Below is an extract from the original post on the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies blog Vote for the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 The annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list has become very popular. The...
Category - eLearning
Synchronous vs asynchronous elearning
In today’s elearning environment the type of learning that takes place is generally divided into one of two categories: synchronous and asynchronous. Both strategies have their own pros and cons, and the technique that is...
A brief history of elearning (infographic)
The term “elearning” has only been in existence since 1999, when the word was first utilized at a CBT systems seminar. Other words also began to spring up in search of an accurate description such as “online learning” and...
eFront: a usable LMS
Recently Wyver Solutions Ltd. reviewed eFront LMS. The following article has been reposted from the Wyver Solutions blog. The original article may be found here. For straightforward, content-based online learning eFront is...
10 eLearning buzzwords you need to know!
In this post we’ve put together short descriptions of the top 10 buzzwords in eLearning at the moment: Tin Can, Social Learning, Gamification, mLearning, Tablet learning, Rapid eLearning, Microlearning, Personalization...
Designing learning for millennials
“Millennials” is the corporate training buzzword we’ve been hearing a lot lately. According to PwC, by 2016, 80 percent of the workforce will be made up of millennials – the generation of people born between 1981 and...
5 things beyond open source eFront
We recently put together a list of the coolest features (and the all-important ‘6th element’) in commercial editions of eFront. From specialized reports to TinCan which offers the freedom to learn through more...
Setting up full-text search inside eFront
With version 3.6.12 users of the eFront Enterprise Edition have a very powerful tool in their hands – a Xapian-based file indexer that allows for searching through files’ contents. However, setting up the file indexer to...
Top Tools for Online Teaching
Recently Top5 Online colleges.org published a list of the 99 Top Tools For Online Teaching, including eFront. The list includes some of our favorite resources too so heres an extract of the article. Teaching Tools &...
How to create training videos with Camtasia
At eFront we have created all our video tutorials using Camtasia so we wanted to share with you our tips and tricks in a step-by-step guide! Step 1: Build your scenario The first and most important step is building the scenario...