual classroom recommend limiting sessions to less than an hour. So what do you do if you have to make a four-week face-to-face (f2f) training program virtual? Is it possible? Definitely!

by Brian Bishop

April 22, 2013

Is HTML5 Ready For The eLearning Industry?

Recently, the ever increasing use of tablets has made eLearning developers slowly move away from Flash and has brought HTML5 to the forefront of eLearning. But is HTML5 ready to assume this demanding role?

by Christopher Pappas

April 16, 2013

Instructional Design Strategy for Achieving Alignment

Which Comes First, Activities or Assessments?

by David Holder

April 16, 2013

A Compact Instructional Design Review Checklist

Would you be interested in a Compact Instructional Design Review Checklist? What you will say if I was telling you that at this article you will find 12 Free Instructional Design and eLearning Review Checklists!

by Christopher Pappas

April 11, 2013

How To Use Analogies In eLearning

Analogies play an important role in the learning process, yet very few eLearning courses use analogies to help learners grasp new information. Would you like to know how to use Analogies in eLearning?

by Parker Grant

March 20, 2013

Is The Migration of Flash eLearning Courses To HTML5 becoming a reality?

Rapid authoring tools are updating themselves with HTML5 output, while an increasing number of learning and development managers create courses based on HTML5 that are highly interactive, accessible, editable and translatable. Let’s see why it’s not possible to avoid the migration, within the context of an ever-changing IT environment.

by Christopher Pappas

March 18, 2013

Educational Pinball - Comparing eLearning To A Game Of Pinball

Recently I had been trying to think of an effective way of visualising the e-learning process and the mechanics behind it, which would allow me to give a more considered approach for the courses on which I am working, and strengthen the effectiveness of the learning content. In addition, this would help me improve my ability to clearly explain the reasoning behind my course material development.

by Mark Nathan Willetts

March 9, 2013

Video As A Learning Tool: A Mixed Blessing?

Do you think the use of video during the instructional process helps or distracts the learner? Is video a mixed blessing? In our world of e-Learning, video has become an important element in the eLearning process as, according to research, visual demonstration of something new can lead to successful results. Yet, many eLearning developers hesitate to use this powerful tool. But is this hesitation an unfounded fear?

by Christopher Pappas

February 22, 2013

6 Simple Ways to Accelerate your Learning with Mind Mapping

Learning to learn remains a powerful and necessary skill in every field of activity.  In addition to this skill, imagine that your learning can be accelerated, your mind challenged and your efficiency improved.

by Mihut Naomi

January 11, 2013

The 1 Mile Roadmap To Online Learning - Infographic

Start: Take one mile at a time to arrive at a successful Online Program. Create a business plan...

by Christopher Pappas

November 30, 2012

6 Tips For Producing Good Quality Audio Narrations Every Online Educator Should Know About

Can we prepare, record, and finally produce a better audio narration? Of course we can. However, we should consider some aspects such as, budget, time, technology, and our available resources in general.

by Christopher Pappas