For the Learner's Sake, Make Your Courses More Challenging
Remember the school days? They were not only about making new friends, sharing lunches, having crushes, and dreaming of making it to the basketball team. There were some ...
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Do You Know How Successful Your eLearning Program Really Is?
Recently, I attended a Congress of Human Resources. On stage, the speaker appeared charismatic, professional, and he gave quite an entertaining presentation. He held the ...
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Keep eLearning Real: 4 Basic Story Types to Link Learning to the Real-World
Everybody loves a good story, even your (seemingly) staid and somber corporate learners. That's because, a child lurks inside all of us; he loves to peek into other ...
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Empathy As Your Starting Point for Great eLearning Design
Happy New Year! It is that time of the year when we get busy making resolutions. It is a time of hope and new beginnings. We resolve to lose weight, manage our time ...
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31 eLearning Lessons from 2014 to Guide You in 2015
The year is about to end, and people around seem to have gone into a nostalgic mood. Websites are fondly remembering what took place in the year gone by—trends that ...
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How to Achieve True Learner Engagement: Tap Into These Core Motivators
eLearning and Learner Engagement: What is learner engagement? It’s not just about keeping your students busy. It’s keeping your students motivated, giving them the tools ...
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Making Change Happen: A No-Fail Process to Make eLearning More Persuasive
Persuasion is an art. Try too hard, and you might be branded as being aggressive. Be gentle, and your message will probably be brushed aside. At the end, the ultimate ...
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Before You Add One More Image to Your eLearning Course, Read This!
Bad Stock Photos Make for Bad eLearning How often have you gone to a website, looked at the photos, and said “Oh yeah, there are the happy clapping people, and there’s ...
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Seeing is Believing: Making Best Use of Your Images in eLearning
Do you buy clothes online without looking at the photographs? What sounds more exciting—reading about a seaside town or actually walking through the streets of one while ...
Read more →Keep eLearning Readable or Don’t Bother Using Text at All
Recently, we found some powerful words by Carrie Cousins which made us think on how they apply to eLearning: "Design for readability or don’t bother using text at all. ...
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Apply This Storytelling Technique to Create More Engaging eLearning
Most likely you have seen the movie Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you haven’t, chances are you know what it is about. Whether you love or hate 80’s ...
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Instructional Designers: How to Pick Your SME's Brain in an Interview
INTRODUCTION: You may be an eLearning professional, but the subject matter expert or the SME actually flags off your course by providing the all-important content for ...
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