eLearning and Skill-Based Training
How can skill-based training offered in an eLearning format help individuals and teams improve business? Let’s look at some specific examples. Continue reading → The post eLearning and Skill-Based...
View Article2015 eLearning Trends: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Look around. Whether you’re at work, out to dinner, or in a meeting, you’ll notice that people are focused on a variety of devices. Maybe it’s a tablet. Maybe it’s their smartphones. Maybe they’re...
View Article2015 eLearning Trends: Advances for Video in eLearning
Video in eLearning has long been a key element in eLearning and mLearning courses, but in 2015, it’s nearly crucial. Without it, learners miss out on a highly impactful form of teaching and learning....
View Article2015 eLearning Trends: Personalized Training
We’ve talked before about how training for adults requires a unique framework, but the second part of that conversation pivots around the concept of personalization. One size fits all isn’t always the...
View ArticleHow to Streamline Certification Training
For companies who offer certification training, this transition is worth considering for its cost benefits and for the freedom to explore new opportunities. Continue reading → The post How to...
View Article2015 eLearning Trends: Advanced eLearning Analytics
One of the great benefits of an eLearning course is the in-depth analytics you can study, which are generated by the learner’s experience within the course. Using these pieces of data, you can look at...
View Article2015 eLearning Trends: Increased Interactivity
In 2015, trainees have relatively short attention spans—so the page-turner format of eLearning often struggles to hold their interest (and frankly has never been a solid approach). To combat this, many...
View ArticleHorrifying eLearning Mistakes
It’s Halloween time: The season of ghouls, ghosts, and horror movies. So while you munch away on the candy you’ve borrowed from the trick or treating bowl, now is the perfect time to also think about...
View ArticleDeliver on eLearning Promises: Lessons from Jimmy Kimmel’s Halloween Experiment
For the past four years, Jimmy Kimmel has asked parents to trick their kids into thinking that they’ve eaten all of their hard-earned Halloween candy—and to film it. The reactions from kids are both...
View ArticleOvercoming “This is How We’ve Always Done Things” in eLearning
We’ve all heard the dreaded phrase, “But this is how we’ve always done things!” which is typically presented as a valid objection to implementing something new. It’s the #1 enemy of change. And with...
View ArticleOvercoming a Learner’s Limited Time in the Training Seat
One of the common obstacles Instructional Designers of today face is that time in the training seat has been slashed—so learners have to complete courses at a highly efficient pace. More than ever,...
View ArticleThe Three Ps for Managing a Successful eLearning Project
Part One: Managing Performance Expectations Projects, regardless of the type, are usually deemed unsuccessful when things don’t go as planned and goals aren’t met. Contributing factors often include...
View ArticleThe Three Ps for Managing a Successful eLearning Project: Part 2
Part Two: Managing People In part one of this series, we talked about the performance expectations that define the scope and general objectives for a successful eLearning project. Now we’re going to...
View ArticleThe Three Ps for Managing a Successful eLearning Project: Part 3
Part Three: Managing the Process In part two of this series, we went over all of the many different people who bring a successful eLearning course to life. In our third and final piece, we’ll discuss...
View ArticleReasons to be Thankful for eLearning
It’s the week of Thanksgiving, and while we’re busy basting turkeys and flipping through Black Friday ads, we should all take a moment to be thankful for eLearning. Wait…you weren’t thinking being...
View ArticleLessons on Mentoring from Rocky and Creed
In the newly released film Creed, Adonis (son of Rocky’s rival, Apollo Creed) begs Rocky to train him and teach him his boxing knowledge. He knows that he’s the one person who can get him to the...
View ArticleHow to Storyboard eLearning Courses
Think of a storyboard for an eLearning course like a comic strip: Each frame tells a part of a larger story and moves the course along. Without a storyboard, your course can be all over the place. It...
View ArticleHow to Simplify Technical Language in eLearning
As someone who lives and breathes eLearning, you probably feel comfortable with terms like ‘Authoring Tool’ and ‘LMS.’ But when you go to a client or meet with executive leadership to explain what...
View ArticleHow to Fix Poor eLearning Design
Sometimes working in the eLearning field means re-working existing courses. Say a client comes to you with a course they’ve been using for years, and they want you to breathe some new life into it....
View ArticleHow to Make eLearning Stick
You want your trainees to remember what your training course taught them, right? That’s kind of the main objective for any eLearning course—to get participants to retain information and then use what...
View Article