Video In eLearning

May 26, 2016

5 Ways YouTube Can Transform Your eLearning Course

YouTube isn't just a place for viral online videos and entertaining vlogs. In fact, you can use this video-sharing platform to make your eLearning course more engaging and immersive for your audience. In this article, I'll share 5 ways YouTube can transform your next eLearning course.

by Christopher Pappas

May 2, 2016

5 Tips To Create Effective Video-Based Learning For Corporate Training Within Available Budgets

While it is an established fact that videos are a powerful training tool, on the downside videos are not always easy to create. To create an effective video-based learning, you need good actors, appropriate settings, lighting, and so on. It also takes considerable time as well as moneys to shoot and prepare an impactful video. However, when time and moneys are both constrained, there are ways to create impactful videos within available means.

by Heena Nanda

April 20, 2016

4 Ways Video Can Make Onboarding More Effective

Onboarding is a make or break situation for both the employees and employer. Here are 4 ways video can make the onboarding process more effective.

by Jayme Jenkins

April 2, 2016

11 Ways To Use High-Tech Visuals To Make Your Speeches And Presentations Rock

High-tech visuals have revolutionized the way that we can deliver great content to audiences. Here are a few of the options you have as you consider creating visuals for your speech/presentation.

by Diana Beyer

March 11, 2016

The 4 Biggest Myths Of Video Learning

The phenomenal growth of online video learning as opened up a world of potential to Learning and Development professionals. Many businesses are now transforming their content, while others raise concerns around its implementation. Videos are not the panacea, but this article looks to bust some of the myths associated with video in learning.

by David MacHale

February 5, 2016

2 Alternative Approaches For Creating Screencasts For Your eLearning Project

There are 2 alternative approaches for creating screencasts, and this article will help you choose an approach that is best suited for you.

by Huzefa Johar

January 18, 2016

7 Tips To Create Hollywood-Worthy eLearning Videos

You don't have to be a movie producer to create top notch eLearning videos that wow your audience. As a matter of fact, the right tools can help you design online presentations that are powerful, profound, and perfectly polished. In this article, I'll share 7 tips to help you develop eLearning videos that are worthy of the silver screen.

by Christopher Pappas

December 13, 2015

Training Videos: Lights, Camera, Action... Let’s Review!

Recently I was given the task of revising one of our older training programs. It was your generic, synchronous eLearning program talking about professionalism in the workplace; not a lot of interactivity or graphics in it, but it got the job done. In addition to adding colorful backgrounds and activities to the program, I decided to add a video to the end of the program that would allow the employees to review everything they had just learned in a fun, visual format. What follows is an example of how training videos help with reviewing training material and enhance the corporate learning experience.

by Melissa Dougherty

December 3, 2015

Video-Based Learning – The New Pitch and Resolution of Learning

The demand for video-based learning has surreptitiously witnessed an upward spiral in the recent times. Short, crisp, engaging, and elucidating video nuggets on various subjects are scaling across YouTube and other video social blogging and learning platforms. While it may sound more like a means of informal learning, video-based learning may soon become the most sought after phenomenon across the corporate and academic learning ambiance, specifically after the advent and rise in the use of smartphones in the education domain. This article explores the phenomena of video-based learning from the instructional design perspective and elucidates our nascent experience with this novel phenomenon in the academic domain.

by Sharjeel Ahmad

November 10, 2015

Top 10 Video Conferencing Systems For eLearning Professionals

Whether you need to collaborate with members of your eLearning team, host interactive virtual events, or offer your learners a way to communicate with online instructors or peers, a video conferencing system is the ideal solution. In this article, I’ll highlight the top 10 Video Conferencing Systems that you may want to consider.

by Christopher Pappas

October 16, 2015

The Insider's Guide To Video Conferencing Pricing Models

Whether you are trying to improve productivity among your eLearning team members, or want to add a more human element to your eLearning course, video conferencing tools are the ideal solution. But how big of a chunk will they take out of your project budget, and what are the most popular pricing models? In this article, I'll explore the video conferencing pricing structures that are available today.

by Christopher Pappas

September 26, 2015

5 Multimedia Principles For Your Online Course

Using text and images in your online course will definitely aid your students' learning, however research says wrong combination of text and images in learning materials can cause cognitive load. In this article, I will explain the scientific reason behind it and offer some multimedia principles and useful tips for creating effective multimedia content for your online course.

by Didem Yesil