Following the first instalment of the Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning series, we will now focus on how the technological changes we’re undergoing can influence the eLearning designers. A few years ago, when...
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Adaptive and Responsive Design for eLearning: Part 1
There’s a great deal of talk these days about how eLearning is moving off the desktop computer and onto a variety of mobile devices. The release of the iPhone in 2007, followed by the iPad three years later and a whole...
How to Create Online Work Groups
Online work groups seems like a technical term, but it really is a collaboration teaching strategy in the eLearning environment. It gets tricky if certain dimensions are not handled with care. In this article, we illuminate those...
5 Tips on Using Videos for eLearning
eLearning programs are seldom developed without videos. If you have ever experienced one without videos, you may have noticed how lifeless it is. Videos add the “human” element to eLearning. The voice and the human footage...
Graphic Design for eLearning: Part 1
Graphic design is a process of visual communication using elements such as type, space, images and colour. All of these are important in producing eLearning materials, so let’s look at them each in turn. Content is...
4 Ways to Implement a Competency Based Training Program
When adults join a training program, they bring with them two elements: they have varying levels of knowledge and they learn at varying paces. Competency-based training programs recognize these differences and match the training...
10 Common mistakes when developing and delivering an eLearning course: Part 2
In the first article, we explored the most common pitfalls that we’ve found eFront users face. We also offered a few quick workarounds that can make your courses pop! In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into what makes...
10 Common mistakes when developing and delivering an eLearning course: Part 1
You’ve acquired a Learning Management System. You’ve been sold a “Just In Time” eLearning tool that, apparently, anyone can use. You have a laptop full of tired old PowerPoint presentations that are...
Ways to Action-Map your eLearning Scenarios
Scenario-based eLearning is quickly becoming the main focus of eLearning design. This is owing to the fact that eLearning programs are required to emulate the real-world/job context of the learner. You depict the real world by...
The 18 Essential Steps Of Successful eLearning Course Design
Designing eLearning courses can be rather tricky, if you don’t know where to start. There are lots of things to do, lots of tools to use, and lots of parameters that can impact the success of your program, so how can you...