The holiday season. A time to dabble in festive home decoration, stuff socks with Santa’s presents, spend some quality time with the family, and make those life-changing “new year resolutions”. We all make a few...
Archive - 2014
Do We All Learn the Same Way? [Updated]
A couple of decades ago it was inconceivable for educators to tailor their materials and teaching approach towards the individual student. The different learning styles as a concept started gaining pace ever since the term and...
The Art And Science Of User Feedback
Running a business, or any other social endeavor for that matter, is all about feedback. Especially in a competitive market such as e-learning, your options are mostly limited to adapt and improve (like Apple in the 00s) or...
Building an e-Learning Course: Content Strategies and Considerations
There’s a saying in the real estate industry that the three most important aspects of a real estate property is “location, location, location”. In e-learning those three aspects would be “content, content...
Early X-mas For eFront Users: eFront Gets Its First Update
My, how time flies. It feels like yesterday when we announced eFront, the newer member of our highly successful eFront product family, designed from scratch to take advantage of the newest web technologies while maintaining the...
eLearning For Sales Training
Sales are hard. You have to know your market, and to know how to work the market. You have to know your customers, existing and potential. You have to know your leads, and how to follow up on them. And, (this should go without...
The Power of Simplicity
More is better, bigger is better, shinier is better. Not necessarily when it comes to visual aesthetics in human-computer interactions. Imagine opening a website looking for something specific, when all at once banners and pop-up...
eLearning in the Healthcare Industry
For most professions, keeping up to date with the latest developments and retraining yourself to the newest technologies is a matter of staying relevant. For medical professionals it is much more than that. It’s a matter of...
Web vs Apps: The Battle Rages On
In 2005 things seemed clear. The Web was the undisputed king, and with the advent of AJAX and modern CSS, future software was going to be written for the browser. A year earlier, Joel Spolsky, who had helped create Visual Basic...
Insight Into Your Classes: Reporting in eFront
Evaluating the success of your students and courses is something between a science and an art. The art part is the kind of inexact heuristic that comes from experience, and you’ll get it after you deal with your first...