eLearning Team

August 18, 2015

Words Matter: 3 Words To Avoid When Consulting With Subject Matter Experts

Select your words intentionally and carefully in most interactions, but perhaps most carefully when consulting with Subject Matter Experts, clients, and stakeholders.

by Shauna LeBlanc Vaughan

August 4, 2015

7 Tips To Involve Your Learning And Development Team And Enhance eLearning Quality  

Can too many cooks spoil the broth, or can they make the broth taste better? In this article I explore 7 tips you can enhance eLearning quality by involving more of your Learning and Development team.

by Li Whybrow

August 3, 2015

The Marshmallow Challenge: What We Can Learn From Kindergarten Students About Team Collaboration

If you’re a Learning and Development manager, how can you get your team working together effectively so that all your eLearning projects result in ta-da! moments of triumph? Effective teams know how to collaborate. In this article, we’ll look at a simple exercise called Marshmallow Challenge that can help your team work together and embrace collaboration.

by Li Whybrow

July 20, 2015

The Top 7 Qualities Of A High Performance eLearning Team

High performance eLearning teams don’t just happen. Positive spirit, clear goals, and shared ambitions are only a few of the characteristics that an eLearning team must have in order to produce excellent eLearning projects. In this article, I’ll share 7 top qualities that make a high performance eLearning team, so that you will ensure that your team is not only a truly great eLearning professional group, but also 100% dedicated to attaining their shared goals.

by Christopher Pappas

June 8, 2015

How To Build An Agile eLearning Authoring Team

Doing more with less has been a mantra in corporate training departments for the last decade and if you’re an eLearning manager looking for new ways to develop eLearning more efficiently, read on. Likewise, the ability to create home-grown courses on a shoestring budget has an obvious appeal and certainly is a way forward for small businesses as an accompaniment to their one-to-one training. So how do organizations - large and small - ensure that training is well designed, compliant and adds value to the business?

by Li Whybrow

June 4, 2015

Before The Build: Working With Subject Matter Experts and Asking the Right Questions

Want your eLearning course to be successful? Henry Ford once said, “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Unless you live in the middle of the ocean or on a space station, you’ve probably driven past at least a few Ford vehicles today, so I’d say Henry Ford knows a little something about success! However, sometimes working together is easier said than done. From difficult Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to cranky coworkers, there can be challenges when you’re working with a group. That’s why it’s important to set a good foundation for collaboration and review before you even begin building your course.

by Stephanie Ivec

May 6, 2015

How To Get A Subject Matter Expert Interview Back On Track

When you design and develop E-learning, you need to interview Subject Matter Experts to get detailed examples, stories and need-to-know information. Despite your best intentions, an interview may go off track. Here are some best practices to get an interview back on track so you can achieve the goals of your interview.

by Michele B Medved

March 19, 2015

The Art of e-Learning Collaboration

Collaborating on an e-Learning course is an art. These 6 tips on the art of e-learning collaboration from leading experts will help you produce a fantastic e-learning course.

by Christie Wroten

March 8, 2015

The Power Of Communication: Success Starts With C

Yes! You are reading it absolutely correct. And C here stands for communication. Like about million times we have heard how important is communication in both the personal and professional field. The way you speak holds colossal power. It has power to tap new opportunities, or to shut the open doors; the power to build trust, and the power to ruin it; the power to generate new action, and the power to fail it. Be it leadership or life, we often become victims to vague expressions, jargon, off-color jokes, edgy tone etc.

by Surabhi Paliwal

February 24, 2015

7 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your eLearning Project Kickoff Meeting

If you want to pave the way for a successful and well organized eLearning project, then you'll need to make every minute of your eLearning project kickoff meeting count. While getting to know your fellow team members is essential, there are a variety of other goals you'll want to accomplish during your first get-together. In this article, I'll share a number of tips that can help you to maximize the productivity of your eLearning project kickoff meeting.

by Christopher Pappas

February 18, 2015

What Should Subject Matter Experts Know About e-Learning?

Do subject matter experts really dislike e-learning courses? Are they just too busy to work on them? Or maybe they just don't know what is e-learning and what do they have to do and how?

by Elena Tikhomirova

January 28, 2015

Got E-Learning Subject Matter Expert Challenges?

This article will provide an overview of Subject Matter Expert Challenges. How to Flip your scripts to ensure ‘Subject Matter Expert Satisfaction’. Gain Subject Matter Expert Buy-In and get Sign-Off. And make sure you’re not the cause of resistance.

by Monique H