Important Lessons eLearning Professionals Can Learn From Design Thinking
Why limit the benefits of design thinking to product development? This specialized way of thinking creates out-of-the-box solutions to problems when it comes to ...
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The Importance of Pre-Training Engagement
Why You Need to Prime Your Learners Before They Start Your Courses You spend a lot of time focusing on engagement within your courses, and this is indeed critical. You ...
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Things You Should Know to Succeed at Gamification for Corporate Learning
Yes, gamification is BIG right now in the eLearning and training industries. Yes, it’s effective in engaging participants. Yes, everyone is doing it. However, this ...
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The 6 Must-Haves for Every Good eLearning Course
A good eLearning course is like a lip-smacking, mouth-watering, finger-licking meat pie. Every cook has a different recipe, but the essential ingredients are the same—a ...
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Stop the Dropouts! 12 Ways You're Driving Online Learners Away
Are workers dropping out your eLearning courses like the proverbial ‘hot potato?’ Are they finding them hard to finish? Giving them bad reviews? Telling everyone they ...
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Struggling to Train New Hires Effectively? Try Micro Learning
One of the biggest challenges that any operation deals with is new hire training. Your company likely has a specific way it wants things to be done, and there are often ...
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How to Design an eLearning Course that Resonates with Your Learners
“Are you feeling me?” Well, are you? Or, more importantly, is your audience feeling you? Understanding you? Connecting to what you’re putting out there? To get a ...
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How Digital Trends Are Impacting Learning within Companies
We’ve come a long way in the ways of corporate training and learning. The history of corporate training and development dates back to 1872 where Hoe and Company ...
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Improve Your eLearning Design Workflow with the Pyramid Method
Product designer William Newton wrote a compelling article some time ago on the tiers of good design and the pyramid they form. But this idea can be applied to more than ...
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What are Personal Learning Networks?
If you assume students are only learning from eLearning courses, you are failing to leverage a huge part of the learning process. Ask yourself where do you learn? Most ...
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5 Methods to Achieve Visual Consistency in eLearning
Design resources never stop reminding us how important it is to be consistent when creating any graphic piece. We don’t argue. But as an eLearning designer, you know how ...
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing for eLearning
Have you ever read something where it seems like the material was written by someone who simply wanted to show off how smart they are? When this happens, do you find ...
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